The Resilience Expert: £200m Business To High Security Prison - Lessons Learnt Inside - Riordan Maynard
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. Ayra is your external front of house. An artificially intelligent communications manager that lives on your website and across your social channels, chatting and responding to customers 24/7 with warmth and personality. She's trained on your business and built to act. Taking the reservation, holding the card, sending the reminder, recovering the lost booking. Instantly and autonomously. click the link to learn more. 📙Download HUNGRY Big Banging Reading list here 🧾 HUNGRY survey would be so grateful if you may please fill out 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/)
