Run Rate

Your non-stick pan might be the most dangerous thing in your kitchen and most people have no idea.

Tiki Barber spent 10 seasons with the New York Giants and says 50% of every great NFL play is actually broken. The best players are not executing perfect plays. They are improvising at full speed and making something broken look great. In this episode Kyle sits down with Tiki Barber and Olympic gold medalist Alex Ferreira to get into what it actually takes to perform at the highest level and what comes after. They cover the mental side of elite performance, how Tiki built his media career while still playing in the NFL, and what the transition from athlete to the next chapter actually looks like. They also get into preparation, parallel paths, and why the players and founders who win consistently are the ones who never stop trying. Plus the RunRate Rapid Fire including Tiki's toughest opponent, his best coach, and what he would tell any athlete entering their next chapter.

John Tenet spent years investing in defense technology before deciding it was not enough. So he walked away from venture capital and built CHAOS from scratch. Four years later the company is valued at over $4 billion.

Chris Josephs co-founded Autopilot after noticing something nobody was talking about. Politicians like Nancy Pelosi were crushing the stock market and regular people had no way to trade alongside them, so he built one.

Alex Ferreira didn't grow up as the best skier in his group. He was middle of the pack at best. But he out worked everyone around him and made it to three Olympic games — winning silver, bronze, and gold.

Jonathan Swanson built two companies — Thumbtack and Athena — and has spent his career studying the one principle that separates people who scale from people who stay stuck: delegation.

Hank Medina aka Litquidity built finance's most followed anonymous account at 3AM in 2017 — a side project while still in investment banking that turned into a full media empire.