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Ryan Blair

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
771 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

You or your mom? He took me under his wing. By the grace of God, he took me under his wing immediately. He saw I had tattoos all over me. He saw I was heading in the wrong direction. He gave me motivational personal growth materials like Lead the Field, Tony Robbins, Earl Nightingale, Dale Carnegie. He insisted that I read these things. In fact, he paid me to read them.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

He bribed me because I wouldn't have otherwise. He said, I'll buy you new clothes to go get a job if you just read this book. And so he really leaned in on me. Then he gave me his job is what they, back then they called it a person Friday. And because I was a big kid, I was tough. He would have me do evictions for him. So I'd knock on the doors of his rentals and I would evict people.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

He bribed me because I wouldn't have otherwise. He said, I'll buy you new clothes to go get a job if you just read this book. And so he really leaned in on me. Then he gave me his job is what they, back then they called it a person Friday. And because I was a big kid, I was tough. He would have me do evictions for him. So I'd knock on the doors of his rentals and I would evict people.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

He bribed me because I wouldn't have otherwise. He said, I'll buy you new clothes to go get a job if you just read this book. And so he really leaned in on me. Then he gave me his job is what they, back then they called it a person Friday. And because I was a big kid, I was tough. He would have me do evictions for him. So I'd knock on the doors of his rentals and I would evict people.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

And, you know, that was my job is to process serve basically. Process serving at that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

And, you know, that was my job is to process serve basically. Process serving at that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

And, you know, that was my job is to process serve basically. Process serving at that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah, there's a proverb, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. So my job is to give to anyone that's ready, right? I pay it forward as much as I can. And because I'm a spiritual person, my desire to mentor people is really, beyond that, I think of a traditional like coaching or something of that nature. I really see it as an assignment.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah, there's a proverb, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. So my job is to give to anyone that's ready, right? I pay it forward as much as I can. And because I'm a spiritual person, my desire to mentor people is really, beyond that, I think of a traditional like coaching or something of that nature. I really see it as an assignment.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah, there's a proverb, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. So my job is to give to anyone that's ready, right? I pay it forward as much as I can. And because I'm a spiritual person, my desire to mentor people is really, beyond that, I think of a traditional like coaching or something of that nature. I really see it as an assignment.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

I'm here to help this person through whatever season that I've been assigned to. If they're suffering from trauma, addiction, or if they're just trying to scale a business and figuring out how to rise to that level of success, I'm there to mentor them. Okay. Did you, did you go to college? Yeah. Okay. So. So he insisted, my mentor insisted I went to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

I'm here to help this person through whatever season that I've been assigned to. If they're suffering from trauma, addiction, or if they're just trying to scale a business and figuring out how to rise to that level of success, I'm there to mentor them. Okay. Did you, did you go to college? Yeah. Okay. So. So he insisted, my mentor insisted I went to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

I'm here to help this person through whatever season that I've been assigned to. If they're suffering from trauma, addiction, or if they're just trying to scale a business and figuring out how to rise to that level of success, I'm there to mentor them. Okay. Did you, did you go to college? Yeah. Okay. So. So he insisted, my mentor insisted I went to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

So you started just community college, I'm assuming. Went to community college. And then from there, it turned out because in the gang, I used to steal computers and I used to have to reprogram them. And I was really good at that. That was my racket. And this was at a time when computers were, you know, very valuable.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

So you started just community college, I'm assuming. Went to community college. And then from there, it turned out because in the gang, I used to steal computers and I used to have to reprogram them. And I was really good at that. That was my racket. And this was at a time when computers were, you know, very valuable.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

So you started just community college, I'm assuming. Went to community college. And then from there, it turned out because in the gang, I used to steal computers and I used to have to reprogram them. And I was really good at that. That was my racket. And this was at a time when computers were, you know, very valuable.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

The skill of computer programming and computer engineering was highly coveted and, and people were paying good money for it. So I went to college, studied computer science, and then got a job in the computer sciences field and took off. My career accelerated right away. By the time I was about 20 years old, I was making over $100,000 a year and going to college in the computer sciences field.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

The skill of computer programming and computer engineering was highly coveted and, and people were paying good money for it. So I went to college, studied computer science, and then got a job in the computer sciences field and took off. My career accelerated right away. By the time I was about 20 years old, I was making over $100,000 a year and going to college in the computer sciences field.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

The skill of computer programming and computer engineering was highly coveted and, and people were paying good money for it. So I went to college, studied computer science, and then got a job in the computer sciences field and took off. My career accelerated right away. By the time I was about 20 years old, I was making over $100,000 a year and going to college in the computer sciences field.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Just doing that. Yeah.