Grit, Mentors, and the Founder's Load: Bryan Flannery

Season 2 opens with a shift: less about tools, more about the people doing the work. Ben Barrontine and new co-host Chris Wingfield sit down with Bryan Flannery, founder of Foresight Security and one of the oldest friends of the show.

Bryan left an 18-year pension two days after his 42nd birthday to build Foresight, now 55 employees across nine states. The three get into behavioral threat assessment, the difference between people who build and people who run what is already built, and the real weight of leadership. Why being a founder is the loneliest job Bryan has ever had. The provider hat versus the recipient hat, and why the founder only wears one. Why a mentor beats a school and why communication is the highest-leverage skill a leader has.

Grit and resilience get you in the door. People keep you standing.

Guest: Bryan Flannery, Founder, Foresight Security Consulting https://foresight-sc.com/
Hosts: Ben Barrontine and Chris Wingfield, 360 Privacy

New episodes of Hard Target drop every other week. We are going behind the scenes with the men and women actually making things happen.