Right About Now with Ryan Alford - The Mental Blind Spot That’s Costing You Money and Affecting Your Business Decisions | Anders Hansen

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

In this episode of Right About Now, Ryan Alford speaks with Anders Hansen about the role of perception, belief systems, and mental conditioning in shaping personal and professional outcomes. The conversation explores how the subconscious mind drives the majority of behavior, how assumptions influence decision-making, and why people often remain stuck in limiting patterns. They also discuss the importance of intuition, the impact of gratitude on mindset, and practical ways to shift perspective to create meaningful, lasting change. 🔑 Topics Covered Mental conditioning and subconscious behavior Beliefs and their impact on results Intuition vs logic in decision-making Gratitude and mindset shifts Personal transformation strategies 🤝 Connect Ryan Alford Website: https://www.ryanalford.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanalford LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanalford Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RyanAlford Right About Now Podcast: https://www.ryanisright.com Anders Hansen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realandershansen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realandershansen Company / Real Magic: https://www.realmagic.live LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andershansen

This big circle is your mind. The small circle is your body. Mind is bigger than the body. Mind expresses itself with and through the body. And the mind is divided into two parts. So we have the conscious intellectual mind, which is the part that school focuses on. Chat, GBT, BT, a lot of information here. We can crunch information all day long. Then we have the subjective mind, which is defining 95 to 98% of our behavior and our results to the body. It's really about changing our belief system here, start telling ourselves a different story. Body will respond eventually and results will start changing. This is right about now with Ryan Alford, a radcast network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over one million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping next and cash in checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's the biggest thing holding you back isn't your strategy? But how you see things?

Today's guest approaches that problem from a completely different angle. Combining illusion, psychology, and what he calls real transformation. Anders Hansen is an illusionist and CEO of Real Magic LLC that is helping people break through limiting beliefs in a very tangible way. Anders, welcome to write about now. Thank you so, Mr. Ryan. I really appreciate the invitation. Thank you for having me on.

Yeah, the vibes feel good today. Anders and I have tried to do this a couple times. The vibes were not right, but now we have it all here. I appreciate the flexibility. You're in, where are we today, Anders? I think I heard I mentioned. We live in Miami. We have our home there. But after having built a foundation for freedom in my business for the last eight years, we've done really well, created a global team, clients everywhere,

build the whole idea around freedom, but forgot to enjoy it. My partner and I was agreeing on the idea that that was nuts. We took a year out to just go travel. Right now, we're in El Salvador. Lovely. Hey, I like it. I'll work in no play. It doesn't make good boy do anything good. Exactly 100%.

I love it. Work-life balance. From illusion to transformation. I know you started as an illusionist. How did that evolve into this transforming other people's lives? After having done that for 20 years, we've done TV shows, cruise ship shows. I realized that the biggest trick is not on stage. It's in our own minds.

I started studying personal development, trying to understand how I affect my reality. by the way I'm thinking because somebody gifted me a book years ago called the power of your subconscious mind. And I started reading that and studying it. And that helped contribute to my growth in the entertainment industry, going from performing for tips to survive to doing these big multi-million dollar production shows. And I was standing in the middle of that thinking how the heck this happened. I knew it wasn't an accident. I knew it wasn't God saying now it's Anders's turn. I knew I had something to do with it. And that new way of thinking guided me down to that path of just trying to understand more about reality and how we affected. So I studied quantum physics,

spirituality, personal development, and I became more and more dissatisfied with just magic, getting people to ask themselves the question, how does you do the trick? That's, we'll take it to a false sense of ego in the entertainment industry, and that's about it. And I kept asking myself, what did the audience take away from this? And that's when it hit me, nothing but a postcard and a souvenir cup. But if I started incorporating the tools that I had learned to transform my own life in a pretty significant way, I could hopefully leave the audience with some more tangible tools and strategies to improve their life. And so that's what we do today.

We do it through our Real Magic Live events, our virtual work. We bridge entertainment and transformation in a way that's very unique. And as far as I know, never been seen before. I like this a lot because a lot of times transformation is hard. Trying to get someone from point A to point D when they have limiting beliefs, a lot of hardwiring from patterns and behaviors that they've been stuck in or parents or things that they've been hearing and these inputs that they've had for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, it's a difficult process.

So if you can bring in illusion and entertainment and interest, I don't know if it's fun, but at least it has a value that keeps you glued to wanting to change in a different way because I hear a lot of the same stuff over and over again. Part of the reason I want you on the show is because this is different. And if I hear one more time, start with your why. Well, okay, great. And that's wonderful and all. But like, I need some more persuasion in an interesting way.

What's fascinating about what you're doing is it is the combination of these things. How hard of a line of a balance is it to skirt with the illusion and the entertainment with the transformation? In the magic world, it's all about getting people to go, whoa, wow, and a standing ovation. That's the success criteria. In the industry that I consider myself to be part of now, which is personal transformation, the success criteria is people's transformation, of course. How do we bridge the two? I do it not by starting with the trick and what would get the most wows. I start with the premise. What is one of the main ideas I want to convey? And then I look for a tool that can illustrate it. The biggest trick we have are the ones we play on ourselves

in our own mind. And we do that through our assumptions. Let's break down when the magic happens. The magic happens in our mind when there's a disconnect between our assumptions and what we see. That's when the magic happens. Not in the magician's hands, but in our own mind. And to illustrate that and to help us see how we interpret reality, I'm going to use an illusion to actually make my point. On this side, Ryan, you see a one-sided domino brick. On this side, there's one dot. Do you agree?

I agree. This side, we have four dots. This side now there's three, and now there are six on this side. Like I said, it's a multidimensional domino brick. Let's try this one more time. On this side, you saw one dot. Then you saw four, and then you saw a three. three and then you saw six. Your mind finished a pattern on your behalf. I introduced a framework of a

pattern, but your mind a theater to the pattern because you've seen domino bricks many, many times. So you actually constructed a story in your own mind that wasn't real based on the framework that already exists. That's how we interpret reality. That's how we deceive ourselves. When in reality, on this side, you saw either three dots or you saw one dot. Your mind never saw this pattern before. You didn't see that. The point is we don't see with our eyes. We see through them. We see with the assumptions that are stored in our subjective mind.

If I believe in limitation, sure, I'll get more of them. That's what I'll connect the dots for in my physical world. If I believe I'm a happy, healthy multimillionaire, those are the dots I'm starting to connect with in the physical world. That's the point here. And that's what I discovered years ago. It's we don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.

Now, as an illusionist, I had that added benefit of keeping people engaged to the actual content. And I do that by continuously changing the assumptions. On this side, you saw, of course, six dot or you saw four dots. But continuing with the idea of challenging the assumptions, you never saw this pattern. If I've done it right, though, now on this side, you would see actual three and on this side you would see actual eight.