Rich Rafferty is a young flight instructor at High Flight Academy in Butler, PA. Although he is an outstanding instructor, he is not limited to that role. Rich is an entrepreneur in the world of Aeronautics. He produces quality social media content on a daily basis, using Tik Tok, Youtube, and Instagram as his main platforms. His content is focused on helping flight students accomplish their goals, learn at a faster rate, and improve their lifestyle. Rich has grown to about 50,000 followers across platforms, and shows no signs of deceleration.
Not only does Rich Rafferty produce social media content, he also has started his own business called Aviator Accelerator. The mission of Aviator Accelerator is to help aviator’s improve through mentoring. The goal is to help each aviator improve themselves inside and outside the airplane. The process allows for students to “get through flight training easier, faster, and with more money in your pocket than you would elsewhere.” Rafferty is also a Mastermind Facilitator, through L3 Leadership, where he leads a group of young leaders and takes their leadership to the next level.
Rich’s passion for leadership and success is truly admirable. He is a motivated individual that will not stop innovating and building upon his strong foundations. He has already accomplished so many entrepreneurial feats in such a short period of time. It is amazing to think about all the success that will come in the future. Rich dedicates most of his success to a mental toughness challenge called 75 Hard. 75 Hard is a challenge that develops immense mental discipline, requiring the completion of a number tasks every single day for 75 days straight. Personally, as someone who has also completed the 75 Hard challenge, I can attest to the fact that it is not an easy task but the rewards are well worth the hard work! The challenges include 2 workouts, 10 pages of a book, a gallon of water, a diet of your choice (no cheat meals), no alcohol, and a progress picture every single day. Not only did Rich complete 75 Hard, but he did the entire Live Hard program, that extends for the rest of the year. While doing all of this he built the beginning of his entrepreneurial empire.
Aviator Accelerator: http://stan.store/AviatorAccelerator
I appreciate the focus that you put on the continuation of a business. It can be so easy as entrepreneurs to focus on getting started and forget the long term. I think this challenge is a great idea to help focus and be physically and mentally fit to run a business, and continue the projects that we start!
Its great to see someone from Pennsylvania succeed. Always love to see a local person be successful in life. He seems to be effectively using social media to help grow his image as well as as his business. He always seems to want more, he could have just been a pilot but he wanted to be more so he kept innovating and founded his own business.
It is really cool that he is local! I like how he turned his passion into an enterprise. I have heard of 75 Hard, and it is cool that he uses his mental discipline in his business. I like this story a lot and his idea encourages networking, which is part of being an entrepreneur.