I'm Dr. Ryan Gleeson — chiropractor and owner of Gorilla Chiropractic in Perth, Australia.
I went bankrupt in 2017 and spent years rebuilding. The business came back. But the real work was on myself.
That's what Gorilla is built on. And it's what this podcast is about.
I sit down with leaders, founders, and high performers who've been in the fire and come out the other side knowing exactly who they are and what they're building.
My mission is simple. Build myself. Build Gorilla. Build leaders.
Honest conversations about what it takes to win in business and still have a life worth living at the end of it.
Mike Lush: Why 'Locking In' Is The Most Dangerous Thing A Founder Can Do
Mike Lush is a performance coach based in Perth, Australia. He works with athletes, C-suite executives and founders through his company Inner Known, and his background is in sports psychology and high performance. He's one of the most switched-on people I've sat across from when it comes to understanding what actually drives elite performance and what quietly kills it.
In this episode we go deep on the "locking in" trap, why your recovery strategy is probably costing you more than your business strategy, and the performance equation that explains why high performers consistently underperform against their own potential.
If you're a founder who prides yourself on being able to push hard, this one's going to hit close to home.
14 May 2026
The Chloe Condition: How She Built her Fitness Empire from Zero
Chloe is from Myanmar. In 2013 she graduated, got a corporate job, and felt completely unfulfilled despite doing everything right. She found fitness that year, started sharing free health and wellness content online for women like her, and people began asking her to coach them. She never intended to build a business. Then COVID hit, and 3,000 to 4,000 people signed up to her first fitness challenge overnight. She called her mum the next morning not knowing what had just happened. The community she has built since — tens of thousands of women, going seven years strong — is what she calls her greatest achievement.
This conversation covers the real timeline, the free work you have to do before anyone pays you, why feeling unfulfilled despite a good job is not a you problem, and what it actually looks like to build something people never want to leave.
7 May 2026
Uma Thana B: Every High-Performing Man I Know Has Daddy Issues
Virtually every high-performing man I've ever worked with has the same thing running underneath. Conditional love. A dad who was present but never said enough. A childhood where love came through achievement, sport, good grades, being useful.
Most founders never connect the dots between that wiring and the way they're running their business today. This conversation does.
Uma spent 20 years in corporate, became one of the youngest VPs on a senior leadership team in Singapore, and then walked away from all of it to figure out who she actually was. What she found in that process is something most high-performers spend their entire career avoiding.
We talk about where the drive really comes from, what it costs when you never deal with it, and why the body tends to carry everything the mind refuses to face.
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49,087
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3.2 / 5
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Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100
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YouTube
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Engagement
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