Matthew E. May: Leaving His MBA Career to Pursue Acting

Multi-best-selling author, former University of Toyota instructor, chief strategy at Stratechia

Show notes: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake39

My guest for Episode #39 is my friend Matt May, he's a multi-best-selling author and he's Chief Strategist with his firm Stratechia.

I've known Matt for a long time as a former University of Toyota educator, a Wharton graduate, and an amazing author. I've interviewed him many times before. I didn't know that he was formerly a theatre and television actor (including a stint on a soap opera — I don't have video clips of that).

Today, we talk about a few of his favorite mistakes:

• Not taking the traditional high-paying job after completing his MBA
• Leaving New York City for Los Angeles in the pursuit of his acting career

Matt and I also talk about mistakes more generally — when are they “happy mistakes?” Were there any acting gigs that were mistakes? How should we think about mistakes, as individuals and as organizations?

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