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$65,000 Gone. One 10-Minute Video Could Have Stopped It

July 31, 2026

I lost $65,000 in a single crypto transaction. I still don't know exactlywhere it went. This is the conversation I wish I'd had two years earlier.Ryan Horst got into crypto in 2017, watched the 2022 collapse take 95% of his company's monthly revenue, and rebuilt from there. Today he's co-founder and CEO of Altcoin Pro, one of the largest crypto education companies in the country and one of the few crypto businesses growing during a bear market instead of shrinking with it.But this episode isn...

How I Learned How To Win

July 24, 2026

Michael hit rock bottom, no house, no money, living in a basement apartment with his kids, and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco with no plan to get back except riding a bicycle across the country.In this episode, he breaks down the ice-fishing detour, the coach's warning about the five times you'll want to quit, and the cyclocross race that taught him how to actually win, and how every one of those lessons ended up rebuilding his business after 2008 nearly took it all.In this episode:...

She Was in the Room When Both My Parents Died

July 17, 2026

After 30 years of watching the James family from the front pew, Cora Varvell sits down with Michael for a conversation neither of them fully expected. She saw the man his father was at church, and heard from Michael's mother what he was at home.In this episode: the childhood that made Michael call church "a fraud," the cross-country bike ride that broke him open, the father who became his biggest fan through care packages mailed to small-town post offices, and the revelation Michael learns on...