Short live-clipped podcast (Wednesday With Wyan) in which an attendee asks Ryan Moran what he would do after achieving large-scale success. Moran describes "connected creativity" as his driving feeling: an ideal day of friends, creating content, and attending/owning a baseball team (he says he'd buy the Cleveland Indians). He describes keeping creative projects as side hustles to preserve their magic, bought a lake house for workshops, and plans to buy a 50-acre entrepreneurial compound to host ongoing gatherings. George Bryant adds reflections about loneliness at the top and pursuing congruent daily happiness rather than only linear goals.
Questions this episode answers
The Cleveland Indians.
A 50-acre compound.
A Moran 13 Indians jersey.
Chapters
Foreign.
Hey, capitalists, it's time to crack open your favorite beverage. I like Zevia. This is Wednesday with Wyan on capitalism dot com.
Hey, capitalists, this is a short clip from when an attendee at one of our live events came up to Ryan and our good friend George Bryant to ask them about purpose and meaning and really what to do with your time after you've achieved a certain level of success. Side note, actually, one of Ryan's favorite interview questions with potential capitalism hires is to ask them what they would do if $100 million showed up in their bank account. I mean, after you invest and travel and take care of your parents and all that stuff, really, what are you going to do with your time from then on? There's no real right or wrong answer, but the question does say a lot about what drives you. Well, here's Ryan's answer to all that.
I wanted to ask you, like, a just, like, quick question.
What's up?
So at the end of the line, when you are able to influence and change millions of people's lives, what's next?
This is actually a really interesting question, Eric, because basically what you're asking is, like, once, if you got a $5 billion check and, like, you accomplished everything, what the hell are you gonna do with your time? What's the meaning behind it all? And I don't have a passion that I could do all day. I have a feeling I'm after, which is, like, the connected creativity.
And.
And there's a couple things that I know put me in that zone. My perfect day is waking up in the morning, hearing my best friends cook breakfast, going out, hanging out with them, having a cup of coffee and writing and creating a piece of content that goes out and makes an impact on somebody else. And then connecting with my people and creatively coming up with new ideas and new projects. And then if there's a game that night, I'm putting eye black on my eyes, putting my Moran 13 Indians jersey on and going in the dugout and being like, if you don't hit a home run right now, you're fired.
Right?
Because I would own the team. That would be my perfect day. So if I had, like, $5 billion show up, I'd buy the Cleveland Indians.
Okay?
I'd have my private jet take me to the. To the game every day with my friends. And every morning I'd wake up, we'd cook breakfast together. We'd probably come up with some cool business ideas around a campfire, ride some jet skis, invest in some cool projects. And then go to the Indians game. So my intent right now is to make that as.
Like, normal as possible, or like Guinness close to that as possible. Which is why I bought a lake house. And I'm having all of my workshops and small events at the lake house. And which is why my next project, when I have my next windfall, when I have my next big financial win, I'm gonna buy a 50 acre compound, build some structures on it, and just have people. Yeah, like have a compound of entrepreneurship coming all the time.
Oh, so like summit series.
Basically, yes. But all the time.
Oh.
Once you hit the top of the mountain, it gets lonely when there's nobody there with you or when all of it goes away because then you're left with the completion. And then it's felt empty for me multiple times. And that's why now we spend time together and we're like, let's do this together. Let's go have fun while we build business well, we work well, we share well, we empower people. Like it's an end world, not a but world. And I think in entrepreneurship, I see people get addicted to the linear thinking and the goals. Like somehow they don't deserve to become a sushi chef until they exit or until they get here. And the truth is that when you can become self aware and pursue that happiness every day, you'll have all of it a lot faster because you're congruently living your life and you're fueling yourself with your joy and your happiness, and then you get to have both.
And one more thing on that is when the muse becomes your primary project, somehow it, like, it loses its magic. For example, I mean, capitalism.com and my personal brand is my side hustle. Right. But I sold my main business a year ago, and so. But the minute that I made my brand the primary thing, it started to go away. Because now I had to monetize it, I had to professionalize it, I had to think about it, I had to build the team for it, and it lost its magic.
Mm.
So when the side thing becomes the main thing, it didn't go the way that I thought it was going to. So I have to have something like the fun thing that I'm pursuing, the project that I'm building and scaling. So the thing that is enjoyable for me can stay enjoyable. All right, well, we just dumped a lot. That was a lot.
That was a lot of simple questions. That was another. It's better to be like another speaker soon.
