We recently connected with Ryan Taylor and have shared our conversation below.

Ryan, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.

In high school, I became deeply unhappy with my life even when on the outside it appeared that I was achieving success. My mindset back then was very competitive. At some point, I realized that there was a lot more to happiness than just winning. I knew I was missing something important, and so I began an in-depth exploration of the world of personal growth. I had some early experiences with meditation that were really amazing and transformative. From there, I became passionate about a wide range of personal growth practices and philosophies.

As I learned more, I started to see that there were a lot of different schools of thought and many contained an important element of truth. However, each school of thought was incomplete without balancing insights from other communities. I knew that a unifying framework was needed, and that led me to create the Adoga method of personal growth. Adoga felt profoundly helpful for me, and I very quickly developed a deep desire to share this method with the world however I could. During the year when I first started creating and practicing Adoga, my relationship with my emotions completely transformed. My experience of joy, creativity, and focus spiraled in a positive direction!

I published a book entitled Adoga: A Science and Spirituality of Profound Patterns. I now teach workshops about personal growth and offer one-on-one coaching in meditative and psychological techniques. My next book – The Mantra of Adoga – will be released next month, on February 15th!

Ryan, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

You can find my book Adoga: A Science and Spirituality of Profound Patterns on amazon and in other online stores. The best way to find out about the workshops is through our group on meetup.com: The Frederick Personal Growth Meetup Group. We are also developing a community through our new social media platform Depth and Conversation. Check out depthandconversation.com for a hub of online personal growth community, powered by innovative features for sharing, rating, and organizing content. Depth and Conversation is intended to solve many of the problems of social media we see today like shallow, surface-level interactions, click-bait, and the lack of a humanizing, personal feel. You can also find some interesting additional content on the Depth and Conversation YouTube Channel. New projects are being released all the time. So, I encourage you to join these communities to learn more!

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When I first started teaching Adoga, I was not always able to present my ideas as eloquently as they sounded in my head. Sometimes, my presentations were overly complicated, and I would lose people’s interest as a result. It was really painful to see my ideas not landing the way I wanted them to because I understood how important this material can be and how it really can transform people’s lives when I am able to connect.

As a teacher, sometimes you forget your own growth journey and how things looked at the beginning. Despite the challenges, teaching what I am passionate about has remained at the center of my focus. I have found ways to transform my difficulties into opportunities. My journey recently has been to learn how to adjust my presentations to different people and cultivate greater empathy for their perspective. I am also continuously improving my ability to quickly get to the essence of things when I am communicating. Now, I believe these skills are some of my greatest strengths.

My upcoming book – The Mantra of Adoga – was inspired by the idea of simplifying the complexity of my earlier work. This book cuts out a lot of the more abstract or philosophical tangents and focuses on getting straight to the essential ideas and practices.

We’d love to hear about you met your business partner.

I met my girlfriend and long-term partner Jaime Zoltick at an intentional community based on the New Culture movement. The community consisted of ten or so people that lived and worked together. We put on multi-day retreats where presenters taught personal growth skills, relationship strategies, and perspectives on cultural innovation.

These days, Jaime and I lead our own workshops together through the Frederick Personal Growth Meetup Group. We collaborate on all of the ideas that I teach. In particular, Jaime really ignited my interest in the Enneagram, which is a deep system of personality types and motivations. The Enneagram has inspired us and taught us a lot of valuable lessons about empathy. Increasingly, I’ve started to integrate the Enneagram into the personal growth strategies that I teach. The Enneagram allows you to customize a personal growth practice for a particular person and that can be incredibly useful.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.depthandconversation.com/public/what-is-dac/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@depthandconversation2710
• Other: Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/frederick-personal-growth-meetup-group/
  You can also check out my personal website here: https://www.depthandconversation.com/public/what-is-dac/