James Rick
At the age of 4 James had a knack for entrepreneurship, selling finger paintings in the drive way, of their small Florida home. His best (and only) customer was his mother who bought them all. His first profitable business would open up a year later in the form of a lemonade stand near their home, which raked in $5 a day.
Fast forward some years later, James Rick Stinson was awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Southern Utah Chamber of Commerce in 2001, for starting his first major venture with less than $1,000 at the age of 17. By age 18 he had gotten into as much as $30,000 in credit card and personal debt but somehow managed to get out of it. Over the next 3 years he grew that business to half a million dollars in sales and expanded to build an office in Noida, India where he lived and worked for 3 months before returning to the US. James learned the hard way that you can’t do it all yourself. He had been the top sales person at his company and when he stopped selling to focus on building out the office, things took a turn for the worse. He ended up closing the business a few months later due to losses. “It crashed and burned but I was still alive”.
Undeterred and excited after getting his first taste of Asia, James started his second major enterprise a call center outsourcing business in Manila, Philippines, where he would live and work for the next five years. He was interviewed by Fox News Business for his role in outsourcing, starting his company Global Sky in the Philippines at the age of 20, and growing it to more than 200 employees, and $2 million in revenue annually.
James made a minor appearance on Oprah in conjunction with the “Big Give” reality show and was on the cover of NSA magazine for its feature on the next generation of young speakers.
Although not a priest, James has not ignored his true calling to share his light with the world. Along the way for more than 15 years, James has continued to study how to develop and harness human potential. A childhood curiosity about dreaming & meditation and an adolescent desire for confidence and control over the quality of each day, evolved into thousands of hours of research and experimentation in the areas of personal development, philosophy, biology, physics, psychology, evolution, religion and spirituality, naturally altered states of consciousness, entrepreneurship, economics, and politics. The broad scope of James’ experience and study gives him a unique perspective not usually found in other forms of literature or presentation.
James is perhaps best known for creating powerful environments and conditioning powerful routines for living life at Full Potential. His motto: Full Potential is a daily habit – not a one time event.
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