Ryan Serhant on Owning Manhattan
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dave Meltzer here on this week's episode of the playbook I have Ryan |
| 0:03.8 | Surhant it's very rare but I got schooled in the lessons of sales by someone |
| 0:08.9 | that I had no idea had such depth and knowledge about the best things to do in order to stimulate interest, |
| 0:14.6 | transition interest, and share a vision. |
| 0:16.5 | Join me for all of that and more on this week's The Playbook. |
| 0:21.1 | I have a multifaceted Ryan Sirhan here. I want to start with an interesting thing. |
| 0:26.0 | I have three daughters and a little boy and I taught one thing I taught my daughters was a line that said |
| 0:32.0 | I'm going to keep my options open and when I was |
| 0:35.6 | reading about you you know both of our careers have unraveled I just kept saying |
| 0:39.9 | yeah it's your life right you always seemed to, if I'm not incorrect, you started kind of as just a contractor in a roofer. |
| 0:47.0 | Yes. Is that right? |
| 0:48.0 | It kind of, I mean, you're too good looking to be a roofer, by the way. |
| 0:50.0 | No, it was my parents always made me do like manual labor. |
| 0:54.5 | So we always had to work every summer when we were little kids. |
| 0:57.3 | And so it started with general yard work and then through college I worked for a company |
| 1:01.3 | called Testa Building and Remodeling. |
| 1:03.0 | And so I did demolition and roofing and all that. |
| 1:06.0 | And I just have this memory of just 80 pound bags of shingles on the shoulder, |
| 1:10.0 | up and down ladders, taking the demo, ripping out kitchens, putting it, and what it really |
| 1:14.4 | teaches you more than anything other than exhausting you is like you want to work your |
| 1:18.8 | ass off so you never have to do another roof for the rest of your life. |
| 1:23.1 | But yeah, man, my whole life is based on just |
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