E51 Be a Fountain, Not a Drain

15 Minutes to Freedom

Ryan Niddel

Personal Journals, Motivational, Entrepreneurship, Business, Body, Meditation, Society & Culture, Relationships, Journal

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What does it mean to be a fountain and not in a drain? It means to give back without giving back in return. For far too long in my past, I’ve been a drain in business, in friendships, in relationships, and even with myself. I used to always take too much and not give the proper amount in return. Where in your life have you been a drain and not a fountain? Join me as I discuss this concept further.

Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:15.2	This is B. A Be a Fountain, not a drain.
0:25.9	So admittedly here in Columbus it's Friday at about 340 PM. I don't know about you guys but for me this week we're trying to do a murph a day and having my ass kicked pretty consistently it feels like just from every corner
0:29.9	including physically I have zero interest in shooting this particular episode.
0:35.0	Now bear with me here because I think it'll get better as we go on but I sat down with Doug.
0:40.0	Doug is the gentleman that makes all those possible.
0:42.0	He records the videos and him
0:44.2	and other guy Kurt help edit the audio in it and make it so there's something here for
0:48.0	you guys to view and listen but I said Doug you know what do you have what's what do you
0:52.2	think we should talk about?
0:53.2	He said, man, I saw this shirt on Instagram.
0:55.2	He said, I don't remember whose page it was,
0:56.7	but the shirt said, be a fountain, not a drain.
0:59.1	And something about that connected with me just as it connected with Doug.
1:01.8	So I started thinking, just just really almost in the instant.
1:04.6	Like this probably happened five minutes before shooting this episode.
1:07.4	What does that mean to me?
1:09.4	What it means to me personally is if I look back at my life,
1:11.8	especially throughout my 20s, and really I can go back further than that,
1:14.9	how many times in life did I just take from somebody?
1:18.8	Where I was the thing that was receiving from everyone and I wasn't giving. So I'll look at for me in my business life.
1:27.9	You know as I started out in the hosting world, the affiliate marketing web hosting world,
1:35.0	I got brought in to a role in a position that was
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ryan Niddel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ryan Niddel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.