Ryder Strong

Well, I don't know if I wanted to.

I kind of felt like I was forced to.

You kind of reach an age where

You got to make assessments and figure things out.

You got to look back and you got to think, what do I want next?

You know, I mean, we can't... Otherwise, I was just in a place of like wandering around lost with really no direction and no kind of like passion for much.

I was just...

really searching.

So at 50, I kind of thought, you know, I have from 50 to 60, like, like, let's see what I can do.

Let's like dig in and find all the places of things that I've always wanted to do, but never pushed myself or never, you know, really was brave enough to try.

And so that's kind of what was the catalyst for doing the I Choose Me podcast, doing the clothing brand, and then the book and the Women's Summit, like it's all sort of like under this

This beautiful umbrella of choosing yourself.

And I'm, you know, just loving that everything's kind of connected back to the one thing that feels aligned for me and feels purpose driven and feels like I'm making a difference in people's lives, maybe one by two or one by one or whatever it is, but like, it feels more, more important.

in the regard of like go get your own create your own opportunities you know do you think did you guys feel that because i've talked about that before i felt like i had a 10-year bubble of my life of like my personal development my like choosing what i wanted to do in life gone i feel like i'm 10 years behind uh people that went the normal route and went to college and like right themselves out

It is like you here, you have three house payments and four employees, but you don't know how to manage your really.

Yeah.

Sounds about right.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, there's childhood stuff that I blocked out that, you know, you don't really, you don't really want to go that far back in that deep, but I really believe that you have to just kind of, um,

Reveal all your secrets or at least to yourself and then be selective about things that you want to move forward in the conversation, but I found that