Jia Jiang
- World’s Foremost Authority on Rejection
- Top-Viewed TED Talk Speaker and Bestselling Author of Rejection Proof
- Instill the courage and discipline in your audience that leads to extraordinary success in both their lives and your organization
Jia Jiang Speaker Biography
Hi, I am Jia Jiang. People call me the Rejection Guy. I am a serial author, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker.
My first book, “Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection” was a #1 bestseller. It has been used in sales training, career development, and college classes everywhere. I am currently in a remote cabin writing my second book The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things.
A native of Beijing, China, I came to the United States as a teenager to pursue education and entrepreneurial dreams. After receiving a BA at Brigham Young University and an MBA at Duke University, I built a successful marketing career at Dell before venturing into the worlds of entrepreneurship and blogging. My story of “100 Days of Rejection Therapy” was covered by media all over the world.
As an entrepreneur, I run Rejection Therapy, a popular card game aimed at helping people overcome their fear of rejection and develop mental resilience. It has built a global cult-like following on social media, with over 100M views on YouTube and TikTok. My personal YouTube channel and blog (RejectionTherapy.com) have over 112K subscribers. I have also founded and run DareMe Labs, a consulting firm helping corporate clients turn their employees into courageous work artists.
My goal with every event is to instill the courage and discipline in your audience that leads to extraordinary success in their lives and your organization.
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What I Learned From 100 Days of Rejection
For too many of us, the fear of rejection is the #1 obstacle to achieving our goals and dreams. Our natural tendency is to avoid the risk of rejection, even when it’s detrimental to our businesses, careers, and lives. Nobody knows this like entrepreneur Jia Jiang. To overcome his own fear of rejection, he conducted an experiment where he intentionally sought it out every day for 100 days. From asking complete strangers for $100 to requesting a “burger refill” at a fast food restaurant, Jia’s experiences (and surprising results) became the basis for one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time and the bestselling book Rejection Proof. It also transformed Jia Jiang into the world’s foremost authority on rejection.
In this engaging presentation, Jia shares insightful—and often laugh-out-loud—stories from his 100 Days of Rejection. Audiences learn how to become more resilient and make becoming rejection-proof their superpower for success in life. He also explores the basic principles of turning a NO into a YES, as well as how to get more YESes. By transforming a keynote speech into a unique and inspiring experience, Jia has earned rave reviews from Fortune 500 audiences and praise from individuals who have thanked him for changing their lives.
Easy Discipline: An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things
Discipline is the ability to consistently take hard action. It is the key to achieving any long-term success. Most people think discipline is obtained through a combination of inspiration, willpower, and pain tolerance. But that’s not reality. In the long term, people will do anything to avoid pain. As a result, most people fail to achieve personal goals, and most organizations fall short of their expected results. In this paradigm-shifting keynote, bestselling author Jia Jiang shares powerful insights from his upcoming book, Easy Discipline: An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things, revealing a surprising and sustainable path to discipline: love. It’s not about tolerating the work you hate but building tools to love the work you do.
Through inspiring, humor-filled stories, Jia illustrates tools and systems he uses to make himself fall in love with the hard actions needed to achieve his ambitious goals, including business building, sales mastery, networking, fear conquering, public speaking, language learning, and even parenting. After this experience, the audience will not only gain a brand-new perspective on success and discipline but also be equipped with the tools and system to realize any long-term goal with positivity and fulfillment.
