Uncage Yourself

About Uncage Yourself

You spent years building a career. You got good at it. Maybe too good. Now you're successful and suffocating — sitting on career capital that's making someone else rich. Corporate Graduation® is the move from Corporate to Founder in one year. Make your employer an investor in your founder business. Deploy your gold under your own name. Host Matt Doan spent 15 years in strategy consulting, at firms like BCG and Booz Allen, then built the framework that's helped 170+ clients make that move. Tune in for the frameworks, the work nobody talks about, and the real playbook.

Publisher

Matt Doan

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jun 2021

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

15 of 184 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   183: How I Became a Founder Before I Left My Job

   Host Matt Doan interviews aspiring entrepreneurs on how to build a business while still employed, offering a strategic path to founder status.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   182: How I Cut My Corporate Job From 60 to 20 Hours (Without Risking My Income)

   Host Matt Doan shares how he reduced his corporate workweek to 20 hours while increasing his income and reputation, offering a third path beyond grinding or quitting.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   181: How to Go From Corporate to Founder Without a Business Idea

   Host Matt Doan interviews aspiring founders, revealing how to transition from corporate life to entrepreneurship even without a pre-existing business idea.

Inside a recent episode

183: How I Became a Founder Before I Left My Job

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We know all the twists and turns, and that's what our framework really encompasses. Three high-level pieces. Number one, you need to have space in your life, which means you need to have new forms of time, energy, and attention reclaimed in your life. You're not going to build this new chapter under duress, under pressure, in a demanding corporate job, for example. Secondly, and most people want to skip this, is a reinvented self. We need to create the founder before the founder then creates the business. And then thirdly is what we call system. This is where you build that unique business grounded in your intellectual property, your career capital. […]

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YouTube views

8,517

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

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Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

82

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