Linqura

The best AI isn’t one that knows the whole world. It’s the one that knows knows your world.

Chief Marketing Officer

Linqura is a private AI model explicitly designed to produce revenue-driven outcomes for the insurance industry.

Board Member

Finding Peak

Want to learn everything the top agencies across America know about founding, scaling, and exiting an insurance business?

Finding Peak helps insurance businesses leverage organic growth through inbound marketing, technology and battle-tested sales practices to rapidly grow their valuation.

Ryan Hanley, the founder, is consistently ranked as a "Can't-miss" speaker in the insurance leadership, marketing, and growth space. 

He has been featured in Business Insider, The Business Journal, Content Marketing Institute, Social Media Examiner and more.

Having spoken to hundreds of audiences and thousands of people worldwide, Ryan delivers story-driven and passionate performances that motivate and inspire action.

Founder and President

Rogue Risk

Founder & President

Metabolic

Our unique program centers around Metabolic Training, which incorporates “Strength training at a pace”; the ultimate blend of strength and cardio. 

Metabolic Training is optimal for those looking to build muscle, burn fat, increase strength, and improve cardiovascular performance in the most efficient way possible. 

Our certified training staff will create a customized fitness experience for each one of our clients, regardless of age, ability level, or injury history.

One workout.

One family.

One goal.

Find your strength. 💪

Chief Executive Officer

BOLD PENGUIN

Helping insurance agents and carriers write more commercial business with fewer touches, mistakes or headaches. Bold Penguin is where technology meets the human touch in commercial insurance. With a heavy focus on agents, Bold Penguin pushes the boundaries of user experience for businesses, is an easy tool for agents, and offers a streamlined process of underwriting for carriers.

TrustedChoice.com (Consumer Agent Portal, LLC)

The leader of combined sales, marketing and communication functions for all TrustedChoice.com and Agency Nation products and brands.

Managing a team of 19 members spanning business development, sales, marketing and corporate communications, Ryan was tasked with building an audience, engaging the community and generating revenue for the entire organization.

As the head of marketing for TrustedChoice.com, I am responsible for directional leadership in the brand, message and voice of our organization in its work helping independent insurance agents capture new business through inbound lead generation.

Basically we attract new referrals and help independent insurance agents convert those referrals into sales.

We do this in three ways:

1) ONLINE REFERRAL GENERATION

TrustedChoice.com the platform, through both digital and analog marketing methods, captures the attention of insurance consumers. Then through a series of filters matches consumer need with the right insurance solution based on location and appetite.

Learn more at: http://www.trustedchoice.com/

2) EDUCATION

Agency Nation, the sister digital publication to TrustedChoice.com, provides tactics, strategy and training for independent insurance agents seeking to dominate their market through sales, marketing and automation.

Learn more at: http://www.agencynation.com/

3) RESOURCES

As an organization we leverage our marketing and insurance industry resources to provide independent insurance agents access to tools and resources to support their inbound lead generation activities.

THE RUB

In our partnership with IIABA (Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America) and nine investor insurance carriers, TrustedChoice.com acts as digital matchmaker, connecting insurance consumers with the independent insurance agents who can best serve their needs.

It is my honor to play a role in stewarding this great endeavor.

Senior Vice President Marketing

As the Digital Marketing Lead for TrustedChoice.com, I am responsible for the strategy, creation and distribution of all agent-facing resources and education.

Basically, I'm a Independent Insurance Agent Evangelist. 

The goal of my work at TrustedChoice.com is help all independent insurance agents, carriers and wholesalers harness the power of digital sales, marketing and automation to dominate their marketplace.

As of this hinges upon one simple belief: "That insurance consumers need guidance and there is no better delivery system than the independent insurance agent to provide this most valuable service."

We've only just begun...

Digital Marketing Lead

The Murray Group Insurance Services, Inc

Lead marketing function, in addition to traditional sales role as New York State licensed independent insurance agent focused on helping clients build personal and small business insurance programs.

Producer

American Heart Association

Member of the Advisory Board of Directors for the American Heart Association Northeast New York Chapter.  Co-Chair of the AHA Red Tie Society.

Board of Directors

Capital Alliance of Young Professionals

Capital Alliance of Young Professionals, Inc. (CAYP) is the pioneering independent organization designed to facilitate professional networking among young and young-at-heart professionals living and working in the Capital/Saratoga Region.  

Capital Alliance of Young Professionals, Inc. provides a way for young professionals (YPs) to share business referrals, tips, and "war-stories."  It is a forum for YPs to support one another.  

Membership in CAYP is open to any professional, including but not limited to: accountants, doctors, entrepreneurs, financial advisors, real estate agents, journalists, executive assistants, nurses, sales people, and government employees.  The target age group is 21 to 39, however, as long as you feel young, you are welcome!

Vice President of Board of Directors

Ryan Hanley is the CMO of Linqura, Linqura’s outcome-driven private AI model is specifically designed to increase commercial insurance revenue production.

Ryan is also the founder of Finding Peak, a keynote speaking and media firm helping leaders, entrepreneurs, and ambitious professionals finish big!

Learn more at https://ryanhanley.com

Ryan was previously the founder and CEO of Rogue Risk, a first-of-its-kind digital commercial insurance agency. He’s also held executive leadership positions at Bold Penguin, TrustedChoice.com, and SIAA. 

In addition, Ryan is a sought-after keynote speaker on leadership, growth, and insurtech, bestselling author of Content Warfare, and producer of the industry's top podcast, the Finding Peak Podcast.

Ryan loves to study innovation and growth and frequently makes angel investments in early-stage insurance startups.

Personal interests: reading, writing, boxing, skiing, deadlifts, and sharing stories with good friends.

Patience…

After 3 years of meticulous calculations, countless failed attempts, and precise astronomical timing, Leonardo Sens captured this photo of Christ the Redeemer holding the moon.

Ryan Hanley

President, Linqura | Helping Agents Navigate the Future of Insurance

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Use it or lose it.

Something to chew on…

The study suggests that heavy reliance on ChatGPT may lead to “cognitive debt,” where users offload critical thinking, resulting in weaker memory and engagement. 

For example, 83% of ChatGPT users struggled to recall or quote their own essays, compared to just 10% of non-AI and search engine users.

👉 My takeaway is, be intentional with what you outsource to AI. 

Your brain is muscle. 

Use it or lose it. 

This is the way. 

Hanley

♻️ What do you see?

How I Set My Career Back 10 Years (And How You Can Avoid My Mistake)

I’ve restarted my career more times than I care to count.

Got fired. Sold my company to the wrong people. Chased every “opportunity.”

Each time, I thought I was being strategic. Pivoting. Adapting. Staying agile.

Every time I said, “This time will be different.”

What I was actually doing was destroying the most powerful force in professional growth: compound career momentum.

Every restart meant:
* Lost relationships and network effects
* Abandoned expertise and domain knowledge
* Reset credibility and reputation
* Forfeited the exponential returns of concentrated effort

While my peers were building on 10+ years of focused effort, I was perpetually starting from zero.

The math is brutal: 10 one-year experiences ≠ 1 ten-year experience.

This is why I built the RealityOS system around two core principles:

✅ Unyielding Focus

Pick your lane and stay in it long enough for compound returns to kick in. 

Resist the shiny object syndrome that keeps you jumping between opportunities.

✅ Systemize for Freedom

Build repeatable processes and frameworks that create leverage, not just more work. 

Systems compound. Hustle doesn’t.

The contrarian lesson I’ve had to learn the hard way…

In a world obsessed with side hustles, staying flexible, and status games the real competitive advantage is doubling down on what’s working and letting time do the heavy lifting.

Your career will not be served by a series of fresh starts.

Trust me. 

It’s a compound interest machine.

Stop hitting the reset button.

This is the way. 

Hanley

👉 What’s one area where you’ve seen the power of compound growth in your career? 👇

My new favorite thing...

👉 Insurance agents getting on a Zoom demo and trying to Big Time my sales team with their AI knowledge as if we don't know what we're doing.

I'm not saying IAs don't know AI.

But...

Linqura - 18 months building agentic models, LLMs, and SLMs from scratch, creating the most secure and private AI platform in the insurance industry.

Insurance Agent - Played around with Claude and ChatGPT.

...and agents wonder why all the best tech goes upstream to the Big Brokers and Carriers, leaving IAs to fend for the scraps.

Just an observation after a decade selling into the IA space.

This is the way.

Hanley

P.S. Despite the general disrespect we get and my overall frustration with an industry that seemingly can't get out of its own way, my team and I are dedicated to democratising what we've built. Our industry has never had access to information and resources at scale like what Linqura is offering.

When you understand exactly who your audience is…

Branding masterclass from DUDE Wipes. 

This is next level opportunistic marketing. 

Well played…

This is the way.

Why is no one in insurance pursuing world domination?

I’m undercapitalized at the moment…

…but it seems so easy. 

In the few moments I’ve been properly capitalized the gains have been insane and incredibly easy to get. 

Insurance would be the easiest market to dominate if anyone with adequate capital actually wanted it. 

This is the way. 

Hanley

This is happening because people are lacking:

👉 Purpose
👉 Connection
👉 Community

Adjust accordingly…

This is the way.

Are you willing to be “The One?”

Karl Sherrill shared his incredibly powerful leadership framework this week at Mick Hunt’s Lead Loud event. 

This was one of the standout talks despite being packaged around titans like Les Brown and Christopher Voss…

Simple. Easy to understand. Easy to communicate. 

Makes sense why Highstreet Insurance Partners is killing the game right now. 

Leadership matters…

This is the way. 

Hanley

I have the perfect tool to 10x MGA distribution. 

It will work for carriers too but most likely they can’t move fast enough and too much red tape (but if not the case LFG).

DM me and let’s change the world.

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#ITCVegas #ITCAgents&Brokers

Workers trade time for money. 

Owners trade scalable experience for money.

In independent P&C agencies, that means taking the way you prospect, pre-qualify, uncover exposures, and place risks—and encoding it into simple, repeatable AI workflows your whole team can run on every account.

No code. No big hires. No raise. 

Just your playbook, productized.

Workers trade time for money. Owners trade scalable experience for money. In independent P&C agencies, that means taking the way you prospect, pre-qua

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Agency Owners: AI is your force multiplier

We’re never going back this…

No matter how you appreciate th3 sentiment it’s important to understand we’re never going back. 

It unless something far worse happens to humanity and don’t think any of us want that. 

What does this mean?

Adjust. Adapt. Evolve. 

AI has created the most valuable FAFO moment in history.

Embrace it…

…because if you don’t some else will. 

All that work you did to build your little fiefdom, it will be for nothing. 

For the record, I miss the less connected days too. 

I’m old to enough to remember and romanticize the pre-Internet world. 

But it wasn’t all good. 

And that world didn’t hold nearly the opportunity today’s world does…

Yes, today is different. It moves so fast. So much information. Young kids doing stuff we couldn’t imagine 2 years ago. 

It’s overwhelming. 

Ok. 

Suck it up and go defend your territory. 

Your only other option is give up.

That’s the cowards way out. 

I don’t know, my mind is racing… 

I guess I’ll leave you with this;

“There ain’t no rest for the wicked
Money don’t grow on trees
I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed
There ain’t nothing in this world for free
I know I can’t slow down, I can’t hold back
Though you know I wish I could
Oh no, there ain’t no rest for the wicked
Until we close our eyes for good”

This is the way. 

Hanley

Your YouTube channel is more important than your website. 

🧨 Convince me I’m wrong…

I launched Rogue Risk in early 2020. 

Seven days later, the world shut down. 

My clever “handshake” strategy—flyers, folders, face-to-face—died before it took a breath.
 
The market didn’t care about my beautiful plan. 

It cared about reality. 

So I killed the “in-person” playbook and went all-in on digital. 

That call didn’t just keep us alive; it made Rogue Risk acquisition-ready by 2022.

That’s the job. Not defending yesterday. 

Commanding now.

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This is on of my favorite conversations on entrepreneurship I’ve had in a long time…

Kris Dehnert puts on a masterclass.

Owner of Dugout Mugs & Bigg Golf ~ $75M in sales online ~ 3X Inc. 5000 ('21/'22/'23) Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, TBBW Cover, TBBJ Fast50, & seen on ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX/TODAY/View ~ Make money, live life, & collect experiences!

Ryan Hanley... so cool hanging out and chatting the other day, man. CHEERS!

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The Peak Performance Paradox

…the growing disconnect between external achievement and internal fulfillment that's quietly destroying high achievers everywhere.

You know the feeling (I certainly do…)

You've climbed the ladder, built the business, earned the degree, and bought the house. 

By every external measure, you're crushing it.
Yet something feels fundamentally broken.

- You're achieving without truly living.
- Succeeding without satisfaction.
- Performing without purpose.

This isn't a personal failing. 

It's a systemic problem with how we approach success.
👇

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The Success Trap That's Destroying High Achievers

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