National Bestseller and 15x Award-Winner
The Half-Known Life


What Matters Most When You're Running Out of Time
We’re raised believing we’re accountants, or nurses, or parents, or business people, but we’re actually time traders.
The Half-Known Life challenges conventional thinking of success, identity, and personal change. Most often, truly profound change happens following events that shake someone to their core-a car accident, death of a family member, or cardiac arrest that pulls them into a moment of clarity.
Priorities change when time becomes precious. Problems look different when you have no energy left to give them.
Why wait until you’re burnt out or for a life-changing event to occur before getting real about your life?


Ryan Lindner
MS, PMP, CMS, SHRM-SCP
I’m a talent development consultant, trainer, and bestselling author who helps people elevate their authenticity with creative ways to stand out from the crowd.
I’ve worked with clients and top organizations all over the world. After two sudden, unexplained cardiac arrests at a young age, I began to explore different perspectives, learning to prioritize my own energy and time, and assist clients to do the same.
For nearly 20 years, I’ve created training & coaching programs to help companies scale and their teams thrive. The pathway to success in an organization is paved with an understanding of its culture and how to create amazing learner experiences.
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Book Synopsis
* National Bestseller & Nautilus Awards Gold Winner *
We’re raised believing we’re accountants, or nurses, or parents, or business people, but we’re actually time traders.
“I’m going down now,” I said to a young woman a few seconds before the darkness-my first cardiac arrest. As I returned to work as a behavioral coach, it became maddening to hear about all-consuming, everyday problems and misguided priorities while I fought to merely remain conscious.
The Half-Known Life challenges conventional thinking of success, identity, and personal change. Most often, truly profound change happens following events that shake someone to their core-a car accident, death of a family member, or cardiac arrest that pulls them into a moment of clarity.
Priorities change when time becomes precious. Problems look different when you have no energy left to give them.
Why wait until you’re burnt out or for a life-changing event to occur before getting real about your life?
Who are you when all of the accolades and accomplishments are gone? What does how you manage your time say about what’s important to you-about what matters most? Get out of your head and get into your life, before it slips away.
