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George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding

2026-08-17 · 61 min · episode 460 · 16 entities

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  • → appeared on Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley podcast
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    George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding
  • → hosted by Ryan Hanley person
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  • → discusses Business company
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  • → discusses Education concept
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  • → discusses Entrepreneurship website
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  • → discusses Self-Improvement concept
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  • → references Ryanmhanley website
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    Link in episode "George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding": https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley
  • → references mindofgeorge.com website
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    Link in episode "George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding": https://mindofgeorge.com/

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  • mentioned Entrepreneurship website
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  • mentioned Ryanmhanley website
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    Link in episode "George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding": https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley
  • mentioned mindofgeorge.com website
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    Link in episode "George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding": https://mindofgeorge.com/
  • discusses Entrepreneurship website
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    Feed category: Entrepreneurship
  • references Ryanmhanley website
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    Link in episode "George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding": https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley
  • references mindofgeorge.com website
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    Link in episode "George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding": https://mindofgeorge.com/

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  • mentioned Education concept
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  • mentioned Self-Improvement concept
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  • discusses Self-Improvement concept
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  • mentioned Ryan Hanley person
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  • mentioned George Bryant person
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    George Bryant on Being Seen, Survival, and the Cost of Hiding
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  • mentioned Business company
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Episode description as stored
We will pick the disaster we already know how to live through. We will skip the win we have never survived. George Bryant said that out loud and I felt it in my chest. He is a former Marine, a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, and the man behind Mind of George. He also spent years using a polished origin story as a moat. Enough pain to look open. Not enough truth to be seen. --- I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/ryanmhanley --- He grew up outside Boston in a house full of drugs, fists, and sexual abuse. He joined the Marines because home was worse than Parris Island. Honor graduate. Somalia at 21. Almost lost both legs. A year in a wheelchair. Opiates. A night in the barracks when he swallowed the whole bottle and did not want to wake up. Then a food blog that became Civilized Caveman. An ebook he says did a million dollars in six days. A cookbook tour where he taught people to love themselves with food while he binged and purged before every keynote. Austin. Four thousand people. His ex-wife asked if he was going to walk on stage and lie to them again. The only sentence that would come out was, "I've been lying to all of you." He later named the gap I keep seeing in high performers: authenticity is a story you can recite on 9,000 podcasts. Intimacy is letting someone close enough to help you. He found God in Costa Rica the hard way, wrote his purpose on a piece of paper, and gave the seven-figure company away because he was told to. If you run a real company and still feel unseen, this is a map of the hiding places that look like strength. George's close is the whole episode in one move. Nobody will see you until you can look in the mirror without putting yourself on trial. Connect with George Bryant: Website: https://mindofgeorge.com/ Podcast: The Mind of George Show — https://mindofgeorge.com/podcast/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/itsgeorgebryant Book: The Paleo Kitchen (Juli Bauer and George Bryant) — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628600101?tag=findingpeak-20 Follow Ryan Hanley Website: https://ryanhanley.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryan_hanley X: https://x.com/rhanley This is the way. Hanley. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.