We Take The Bitter To Get To The Sweets

The first few weeks of 2026 will decide far more than you think. In this episode, you’ll hear the best of James Clear’s most important advice from his past conversations with Ryan on how to start the ...

31 Joulu 202551min

When we develop the discipline to prepare our minds and our bodies for hardship, we have the discipline to see the hard times through to the end. Make 2026 the year where you finally bring yourself cl...

31 Joulu 20254min

Here we are at the end of one year and the beginning of another. What do we have to show for it? Did we do what we set out to do? Did we meet those resolutions?Make 2026 the year where you finally bri...

30 Joulu 202519min

This is what we do, isn’t it? We think about doing something…but we put off actually doing it until the last minute.Make 2026 the year where you finally bring yourself closer to living your best life....

30 Joulu 202511min

Let’s focus on getting better. Let’s get serious about stuff we’ve put off. Let’s lend a helping hand. Let’s “fight to be the person philosophy tried to make us,” as Marcus Aurelius said.Make 2026 the...

29 Joulu 20258min

You do not control the year ahead. You do control how you meet it. In this episode, Ryan walks through the Stoic framework for becoming better in the year ahead built around courage, discipline, justi...

28 Joulu 202517min

Ryan was recently a guest on Shilo Brooks’ podcast, Old School, to talk about a book that’s meant a lot to him over the years, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. They discuss why this quiet Southern novel,...

27 Joulu 202533min

The end of the year has a way of reminding us that nothing lasts forever. In today’s episode, you will hear a deep dive into the Stoic practice of Memento Mori, the reminder that you could leave life ...

27 Joulu 202554min