My 1st BA223 Marketing Blog post.

WHO AM I?

   

 Hello readers,

    For my 1st BA223 blog post I thought I'd take the time to introduce myself and tell you a little about who I am and the journey I'm on.

My name is Ryan, I'm 42, I'm originally from upstate New York but before I moved to Oregon in 2012 I previously lived in Ft. Sill Oklahoma as well as Atlanta Georgia. I have 3 teenage boys and a 24-year-old stepson, I got divorced in 2014 after 16 years of marriage. I was also born with Cerebral Palsy. Some other interesting facts about me; I am a full-time online reseller on platforms like Amazon FBA, eBay as well as others, and I sell print on demand T-shirts.

I am a business major for the simple fact that I really enjoy making my own money so I decided getting a formal education in business would only serve to benefit me even more. The thing that I enjoy most about marketing is the endless creative ideas that you can deploy to get people to buy what you are selling. I am a huge fan of social media marketing so I am looking forward to learning more about it.

The thing that I am most passionate about in life is Crossfit! I started Crossfit in 2018 after believing for most of my life that I wasn't capable of doing such things because of my disability. I was overweight, had high blood pressure as well as high cholesterol and my doctor told me I could continue to do nothing and probably have a heart attack or I could find some way to exercise. I bounced around a few "big box" gyms for about a year but I became pretty frustrated because there wasn't much I could do on my own with my limited mobility but I was determined to find something so after some research I stumbled upon this thing called "Adaptive CrossFit" I found a Crossfit gym and by day 3 I was hooked! In 2019 I competed in a global online competition called the "wheelwod open" and finished 9th in the world. I have also completed MURPH twice which is a workout named after Lt. Michael Murphy who was killed in Afganistan. The workout consists of a 1-mile run followed by 100 push-ups, 200 pull-ups, 300 air squats followed by another 1 mile run all while wearing a 20lbs. weight vest. This summer I officially became a Crossfit coach and I now coach other adaptive athletes who have similar limitations just like me.