Most leaders obsess over tools, tactics, frameworks, KPIs, everything except the one thing that actually determines whether their team wins or loses: themselves.

This episode goes straight into the uncomfortable truth: if you don’t lead yourself with discipline, integrity, and clarity, you have absolutely no business leading others. That’s not motivational fluff, that’s reality. And it’s the message Dr. Alexander Madaus has spent decades fighting for.

Who Is Dr. Alexander Madaus?

Dr. Alexander Madaus isn’t your typical leadership trainer. He’s a former German military team leader, an entrepreneur, a medical doctor specializing in intensive care and emergency medicine, and — famously — the only German who has ever trained with U.S. Navy SEALs.

His journey began immediately after school, when he joined the German military while simultaneously establishing his first business in Munich. Later, he paid his way through med school, became an MD, and spent a decade making life-and-death decisions in chaotic environments where leadership and clarity weren’t optional.

Today, through the Rising King Academy, he coaches entrepreneurs and business owners on character-based leadership, rooted in discipline, candor, trust, and building high-performance A-player cultures — not management theater.

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