Transitioning into a new career can be immensely challenging particularly when the majority of your time has been devoted to pursuits that might not align with your true passion. However, deep within, you may sense a persistent longing for a life that resonates with your authentic self. How can we have the courage to make a decision on a significant career shift?

Welcome to today's episode! We are delighted to have Michael Ryno as our guest. In this episode, Michael will take us on a captivating journey as he shares his remarkable transition from the world of corporate banking to pursuing his true passion in photography. With an impressive 25-year career in finance under his belt, Michael's story is one of courage, perseverance, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment.

Tune in to this episode to gain a deeper understanding of the personal and professional transformation that occurs when one follows their passion. Stay tuned and get ready to be inspired!
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Career Shift from Corporate Banking to Professional Photography with Michael Ryno
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. It’s been a while since I’ve shared a story about a significant career transition and some of these significant career transitions are a little bit harder to come by because it’s so much easier to transition to something with like, quote-unquote, “transferable skills” or even to just move on to, say, a competitor or a slightly different job, get a promotion than to take a whole different path. But sometimes, that whole different path is what you really want out of life. It’s your true passion and it affords the life that you really want. And if you don’t want a certain lifestyle and you want a career that’s going to give you the lifestyle, you’re going to have the adventures you want, the travels you want, the types of things you want to be doing, then that’s a great thing to come by. My guest today, Michael Ryno of Michael Ryno Photography pursued recently his passion of being a photographer as opposed to his prior career.
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Michael, welcome to the program.

 

Yeah. Hey, thank you so much, Stephen, for having me. I really appreciate the opportunity.

 

No problem. I’m glad to have you because I’ve done a lot of stories about people leaving whatever job they had to pursue what they really wanted. It’s been a little while since I’ve shared one of those that, I’m kind of covering some other topics. So, yeah, Michael, tell me your story about where you were for, I don’t want to say most of your life but for a significant amount of time?

 

Sure, sure. I think most of my life, that’s probably a pretty accurate statement. So, out of college, I went right into banking. I majored in finance so I was in the banking and finance world from 1983 all the way until August of 2021. While an enjoyable career, it sort of got to the point where I was, to be honest, maybe a little bit burned out and so forth with that corporate grind and what had occurred there was over the course of the last, I guess, five, six years while I was doing that corporate banking, I had picked up a camera, I think I learned how to use it properly and really became passionate about photography. So, like I mentioned, in August of 2021, it felt like the right time to let go of that corporate environment, that corporate job, banking, move on and pursue this new career In photography.

 

So would it be accurate to say that at least for well over a decade, potentially, that that job in finance did serve you well?

 

Throughout that time, I had, like I said, great relationships, great people that I worked with. Having said that, there were a few different banks that I had been involved with the last, say, 14 years of that career was in the large corporate food and agribusiness lending, large food processing companies and I still look back and enjoy having had that experience...