About this episode

Ryan Levesque discusses his journey of reclaiming his voice and authenticity in business after a challenging experience in a post-AI world.

Ryan Levesque built a SaaS company, had a life-changing exit offer fall apart at the 11th hour, and then realized something that shook him: he'd started hating his business, and as a result, he'd started hating himself. What followed was a radical reorientation: making a public confession to his audience that none of his emails over the past seven years had actually been written by him, moving to a Vermont farm, and writing every word of his newsletter without AI. This is a conversation about what it costs to take your voice back and why the unscalable things are the only real moat left in a post AI world. RESOURCES: Ryan's newsletter » CONNECT WITH ME Newsletter Instagram TikTok X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook

People in this episode

Host: Mike Kim

Guest: Ryan Levesque

Topics covered

• personal branding
• AI impact
• business authenticity
• entrepreneurship
• self-discovery

Keywords

• personal branding
• AI
• business
• authenticity
• entrepreneurship
• newsletter
• self-discovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SaaS

Places: Vermont

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