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Jonny Stofko

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Our lives are stories pieced together from the cities that we've been, from the people that we've met, and from our ability to dream about anything that comes to mind that challenges the status quo. The writers, the thinkers, the doers. People that push the human race forward. I welcome you to enjoy.

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• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645366263
• Langue: English

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Ungoogleable
Jonny Stofko
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-05-31
Ungoogleable About the Author About the Book Dedication Copyright Information Acknowledgement Chapter 1: ‘The Empath’ Gary Vaynerchuk Empath: Noun Who: Gary Vaynerchuk Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 2: ‘The Addict’ Grant Cardone Addict: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 3: ‘The Rebel’ Laila Ali Rebel: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 4: ‘The Leader’ Joe DeFranco Leader: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 5: ‘The Contrarian’ Tony Gaskins Jr. Contrarian: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 6: ‘The Nihilist’ Laird Hamilton Nihilist: Noun Who Why/How The Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 7: ‘The Messenger’ Royce Gracie Messenger: Noun Who Why/How The Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 8: ‘The Swami’ Frank Zane Swami: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 9: ‘The Good Son’ Evander Holyfield The Good Son: Noun Why/How Ungoogleable Trait Chapter 10: ‘The Affirmation’ Robert Greene Affirmation: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable trait Chapter 11: ‘The Protector’ Lawrence Krauss Protector: Noun Who Why/How Ungoogleable Trait
About the Author
Jonny Stofko is a strength coach, host, and fitness expert who was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He spent his twenties living throughout the US, from Pittsburgh PA, Myrtle Beach, SC, Long Beach CA, and Las Vegas Nevada before moving to Australia in 2013. He attended Rapport Leadership International in Las Vegas and is a Master Graduate from their Leadership and Personal Development Program.
About the Book
Our lives are stories pieced together
from the cities that we've been,
from the people that we've met,
and from our ability to dream about anything that comes to mind that challenges the status quo.
The writers, the thinkers, the doers.
People that push the human race forward.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my mother, Rose, and my late father, Terry Stofko.
Copyright Information
Copyright © Jonny Stofko (2019)
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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data
Stofko, Jonny
Ungoogleable: The Success Secrets of Modern Day Giants
ISBN 9781641828697 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781641828703 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781645366263 (ePub e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019904264
The main category of the book — SELF-HELP / General
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Acknowledgement
I want to thank my family, friends, and clients who have all played a major part in this book, and in my journey. Every friend and follower on social media and every guest that I have ever interviewed, you guys all play a vital role in my progress and development. Thank you.

About
My name is Jonny Stofko and I was raised in northeast Ohio. I’ve lived all over the United States, from a little town called Youngstown, Ohio, to Las Vegas, Nevada. My life has taken me to cities such as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Long Beach, California, and now currently Sydney, Australia. I was floating around all throughout my 20s, you know, just figuring things out. I ended up spending six years in my 20s in Long Beach, California, bartending in nightclubs, in and out of relationships. My late 20s brought me to Las Vegas.
It is pretty much safe to say that I was the only guy ever to move to Las Vegas to find himself. I moved there with a few different addictions—alcoholism, gambling, a lot of girls, and cocaine, and that pattern of behavior was repeating itself. Then I got involved with a leadership company. That was a huge transitional point in my life in regards to personal development, leadership, and uncovering a deeper purpose for myself. Amongst all those years traveling, figuring life out, I ended up getting a bachelor’s degree in psychology as well as becoming a master graduate from Rapport Leadership International’s Leadership and Personal Development Program in Las Vegas, Nevada.
When I was 30 years old, I was seeing a girl who was living in Australia. I visited Sydney for a few weeks and again, being an American boy, I went to Oz, fell in love with it, and ended up moving there. I’m still close friends with her and I always think about the opportunities that I’ve received due to that relationship. It’s actually an important basis of my current podcast and latest book I’m working on but I’ll get into that later. I can go on and on about me living in Australia and traveling but I really want to keep this about Ungoogleable —the book, personal development, self-development, leadership, owning your damn life, and holding yourself accountable. Taking responsibility. Searching and digging deeper.
A year into me taking my personal training recommendations, requirements from Australia as I needed to coach there, I did all the certifications and started a personal training business under my name.
Sports was always a big player in my life, I’ve always been conscious fitness-wise. The fitness industry really saved my life. Once again, I can do a whole book on that; maybe we will get to that on a later date. But right now, let’s get back to me working out at a health club in Sydney… Now, the business model at this health club they call them ‘sole traders,’ basically, I compare it to a tattoo artist running a chair or somebody doing hair at a cosmetology school, a salon, that sort of thing. One pays rent to the building owner and in turn runs a business through their doors. It’s a great business model for any fitness coach who has certain business and networking skills.
So there are 35 other personal trainers in this health club, 5,000 members with overhead $25,000 a year—so you pay rent to run clients. I was new. I had never done this but my American hustle definitely shined through. My competitive side took over and after eight months of doing this, I was doing a lot of sessions; a lot more than most people and I still wasn’t happy, I felt like I had to do more. I just felt like I was not fulfilled, like something was missing. I remember very vividly waking up each morning, yearning for the answers. Wishing for a bigger opportunity to fall on my lap revolving around health and fitness. So, I wanted to start a podcast.
Now, let’s back up a bit. UFC193. It was November 2015 and I was in Melbourne. It was the night Ronda Rousey got head-kick knocked out. Holly Holm shocked the world, all you MMA and UFC junkies know what I’m talking about. I was in the fourth row to that. It was crazy! It was fucking chaos! The night before, though, I was at the Palais Theatre in St. Kilda. It is a little beach town in Melbourne. I went to see my biggest influence—the only guy I look up to. To be honest, you know my father had passed away years ago and Joe Rogan had become a distant father figure of sorts (my celebrity father). He was wise and filled with unbridled wisdom but more importantly he was a free thinker. These attributes are very appealing to me, a kid from Ohio who has never felt like he fit in anywhere, and I’ve lived almost everywhere…it seems. He was performing comedy on stage, so I am there with my buddy, Shep, to see Rogan perform at this theater of about, I don’t know, 12,000 people. The guy who introduces Rogan was a gentleman, a comic, named Tony Hinchcliffe, and I just happened to grow up with the kid. We were in perfect synchronicity. You know at the time I was 31 and I had not seen Tony since we were…well, I was 16, he was 14. We grew up in the same gritty town of Youngstown, Ohio, and there you go, 15 years later, he was standing on a stage and I was in the seventh row and I was just looking at him as he was dominating on stage, living his dream. I turned to my boy Shep and I went, “I know that dude on stage.” I was not sure if he believed me, till Tony gave me the perfect segway. He was in the middle of one of his bits and Hinchcliffe started talking about his hometown. I stand up and I go, “Youngstown!” in front of everybody.
Hinchcliffe stopped the show in front of everyone and he went, “Stofko! Jonny! Is that you? What the hell are you doing here, man?” in front of everyone. People were laughing, looking around.
I looked at my boy Shep, I went, “Man, I told you I knew that dude.”
Long story short…you know what? Forget that. Let’s keep it long.
Hinchcliffe got off the stage, messaged me on Facebook and said, “ Hey, Stof, when Rogan is done, walk out of the theater, go left. There is a green door. I will be waiting. ” I reconnected with Tony. I followed his instructions. We took some pictures. We rekindled. He had to go back on stage but before he went, he was like, “What are you guys about to do now?”
I was like, “Uh, I don’t know. I’m with you.”
He was like, “You know what, follow me.” He brought me backstage and he went, “Hey, Joe! I want to introduce you to a guy who I grew up with. I played baseball with this kid.” And just like that, I was shaking hands with Joe Rogan, the dude that I look up to and I was just, you know, I probably said some stupid shit. All I remember is Rogan’s hands were massive. He was like a little gorilla and uh, I was…I was like an idiot.