With an opening photo at the Blackjack Table in Lake Tahoe during a direct sales conference. The risk taker and connected entrepreneur Richart Ruddie sits among a diverse crowd of business men and woman in December 2019 right before the outbreak of COVID-19. While the landscape of business has changed for many including a delay of building out another office and operation in Los Angeles, California expanding from just Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Salt Lake City, Utah.
The piece discusses challenges in business that include raising venture capital or finding a steady growth pace and learning to be content. There are a lot of other great quotes for an aspiring entrepreneur as Ruddie came from being dead broke 10 years ago to being able to retire now if he wanted to. Read more on the Voyage LA piece on Richart Ruddie and some of the other great pieces where they cover idea makers in and around the Los Angeles area.
Also I helped pet sit for a sick goat that we lost last week so please send your thoughts and love to the baby goat that we lost during this pandemic amongst the thousands of others who fell ill and have passed.