Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley

Ryan Hanley

Where unreasonable people sit down to discuss their Easy Mode, that thing they do that looks like cheating to everyone else...

  1. The Great Lie of Achievement: Why $650M Won't Fix You

    1d ago

    The Great Lie of Achievement: Why $650M Won't Fix You

    You sold the company. You hit the number. You bought the house. So why do you still feel empty? Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes, pioneered the One for One model, and sold his company at a $650M valuation. He achieved every entrepreneurial dream. Then, he fell into a deep depression. 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 In this episode, Ryan and Blake deconstruct the high-achiever's curse: the constant, gnawing feeling of "never enough." They discuss why the inner critic is a liar, the danger of over-optimizing your life, and how detaching from outcomes is the ultimate unlock for peak performance. Blake also reveals his experience using an AI therapist, his simple 15-minute morning routine, and why his current ventures (Move Lab and Morning Water) feel like "easy mode." Stop living in the future. Anchor yourself in the present. Links & Resources: Check out Blake's new podcast: No Magic Pill Join the Enough Movement Learn about Blake's new active sitting chair: MOOVLAB Get Blake's daily supplement: Morning Water Follow Blake on Instagram: @blakemycoskie Connect with Ryan on X: @RyanHanley_Com Watch the full video on YouTube: Ryan Hanley's Channel Read the full shownotes article at RyanHanley.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1h 3m
  2. iHeartMedia's "Guaranteed Human" Pivot Will Make You Rich

    3d ago

    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://youtube.com/ryanmhanley Connect with Ryan Hanley Website: https://ryanhanley.com  Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley  X: https://x.com/rhanley Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    24 min
  3. High Agency is the Game (and Most People Aren't Playing)

    May 21

    High Agency is the Game (and Most People Aren't Playing)

    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 I was 17 years old. Kitchen table my mom bought at a garage sale. I hand-wrote 17 letters to college baseball coaches with a message no teenager should have the nerve to send: my family is broke, whoever gives me the most money, that's where I'm going. George Mack calls what happened at that table high agency. Three wheels: clear thinking, bias to action, disagreeability. This episode breaks down why high agency is not a trait you're born with. It's a state you access. And the fastest path to that state is what I call Easy Mode. I also make the argument that most people are using AI backwards. They're speeding up hard mode. That's the low agency move. The real play is building an AI layer that protects your zone of genius so you can operate at full high agency by default. Ryan Hanley is the host of Finding Peak, author of the forthcoming book Easy Mode, and founder of the PEAK coaching framework for founders and executives generating $10M+ in revenue. If this episode connected with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. That's the best way to support this work. Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley This is the way. Hanley. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    16 min
  4. The Danger of Outsourcing Your Thinking to AI | Ryan Hawk

    May 21

    The Danger of Outsourcing Your Thinking to AI | Ryan Hawk

    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 --- We are facing an epidemic of intellectual laziness. Leaders are handing over their creative output to machines. They are letting their problem-solving muscles atrophy. This is a massive mistake. Ryan Hawk joins me to break down the real cost of outsourcing your thinking. We dig into why curiosity is the ultimate competitive advantage. We cover the brutal truth about excuses and how they soften your character. We get into why being coachable is the single most intoxicating trait a leader can possess. If you want to build long-term success, you cannot be closed off to feedback. You need truth tellers in your corner. You need to pay the price of becoming. Ryan Hawk is the host of The Learning Leader Show and author of The Price of Becoming. He has interviewed hundreds of the world's most brilliant minds on leadership and high performance. He is one of the sharpest thinkers I have had on this show. Subscribe to his Mindful Mondays newsletter at learningleader.com. Connect with Ryan Hawk:Website: https://learningleader.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhawk12/Book: The Price of Becoming: https://amzn.to/4fz6nYt Follow Ryan Hanley:Website: https://ryanhanley.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanleyX: https://x.com/ryanhanley_com This is the way. Hanley. This show is part of the Unplugged Studios Network — the infrastructure layer for serious creators. 👉 Learn more at https://unpluggedstudios.fm. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    58 min
  5. The Agility Quotient: Why IQ and EQ Are No Longer Enough

    May 15

    The Agility Quotient: Why IQ and EQ Are No Longer Enough

    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 What got you here will not get you there. The world is moving faster than any of us expected. Jobs are disappearing overnight. Industries are getting rebuilt from scratch. And the people who are winning are not the ones with the highest IQ or the most emotional intelligence. They are the ones who can handle change, disappointment, and uncertainty without losing their footing. That is AQ. Your Agility Quotient. In this episode, we break down why hustle culture is a lie. We explore the difference between taste and pastiche in an AI-driven world. We dig into the four archetypes of agility and how to figure out which one you are. We talk about the end of history illusion and why your past success might be the biggest threat to your future growth. This one is a gut check. Take notes. Liz Tran coaches the CEOs and founders of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. Her clients have raised more than $1 billion in funding from firms like A16Z, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. She spent a decade in tech, including four years as the only female executive at one of the largest venture funds in the world. She is the author of "The Karma of Success" and "AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That's Always Changing" (Penguin Random House, 2026 ). Take the AQ Quiz: https://aqquiz.com/ Connect with Liz Tran:Website: https://liz-tran.com/AQ (Book ): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786825/aq-by-liz-tran/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liztranwrites/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liztran1/ Follow Ryan:Website: https://ryanhanley.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley This show is part of the Unplugged Studios Network — the infrastructure layer for serious creators. 👉 Learn more at https://unpluggedstudios.fm. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    51 min

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