What if the approval you’ve spent your life chasing is actually keeping you from becoming who you were created to be?
In this episode of Genuine Life, I sit down with former professional baseball player, coach, author, and performance expert Ricky Scruggs for a deep conversation about identity, perfectionism, people-pleasing, competition, faith, and what Ricky calls “approval addiction.”
Ricky shares how his own drive to achieve began on the baseball field and followed him long after his playing career ended. As he puts it, “Pride was my dealer and approval was my drug of choice.”
We talk about why achievement can never permanently answer the question “Am I enough?”, why we shrink ourselves to keep other people comfortable, and how discovering who you really are can free you from constantly measuring your worth by someone else’s opinion. Ricky also shares how faith, truth, love, and surrender changed the way he approaches performance, relationships, and success.
Ricky is the author of The Champion Within: Overcome Approval Addiction and Compete With Greatness, a book using the framework of baseball to explore identity, purpose, faith, and freedom from approval.
Learn more about Ricky and his work at RickyScruggs.com
