Unstoppable Emotional Mindset Alchemy | JM Ryerson
The Relentless Pursuit of Winning Podcast
Release Date: 12/15/2025
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Unstoppable Emotional Mindset Alchemy | JM Ryerson
🔥 Excerpt
Be yourself, take off the mask, play full out. You only have one life to give.
⚡ TL;DR
JM Ryerson shares how performance mindset drives revenue growth, leadership clarity, and personal endurance. We unpack the align, believe, choose framework, a three question method to break self limiting beliefs, and practical rhythms that protect health, relationships, and culture while teams scale.
📄 Show Notes
Performance mindset is the quiet engine behind every founder story I respect. JM came into the studio with calm conviction and a simple message that landed hard for me. Take off the mask. Play full out. One life.
As we talked, I kept hearing the same theme. Most ceilings are built in our own mind. JM brought Henry Ford’s line into the room and made it practical. Whether you think you can or you cannot, you are right. Then he made it actionable with three questions that founders can run anytime the internal story gets loud. Is it true. Why do I believe it. How is it showing up in my life. That performance mindset lens creates clarity fast because it forces honesty without drama.
What hit me next was how he applies performance mindset inside companies. He starts with alignment, commitment, and teamwork in a single visible page that keeps the whole organization focused. Then he works the belief gap that keeps teams playing small. Around ninety days the habits start to stick. Around one hundred eighty days the impact becomes obvious. At one year the company recognizes its own growth and its own new identity. That focus on stable habits connects with how we build infrastructure that holds up even when the founder steps back.
We also went straight at the grind culture. JM said rise and grind turns people into dust. I felt that because I lived it as a restaurant owner. Long hours, no life, a body that felt heavy, and a spirit that felt squeezed. JM’s work life harmony framing matters because founders need performance mindset that sustains the whole person. He even gave a simple practice. A small daily block that feeds mind, body, and soul so leaders can pour into others without running empty.
Then we talked leadership roles. Founders can build the product and still struggle to run the company day to day. JM’s approach starts with permission and truth delivered with care. Put the right people in the right seats, empower them, and let the visionary stay in the zone where they create the most value. That is performance mindset with humility and it scales culture without breaking people.
By the end, the episode felt like a call to live awake. No mask. No playing small. A cleaner mindset, a healthier rhythm, and a team that can win together.
✅ Key Takeaways
- Performance mindset improves results when you challenge beliefs with is it true, why do I believe it, how is it showing up.
- Alignment becomes real when the whole company can see the goal and the commitments in one place.
- Growth sticks through habits that hold for ninety days, then deepen through the next cycle.
- Work life harmony protects endurance when mind, body, and soul get daily attention.
- Scaling requires letting go so others can lead in their strengths while the founder stays in their best role.
👤 Bio
JM Ryerson is a performance and mindset coach who has built and sold three companies in financial services. He helps leaders strengthen culture, sales, leadership, and performance so organizations grow with clarity and healthy momentum.
🧭 Chapters
00:00 Creating energy and choosing attitude
01:46 Mindset and the Henry Ford principle
05:38 The three questions that break limits
11:20 Alignment and belief inside teams
14:57 Performance habits that prevent burnout
18:55 Work life harmony and sustainable output
22:05 Recognizing burnout and righting the ship
26:14 Empowering teams to scale
30:32 Founder role clarity and hard conversations
34:12 Writing a book for legacy
39:17 Prioritizing ideas and focus
41:29 Support systems and gratitude
43:22 Living authentically and without regret
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