Ryan Serhant: His Multimillionaire Mindset
Erika Taught Me
Erika Kullberg
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
#69: In this episode, I’m interviewing Ryan Serhant, CEO and founder of the real estate company SERHANT, and you might recognize him from Bravo's television series Million Dollar Listing New York. Ryan and I discuss his path from a struggling actor to a real estate multimillionaire.
You’ll also learn about:
- How a reality TV show helped him build his career
- The tools he uses to work towards the future version of himself
- His hyper-efficient time management rule: the 1,000 minute rule
- Why any idea you have is possible to achieve
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was right there, which is exactly what we did in 2020 when we started the company. |
| 0:03.3 | When everyone left New York and everybody said real estate is dead and life is over and we're all going to die, I gave myself one day to feel that way too. And then I was like, we're probably going to be okay. Yeah, we should still do this for sure. Everyone else is not going to do it. No one else is starting a company in the summer of 2020. everyone's going to be hibernating and watching Tiger King all day long. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm going to take every dollar I have and I'm going to start my own company. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm going to be hibernating and watching Tiger King all day long. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm going to take every dollar I have and I'm going to start my own company. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm going to put it on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and that's what we did. I'm not great at taking no for an answer. I don't get down on myself. I paint a very clear picture of what I want and how I want to get it, and I make sure that we make it happen in some way, shape, or form. |
| 0:37.6 | Now, it's not always going to happen the way you think it will. |
| 0:40.1 | I just do not want to be on my deathbed saying I wish I had or I should have. I don't work for me today. I work for me tomorrow. This time two years from now on this day, where are you? What are you doing? Write it down. Keep pushing |
| 0:54.3 | yourself and pushing yourself and pushing yourself to become the person you want to be |
| 0:57.9 | versus waiting for that person to show up, in which case it's never going to happen. And then |
| 1:02.1 | one day you wake up, you're old, and then life is over. |
| 1:09.8 | Ryan Sourhan is the star of the hit TV show, Million Dollar Listing, New York, and also owns his own brokerage called Surhant. |
| 1:16.8 | The Surhant team has closed over $4 billion in sales across New York, Miami, and L.A. |
| 1:23.0 | In today's episode, we learned how Ryan went from an out-of-work actor to convincing a TV studio |
| 1:28.7 | that he was the most successful real estate agent in New York. |
| 1:32.3 | He also shares the one thing he does that forces him to be successful. |
| 1:36.5 | I'm Erica Colberg. |
| 1:37.7 | This is Erica Taught me. |
| 1:39.2 | And today we are here with Ryan Sirhant. |
| 1:42.4 | So the first thing I wanted to ask you, you have this very inspiring story of going from being a struggling actor to now this multi-millionaire with successful businesses. |
| 1:54.7 | If you were to look back and think of some pivotal moments or a shift in mindset that really got you from where you were then to where you are now. |
| 2:04.1 | What would you point to? |
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