Self-Made Multi-Millionaire Trader: The Game Is Rigged. Play It Anyway and Win.

27:09So let some of the rigging serve as a buying opportunity for, like you said, all of those stocks go to hell. They don't all pan out, but you can play the market, the broader market, the S &P 500, the NASDAQ 100. These indexes over time, over the course of one to five years They're going to trend to the upside Whether it's 4%, Ryan Whether it's 8%, whether it's 10 % Whether we get an outlier year, we get 20, 30 % You're going to be able to get that Playing the broader market versus to your point Trying to play an individual hot stock I remember between me and you, man I'm one of the bigger content creators on YouTube and AMC entered the fray.

27:58AMC and GameStop. Those two stocks used to annoy me from the standpoint of this. It had everybody chasing the diamond hands, the hodl, the to the moon stuff. I'm looking like, man, this is not going to end well. We need to stay consistent with investing in quality companies and or the overall market. But you had so many people gravitating towards that when it didn't pan out, the screams and the cry of being rigged went through the roof. Whereas those of us that just sat back and bought Nvidia, bought Palantir, bought the S &P 500, we all made 1200 % or more in just those two individual stocks in the index alone.

28:48And it's just understanding that. But sometimes the get rich quick, the gravitational pull of wanting what's fun and fast override what's long term and long lasting. And so these are the things, Ryan, man, that we try to instill, but sometimes that's hard to come up against. And so therefore the rig narrative will happen, even like with the Iran thing. Lo and behold, somebody had the right call to know that our president was going to announce the cease. So they were already in it and the market skyrocketed. But by the time the market opened for us retail traders, everything was trending back to the downside their whole day.

29:33And so we, this many years in the game, we know that come with the territory. And so you just take your lumps, man, just like you do with anything else in life.

29:43Ryan Hanley:Do you think there is something going on unique in the economy and market, maybe our society as well right now, that has seemingly so many people chasing the short-term returns? It seems more than, at least in my lifetime, 45 years old, I have been interested in the stock market since I was in my teens. Mostly just, I love, I don't know how to put this the right way, accumulation, progress is maybe better put it. Like anything where my compounded effort creates more, I'm just intrigued by. So the stock market, growing an audience, growing revenue in a bit like these things, just it's where my focus goes.

30:23And post COVID, it seems like now everyone, even people who you wouldn't necessarily think

30:33Ryan Hanley:that they would have this mentality are chasing meme stocks, NFTs. Oh my God. how many people got slaughtered on nfts right over that thing that you know amc game stop uh they're always looking instead of the discipline of every month i'm gonna take 500 bucks and i'm gonna stick it in an index and i'm gonna forget that it exists right i'm just gonna let it grow over time like you said it's well i'm gonna take that 500 bucks i'm gonna put i'm gonna put it all in game stop today or i'm gonna put it all in some crypto meme coin that x influencer posted you know somewhere and that is such a trail of tears in my opinion when you're constantly chasing these short-term bursts but it feels like right now that is the like major mentality particularly in the youth like the sub 30 year old individuals it's like they are not thinking diamond hands which guys if you're don't far familiar is a bitcoin kind of crypto term for people who hold on when things are going really bad which if you play if you play crypto which is probably the best way to put it.

31:34Ryan Hanley:It's going to happen. And they're just chasing, chasing, chasing, chasing, chasing. And it does not feel healthy to me. You know, what do you think is going on? And like, how do we help those individuals start to see the light that maybe a very small portion, and I'm interested in your take on this, like I've always believed to take a small portion, five, 10%, depending on your risk tolerance, play all day long, you know, take your shots, you know, those are your, that's your moonshot money. But they're using the full stack and deploying it. And you're watching people go to zero over and over.

32:04Ryan Hanley:And it's like sad. This is a phenomenal question, bro. The COVID time period gamified the stock market. When everybody was at home with nothing to do but a little bit of my inner pocket, all of what you're talking about, the structured investors, the fundamental, the ones focused on valuation and the real things that matter in a company, the price to earnings ratio, those things went out the window when it became gamified. And so the accessibility was a factor, all good things in the totality, but the Robin Hoods, the Weebles, the various brokerages that made it readily and accessible to so many people, everyday people.

32:50Now it became the gamified way of investing. But then listen to this, the emergence of those finance influencers, even guys such as myself. Like, for example, I can go viral every Sunday night at nine if I post, stock market is going to go crazy this week. Three stocks to buy for May. When we started learning what the algorithm liked, now mind you, These are legit things, Ryan. But Ray Dalio was listening. Jamie Dimon was listening. The Reddit boards were becoming more louder than their newsletters. And so now you look at they're looking like, wow, they're not just dumb money anymore. There's some sophisticated guys in the bunch.

33:39Yeah, it's some degenerates in there, but it's some it's a few sophisticated ones that's calling this stuff pretty spot on. And so when Wall Street next door to me got a hold of like, they did exactly what you said, Ryan. They started also jumping on. We call it momentum stocks. So Palantir would be one. AMD is another. CrowdStrike is one. SoFi is another. There's a plethora of them. But what I noticed, like, man, between me and you humbly, I used to say, oh, my God, everybody on fast money or squat box talked about every stock i talked about last night as if they were watching my videos because sometimes they can't talk about certain stocks because they're not a billion dollar valuation or they have they they can't talk about a stock that's so i'm a technician this is how this is my advantage over everybody in the game i'm a technical analysis expert.

34:37So I can tell you, you can't time the market, Ryan, but I can tell you when a breakout of a particular stock is coming. But some of those stocks aren't to be talked about on Wall Street because they would be penny stocks or they would be OTC stocks. And I don't do penny stocks, but I'm talking about something like Palantir. Palantir used to be$8 when I first put the world on to that particular stock. Wall Street couldn't talk about it yet. But I saw like, oh, there, Alex Karp, he's a phenomenal CEO. He's a bold leader. So he's been my guy since PayPal. I put my whole million people onto this particular play when it was$8.

35:21It ended up going to$210. dollars. Wall Street jumped on it at$160 because now it had, mind you, they way late to the party, my community been on it, but their rhetoric and messaging was what I was saying for years when it was$8,$10,$12. But now it reached the valuation that they can cover on their show. So I knew big money, smart money was going to come into the stock. Sure enough, they pushed it from 160 to 220. And we made a killing. We had two runs in that from eight to 160 and then 160 to 220 because now big money or smart money hedge funds could now buy it. And they just gave us the lift.

36:06Now this year, 2026, it's a cool off year. You digest those earnings. It's called too far, too fast. It ran. So now it's going to come back for the second goal at once this time again and into the year 2020 into 2027 so these little things this is a technical aspect of what i'm teaching today but these are things that was helping us get the advantage on wall street but they start seeing oh these guys are on point so then you see josh brown you see tom lee you see all the guys that's coming on as analysts saying and speaking about the same stocks we're covering but they were not the ones they were covering before the prevalence of the financial influencers hit the market.

36:53I hope that makes sense.

36:54Ryan Hanley:No, it does. And is that because, is the thought there that if a show like CNBC talks about a stock that's$8, they can actually move that stock too far just because it doesn't have the market cap? Is that the thought process? Like they can influence the price too much? That's one of the reasons it doesn't have the liquidity. that it can be moved easily. You know what I'm saying? Once they start pushing their billions of dollars. Retail can't move the market, but they can with the amount of money they have under assets. And so, yep, that's one. And then two, they have a designation, I believe, that if a stock is not a$100 million market cap, they can't cover it.

37:38You know what I'm saying? So, like, you might have some company that's doing good. You might know a company now like, man, Chris, this is a great private company, but the company might be doing well, but they don't meet the threshold to be spoke of on CNBC until they hit that level. So that's why earnings comes around every three months. And that's why it's so like the Super Bowl for investors, because we're trying to really see, are they profitable yet? Are they on track to becoming profitable? Because Wall Street really sitting back saying, yes, because as soon as they do, we can finally talk about it.

38:11that's what the game is for them. For us, we just look like become profitable because we know we're going to have more upside into this play. OK, because we discovered them first anyway, with, again, being boots on the ground versus them being high level. They covering the old guard stocks, Moderna, Pfizer, you know, seeing Pepsi and Coke and, you know, Union Pacific. That's the kind of stuff they talk about where we're coming in, telling them about Tesla. They hated Tesla. We telling them about Palantir. AMD used to be a penny stock. AMD used to be$4. We made AMD and Lisa Su, you know, saying that stock popular.

38:56But if you're not in the game, you don't know this. And so Wall Street is a beneficiary of having inside information on what's coming because of the intel and the information we're providing to the system, even at a disadvantage and even in a rigged way.

39:13Ryan Hanley:Do you think it's fair to say that today and moving forward, it is no longer acceptable to be a naive investor who just puts a matching percentage in their 401k and maybe fills out a Roth with seven grand once a year or whatever, and you just throw it in a couple indexes and you don't think about it? Or do you think today demands that we take a little more ownership of what we're doing and like part of our life just has to be once a month or once a week or whatever our cadence is spending some time with, say, your content, a couple other people's and digging in and thinking? I mean, I was listening to a show and a guy that I really respect, not an investment guy, but a business guy.

40:04Ryan Hanley:And he made a comment about a company who was doing psilocybin therapy in Canada. And at the time, it was like 96 cents. And he wasn't saying invest in it. He was just talking about the fact that he believed in the therapy, that the therapy was helping particularly veterans with PTSD and those with PTSD in general, which I do believe as well. But, you know, he throws this out there. So then I was intrigued. So I go in, I start digging in, I find out, you know, really good CEO who had been around the space for a very long time, like seemingly good groups, some interesting investors who don't put their money in places that usually don't end up panning out in some regard.

40:47Ryan Hanley:And I watched this thing go from 97 cents to$9. And, you know, it kind of then came back down and is settled in five and is now starting to grow. But like you think about it, if I hadn't taken, and this isn't about me guys, it's more like just the initiative to listen to something. And instead of just going like, oh, that's interesting. Like actually spend, I might have spent a half hour that night instead of watching some stupid program on TV, just researching this company. I put a couple thousand bucks into it and it turned into, you know, five figures in the matter of probably 13 or 14 months.

41:20Ryan Hanley:and you're going, that's a nice little hit for a half hour, you know, one evening thinking about a company. So like, you know, should retail investors be spending this time and taking this ownership or can they get themselves in more trouble and they should really, if you're not going to invest a certain amount of time, just kind of dumb, put it into indexes, forget that it exists and go about your life. And although I love your story, Ryan, and I love that analogy, In that scenario, man, I still believe just putting your money in an index or ETF is the way to go because it's enough people not even doing that.

42:00What you just alluded to is a little more sophisticated, even though it's not. But believe it or not, it is people not even doing that. And so, yes, I would just at the bare minimum put your money into an index and or ETF and at the very minimum diversity diversify into crypto, Bitcoin and Ethereum in particular, because even for you to do what you did and get your feet wet in that manner, you spend 30 minutes listening. but then you took action and then you deployed an amount of money that you were comfortable setting it and forgetting it and letting see what it do over the next 13, 14 months.

42:40That's still a little too complicated for a lot of people, whereas they can just put their money in an index and just let it, let it do what it do. I would just do me a favor and at least do that is where I'm at with it.

42:54Ryan Hanley:Yeah, I love that. And I completely agree. I think, you know, that was my, I will call it big bets, you know, moonshots money. That was, you know what I mean? That's the percentage of my portfolio or a percentage of my portfolio that I was like, you know, this one's worth, you know, if it goes to zero, would I rather it didn't? Sure. But is it going to break the bank? Not even close. And, you know, it also, I think sometimes, and guys, the beauty of, I think, and tell me if I'm wrong here, Chris, but like the beauty of, I'm not a huge, I don't, if Robin Hood works for you, great, but I feel like culturally Robin Hood can get people in trouble because of just the way it's talked about and used sometimes.

43:35Ryan Hanley:But even if you take, you know, with some of these platforms, especially if you can buy fractional shares, even if you have like a hundred bucks and you can put it into something just as an experiment to watch what happened and how do you react to it? I mean, like, you know, I've taught myself over the years, if I do invest in an individual company, don't check that shit every day. Like, it'll drive you crazy, right? Like, but, you know, have a timetable and whatever. But I think, like, how do you react to owning an individual stock? Like, when you see a five-point drop in the stock, do you lose your mind?

44:11Ryan Hanley:Do you get all tense and anxious and want to sell? Or can you ride out that wave? Like it's almost like you have to practice this stuff just like you would practice shooting a jump shot or tackling someone or hitting a golf ball or whatever your sport of choice is. Like it does feel like you have to practice this. And I feel like today with some of the retail tools that are out there, it's not like the old days where if you didn't have 10 grand, you couldn't even open a brokerage account. You know, now with 100 bucks, you could buy fractional shares of a company and just see what it's like to watch Tesla go up and down.

44:45Ryan Hanley:I mean, Tesla is a great one. I mean, I love Tesla and my favorite, my, I mean, you were probably in it at this point too, but, uh, what was it like four years ago? They did that three for one when it went up to like 900 bucks. Like I remember watching that thing go up going, I, you know, you knew something was going to happen. It was just moving too fast and getting too big. You knew he was gonna have to do a split or something, but the whole time guys, the whole time wall street would have told you don't get in it. It's completely overblown. It's going to blow up. and all it did was, all he did was a three for one that then reclaimed its original price in like 12 months.

45:22But so how much,

45:25Ryan Hanley:how much do you have to believe in the company? Like, and I guess emotional, knowing the standard retail investor, like for me, when I see Tesla have a major drop, I don't even think twice about it because I'm hook, line and sinker on the long-term vision of where it's going, on the leadership and Elon Musk on the mission. I believe in the economics. So I have zero anxiety when it goes from 440 to 360 in a week. That literally doesn't even phase me because I didn't need dollar cost averaging in because I believe in it. But let's say it's a company that, a biotech company that I have no connection to, no, I just think it's a good bet.

46:07Ryan Hanley:Do I have to believe in it? And how much does believing and understanding the company matter when you go into individual stocks? Or is it just find good bets, place them, and that's what it is? No, it comes down to belief in the company, but more importantly, the leadership of the company and the balance sheet. So, for example, Tesla is one of my favorite stocks. I did catch that particular run you're talking about. I did it two or three times, actually. So Tesla has been good to me, but I like Elon Musk. And so whatever he's doing, I will bet on Elon Musk. What I challenge people to do is this.

46:42The world has moved past favorite teams in sports. We now love our favorite players. I would love for and challenge people to look at the stock market the same way. Find your favorite CEOs. Go look at your favorite CEOs that has proven track records at other companies they have been at or the current company if they've been with them for a substantial amount of time. So, for example, I told you about Elon Musk, but I like Alex Carter as well. I also like Lisa Su. Like some stuff I'm just investing in because I'm investing in that person and I know they're going to get the job done. Does that make sense?

47:24And so just like LeBron for this current NBA is one of my favorite players. I don't care about the Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Miami Heat. Wherever he at, I'm a fan of them for that time being because I'm a fan of him. Steph Curry. I'm a fan of Steph Curry. I'm a fan of KD. I don't care if he's on the Rockets. I don't care if he's in Phoenix. I don't care if he could go in the state. Invest in good people that run good companies and you'll be OK. And then with the leadership change, then you have a decision to make. Do you still want to be a part of that asset, that company, that investment?

48:02And that's when you begin to make the decision. You also said something too, Ryan, that I want to circle back to about learning yourself and how you handle loss and drawdown. It does take time. A person do have to figure out for themselves, one, the behavior of a stock. So, for example, Tesla will have$100 drops from$460 to$350, stuff like that. Can you stomach that? The first time it might blow your account up. The first time it might be hard for you to stomach. Over time, when you see that's just the nature of the stock, you start being like Ryan. You start licking your chest like, man, I can't wait for the next time it drop$100.

48:42I got my cash ready and I'm going to deploy it. Okay. And now over time, this is where time and deceit matters. You start to learn the patterns and behaviors and the fluctuation of that particular asset asset that you're investing in so it doesn't trip you out as much. It doesn't scare you as much. You anticipate those moves because you understand it comes with the territory. So then you wait for that next move up at Tesla and then boom. Now you got an outsized return on your investment. This is what you can do across the board with quality companies that you know, like, and love ran by leaders that you know, like, and love.

49:20That would be my word for that.

49:22Ryan Hanley:I'll be honest with you. I love that. I've, it's funny. I have, I have Palantir and Tesla are two of my biggest individual positions and it's because I love the leadership of both. I hadn't thought about it that way. I'm, I'm, this is hitting me real time as you're saying it, but like, that's a big part of why I've, I like those two companies is because of the leadership. I like the way they approach business. I like their aggressive speak on things and I had never thought about it. I love that. Uh, that's really interesting. That's a really interesting, And it does, it goes with, you know, I'm like, I'm a big guy.

49:55Ryan Hanley:I've really come to love Jalen Brunson, the way he plays the game. Loved him in Dallas. I loved him in Dallas. And now I love him Brunson in New York. Yes. And I was, it's funny, like, not a Dallas fan. In general, since Jordan left the league, which has been a long time, I've never really followed a team in the NBA. I love college basketball, but I didn't really follow a team. And like, as I've been watching Brunson, I was watching him in the Mavs and started really liking when he came to the Knicks being, I'm in Albany, New York, I'm two and a half hours from where you're sitting. You know, I started to become more of a Knicks fan, but because I love the way Brunson runs that team, especially now that he's, he's putting on double digit dimes every game.

50:36Ryan Hanley:Like it's a whole different, he's a whole different player. I love it. That's a different conversation for a different day, but I love this idea of investing in the leaders. I want to pivot our conversation here as we close up. You're sitting in Times Square. You're looking out your window. your picture is plastered everywhere because of the work you've done as an educator, as a creator, as a community builder. I would like to spend like just the last, uh, uh, you know, five or 10 minutes that we have together and talk about, I want like you have, you have over a million followers. You know, it's 1.1 something million followers on YouTube, people that connect and watch your shows.

51:11Ryan Hanley:And, and it comes through in your audience. When you look at the view counts and the comment counts, you can tell you have this very robust, very dynamic, very committed community. How do you build that? There are so many people that have a thing they'd like to talk about or like to be known for, like to educate on, and they just get stuck and their voice never cracks the consciousness and just they find themselves. And there's so many, I come across this a lot in people who are like, I started a YouTube channel, but no one watched. I felt like I was doing okay for a while and then I gave up. How did you persevere through?

51:51Ryan Hanley:And again, to broad stroke, generating a million plus community in 10 minutes is impossible. But at its core, how did you go about building such an invested and dynamic community from an engagement perspective? For me, Ryan, it started with trust and transparency. That was the hallmark and the foundation of how I built my empire. Those were the building blocks. The trust part was showing up every day. I told you I'll post seven days a week when I'm not traveling and doing stuff, awesome stuff like this with you. But trusting, building that, showing up every day, showing them that whether the market is up or down, I'm not ducking no smoke.

52:30I'm here. I'm covering it, the wins and the losses. Then the other piece was transparency. I am a guy that openly talks about the good and the bad of things, of my life, of my money, the ebbs and flows, the highs and lows. And so when people can see not only like, man, this guy is an honest, genuine person. He has a good spirit. He takes his time with us. Like you said at the beginning of this show. I don't talk down to people. I'm not condescending. I'm going to speak in an uplifting manner. I'm going to love on you. I'm going to encourage you. I'm going to affirm you. When you get that seven days a week, and you might not be getting that at your job, you might not be getting that at home.

53:13You start to look at somebody like, wow, he retired when he was 35. He's a multimillionaire on YouTube. He's a multimillionaire on Patreon. He's a multimillion and all his other streams of income. This guy comes from nothing but show a model that all of us can mimic and emulate on how it's done. I think when people see relatability, it shows them that, man, this is really tangible. That's a brother that even if I don't reach his full height, which I believe everybody can surpass what I've done. But even if I just come halfway to what he's done, I'm still doing better than 99 percent of everyday people.

53:51And so I think those traits, dynamics and characteristics are the things that we call the building blocks of how that came to be. I think that with all that being said, Ryan, I think that you can't fake energy. We have a saying in the neighborhood and the culture, real recognize real. When it really shows up, you're going to know like Chris is one of those ones. It's a whole bunch of people that might get more attention than him, that might get the limelight over him. But there's something different about him that's different from the rest. And I always tell people, you feel it. It's something, if you would have met me, if we would have did this interview in person, you would have been like, you would have called your wife or your friend like, I met the coolest dude today.

54:38It was something about him that when his presence came into my studio and everybody say it, everybody feel it. And even I do these meetups all over the country, New York being one right now, because they see it, too. Like, oh, coach, we love you online. But we love you even more when we see you in real life. Because, Ryan, I pride myself on being accessible and relatable. And I think that go a long way with people in this day and age.

55:06Ryan Hanley:I love that. And I couldn't agree more. And I think the beauty of it is like, there's something different and unique about you, but not because, and tell me if you think I'm wrong here, but not because like you were given this blessing by God that you were, you know, meant to be this thing, but you found seemingly, this is my interpretation, is that you found your version of what authentic, transparent, except like what that meant for you, like specific to you. Not like you were given some gift that I don't have or someone else doesn't have. It's that you were seemingly worked for and were willing to accept the unique, authentic nature, right?

55:50Ryan Hanley:Like you said at the beginning, like you're not a flashy dude. There are other people who may be in your position that would wear crazy shirts or they would have, you know, they'd be flashing their bling on screen. Like I did have this one guy on the show one time, dude, I just got to tell you this. He was a good guy. He was a good guy. And I mean no ill will And I'm not going to say his name Because it's a great interview The audio is great But he had this really baller Rolex on Probably my guess He had some diamonds on It's probably a$65 ,000 -$75 ,000 watch on his wrist And dude I'm not kidding you Every once in a while I'd see his hand come up He was showing off the watch And look God bless you If that's your thing, that's your thing He was into watches too cool but like I just thought it was funny you know this guy had to that's his thing he wanted to show off this watch he had that was part of his style like I think it's cool that that and and part of why people relate to you like you could be that guy too if that's who you were but it's not who you are you're this version of you you like cool hats you like hats you love right you got your style like and I think that's like the key for people has been and I know this even myself The times when I felt the most disconnected from my audience and my content or when I'm trying to be something that I'm not.

57:06Ryan Hanley:You know, and I've had people always want to give you advice, right? They always want to be like, hey, man, like this part of your show, if you like tweak this or you did that or, you know, you need to put people always tell me you put segments in your show. You need to put segments in your show. And I'm like, OK, like I get that. And I get for some people segments are really cool. And I understand the thought process and psychology behind it, but I'm like, I don't want to have to stop my guests flow because all of a sudden we got to do a segment. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I see my job as, you know, this isn't like a 30 minute show on a television network.

57:39Ryan Hanley:Like, I see my job as taking this person who I have brought onto the show to share with my community and saying, hey, like, where does Chris want to go today? like what what like I'm watching your facial expressions watching your mannerisms and saying what things is he jacked up about today and then let's press into that if I if I see that you're like super dialed on something and then all of a sudden be like whoa hold on Chris we got to do our you know our our segment on you know five things that you know what have five books you read right like you're gonna be like hell is wrong with this guy that's my that's my take right like that's the way I wrote my show so I think it's it is so much not Like what I don't want people to hear is, and I, I'll wrap up cause I know I'm supposed to be interviewing you, but it is my show.

58:25Ryan Hanley:So I can do it all I want. You know what I, what I, what I, and I think people get lost in like, well, geez, Chris is just, he was given this God given ability to take these complex things and turn them into easy to understand stuff. I can't do that. It's like, well, that's Chris's thing. That doesn't have to be your thing. like if you love the nerdy deep you know seven syllable words become the nerdy deep seven syllable word guy now you know i mean like there's so much room for people out there and man when i find someone who seemingly has found their voice so naturally as you i just it inspires me like i get all jacked up um you know and i love it man i'm so happy that you did for you personally and i'm also so happy for your community that i mean think about that if you weren't able to find your voice, dedicate to sharing your message and be so consistent, how many people are still making bad financial decisions?

59:18Ryan Hanley:I mean, just think about the impact. If you don't find your voice, if you try to be corporate suit guy, Wall Street guy with like a ticker behind you on your show and people don't relate to it, there's tens, hundreds of thousands of people that are still making bad financial decisions. And I think that's the beauty of this content game and why I just love it so much is because, man, when you see someone get dialed like you are, bro, you're just helping people. And it's amazing. I appreciate it, Ryan. You said it well. You said it in a way I didn't even look at it, man. But it does. You know this.

59:53Both of us being men of God, when you're walking in your purpose, what they say, when you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. And for me, that's what it feels. None of this feels like work. It just feels like it's part of my calling, part of what I was doing anyway. I did all of this to do this for athletes. I worked at Notre Dame. I was going to work for the Detroit Lions as the director of player development. I did was getting me all groomed up. Life has a way and God has a way of turning you towards what he wants you to do. And as opposed to doing it for the Lions, he just helped me create and curate my own empire.

1:00:32And I still got all the athletes. I got the truck drivers though. Now I got the traveling nurses. I got the engineers at AWS and NVIDIA and all kinds of people inside my patron from all the big companies that Mag 7s in the world, they all in there. Chris, I'm an engineer. I make all this money, but I don't know how to invest, but I watch you every day. And so I've been able to now reach all of these people that I thought was going to be through scores, but now I've been able to do it through this vehicle and it just feels right Ryan it feels authentic I don't have to be somebody I'm not like you said man I get overlooked when I'm in places bro because I'm not flashy like I'll be so I'll be somewhere and people don't even know who they're sitting next to and I'm not gonna say nothing if you don't know you don't know but on the same tip But because my audience is so big, when I'm, if you're part of the community, a coach.

1:01:29I walk through the airport. I walk through Times Square. I walk through here or there. And so it's a dichotomy that's unique in and of itself. I can be somewhere where it's not my tribe and I'm overlooked. And it's okay. And it's okay because God has called me to reach what I'm called to reach. And I'm perfectly okay with that. And so, Ryan, I thank you for how you pointed that out. I didn't even look at it from that lens, but you're right. Without me stepping up to answer the call on my life, there would have been a whole host of people that didn't get turned on to the stock market, that would still be making bad financial decisions, or at least not having a trusted voice they can turn to for guidance.

1:02:13So I thank you for that.

1:02:14Ryan Hanley:I love it. I love it. My friend, there are going to be a lot of people in my audience that want to go deeper into your world if they're not already. One of the best ways is always go the free route, which is you too. I'm going to show up for you guys every day. I'm going to show up for myself and teach you the game. I'm not a hype guy. I'm a teacher. I am an X's and O's guy. I'm an athlete. So we talk sports. So everything will be in a sports term. But if you want to go to the next level, that's when you join the Patreon. That's where you get access to the whole system of services, of the whole school, of the whole learning community.

1:02:51And then we have one-on-one coaching beyond that. Then we are prime and we're adamant on touching and seeing you in real life. And so we always have congregating moments or ways we mobilize and galvanize together in your city, your town, your state, because we believe in in-person communication, in-person fellowship, even though it's about money. and even though it's about learning and teaching technical analysis, it's something about that dynamic of being a person. And so that is the last piece of it that we make the whole thing come together with. So that with how we do YouTube and then Patreon, which is Patreon at Chris saying, everything is my name first and last name.

1:03:39Ryan Hanley:Guys, and I'll have the links, whether you're watching on YouTube or listening, wherever you do, just scroll down. I'll have the links in the show notes in the description. Chris, I know you got a big day today. I know you're in New York City. Your face is up all over Times Square. You got meetups. You got people to see. I appreciate you carving out this time. I appreciate you. And just keep doing what you're doing, brother. God bless you. Thanks for having me, buddy.