Finding the strength to persevere (with Ryan Zofay)
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Ryan’s story is truly inspiring. Despite facing challenges like addiction, incarceration, and dropping out of school in the 7th grade, he persevered, eventually graduating high school. Today, with 22 years of sobriety under his belt, he started We Level Up, a 9-figure drug and alcohol rehab business that employs over 600 people and impacts more than 10,000 lives each year. Ryan’s mission is to inspire and empower others through coaching and mentorship, sharing the same compassion that transformed his own life.
Learn more about Ryan here: https://ryanzofay.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk to you about this bag of the potato chips I'm eating. |
| 0:03.4 | An hidden ingredient that makes it all possible. |
| 0:06.8 | Fossil fuels. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Matthew Kessler, host of the podcast Fuel to Fork. |
| 0:13.9 | From the diesel powering the tractors, to the oil used for frying, to the plastic packaging. |
| 0:19.8 | Fossil fuels are working behind the scenes. Can we phase |
| 0:23.4 | out fossil fuels from our food? Find fuel to fork wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello everyone. Welcome to cleaning up the mental mess. I am really excited to talk to Ryan's of Faith today. We're going to be talking about a story of perseverance, a story of 23 years of sobriety, a story of someone who started off, it was such a negative, a negative start in life, but he's now impacting millions of people |
| 0:56.6 | around the world. Ryan, it is an absolute honor and pleasure to have you on my show today to share |
| 1:00.3 | your story. And thank you for coming to share it. |
| 1:06.4 | The honor is mine. I am so grateful that you have chosen this path to share stories of hope and transformation |
| 1:15.7 | for those people that may be struggling in their life. |
| 1:19.4 | And thank you for allowing me to be on your show to share my story. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm so glad to have you on the show because as I'm a scientist and I'm always helping people to try and understand how and why things work, but you have a story attached to that incredible ability we have with our mind to change our brain and our body and therefore our life, you know, you embody that. |
| 1:38.8 | So it's a wonderful thing. |
| 1:39.7 | I'm just going to boast a little bit about you because Ryan's story is truly inspiring people. |
| 1:44.9 | Despite facing challenges like addiction, incarceration and dropping out of school in the seventh grade, he persevered. |
| 1:50.6 | And now 23 years later, 23 years of sobriety, he's actually, this is amazing. |
| 1:56.1 | And he also has started a rehab called Level Up. |
| 1:59.0 | It's a nine-figure drug and alcohol rehab business |
| 2:01.2 | that employs over 600 people and impacts more than 10,000 lives each year. I mean, that's |
| 2:06.0 | incredible. And his background, I mean, how does Ryan, this is Ryan's brief summary of his |
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