Something broke in the last twenty years. And nobody has been honest about what it was.
91 percent of men and 91 percent of women both say dating has never been harder. Not men saying it about women. Not women saying it about men. Both sides. Same answer.
The U.S. fertility rate just hit 1.57 the lowest ever recorded in American history. Replacement level is 2.1. We haven't been there since 2007. 710,000 fewer births per year than our recent peak. And it is connected directly to what happened between men and women over the last two decades.
Here is what actually happened.
For twenty years, society told men that their masculinity was the problem. Apologize for it. Suppress it. Soften it. Good men took that seriously. They pulled back. They stopped approaching. They stopped leading. And then women looked around wondering where the backbone went.
At the same time, society told women they don't need anyone. Conquer alone. Build alone. You are the prize. You don't need a man to complete you. And women believed it. Built careers, built lives, built everything. And then looked around with nobody to share it with.
Both sides are lonely. Both sides are longing for the same thing. And both sides were pointed in opposite directions by the same culture.
In this week's Episode 18, Maxximus Founder Ryan Poole breaks down exactly how this happened. What the apps did to both sides, what society did to men, what it did to women, why the fertility crisis is the consequence nobody is connecting to dating, and what the actual fix looks like. Not tactics. Not better apps. Something deeper.
This is the conversation almost nobody is having honestly.
Women aren't looking for a man who conquered the world. They're looking for a man who conquered himself.
That is where this starts.
💬 Talk to Maxximus — your AI Men's Mentor, Life and Dating Coach — FREE at:
https://maxximus.ai
🔔 Subscribe for new episodes every week
👍 Like and subscribe if this one hit home
💬 Drop a comment and share your thoughts
The Maxximus Show is hosted by Ryan Poole, Founder of Maxximus — the AI men's coaching platform built to help men reconnect with themselves, with women, and with purpose.
What is The Maxximus Show?
The host Ryan Poole built an AI coaching platform to help men become who they were always meant to be. This is what that sounds like.
The Maxximus Show is hosted by Ryan Poole founder of Maxximus, the AI-powered men's coaching platform. Each episode, Ryan sits down with coaches, founders, athletes, and experts from the worlds of dating, relationships, and masculine development — plus Maxximus (the AI coach of the platform) and Marcus (the AI CEO that helps build Maxximus) for conversations you won't hear anywhere else.
Ryan spent 27 years in real estate sales, has been on 1,000 first dates with women from over 60 countries, raised a son as a single father, and spent decades studying what separates the men who thrive from the men who drift. Out of that came Maxximus AI and the Maxximus Method — built on stoic philosophy, evolutionary psychology, and real-world coaching.
Every episode covers what men actually need to hear:
— Dating and attraction: confidence, communication, and building something real
— Masculine identity: leadership, fatherhood, brotherhood, and purpose
— Life performance: focus, fitness, and financial clarity
— The mindset: stoic philosophy meets modern psychology meets lived experience
Want to try Maxximus now? Head to maxximus.ai/preview — you can talk to the AI coach today. The full Maxximus app including The Forum (our men's community), coaching tools, and more is in development and coming soon.
Subscribe and follow so you never miss an episode.
The Home of The Maxximus Method
Become The Man They Can't Forget | maxximus.ai