Sniper turned author and entrepreneur with Ryan Cleckner
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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Ryan is a former special operations sniper and sniper instructor, firearms industry executive and attorney, and best-selling author of the Long Range Shooting Handbook.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Stop hunting customers — create them!
2. Look inside and figure out what is most important to you and base your decisions on that.
3. Take a step back and think about whether you're still on the path you want to pursue.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Fire Nation into house, JLD here, and welcome. |
| 0:07.0 | To episode 1928 of EO Fire, we're eye-challets with entrepreneurs on Fire, 7 days a week |
| 0:16.8 | from accomplishing goals to launching podcasts to creating funnels and webinars that actually |
| 0:21.4 | convert Fire Nation, I have four free courses awaiting you. |
| 0:25.9 | EOFire.com. |
| 0:28.0 | Now, let's chat with today's featured guest, Ryan Klekner. |
| 0:32.1 | Ryan, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:35.0 | Man, I am lighting fires and taking initials because I don't have time to take full names. |
| 0:40.8 | Ryan is a former special operation sniper and sniper instructor, Fire Arms Industry Executive |
| 0:47.7 | and Attorney, as well as the best-selling author of the long-range shooting handbook. |
| 0:54.1 | Can I take a minute? |
| 0:55.1 | Fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal life. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah, we'll do. |
| 1:00.6 | I left for the military when I was young like most people do and had a wonderful, wonderful |
| 1:05.9 | experience, not to say that deploying was wonderful, but I'm lucky. |
| 1:10.5 | I had some great schools and training, went some great friends and came back, went to school, |
| 1:15.3 | and didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. |
| 1:17.0 | I was aimless. |
| 1:18.6 | And I thought, you know, the next best thing for me is to find another challenge. |
| 1:22.9 | So I'm going to go to law school and I know that you know what that's up like that's |
| 1:25.6 | about. |
| 1:27.4 | And I had a similar first semester experience where I got my, you know, what handed to me. |
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