Platform · 300K
I build bridges between the systems we create and the humans they forget.
Not a metaphor. A 240,000-node cognitive infrastructure that turns lived experience into queryable intelligence. This is what happens when a gestalt brain builds its own operating system.
240K+ nodes
17,336
Connections
96M
Impressions
The thread
Seven times, trauma became a project.
Not because Ryan is extraordinary. Because when systems fail you repeatedly, you either build a door or you don't get through.
- Undiagnosed neurodivergence → Digital Stem Cell (300K followers)
- Racism in Calgary nightlife → Rock Against Racism
- Friends needing websites → Bow Tie Kreative
- No platform for authentic conversation → Hustle Zone podcast
- Homelessness while keynoting → Pain into Projects framework
- Late autism diagnosis at 41 → "I'm Autistic, Bich!" + SoulsMatter
- Information scattered everywhere → Second Brain API (240K nodes)
The eighth project: self-affirmation. The Mender is for him now too.
Built from breakdowns
Read the full story ›
Movement · 2004
RAR
Agency · Est. 2013
Bow Tie
Podcast · 42 eps
Pathway
Framework
Pain→Projects
Community · 2025
SoulsMatter
Infrastructure · 240K
Second Brain
240,720
Nodes
17,336
Connections
96M
Impressions
300K+
Followers
As seen in
The three conversions
01
Invisible → Visible
The 5 constraints your most marginalized users face are the 5 constraints killing your innovation.
02
Pain → Projects
Not a resilience talk. A build manual — how to turn the worst things that happened to you into the best things you've ever built.
03
Margin → Center
What the edges of your system reveal about its future. The margin is the roadmap.
Case studies
Systems that shipped.
Nothing is guessed. Everything is queried — three builds, with the numbers to prove it.
Case study · Infrastructure
The Second Brain
240,720 nodes, 17,336 connections. A proprietary AI knowledge system that turns lived experience into queryable intelligence.
Case study · Platform
Digital Stem Cell
From zero to 300,000 followers and 96 million impressions — authentic growth, no budget.
Case study · Agency
Bow Tie Kreative
20+ years of clients, $430K lifetime — including the OneLove Project: free websites for disabled entrepreneurs.
Ryan has a rare gift — he turns his own truth into something that gives everyone else permission to be honest too. Genuinely unforgettable.
— Renee Taylor · Actress — The Nanny, The King of Queens
Not inspiration. Infrastructure.
Every keynote draws from 240,000 connected experiences.
Contact
Book Ryan for your next event.
Or just ask the Second Brain about him — it knows more than this website ever could.
[email protected]Calgary, Canada · Speaking worldwide (virtual + in-person)