Confidence Classic: Chase Failure, Build Courage, and Go After What Scares You with Ryan Leak
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Why do we pre-calculate failure before even trying?
Way too often we precalculate failure and this abort mission altogether. We literally talk ourselves out of our own dreams every single day. They're predicting, according to my assessment, I will fail. Therefore, I won't even try. You can't sell a book that you don't write. You can't get people to listen to a podcast you won't record. Even this morning, it was like, hey, are you going to a book tour? I'm like, well, what if I go to a Barnes and Noble in New York and nobody shows up? No, like you got to put yourself out there. I think the difference between people who are successful and people who don't get all that they want from their life is that successful people were willing to go sit in a bookstore and be by themselves.
Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity, and set you up for a better tomorrow.
How can chasing failure lead to greater success?
I'm ready for my close-up.
Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been dropping on you every week? We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to. So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed. I hope you love this one as much as I do. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet my guest today. Ryan Leak is an executive coach, best-selling author, and motivational speaker that gets to inspire over 50,000 people every month and train over 20,000 leaders every year. He's widely known for two documentaries, The Surprise Wedding and Chasing Failure. Ryan is also the CEO of the Ryan Leak Group, LLC, that is a leadership development firm in Dallas, Texas.
They have the privilege of working leaders and teams all over the world, from NBA teams to Fortune 500 companies. Ryan, thank you so much for being here today.
Yes, it is my privilege to be here with you.
Okay, so I get a lot of DMs. You're an incredible speaker. And guys, just a little behind the scenes, a very good friend of both of ours, Jordan Montgomery, who you know was on the show earlier.
What mindset shifts separate those who succeed from those who don’t?
If you haven't heard that episode, go back and check it out. Introduced us on text. And in typical fashion, I'm being sarcastic with people. I didn't even know Ryan. I didn't know who he was yet. And I'm saying, gosh, Ryan, you're not even active on this thread. You better be on the PST time zone because this is pretty lame of you. He hits live video on his camera and is literally about to take the stage in Atlanta for Chick-fil-A in front of thousands of people. And I was eating my words. So all I want to say is this man takes the biggest stages in the world and speaks more than anyone. So Ryan, so many people DM me all of the time asking how do you get into speaking? How does a speaking career even materialize?
And I know we were talking about it a little bit off air, but can you give us that backstory on how you ended up where you are today?
Yeah, for sure. You know, I grew up in a church and my dad was a pastor. I just thought my dad did a great job of just adding value to people's lives. And he got to he was so involved in the community. And I just was so mesmerized that people would come together every single Sunday and hear him talk. And I thought, man, what an awesome way to impact somebody's life. And you don't use stages to beat people up. I think you use stages to encourage people and build people up.
How can you give your best to the opportunities in front of you?
And so I just kind of enjoyed it. And I just kind of had a knack for and I was pretty comfortable in front of people. And I just tried to work on my craft and just serve people and trying to add value as best I could. I started speaking at a bunch of churches around the country. One day, an executive from a what was the name of that company? They were a credit union. Okay. They said, Hey, will you come and just do like our staff development day? And I was like, sure. And so I did. And I just, I, I'm a, I'm a proponent of give your best to the opportunity that is in front of you. Not the opportunity you want in the future. No, the opportunity that's in front of you, you're given an opportunity to speak to 10 people, go crush it with those 10 people.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do we pre-calculate failure before even trying?
0:00–0:49
2
How can chasing failure lead to greater success?
0:49–2:00
3
What mindset shifts separate those who succeed from those who don’t?
2:00–3:19
4
How can you give your best to the opportunities in front of you?
3:19–5:39
5
What does it mean to 'do it scared'?
5:39–6:34
6
What is the most powerful self-awareness question for leaders?
6:34–9:43
7
How can you transition from a life you tolerate to one you love?
9:43–14:38
8
What are the 12 questions to elevate your personal and professional growth?
14:38–54:12
Speakers
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