15 Minutes to Freedom

Personal Branding. We're all known to others by the image we present to the world. However, if we want to change in life we have to first present a new image to ourselves. In this episode, I explore what it means to re-brand yourself, how to utilize what you have to maximize returns, and how you can constantly re-invent yourself to accomplish your goals. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

How do you really set goals? The most important thing is being completely honest with ourselves. If we can’t be honest about where we currently stand, we can’t hope to achieve any goal we set. Gratitude, visualization, and planning are essential for any accomplishment. In today’s episode, I give you my framework for goal setting and explain how you can utilize it in your own life. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

How frequently do we establish our own beliefs? Parents, school systems, peers, and more shape our larger beliefs in the world. As adults, these beliefs turn into our operating system. The stories we tell ourselves and allow others to tell us ultimately decide our fate. I’ve been tripped up many times in the past thanks to my own limiting beliefs, but I’ve changed. How so? Listen to find out. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you

No, guys, this isn’t what you think. Though this is a podcast by a man, from a man’s point of view, sometimes it’s great to look at things from the other side. The other day I was at the gym having a conversation with a female friend of mine. She was telling me about her relationship and some of the troubles she’s having. Listen as I relay my past mistakes to help out a friend. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Fuck feelings. Our feelings can fight against us, but only when we allow them to. On a recent business trip, I allowed my feelings to get the best of me. I allowed my lack of sleep and my personal expectations for the event to skew my experience. Listen as I dive into feelings and how to manage expectations. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

For so long I wondered why things in my life weren’t changing. It’s easy to look back now and see the people around me were bringing me down. If you constantly surround yourself with negative people, how can you expect anything positive to come out of life? Listen as I explore past and present associations and the effect they’ve had on my life. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

How frequently are you giving maximum effort? For so long, I wanted to be a professional bodybuilder. Through training, dieting, and contest prep, I had convinced myself I was doing everything needed to reach my goal. In hindsight, I was maybe putting out 70% effort. Listen as I talk results, putting out maximum effort, and how I used my bodybuilding story to motivate myself in other areas of life. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you

Repossession. It’s never a word you want to hear. Why? Because there were likely a number of situations prior to repossession that was in your control which could have prevented the situation. Generally speaking, it’s a result of lying to yourself. Listen as I recount a time when I got my truck repossessed and how the lies I told myself ultimately led to this event. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

While hiring a graffiti artist for the office I agreed to a deal without getting it in writing. Admittedly, the guys in the office and I were just so thrilled to get some paint on our walls that I overlooked my own processes. Listen as I discuss how I let the excitement of the moment throw me off the game and how it led to me examining other areas in my life where I might be doing the same. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Relationships are tricky at times. A successful relationship requires us to be honest with our partners and honest with ourselves. If you can’t tell the truth, your relationship has no hope. This is a painful lesson I learned over the past 10 years or so. Listen as I recount a time in my past where simply being honest with myself would have saved me so much time and effort. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Consistency is Key. How consistent are you in the daily pursuit of your goals? I’ve often told myself I was disciplined only to learn something different in hindsight. I was bullshitting myself. Is there somewhere in your life where you can make a change? Join me as I discuss how I’m creating consistency in my own life. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Convenience is a killer. What’s convenient is often easy to put off. As I sit here getting ready to record this podcast, the people in the office downstairs started drilling shelves into the walls. Not exactly conducive to recording. It would have been easy to push this off to another day. In the end, we decided to push through. Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Divinity lives within us all. Most of the time, it’s buried deep under the self-defeating and self-limiting stories we tell ourselves. In this episode, I explore some of my most powerful self-defeating stories and how I overcame them. For me, my self-defeating stories largely involve my parents. Divorce, living in my car, and so on. What are the self-limiting stories you tell yourself? Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Planning in advance can help you avoid almost any problem. Many of us fail to plan and in turn fail to succeed. This podcast details one of the many times where things went wrong. On this instance, I took an unintended journey through Queens thanks to a lack of planning. How many times have you not taken action when you knew it would almost certainly equal success? Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Social pressure can force us to do things we don’t want to do. This story of my first kiss is the perfect example of something that should be a positive experience taking a dramatic turn for the worse due to social pressure. How many times in life have you been pressured to do something against your will? Are you taking control of your experiences and thus taking control of your existence? Questions or comments? Feel free to contact me at ryan@gsdmediagroup.com. I’d love to hear from you.