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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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In this Ask Me Anything episode, Ryan and Kipp dig into how men adapt when life throws setbacks their way. From injuries and burnout to financial risk and career pressure, they break down how to adjust without regret and keep moving forward. The conversation covers smart risk management, why momentum doesn't have to die after failure, and how boundaries protect your family, finances, and future. This AMA is a masterclass in resilience, decision-making, and staying productive through uncertainty.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Holiday catch-up
03:49 - BHAGs, quarterly planning, and long-term vision
11:09 - Iron Council changes and system efficiency
18:54 - Injury, momentum, and recalibration
28:42 - Entrepreneurial risk and acceptable loss
38:48 - Masculinity, culture, and cycles of chaos
43:20 - Work overload, boundaries, and family protection
56:42 - Seasonal depression and staying in the game
01:02:28 - Balancing growth across life quadrants
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| 0:00.0 | You got to move on, man. You got to drive on with your life. People do it with financial upsets. |
| 0:04.6 | You know, they have a bad month or a bad quarter, a bad year. They get a big tax liability. |
| 0:09.5 | And instead of just buckling down and you just blame it on circumstances when you should have |
| 0:14.4 | just blamed it on yourself. You didn't do what needed to be done. When the going got tough, |
| 0:18.9 | you buckled. Instead, what you should have done is doubled down and figured out a way to be done. When the going got tough, you buckled. Instead, what you should have done is doubled |
| 0:23.0 | down and figured out a way to be better because of the thing that happened to you, whether self-imposed or not. |
| 0:30.3 | All right, brother, we are back. We tried to do this yesterday. It didn't work. Those small rural towns in |
| 0:35.7 | Utah, man, internet or something. I don't know what it is but uh here we are |
| 0:39.2 | we make do and i'm glad to be doing the ask me anything with you today yeah it's good man how is your um |
| 0:46.2 | how is your holidays it's official right let we recorded last it was christmas eve right so yeah oh that's |
| 0:52.8 | right yeah uh yeah everything was really good. The kids |
| 0:55.0 | liked their presents had some good times with them. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but it was, it was nice. It was nice to be with the kids and enjoy that time together. And that's about it. You know, nothing too exciting, which I'm, I'm okay with sometimes. I don't need I don't need too exciting how about you guys same i'm one of those individuals i love the traditional |
| 1:17.5 | christmas looks the same every year laid back chill at home that that's kind of my style i i don't |
| 1:26.6 | like to disrupt it too much. But are you that way? |
| 1:29.9 | Or would you rather like, man, let's have Christmas in Hawaii or the Bahamas or or mix it up? |
| 1:36.1 | I've done that before. We took all the kids to Hawaii for Christmas and we were there for, I want to say it was like two and a half weeks from Christmas to a couple days after |
| 1:44.2 | New Year's. Yeah. And it was amazing. I loved it. But I would say maybe every other year, |
| 1:52.2 | I don't, I don't need the same nostalgia. Like, I don't have that. I mean, I do. Don't get me wrong. |
| 1:57.5 | I have things that were traditions and I think fondly of my childhood Christmases for sure. But I've never had, and you know this about my personality. I don't want to do |
| 2:06.1 | things the same way all the time. Yeah. I just get so bored of it. So I do like to mix it up. It's also |
| 2:13.7 | different to when the guys who are separated or maybe going through a divorce would understand this. |
| 2:20.5 | It's different when there's not a woman in the house. |
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