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Lessons - Breaking Free from Money Addiction & Building a Business with Purpose | Ryan Zofay - Entrepreneur & Transformation Coach · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  ambition to building an altruistic legacy I was wondering because I'm thinking about like the fact
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  that you go into this world and you even spoke about you know like when you sort of came out of
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  that Xanax binge you were like the only reason why I'm here is God and the only reason why it like
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  and then you start to realize that there's like a purpose beyond yourself yeah but it's interesting
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  the second you start making money off of trading it's like it's a very selfish way to make money
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  because you know that there's going to be a lot of losers in it yeah upside it's it's it's just a tough
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  it's a business but it's a tough business so it's sad I don't want to put words in your mouth
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  it sounds like you like gloss yourself for a minute yeah and you're like focus on making money
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  and money solves all problems yeah and like family's not family sort of falling apart again this
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  little cohesive unit that I had for a couple years fell apart again so like I mean money but then
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  money becomes addictive yeah and then you don't stop it's not like you just made a salary and then
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  got back on the right track it's like let me see how far I can push this yeah because you're like
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  that kind of part you're very competitive person like I get it okay totally get it it's a good
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  personality for an entrepreneur and it's sometimes a bad person then if you're if you're not
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  on the right path so this is like another like wake up call for you yeah I'm assuming I don't know
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  I'm sad I'm sorry um so $10 million lawsuit I go home yeah my fiance leaves me why because the
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  guy I was who I was being the guy that was but she she met you when you were doing so she met
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  me right before I started on commodities so interesting and she felt that you changed enough
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  she well I kept promising that I was gonna stop I kept promising or I was it just one it was
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  like I was a date yeah dude I literally couldn't stop and I literally would come home we'd fight
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  probably every three or four months she'd like Ryan you said when you get to this number you're
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  gonna stop why did you hate it so I'm like because I would she didn't she knew what I was doing was
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  was morally and ethically wrong and and she knew in my heart that I didn't love it because I would
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  come home at night and cry at times because like people would lose money and it would crush me
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  because like these people are trusting in me these people are literally like believing in what
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  I'm saying you know and all the what I'm saying is true the risk 90% of the people lose and so it
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  was just devastating to me and so the FTC came in and they sued me I go home she leaves me the best
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  thing that could have happened to me happened dude it was again another moment where I had no choice
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  put the surrender and so I was so blessed for that because I don't think I could have stopped
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  and so God stepped in for me and here's what's interesting so 30 days after I go to the
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  preliminary injunction I'm on the phone my first sponsor so my sponsor I'm on the phone I finally
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  divulge everything to him I've been avoiding him I've been ducking him because now I'm not like
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  really working a program because it's hard to like go work an honest program and be spiritual and
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  love God when you're being a scumbag and so I finally like broke down and told him and I was
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  like scared to death Scott and he literally says to me he's like Ryan the second step is all
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  about turning your will in your life over to God he's like are you that's the third step are you
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  ready to give your life to God and I was scared I did I was it I was hard I was like really having
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  a hard time making this decision and I was like oh my god like I didn't realize how hard
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  this was and I got to the point where I was like okay I'm willing I'm willing to let this old
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  life go I kid you know Scott as soon as I humped the phone with him my lawyer emails me and says
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  Ryan you won the preliminary injunction and so as soon as I gave it to God God's like here you go
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  and I was like holy shit I was like this is crazy that was like that was like 90% of the case
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  now my lawyers were like all right we're good now we can go to the table and just settle this and
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  just move on because I didn't want to be in the industry no more if I wanted to be in the industry
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  I could have been I didn't want to be and so we went to the mat we did a suspended judgment
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  I paid my fine and now I have like reporting requirements that I have to do now but you're not
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  barred from the industry now I mean I can't sell precious metals anymore I could get back in the
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  NFF I wanted to I could get my my serious seven if I wanted to but I don't have any interest to do
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  yeah it's interesting dude like it's changed throughout my life um you know like I started going
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  to Christian church for the last five years and I started being introduced to Jesus Christ as my
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  savior and I believe you know Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and I believe a lot of
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  what they say but I also have a hard time believing that you're gonna go to hell if you don't believe
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  in Jesus because there's eight billion people on earth only 2.4 billion people know about Christianity
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  so you're telling me that true I didn't know that yeah I did this research because I'm like this
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  is crazy like I just have a hard time believing that like God is gonna say like you're going to hell
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  if you don't believe that Jesus is the path to me so I it was it's it's I'm like dude like I'm
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  always like fact checking like this yeah it's it's an eight part of me so I was like let me do
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  some math and some research I'm like dude is eight billion people in the world only 2.4 billion
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  people know about Jesus Christ you're telling me the other 5.6 people or 5.6 billion people are
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  gonna go to hell because they just never knew about Christianity so I don't know what that means
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  but I think that there's I think God's a very good thing I think that believing in something beyond
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  yourself is good and I think that Godlessness is not a good thing I think a lot of society is
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  Godless right now which I think is why or is there a whole bunch of issues but there's always
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  issue it doesn't matter but I believe that even like some parts of like organized religion
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  that's some of it's your base too you gotta think about where a lot of like religion like
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  originally came from and the people that I sort of expanded and it's like some of the messaging
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  I think is a lot of fear-based so that's not good but I think that like believing in God believing
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  something beyond yourself I think is very important for sure because if not then who are you accountable
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  to sure sure and you just do whatever the fuck you want and if you're not in jail then who cares
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  right yes also not a good way to live your life why I've been I've been I've been down both paths
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  unfortunately unfortunately I guess no I mean like you look everything is everything is a learning
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  experience right yeah everything's a learning experience like so when you look at what you've built
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  now it like it's not like um it's not like a religious calling but I mean part of your belief in God
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  prompted you force you sort of push you towards building something that was really altruistic
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  it was like building something that was bigger than yourself and I think that's actually
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  I need to tell you got to where you are like right now because even a lot of the stuff that you do
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  we talk about this offline like why why are you waste we're in your studio right now why are you
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  wasting your money and your time building this right it's like you have a fully functioning business
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  but and not only is your business helping more people than the average business it's not
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  actually selling like products or services there like still I want to do more many people that build
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  a hundred million dollar businesses do not learn how to teach and speak and and and run works like
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  this not like the average thing that nobody does right so I think that all the stress and all the
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  bullshit that you dealt with actually put you in like made you a pretty damn good person yeah from
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  what I've known so far so I feel so so as you sort of progress in your journey um no more commodities
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  you're sober again I'm assuming that I was sober I was sober through the whole time so then
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  the next big thing is we level up right that's the the next sort of yeah and of your life
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  so yeah so by the FTC fiance left me and actually before I came on set I actually called one of my
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  really good friends who introduced me to onsite yeah which was the foundation of my
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  inner healing and inner trauma and so I went to onsite in 2012 and I learned about
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  what's onsite it's uh it's a it's a it's a purse development program like a retreat and they
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  deal with like inner child traumas and as that was the first time that I was exposed to like early
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  childhood trauma and like I finally understood like why I was doing the things that I was doing
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  so I was the first moment when I had some like acceptance around me being a scumbag
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  because like up into that point like I didn't know I didn't I didn't I kept like
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  finding myself like when I was 16 I woke up in jail and I'm like how'd I get here like what the
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  hell's going on yeah and that's how I know God was guiding me I got super the FTC I woke up and was
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  like how did I get here like what the hell's going on like this drag while I eat sometimes dude
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  I didn't want to be that guy and I was like how did I become this guy but then I finally realized
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  that I had to take responsibility for myself and I learned that at onsite and I was like holy shit
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  like there's so much trauma around my mom getting shot my mom getting stabbed my dad abusing me
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  using drugs being taken advantage of manipulated all that stuff was like the core of why I was doing
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  the things I was doing and so that was the first introduction to this version of Ryan and I was
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  like well holy crap like I can I can heal people I can teach people I know what they need to do now
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  like I know the answers I was like I gotta let everybody know this and so that's when I started
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