Why Being the Best Won't Get You Ahead, with Matthew Cutts

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Matthew Cutts, who spent nearly thirty years performing lead roles in some of London's biggest West End musicals, Cats, Starlight Express, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, before trading the stage for the boardroom.When Matthew moved back to New Zealand, he expected people to be impressed. Instead, his CV meant nothing, nobody knew who he was, and he had no network and no qualifications to show for a glittering career. As he puts it, the world had moved on and no one really gave a damn. Someone later told him he should have treated himself like an immigrant arriving in a new country, rather than a star coming home. So at an age when most people are settled, he went back to school and earned the first qualification of his life.What he's built since is a business helping companies say what needs to be said. And the insights he's carried over from three decades on stage are quietly brilliant: why the best storyteller in the room is actually the best listener, why telling a great story is only half the job if you can't back it up, and the career truth it took him years to understand, that he stopped getting the big roles because he was the best, and started getting them because of everything else he brought.This is a conversation about reinvention, communication, and why the language of the stage might explain business better than business does.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcastsLearn more about Matthew here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcutts/Learn more about Matthew's company here: https://www.matthewcutts.com/#waystowealth #storytelling #communication #leadership #reinvention #westend #theatre #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #presentation #careerchange #publicspeaking #matthewcutts #wealthbuilding