A mastermind group of 17 years reveals how they've stayed together through business exits, personal loss, and everything in between. In this episode, Dwayne Kerrigan sits down with three members of his mastermind group, The Honey Badgers: Curt Cronin, Michael Grandjean, and Sam Hazledine, for a rare, unfiltered look inside the room.
You'll learn why the group deliberately avoids giving advice in favor of a gestalt method of shared experience, how Curt's Navy SEAL concept of dynamic subordination applies to business and family, and why Sam now sees himself as a mindful steward rather than a benevolent dictator as his business has scaled. Michael shares the hardest lesson from rebuilding after losing everything, and the group breaks down how the stories we tell ourselves quietly shape our results.
Subscribe for Part 2 of this conversation, and drop a comment: what's one story you're telling yourself right now that might not be true?
Mastermind group dynamics, dynamic subordination, and 17 years of brotherhood: this is entrepreneurship without the highlight reel.
Episode Timestamps:
00:00 - Brotherhood Origins
01:00 - Meet the Honey Badgers
02:17 - Sam's introduction
03:42 - Michael's introduction
04:10 - Curt's introduction
10:57 - Advice vs. shared experience: the gestalt method
12:17 - Sam: 17 years of watching each other's patterns
15:59 - "Nature abhors a vacuum": why we default to advice
17:37 - Michael: trust, brotherhood, and the safe space
19:13 - The YPO forum-process parallel
20:26 - Curt: when fear drives too much advice-giving
21:02 - Curt's 2019 story and the intro to dynamic subordination
23:58 - Dynamic subordination, explained
25:30 - Sam: from "benevolent dictator" to "mindful steward"
31:43 - Dwayne's mentor story
33:49 - Sam: paying the price each season
35:28 - Michael: losing everything and rebuilding
38:44 - Curt: pain vs. suffering, the identity portal
40:48 - Curt: "friendly or hostile universe" (Einstein quote)
42:27 - Sam: dropping absolutes, seeing our own blind spots
44:38 - Curt: "going honey badger" permission to see each other's blind spots
46:18 - Dwayne: how meaning creates the stories we live by
48:20 - Curt: Tom Crum's "true warrior" quote
49:10 - Michael & Sam: peeling back the layers of a story
1:00:05 - Dwayne explains the group's real structure
1:02:16 - Curt: the power of showing up without an answer
1:03:40 - Founders Council announcement
1:06:34 - Curt: the "three marriages" framework
1:08:24 - Outro
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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