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He goes to work with police escort. He is a gatekeeper to the worst behavior of the biggest banks, law firms and corporations in the world. He’s overseen the ruin of thousands of companies. 80% of his clients die.
Corporate Undertaker is the true story of a modern day Wall Street hired gun.
We follow the journey of a naïve but optimistic, young student searching for fortune along a treacherous path. In the waning days of the Soviet Union in 1991 he attends university in Moscow. It is there that the seeds of prosperity are sown. Soon, he starts one business that becomes three. Amidst, street violence, gang threats, military coup attempts, he rises through the ranks eventually owning his own bank. As his wealth grows so does the threat to his life. At the cross roads, staring into a bag of explosives, he has a decision to make; stay and kill or save his family and walk away with nothing.
He packed his bags and walked away from millions. Bruised and beaten, he decides to start over in America. He decides that he will work with only legitimate and law abiding businesses. He studies extensively, works as a business analyst, rises through the ranks again. He soon discovers another new and unknown world; the world of distressed banking. In these dark and hidden corners of the largest banks in the world are rooms filled with misfits, outcasts and criminals. Every day they fight over the prospect of losing millions of dollars. It’s a graveyard of half-dead companies. It is a place where only the sharpest and toughest minds can survive. With the prospect of building a new fortune our hero is pulled into this world. Again, despite his best and most sincere efforts, he is crushed. It is here where he learns that the legitimate corporate world is dirtier and far more dangerous than working with the mob. It is here where he changes. He sheds all pretense of civility and sense of diplomacy. It is here where he becomes an enforcer on his own terms. Depending on the day and the situation you never know whose side he will take. In this podcast series, you will follow him along this journey of the dead and dying where he faces murder, suicide, blackmail, fraud, corruption and decay of the human soul – all in the name of money.
Corporate Undertaker is the true story of a modern day Wall Street hired gun.
We follow the journey of a naïve but optimistic, young student searching for fortune along a treacherous path. In the waning days of the Soviet Union in 1991 he attends university in Moscow. It is there that the seeds of prosperity are sown. Soon, he starts one business that becomes three. Amidst, street violence, gang threats, military coup attempts, he rises through the ranks eventually owning his own bank. As his wealth grows so does the threat to his life. At the cross roads, staring into a bag of explosives, he has a decision to make; stay and kill or save his family and walk away with nothing.
He packed his bags and walked away from millions. Bruised and beaten, he decides to start over in America. He decides that he will work with only legitimate and law abiding businesses. He studies extensively, works as a business analyst, rises through the ranks again. He soon discovers another new and unknown world; the world of distressed banking. In these dark and hidden corners of the largest banks in the world are rooms filled with misfits, outcasts and criminals. Every day they fight over the prospect of losing millions of dollars. It’s a graveyard of half-dead companies. It is a place where only the sharpest and toughest minds can survive. With the prospect of building a new fortune our hero is pulled into this world. Again, despite his best and most sincere efforts, he is crushed. It is here where he learns that the legitimate corporate world is dirtier and far more dangerous than working with the mob. It is here where he changes. He sheds all pretense of civility and sense of diplomacy. It is here where he becomes an enforcer on his own terms. Depending on the day and the situation you never know whose side he will take. In this podcast series, you will follow him along this journey of the dead and dying where he faces murder, suicide, blackmail, fraud, corruption and decay of the human soul – all in the name of money.
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Season 1: Episode 23. What happens when the sharp-shooter brought in to save you loses his eyesight? Can you imagine a blind enforcer? In the final Episode of this first Season, The Undertaker discusses his greatest adversity -- going blind.
Season 1: Episode 22. In school if you get two out of ten right, they fail you. In business, if you get two out of ten right, they put you on the cover of a magazine. The most successful business people have failed time and time again. But that is not the message passed on to society. The expectations on most business owners are unreasonable. As such, most never measure up. Many suffer terrible mental and emotional anguish. Many drive themselves deep into a hole that they can never come out of. In this Episode, The Undertaker talks about suicide. How he has confronted clients that have wanted to kill him and themselves in the face of losing their business.
Season 1: Episode 19. Why do so many smart people make companies fail? Why do the brightest minds and hardest working people make mistakes with their financial projections? If numbers are just numbers, why are they often wrong? In this Episode, The Undertaker explains the phenomena of errors in numbers and the humans behind those mistakes. He walks through an example of where he was brought in to help a bank with a loan for a $350 million publicly traded company. Hundreds of people were looking at numbers but still couldn't figure out why they were failing at rapid speed. The Undertaker clarified it for them and helped save thousands of jobs in the process.
Season 1: Episode 20. The phrase "my gut tells me" is the biggest fallacy in the business world. Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing. The leaders of every failing company have trusted "their gut"...right into the gutter. In this Episode, The Undertaker teaches us to forget your gut and use your brain. He helps us understand how to get to the actual facts in any crisis. When you're short on time and cash, those facts are the difference between life and death.
Season 1: Episode 21. No one likes to leave the party early. Everyone wants an extra piece of cake when they're feeling skinny. We never see it coming when we're feeling happy. But that's exactly when most problems begin. In this episode, The Undertaker discusses how 90% of his clients' problems all began in good economic times. The recession didn't kill them, it just pushed them over the edge.
Season 1: Episode 16. Not everyone deserves to live. Sometimes, they're just not worth it. They're old, confused, corrupted or broken. Someone has to have the courage to say all of those things out loud. In this Episode, The Undertaker continues to earn his name. He confronts three separate companies with the Final Notice.
Season 1: Episode 18. Are we ever prepared to reach the end of the line? Even the best lose their shine and magic. Some realize it, some don't either way, they can't avoid judgment. In this Episode, The Undertaker confronts the painful realities of having to fire people that were once talented. Once they may have lead the organization but now, in a crisis, just don't fit.
Season 1: Episode 17. What happens when you discover that your greatest ally is a major cause for the decline of the company? What do you do when you learn that the person who hired you is stealing from a dying company? Do you turn a blind-eye or do you confront them? Knowing full well that if you confront them you might be fired and the entire company and thousands of jobs might be ruined because of this stand-off. When companies are in crisis it is paramount to create calm but what happens when the storm continues to stir from the core of decisions makers?
1Season 1: Episode 15. What is the difference between a prostitute and a consultant? The price. In this episode The Undertaker meets his new client; a consortium of well-connected and well-heeled, cheap bastards. They built a sprawling company with revenues in excess of $600 million but now, from the bow of their yachts, they can only watch as it disintegrates. They don't want the public shame of a bankruptcy filing. Nor do they want to actually pay their bills. They want to be seen as intelligent and honorable but they're not. They're out of options. They're out of time. And soon, their bank accounts will be picked. Enter, The Undertaker.
Season 1: Episode 14. Scared, suffocating and collapsing under the pressure of working at a failing company. This is how most employees feel in this environment. They are just trying to earn a paycheck but they are surrounded by constant rumors that there isn't enough money for payroll. The Undertaker discusses his approach to working with the living in a dying company. How he manages through the fragile, frightened and sometimes criminal psyche of employees that are just trying to survive.
Season 1: Episode 13. Just because people tell you that you're dead, doesn't mean it's true. In this episode, The Undertaker begins to share his approach for prolonging life within a decaying and virtually dead business. We discover that there are laws to protect 100-year-old trees but none to protect 100-year-old companies. When the ax is about fall, The Undertaker believes it his job to fight until death for the salvation of the community.
Season 1: Episode 12. The sky has fallen. The economic fire has spread through out the globe. Company and people alike are burned and in shock at the speed of how all of it spread. Amidst the ruins are companies hanging on for dear life. Banks, still in shock, try to clean up their loan portfolios by removing struggling companies. The Undertaker and his team of unorthodox crisis managers take a different approach. They move from fighting to salvaging. Optimism, creativity and co-operation are key to survival in a desolate economic environment. In this episode, The Undertaker tells the story of he kept a dead company with 400 employees alive for an extra ten months, living essentially on fumes and goodwill.
Season 1, Episode 11. The Tsunami is here. There's nowhere to hide. The Undertaker is burned out. Exhausted and hating humanity, he looks for a break from all of this but, he can't get away. The entire global financial system is in a free fall. Despite having poked a few bears, his phone continues to ring. In this episode he is appointed as Chief Restructuring Officer of a $200 million residential home supplier that is owned by a bank. Again, he fights to save 1,500 jobs but the economy is looking bleak and the bankers are now desperate. Not only do they want to destroy companies, they want to steal money that belongs to employees. It's a rape and pillage the likes of Genghis Khan, until they meet The Undertaker.
Season 1: Episode 10. It's a race against time to save this 105 year old company. The Undertaker managed to pull employees, unions, suppliers and customers together in a turnaround plan but the bank changed its mind. Facing their own internal collapsing balance sheet and change in policies, the bank decides it now wants to liquidate this company. The bank pulls the credit line, forcing a shut-down, laying off all remaining 1,300 employees across the United States. It's at this point The Undertaker has a decision to make -- to cross a line -- to go public with the bank's dirty deeds? Or, to walk away? In this episode he unleashes Hell-fire in what is his biggest grudge match to date.
Season 1, Episode 9. Pressure on the financial system in America is growing. Banks begin to panic. They start amputating parts and pieces from their portfolio, attacking the weak first. The Undertaker fights to stay ahead of this economic tornado. As CEO of a national furniture manufacturer, he is moving quickly to create an inertia to turn this 105 year old company. In today's episode, he details the challenges of sifting through more fraud and obstinate employees. In the process, he shows little mercy for those in his way.
Season 1, Episode 8. The looming Great Recession has started to tighten credit at all levels. Companies are starting to crumble but the public doesn't know it yet. An economic collapse will soon wipe out trillions of dollars in investments and cause massive unemployment. The Undertaker, older, hardened, is prepared for a long march through this corporate valley of death. In this episode he discusses how he changed his approach to dealing with crisis. He becomes CEO of a 105 year old furniture manufacturer that is in dire trouble. On this journey he confronts the Teamsters and Steel Worker's unions and tries to wrap his arms around employees in five different States across America. The company is bleeding cash every week. He moves as fast as he can to keep it alive. Despite his best efforts, he still receives death threats. The dead and dying are never far from the Undertaker.
Season 1: Episode 7. After years of trying to playing by the rules, The Undertaker is finally pushed over the edge of reason. He realizes that if he's going to chase rats and snakes in the sewer, he's going to have to get some stink on him. In this episode, Charles Bronson meets Cool Hand Luke. There is a clear "failure to communicate" when criminal owner of a business refuses to hand over his inventory records. The Undertaker is greeted with a tray full of fresh donuts and gun in the face. Unfortunately for this scumbag owner, the story doesn't end there.
Season 1. Episode 6. The Undertaker continues to travel up the river of his personal "Cambodia". He is the Chief Restructuring Officer of a large, automotive parts supplier but he's tied to warring elephants. Auto manufacturers, banks, law firms, suppliers and private equity firms battle each other over every piece of scrap metal. Amidst all of this, a non-unionized company with more than 1,300 employees. No representation and no guarantee of their jobs. With no one on the watch, one of the elephants decides to steal their healthcare insurance and workers' compensation funds. And, then they meet, The Undertaker.
Season 1: Episode 5. Dejected, down-trodden but not out, The Undertaker continues along his path. The smell of trouble is percolating in the economy but everyone else is still belly-filled and happy while he's walking the dark hallways of the troubled loans departments. He is appointed Chief Restructuring Officer of large automotive supplier. Within minutes he is parachuted into his own, personal "Cambodia". It's not the Vietnam war, it's something far darker, more complicated and never resolved. On his first day after one of his significant managerial decisions, a disgruntled, laid-off employee commits a double homicide and is on the loose. Protected by police, the Undertaker will spend the next nine months in an unrelenting and confusing battle with banks, automotive companies, suppliers, lawyers and the greatest enemy -- cash.
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