The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast

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150. Gold, Oil, and the Cycle Nobody's Watching with Andrew Pancholi Jul 29, 2026

Show notes

Andrew Pancholi doesn't hedge his calls. In Part 2 of his conversation with Dwayne Kerrigan, the cycles analyst behind Market Timing Report lays out exactly where he thinks gold and oil are headed next — the kind of specific, put-your-name-on-it targets most analysts avoid — plus the one year already circled on his calendar for the next real market correction, and why the pullbacks along the way are buying opportunities, not warning signs. Using research that traces back nearly a century, Andy breaks down which years tend to run hot, which tend to break, and the one he's watching most closely right now. Dwayne and Andy also dig into digital currency, BRICS, and whether replacing the US dollar would really just be a way to wipe out national debt — and Andy shares how a historical pattern tied to the Dust Bowl era points toward a coming boom in grain and commodity markets.

Episode Time Stamps:

00:00 Cycles Love Or Hate

00:22 Welcome Back Andrew Pancholi

01:23 Digital Currency Questions

03:40 Crypto Value And BRICS

05:06 AI Bots and Cycle Speed

07:01 NFTs Bitcoin and Scrutiny

09:55 Debt Reset and History

11:41 Future Of Money Risks

14:50 Market Timing Report

18:28 Risk Management Trading Edge

24:00 Market Outlook and Year Cycles

31:10 Gold Oil and Commodity Boom

34:22 Mississippi Grain Crunch

36:08 Gold Cycles Explained

36:53 Why Cycles Matter

40:54 Gold Targets and Pullbacks

42:56 Cycles vs Technicals

45:45 AI and Modern Warfare

53:13 Using AI for Research

58:14 Upside of AI Progress

01:01:28 Detaching From Tech

01:02:46 Where to Find Andrew

01:04:21 Final Takeaways and Wrap

Guest bio: Andrew Pancholi is the founder and CEO of The Market Timing Report, a global macro research service used by professional investors and portfolio managers to identify risk windows and periods of asymmetric opportunity. For over 40 years, he has forecast turning points in markets including the S&P 500, gold, oil, and Bitcoin using time cycle analysis built on the methods of W.D. Gann, Edward Dewey, and Ralph Elliott. He is co-author of the bestselling book Zero Hour with Harry S. Dent Jr. and a board member of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. Before market timing, Andrew spent decades as a senior pilot for a major flag carrier airline, including roles as Training Captain and Training Standards Captain.

Resources mentioned:

Find Andrew Pancholi's daily cycle updates and forecasts at www.markettimingreport.com or on YouTube at Market Timing Report https://www.youtube.com/@markettimingreport

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpancholi/

https://www.facebook.com/markettimingcyclesanalysis/

Instagram @andrew.pancholi

Connect with Dwayne Kerrigan

Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed by guests during The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Dwayne Kerrigan and his affiliates. Dwayne Kerrigan or The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast is not responsible for and does not verify the accuracy of any of the information contained in the podcast series. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. Listeners are advised to consult with a qualified professional or specialist before making any decisions based on the content of this podcast.

149: Andrew Pancholi: What History Tells Us About Right Now Jul 22, 2026

Show notes

In January 1981, American hostages were released from Iran within hours of Reagan's inauguration. Forty-five years later — to within 30 hours — Andrew Pancholi told his subscribers an Iran conflict was about to begin. He was right. This is not luck. It’s mathematics — and in this conversation with Dwayne Kerrigan, Andrew breaks down exactly how cycle analysis works, what it's telling us about real estate, geopolitics, and the global economy right now, and what business owners and investors should be doing with that information.

In Part 1 of this episode:

The 18.6-year real estate cycle: why we are currently at the same position in the cycle as 2007 — just before the Global Financial Crisis — and what the smart money did last time, and what to do now
The 100-year pandemic cycle — how Spanish flu, cholera, and COVID all followed the same pattern, and why Andrew saw COVID coming
The 90-year geopolitical cycle: how the polarization, rise of nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, and challenges to global order we're seeing now mirror the 1930s decade almost exactly — including the economic conditions that led to the rise of fascism
The 250-year empire cycle — America at a tipping point, the petrodollar's quiet expiry, and China's strategic expansion while the West was distracted
Why Andrew predicted the Israel-Iran conflict to within 30 hours — the convergence of a 45-year cycle, a 90-year cycle, and a 36-year cycle, and why Netanyahu's personal history from the 1976 Entebbe raid has driven his policy decisions in Gaza and Lebanon
The AI boom through the lens of cycles — why every major boom is fueled by new technology, and whether the return on investment can justify what's going in.

Note: This conversation is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Please consult a qualified financial professional before making any investment decisions.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Hidden Patterns Teaser

00:30 - Podcast Intro Setup

01:03 - Meet Andrew Pancholi

04:39 - Why Cycles Matter

07:06 - Real Estate Cycle

08:44 - Big Cycles 2029 Risk

12:15 - What Should We Do

15:38 - Seven Year Life Cycles

19:43 - Forecasting Iran Conflict

24:25 - Pandemic Cycle Evidence

29:29 - Boom Signals And Technology

35:45 - Real Estate Action Steps

40:09 - Timing the Property Cycle

41:38 - Strategy Over FOMO

43:25 - Cycle Experts and Herd Signals

45:53 - Geopolitics in 90 Years

48:44 - The 250 Year Empire Shift

58:11 - Petrodollar and BRICS Challenge

01:06:21 - China’s Resource Playbook

01:11:38 - War Outlook Russia Ukraine Taiwan

01:15:31 - What to Watch Next

01:18:01 - Wrap Up and Disclaimers

Resources mentioned:

Zero Hour — book by Andrew Pancholi and Harry S. Dent Jr.
The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking — book by Philip Anderson
The Secret Wealth Advantage — book by Akhil Patel
The Art of War — book by Sun Tzu
The Market Timing Report — markettimingreport.com

Quotes:

“The minute you start a conflict, a physical conflict, you have lost the war.” - Andrew Pancholi

“The markets are an indication of the psychology of the world. That's the way I've always been trained and always looked at it, is that it is gonna give you what the psychology of the world is looking at things from a economic standpoint.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ If you don't have to buy, keep saving, 'cause the chances are the house prices will come down, and then when we get to about 2031, 2032, that might be a good time to start looking.” - Andrew Pancholi

“ Religious texts, philosophical texts, they all hide mathematical patterns within them. There is something secret hidden away. I mean, it's an open secret if you go and study it, but there are some patterns and years, certain mathematical patterns that do repeat in the bigger picture.” - Andrew Pancholi

“ I put the, uh, message out on the Thursday evening to our subscribers saying, "This is gonna kick off, uh, I believe on tomorrow or, or Saturday," and it actually happened on Saturday. So depending on where you are in the world, it was maximum 30 hours out.” - Andrew Pancholi

Andrew Pancholi is the founder and CEO of The Market Timing Report, a global macro research service used by professional investors, portfolio managers, and family offices to identify risk windows and periods of asymmetric opportunity. For over 40 years, he has forecast turning points in markets including the S&P 500, gold, oil, and Bitcoin using time cycle analysis built on the methods of W.D. Gann, Edward Dewey, and Ralph Elliott. He is co-author of the bestselling book Zero Hour with Harry S. Dent Jr. and a board member of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. Before market timing, Andrew spent decades as a senior pilot for a major flag carrier airline, including roles as Training Captain and Training Standards Captain.

Connect with Andrew Pancholi: https://andrewpancholi.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpancholi/

The Market Timing Report — markettimingreport.com

Connect with Dwayne Kerrigan

148: Brian Will: Don't Sell to Private Equity Without This Jul 15, 2026

Show notes

Most business owners think getting a call from private equity is the finish line. Brian Will says that's exactly when you're most at risk. In Part 2, Brian delivers the frameworks that took him three exits and decades of hard lessons to build — from the five keys to success (which are also the five keys to failure) to what private equity firms will do to your earn-out if you're not paying attention.

In this episode:

The five keys to success — and why every single one is also a key to failure
Why your business is not your product — it's the business inside the business: marketing, data, systems, and the ability to put any product through a machine that finds customers and converts them
The private equity playbook most sellers never see coming: how an $80 million deal became $60 million, why earn-out structures based on EBITDA are almost always a trap, and why you must never let a PE firm take over your accounting
Brian's AI workflow — three screens, three AI models (Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude, which he calls Jake, Elwood, and Jeff), and the one prompt he uses to make sure they challenge him
Why you should stop chasing advice from billionaires — and find someone exactly ten steps ahead of you, fresh out of the game, who's made mistakes at your level recently enough to still remember what they felt like
Living Forever AI: Brian's current startup building interactive AI twins for personal legacy, professional use, and homeschooling — and why he's bootstrapping it while competitors have raised $20 million.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Escape the Commodity Trap

00:30 - Podcast Intro and Setup

01:30 - Five Keys to Success

01:50 - Key One Strong: Why

02:25 - Keys Two and Three

04:38 - Key Four: Check Ego

05:25 - Key Five: Master P&L

07:33 - KPIs and Pattern Forecasting

09:54 - Pricing and Testing

13:14 - Business Is a Data Game

14:59 - AI for Financial Analysis

16:49 - Living Forever AI Twins

20:37 - Experience Meets AI

23:56 - AI Jobs and Media Fear

29:36 - Why Start at 60

31:07 - Proving It Again

31:52 - Builder Not Manager

32:43 - Exit Strategy Reality

34:51 - Private Equity Earnouts

39:43 - How PE Rollups Work

44:02 - Structuring Safer Earnouts

45:44 - Post Acquisition Lessons

49:52 - Business Beyond Product

55:28 - Using AI As Advisors

57:52 - Stop Chasing Billionaires

01:00:49 - Final Advice And Wrap

Resources mentioned:

Dropout Multimillionaire, No: The Psychology of Sales and Negotiations, The Invisible Multimillionaire, I Give the Dumb Kids Hope — Brian Will's books
Living Forever AI — Brian Will's current company: https://livingforeverai.com/
brianwillmedia.com — Brian Will's website
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — Brian's three AI models, running simultaneously for business planning and analysis
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey

Quotes:

“ If you are a commodity business, the only way for you to win is to chase pricing down to the bottom until you can't make money.” - Brian Will

“ I did a company, literally 32 marketing channels, and when I did the analysis, nine of those channels were unprofitable. Nine. And they represented 20% of their spend, their marketing spend.” - Brian Will

“ And at some point, I started questioning me. I've been doing this consulting thing and telling people what to do for 20 years. I wonder if I actually know what I'm talking about.” - Brian Will

“ Wherever you feel, you know, some angst around something, and this could be anywhere in your life, I think it's really important that you lean into it and realize that that angst is, is not there for you to pull back from anything. It's actually for you to lean into something, and there's something that you don't yet know.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ Stop chasing the advice of billionaires, because they can't help you.” - Brian Will

About Brian Will:

Brian Will is a serial entrepreneur, two-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and business consultant who has founded or co-founded ten companies across four industries, with combined valuations exceeding half a billion dollars. He is a two-time TEDx speaker and the author of four books including Dropout Multimillionaire and No: The Psychology of Sales and Negotiations. Currently, Brian is the CEO of Living Forever AI and runs a coaching and consulting practice helping entrepreneurs master the core metrics, sales systems, and processes that drive sustainable growth.

Connect with Brian Will: https://brianwillmedia.com/

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147: From Dropout to Multimillionaire: Brian Will's Success Formula Jul 08, 2026

Show notes

Brian Will has owned 10 companies across five industries, made three exits worth over $500 million, and written four books — including two Wall Street Journal bestsellers. None of it was handed to him and the odds were very much against him. In this conversation with Dwayne Kerrigan, Brian unpacks the frameworks behind his success: the personal filter, the success ladder, and the $80 million decision he almost said no to.

In this episode:

The "I'm in" moment: Brian's business partner Steve asked him to borrow $66,000 more after nine months of zero revenue and $500,000 in losses — Brian's accountant, CMO, and COO all quit before he finally said yes, and the company sold for $80 million just 18 months later
Why "failure leads to success" is a myth Brian calls out directly — it's learning from failure that leads to success, and most people skip that step entirely
The success ladder framework: Brian started at step zero with no education, no backing, and no mentors — and why the only two ways to climb are to learn every painful lesson yourself or find someone who's already done it
The personal filter concept: everything you've ever heard, read, and experienced creates a subconscious filter that accepts or rejects new information — and why people who seem to have the Midas touch aren't lucky, their brain just knows how to recognize success
How Brian's abusive childhood created what he calls the "anger box" — and how that same fuel, once controlled, became his most powerful sales and leadership tool
Why three years of counseling after his divorce was the moment he realized the only person he was still trying to prove anything to was himself

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Keep Moving Forward

00:15 - Podcast Intro

00:47 - Meet Brian Will

02:53 - Dumb Kids Hope Story

04:40 - Military Discipline Lessons

08:30 - Abuse, Anger, and Trauma

12:28 - Anger Box Control

13:35 - Learning From Failure

17:04 - Mentorship Strategy

17:59 - Steve and the Big Bet

19:40 - All In Decision

20:38 - Breakthrough and Exit

22:36 - Ego Surrender and Trust

26:46 - Vulnerability and Divorce

32:20 - Drowning Mind in Books

34:30 - Who Steve Was

35:27 - Equity Swap Origin Story

39:23 - Email Marketing Gold Rush

41:10 - Success Filter Framework

46:05 - Wrap Up and Next Episode

Resources mentioned:

I Give the Dumb Kids Hope, Dropout Multimillionaire, No: The Psychology of Sales and Negotiations, and The Invisible Multimillionaire — Brian Will’s books
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie book
Master Key to Riches — Napoleon Hill book
The E-Myth Revisited — Michael Gerber book
Blink — Malcolm Gladwell book
Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki book
Living Forever AI — Brian Will's current company: https://livingforeverai.com/

Quotes:

“ Failure does not lead to success, ever, never, ever, ever. Learning from failure leads to success, and that's the thing that a lot of people don't do, especially in business.” - Brian Will

“ In 60 days, we hit our first offer. We did $6 million, then 20, then 30, and then sold the company for $80 million 18 months later.” - Brian Will

“ The only person that still thinks, or in my case, still thought that I was that kid laying in the yard crying after I got beat up by my stepdad was me. I was the guy that I did, I had to prove something to.” - Brian Will

“ Failure will be inevitable at some point, and learning is optional." - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ It's your personal filter that will determine whether you succeed or fail in life.” - Brian Will

“ Most of the time, they quit right before they're about to make a breakthrough. That's just a fact.” - Brian Will

About Brian Will:

Connect with Brian Will: https://brianwillmedia.com/

Connect with Dwayne Kerrigan

146: Why AI Empowers Entrepreneurs More Than Anyone with Sean Barry Jul 01, 2026

Show notes

Sean Barry's team used to spend six months building a feature. Now they build it in two to three weeks.

In Part 2, Sean and Dwayne move from the AI transformation inside LeanScaper to the bigger picture: what the software industry looks like in twelve months, why autonomous cars and AI adoption are fundamentally different problems, and what it actually means to participate in this change rather than spectate.

In this episode:

Why the software industry is facing a potential 50-80% company turnover in the next 12-18 months — and why it's simultaneously the best time to be a consumer of technology and the most terrifying time to be building it
The voice and ambient AI future that Sean sees arriving in the next 12 months: screens shrinking from 98% of the interface to 60%, then 20%, as conversational AI replaces the need to navigate software at all
Why AI adoption is fundamentally different from autonomous car adoption — when the choice is 150 hours of your time versus 5 hours with AI, it's not a choice your employer gives you, it's a choice that gets made for you
How AI can lift wages across entire workforces by removing waste from businesses — Sean's case that the real gift of AI isn't productivity, it's the ability to pay people more
Sean's closing philosophy on AI and empathy: the sentiment is largely negative because people aren't participating, and the antidote isn't optimism — it's getting informed, then helping others do the same

Start building your identity with Dwayne’s Identity Framework created for the LeanScaper Conference: https://www.dwaynekerrigan.com/identity-framework/

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Be Informed About AI

00:25 - Podcast Intro

01:26 - Shipping Faster With AI

05:55 - Producing What Was Impossible

09:52 - Keeping Pace With Change

11:01 - AI’s Growth Curve

12:11 - Voice First Interfaces

16:54 - Future Of Software SaaS

21:16 - Build Vs Buy For SMBs

25:23 - Leverage Expertise With AI

27:31 - Does It Ever Normalize

31:12 - Autonomous cars

35:35 - Removing Waste Raising Wages

37:32 - Robotics And Scarcity

42:16 - How We Treat AI

46:12 - Participate With Empathy

51:12 - Closing And Disclaimers

Resources mentioned:

LeanScaper — AI operating system for the landscape industry
Lana — LeanScaper's AI agent
Mark Bradley — founder and chairman of LeanScaper
Claude Code — referenced by Dwayne as the platform he used for his planned 10-week AI course for his staff and their families
Lovable — referenced as a tool enabling small business owners to build their own apps
Eleven Labs / Cartesia — referenced in context of voice AI development
OpenClaw agents and Jarvis — referenced by Dwayne in context of his own AI setup
Tesla / Waymo — referenced in autonomous vehicle comparison
Anthropic — referenced re: recursive self-improvement blog post released day of recording
Paul Akers’s episode on The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast — referenced regarding eliminating business waste: Episode 135: The Lean Maniac: Paul Akers on Eliminating Waste

Quotes:

“ This isn't a choice. Like, people who think this is a choice aren't paying attention. Back to what I said before, this happens either to you or with you.” - Sean Barry

“ What we accomplished in that two, three weeks would have taken us six months.” - Sean Barry

“ I honestly think it's normalizing already, and I have a wonderful wife who, who grounds me in these things because as well I'm like, "Man, if we're not go, go, go, like, we're gonna be left behind." And her very nuanced understanding of people, way better than I have, is like change takes time and people need time.” - Sean Barry

“ Nobody likes uncertainty, but that's where all the growth lies, is in your uncomfort.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ We can help an industry transform the lives of its entire workforce because we can take all of the waste out, and then all of a sudden there's enough money to really pay people well.” - Sean Barry

About Sean Barry:

Sean Barry is the Chief Product Officer at LeanScaper, an AI operating system and business community built specifically for the landscape and snow contracting industry. He brings nearly two decades of product and digital leadership experience, including almost four years at LMN (Landscape Management Network) — the landscape industry's leading business management platform — where he rose from SVP of Product to Chief Product Officer. Before entering the green industry, Sean spent 14 years at Laughlin Constable, a Milwaukee-based agency, where he built his career from Lead Engineer to SVP of Digital, Account and Innovation. He is currently at the forefront of applying AI to real-world business operations for contractors.

Connect with Sean Barry: https://leanscaper.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbarry/

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145: Sean Barry: AI Is Happening To You or With You Jun 24, 2026

Show notes

In January, 95% of the code Sean Barry's team wrote was written by hand. Six months later, that number is 2%. Sean isn't predicting what AI will do to your industry — he's living it, building it, and losing sleep over it.

In this conversation with Dwayne Kerrigan, Sean Barry - the Chief Product Officer of LeanScaper - shares what the AI transformation actually looks like from the inside: the grief, the identity crisis, the compounding flywheel effect, and the window that's closing faster than most people realize.

In this episode:

Why most small to mid-sized businesses can't implement AI on their own — and what LeanScaper is doing about it for the landscape industry
The compounding flywheel effect: why companies that embrace AI now may be uncatchable by competitors who wait six months
The emotional journey Sean's team went through when AI fundamentally changed their jobs overnight — and what's on the other side
Why the most powerful AI asset in your business might already be sitting in a drawer somewhere
The one thing Sean tells every business owner who doesn't know where to start
Why the resistance to AI — in boardrooms, on campuses, and inside teams — all traces back to the same root cause

Start building your identity with Dwayne’s Identity Framework created for the LeanScaper Conference: https://www.dwaynekerrigan.com/identity-framework/

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - AI Pace Shift

00:27 - Podcast Intro

00:59 - Meet Sean Barry

03:33 - LeanScaper Explained

04:33 - DIY AI Struggle

08:28 - Jobs Fear vs Abundance

14:46- Human Connection Premium

17:08 - Mindset, Education, and Retraining

25:57 - How to Start Using AI

30:36 - SOPs as Superpower

36:00 - Uncatchable Flywheel

43:43 - Grief and Identity Shift

53:26 - What Changed Since January

58:14 - New Team Workflow Rebuilt

01:00:51 - Wrap Up and Stay Tuned for Next Episode

Resources mentioned:

LeanScaper — AI operating system for the landscape industry
LMN (Landscape Management Network) — landscape industry business management software
Mark Bradley — Chairman and founder of LeanScaper
Lana — LeanScaper's AI agent
ChatGPT — referenced as starting point for AI adoption
Claude / Anthropic — cited as the inflection point in AI coding capability that changed everything in late 2024
Claude Code — referenced as coding tool
Codex — referenced as AI coding resource
GitHub Copilot / Microsoft Copilot — referenced in context of AI coding history
Figma — referenced as design tool being replaced by AI-assisted coding
OpenClaw agents — referenced by Dwayne as agents running in his own setup

Quotes:

“ Your choice is not whether or not this happens, your choice is whether it happens with you or to you, and that's the choice you get to make.” - Sean Barry

“ In January, ninety-five, ninety-eight percent of the code we would write was written by hand, and today, two percent. Yeah, that's six months.” - Sean Barry

“ Take next week off and stop doing your day job, and then spend forty hours learning AI and diving into ChatGPT, Codex, Claude. Figure out what you want. Dive in, there's tons of education. You just ask AI how to use it. Then the next week, that time will pay back. You will have moved yourself so far in that forty hours that you will get that time back the next week.” - Sean Barry

"You'll be uncatchable by people who don't." - Sean Barry

“ I think 95% of small to mid-sized businesses don't have the time nor resources to go accomplish that. So I think we're at the exciting point in what we're trying to do is, is take all that power and then do all the heavy lifting for landscape contractors so they can just turn it on and use it and not need to go figure out how to put it all together.” - Sean Barry

About Sean Barry:

Connect with Sean Barry: https://leanscaper.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbarry/

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144: Sleep Is the Currency of Attention with Dr. Breus Jun 17, 2026

Show notes

Most people treat sleep like something that happens to them. Dr. Michael Breus, aka The Sleep Doctor, treats it like a system — one that can be built, optimized, and recovered no matter how badly you've abused it.

In Part 2, Dwayne and Dr. Breus move from theory into full practice: the single morning habit that regulates your entire sleep schedule, the truth about supplements and peptides, and why a 78-year-old entrepreneur taking four different drugs to get through the day became drug-free in two weeks and now more productive than his staff can handle.

In this episode:

The one rule that regulates your entire sleep schedule
The three-15s morning routine: 15 deep breaths, 15 ounces of water, and 15 minutes of direct sunlight within 20 minutes of waking — and why vitamin D is a circadian pacemaker
The supplement framework most people get completely wrong
Dr. Breus's unambiguous position on peptides: lab-use-only compounds are being injected by people who have no idea what the 10 or 20-year consequences are, and the only thing he's ever found that he cannot fix without medication or intervention is physical pain and major mental health issues
How Dr. Breus accidentally became The Sleep Doctor: rejected from his first-choice sports psychology program, he sold himself into a sleep track, fell in love with clinical sleep medicine, and never looked back — "You change somebody's sleep, you change their life."

Discover Your Chronotype - Take The Quiz: https://sleepdoctor.com/pages/dr-breus-podcast-dwayne-kerrigan

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Sleep Boosts Everything

00:22 - Podcast Welcome

01:24 - Wake Time Consistency

01:41 - Melatonin Timer Explained

03:12 - Minimum Sleep Safety

04:54 - Sleep Quality For Performance

06:41 - Exercise And Cooling Hacks

10:53 - Home Sleep Testing

14:51 - Sauna Timing And Cold Plunge

19:06 - Blue Light and Screen Stimulus

22:05 - Morning Sun Routine

23:51 - Supplements vs Bloodwork

27:50 - Magnesium Types And Research

30:24 - Avoid Over Supplementing

33:01 - Eight Hours Myth

34:42 - Modern Sleep Basics

35:40 - Kids and Teen Sleep

38:36 - What Good Sleep Feels Like

39:44 - Depression Meds and REM

45:29 - Entrepreneur Sleep Debt

49:39 - Peptides Sleep Shortcuts

54:36 - Sleeping Pills and Tapering

01:00:21 - Sleep Doctor Origin Story

01:04:03 - Sleep and Purpose

01:05:48 - Final Takeaways and Goodbye

Resources mentioned:

Take the Original Chronotype Quiz | SleepDoctor.com
Sleep Doctor At Home Sleep Test (SleepDoctor.com)

The Sleep Doctor At-Home Sleep Test provides clinical-level sleep analysis from the comfort of your own bed. Using two simple sensors and a connected app, users receive personalized results reviewed by a licensed provider in under a week.

Orion Sleep — mattress topper for temperature regulation
Eight Sleep — mattress topper referenced as comparable product
ChiliPAD — referenced as comparable cooling product
Full Script — Supplement Management & Lab Testing Platform
Andrew Huberman — referenced in context of the apigenin/magnesium threonate sleep stack
Dan Sullivan / Strategic Coach — case study referenced with permission
Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece — referenced in context of sauna/cold plunge performance camp

Quotes:

“ Everything you do, you do better with a good night's sleep. Everything. There's not a single biological function that you don't do better when you sleep.” - Dr. Michael Breus

“ 25% of the people that show up on my doorstep, I have them go do blood work. As soon as we fix the deficiencies, they're done. They're gone. They don't need anything. But here's the funny part. Nobody has a deficiency in ashwagandha, right? Nobody has a deficiency in passionflower, right? Nobody.” - Dr. Michael Breus

“ God's delays are not God's denials. You know, you thought you wanted to be this, and you were pursuing this expectation or this hope or this dream, but then what you really found was your true purpose.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“Wake up at the same time seven days a week. Notice I didn't say go to bed at the same time. I said wake up at the same time.” - Dr. Michael Breus

“ Sleep is the currency of attention. You cannot pay attention to anything if you're not well-slept. ADD, ADHD gets worse when you're not well-slept. You can't focus. Everything depe- this is why sleep is so fundamental to life, is because it's, it literally dictates what you look at, what you focus on, and where you spend your time. It's all comes from whether or not you got a good night's rest.” - Dr. Michael Breus

Dr. Michael Breus, Ph.D., is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist, and one of only 168 psychologists in the world to have passed the Sleep Medicine Boards without attending medical school. Known as The Sleep Doctor, he is the founder of sleepdoctor.com, was named the Top Sleep Specialist in California by Reader’s Digest, and one of the 10 most influential people in sleep, and is the author of several books including The Power of When and Sleep, Drink, Breathe: Wellness is Too Complicated. He has appeared on Oprah, CNN, The Today Show, and The Dr. Oz Show more than 40 times, and lectures globally for organizations including YPO and Tony Robbins' Unleash the Power Within.

Connect with Dr. Michael Breus:

YouTube: Sleep Doctor

Instagram: Sleep Doctor (@thesleepdoctor)

Take the Original Chronotype Quiz | SleepDoctor.com

Sleep Doctor At Home Sleep Test (SleepDoctor.com)

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143: Sleep Smarter: The Science of When with Dr. Michael Breus Jun 10, 2026

Show notes

You've been told to get eight hours of sleep your whole life. Dr. Michael Breus — The Sleep Doctor — says that's not only wrong, it may be making things worse. In this conversation with Dwayne Kerrigan, one of the world's foremost sleep specialists breaks down the science of when to sleep, when to drink caffeine, when to workout, and why most people's sleep problems aren't about how much they sleep — they're about when.

In this episode:

The four chronotypes — Lion, Bear, Wolf, and Dolphin — and why knowing yours could reduce your total sleep while dramatically improving quality; plus why 55% of the population are Bears, and what that means for your nine-to-five schedule
The 90-minute caffeine rule: how adrenaline and cortisol make caffeine useless for the first 90 minutes after waking, and when to stop caffeine entirely to protect your sleep
The biology of the 1:00–3:00 AM wake-up: every human on Earth wakes up in this window due to a cortisol spike — and Dr. Breus's four-step protocol for getting back to sleep, including the four-seven-eight breathing technique developed by Dr. Andrew Weil for Navy snipers
Why alcohol destroys Stage 3 and 4 deep sleep — the physical restoration stage where the brain's glymphatic system flushes beta amyloid and tau proteins linked to Alzheimer's disease — and the exact wine-with-dinner timing strategy that lets you drink without wrecking your sleep
Sleep tracking devices: why none of them are accurate for measuring sleep stages, why rings outperform wristbands, why you should only review your tracker data once a week, and how to use trend analysis rather than nightly numbers
Dr. Breus's personal disclosure: he has moderate obstructive sleep apnea and stops breathing 26 times an hour — and why he wants every listener to stop avoiding sleep testing out of fear

Discover Your Chronotype - Take The Quiz: https://sleepdoctor.com/pages/dr-breus-podcast-dwayne-kerrigan

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Entrepreneurs Sleep Differently

00:33 - Welcome and Guest Introduction

01:06 - Tony Robbins Connection

03:17 - Meet Dr Michael Breus

05:05 - Middle of Night Awakenings

07:40 - Understanding Chronotypes

11:31 - The Lion Chronotype

12:47 - The Bear Chronotype

13:18 - The Wolf Chronotype

14:23 - The Dolphin Chronotype

18:07 - Bad Sleep Habits

20:39 - Morning Workouts and Cortisol

22:27 - Perfect Time for Sex

25:20 - Understanding Cortisol

26:37 - Why We Wake at 3AM

28:57 - Don't Go Pee

30:52 - Don't Look at the Clock

31:43 - Four Seven Eight Breathing

34:59 - Getting Out of Bed

36:28 - Stay Positive

38:06 - Breathing Technique Recap

38:51 - Breathing Techniques Really Work

42:50 - Alcohol and Sleep Quality

46:47 - Caffeine Timing Guidelines

49:49 - Cannabis and Sleep

51:39 - Understanding Sleep Stages

54:29 - Sleep Cycles Explained

56:11 - Sleep Tracking Devices

01:00:08 - Choosing the Right Tracker

01:04:18 - Heart Rate Variability

01:07:17 - Quality Over Quantity

01:08:46 - Sleep Apnea and Testing

01:12:12 - Finding Your Sleep Need

01:12:36 - Closing Thoughts and Stay Tuned for Part 2

Resources mentioned:

Several of Dr. Michael Breus’ books – The Power of When, Energize!, The Sleep Doctor's Diet Plan, Good Night, and Sleep, Drink, Breathe
Four-seven-eight breathing technique — developed by Dr. Andrew Weil
Muse headband — brainwave monitoring headband for sleep and meditation
Oura Ring — sleep tracking ring
Whoop Strap — activity and sleep tracker
Apple Watch — sleep tracking
The Happy Ring from Happy Sleep — FDA-approved ring for sleep studies
Tony Robbins’s book Unleash the Power Within

Quotes:

“Eight hours is a myth, man. So many people try to force themselves to get... The math doesn't even work. Like, the right number of cycles doesn't even end up at eight hours.” - Dr. Michael Breus

“ I really, honestly, legitimately feel like I've dumbed myself down a little bit when it comes to, when it comes to my, like, abuse of sleep over the years.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“To be clear, dude, you are your best doctor. When you wake up in the morning, if you feel good, you feel good. Like, you slept well.” - Dr. Michael Breus

“ The first liquid that crosses your lips every morning should not, I repeat, not be caffeinated.” - Dr. Michael Breus

“ Stop thinking about hours. This is a quality game, not a quantity game. If you get six and a half hours of good quality sleep- As a sleep doctor, I am much more interested than if you get eight hours of crappy sleep.” - Dr. Michael Breus

Dr. Michael Breus, Ph.D., is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist, and one of only 168 psychologists in the world to have passed the Sleep Medicine Boards without attending medical school. Known as The Sleep Doctor, he is the founder of sleepdoctor.com, was named the Top Sleep Specialist in California by Reader’s Digest, and one of the 10 most influential people in sleep. He is the author of several books including The Power of When and Sleep, Drink, Breathe: Wellness is Too Complicated, and has appeared on Oprah, CNN, The Today Show, and The Dr. Oz Show more than 40 times, and lectures globally for organizations including YPO and Tony Robbins' Unleash the Power Within.

Connect with Dr. Michael Breus:

YouTube: Sleep Doctor

Instagram: Sleep Doctor (@thesleepdoctor)

Take the Original Chronotype Quiz | SleepDoctor.com

Sleep Doctor At Home Sleep Test (SleepDoctor.com)

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142: Don't Mistake Being Busy for Being Productive Jun 03, 2026

Show notes

Nobody jumps out of bed wanting to do a bad job. So why does the day fall apart by lunch? In this episode, Dwayne Kerrigan breaks down the actual mechanics of high-performance productivity — not the philosophy, not the mindset pep talk, but the specific rituals, systems, and daily habits that determine whether your week produces results or just burns time.

In this episode:

The Time Management Matrix — originally developed by Franklin Covey, which Dwayne taught for 35 years — and why the only quadrant that actually moves your life forward is Q2: things that are important but not urgent, including planning, training, creative thinking, and relationship building
Why weekly planning and solitude is the single most important hour of the week — what Dwayne looks at during that block, how he structures it, and why if you miss it consistently, everything else breaks down
How Dwayne uses a color-coded identity calendar — each role in his life assigned a color, from Chairman to Love Slave — so that every time block is set with intention, not just task completion
The AI accountability system: Dwayne sends his planned week and his actual week to an AI agent named Jarvis, who measures his efficiency against his seven-year mission and purpose — and tells him when he's gotten sucked into operations
The 30-to-60-second rule for managing in-the-moment interruptions: handle it now if it takes under a minute, or put it on the task list immediately and review every two to three hours
Why perfection is a fool's game — Dwayne's case for defining "good enough" before you start, launching at that standard, and building a continuous improvement process rather than waiting for perfect.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Progress Over Perfect

00:28 - Podcast Introduction

01:05 - Productivity Not Time

02:44 - Roles And Identities

03:44 - Mindset State And Why

04:56 - Strategy Culture Habits

06:47 - Health Vitality Long Game

08:32 - Vision Plan Action Framework

11:33 - Weekly Planning Solitude

16:07 - Time Management Matrix

23:18 - Plan Your Week In Practice

24:41 - Daily Planning

29:09 - Handle Interruptions Fast

30:33 - Email Tasks

34:06 - Inbox Overload Fixes

35:39 - Stop Chasing Shiny Objects

36:39 - Eat The Frog First

37:35 - Perfection Blocks Progress

38:56 - Get Resourceful Ask Help

40:09 - Break Tunnel Vision

41:29 - Identity Based Weekly Planning

43:08 - AI Accountability Feedback

45:00 - Guardrails And Honest Feedback

46:42 - Daily Execution Rituals

49:46 - Urgent Versus Important Explained

55:51 - Stop Unneeded Meetings

57:17 - Prioritize Across Roles

59:59 - Why Breaks Feel Hard

01:05:23 - Calendaring To Reduce Stress

01:09:17 - Wrap Up And Disclaimers

Resources mentioned:

FranklinCovey Time Matrix, Plan and software (Dwayne's current task management tool)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — book by Stephen Covey
Exactly What to Say — book by Phil Jones
2 Second Lean — book by Paul Akers
Byron Katie’s four questions framework — "Is it true? Is it absolutely true?"
Video text messaging - Todd Hartley and Paul Akers referenced
Waking Up app — Sam Harris meditation app
Tony Robbins — six human needs framework referenced
Keith Cunningham — "Progress is not only measured by yards gained, but sometimes by yards not lost"

Quotes:

“Don't mistake being busy for producing results” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ Lose two hours of your day out of an eight-hour day, it adds up to a 20% of your day all of a sudden disappears. Well, factor that out over the year, you've got 20% of your year that you've not been working at directing yourself to a target.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“The difference between excitement and fear is just the label that we put on it. Physically and physiologically, it's kind of the same experience in our body, but we put a label on fear versus excitement.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ The biggest problem that we make is we let perfect get in the way of progress. We've gotta identify what is good. And I'm not saying lower your standards, but what I am saying is we can get stuck on perfection or our need for certainty, and we have what I call failure to launch syndrome.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

“ We often overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and we underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

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141: Kyle Scheele: The Five Things Every Idea Needs May 27, 2026

Show notes

Kyle Scheele went from 17 TikTok followers to a million in 25 hours — not because he had a strategy, but because he finally stopped waiting for the right time and posted the video. In Part 2, he and Dwayne walk through the five things every idea needs to make it into the world, why AI is a sycophancy machine that will confidently tell you exactly what you want to hear, and why creativity is a team sport — and always has been.

In Part 2 of this episode:

The five things every idea needs — a chance, a home, a time and place, a bodyguard, and a crew — and the specific, practical way each one applies inside a business or organization
Why Kyle went from 17 followers to a million on TikTok in 25 hours: a one-minute video about photoshopping his dad's tilted head in a family portrait, and the James Joyce principle that explains why the most particular stories become the most universal
The chemical company story: a PhD chemist had known for years that her company's product would work perfectly in another industry — and never said anything, because no one asked
Why AI is good at the "I" and the "A" of the idea cycle (inspiration and action) but can't do discovery or evolution — because those require taste, distaste, and skin in the game that no algorithm has
How fear of running out of money drove Kyle's entire entrepreneurial career — and why that fear, managed well, doesn't make you play small, it makes you play smart.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 - Creativity Needs Others

00:32 - Podcast Intro and Setup

01:30 - Give Ideas a Chance

04:44 - Ideas Need a Home

07:20 - Systems That Invite Ideas

11:56 - Launch Now Not Perfect

13:20 - TikTok Breakthrough Story

21:06 - Protect Ideas with Bodyguards

27:23 - Ideas Need a Crew

29:25 - Creativity Needs a Crew

30:50 - Viking Funeral Origin Story

33:03 - Fear of Regret as Fuel

35:05 - Calculated Risks Over Gambling

37:08 - Strategic Projects and Social Media

42:22 - The Idea Cycle Framework

45:35 - Where AI Helps and Misses

51:08 - AI as a Tool and Its Tradeoffs

55:02 - Creativity Beyond Business

56:44 - Applying Creativity Tools to Life

01:01:10 - Final Thanks and Wrap Up

Resources mentioned:

Several books (for adults and childen) referenced written by Kyle, can be found here: https://kylescheele.com/Books
TED Talk: How to Find a Wonderful Idea — OK Go, on creativity and discovery
Vivian Maier — street photographer whose work was discovered posthumously
Tony Robbins — Business Mastery referenced by Dwayne
ChatGPT / AI — referenced throughout

Quotes:

“ I always say creativity is a team sport because life is a team sport. You are not designed to do any of this stuff on your own, and even if you did, what would be the point of it all?” - Kyle Scheele

“ On my third video, I went from 17 followers to a million followers, and that changed the course of my business, my trajectory, my life. It opened so many doors for me, and that all happened off a video that I almost didn't post because I almost didn't post any of them because I was waiting for the right time and the right place. “ - Kyle Scheele

“ Give everyone notebooks on your team. Just give them a pocket notebook and go, "Hey, here's the things I want you to start looking for. This week, here's a focus.” - Kyle Scheele

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw (quoted by Kyle Scheele)

“ If you're not innovating, you're dying, and that is just the truth.” - Dwayne Kerrigan

About Kyle Scheele: Kyle is an author, speaker, and creativity expert known for turning bold ideas into unforgettable results — from hosting a Viking funeral for the regrets of 21,000 people to launching the world's first fake marathon. With more than 750 keynotes delivered in all 50 states, Kyle combines humor, sharp insights, and real-world experimentation to help organizations unlock creativity and innovation at scale. He has worked with teams at Walmart, Deloitte, Fidelity, and Chick-fil-A, and his work has been featured in WIRED, The Washington Post, Fast Company, and Yahoo!. His books include We Put a Man on the Moon, How to Host a Viking Funeral, A Pizza With Everything On It, and A Sunday With Everything On It.

Connect with Kyle Scheele: https://kylescheele.com/

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