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🗓️ 16 September 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Former NFL quarterback (1st Round Draft Pick, #2 overall in the 1998 draft) Ryan Leaf shares his story on finding true success.
From his struggles with ego, competition, drug abuse, depression, prison and losing it all to overcoming adversity and finding peace and happiness in life... Ryan's journey is encouragement to us all. It's a great reminder of success that matters isn't about Money, Power and Prestige but about something more.
Ryan also shares what he's learn about the values of Accountability, Spirituality, and Community that have helped transform his life.
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0:00.0 | Hey I'm John Gordon with Poly University and today my guest is Ryan Lee. |
0:15.0 | Ryan you just tweeted recently that you're watching football what your son |
0:19.8 | what was like what was that like? Well I kind of mentioned in the tweet that I |
0:26.2 | I didn't necessarily know if I'd ever be able to utter those words so for me it was |
0:32.2 | really based in gratitude and and it was a humbling experience and just pure joy to you know my fiance took the picture and she she tends to do that she tends to take some |
0:44.6 | pictures that I don't necessarily know that are happening and they just really |
0:50.1 | I think exemplify where my life's at right now. |
0:52.8 | So if you could describe where your life was that right now, how would you describe that? |
0:57.8 | Peaceful and un-ciotic. I think it's the best way to put it. I feel like I wasn't necessarily ever at peace and I feel like I created |
1:06.2 | chaos from time to time and the fact that I can sit and meditate and pray and be still for more than 15 minutes is dumbbounding to me. |
1:18.4 | That's awesome. So a lot of people know your story. I know your story. A lot of people may not know your story. |
1:25.0 | If you're at a party with someone and you're just meeting them for the first time and they ask you about like, |
1:30.0 | hey who you are? Like what do you do? What do you tell them? |
1:34.0 | And like, where do you start? |
1:36.0 | I, well, I wear a lot of hats now, so I usually just kind of, |
1:40.0 | I tell them that I'm in media, you know, I'm doing some broadcasting and have a radio show and then and then travel around the country and do a lot of speaking and then if they want to know more I usually I usually get into more depth about why I get |
1:56.7 | the opportunity to go around the country and speak and it starts with my story and where I came |
2:02.2 | from and what it turned into and where I'm at now. |
2:05.4 | Well let's start where you came from. |
2:07.5 | I think I'd be a great place to share with you. |
2:09.0 | Who don't know your story? |
2:11.0 | I'm from a real small town in Montana called Great Falls. We're a large state |
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