Page 144: Ryan Leak: What Would You Do if You Weren't Afraid to Fail?
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? What would you do if you knew God was with you? Ryan Leak is a teaching pastor, speaker, executive coach, and author. He is widely known for his documentary, "Chasing Failure." He asked himself: What would he do if he knew he could not fail? The answer was easy- he'd be in the NBA- and since the only way to know if that dream could be a reality was to try, that is exactly what he did.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 144 of the unfolding is the story of Ryan Leak. |
| 0:04.4 | You know what we do all the time? |
| 0:06.3 | We talk ourselves out of what God's called us to do. |
| 0:10.2 | God will put something in our hearts and we'll go, hey God, I'm sure there's somebody else more available and more talented to be able to help you out with this whole little project. |
| 0:19.2 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:22.4 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:25.6 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:31.8 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:46.0 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:48.8 | What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? |
| 0:51.2 | Ryan Leek wears many hats. |
| 0:53.5 | He's on the teaching team at three megachurches. |
| 0:55.6 | He speaks around the world for corporations. He's an executive coach, an author. He's on the teaching team at three megachurches. He speaks around the world for corporations. |
| 1:02.5 | He's an executive coach, an author. He sounds like a guy who has figured out the formula for success. |
| 1:09.1 | But if you ask Ryan, he'll tell you that he's actually figured out failure. He realized what is true for many of us. We never even try for our dreams because we are |
| 1:13.7 | afraid of falling short. So we ask himself, what would he do if he knew he couldn't fail? |
| 1:19.9 | Well, that was easy. His lifelong dream was to play in the NBA. Never mind that he was 28 years old, |
| 1:26.2 | that it had been years since he played college |
| 1:28.2 | ball. Was he good enough? Probably not. But what if chasing failure is the quickest way to succeed? |
| 1:36.8 | My life was pretty normal. I had a job at a church. I don't want to say mundane because I enjoyed my job at the time, |
| 1:46.4 | but it was not irregular. It was something that people could understand. When people asked me |
| 1:54.3 | what I did for a living, I could clearly articulate to them what I did. Now, it's a little bit more of a mouthful |
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