Everyone has ideas, but very few people actually act on them. Fear, outside opinions, and overthinking often stop people before they ever get started. But what if the key to success isn’t having the perfect plan… it’s simply taking action?
In this episode, Ryan Cazella shares his journey of building a new platform designed to preserve family history and legacy. Along the way, he breaks down the mindset shifts that helped him move forward like learning through execution, filtering out noise, and staying committed to a bigger mission.
Clarity doesn’t come before action. It comes because of it.
Here’s what we discuss in this episode:
🚀 Action Beats Ideas: Execution is what separates progress from potential
🧠 Learn By Doing: Real clarity comes after you start, not before
🔊 Filter the Noise: Not every opinion deserves your attention
🎯 Mission Drives Focus: A clear “why” helps you push through doubt
📸 Preserve What Matters: Legacy, memories, and family history are often overlooked
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Entrepreneurship, mindset, startup, business planning, business ideas, growth mindset,
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Clark: I’m Clark Speaks, the catastrophic injury lawyer. Welcome to the Verdict. So this is one of the things that I think is in your, one of your last guests, uh, I watched your podcast, uh, that you have, uh, Clay Moffatt was a guy that came on and he talks about, uh, you know, one of the pieces of advice he would give to younger people is just to do it. Because so many people who are your age have all these great ideas, you know what I mean? And they come back and they’re enthusiastic and they’re excited about something, right? And then a lot of times, you know, your friends in life have a way of sort of dampening that down, right, of telling you, well, if it was so easy, somebody else would have done it. And hey, this is just like this other uh, uh, thing, uh, that I saw somebody else do. And they kind of, they. Not intentionally but they have a tendency, you know, the collective takes maybe a little bit of the wind out of your sails. Have you had any of that experience? And what do you do to overcome it?
Ryan Casella: Yeah, 100%. Um, and I’m just learning that one, the world rewards action. Everyone has ideas and stuff, but the only way you fully learn and understand is by taking action and then pivoting from the feedback that you receive. So I had a base plan when I first started this, but it’s already changed so much just because I’ve taken action. I’m like, okay, this works more actually. This is kind of what I really want to do. And I’m learning that you need to actually act on these ideas to make it done and just stay resilient. Um, and with the thing with other people kind of again trying to dampen it or whatever, I’m just learning that anyone that’s ever accomplished anything great, they’ve had to overcome that. And once I had this just self belief where I trust in it so much that outside noise and stuff and others opinions on it can’t really change the way that I think. And this has also done such a good job almost bringing me closer to the right people and kind of distancing myself a little bit from not the wrong people, the people. I just don’t fully understand what I’m doing and my mission. Um, and I feel like I’ve done a good job of kind of being able to filter a little bit better like who to actually take advice and guidance from, you know, because everyone’s got an opinion. But that doesn’t mean I should listen to everyone’s opinion about different things that I’m doing. So I mean, that’s not a great answer to that, but sure it is.
Clark: So you mentioned your mission. Have you, do you have it? Do you have sort of, uh, have you articulated to yourself what that mission is? Are you still putting that together?
Ryan Casella: Yeah. So basically I’m creating this software.
Clark: Ah.
Ryan Casella: And it should go live this week, but it’s called Lineage and it’s going to a software to digitalize all of your family’s history. So pictures, videos, recipes, stories, gravestones, any kind of relic you could use to digitalize. So for older stuff that’s physical, you take pictures and you could put it on there and you can add tags, you could tag the people, location, year, add titles, add descriptions so that you fully understand. So it’s not just a picture of your grandfather, it’s a picture of your grandfather with a long description, a title. It’s a story of my great uncle telling a story about my grandfather. 10 minute story of him doing something when he was 18 years old. It’s a family recipe for my grandmother in her handwriting with notes on exactly what to do. And this will just be like to preserve your family’s legacy and history so that it’s never forgotten. I think that’s so important. And then even going forward, there’s like a scrapbook feature. So it’s one spot to consolidate. Because how many times have you gotten a picture sent to you? It’s like, oh, five years ago. And you’re like, I didn’t know this picture existed. You know, even though we’re, we’re digital now, a lot of the older generation in my family, they’re on Facebook. A lot of the younger people on Instagram, you know, people have stuff just on their phones. So this would be just a software to kind of consolidate all that and put it into one spot, but without all the junk that a lot of the other social media stuff has. You know, it’s just like it would be a good platform for eventually down the line you could see that like, oh, little Timmy just graduated kindergarten, that’s awesome. Or you know, my little cousin just took her first steps. And I think that’s so important because I went over there to Europe and again, I learned about all these qualities that are, that are really, truly fulfilling in life. And you see in the United States now, I mean, people make a lot of great money. We’re able to communicate with anyone at any time with our phones and stuff. But you see the rates of loneliness and depression, especially among young adults, and it’s like, that’s not a coincidence. It’s because we don’t spend enough time doing the things that truly matter of spending time with your family, doing all these things that don’t really require a lot of money to do. And Clay Moffat actually had a really great point about that where we kind of get carried away sometimes with some of that stuff. So I think something like this would be so good to impact people and, you know, so you can learn about your great grandfather and what he was doing when he was your age. And I think that stuff’s so valuable, and it’s just important to preserve that stuff so it never gets lost. That your kids. Kids, kids, kids, kids. Will know who your dad was actually as a person, not just a random picture of him.
Clark: Sure. Yeah. And so, I mean, for example, it snowed last week. And so, uh, in my family, we. We, uh, you know, I ended up sending some of my kids and, you know, my wife on a family group chat. I’d send them a picture of us in the snow 10 years ago. And it was fun, but then it’s gone. And then you gotta. In order to find it, you gotta scroll through, uh, a thousand texts in order to be able to remember it again. Right.
Ryan Casella: Even though it’s digitalized.
Clark: Right, right. So it is digitalized, but it’s kind of a mess. And what you’re talking about is a way to organize it and preserve it and share it so that it’s more readily accessible and it’s more useful.
Ryan Casella: And then you can go by year and you can even make folders like Florida trip 2024 and go through that. And again, it would be one of those things where most of the time you leave social media, when you spend an hour on Instagram or something, you’re like, all right, that wasn’t productive at all. When this would be one of those things, you know, on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve where you’re with the family and you can share plate and you can go through and reminisce on an old trip or old memories or old lacrosse tournaments with my dad. And that’s the stuff that actually makes you smile and stuff. And you’re glad you took those pictures and, you know, go through some stories about when, you know, I did something stupid in high school or something, my dad was yelling at me. But now we can look back on it and all that stuff is just like, so. And it makes you feel so good and it’s so important. So that that’s kind of the thought process behind everything I’m doing.
Clark: Thanks for joining us. Don’t forget to subscribe and follow us to stay up to date with our weekly episodes. We’ll see you next time.
