Finding your Purpose and Using your Voice with Richard Silverman
These days, when everybody loves the sound of their own voice, and are constantly giving advice and talking about themselves, Richard Silverman just was never felt comfortable in that role.
His ideas raked in millions of dollars for the businesses he’s involved with.
His fond memories were when he was able to help somebody or impact them or give some level of motivational confidence to find their voice.
He strongly believes, ‘you learn those lessons when you have those hard times and failures’
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Richard Silverman was a native of Baltimore who grew up in New York. He graduated from NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (NYU) in 1985, receiving his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, with a concentration in film.
He worked in the entertainment industry, beverage industry, and hospitality industry for years, yet he was a man with never a drink in his hand.
Gifted with a blessed childhood and mentored and guided by his Dad who he always respected, Richard did the right things because his father taught him do the right things.
He has over 35 years of combined experience as an operator and key executive in the hospitality, food and beverage, events, sports, entertainment, digital, and specialty retail industries.
In 2007, Silverman became a key member of the restructuring and turnaround advisory team at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada.
While running the GSR Silverman took the property from the 12th ranked property in the market (Wells Report) to the 2nd ranked property in Northern Nevada in less than six months’ time. He added over $8 million dollars in additional revenue through the expansion and improvement of the Convention and Group Sales initiatives and brought a number of new conventions and “city wide” events to the marketplace.
Promising insights from the episode:
- How and where did it all start for Richard Silverman. Who were his childhood influencers
-Is nepotism a bad thing for anyone?
-Business deals and successes of Richard
-How Richard turned around the history of a biggest hotel in city from worst performing to best performing
-How does someone go about showing what their voice stands for and reflects
-What kind of president would Joe Biden make? A little discussion on politics
Important Quotes from Richard Silverman:
My dad is my best friend, mentor, and hero
We all get to where we get to in life and become who we are because of the people that influenced us along the way to get us there
The people that you love and value are the only thing that matter
I love being told something can’t be done because it’s already been proven to fail.
My childhood was blessed and gifted
My dad was a person who I always had respect for
Nepotism is a good word if you can use relationships to carve your own path and do your own thing
Having the right person in your life gives you all the perspective
Right voices are not getting the exposure that they need
You learn those lessons when you have those hard times and failures
The hardest lessons I’ve learnt are when I haven’t trusted my voice and let other people’s voices influence my direction and my belief in something
The things that stand out the most to me are some of the people I met along and had an impact on
The true imbalance in life is just missing your other half
Most people were reading from a 30 - 40 - 50 rule play book and thought only those rules apply in business, but I was able to prove if you change some of those paradigms, if you commit things a bit differently; you can positively affect revenue and experience
I did the right things because my father taught me to do the right things
I didn’t allow myself to be pressured by people (who didn’t necessarily care about a human being) to do something I would have regretted later
We (human race) are a uniquely beautiful, flawed, sad, amazing species
I get involved in projects that can have some meaning and purpose, positive impact on people’s lives and also opens people eyes
People do not deserve disrespect, but do not over respect people and never reduce your own voice because someone has a title
We’re in times where you cannot change anything about some people’s mind set.
You can’t engage everybody
We don’t fix inequity with more inequity, you need to find balance
Passion does not have to match the volume in your voice
The only place a discourse/ discord turns into something positive is, the middle ground
Live and let live is an idea that’s doable
If you’re thinking about writing, drawing, creating something; just do it, get started
Once you do something and complete it, it liberates you to doing it again and again. It might not end up what you thought when you started
