Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley

Ryan Hanley

Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley: the podcast for founders and executives beating burnout, mastering delegation, and leading with clarity — real conversations on leverage, AI, and peak performance.

  1. 5 days ago

    Space Investor: SpaceX Is Only 20% of the Opportunity

    I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley You don't need to build a rocket to make money in space. You may already depend on space technology without knowing it. The leaders watching launches while ignoring the infrastructure underneath them are staring at the mascot and missing the team. I brought Mark Boggett, CEO and General Partner of Seraphim Space, onto Finding Peak to explain what the commercial space economy looks like when you remove the Mars fantasies and billionaire theater. Mark argues that SpaceX is the public face of the market, but the bigger founder opportunity is in the other 80 percent. We get practical fast. Radar satellites are helping insurers assess flood damage through cloud cover. New positioning networks are being built because today's GPS cannot support the accuracy and security demanded by autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots. Orbital tracking companies are creating what Mark calls the "Google Maps of space." We also cover space-based solar power, compact nuclear batteries, off-planet manufacturing, and the founder flywheel forming around experienced space operators. The rocket is the distraction. The infrastructure is the business. For founders and executives, this episode offers a sharper way to study platform shifts. Don't stop at the category leader. Look for the data, security, power, logistics, software, and service companies the platform makes necessary. This is the way. Hanley. Connect with Mark Boggett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-boggett-5044631/ Website: https://seraphim.vc/ Follow Ryan Hanley Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Space Investor: SpaceX Is Only 20% of the Opportunity
  2. 28 Jul

    Your Portfolio Is a Fingerprint of Your Personality | Jim Lebenthal

    A friend of mine sold American Express at $5 a share during the financial crisis. Six months later it was $120. Panic turned a temporary loss into a permanent one, and that story is this entire episode in miniature. --- I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley --- Jim Lebenthal is a Partner and Chief Equity Strategist at Cerity Partners and a regular on CNBC's Halftime Report. Before markets, he was a Navy nuclear engineer who drove submarines. He thinks in systems and decades, and his core truth is simple: stay in the market. Jim ran the numbers on the last five crises. Invest the day before each crash, stay in, and your annualized return is about 10%. The people who got destroyed sold low and chased the market back up. We get into why your emotions aren't the enemy, denial is. FOMO? Scratch the itch with a small buy and keep dry powder. Fear? Find the data. We cover diversification, why 80% of the portfolio he runs sits in tried and true companies, when an ETF beats stock picking, and what he found hiding inside ESG funds. Then the big stuff: crypto, gold, and private markets (liquidity first), why he tells clients not to borrow to speculate, and why patience is the biggest investment virtue. He closes with a story he's never told before, about a client's financial autopsy, and the line I can't shake: your portfolio is a fingerprint of your personality. Stay in. Size it right. Write it down. This is the way. Hanley. Connect with Jim Lebenthal Website: https://ceritypartners.com/team/james-lebenthal/ X: https://x.com/jlebenthal CNBC: Halftime Report, two to three times a week, noon to 1pm Eastern Book: How to Ride the Subway: Getting Around on Wall Street and in Life (Regalo Press, 2026): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVMJFJXL?tag=findingpeak-20 Follow Ryan Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Your Portfolio Is a Fingerprint of Your Personality | Jim Lebenthal
  3. 23 Jul

    The 3% Rule: Why Your Strategy Sessions Die by Monday | Lee Benson

    I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley Lee Benson pulled weeds for 25 cents an hour when he was six. By senior year of high school he was living on his own. Forty-six years later he calls himself an overnight success: a nine-figure exit after growing Able Aerospace from two employees to more than 500 across 60 countries. Today Lee is the CEO of Execute to Win, and this conversation is a masterclass in what execution means. Not grinding. Not hustle. Creating objectively measurable value, and building the environment where every person in the company creates more of it over time. We cover the 3% rule of strategy versus execution, why job descriptions fail your team, the compensation system that ended salary negotiations at Able (open books plus 22% of pre-tax profit paid monthly), earned decision rights, and the category Lee puts most strategic initiatives in: please do your job. We also get personal. Kicked out senior year. Credit cards opened in his name. A thousand shows in a rock band. Why the struggle is the point, in business and at home with your kids. And we close on AI: why the leaders trading their coaches for chatbots are getting amazing answers to the wrong questions. If you lead a team, this one follows you into Monday morning. This is the way. Hanley. Connect with Lee Benson:  Website: https://etw.com  Dinner Table: https://dinnertable.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-j-benson/ Follow Ryan:  Website: https://ryanhanley.com  Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley Full transcript, clips, and more: https://ryanhanley.com/podcast/the-3-rule-why-your-strategy-sessions-die-by-monday-lee-benson Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The 3% Rule: Why Your Strategy Sessions Die by Monday | Lee Benson
  4. 5 Jul

    The Autonomous Digital Economy Is Here

    I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ryanmhanley The internet we use today is only half built. We spent the last 40 years digitalizing communication and content. Now, we are digitalizing value, intelligence, and work. Matthew Le Merle, Managing Partner of Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors, calls this the autonomous digital economy. And if you are running a business today, it is coming for your margins whether you are ready or not. We break down why blockchain adoption feels slow when it is right on schedule. We look at the hidden taxes built into our current financial system and how tokenization removes that friction. We also look at AI agents doing work humans were never designed to do in the first place. You can choose the axis of fear, worrying about what innovation will cost you. Or you can choose the axis of the innovator, believing new technology will solve today's problems and open opportunities we cannot even imagine yet. This is the way. Hanley. Connect with Matthew Le Merle:  Website: https://www.matthewlemerle.com  Fifth Era: https://www.fifthera.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewlemerle/  Fifth Era LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fifthera  X: https://twitter.com/BCoinvestors Follow Ryan:  Website: https://ryanhanley.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley Full transcript, clips, and more: https://ryanhanley.com/podcast/the-autonomous-digital-economy-is-here Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The Autonomous Digital Economy Is Here
  5. 26 Jun

    Fighter Pilot Reveals Why You Never Hit Your Goals

    You don't have a goal problem. You have an execution problem. --- I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ryanmhanley --- Christian "Boo" Boucousis spent 11 years as a fighter pilot. Now he runs Afterburner, helping businesses win using the exact same cognitive models. We sit down and pull apart the myth of goal setting. We break down the ORCA debrief framework. We talk about why the human brain defaults to fear over ego. And we look at the exact reason why your organization is probably stuck in reactive mode. If you feel like you are doing everything everywhere all the time, this is the episode you need. Boo is a former fighter pilot, successful entrepreneur, and the CEO of Afterburner. He is the author of the upcoming book Flawless Leadership. He has spent decades taking the high-stakes execution models of the military and applying them to businesses to drive massive results. Connect with Christian "Boo" Boucousis: Website: https://callmebuc.com Afterburner: https://afterburner.com/meet-the-team/#boo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-boo-boucousis/ Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley This is the way. Hanley. Full transcript, clips, and more: https://ryanhanley.com/podcast/fighter-pilot-reveals-why-you-never-hit-your-goals Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Fighter Pilot Reveals Why You Never Hit Your Goals
  6. 22 Jun

    Leadership Gurus Don't Want You To Know This

    Every leadership guru has a framework to sell you. Seven steps to build a team. Four pillars of leadership. Twelve habits of executives. Different names, same product. And you do not need any of them. I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ryanmhanley Most frameworks are not built to help you. They are built to brand the person selling them. You cannot trademark "figure out what works and keep doing it." So the simple truth gets buried under acronyms and extra steps, while the guru sells the workshop. In this solo episode I break down why complexity is the enemy of execution, and the only three moves that beat every framework on the market. Have an idea. Test the idea. Iterate on the results. I get into why Naval Ravikant is right that it is not 10,000 hours, it is 10,000 iterations. And I walk through how I used that exact loop to grow Rogue Risk from 17 lead sources down to the 5 that made it the fastest-growing small commercial insurance agency in the country. I am Ryan Hanley. I built and sold Rogue Risk, I have spent two decades inside the rooms where founders win and lose, and I help leaders turn chaos into clarity. No theory. Lived reps. If this hits home, subscribe and share it with one leader who needs to stop collecting frameworks and start shipping. Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanley This is the way. Hanley. Full transcript, clips, and more: https://ryanhanley.com/podcast/leadership-gurus-dont-want-you-to-know-this Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Leadership Gurus Don't Want You To Know This
  7. 16 Jun

    The Math That Should Terrify Every Executive

    72% of your time is being eaten by coordination, communication, and admin. That leaves 28% for actual strategy. That is not a productivity problem. That is a math problem. Most leaders use AI to do their admin faster. They put a turbo engine on a car that is driving in the wrong direction. The win is not doing the 72% faster. The win is deleting it. In this solo episode I break down what "work slop" is, why flow state makes you 500% more productive, and the three questions that decide what you hand to a machine. Then I share how cutting low-value work out of my sales team's day lifted close rates by 10%. I built and sold Rogue Risk on an operational model called the human optimized system. Today we call it easy mode. I have spent 20 years creating online and helping leaders turn chaos into clarity, and I have a book by the same name coming in September 2027. If one idea here lands, run the three-day time audit this week. Then come tell me what you cut. I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ryanmhanley Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley Full transcript, clips, and more: https://ryanhanley.com/podcast/the-math-that-should-terrify-every-executive Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The Math That Should Terrify Every Executive
  8. 8 Jun

    iHeartMedia's "Guaranteed Human" Pivot Will Make You Rich

    iHeartMedia rolled out a new tagline: Guaranteed Human. Not better content. Not award-winning journalism. Not bigger distribution. Guaranteed Human. Two words. That is what one of the largest media companies on the planet decided to lead with. They have the research to back it up. 90% of listeners want their media made by humans. This includes people who use AI themselves every single day. Consumer preference for AI-generated content dropped from 60% in 2023 to 26% today. In less than two years, the floor fell out. The AI content flood did not make creators obsolete. It created a valuable scarcity. It created an attention void. Every brand, every media company, every platform flooded the zone with AI content. Faster. Cheaper. More of it. And the consumer said no thank you. They said it loudly with their attention and their wallets. When everything looks the same and hits the same predictable beats, the human who shows up with a real point of view becomes the only thing worth paying for. The new scarcity is not production quality. It is not your distribution. It is not even your audience size. The new scarcity is a real human with a real point of view who has earned the right to hold it. If you are blasting out AI slop, you are competing in a race to the bottom. If you are leaning into your specific, nuanced, contrarian humanity, you are building a moat that compounds over time. In this episode I break down the economics behind this shift, the 2022-2026 timeline that got us here, and the three-move playbook to price yourself like the scarcity you are: Name your point of view Put it on record consistently Price it like the scarcity that it is You have a voice that no LLM can replicate because it was built from your life, not some mashup of data points. Name that point of view. Put it on record. Price it accordingly. I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ryanmhanley Connect with Ryan Hanley Website: https://ryanhanley.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley  X: https://x.com/rhanley Full transcript, clips, and more: https://ryanhanley.com/podcast/iheartmedias-guaranteed-human-pivot-will-make-you-rich Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    iHeartMedia's "Guaranteed Human" Pivot Will Make You Rich

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