Graduate corporate life for entrepreneurial freedom — without jeopardizing your income or family 💚 | Pod: UncageYourself.FM 🎧

You make great money... and you're suffocating.



I coach Directors, VPs, and Executives through Corporate Graduation®: the transition from Corporate Dependent to Corporate Optional — in one year.



Whether you're still inside corporate or recently out, if you've spent 15-25 years building career capital, you're probably running some version of this:



1) Sunday nights feel heavier than they should.

2) You keep starting things and stopping.

3) Family and health get whatever's left.

4) You're going through the motions and no one can tell.

5) You've been doing the math in your head for months.



That was me.

Divorced. Burnt out. 

Going dark inside a career everyone envied.



So I got to work:



I made my employer my investor.

Compressed the job.

Built a founder-grade business.

Graduated corporate for good.



171+ Directors, VPs, and Executives have done the same.

The methodology: Space → Self → System.



1) SPACE: compresses corporate and clears the conditions.

2) SELF: recodes the identity underneath.

3) SYSTEM: deploys your career capital into a founder-grade business.



Skip a step, and you replicate the cage with a different name on the door.



What we do together:



✅ Compress your corporate role to 20 hours/week

✅ Package your career capital into proprietary IP

✅ Build a founder-grade business around who you are

✅ Install founder identity, not someday — now

✅ Exit with runway, not regret



Ex-BCG. 4x dad.



This is the work I was built for.



START HERE:

go.corporategraduation.com

Matt Doan

1 week of founder growth = 5 years of corporate growth.

Here's what just happened for me:

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Last week, New Media Summit in Austin with 500+ builders. This week, a 3-day intensive mastermind with some of the most badass founders around the world.

Back to back. Intense. I'm drained.

→ In corporate, growth is slow. Incremental. Safe.
→ Same room, same conversations, same container.
→ You don't notice it b/c environment never changes.

One week in the right rooms reoriented how I think, build, and move. That compression becomes normal when you design your life around it.

If you're still inside corporate making great money but feeling the pull toward something more, these are the things nobody tells you about the other side.

5 things worth sitting with:

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1) Your TOP job as a founder is content.

Not sales calls. Not funnels. Content.

Every hour on a great YouTube video, podcast, or Substack essay pays you back for months (or years). Builds trust with people you'll never meet... until they're ready to buy. 

100X ROI. Nothing in corporate compounds like this.


2) Nobody cares about you. Just their transformation.

I walked the booths at the summit. Companies winning had names like selfpublishing.com, The Scalable Company, and GrowLetter. Crystal clear outcomes. Zero "I help X do Y" language.

That's consultant energy. One-man band.

Category design means framing, naming, and claiming your own space. Shine the light on the category, not yourself (see Category Pirates).


3) Sales is hard when marketing is weak.
Marketing is weak when positioning sucks.

Every founder I met who struggled with sales had the same root cause two levels up.

Vague, safe, and generic positioning.

When positioning is sharp, marketing writes itself. When marketing works (which should be 80% of your days), sales becomes enrollment, not a pitch.


4) People don't haggle anymore. They binge and decide.

They want to experience your thinking through long-form content. YouTube, podcast, Substack. Non-negotiables, no matter your business type.

Buying decisions happen before anyone books a call.


5) When you see a window, throw a brick through it.

(Because windows close.)

Go pro. Not "I'll start when I'm ready."

The corporate →  founder shift means someone saw an opening and went all in. They know their audience intimately. They produce at volume. They treat content like a pro athlete treats training.

My positioning with Corporate Graduation® is locked down (legally, even). Category claimed. Now it's building a trust-building marketing machine — YouTube at the core, with podcast and Substack, all feeding one engine.

I'm going pro in marketing.

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If you're reading this from inside corporate, leaning toward something more, you're not going to figure it out in your current room. Or at your current pace.

Change the room.
Build the machine.
Go pro.

PS - This is the message you needed to hear.

Corporate Graduation® Founder | Directors & VPs → Founder in ONE Year | 173 Graduates | Ex-BCG | go.corporategraduation.com

I work with entrepreneurs and leaders across various industries at the cross-section of Soulful Leadership 🕊️, Narrative Marketing 📚, and Streamlined Operations ⚙️. 

The framework is simple, but putting it into practice takes resilience:

• Character 
• Vision 
• Brand
• People  
• Ops

Your business rises and falls with the quality of your leadership. Don’t leave that bit to chance. 

Let’s chat.

Executive Strategist

Remaker

• Oversees the marketing and business development efforts 

• Ensures the brand narrative is communicated effectively through all channels 

• Develops and oversees the marketing team as they create compelling content 

• Coordinates rev ops alongside Remaker executive team

• Oversees CRM management and B2B strategy

• Provides brand oversight and management 

• Develops PR and media strategies to propagate Remaker’s presence in the global market

Marketing Director

J.P. Edwards Creative

Executive consulting on storytelling, marketing, team culture, and business ideation. I help people develop strategies for personal growth, professional acceleration, and making their creative dreams a reality.

Consulting & Copywriting

Holy Hill Media

Oversees operations, team development, and company performance. Works with executive team to create long term vision and develop strategies for growth and impact.

Chief Operations Officer

Sackcloth & Ashes

• Helps with strategic plan to grow platform, message, and influence
• Helps ideate new strategic concepts
• Deep dive research on culturally relevant topics to discuss and inform brand strategy 
• Helps prep for interviews and speaking engagements
• Helps write and edit content for platform

Love Your City Foundation

Lead Journalist

Cosmos Health Solutions

Contacted new potential B2B and individual clients to make them aware of Cosmos services. Worked sales strategies, created contracts, and walked clients through the decision-making process. Facilitated a seamless transition from the point of sale to the client relations and operations teams.

Business Development Manager

Worked directly with clients and the business development  to facilitate a seamless transition from contract agreement to project execution, while ensuring our clients received the highest level customer service.

Customer Success Manager

Voice Church

Curated the worship and production experience, built and oversaw music and media volunteer teams, and assisted in leadership, discipleship, and church programming strategies.

Worship Pastor

Ark Clinical Research

Coordinated the enlisting, contracting, and process implementation of lab and research partners

Secured multiple clinical research accounts (BD) 

Managed ongoing lab and research partner relationships (client relations)

Assisted in the creation and implementation of organizational and project management strategies

Managed calendars, emails, and general administrative tasks for CEO

Worked on-site with operations to familiarize myself with research processes and better understand client needs

Project Manager

South Hills Church

Lead teams of volunteers to curate weekly youth and young adults services, additional events, gatherings, and experiences, and overall media and production of the departments. Worked closely with church leadership to streamline consistent branding and messaging that aligned with the overall church mission and unified the message across age groups. Oversaw the media and programming teams of youth and young adult departments.

Youth and Young Adults Pastor

Curated the weekly worship experiences, led the music and media teams, worked closely with the lead pastor to develop a consistent, high-quality services and events, led and discipled large volunteer teams, and worked closely with other departments to ensure alignment with the overall vision and mission of the church in every area.

I work to help leaders turn their vision into a strategy and their strategy into a story that compels their teams and customers to move.

Originally from Texas, I moved to California and worked in Nonprofits there for over 5 years before jumping into the world of entrepreneurship. I got a poor man's MBA working alongside multiple serial entrepreneurs who had built, sold, and started again for many years. I went from PA, to ops, to marketing, to management, and eventually executive strategist. 

I learned loads by making mistakes and asking questions up close and in the trenches with people actually doing amazing things. I'm only where I am today because multiple great leaders gave me a shot.

Now, I live in London and work to help leaders (mostly of SMEs and exciting new startups) give birth to big dreams, put the operational infrastructure in place to support them, and leverage the kind of bold creative strategy that shocks and inspires. Often, that means I'm working with marketing departments because "creativity" is more conventional in those environments. But I'm a big believer that all meaningful work is creative and creative energy should touch every aspect of your business. 

I love the work I get to do, and I'm always baffled at the brilliant people I get to do it with. If we haven't connected yet, let's do.

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