My guest today is Ryan Trainor. A man who can comfortably consider himself one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs. As an ambitious young entrepreneur myself, I sent him a cold email around 12 years ago after reading his story of selling his education business to a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Washington Post before he had turned 40.

In the years that followed we worked together and he became one of my biggest mentors, but more importantly we became great friends and over the past few years we’ve gone on this journey to really seek to understand the meaning of life alongside each other.

Ryan spoke openly about his worldly success and the motivators that drove it, but how life always has a way of knocking you off your perch when you need it. That led to a major burnout and reconsideration of what mattered in life in 2022 and the couple of years since have been a journey of reconstructing previously held beliefs and seeking to be more conscious and present in his decisions for what’s next.

We delved into a discussion about how the world has suffered from too much abundance, how public discourse has been lost and how Ryan has sought knowledge from ancient texts to psychedelics and everything in between to guide his understanding of how we should contribute to the world around him.