How Inflation, Scarcity, and Vanity Destroy Your Wealth | ASK ME ANYTHING

Order of Man

Ryan Michler

Society & Culture, Business

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this Ask Me Anything episode, Ryan Michler and Kipp Sorensen tackle the number one issue facing men today: money. From scarcity mindset and debt to retirement planning, investing, and raising financially responsible kids, the conversation blends practical financial wisdom with deeper insights on discipline, self-belief, and values.

Ryan breaks down Dave Ramsey's baby steps, explains Roth vs. traditional IRAs, challenges popular budgeting rules, and shares how to instill abundance thinking in your family. A must-listen for men looking to build wealth without losing perspective.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Financial stress and the current economy
03:46 Physical baseline and discipline
08:59 Scarcity vs. abundance mindset
19:23 Dave Ramsey's seven baby steps
26:01 Roth IRA vs. traditional IRA
34:45 The 50-30-20 budgeting rule
37:29 Building wealth in an underpaid career
45:08 Teaching kids financial discipline
56:18 Iron Council and end-of-year call to action

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0:00.0	This is the most important question you can ask yourself around this subject. Do I believe in myself or not?
0:06.1	And what you ought to be doing every day is proving why you should believe in yourself. Am I disciplined with my mind?
0:13.1	And when you start stacking wins on things that are seemingly unrelated, then when you get to that question where it becomes a big investment or something
0:21.5	you're excited about or you're willing to take a risk, you can answer yourself, yes, I believe
0:26.3	in myself. Because look at what I'm capable of doing. Kip, what's up, man? Great to see you this
0:33.5	week. Looking forward to a conversation about all things money related today i don't
0:38.7	did i talk with you about the number one most pressing issues that our guys in the iron council
0:44.0	and order of man are dealing with have i talked with you about that recently uh uh uh uh if if you had to guess
0:49.8	what what do you think it would be if you had to guess? The top things guys are dealing with?
0:55.7	I would say one, two things.
0:59.4	Relationships with spouses and parenting.
1:04.0	It's, that's what I would have thought.
1:05.6	Maybe not the parenting, but definitely relationship with spouse.
1:09.1	Yeah.
1:09.6	And that's third or fourth.
1:11.2	Number one, financial issues.
1:13.9	Hmm.
1:14.9	And this is probably close to about 600, if I had to guess,
1:19.7	600 respondents between various social media platforms.
1:25.3	And their number one issue right now is finances.
1:28.8	And then if we drill even deeper, it's making enough money.
1:32.8	Yeah.
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