AGL 400: Becoming Fearless with Dr. Benjamin Ritter

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About Benjamin

Dr. Benjamin Ritter has made it his mission to guide and empower others to become confident leaders of their lives and careers and overcome fear. Driven by the belief that every person deserves to “live for themselves,” Ben founded Live For Yourself Consulting and has grown it into a global brand where he gets to do what he loves most: help highly-driven professionals figure out what’s holding them back, enabling them to become fearless and take accountability and feel empowered to create a life that they love. Ongoing enthusiasm and positive response to his weekly podcast, “Fearless Fridays,” inspired him to write this book. He hopes to help an even larger audience to become fearless and live more for themselves.

With over twenty years of executive-level professional experience in Leadership and Talent Development, Ben has worked with and coached over 500 clients one-on-one and over 10k leaders through workshops at some of the most well-known global organizations including, Amazon, Adidas, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, MayoClinic, PayPal, Pinterest, and Yelp.

Ben’s passions include working with Better for You CPG organizations, small business entrepreneurs, and minority owned companies, for which he offers pro bono coaching services.

Ben possesses a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with focus on value congruence and job satisfaction, an MBA in entrepreneurial management, and an MPH in health policy administration.

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Ben now resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Tiffany, Squirt a “rebel in a shell” turtle, Elwood, a scruffy rescue pup, and Sima, the kitty queen of their kingdom.

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Today We Talked About

• Becoming Fearless
• Fear Loss
• Crafting your future
• What do I care about and Why?
• What is draining you?
• Boundaries and Saying “No”
• What if you can change everything… what would you do
• Skills based learning
• Unfollow people you compare yourself too
• Inner Critic vs. Inner Champion
• Experiment

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Connect with Benjamin

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Podcasts
• Book

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