Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley

I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I spent years believing the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be was a work problem. Michael Bernoff calls it what it is: a language problem.

Michael has spent more than 25 years studying how language drives behavior. Jim Rohn mentored him from 1999 to 2009. His book Average Sucks took nine years to write, because he wanted a book people finish. His framework, Human Interaction Technology, is built on one idea: the words you choose program the results you get.

We cover why capable people stay stuck, the success script nobody handed you, and why confidence without competence is noise. Michael breaks down problem language versus solution language and what each does to your brain chemistry. Problems push your body toward cortisol. Solutions push it toward serotonin.

Then he drops the line I can't shake: "Work hard and be a good person. That's a shitty plan for a business owner."

We also get into the three words that rewire any limiting belief, up until now, and his missing Step 13: the way you talk about you is how the world learns to treat you.

This one changed how I hear my own self-talk.

This is the way.

Hanley.

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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.

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Your strategy may not be the bottleneck. Your self-image might be.

Most leaders train the craft. They study the market, improve the offer, tighten the process, and push for better execution. Then pressure arrives and the mind they never trained grabs the wheel.

Collin Henderson is a mental performance coach, founder of Master Your Mindset, author, and host of the Master Your Mindset podcast. His work has taken him from Fortune 500 boardrooms to Division 1 locker rooms, including the UCLA women’s basketball program.

Collin’s central argument is simple: You never outperform your self-image.

If you see yourself as the person who folds under pressure, avoids conflict, or needs permission, your behavior will keep proving that label correct. The first move is not another tactic. It is learning to question the beliefs running beneath the tactics. Is that thought true? Said by who?

We also get into the comfortable middle. This is the dangerous place where the bills are paid, the title looks good, and nothing is broken enough to force a decision. A leader can survive there for years while his ambition quietly dies of boredom. Collin puts a clean edge on it: “I have to respect your right to be average.”

That line will sting if it is supposed to.

I share why I have treated therapy as routine maintenance and how an accountability partner helped me build the systems behind a national digital commercial insurance agency. Adults celebrate coaching for kids and athletes, then act like asking for help becomes weakness after age 30. That is backward. Collin says, “Nobody should worry or win alone.”

The conversation moves from identity to environment, vulnerability, proximity, fear, flow, comparison, service, and ownership. It closes with one question that cuts through every excuse: “What are you doing for that?”

For founders and executives, this is not soft work. A shaky self-image can turn clear strategy into hesitation, defensive leadership, and inconsistent execution. Collin offers a practical operating rhythm: notice the thought, name the feeling, question the belief, choose the response, then use accountability to keep the new behavior from disappearing when the week gets ugly.

If your team keeps repeating a problem it already knows how to solve, the missing skill may be mental, not technical.

You do not need more motivational wallpaper. You need a mind, a system, and a circle that can hold up under pressure.

## Chapters

00:00 Opening

00:28 Why Mindset Is the Missing Performance Skill

05:27 You Never Outperform Your Self-Image

08:06 Why We Default to Negative Self-Talk

13:57 Conditioning and Automatic Negative Thoughts

16:19 How to Move the Comfortable Middle

21:59 Vulnerability Is Not Weakness

30:46 Accountability and the Power of Proximity

48:00 Reality Comparison and Flow

59:20 The Oz Method

## Connect with Collin Henderson

Website: https://www.thecollinhenderson.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collinhendersonmindset/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collinhenderson/

Podcast: https://www.thecollinhenderson.com/podcast

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Website: https://ryanhanley.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley

This is the way.

Hanley.

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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.

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If you've been on Instagram for more than 30 seconds, you've been pitched a detox. Most of those juice cleanses and 10-day kits are marketing scams. The real problem is that your body's natural drainage pathways are backed up, and you're carrying a toxic load that has been stacking up for decades, sometimes since before you were born.

In this conversation, I sit down with holistic detox coach Eva Hooft to break down the root causes of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and anxiety. Eva walked away from an international modeling career after privately fighting chronic illness and depression, and she now helps people turn their body's own systems back on instead of chasing symptoms. 

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We get into the truth about heavy metals hiding in your water, food, and clothes, why fasting can make you sicker if you're already depleted, and why parasites are a signal rather than the enemy. We cover the lie you've been told about cholesterol, including my own story of refusing Lipitor and dropping 60 points anyway. 

Then we get into the part that surprised me most: how your minerals shape your personality, and how fixing your gut can change your anxiety, your focus, and your mood.

Everything Eva shares is her opinion and experience as a coach, not medical advice. Take it as a smarter set of questions to bring to your own health.

You don't have to accept waking up tired. When you fix the biochemistry, you fix the mind.

This is the way.

Hanley.

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The grass is always greener on the other side of scale. But underneath that grass is always shit.

Most founders fall into the trap of believing they have to scale their business to be successful. We are fed a steady diet of entrepreneur porn that glorifies the hustle, the massive payrolls, and the top-line revenue vanity metrics. But what if scaling is the exact wrong move for you right now? What if your business shouldn't be your only asset?

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Carter Cofield and George Acheampong, the founders of Melanin Money, joined me to break down the reality of building wealth. We unpack the four distinct phases of business and why the decision to move from a highly profitable lifestyle business to a scaling enterprise must be made for the right reasons.

If you are valuable to your business, your business is not valuable. You shouldn't scale your business unless you plan to walk away from it.

We also tackle the massive pressure founders feel to make an "impact" before they have secured their own financial foundation. Carter and George argue that you must secure your income before you can truly make an impact. We discuss how to use content as a compounding growth engine, why the facts changing means your beliefs should change too, and how to stop chasing the next shiny object by defining your exact target.

This is the way.

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You don't have a goal problem. You have an execution problem.

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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.

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This is the way.

Hanley.

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You think you understand AI. I promise you don't. Most founders are missing the real opportunity with it.

Bryan McAnulty joins me to level-set. He's an AI builder and the founder of Heights Platform and LatchLoop. Bryan launched the first autonomous AI coach back in 2023. He knows where AI sits right now. He lives it every day.

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The biggest problem, he says, is that people aren't thinking big enough. We break down what an AI loop is. We talk about "service as a software." That means you sell the outcome, not the tool. Bryan explains how AI helps you see around corners. He gives real examples on customer retention.

I share my own $400 AI app experiment. I built "Black Ink," a finance tool for solopreneurs. Then I killed it on purpose. I tell you why it was worth every dollar.

We also cover why taste and judgment still win. You can outsource your work. You can't outsource your understanding. The future is here. It is not evenly distributed. This conversation will change how you approach AI in your business. It might even crack open a book inside you.

Bryan McAnulty builds real AI products for a living. He founded Heights Platform and LatchLoop. He shipped the first autonomous AI coach in 2023. His takes come from building, not theorizing.

Don't miss this one. Hit play and reset your AI perspective.

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This is the way.

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