It Can’t All Be Wedding Cake | The Best Books You Can Read
Fortune doesn’t care about our plans and preferences. No, Seneca reminds us, she behaves as she pleases. 📚 Books mentioned:Plutarch’s Lives by PlutarchMastery by Robert GreeneMeditations by Marcus Au...
19 Dec 202510min
Nobody is Coming to Save You (And That’s Good News) | Ask Daily Stoic
These are disorienting times. Cruel times. Dysfunctional times. And it’s natural to want someone, anyone, to step in and fix it. But they’re not going to. That’s not how this works.Make 2026 the year ...
18 Dec 202518min
You Don’t Have To Be Lucky, You Just Have To Be Good
How are you helping? What are you doing? How are you acting like a Stoic as opposed to just ‘being stoic?📚 Get a signed copy of each of the books in the Stoic Virtues Series: Courage is Calling, Disc...
17 Dec 20254min
You’ve Got to Demand Everything of Yourself | Paralympian Ezra Frech
The pressure of being great changes when you’re carrying more than your own ambition. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Paralympian Ezra Frech to talk about the discipline required to compete at...
17 Dec 202559min
Love What Your Nature Demands of You | Stake Your Claim
The world needed Marcus Aurelius to become the person we admire and study today. This required conscious and consistent effort on his part. You’re no different. And you know it.Make 2026 the year wher...
16 Dec 202512min
In a World Gone Shallow, In a World Gone Lean | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, but we must resist it—resist it without bitterness or despair—by being bright lights in a dark time.📕 Pick up your own Premium Leather Edition of...
15 Dec 20258min
How To Find Peace | 8 Stoic Lessons You Can Start Today
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Stoics were trying to do what we’re all trying to do now: find some peace. For them, philosophy wasn’t an academic hobby. It was something they leaned on to remember what t...
14 Dec 202517min
Olivia Nuzzi Knows She Messed Up
It’s easy to defend yourself. It’s harder to tell the truth. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with journalist Olivia Nuzzi for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what it really means to get throug...
13 Dec 20251h 41min
