Ep 189 - Addicted To Improvement with Ryan Leak
What's Next with Eric Wood
Eric Wood
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Leak is an executive coach, best-selling author and motivational speaker. He is the CEO of the Ryan Leak Group, LLC, a leadership development firm in Dallas, TX and has worked with teams all over the world from NBA teams to Fortune 500 companies.
Today on the show, the guys discuss Ryan's book "Leveling Up" and also ask the question, "What does success look like to you?"
Other topics include:
(2:35-5:00) - Ryan's basketball career. Details behind Ryan's documentary "Chasing Failure"
(5:00-7:55) - What does it cost to be you?
(7:55-12:20) - Kobe mentality
(12:20-16:00) - Ryan's career path. How to level up
(16:00-20:05) - What does success look like for you?
(20:05-23:00) - Characteristics of successful people
(23:00-34:20) - Developing your speaking skills. Being willing to fail
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am addicted to improvement. |
| 0:08.0 | And so I never, I never feel like I killed it. |
| 0:12.0 | I never feel like I arrived. |
| 0:14.0 | Like I'm always tweaking in the moment and afterwards going, |
| 0:20.0 | all right, well, I would say this, I would use this |
| 0:22.5 | example. I could tell they may not have fully understood what I said here, and so next time |
| 0:28.3 | I'm going to make an adjustment. |
| 0:35.3 | Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet. |
| 0:41.2 | Our next guest is Ryan Leak, and Ryan is an author, speaker, an executive coach that has impacted countless lives through his work. |
| 0:49.2 | And we will, without a doubt, be impacted in a big way from our conversation today. |
| 0:53.8 | I recently got to see Ryan at a |
| 0:55.4 | keynote speech in person, and I can honestly say it may be the best keynote I've ever heard. |
| 1:01.1 | We will link to all of his work in the show notes, and that includes his game-changing books |
| 1:07.6 | and two incredible documentaries that we will mention and talk about on this |
| 1:11.7 | podcast. If you haven't already, please rate review and subscribe to the podcast wherever you |
| 1:15.9 | tune in weekly. And also, if you haven't already, go to Amazon and order my book, tackle what's |
| 1:20.4 | next. And the link to that's in the show notes. Thanks and enjoy. Ryan, welcome to the podcast, |
| 1:25.6 | brother. Eric, thank you so much, man. It is an absolute |
| 1:29.4 | pleasure to be on with you today, man. And it was awesome to even meet you in person a few weeks |
| 1:35.2 | ago. So that was fun for us to finally get to connect in person. Yeah, for sure. So I want to honor |
| 1:40.5 | Jordan Montgomery for making the introduction. Drew Gaynor brought me out to the Northwestern Mutual event to get to see you speak, |
| 1:46.2 | which was really neat. |
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