Meet Ryan Rubin

We recently connected with Ryan Rubin and have shared our conversation below.

Ryan, so great to have you with us and we want to jump right into a really important question. In recent years, it’s become so clear that we’re living through a time where so many folks are lacking self-confidence and self-esteem. So, we’d love to hear about your journey and how you developed your self-confidence and self-esteem.

I look at life like this, we got one life and I’m gonna enjoy it. Everyone has a lottery ticket in life and one day that number will be pulled and I’ll know that I lived this life to the fullest, I had fun, and I was 100 percent Ryan Rubin. Enjoy this life be comfortable with who you are and do what makes you happy because only you can control your own happiness.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I was born and raised in New Jersey, i’m an Army Veteran, Father and Husband. I started doing stand up comedy in 2009. I was the funny kid and my friends kept telling me to try stand up. We found an open mic at the Stress Factory in East Bruinswick, NJ and after that night I knew this is what I wanted to do. Comedy doesn’t come over night, it took alot of time, writing and performing to get to a level of comedy that I’m proud of and im gonna keep hustling and perfecting my craft. The sky is not the limit when there’s an entire universe out there.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Write, perform and put in the work. The success will come after. Your gonna bomb, your gonna have bad nights, your gonna have shows that don’t go well. Own it and come back better everytime. This is a process that takes years and there’s no short cuts.

What would you advise – going all in on your strengths or investing on areas where you aren’t as strong to be more well-rounded?

You need to be well rounded in comedy. There’s so many different positions in standup. Hosting, opening, featuring, headlining. I couldn’t crowd work at all and that was an area I wanted to have under my belt and for a year straight I would go to open mics and wouldn’t work material, I would just do crowd work. It helped me get comfortable talking to the audience and thinking quick on my feet. Any chance you have to get better in a different position take it because that just means you can fill any opening for a show.

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