Podcasts are a great way to dive deeper into what, and how, a person thinks.
I’ve been a guest on a handful of podcasts over the last couple of years.
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Here’s a list of the podcasts, including some featured discussion topics, that I’ve had the privilege of being on:
The Truth Experiment Podcast (2021)
Time stamps are for 1.2x speed.
- (2:16) – How I identified my purpose
- (4:54) – How I align my priorities around my purpose
- (7:45) – Why personal finance is important to me
- (8:37) – Habits I try to practice daily
- (10:10) – The books I recommend most often
- (12:15) – What brings me joy in life
- (14:14) – What my relationship with my father is like
- (19:10) – The Stephens’ family commandments
- (21:50) – My thoughts on raising kids in a rapidly changing world
- (24:20) – My biggest fears and goals associated with being a father
- (28:30) – How to build an audience on social media
- (31:40) – How I go about content creation and posting so consistently
- (35:22) – The Dialed In Men newsletter
- (37:25) – Should everyone develop a personal brand online?
- (39:50) – How I have monetized my side hustles
- (42:45) – Summary: 1% better every day; focus on things that compound
Hypefury Presents (2021)
- Why I’ve kept my day job despite multiple people encouraging me to go out on my own
- How I separated myself from smart peers in graduate school
- Why it’s so important to start/have a side hustle
- How I landed my first job in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis
- Why my wife and I started DialedInMen.com
- Why men are suffering in modern society
- What makes a great re-tweet and how to get me to re-tweet your content
- The importance of changing your mind
- Why it’s critical to avoid analysis paralysis and “just start”
- Tips for growing your Twitter followers (I’m at 30K+ right now)
- A candid conversation around “what’s next” for me
The Danny Miranda Podcast (2020)
- Why most top performers are “weird”
- How blogging/writing online has changed in 12+ years
- Why my wife and I went on a run for our first date
- Our family values and why we took the time to capture/share them
- How to help you kids be independent thinkers
- What to do when you kid asks a question you don’t know the answer to
- When we would consider giving our kids a smart phone
- What you learn when you “put yourself out there” (working with the garage door open)
- Why feedback is so hard to come by these days
- Choosing the uncomfortable/difficult path vs. the easy path
- Why I wish coaches and mentors would’ve pushed me harder
- Why doing hard things makes other things more attainable and easier to choose
- The two books I gift/recommend most often and the life philosophy that emerges as a result (i.e. life is short and you can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it)
- Choosing activities and habits with positive 2nd and 3rd order consequences
- Why I write and share my thoughts I online
- The fact that you should read and consume with the intent to create
- Why writing, thinking and reading should be daily habits
- Why direction matters more than speed
- Goals vs. systems
- The book that has made me consider having a 3rd kid
- Investing in things that compound (besides $$$)—our relationships, our health, etc.
- Why taking care of yourself now will matter late in life
- Determining what matters to you and being deliberate about focusing on those things and ignoring things that don’t fall in that bucket
The Fox 🦊 is Dialed in 📺with Ryan Stephens (2019)
- His introduction to “motivational twitter”
- Self-improvement tweets as reminders to live with purpose
- How to retain what you read
- The Horsemen of Relationship Apocalypse
- What is “commonplace book” and why you should keep one
- How to treat your twitter and blog as a journal for your best ideas
- Factors which contribute to the significant suicide rate in males
- The importance of community in an age of isolation
- Sedentary lifestyle and the contemporary man
- Disconnection from craftsmanship as detrimental to the psyche
- Exercise and specific benefits to mental well-being
- Evolutionary biology and the postmodern condition
- The rise of “hate watching/listening” and the weaponization of rage
- The myth of multitasking
- Imperative of a “dopamine fast” to success and mental wellness
- How to overcome perfectionism and the consequent “freeze” response to stress
- The mental trick to overcoming perfectionism
- A key factor which immunizes against trauma becoming PTSD
Path to Manliness (2019)
- How and why my wife and I started Dialed In Men
- Growing your business and as a person in front of an online audience
- The joys of fatherhood
- Investing in things, beyond money, that compound: habits, relationships, and more
- Dopamine fasts and now necessary they are for balance and mental health
- Doing things that have negative 1st order consequences, but positive 2nd and 3rd other consequences and the positive impact that has on your life
Conversation with Jose Rosado (2019)
- (3:08) – Why you should start a side hustle
- (6:39) – How do you juggle your family, your day job and your side hustle?
- (9:40) – What would you say to people struggling to find time?
- (11:52) – What are the most important things you do to improve your business?
- (14:00) – How do you surround yourself with people with the “wealth” mindset?
- (16:51) – How do you approach successful people online?
- (21:18) – What books would you recommend people starting out in online business should read?
- (24:02) – The James Clear refund lesson on integrity and abundance mindset
- (27:18) – The difference between doing something and reading about doing something
- (30:13) – How Jose scaled from website design to ebooks and courses
- (32:24) – Having a goal of making money vs. having a goal of helping people
- (33:23) – Creating your tribe–your 1,000 true fans
- (34:52) – How to provide value on the Internet
- (41:08) – Facilitating connections to others who can help them “level up”
- (43:20) – How to make money quickly on Twitter
- (49:48) – Diversifying your income streams (and why that’s important)
- (52:02) – The importance of having both depth and breath in a career
- (54:24) – Making yourself recession proof and the power of being underemployed
- (57:11) – The cost (or lack thereof) of starting to earn online
- (1:05:10) – Strategies for providing value and growing your Twitter account
- (1:14:40) – How to connect with an influencer and ask better questions to get the type of answers that will help you move the needle in your own life
- (1:18:40) – How to nail the formal interview process and get your dream job
- (1:21:30) – Applying this top performer strategy to copywriting and online business
- (1:23:40) – Skills that translate to success across disciplines and help in all aspects of life
- (1:28:33) – How to break free from your excuses
- (1:32:10) – What you learn from old people at the end of their life
- (1:38:37) – Why I still work a “day” job and haven’t gone out on my own
- (1:42:28) – Ryan’s final “pep talk” for listeners
Leveling Up Your Life : Family Edition – Men of Character Conference (2018)
In this talk, I discuss how I try and keep my life dialed in while navigating the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood. I shared our family’s 10 Commandments. After the presentation, Bill and I have a Q&A on fatherhood and navigating the challenges of parenting. I actually think the Q&A is the best part of this conversation. It starts around 13:25 if you’d prefer to skip the presentation.
Personal Finance Advice: My Conversation on Masculine Design (2017)
- Why people don’t understand personal finance (fear that they’re “doing it” wrong, are behind their peers, should already know these things, etc.)
- Some of the crazy things I did to save money (washing Ziploc bags, taking extra napkins from fast food restaurants, wearing old clothes, etc.)
- The importance of tracking purchases and spending consciously
- The similarities between fitness and finance (hint: it’s “personal”)
- The problem with credit card debt and how to eliminate it as effectively possible
- Why it’s so important to start investing as early as possible
- Focusing on ‘big’ wins (i.e. a good credit score that gets you a low APR on a home mortgage will save you infinitely more than cutting back your coffee habit)
- How to “find” extra money (insurance and cell phone providers)
- Some 401K and Roth IRA basics
- The best ways to improve your finances (get a raise, start a side hustle, etc.)
- The important of diversifying your investments and your revenue streams