As a minor leaguer, Ryan was making a modest twelve hundred bucks a month. Mindy wasn’t working while she was going to school, so she wasn’t making anything. Needless to say, they were dead broke as newlyweds. But that didn’t stop them from enjoying their time together.
Looking back on the past eight years, Ryan has some big takeaways. The first is that no amount of business success matters if things are bad at home. Too many entrepreneurs and investors put money over family.
You already know how that story ends: in divorce. “And so for me this is something I’ve been extremely cautious of, especially as my own businesses and social media following have grown,” Ryan says. “My wife and I actually sat together and created rules for me to follow in order to guard our family.
One of those rules is that I am not going to work weekends. Now this is very counterintuitive to most businesspeople because they feel like that’s the time to get ahead.”
“But for me,” he continues, “I’ve made the commitment that I’m not even gonna have my office open on weekends. None of my employees come in. I don’t come in. I want everyone spending time with their families and valuing those relationships.
And I’ll tell you, I believe it’s made me even more successful by doing this. Not only do I get to enjoy my time with my family, I also get to recharge and get ready for the coming week. And because of that I’m able to perform at a much higher level during those weekdays.”
