Cole Kynoch is a first-year professional triathlete racing for Roka Standard Racing and an after-sales area manager for Lamborghini's Americas region — one of the more unusual day-job-and-side-hustle combinations on the pro circuit. But his real story isn't about supercars or race splits; it's about a self-described "jack of all trades, master of none" learning, later than he'd like, that figuring everything out alone isn't the same as thriving.

We talk about what pushed him to turn pro after years of finishing races alone off the front of the amateur field, how growing up as the oldest with twin younger sisters shaped his instinct toward self-sufficiency, why asking for help still doesn't come naturally to him, what mutual respect and loyalty mean to him as guiding principles, his path from Volkswagen to Lamborghini and what climbing that corporate ladder actually looks like, and his evolving, agnostic relationship with faith — including why he walked away from a checklist version of religion in favor of just trying to live with integrity.

This is a conversation about the quiet cost of always being the one who figures it out — in sport, at work, and in marriage — and what changes when you finally let people, and maybe something bigger than yourself, in.

I've saved this one (episode number, title, description, and a few candidate takeaways) so it's ready whenever you build the next newsletter — even if that's a different session down the road.

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