Trade Corporate Success for Entrepreneurial Ownership

Every Saturday, get one memo — to help you navigate the complex shift from the default path to an authentic life powered by a premium business, with bold thinking and grounded conviction.

Powerful Ideas.
Permanent Upgrades.

This Isn't Just a Newsletter

This is a strategic environment — designed for high performers ready to rewrite the way they work and live.What you get:

  • Weekly strategies to design your Genius Business

  • Mental models to break limiting beliefs and reclaim your identity

  • Playbooks for navigating risk, reinvention, and reintegration

  • Invitations to private trainings and live events

  • Real stories of transformation from others walking the path

This is high-consequence work. Buckle up.

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Mental Code

Built on Beliefs That Break From Conformity

This isn’t information — it’s transformation.
Everything you’ll receive is grounded in these new beliefs. These aren’t just ideas. They’re permanent upgrades.

The Corporate Graduation™ Belief Stack:

  1. There is no dream job — only the job and the dream.

  2. Your employer isn’t your savior. They’re your investor.

  3. The system isn’t broken. It’s just not built for creators.

  4. Burnout is a signal — a spotlight on misalignment.

  5. You don’t need more time. You need a new trajectory.

  6. You don’t escape corporate — you graduate into your higher self.

  7. Identity leads. Strategy follows.

  8. Passive is a myth. Active ownership is the way.

  9. Your family follows your energy — not your advice.

  10. You weren’t built to comply. You were built to create.

You’re not just signing up for a newsletter. You’re stepping into the most important upgrade of your adult life — and we’re in this with you.

Real People.
Real Shifts.

Join 2,700+ Legends

Kristin Sargent

CEO, Tech Startup Advisory Firm


"There are limitations within the corporate construct. And I would prefer to work without limitations."

Chris Thompson

Impact Investor &
CEO of Career Free Agency


"I never questioned the default path — until I stepped into a room of people who had. That’s when I stopped asking for permission and started making moves."

Lance Cibik

Speaker, Author, & Coach


"This mentally prepared me for life beyond corporate. And built the business that supports my new life."

Frank Marinello

President, Real Estate Firm


"After 30 years, I just resigned from corporate life. This gave me the perspective to treat it as a natural graduation."

Elizabeth

Partner, Management Consulting Firm


"It's is not just a career shift — it's a full life-changing mindset shift that will trickle down into all parts of your life."

Meet the Author

Matt Doan

I spent 20 years leading transformation programs inside the Fortune 100 — while quietly feeling the constraints pile up in my personal life.Despite the success, I was giving the best of me to a system that left little space for the life I truly wanted.Eventually, the inner voice got louder than the accolades. I knew I couldn’t keep grinding out someone else’s playbook.So I built a new one.Not by blowing it all up — but by graduating smartly and decisively. I turned corporate into a tool. I redesigned my days. I built the right business for my life and family of six.Now, I lead Corporate Graduation™ — a category, a system, and a movement that’s helped hundreds of high performers shift into a chapter they fully own.I hope you’ll join us.

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