Jotham Stein: Author of the book Even CEOs Get Fired | #ThePlaybook 369

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

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🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jotham Stein, attorney and author of the book Even CEOs Get Fired, sits down to discuss some of the most common reasons that executives lose their job and how someone can turn being fired into the best thing that ever happened to them. Stein and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a range of topics including the Do’s and Don’ts of an employment agreement, how to achieve a “professional reincarnation” and how Jotham’s experience building a business of his own prepared him to advise clients who are entrepreneurs. The pair also discuss why the reasons that people get fired don’t always make rational sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Playbook, I have an amazing attorney to Adam Stein and he wrote an amazing book
0:06.5	even CEOs get fired. It's an engaging look at how top entrepreneurs and executives can protect
0:13.7	themselves, treat yourself like an athlete's celebrity, treat yourself with the greatest agent
0:18.8	for entrepreneurs and executives. Here on the entrepreneurs, the Playbook.
0:23.9	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week I bring you some of the greatest
0:28.4	athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional
0:34.0	playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.
0:40.0	I'm your host David Meltzer. I am so excited because I have another lawyer. This is a great
0:45.6	thing. Jopham Stein. He's not only an owner of his own law firm, Jopham Stein, but also an incredible
0:52.8	author. I just finished his book and a speaker, nonetheless most lawyers are speakers. Jopham,
0:58.6	welcome to the Playbook. Thank you very much. It's great to be here. I'm going to start off right
1:03.8	with the book because this was a lesson I've never learned. Even CEOs get fired. I was a young CEO.
1:11.5	You know, I see the world's first smartphone for Samsung. I was barely 30 years old and I thought
1:18.1	I was untouchable. I lied to people for years and told them I semi-retired before I met
1:23.6	Lee Steinberg and ran that organization. But they kicked my butt out of there. There was nobody
1:30.1	around teaching me the lessons that you have in this great book. Even CEOs get fired. What was for you
1:37.5	the stimulus as a lawyer? Why did you want to write this type of book?
1:43.6	Well, you know, a number of years ago, I wrote a technical book to teach lawyers how to
1:49.8	represent entrepreneurs and executives. But I always wanted to write a book for every
1:54.6	big person, whether they're the CEO or whether they're a new entry out of business school or just
2:00.2	out of undergrad or just in the middle of their career, to help them and to open up their eyes,
2:06.6	to help them protect themselves and the employment relationship. Like you would have needed
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