370: Ryan Blair: Lessons Learned from the Business School of Hard Knocks

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Andrew Ferebee

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🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ryan Blair is a serial entrepreneur who established his first company at age twenty-one and has since created and actively invested in multiple start-ups. As the CEO of ViSalus, he took the company from start-up to more than $1.6 biillion in cumulative sales, and was named Ernst & Young's 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. His first book, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain, was a number one New York Times bestseller. He lives in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will
0:05.1	seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die
0:10.2	empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative.
0:15.8	But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again.
0:20.1	Being yourself and being your truest, most authentic self in every do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your
0:21.4	truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it,
0:27.7	follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am
0:32.8	today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy,
0:37.8	fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script
0:44.0	that is your life story. All right, guys, welcome to this show. I'm here with Ryan Blair. He's a serial
0:49.1	entrepreneur, created his first business at 21. He's the founder and former CEO of Vassalas. This is a company that he
0:55.8	took from the startup phase to more than 1.6 billion in cumulative sales. He's also named
1:01.3	Ernest and Young 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year, author of Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain.
1:07.0	And his latest book is Rock Bottom to Rockstar lessons from the business school of
1:12.8	Hard Knocks. Ryan, it's an honor to have you here on the show. Yeah, it's my privilege.
1:17.5	Thank you for having me. Yeah. So when I say that, I mean, come on, look at this. You know,
1:21.6	one thing I didn't mention, which I think everyone, you know, really focuses on about you is, is, you know, you dropped out of high school. I know you went back
1:28.4	to school, but you know, former dropout. You grew up without your biological father for most of your
1:33.9	life. Former gang member, been in juvenile detention. And I read that, you know, when you were in this
1:40.0	detention center, you had a dream of becoming an author. And I mean, look at what just the intro I just
1:46.3	shared with you here. I mean, it doesn't add up. And so I'm, you know, I think, you know, I'm really
1:51.5	excited to have you here to figure out, you know, what did you do differently that got you into a
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