Rise: The Reincarnation of an Entrepreneur

By: Michael Erath

Narrated by: Michael Erath

When the housing market crashed in 2009, Michael Erath lost everything. Due to a combination of declining sales, betrayals from key staff, and personal shortcomings, Michael went from owning two businesses generating $45 million in annual revenue to seeing both of them destroyed while at the same time nearly losing his marriage and his home. But he didn’t let failure keep him down. Instead, he learned from his mistakes and rose back to success.

Michael’s journey inspired him to help others avoid the mistakes he made by bringing discipline, accountability, and balance into their work and personal lives. In Rise, Michael recounts his remarkable story with brutal honesty and self-reflection. He demonstrates how moving beyond a one-size-fits-all business operating system and leveraging a custom-tailored approach, while also building healthy, open, and honest leadership teams, can help entrepreneurs free themselves from the control their businesses have over them, fall back in love with their businesses, and achieve their dreams.

Part refreshingly honest memoir and part guide for entrepreneurs, Rise will show you how to get out of your own way and live your ideal life.

©2017 Michael Erath (P)2017 Michael Erath

Critic reviews

"Michael is one of our best EOS Implementers. What makes him great is that he has lived everything he teaches. His story is a great one, and he is a true class act." (Gino Wickman, author of Traction and creator of EOS)

"I've met countless entrepreneurs over the course of my two-plus decades in business, but few have stories as dramatic - and, in the end, as inspirational - as Michael Erath's." (Cameron Herold, global best-selling author, executive coach, and COO Alliance founder)

"Michael's leadership and guidance has been instrumental to the success and cohesiveness of our management team. With Michael's help, we have become more effective both as a team and as an organization, we communicate better, and most importantly we've learned to successfully identify and resolve issues, allowing us to grow as a company." (Brad Halley, founder and CEO, USA Vinyl)

A Real-Life Journey from an Honest Entrepreneur

Michael is one of those people you meet and immediately understand he has walked in your shoes. His ambition and passion for smoking out issues in business are like no other. He has an ability to bring a team together, build trust, and open minds. Our world, home, and workplace are filled with “People Issues” and Michael has given us a process to manage this.

When you need to change abruptly or evolve gently, Michael will be there.

Great experience sharing!

Great real life examples and experience sharing of how to make changes in your business and focus on the the important areas that matter (in business as well as life).

Raw and actionable

Michael’s story is compelling… loved the rawness and transparency of Michael’s setbacks evolving into comebacks!! So many lessons to learn from with actionable items … a definite resource guide to come back to time and time again. David Trent

A story that rings so true

Erath courageously opens the curtain to let us see the type of raw human challenges faced by more entrepreneurs than you realize.

From there, he takes us along for his journey back to Freedom - with some helpful prescriptive ideas for others wanting to achieve freedom of their own.

A note for Visionaries: I consumed the whole book in a single listen during a long run at 1.5x.

- MCW

Incredible authenticity

The author was transparent and humble enough to not make himself the hero. A rare combination. An inspirational story about grit, humility, and perseverance. Well done.

Brave, humble and inspiring

This is a must listen for any growth minded business owner

Michael Erath gets raw on his rise, fall and resurrection bot professionally and personally.