Why Growth Feels Like a Drug Once You Start | Riley Gruppo | EP#3

Riley Gruppo spent nearly 8 years in the Army. She commanded soldiers. She led where few women had led before. Then she walked away from the rank, the title, and everything that told her who she was. What she found on the other side surprised her.In this conversation, Riley and Asher talk about the high of rapid growth, why no one is coming to save you, and how the same past can become a completely different story depending on who holds the pen.If you are in a season of building something new, this one is for you.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS0:00 The choice between busy and bored2:00 Theme: overcoming adversity3:30 The Paceometer: why going faster barely helps5:00 Accidents, adrenaline, and why chaos slows the mind7:50 The hardest thing she has ever done11:00 Heartbreak, grief, and the loss you cannot outrun14:30 Acceptance and the things outside your control18:20 Where you think best: standing, sitting, or laying down21:00 Why writing it down changes everything23:50 You are what you love, not what you do27:50 Why we name things, and why labels limit us31:30 Success is saying no to what you used to say yes to36:30 Frustration and the one thing standing in your way40:00 Find the place you grow fastest and go there44:10 You cannot change your past, but you can change its meaning49:40 Every problem comes with its own solution51:00 Smile wide while you still have teeth51:50 Bad things happen fast, good things happen slow54:40 The golden fleece moment and the day she quit57:50 Pros recover, amateurs quit1:03:20 Your history is your intellectual property1:07:40 The Closing Game1:16:00 The final question: how close are you really━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH RILEY GRUPPOWebsite: [https://rileygruppo.com](https://rileygruppo.com)LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileygruppo/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileygruppo/)Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/rileygruppo](https://www.instagram.com/rileygruppo)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BOOKS & TOOLS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE(As an Amazon Associate, Memoirs to Millions earns from qualifying purchases.)Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki: [https://amzn.to/4dEFLEk](https://amzn.to/4dEFLEk)A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino: [https://amzn.to/3PSoUEF](https://amzn.to/3PSoUEF)Draw the Circle by Mark Batterson: [https://amzn.to/4dLGG4s](https://amzn.to/4dLGG4s)The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson: [https://amzn.to/4dCTjA1](https://amzn.to/4dCTjA1)How to Make Sh*t Happen by Sean Whalen: [https://amzn.to/4wXqZ2Y](https://amzn.to/4wXqZ2Y)Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins: [https://amzn.to/49t7aXe](https://amzn.to/49t7aXe)AG1 Greens Powder: [https://amzn.to/4nTj2HU](https://amzn.to/4nTj2HU)90 Day Fiancé: [https://amzn.to/4ebbX25](https://amzn.to/4ebbX25)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH ASHER WRIGHTMemoirs to Millions: [https://memoirstomillions.com](https://memoirstomillions.com)Life Changing Wisdom: [https://lifechangingwisdom.com](https://lifechangingwisdom.com)Life Changing Wisdom Marketplace: [https://lifegenius.com](https://lifegenius.com)Weekly Intel Newsletter: [https://m2mweeklyintel.com](https://m2mweeklyintel.com)1000 Book Challenge: [https://asheralbertwright.com/1000bookchallenge](https://asheralbertwright.com/1000bookchallenge)Free Memoir Strategy Call: [https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/memoirs](https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/memoirs)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT MEMOIRS TO MILLIONSAsher Wright is a 22-year US Army veteran, Jamaican immigrant, and 7x published author. He helps veterans, immigrants, and entrepreneurs turn their life stories into published books that build authority and income. New conversations every Saturday at 8:00 AM ET.#MemoirsToMillions #OvercomingAdversity #VeteranStories #PersonalGrowth #Mindset