Nate Pettit is an award-winning professor at NYU in the Stern School of Business. Nate researches social hierarchies and underdogs and teaches classes on leadership. Nate was named to Poets & Quants “40 most outstanding MBA professors under 40," he received Stern’s Distinguished Teaching Award, which is Stern’s highest teaching honor, and has twice been voted “Professor of the Year” by MBA students.

In this episode, Nate shares what he believed was a near death experience and the lesson he learned from this experience.