Ryan Leak

I'm feeling shame.

I'm feeling embarrassed.

Like, man, like you're not good enough.

And I look down and I see this logo and it's the Phoenix Suns logo.

And I asked myself, Ryan, how'd you get here?

Because there's a lot of places you could be.

And I realized chasing failure took me further than chasing success ever did.

Because it got me way out of my comfort zone and landed me in an NBA practice court.

I'd done a lot of things in my life up until that point.

none of which landed me on an NBA practice score.

And so now in hindsight, it's very interesting to think, number one, NBA teams don't give workouts to motivational speakers from convincing email.

That's not how it works.

But what I learned in Phoenix is sometimes they make an exception.

And you'll never know if you're an exception unless you're willing to send an email.

The second thing that I've learned in hindsight from that whole experience, now that I get to work with about five different NBA teams, is there's more than one way to be in the NBA.

And I never, I would have never seen that or known that had I not been willing to go out there and say, hey, let me give it a shot.

So yeah, so that's the chasing failure story.

That's what I try to help people get past some of their own barriers and try to help people get out of their own way.

Oh, I mean, I deal with it all the time.

I just have to just, as weird as it sounds, Glennon Doyle says it this way.