Scot Ruggles | Risking it All to Pursue Your Dream
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Jon Gordon's Positive University Podcast! On this episode Jon is joined by Scot Ruggles. Scot's story is a really important reminder of pursuing your calling in life.
He was a successful football coach for Harvard but knew deep down he wanted to be an actor. So, he did what everyone else thought was crazy, and he resigned to risk it all and pursue his dream. And, thankfully it worked! Now Scot has found success in both professions landing roles in National TV Shows and Commercials. You may have seen him on his recurring role in All American on Netflix where he plays Rick Wilson.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast. My name is Daniel Decker, I'm the co-host of |
| 0:06.6 | Positive U. And on this episode, John is joined by Scott Ruggles. Scott's story is a really important |
| 0:12.3 | reminder of pursuing your calling in life. |
| 0:15.0 | He was a successful football coach for Harvard, but knew deep down that he wanted to be an actor. |
| 0:20.0 | So he did what everyone else thought was crazy and he resigned to risk it all and pursue his dream and thankfully for Scott it worked out |
| 0:28.0 | Now Scott has found success in both professions landing roles in national TV shows and commercials you may have even |
| 0:34.2 | seen him in his recurring role in the All-American on Netflix where he plays Rick Wilson. |
| 0:39.2 | Now if you enjoyed this episode be sure to share it with a friend and our featured resource today is |
| 0:43.5 | John Gordon's new win today challenge. It's a free 14 day challenge to help you |
| 0:48.6 | develop the mindset and habits to win today and create a better tomorrow. |
| 0:53.0 | It starts August 15th, but you can sign up right now. |
| 0:56.0 | Just go to win today challenge.com. |
| 0:58.0 | That's win today challenge.com. |
| 1:01.0 | All right, let's join John and Scott. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey, this is John. All right, let's join John and Scott. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey, this is John Gordon with positive you, and today my guess is Scott Ruggles. |
| 1:09.0 | Scott, how you doing? |
| 1:10.0 | Craig, John, how are you doing, man? |
| 1:12.0 | Scott, how do you go from coaching to being an actor |
| 1:15.8 | on an amazing show like All-American on the CW network |
| 1:18.9 | and also on Netflix? |
| 1:20.6 | That's a pretty cool journey, |
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