Nic McKinley
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · Former CIA Agent Exposes the Truth About Trafficking · 17 Apr 2025
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purpose.
When people are thinking too small, I would say it's usually because they're thinking about themselves, right? Their goal is like, oh, I want to build the mastermind class that's going to get me the freedom that I want so that I can have the boat that I want so that I can drop ship stuff from Alibaba on a beach somewhere while I drink my time, right? It's I, I, I, I, I.
God did not create us to serve ourselves, right? He created us to serve a greater purpose. And so it's what I call the dragon that you are made to slay. Like what is the problem in the world? What is the problem in society? What is the thing that just haunts you and bothers you? And that is your purpose. That's what you were designed to do.
So I do a lot of coaching of entrepreneurs and companies that I'm invested in and work with venture capital firms for the leaders that they're investing in, right? Because one of the best ways for them to protect that investment is to make sure that the leader doesn't collapse under the weight of that investment. And so-
One of the questions that I like to ask all of these people is, what is the one thing that you would do if you were independently wealthy? And that usually starts an exercise of they go through, well, like, oh, man, I would retire my parents and I would I would do this for this person. And I would I've always wanted to travel. And OK, so they get they get all the like me stuff out of the way.
Like, great. You 48 months of retirement. playing around, you still have more money than any number of generations could ever spend. What are you going to do with the rest of your life now? Because you can't just travel. You can't just sit on the beach your whole life.
I mean, I guess some people can, but like if you're one of those people, you should probably stop listening to this podcast right now.
Right. They're so internally focused. So what is the problem? What is the dragon that you're going to go slay? So for me, it's commercial sex trafficking, primarily of children. That is what I focused on with my nonprofit companies. It's what I'm focused on on my for-profit company. It's a revenue generator there. It's an industry thing.
A weapon for industry to actually wield against that dragon like that. That's where I'm focused. Right. And and I think that's that's it. You've got to find the purpose and and you can't take steps. You can't create a framework. You can't do all of these things that people talk about that are downstream of purpose. Right. Purpose is the glacier that melts into the stream of your life.
So what is that purpose? And that purpose better be bigger than yourself. And I think there are so many good examples of this that people look to. And I'm not... I'm not saying that any of these people are obviously perfect and they all have their own problems.
But when you look to the Bezos and you look to the Musks and the Steve Jobs and the people who've been hyper successful in business, I would even say Zuckerberg, right, as a great example, and the Google founders, when you look at them. What are they doing today? They're some of the richest people on the planet, wealthiest people on the planet.
They have achieved the level of wealth that no measure of generations could ever spend. And what are they doing? They're getting up every day and they're going to work. A couple of billionaires I know are some of the hardest people, some of the hardest working people I know. They have all of the wealth that they could possibly ever need. And yet they're still working 10 plus hours a day.
And that's when you ask them why, it's because they have a goal and a singular purpose that they're focused on solving. Right. So a billionaire that I know is investing in cancer treatments because his mother died of cancer and he's like, it shouldn't be that way. And so he's just all in on biotech.
Um, another one that I know is, uh, really doesn't like the way that society is unfolding and, uh, in the divisions among, uh, among the people are unfolding and the things that media are doing. So he just was like, you know what? Forget it. I'm worth $200 million. I'm going to go create a new, uh, a new media company and, and, and on and on. And so that is, that really is what it comes down to.
It's just, you've got to find a dragon to slay and then start taking the steps required to go slay that dragon. Yeah.
Because those people are the straight stick. And what I mean by that is the best way to point out that a stick is crooked is not to tell somebody that the stick is crooked. It's to lay a straight stick next to it. And oftentimes those people are the straight stick who those folks then are confronted by the fact that they're not doing very much. And I get terrible hate mail.
And I've had, you know, some of the biggest players in the pornography industry spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to go after me personally, which I consider that a badge of honor. That means that I'm getting the dragon's attention. And the dragon doesn't like it. And that means I'm being effective.
Because if you aren't getting attacked, if people aren't saying bad things about you, guess what? You're probably not really being that effective. And there are so many people in our society who have just gotten so comfortable. And that is their life's goal, right? They want to pursue their own comfort. And that means that the people who are actively working to better society.
Now, they may not necessarily agree with the way that they're actively working to better society, but all the same, people who are executing on that purpose, they're executing on the plan, they're very clearly putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak, that makes everybody else
essentially look at themselves in the mirror and be confronted with the fact that they're not doing as much or they're not executing on things. And it is so much easier to destroy than it is to build. You think about how fast How long it took to build the house that you're sitting in right now or the office that you're sitting in, right?
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