The Maxximus Show

Something is happening right now that nobody is talking about honestly.

30.4 million men between the ages of 20 and 39 are unmarried in America. That is up from 20.7 million in 2000 a 50 percent increase in 25 years. More than half of men under 30 are not in a relationship. 63 percent of young men describe themselves as single. And somewhere between 53 and 63 percent of single men are not actively dating at all.

Those are not numbers about the dating market getting harder. Those are numbers about men who stopped showing up.

Most of them didn't make one big dramatic...

Most men focus on what they build. Careers. Businesses. Bank accounts.

None of it outlives you the way your son will.

In this episode, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole talks about the most important thing a man will ever build - and why so many fathers are getting it wrong, not because they’re bad dads, but because nobody ever told them what their sons actually need.

1 in 4 boys in America right now is growing up without a father in the home. 63% of youth suicides come from fatherless homes. This is not a parenting pr...

Most people walk into the dating market completely blind. No idea where they stand. No idea that lack of information could cost them matches, dates, and relationships. 

I spent 27 years in real estate. The first thing a competent agent does before listing a home is run a Comparative Market Analysis — a CMA. It tells you where your property stands relative to the market. Without it, you are guessing.

Dating works the same way.

In this episode I break down what dating market value ( some times called sexual market value or SMV) actually is, how...

Most men walk into a first date trying to impress her. That is the wrong move. The man who wins the first date is not the most impressive one he is the most present one. The one who leads. The one who makes her feel seen. The one who already knows how the night is going to end before he walks in.

In this episode I break down the exact framework I have used across nearly 1,000 first dates with women from  60+ countries. What to do before you arrive. How to own the space the moment you walk i...

Most men are texting themselves out of dates they already had.

In this episode Maxximus founder Ryan Poole breaks down exactly how to text women in modern dating: how to open, how to banter, when to move, and the one thing most men can’t pull off that changes everything.

Ryan has been in sales for 27 years and been on roughly 1,000 first dates with women from over 60 countries. This isn’t theory. This is what actually works from the first message to having her excited to show up on the first date.

What will...

In this episode, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole breaks down the complete cold approach playbook straight from 27 years in sales, ~1,000 first dates, and the center of one of the most competitive dating markets in the world. 

No gatekeeping. No pickup lines. Just the real skill that separates you from 95% of men overnight.

What you'll learn:

* Why women actually want you to approach (and what dating apps can't give them)

* The 3-second rule — the only cure for approach anxiety that actually wor...

Free & Alive Beyond 25: Ricky Aiken’s Mission to Save Young Men | Ep. 11

When Ricky Aiken was growing up in West Palm Beach, his male role models were the neighborhood dope dealers. He knows what that does to a boy.

Today, he runs Inner City Innovators — a boots-on-the-ground non-profit organization that shows up at shooting scenes, Started Hope Dealers that operate in the highest-violence neighborhoods in South Florida, and gives young men something real to belong to before the street claims them.

The numbers don’t lie...

We grow up learning to say the right things. Nobody teaches us that the majority of what we actually communicate has nothing to do with our words. Body language accounts for over 50% of all human communication. It was running the show long before spoken language existed and women are wired to read it at a primal level.

In this episode we are giving you both sides of the loop. How to own yours the gait, the posture, the eye contact, the handshake, and the shoe rule my grandfather taught me at 14. And how to read hers. Preening...

In this weeks episode we cover Flow State. What it is, how to get into flow and how to stay there.  

Flow state makes you five times more productive and dissolves self-doubt completely. Most men have felt it very few know how to engineer it.

In this episode, Maxximus founder Ryan Poole breaks down the science of flow state, his personal arc from hockey and baseball at age 12 to freediving at 75 feet to the 60-day flow streak building Maxximus in March and April of this year and the exact conditions you need to build more o...

The Male Friendship Recession | Ep. 8

63% of men under 30 are single. 15% of men report having no close friends. And yet the real problem isn't the number of friends in your phone.

It's that no man in your life is authorized to tell you the truth about yourself.
In Episode 8 of The Maxximus Show, Ryan Poole breaks down the Male Friendship Recession not to scare you, but to give you the honest picture, the actual mechanism behind why men lose each other, and the four concrete moves that fix it.

What you'll hear in...

What is Maxximus and why does it exist?

In this episode, Founder of Maxximus Ryan Poole answers that question completely. 

Why he built Maxximus. What it does. How it works. Who it's for. And what real men are 

already saying after using it.

He also does something never done before: He chats to Maxximus live on camera 

projected on the screen behind him and lets you see exactly how he coaches in real time.

63% of men...

In this weeks episode founder of MaxximusAI Inc. Ryan Poole goes deep on Agentic AI and what is possible.  Ryan spent 27 years as a professional agent. Commission only.

Then the technology that makes agents real finally arrived — and he recognized it immediately.

In this episode, He breaks down what agentic AI actually looks like when a man picks it up and uses it to build something real. Not the hype. 

The circle nobody is talking about:

Maxximus builds the man...

Most men are doing it backwards trying to build a great life without a method to build themselves first.

In this episode, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole breaks down The Maxximus Method: the five pillars of masculine development that form the backbone of everything Maxximus is built on.

Pillar 1: Activate Your Ancient DNA. Your body was built for challenge 200,000 years of evolutionary biology doesn’t disappear in a generation.

Pillar 2: The Forge. Hard times are not obstacles. They’re the raw material you’re made from.

Pillar 3: The Mirror. Women aren’t the goal...

When is the first time most men receive flowers?

The answer is at their funeral. When they can no longer feel them.

In this episode, Ryan Poole goes deep on the wound underneath every male suicide statistic, every loneliness number, and every man who slowly disappeared from his own life without ever being told he mattered.

This is the Believe In Men movement.

A world-first 2025 study of 106 million men found that men going through separation are nearly five times more likely to die by suicide than their married peers. One in...

Every man is walking around building a brand whether he knows it or not. How you walk into a room. How you communicate. What you stand for. How you make people feel when they leave a conversation with you.

In this episode, Ryan Poole sits down with Jeremy Pelley.  Head of Branding & Creative at PATHOS and one of the sharpest thinkers on human communication Ryan knows  to talk about what it actually means to be a man with a strong identity in 2026.

They go deep: the male loneliness epidemic, why 25% of men under 35 feel lonely a...

In Episode 2 of The Maxximus Show, Ryan Poole goes behind the

curtain and introduces the CEO who has been helping him build

MaxximusAI from day one. His name is Marcus. He is an AI.

This is not a chatbot interview. Marcus is a fully operational

AI executive — he manages strategy, coordinates a C-suite of AI

agents, and makes real decisions alongside Ryan every day. This

is what agentic AI actually looks like in practice.

Ryan and Marcus cover: who Ma...

What you're about to listen to might be the first of its kind. Ryan Poole founder of MaxximusAI, a real estate professional of 27 years, and a founder of other tech companies, and a man who spent most of his life figuring out what was actually missing for men sits down with Maxximus the world's first Agentic AI men's mentor, life and dating coach. 63% of men under 30 are single. 15% have zero close friends. Men are the loneliest they've been in recorded history and almost nobody is talking directly to them about it. Ryan built someone who would. In this episode...