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by Ryan Hanley
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- Yesterday18 min
The Math That Should Terrify Every Executive
72% of your time is being eaten by coordination, communication, and admin. That leaves 28% for actual strategy. That is not a productivity problem. That is a math problem. Most leaders use AI to do their admin faster. They put a turbo engine on a car that is driving in the wrong direction. The win is not doing the 72% faster. The win is deleting it. In this solo episode I break down what "work slop" is, why flow state makes you 500% more productive, and the three questions that decide what you hand to a machine. Then I share how cutting low-value work out of my sales team's day lifted close rates by 10%. I built and sold Rogue Risk on an operational model called the human optimized system. Today we call it easy mode. I have spent 20 years creating online and helping leaders turn chaos into clarity, and I have a book by the same name coming in September 2027. If one idea here lands, run the three-day time audit this week. Then come tell me what you cut. 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 Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 1 weeks ago1h 2m
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.
- 1 weeks ago24 min
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.
- 1 weeks ago21 min
Why You Must Be an AI Optimist (Or Get Mowed Down)
You are being lied to about artificial intelligence. The talking heads on television and the doomers in your social media feeds want you terrified. They want you scared because fear is profitable. It keeps you docile, it keeps you buying their products, and most importantly, it keeps you late. --- 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 --- The hard data from the Federal Reserve, Stanford, and Harvard tells a completely different story. Half of America is already using these tools to build, cure, and scale. Sitting this revolution out is not a conservative strategy. It is business suicide. In this solo episode, I break down the exact numbers that prove why optimism is the only rational path forward. We will steel man the doomer case, look at the real threat of job disruption, and explain how the most safety-focused AI minds in the world are secretly betting on massive abundance. You do not get credit for being right about the risks if you also missed the wave. Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 2 weeks ago12 min
Your Easy Mode Is the One Thing AI Can't Touch
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 Everyone is racing to automate everything. Emails. Content. Customer service. Hiring. Even their thinking. And the market is already correcting for it. 36.3% of new ventures launched in 2026 are solo-founded by choice. Not because people can't find co-founders. Because they've figured out what they're built to do and wrapped an AI layer around it so nothing gets in the way. Most founders are using AI backwards. More content, more outreach, more reports, more meetings with better summaries. More output from the same broken operating system. That's not a strategy. That's faster work slop. I break down the three decisions AI will never make for you, the three markers that reveal your Easy Mode, and the architecture that separates founders who look like they're cheating from founders who are efficiently stuck. Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanley 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.
- 3 weeks ago9 min
AI Didn't Free You, It Made You Busier
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 UC Berkeley tracked 200 workers who loved using AI. They did not work less. They worked more. They had fewer breaks, constant context switching, and hit full burnout in six months. Only 8% of the time saved by AI gets reinvested back into ourselves. The other 92% is taken by our bosses or by ourselves. We are using AI to expand our surface area instead of protecting our zone of genius. That is a leadership failure. In this solo session, I break down why direction multiplies effort. When you are pointed in the wrong direction, AI gets you to the wrong destination faster. It exhausts you. I share the exact three-step framework to find your Easy Mode, audit your week, and deploy AI as a protector of your zone of genius. 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.
- 3 weeks ago15 min
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.
- 3 weeks ago57 min
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/subscribeWatch 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/4fz6nYtFollow Ryan Hanley:Website: https://ryanhanley.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanleyX: https://x.com/ryanhanley_comThis 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.
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