We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ryan Stewman a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Ryan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Getting that first client is always an exciting milestone. Can you talk to us about how you got your first customer who wasn’t a friend, family, or acquaintance?
My first client was a random person from the internet who happened to come across my youtube video in the middle of the night. I was selling energy drinks and I called the guy at 2am to see how he found my online store
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
Ryan Stewman is a best selling author, CEO of 5 companies, founder of Phonesites.com, full time investor, and consultant to millionaires and celebrities across the globe. He’s been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, The Street.com, The Good Men Project, CNBC and pretty much every other major business publication out there.
Ryan gives the credit for his meteoric rise in business to his sales skills. He’s never had a salaried job his entire life. He’s worked in commissioned sales since he was 13 years old. He’s sold well into 9 figures worth of products and services. “I believe that everyone can be great at sales, they just need the right thing to sell and the right people to talk to” – Ryan Stewman
At age 7 Ryan was adopted, by age 16 he had left high school and by age 21 he was incarcerated for selling drugs. After getting out of prison Ryan turned his life around and made 7 figures in real estate. In 2005 Ryan was wrongfully raided by the local police. They trumped up fake charges and lost the case. They turned the case over to the ATF who reopened the case and sentenced Ryan to 15 months in prison to cover up for the mistake the local cops made. Ryan lost it all while inside. He walked out of prison in July of 2008 with $25 to his name. Flash forward 11 years and Ryan has built a self made, 8 figure empire, from scratch.
He’s mastered the mindset it takes to win no matter what forces come against you. His rewire podcasts is one of the most shared podcast screenshots on Instagram. Ryan rewires minds and changes lives. Give him the chance, he will change yours too.
Accomplishments:
Founder and CEO Phonesites.com (8,000 users in 12 months)
Blogger at HardcoreCloser.com (since 2012)
CEO founder BreakFreeAcademy.com (Over 16,000 students)
CEO Wolfeman Assets ($4M under management)
CEO Closer Marketing (7 figure marketing agency)
CEO Founder X Ventures (large events company)
Social Media:
clyxo.com/closer
Major Publications:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/ryan-stewman
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/people/ryanstewman1/#29aaeb4d69c3
https://www.huffpost.com/author/rstewman-637
https://www.thestreet.com/slideshow/14400017/1/10-great-habits-of-do-it-yourself-investors.html
https://goodmenproject.com/author/ryan-stewman/
Podcasts:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rewire-podcast-w-ryan-stewman/id1364171881?mt=2
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hardcore-closer-podcast/id1098856846?mt=2
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rockstar-closer-radio/id652848384?mt=2
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
Yes my entire story is here foa.phonesites.com
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
Contact Info:
- Website: HardcoreCloser.com
- Instagram: HardcoreCloser
- Facebook: facebook.com/realryanstewman
- Linkedin: Ryan Stewman
- Twitter: n/a
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNwFDbwZJ_WtJhsWj2yamIg
- Yelp: na
- Other: onespotsocial.com/closer (all my stuff)
Image Credits
all me