The Resilience Expert: £200m Business To High Security Prison - Lessons Learnt Inside - Riordan Maynard
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Riordan Maynard’s story is almost impossible to believe. He left school at 16, learned the art of selling at Foxtons and co-founded Touchbase, a mobile-phone business that grew to around 200 million. Then ego, reckless expansion, the financial crisis and a refusal to accept failure brought everything crashing down. What followed was six years inside the American prison system, separation from his wife and five children, brutal violence and a complete mental collapse within his first six weeks. In this extraordinarily raw conversation with Dan Pope, Riordan explains how believing he was “Midas” turned ambition into self-destruction, why hopelessness crushes the human spirit and how he rebuilt his mind by focusing only on what he could control. He also shares hard-earned lessons on sales, differentiation, value, resilience and closing deals. Brutally honest, darkly funny and unexpectedly practical, this is a conversation about extraordinary success, catastrophic failure and rebuilding yourself after losing almost everything.
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ON THE MENU:00:00:00 Intro 00:05:15 How a Wapping Flat Became a £200M Business 00:11:25 The IRS Arrives With Guns 00:17:15 How Fear of Failure Sent Him to Prison 00:21:10 The Best Business Advice He Ignored 00:24:50 His Last In-N-Out Before Prison 00:28:30 California’s “Best” Prison Was Still Hell 00:34:05 What Prison Reveals About Human Hierarchy 00:37:20 The Gang Leader Who Allegedly Killed Six 00:41:05 How He Negotiated With Prison Gangs 00:45:10 A Normal Day Inside Federal Prison 00:48:15 Two Years Locked Down During Covid 00:52:20 Why Mackerel Became Prison Currency 00:55:20 Murder, Sex and the “Boom Boom Room” 01:01:08 How Prison Destroyed His Mental Health 01:06:44 The Question That Stops a Doom Loop 01:10:10 Two Questions That Interrupt Anxiety 01:15:10 How to Build a Compelling Future 01:19:10 Grant Cardone Versus Achievable Goals 01:22:25 Why Purpose Requires Obsession 01:26:10 The Beliefs That Made Him Feel Like Scum 01:29:20 Learning to Love What You Hate 01:33:20 Why Willpower Always Fails Eventually 01:37:25 How to Destroy Limiting Beliefs 01:42:10 The Brain Training Most People Skip 01:45:35 Affirmations That Actually Reprogram Your Mind 01:50:25 The Switch Exercise That Rewrites Beliefs 01:56:40 The Sales Masterclass Begins 02:02:15 Stop Selling Benefits. Sell Outcomes 02:07:20 How to Close a Million-Pound Deal 02:10:40 The Craziest Deal He Ever Won 02:14:05 Why “No” Means You Started Wrong 02:19:05 The Prison Books That Changed Everything ============================================== ♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from the biggest names in food and drink. Subscribe here - https://hungryfeast.beehiiv.com/🍲 ============================================== 🤝 Let's Connect! ►Let’s link-up here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-pope/) ►Stalk me here (https://www.instagram.com/_hungry.pod/) This episode was edited by: G.Thomas Craig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gthomascraig/)
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