Available May 1, 2026

In The Arena

Leading, Building, and Fighting The Good Fight

A book for the man who refuses to compartmentalize his faith. Written in the dialysis chair. Forged in the arena.

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Why this book exists

You are not failing. You are fragmented.

You are a different man on Sunday than you are on Monday. You know it. Your family knows it. Your team probably knows it too.

This is not a character flaw. It is a design flaw in how most men were taught to live their faith. Sunday in one box. Work in another. Health somewhere else. Family over here.

The result is drift. Not sudden collapse. Slow erosion. The kind you do not notice until you are five years in and wondering why nothing feels like it matters the way it should.

In The Arena is written for the man ready to close that gap. Not with a motivational speech. With a framework. With theology. With the hard-won lessons of a man who built his business from a dialysis chair and learned that faith either governs everything or it governs nothing.

What is inside

The 7F Framework applied to your actual life.

F Faith

Not as performance. As the governing conviction that shapes every decision, every hire, every boundary, every plan.

F Foundation

Identity, values, and the non-negotiables that keep you from drifting when pressure mounts and results disappoint.

F Fitness

Health as stewardship. Energy as a resource to be managed, not sacrificed on the altar of hustle.

F Focus

Deep work as a spiritual discipline. Attention as the scarcest resource you own. How to defend it.

F Frameworks

The systems, structures, and execution models that turn conviction into traction. Faith informing strategy.

F Fellowship

Iron sharpening iron. Why leading alone guarantees drift, and what a real brotherhood of accountability looks like.

F Fruit

Results that outlast you. Legacy over metrics. What it means to build something that matters beyond the next quarter.

About the author

Written in the arena. Not about it.

Ryan Nelson Holt is a licensed Financial Advisor, faith-driven entrepreneur, and the founder of RNH Media. He has been sober for over two decades. He runs dialysis three days a week. He built this framework anyway.

This book is not theory. It is the distilled product of leading through real constraints — physical, financial, and spiritual — with faith as the operating system rather than the decoration.

Ryan writes and speaks at the intersection of biblical conviction and business execution, rejecting both the prosperity gospel's promises and hustle culture's damage. He lives in the arena. That is the only credential that matters here.

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In The Arena

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