Salty Ginger Talk Podcast. How Richard Blank Built a 7-Figure Business in Costa Rica
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What happens when you leave behind the noise, expectations, and pressure and chase your own vision? At just 27 years old, Richard Blank walked away from a life in Philadelphia to follow his intuition and built a 7-figure business in the heart of Costa Rica. In this episode of Salty Ginger Talk, we dive into Richard’s incredible transformation from dreamer to CEO of Costa Rica’s Call Center
Discover how Richard: 1. Built a 150+ employee company from scratch 2. Trained over 10,000 telemarketers in communication mastery 3. Created a positive workplace culture focused on motivation & human potential 4. Collected the largest pinball & jukebox collection in Costa Rica 5. Uses the famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique for high-conversion sales 6. Collaborated with INXS bassist Garry Gary Beers on a rock project 7. Gives back through education, leadership and global impact
00:00Hey, but guess what? You think it wasn't about the principal or the teacher. It was about convincing my parents. Imagine sitting down with Mr. and Mrs. Blank and telling them that I'm not going to go to Harvard Law like grandpa, Columbia Business like my pops, or Washington and Lee University like my older brother. I didn't have the grades or the maturity. You got to be kidding me.
00:23And so my argument to them was, think of great grandpa that came from Eastern Europe, moved to the United States at the turn of the 20th. He didn't speak English. They went to New York. They're in the garment industry. We made our money during the Depression. So don't you dare imagine if they didn't move and take that chance in their early 20s. And so it's in our blood. And how could you ever extinguish a spark of somebody?
00:49I was living a romantic sort of feel. I was like, guys, I'm studying a language. Where could it take me? I don't know. But this is what I do know. I'll be the only one out of my friends can do it. I can put Seattle Espanol on a business card. And every single time I've met somebody that speaks Spanish, I've been embraced. So I think I found the magic dust in this world to make my life a little bit easier. And so they said, okay, well, if we're going to send you to college, you better be serious about this. I'm like, okay.
01:19So I had to. This is the kind of thing you can't spin.
