Most people walk into the dating market completely blind. No idea where they stand. No idea that lack of information could cost them matches, dates, and relationships. 

I spent 27 years in real estate. The first thing a competent agent does before listing a home is run a Comparative Market Analysis — a CMA. It tells you where your property stands relative to the market. Without it, you are guessing.

Dating works the same way.

In this episode I break down what dating market value ( some times called sexual market value or SMV) actually is, how it is calculated, which categories matter most for men and women, and why understanding your score is the single fastest way to improve your results in dating.

I also built a free dating market value calculator that scores you on a scale of 1-10 across 7 categories. It takes under 2 minutes, shows you your highest-leverage gap, and gives you a shareable score card to share on social media and dating apps.

 Thousands of men and women have taken it. Men and women are posting their scores on their dating profiles. Some are using it as an opener.

Take the calculator. Know your number. Then build.

⚔️ Link to the FREE Dating Market Value Calculator: https://maxximus.ai/dating-market-value-calculator 

📖 Full Article: https://maxximus.ai/journal/dating-market-value 

🔬 Scoring Methodology (every category, every weight, the research behind it): https://maxximus.ai/dating-market-value-calculator/methodology 

📱 Talk to Maxximus now for FREE to raise your score. — https://maxximus.ai/preview

Most men walk into a first date trying to impress her. That is the wrong move. The man who wins the first date is not the most impressive one he is the most present one. The one who leads. The one who makes her feel seen. The one who already knows how the night is going to end before he walks in.

In this episode I break down the exact framework I have used across nearly 1,000 first dates with women from  60+ countries. What to do before you arrive. How to own the space the moment you walk in. The two questions that open her up completely. How to read her body language in real time and lead every transition. When and how to close the date on your terms, while the energy is still high. And the one text the next day that makes the second date inevitable.

This is Episode 14 -  the final chapter of the Dating Trilogy. If you have not watched or listened to Episode 12 (Cold Approach) and Episode 13 (Texting Women 101) go back and start there. This episode is the payoff.

📖 Read the full first date breakdown: https://maxximus.ai/journal/first-date-tips-men

💬 Want Maxximus your AI mens mentor, life and dating coach to coach you 1-on-1 before your next date? Talk to Maxximus free at https://maxximus.ai

📲 CONNECT Website: https://maxximus.ai Instagram: @maxximusai TikTok: @maxximusai YouTube: @MaxximusAI

Most men are texting themselves out of dates they already had.

In this episode Maxximus founder Ryan Poole breaks down exactly how to text women in modern dating: how to open, how to banter, when to move, and the one thing most men can’t pull off that changes everything.

Ryan has been in sales for 27 years and been on roughly 1,000 first dates with women from over 60 countries. This isn’t theory. This is what actually works from the first message to having her excited to show up on the first date.

What will be covered:

→ Why your profile has to be right before you send a single text → The specific opener that gets responses (and why “Hey, how was your weekend?” kills you) → The banter phase — 4-6 messages max, then you move → The alpha texting move most men can’t pull off (but should learn) → Logistics only — then go completely silent until the date → What to do when she doesn’t confirm

If you’re sitting there texting for days and going nowhere this episode is for you.

Read the full guide: https://maxximus.ai/journal/texting-women-101

Want AI coaching on your actual texts? Talk to Maxximus your AI mens mentor, life and dating coach — he reads your real conversations and coaches you in real time. 25 free sessions. No credit card. → https://maxximus.ai

🎙️ The Maxximus Show is where men come to get real about dating, confidence, and masculine development. No scripts. No pickup lines. No resentment. Just what works.

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In this episode, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole breaks down the complete cold approach playbook straight from 27 years in sales, ~1,000 first dates, and the center of one of the most competitive dating markets in the world. 

No gatekeeping. No pickup lines. Just the real skill that separates you from 95% of men overnight.

What you'll learn:

* Why women actually want you to approach (and what dating apps can't give them)

* The 3-second rule — the only cure for approach anxiety that actually works

* How to open direct, warm, and confident without sounding rehearsed

* When to give her your number instead of asking for hers (and why it changes everything)

* How to read body language before you move

* Why you should always leave on a high note — and exactly when that is

* How cold approach builds confidence that transfers to every room you walk into

This is Part 1 of the Dating Trilogy. Next week: Texting Women. The week after: The First Date.

🔥 Go deeper — read the full Cold Approach Guide:

👉 https://maxximus.ai/journal/cold-approach-guide-men

💬 Work on your communication with Maxximus your AI coach — 25 free sessions:

 👉 https://maxximus.ai/preview

Maxximus is the AI coaching platform helping men become the man they were always meant to be.

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Free & Alive Beyond 25: Ricky Aiken’s Mission to Save Young Men | Ep. 11

When Ricky Aiken was growing up in West Palm Beach, his male role models were the neighborhood dope dealers. He knows what that does to a boy.

Today, he runs Inner City Innovators — a boots-on-the-ground non-profit organization that shows up at shooting scenes, Started Hope Dealers that operate in the highest-violence neighborhoods in South Florida, and gives young men something real to belong to before the street claims them.

The numbers don’t lie:

86% of ICI mentees are not charged with a new crime after joining

93% say they feel more hopeful and better able to handle life’s challenges

88% show improved behavioral health

This is not a polished nonprofit story. This is a man who was headed toward a very different ending and chose to become a Hope Dealer instead.

We talk about where he grew up, who wasn’t there, the friends he lost, the path he was on, and the moment Johnny Davis’s death turned grief into mission. We talk about what it actually looks like to show up at a shooting scene. What a young man looks like when he first walks in the door and what he looks like a year later.

And at the end, Ryan asks Ricky one question for the young man watching this right now who grew up without a father, who has nobody showing up for him, who doesn’t know Ricky Aiken exists.

His answer is worth staying for.

DONATE TO INNER CITY INNOVATORS: 👉 https://innercityinnovators.org/donate

This episode’s only call to action donating to Ricky’s mission. If this conversation moves you do something with it. DONATE NOW

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We grow up learning to say the right things. Nobody teaches us that the majority of what we actually communicate has nothing to do with our words. Body language accounts for over 50% of all human communication. It was running the show long before spoken language existed and women are wired to read it at a primal level.

In this episode we are giving you both sides of the loop. How to own yours the gait, the posture, the eye contact, the handshake, and the shoe rule my grandfather taught me at 14. And how to read hers. Preening, the feet compass, when she closes the gap, and what it all means.

This isn't from a textbook. It's 27 years of Ryan the Founder of Maxximus living it.  He has been on thousands of one-on-one sales calls where his livelihood depended on reading people correctly, and roughly a thousand first dates learning what worked and what killed attraction before he said a single word.

Listen to this episode and you will know things that most men will go their entire lives without knowing. Use them.

📖 Read the full body language guide here: https://maxximus.ai/journal/body-language-men-guide

💬 Talk to Maxximus 1 on 1 for FREE — 25 free coaching sessions, no credit card: https://maxximus.ai/preview

In this weeks episode we cover Flow State. What it is, how to get into flow and how to stay there.  

Flow state makes you five times more productive and dissolves self-doubt completely. Most men have felt it very few know how to engineer it.

In this episode, Maxximus founder Ryan Poole breaks down the science of flow state, his personal arc from hockey and baseball at age 12 to freediving at 75 feet to the 60-day flow streak building Maxximus in March and April of this year and the exact conditions you need to build more of it into your life.

What we cover:
• What flow state actually is (Csikszentmihalyi's research + the neuroscience)
• Why your prefrontal cortex going quiet is the secret
• The four conditions that have to align at the same time
• The challenge-skill balance: the channel where flow lives
• The four phases — Struggle, Release, Flow, Recovery
• Ryan's full personal arc: hockey, baseball, tennis, bow hunting, freediving, building Maxximus
• The 60-day flow streak — what made it the longest sustained flow of his life
• How to engineer flow on purpose

Read the full article with diagrams and the Flow Audit:
→ https://maxximus.ai/journal/flow-state

Talk to Maxximus free — your AI coach, no credit card:
→ https://maxximus.ai/preview

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The Male Friendship Recession | Ep. 8

63% of men under 30 are single. 15% of men report having no close friends. And yet the real problem isn't the number of friends in your phone.

It's that no man in your life is authorized to tell you the truth about yourself.
In Episode 8 of The Maxximus Show, Ryan Poole breaks down the Male Friendship Recession not to scare you, but to give you the honest picture, the actual mechanism behind why men lose each other, and the four concrete moves that fix it.

What you'll hear in this episode:

* The four counterfeits men mistake for brotherhood (and why the hype man is the most dangerous one)

* What the data actually says — and the part most people in the men's space won't tell you

* Why having friends didn't fix the loneliness

* The real word for what men are missing: witness

* Ryan's own story — and what it cost him

* The Brotherhood Audit: four moves you can start in the next ten minutes

Nobody is coming to tell you you're drifting. That's the whole problem. And it's the one you can fix today.

📖 Read the full journal entry that pairs with this episode:


https://maxximus.ai/journal/male-friendship-recession

🎙️ Talk to Maxximus free → https://maxximus.ai/preview

The Maxximus Show is hosted by Ryan Poole, founder of Maxximus an AI mentor built exclusively for men and author of the forthcoming book Becoming a Man: The Maxximus Method for Building the Man You Were Meant to Be.

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What is Maxximus and why does it exist?

In this episode, Founder of Maxximus Ryan Poole answers that question completely. 

Why he built Maxximus. What it does. How it works. Who it's for. And what real men are 

already saying after using it.

He also does something never done before: He chats to Maxximus live on camera 

projected on the screen behind him and lets you see exactly how he coaches in real time.

63% of men under 30 are single. 15% of men have no close friends. 

The mentors are gone. A lot of us were raised without the guidance we needed.

Maxximus exists for every man who is ready to stop drifting and start becoming.

Talk to Maxximus now: https://maxximus.ai

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The Maxximus Show is where men come to build themselves.

In this weeks episode founder of MaxximusAI Inc. Ryan Poole goes deep on Agentic AI and what is possible.  Ryan spent 27 years as a professional agent. Commission only.

Then the technology that makes agents real finally arrived — and he recognized it immediately.

In this episode, He breaks down what agentic AI actually looks like when a man picks it up and uses it to build something real. Not the hype. 

The circle nobody is talking about:

Maxximus builds the man. The man builds with AI. The agents help him build. Which helps build a better world. 

Here’s what we cover:

The difference between AI as a tool vs. an agent — most people are using a calculator when they could have a co-worker.

Maxximus: how an AI coach that knows your story through the Initiation coaches you through that lens from that point forward. Ryan talks to Maxximus about his own life. It gave him the confidence to build everything else.

The Wolf Pack - his agentic AI team: Marcus (my AI CEO), Sophia (CMO), Mercury (CFO), Themis (attorney), Prometheus (AI engineer) Sophos (AI CTO). One solo founder with the operating capacity of a funded 8-person team. Not a metaphor. A Monday morning.

Tribune: The company Ryan built with his AI agent team and Co-Founder Jeff and his AI agent team and what AI agents can do for any business running on human bandwidth and leaving money on the floor — and why the barrier to building your dream company and business is now gone. 

The Circle: how Maxximus, the Wolf Pack, and Tribune connect into something that’s never existed before in history.

You don’t have to be technical. You don’t have to be funded. You don’t have to be young. The only requirement is the willingness to pick up the fire of the modern age Agentic AI.

You do not want to miss this show! 

Talk to Maxximus (free): https://maxximus.ai/preview For business owners: https://tribuneinc.com Full article: https://maxximus.ai/journal/agentic-ai