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#91 How Getting Fired Built MTA Consultancy | Chris Mader

The David Guttman Podcast•8 de septiembre de 2026•4364•
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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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