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- Yesterday1h 25m
Google Ate Reddit, Fanta Got Booed, and Why Skills Beat More Bots
Reddit's stock fell 29% in one day after its Google traffic slid. The lesson: own your audience, write down your process, and never outsource your taste.Sponsored by PFS Global. PFS helps independent insurance agencies with accounting, taxes, payroll, and commission reconciliations. Get an assessment: https://pfs.ryanhanley.comFind the work you're built for. Get your free Edge Finder assessment: https://easymodebook.com/assessmentReddit grew revenue 53% and still had its worst day as a public company after its Google search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week. That's what a rented audience costs. Companies are pulling back on AI agents, and I make the case that the problem is human, not technical. We forgive a $100,000 hire and quit on a $20 agent after one mistake. The fix is a skill file, your process written down once so the agent stops guessing.From there: Fanta's polarizing AI Halloween ad and why you never outsource your taste, Trump's push to ban the term "AI," one-sided inputs, a Noah's Ark carbon dating story, and the lesson my son Colton took from football: get back up.Get C.R.E.A.M., my weekly growth-marketing experiment, playbook, teardown, or take for people doing the work in the age of AI. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeSources from this episode: CNBC on Reddit's drop: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/30/reddit-stock-q3-earnings.html Reddit Q3 2026 earnings call: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/10/30/reddit-rddt-q3-2026-earnings-call-transcript/ KPMG AI Pulse via Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/08/09/kpmg-says-nearly-half-of-executives-pulled-back-ai-agents-over-cost/ The Guardian on the AI pullback: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/ai-companies-rushed-workers-fallout Badass Breaks: https://badassbreaks.shop The Hill on the term AI: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6175633-trump-bans-artificial-intelligence-term/ Zappi on Fanta's Halloween ad: https://www.zappi.io/web/blog/admiration-feature-fantas-halloween-reveal Langbert and Stevens faculty study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2021.1957815 Ancient Origins on Durupinar: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/durupinar-wood-carbon-dating-fact-check-00128323Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhanley/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanleyWatch Finding Peak on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanleyThis is the way.Hanley.Disclosure: I currently work for PFS Global, the company behind this episode's sponsor read. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 6 days ago1h 12m
His Son Left for Boot Camp. So He Went Into the Hurt Locker Too | Chris Paradiso
While his son was at Marine boot camp, Chris Paradiso left his house around 10 p.m. to cover 48 miles on foot, so his son wouldn't suffer alone.Sponsored by PFS Global. PFS helps independent insurance agencies with accounting, taxes, payroll, and commission reconciliations. Get an assessment: https://pfs.ryanhanley.comFind the work you're built for. Get your free Edge Finder assessment: https://easymodebook.com/assessmentChris, founder of Paradiso Insurance and author of Civilized Savage: The Daily War Against Comfort, made his son a promise before Parris Island: "while you are in the Hurt Locker I want to visit the Hurt Locker with you." No water, no social post. "That was a me and Gianni moment." Full disclosure: Chris and I started an early version of this book together years ago. The finished book is his.I asked the question this episode answers: if work, family, and health are fine, "why do I have to do hard things?" My answer is rehearsal. Chris's answer is his because. We both hate the word balance. I offer harmony. Chris says the people chasing balance are chasing comfort. His fix for the voice that bargains: "Write it down and you will not negotiate with yourself." That's the Easy Mode idea: Hard Mode is real effort pointed in the wrong direction. Chris picks his hard and aims it at his because.Get C.R.E.A.M., my weekly growth-marketing experiment, playbook, teardown, or take for people doing the work in the age of AI. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeConnect with Chris Paradiso: Civilized Savage (book ): https://geni.us/civilizedsavage Website: https://www.chrisparadiso.com/ Paradiso Insurance: https://www.paradisoinsurance.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherparadiso/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paradiso_insurance/Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhanley/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanleyWatch Finding Peak on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanleyThis is the way.Hanley.Disclosure: I currently work for PFS Global, the company behind this episode's sponsor read. 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
He Hit $300 Million Hauling Junk. Here's What He Learned About Entrepreneurship | Nick Friedman
Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman turned a beat-up cargo van into a $300 million brand. When the market dried up, Nick told his team to stop waiting for rain.Sponsored by PFS Global. PFS helps independent insurance agencies with accounting, taxes, payroll, and commission reconciliations. Get an assessment: https://pfs.ryanhanley.comFind the work you're built for. Get your free Edge Finder assessment: https://easymodebook.com/assessmentNick, founder and president of College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving, says the brand will do close to $300 million in annual sales this year. He also says the founder's job is to "create a sense of urgency without creating like a sense of frenzy or panic," and he's honest about who brings the frenzy. He'd text the team ideas after conferences until his people were left guessing: "Does Nick want me to drop everything I'm doing and go do this right now?"We get into the filter that keeps it in check (an integrator, a weekly same page meeting, and a spreadsheet ), the skeptic AI bot I built for my own ideas, which Nick called "almost like an AI integrator," and what AI can't take from you. The question I'd put in front of every owner's outbox: is this an idea or an assignment? Then a mover stuck in an elevator turns himself into a human bench.Want the operating notes behind the work? C.R.E.A.M. is my weekly growth-marketing experiment, playbook, teardown, or take. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeConnect with Nick Friedman: Website: https://www.nickfriedman.com/ College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving: https://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collegehunkshaulingjunk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickfriedman1 X: https://x.com/nickfriedman1Follow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhanley/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanleyWatch Finding Peak on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanleyThis is the way.Hanley.Disclosure: I currently work for PFS Global, the company behind this episode's sponsor read. 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 12m
Everybody's Replaceable, Even the Owner | Mariah Gates
Three months building a new CRM. Then the staff walks into the first live training and asks, "What's this training for?" Nobody told them the agency was even considering a change.PFS Global supports accounting, tax, and payroll work. Learn more: https://pfs.ryanhanley.comMariah Gates, founder of Accelerated Automation, calls that the most common mistake she sees. The people who will use the tool hear about it last. Her fix starts before anyone logs in: build the why, tell people what you want them doing instead, and give their brains time to spiral. With automation and AI in the room, she says, people are legitimately afraid for their jobs.I break down more field-tested decisions about trust, selling, and growth inside C.R.E.A.M. One useful experiment, playbook, teardown, or take each week. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeThen it gets uncomfortable. Mariah says pushback usually comes from one or two loud people, and the owner who keeps caving is feeding it. Her line: "Everybody's replaceable. The business owner is replaceable." In one husband-and-wife agency, the wife was the parent who treats the rules as the rules, so the wife delivered the message.I bring the question that got me in trouble on the keynote stage years ago. Are you running a business, or are you the best producer in the building who happens to own the most equity? Mariah's advice for owners who hate running the business is blunt: "Stop fighting it. You will just be miserable."Hard Mode has a tell. The work drains you and still produces ordinary results. I'm writing the operating system for the alternative. Join the Easy Mode waiting list: https://easymodebook.comConnect with Mariah Gates: Website: https://acceleratedautomation.net LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariah-gates-61459b277/ Accelerated Automation on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realacceleratedautomation/ Accelerated Automation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AcceleratedAutomation2023Watch Finding Peak on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanleyFollow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanleyThis is the way.Hanley.Disclosure: I currently work for PFS Global, the company behind this episode's sponsor read. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- 3 weeks ago52 min
Never Chase a Title (and what you should chase) | Kelly O. Kay
A CEO search for a big-brand public company. A name comes up, and the chairman of the nominating and governance committee shuts it down. He knew that person 20 years ago, and that person was a jerk. A reputation from two decades back, settled in one sentence, in a room the candidate never saw.Kelly O. Kay, a partner at Heidrick & Struggles and co-author of Show Up to Win, was working that search. He tells his six kids never to chase money, and he tells executives never to chase a title. Chase the CEO title and you'll get it, at a company you won't want to run.I break down more field-tested decisions about trust, selling, and growth inside C.R.E.A.M. One useful experiment, playbook, teardown, or take each week. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeWe get into why saying yes to a conversation while you're happy isn't disloyal, and why competitive leaders win the process and then can't say whether they want the job. I tell Kelly about the job I took for the title and the money, and hated. His answer: they question your judgment, so call out what you missed. Do that, and a short stint stops being a hole in the résumé. His advice for a role you've never held sounds like weakness and reads as strength: ask for a coach as part of the negotiation.If this made you question whether your next move is built around your edge or around a title, get on the Easy Mode waiting list for book resources and updates: https://ryanhanley.com/easy-modeConnect with Kelly O. Kay: Heidrick & Struggles: https://www.heidrick.com/en/people/k/kellyokay LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kokay Show Up to Win: https://www.heidrick.com/en/pages/show-up-to-win-bookWatch Finding Peak on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanleyFollow Ryan: Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanleyThis 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.
- Sep 29, 202655 min
Why You Keep Stopping at 90% | Arturo Nuñez
There is a gap between knowing what good work looks like and paying the price to do it when nobody is handing out applause. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- Sep 25, 202653 min
Why Most Companies Get Product Wrong (and How to Fix It) | Chandler Bolt
A company can look busy, profitable, and respected from the outside while one person is still holding every load-bearing beam. The founder closes the deal, delivers the work, fixes the miss, and approves the decision. Then they call it a business.Chandler Bolt has a cleaner test: if customers are buying you instead of a repeatable process, you do not have a scalable company yet. You have a high-paying job with better stationery. That may be a fine choice. It is not the same choice as building something that can run when you step away.I break down more field-tested decisions about trust, selling, and growth inside C.R.E.A.M. One useful experiment, playbook, teardown, or take each week. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeChandler is the Founder and CEO of SelfPublishing.com. He explains why product-market fit, profit, margin, process, and people have to exist before a founder can move out of the weeds. He also names the story founders tell themselves when they refuse to hand work to capable people: "Nobody can do it the way I do." His answer is blunt. If the people doing the work are not better at it than you, the issue may be your training, process, or hiring.The practical turn is where this conversation earns its keep. Chandler breaks down the sales-fulfillment yo-yo, why the offer has to be the process rather than the founder, and the question that forces better systems: What would have to be true for this to work without me? Ryan connects that to the honest fork many founders avoid. You can stay a craftsman with strong margins and a life you enjoy. Or you can choose scale. What you cannot do is pretend both paths demand the same company.This is also a hard-nosed AI conversation. AI does not absolve a founder of judgment. It can take rote operational work, turn process documents into repeatable skills, and help a team protect the work only a person should own. The standard stays the same: make the output better. Do not make more slop.If this made you question whether your calendar is built around your edge or against it, get on the Easy Mode waiting list for book resources and updates: https://ryanhanley.com/easy-modeConnect with Chandler Bolt:Website: https://selfpublishing.com/ceo-chandler-bolt/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandlerbolt/Book publishing consultation: https://selfpublishing.com/findingpeakListen to the audio version of Finding Peak: https://linktr.ee/ryan_hanleyFollow Ryan:Website: https://ryanhanley.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanleyX: https://x.com/rhanleyThis 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.
- Sep 18, 202642 min
Why Success Can Still Leave You Feeling Behind | Jim Murphy
A person can look successful from the outside and still be nowhere they are standing.Ryan brings Jim Murphy into the question that follows a lot of ambitious people home: Why do I feel guilty at work for not being with my family, then guilty at home for not working? Jim’s phrase for it is being "half a day behind." The fix is not a tighter calendar. It starts with what your identity is attached to.Get C.R.E.A.M., my weekly growth-marketing experiment, playbook, teardown, or take for people doing the work in the age of AI. With receipts: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribeJim is the author of Inner Excellence and The Best Possible Life. He explains why confidence is too fragile to carry your whole performance, why presence and belief matter more, and why chasing a result can leave a person more anxious after they get it. He also lays out a four-part daily reset: give the best of what you have, be present, be grateful, and focus on what you can control.The point is not to lower the standard. The point is to stop demanding that a result answer a question it cannot answer.Get Easy Mode book resources and updates: https://ryanhanley.com/easy-modeConnect with Jim Murphy:Website: https://innerexcellence.com/Books: https://innerexcellence.com/books/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innerexcellencejimmurphy/Connect with Ryan HanleyWatch Finding Peak on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanleyFollow Ryan:Website: https://ryanhanley.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanleyX: https://x.com/rhanleyThis 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.
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