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Hard-Wired to Buy: How the Brain Builds Buyers

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BY: TONY RONCHI Your brain contains a tiny structure that drives massive decisions: the amygdala. This neural center doesn’t just handle fear — it’s central to all decision-making. It constantly evaluates stimuli, shaping how we perceive value and risk. And guess what it hates more than anything? Ambiguity. In a simple experiment, participants were given…

Your Partnership With Death

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BY: TONY RONCHI The pursuit of certainty is a partnership with death. We procrastinate to prove we’re still alive, that time remains in our grasp. It might sound morbid, but the only absolute certainty in life is that we all will die. The irony? Most people attempt to feel alive by pursuing certainty rather than…

Infinitely Scalable Podcast: When Tough Guys Trade Fear for Love — With Mike Giardina

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Mike Giardina has spent decades grinding. Being tough. Gritty — in the U.S. Navy, as an Operations Specialist 2nd Class. As a high-level CrossFit athlete and Seminar Staff Flowmaster. And as a survivor of trauma. He’d grown up dodging the shrapnel of his father’s explosive outbursts, using drugs to cope. He watched friends overdose around…

The Irony of Identity

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BY: TONY RONCHI Everyone wants to be special, but no one wants to be individual. This reveals a deeper truth: Most people don’t want to risk being wrong or making mistakes. Many affiliate owners hope that by blending in, they’ll eventually stand out. I understand this completely — running a business can be overwhelmingly difficult…

You’re the Constant

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BY: TONY RONCHI Every soundbite and talking point you can come across as an affiliate owner and CrossFitter proclaims how incredibly effective the methodology is. Yet there is an absolute drought of success stories among affiliate owners themselves. They help their clients improve their lives; meanwhile, they remain stuck. They are healthy, yet unhappy. They…

Redefine Success: Pursue Freedom Over Finances in Your CrossFit Gym

BY: TONY RONCHI 9 questions to change the way you see your future… There is nothing wrong with money, it gets a bad rep. It’s not the root of all evil, or the shackles to which you are bound. It’s just that money itself is a topic of fixation, and it in and of itself…