1. Tim McGhee: "I Thought People Who Said They Loved Their Job Were Either Crazy or Lying"

Tim McGhee has spent 25 years at the center of sports marketing. He started on Wall Street, hated it, and briefly tried stand-up comedy before figuring out what he actually wanted to do.I talk to Tim about leaving finance for business school, the dumb luck of standing in the right hotel check-in line, and why he twice turned down jobs rather than uproot his family — a decision he has never second-guessed.