You’ve Outgrown Corporate. Step Into Your Founder Era.
Every Saturday, get one essay — to help you navigate the complex shift from the default path to an authentic life powered by a premium, genius-based business.
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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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:
There is no dream job — only the job and the dream.
Your employer isn’t your savior. They’re your investor.
The system isn’t broken. It’s just not built for creators.
Burnout is a signal — a spotlight on misalignment.
You don’t need more time. You need a new trajectory.
You don’t escape corporate — you graduate into your higher self.
Identity leads. Strategy follows.
Passive is a myth. Active ownership is the way.
Your family follows your energy — not your advice.
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.
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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.