Beyond the Corporate Ladder
Beyond the Corporate Ladder is a leadership podcast featuring candid conversations with high-performing professionals who have built meaningful careers—and are now turning around to help others climb smarter, lead better, and live with greater intention. Each episode spotlights experienced leaders as they reflect on the journey of success: what they believed early on, what changed as responsibility grew, and the lessons they wish they had learned sooner. These are stories about perspective, how success evolves, how leadership matures, and how fulfillment is redefined over time. The conversations explore leadership, responsibility, pressure, growth, and purpose. Offering practical wisdom for ambitious professionals who want to achieve success without losing themselves in the process. Beyond the Corporate Ladder is for those who are building, leading, and contributing at a high level: and who believe that true success is measured not just by titles or compensation, but by impact, alignment, and the life they are intentionally creating.
Episodes
What happens when entrepreneurship becomes a vehicle for healing, empathy, and purpose?
In this episode of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen Lee-Thomas sits down with Shabana Serang entrepreneur, nonprofit founder, podcast host, and creator of the Mercy Mindset movement.
Shabana shares her deeply personal journey growing up as the daughter of immigrants, watching her father work tirelessly to build a better life, and how those e...
What separates great leaders from average managers?
In this episode of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen Lee-Thomas sits down with senior healthcare executive Russell Meadows to discuss leadership, team building, decision-making, and navigating complexity in high-pressure environments.
Russ shares lessons from decades in healthcare leadership, including how he built high-performing teams, solved operational challenges, and led t...
What happens when you’ve done everything “right” in your corporate career… but still feel disconnected from fulfillment?
In Episode 9 of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen Lee-Thomas sits down with Rachel Cotter Davis to explore leadership, burnout, organizational change, and the deeply personal journey of career reinvention.
Rachel shares insights from her experience as a senior director in change enablement and organizational e...
What would you do if you had no plan, but knew your life needed to change?
In this episode of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen Lee-Thomas sits down with Dwight Dillon-Seminario, who shares his journey from professional musician to entrepreneur helping others build passive income and reclaim their time.
After a major life shift, Dwight made a bold decision, he quit without a backup plan and leaned into uncertainty. What followed...
In Episode 7 of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, we talk leadership, growth, and multifamily real estate with Corey Muldrow, who has scaled his portfolio to over $100M+ in assets under management. Corey shares his journey from healthcare and anesthesia practice to becoming a full-time multifamily investor and operator alongside his wife, Candice. Together, they discuss how their journey began with a single-family rental purchased whi...
What if your job isn’t as secure as you think and you’re building wealth in the wrong place?
In this episode of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen Lee-Thomas sits down with real estate investor John Todderud to break down his journey from software engineer to full-time investor.
John shares how he transitioned out of corporate life, built wealth through real estate, and created a lifestyle that gives him both time freedom and fle...
What happens when you achieve success… and still feel empty?
In this episode of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen sits down with Randy Campadore, a high-performance coach for men in midlife, who shares his journey from building multi-million dollar real estate projects to losing it all… and ultimately rediscovering purpose.
Randy opens up about the “illusion of success,” the identity crisis many high-achieving men face, and why ...
In Episode 4 of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, we talk about leadership and growth with Johnny Lynum, who has scaled his portfolio through active investing and now helps high-net-worth investors transition into passive institutional real estate opportunities. Johnny shares his journey from serving over 20 years in the U.S. Air Force to becoming a full-time real estate investor and founder of Lynum Capital Partners. Discover why he tr...
In this episode of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, Stephen sits down with Justin Spillers, former real estate attorney turned full-time multifamily operator and co-founder of Real Estate Alpha. After seven years practicing law, Justin realized he didn’t want to spend his life advising business owners, he wanted to become one. What started as passive investing in 2016 eventually grew into a vertically integrated multifamily company wi...
In Episode 2 of the Beyond the Corporate Ladder, I sit down with Adam Gower, former CEO of a joint venture between Universal Studios and Paramount Studios and founder of GowerCrowd. Adam’s career journey is anything but ordinary. He began as an apprentice electrician, moved into real estate capital raising, and eventually led a major international real estate operation across Asia Pacific. Today, he helps real estate sponsors rais...
In Episode 1 of Beyond the Corporate Ladder, we sit down with Matt Shields, entrepreneur, technologist, and founder of Tech Love, who brings over 20 years of experience building businesses across technology and real estate.
Matt shares his journey from early entrepreneurship and app development to owning and operating $40M in multifamily real estate, and how a life-altering stroke forced him to redefine success, priorities, and imp...
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