He doubled a company's revenue to $150M once. Then he got called into an office and told it was his last day. If that has ever happened to you, you already know the feeling. Chris Mader ran an $85M company to $115M as interim CEO. The board had already promised him the job in writing. Then the founder needed $4M in payroll cuts, and Chris got the call anyway. I asked him how you rebuild after doing it exactly right and still losing the seat. Chris was Player of the Year in the minors. The next year he led his team in every offensive category and still got released. He turned that into MTA Consultancy, built on a rule you will recognize: he will not work for a leader he cannot believe in. You probably cannot walk away from a bad boss tomorrow. Chris built a business so he never has to again.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction: excelling and still getting cut
00:18 - Choosing baseball over football as a kid
03:55 - Recruited to Rollins College against his will
06:29 - Make the adjustment: Coach Boyd Coffee
13:11 - Drafted 49th round, toughest out over Derek Jeter
16:07 - Released after leading the team in every stat
19:27 - Walking away from baseball crying at 25
22:37 - Baseball is not a meritocracy
26:02 - Rebuilding identity through sales
28:37 - Thirty years scaling companies to $115M
31:06 - Told he did nothing wrong, never works for anyone again
34:25 - Starting MTA Consultancy at 52
38:44 - Servant leadership, curiosity and humility
45:42 - How much of the CEO job is therapy
46:38 - Why 97.5 percent of people resist change
56:16 - Forty clients, only three that did not work
57:09 - Scaling toward $1M with an EA and AI
1:04:24 - Mentorship versus coaching versus discipline
1:08:00 - Why 80 percent of men say yes and half the women do
1:10:52 - Pick your boss, not the job
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