Ryan's Personal Reboot: 5 Types of Wealth with Sahil Bloom

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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In this deeply personal episode, Sahil Bloom joins Ryan Sean Adams to explore what it truly means to be wealthy and why so many high achievers get it wrong. After hitting burnout, Ryan stepped away from the grind to reassess his definition of success. What he found was a framework that reframed his entire life: the Five Types of Wealth. Together, they unpack why net worth alone is a poor scoreboard, how to avoid the trap of “never enough,” and what it means to build time, social, mental, physical, and financial wealth in harmony. This conversation is both a blueprint and a reboot, for anyone chasing more, and wondering why it still doesn’t feel like enough. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐CELO | BUILD TOGETHER AND PROSPER https://bankless.cc/Celo 🟠 BINANCE | THE WORLDS #1 CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/binance ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:22 Measuring Wealth 6:10 Beyond Net Worth 13:29 Burnout Moment 15:47 The Cost of Misaligned Effort 25:47 The Five Types of Wealth 27:47 Wealth Isn’t Swappable 34:05 Freedom Starts With Defining “Enough” 43:09 The “Enough” Excuse 47:31 Why We Feel Time-Starved 50:09 Digital Distractions and Overcommitment 55:46 The Two-List Exercise 57:38 The Morning ‘Boot Up’ Sequence 1:03:30 Reinvesting in Your Closest People 1:10:19 Too Busy to Connect 1:12:23 The Mental Wealth 1:14:11 The Life Razor 1:18:26 The Physical Wealth 1:24:40 Staying on Plan 1:25:56 Grounded Success 1:27:56 High Agency People 1:29:03 Closing ------ RESOURCES Sahil https://x.com/SahilBloom Sahil’s Blog https://sahilbloom.substack.com/ The 5 Types of Wealth https://www.the5typesofwealth.com/ RSA Reboot https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1915115437505049055 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	Welcome to bankless, where today we explore the frontier of wealth.
0:03.6	This is Ryan Sean Adams. It's just me today. I'm here to help you become more bankless.
0:09.3	So today's episode is kind of personal. I did this episode for myself, but also in hopes that
0:15.4	it will help the entire bankless community. Maybe my story will help some of you guys of your
0:20.1	grind addicted overachievers
0:21.9	like myself. Some context for this. At the end of January this year, some of you may know that I took a
0:28.3	sabbatical. After five years swimming the Crypto Media Ocean and another public lynching,
0:34.5	I realized I was feeling kind of cooked. Something had crashed out in my operating system.
0:40.3	I felt exhausted. I felt burnt out. I felt done. And I talked to David and I said, David,
0:47.4	I've got to leave. And truthfully, I wasn't even sure if I'd come back to bankless.
0:52.4	Saw Hill's book, which is the one we're talking about in today's episode, was essential for me.
0:57.5	It's called The Five Types of Wealth, and a lot of the lessons here are how I uncooked myself
1:02.8	and came back for my sabbatical with renewed purpose.
1:06.4	Now, I wrote this, freedom was why I started the bankless journey.
1:09.9	Crypto as an escape hatch from
1:11.3	the systems that run our lives, yet somewhere along the way I chain myself to a price chart,
1:15.7	I forgot to define enough. Today's episode is about defining enough. It's how to measure wealth
1:21.8	and how to dollar cost average into the areas of wealth that will provide you real
1:26.3	compounding returns throughout your life.
1:28.5	Please enjoy.
1:32.9	Bankless Nation, we have Sahel Bloom on the podcast today.
1:35.8	Sahel, how are you doing?
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