JR Ridinger
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234 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
JR Ridinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I started to realize he cared about what I thought.
And that's why, of course, I wrote the book, Scrambled or Sunny Side Up, because every day, you know, I couldn't figure out what to name the book. At first I was going to do it like, what do you do with the dash?
And he lived his life like that. Let's just live our life in the dash, whatever it takes. If we do a lot to help people, we've made a difference. And that was his big motto. Like you cannot succeed without helping other people succeed. And he used to say, Lauren, we must succeed so other people can realize their dreams because they won't go for it. They won't believe they're possible.
And so, you know, every day I've been, I was with JR for 36 years. So every day we would wake up and he'd say, how do you want your eggs? Scrambled or sunny set up? And I'd say, I don't know. What are you in the mood for? Do you want scrambled or sunny set up? It's your stomach. What am I supposed to say? And I'd say, have scrambled today. Next day, scrambled or sunny set up? Sunny set up, baby.
Okay, great. This went on for years. So after you're married for 36 years, one day you wake up and you're like, I don't know, Jesus, what do you want to move for? Do you want to scrub water on your stomach? You're driving me crazy. I'm not having eggs. And I would get frustrated. And then I would realize...
after he passed away, that the very thing that made me fall in love with him, that advice he wanted from me, how should I have my eggs is the same thing that frustrated me. And you can't let your life get twisted like that. And we do. Like, I used to love that you cared about my opinion. Now you became a pain in the ass by asking me.
I couldn't just take a second and say, hey, babe, have scrambled. And so I named the book Scrambled or Sunny Side Up because after life, you lose the love of your life. Life gets scrambled, but you can turn it sunny side up again.
It's not.
I didn't know that either. The funny thing is there's like, I'm like, all I was focused on was because it releases, you know, Valentine's week of 2025, I mean, 2024, 2025, we're in 2024. So that's how I'm lost, 2025. And I didn't know that there was these other lists besides New York bestsellers, Amazon, Barnes and Nobles. And we hit them all that same day. And I was just- Pre-orders, right?
And so, of course, our company is a great platform for that type of stuff because, you know, everybody wanted to buy the book. And we sold so many books outside the community, which is so amazing. But it's a beautiful story of of lessons that I've learned that I didn't know while I was while J.R. was here.
And so it opens up with, you know, he wrote me 5,000 love letters in 36 years.
And hand wrote long ones. And I was the one that was like, thank you, baby. I love you. You know, I didn't leave the long love letter. I wasn't good at the long love letters. And I told him all the time how much I loved him. But the book opens with a love letter from me that I should have given to him. And it ends with a love letter. I wish I'd left him before he left. So it's a lot of healing.
There's a different Lauren from chapter one to the end.
You can see that transition of that Lauren to the Lauren that you say he's saying, go be your best version of you.
would definitely say grieve heavily for me, but go back to work. Yeah. He would definitely say, right, Sage? He would definitely say grieve heavily for me.
He would be like, cry your ass off and then go back to work. And then go back to work. I mean, and it's funny because you go through these crazy phases. Like when Jared first died, the company took a huge tumble at first.
Well, here's the thing in a weird way. I was like, let it happen. I wanted people to remember that we had one leader. And it was my leader is their leader. And that's how we became who we were. But then I was like, come on, Lauren, you got to get in there.
And I decided to do exactly what you did with your own pain, with the community of why you went off on your own and, you know, didn't stay working for the government going in the court, you know, courtroom and, you know, dying, diagnosing people after they're gone.
Right. That's because that's what you did.
Yeah. Mortality. And so for me, it was like, how many more people have to go before we get in and do something. And I wanted to do something and I did, and I went right to work. And every day I'm working really hard at doing the best version of me and not trying to fill somebody else's shoes, but still have so much to look up to.
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