#53: Overcoming Dark Times with “Freeway” Rick Ross
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show Jayson is talking with “Freeway” Rick Ross, former LA drug kingpin, and author of both The 21 Keys to Success: Ridin’ with Rick and Freeway Rick: The Untold Autobiography. They are talking about Rick’s life before he went to prison, and what led him there. They talk about how Rick almost became the king of hip hop, meeting Dr. Dre as a 17 year old kid.
Growing up Rick always knew he was going to prison, he had decided that for himself before it was even a reality. Everything in your life comes down to a decision, you can always make a choice to better yourself every single day.
After being released from prison Rick was determined to turn his life around, he made a list of everything he was going to do to improve himself, and he is accomplishing everything on that list. Rick goes over his 3 keys to success, so anyone can have success, and happiness in life!
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Mentioned in the Episode:
Rick’s Book, The 21 Keys to Success: Ridin’ with Rick: https://www.amazon.com/Success-Kolie-Crutcher-Freeway-Ricky/dp/0981464343
Rick’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freewayricky/?hl=en
Rick’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealFreewayRickRoss/
Freeway Enterprise Website: https://freewayenterprise.com
Timestamps:
1:47 - Early Days of Ricky Ross
4:07 - Family Members Who Raised Him
7:35 - Maximizing Your Situation
11:51 - Dealing Drugs
14:49 - Experience in 1980’s LA
18:23 - Missing Out on an Opportunity
20:48 - Lessons Learned
23:31 - Creating Your Own Reality
25:59 - Being Content
30:14 - 3 Keys to Success
35:51 - Sacrifice Now, Benefit Later
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 0:03.8 | Listen, make sure you subscribe today. |
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| 0:09.4 | You can go to our YouTube channel, True Underdog, or you can visit trueunderdog.com and subscribe to all of it. |
| 0:15.1 | Damn, bam, true underdog. |
| 0:18.3 | Bam, bam, unleash the power with me. Bam, bam, damn. Build it to give you, baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him. |
| 0:21.4 | Damn. |
| 0:22.1 | Damn. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm doing with me, baby. |
| 0:23.3 | Damn. |
| 0:25.6 | Damn. |
| 0:25.7 | True underdog. |
| 0:27.1 | Jason Waller here, |
| 0:28.7 | true underdog podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | Super excited about my guest today. |
| 0:32.8 | He shows a real story of a true underdog. |
| 0:37.1 | Been to a bad side, had some bad times, and overcame that. |
| 0:41.4 | I've got Freeway Ricky Ross here, the real Rick Ross, |
| 0:45.8 | prison reform and activist and actor, former convicted drug trafficker, |
| 0:50.1 | cannabis dealer and entrepreneur, podcaster, author, and a philanthropist. |
| 0:55.2 | How you doing, Ricky? |
| 0:57.4 | I'm good. |
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