Most business advice is written to make you feel good. This show is built to make you better.

On The Authority Effect, Steve Freeman, CEO of Render, an independent Memphis-based media and entertainment company producing commercial, corporate, film and television content, draws on decades of building, running and growing companies to tackle the topics most leaders avoid: hiring and firing, money, failure, ego, family in business, and the decisions nobody teaches you how to make.

No theory from people who’ve never signed the front of a check. Just what Steve has actually lived: the wins, the mistakes and the lessons that cost him the most.

Steve also brings guests from all walks of life to the table, including founders, leaders, and people who’ve built something from nothing or lost it all and fought their way back, to share real stories of success, struggle and life.

And when the world goes crazy, Steve doesn’t sit quietly. Expect honest, unfiltered takes on current events in pop culture and politics, with no script and no worrying about who it offends.

If you want comfortable advice, there are plenty of other shows. If you want the truth from someone who’s been in the chair, you’re in the right place.

New episodes every Wednesday.