Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Stop Only Learning from Your Own Industry | Matthew Rathje

16 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video (hosted by Cameron Herold) featuring Matthew Rathje. The speaker reflects on the value of learning from industries outside one’s own—specifically how practices from traditional industries can be transferred to online coaching and education, producing surprising and useful ideas. The speaker emphasizes cross-industry transferability and mutual learning between traditional and online models.

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I actually had this idea of I needed to be in groups in the online coaching space and online education, which is the company I was leading at the time. But the ability to transfer what people were doing from other industries was actually really surprising to me, and it gave me. Whoa. Like, I would have never thought of that, because the way we do things is so out of the box. And some of those more traditional ways of doing things that people have been doing, more traditional models for a long time, I could actually really use, and vice versa.