162. Beyond Advice | The Honey Badgers
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RSS Feed Seventeen years, six men, and one rule: no advice allowed. On this panel, three members of Dwayne Kerrigan's mastermind group, the "Honey Badgers", pull back the curtain on the framework that's carried them through startups, exits, burnout, and grief, and explain why the group that changes them most is the one that refuses to tell them what to do.
In this episode:
- Curt Cronin breaks down "dynamic subordination," the Navy SEAL handoff principle the group uses to know who leads and who steps back in a crisis
- Sam Hazledine explains why "nature abhors a vacuum" is the real reason humans default to giving advice, and why it usually backfires
- Michael Grandjean opens up about losing everything and the one thing that got him through it: learning to forgive himself
- Dwayne and the group unpack the "event, meaning, emotion, behavior, result" chain and how the stories we attach to events quietly run our lives
- Sam introduces the idea of becoming a "mindful steward" instead of a "benevolent dictator" as a business scales
- The group previews Dwayne's upcoming Founders Council program, built on the same gestalt-style mentorship model
About the guests: Curt Cronin is a former U.S. Navy SEAL turned entrepreneur and a founding member of the Honey Badgers mastermind group. Michael Grandjean spent 30 years in construction for the Department of Defense and the U.S. government before rebuilding his career after a period of significant personal and financial loss. Sam Hazledine is a physician based in New Zealand and founder of a medical staffing, technology, and research business. All three have been meeting with Dwayne Kerrigan as part of the same mastermind group for 17 years.
Episode Timestamps:
00:00 Brotherhood Origins
01:10 Meet The Honey Badgers
02:06 Sam Hazledine Introduction
03:19 Mike Grandjean and Curt Cronin Introductions
05:04 How the Mastermind Group Formed
07:07 Why the Group Works
10:06 Beyond Advice Gestalt Feedback
16:05 Trust and Safe Space
20:07 Dynamic Subordination Explained
23:21 Scaling Leadership Mindful Steward
28:53 Enough More and Seasons
31:41 Stuck In The Middle
32:16 Paying The Price
33:34 Forgive Yourself
35:14 Pain Versus Suffering
38:25 Blind Spots And Truth
42:26 Power Of Story
49:38 Intimacy And Proximity
54:31 Mastermind Framework
58:31 Proximity Is Power
01:02:57 Closing And Next Week
Follow The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast for Part 2 of this conversation, and find Curt Cronin, Michael Grandjean, and Sam Hazledine's own episodes in the show's back catalog.
Links to Previous Episodes:
https://www.dwaynekerrigan.com/5-beyond-achievement-unlocking-fulfillment-with-dr-sam-hazledine/
https://www.dwaynekerrigan.com/121-collapse-courage-and-comeback-with-michael-grandjean/
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