Whathappens when the version of success you’ve spent decades chasing suddenlydisappears, and you’re forced to rethink who you are, what matters, and how youlive?

In this episode of Mad Influence, Helen Saul is joined by Roderick Jefferson, aformer corporate executive, speaker, and author whose life and career werefundamentally reshaped after surviving a near-fatal stroke. Before his stroke, Roderick had built what many would recognize as a conventional success story: senior leadership roles, constant travel, and the external markers of achievement that come with high-pressure corporate life. But the experienceforced an abrupt pause - and a reckoning. His recovery became the starting point for a deeper re-evaluation of identity, ambition, and the personal cost of success.

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