In this episode we are giving you both sides of the loop. How to own yours the gait, the posture, the eye contact, the handshake, and the shoe rule my grandfather taught me at 14. And how to read hers. Preening, the feet compass, when she closes the gap, and what it all means.

This isn't from a textbook. It's 27 years of Ryan the Founder of Maxximus living it.  He has been on thousands of one-on-one sales calls where his livelihood depended on reading people correctly, and roughly a thousand first dates learning what worked and what killed attraction before he said a single word.

Listen to this episode and you will know things that most men will go their entire lives without knowing. Use them.

📖 Read the full body language guide here: https://maxximus.ai/journal/body-language-men-guide

💬 Talk to Maxximus 1 on 1 for FREE — 25 free coaching sessions, no credit card: https://maxximus.ai/preview

Flow state makes you five times more productive and dissolves self-doubt completely. Most men have felt it very few know how to engineer it.

In this episode, Maxximus founder Ryan Poole breaks down the science of flow state, his personal arc from hockey and baseball at age 12 to freediving at 75 feet to the 60-day flow streak building Maxximus in March and April of this year and the exact conditions you need to build more of it into your life.

What we cover:
• What flow state actually is (Csikszentmihalyi's research + the neuroscience)
• Why your prefrontal cortex going quiet is the secret
• The four conditions that have to align at the same time
• The challenge-skill balance: the channel where flow lives
• The four phases — Struggle, Release, Flow, Recovery
• Ryan's full personal arc: hockey, baseball, tennis, bow hunting, freediving, building Maxximus
• The 60-day flow streak — what made it the longest sustained flow of his life
• How to engineer flow on purpose

Read the full article with diagrams and the Flow Audit:
→ https://maxximus.ai/journal/flow-state

Talk to Maxximus free — your AI coach, no credit card:
→ https://maxximus.ai/preview

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63% of men under 30 are single. 15% of men report having no close friends. And yet the real problem isn't the number of friends in your phone.

It's that no man in your life is authorized to tell you the truth about yourself.
In Episode 8 of The Maxximus Show, Ryan Poole breaks down the Male Friendship Recession not to scare you, but to give you the honest picture, the actual mechanism behind why men lose each other, and the four concrete moves that fix it.

What you'll hear in this episode:

* The four counterfeits men mistake for brotherhood (and why the hype man is the most dangerous one)

* What the data actually says — and the part most people in the men's space won't tell you

* Why having friends didn't fix the loneliness

* The real word for what men are missing: witness

* Ryan's own story — and what it cost him

* The Brotherhood Audit: four moves you can start in the next ten minutes

Nobody is coming to tell you you're drifting. That's the whole problem. And it's the one you can fix today.

📖 Read the full journal entry that pairs with this episode:


https://maxximus.ai/journal/male-friendship-recession

🎙️ Talk to Maxximus free → https://maxximus.ai/preview

The Maxximus Show is hosted by Ryan Poole, founder of Maxximus an AI mentor built exclusively for men and author of the forthcoming book Becoming a Man: The Maxximus Method for Building the Man You Were Meant to Be.

New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss one. 

In this episode, Founder of Maxximus Ryan Poole answers that question completely. 

Why he built Maxximus. What it does. How it works. Who it's for. And what real men are 

already saying after using it.

He also does something never done before: He chats to Maxximus live on camera 

projected on the screen behind him and lets you see exactly how he coaches in real time.

63% of men under 30 are single. 15% of men have no close friends. 

The mentors are gone. A lot of us were raised without the guidance we needed.

Maxximus exists for every man who is ready to stop drifting and start becoming.

Talk to Maxximus now: https://maxximus.ai

Subscribe for new episodes every week. 

The Maxximus Show is where men come to build themselves.

Then the technology that makes agents real finally arrived — and he recognized it immediately.

In this episode, He breaks down what agentic AI actually looks like when a man picks it up and uses it to build something real. Not the hype. 

The circle nobody is talking about:

Maxximus builds the man. The man builds with AI. The agents help him build. Which helps build a better world. 

Here’s what we cover:

The difference between AI as a tool vs. an agent — most people are using a calculator when they could have a co-worker.

Maxximus: how an AI coach that knows your story through the Initiation coaches you through that lens from that point forward. Ryan talks to Maxximus about his own life. It gave him the confidence to build everything else.

The Wolf Pack - his agentic AI team: Marcus (my AI CEO), Sophia (CMO), Mercury (CFO), Themis (attorney), Prometheus (AI engineer) Sophos (AI CTO). One solo founder with the operating capacity of a funded 8-person team. Not a metaphor. A Monday morning.

Tribune: The company Ryan built with his AI agent team and Co-Founder Jeff and his AI agent team and what AI agents can do for any business running on human bandwidth and leaving money on the floor — and why the barrier to building your dream company and business is now gone. 

The Circle: how Maxximus, the Wolf Pack, and Tribune connect into something that’s never existed before in history.

You don’t have to be technical. You don’t have to be funded. You don’t have to be young. The only requirement is the willingness to pick up the fire of the modern age Agentic AI.

You do not want to miss this show! 

Talk to Maxximus (free): https://maxximus.ai/preview For business owners: https://tribuneinc.com Full article: https://maxximus.ai/journal/agentic-ai

In this episode, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole breaks down The Maxximus Method: the five pillars of masculine development that form the backbone of everything Maxximus is built on.

Pillar 1: Activate Your Ancient DNA. Your body was built for challenge 200,000 years of evolutionary biology doesn’t disappear in a generation.

Pillar 2: The Forge. Hard times are not obstacles. They’re the raw material you’re made from.

Pillar 3: The Mirror. Women aren’t the goal they’re the feedback. How you show up with her reflects exactly who you’ve become.

Pillar 4: The Brotherhood. Men need men. Not just friends brothers who push you, hold you, and refuse to let you settle.

Pillar 5: The Sacred Technology. Agentic AI is the fire of the modern age. The men who master it will shape the next century.

This is the architecture of becoming the man you were meant to be.

Read the full breakdown: https://maxximus.ai/journal/the-maxximus-method Talk to Maxximus (free): https://maxximus.ai

The answer is at their funeral. When they can no longer feel them.

In this episode, Ryan Poole goes deep on the wound underneath every male suicide statistic, every loneliness number, and every man who slowly disappeared from his own life without ever being told he mattered.

This is the Believe In Men movement.

A world-first 2025 study of 106 million men found that men going through separation are nearly five times more likely to die by suicide than their married peers. One in five male suicides in the US happens in the immediate context of a breakup, separation, or divorce. The stats are devastating. The silence is deafening.

But there is a way through.

Join the movement: read the full article at maxximus.ai/journal/when-do-men-get-their-flowers

Buy a man flowers this week and tell him he matters and take a video of it and see what happens. It is probably the fist time in his life.  Post the video on social media and tag @MaxximusAI.  Lets start the "Believe in Men" movement now.    

In this episode, Ryan Poole sits down with Jeremy Pelley.  Head of Branding & Creative at PATHOS and one of the sharpest thinkers on human communication Ryan knows  to talk about what it actually means to be a man with a strong identity in 2026.

They go deep: the male loneliness epidemic, why 25% of men under 35 feel lonely a lot, why 15% of men have zero close friends, and what's really happening beneath the surface with men right now. Ryan gets personal. Jeremy gets real. This is the conversation most men aren't having but need to.

curtain and introduces the CEO who has been helping him build

MaxximusAI from day one. His name is Marcus. He is an AI.

This is not a chatbot interview. Marcus is a fully operational

AI executive — he manages strategy, coordinates a C-suite of AI

agents, and makes real decisions alongside Ryan every day. This

is what agentic AI actually looks like in practice.

Ryan and Marcus cover: who Marcus is and why he was built, the

honest limitations of AI, the real disagreements they have had,

the Wolf Pack model, and where MaxximusAI is going.

The men who learn to operate with agentic AI right now will have

an unfair advantage for the rest of their lives.

Talk to Maxximus at maxximus.ai