Summary: <div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-ffffff-EEEEEE"></div> <p><strong>Listen to this episode on </strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jay-kim-show-entrepreneurship/id1195300022?mt=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iTunes</a><strong>.</strong></p> <p>What was your biggest insight from this week’s episode? Let Jay know in the comments or on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jaykimmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@jaykimmer</a>.</p> <h2>Links from Today’s Episode</h2> <ul> <li>Read the <a href="https://www.jaykimshow.com/2017/08/ryan-levesque-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full transcript</a> from Ryan’s interview</li> <li>Find Ryan on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ryan.levesque" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlevesque/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> </li> <li>Learn more about Ryan and the Ask Method at <a href="http://AskMethodWorkshop.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AskMethodWorkshop.com</a> </li> <li>Buy Ryan’s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Counterintuitive-Discover-Customers-Business/dp/1939447720/"><em>Ask</em> on Amazon</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>Detailed Show Notes</h2> <ul> <li>(2:19) Ryan’s quick description of his book Ask</li> <li>(3:25) Ryan’s backstory, beginning with his college career, studying neuroscience and East Asian studies, and how he ended up in China working for AiG, eventually resigning to start his own business</li> <li>(7:40) How family and friends responded to Ryan’s decision to launch his own business.</li> <li>(12:31) Ryan shares what he thinks holds most people back: the drop in lifestyle that’s required to launch a business</li> <li>(14:59) How the Ask Method was developed and what it is</li> <li>(19:15) Ryan describes some of the ideas behind the Ask Method’s approach to surveys and analyzing data.</li> <li>(23:40) Ryan’s current project, AskMethodWorkshop.com and how to connect with him.</li> </ul>
