About M. Meyerz

THE S Q U E E Z E IS REAL

THE START

Started on a collections dialer. Turns out, getting yelled at was a strength and cashing it in was a skill that started it all.

THE GRIND

Twenty-five years across collections, sales, mortgage, risk operations. The 2008 crash. Corporate mergers. Fourteen-hour days. Worked their way up and climbed back down the corporate ladder a time or two. Still grinding today.

THE SCARS

Worked for tyrants. Repeated the mistakes sworn never to repeat. Had way too many days that ended with, "does any of this even matter?"

THE TRUTH

M. Meyerz discovered what matters is acceptance that the job is messy and that people are complicated. That is the Wednesday morning reality.

HOPE. HONESTY. GOOD STORIES.

M. Meyerz writes with grit, hope, and honesty. And loves a good leadership story that makes you go, wait, what?!

THE NAME

Back in the '90s, if you worked in collections, an alias was optional — but come on, you likely didn't use your real name, especially if it was unique. You called strangers and told them to pay their damn bill. This was a time the phone book wasn't just used as a paperweight. People actually found names and numbers. So yeah, aliases were used. And that's how M. Meyerz was born.

Fast forward. The alias has a new job. Meyerz isn't collecting money anymore. Instead, they're collecting scars and telling the kind of truth most leadership authors are too nervous to write. So the persona had to make a comeback. Hey, everything from the '90s is back in style, why not this. The funny thing is, Meyerz is working in plain sight, still collecting stories. Somewhere, old bosses are reading this and sweating. And maybe they should.

In the writing world, it's not an alias. It's a pen name. Either way, some of your favorite authors used them and you had no idea for years. A persona gives the work its own life, its own edge, its own voice. And this voice, M. Meyerz, doesn't answer to HR.

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A STORY

It's your first day at a new company. You're sitting in a chair with fifteen other people, all of you excited to start this new journey. The instructor walks in, introduces themselves, and says, "Leave all your stuff. We're going to step out to the hallway for a moment."

Odd, but you do it. You walk out to the hallway. Your instructor looks each of you in the eyes and says that before you can continue your training, there's something you need to do first.

You're a little on edge now. What's going on. But you're still with them.

"Take your hand. Gesture toward your chest. Now make a motion as if you are ripping your heart out. While your beating heart is in your hand, throw it on the ground and stomp on it. Stomp out your feelings. If you want to work at this company and do this job, that's what you have to do. If you're not willing, you can leave. If you are, come back in the training room and we'll get started."

In 2026, there is absolutely zero chance you could get away with that.

But back in the day, you know, when people walked ten miles in the snow to get to school — you could get away with it. And Meyerz did.

If you're wondering if this is just another leadership book, it's not. This is the grit. This is the style. This is M. Meyerz, the writer of Roughly Right.

The alias was retired. The persona wasn't. When it came time to write a book that told the truth about leadership without the corporate filter, M. Meyerz opened the door, waved, and walked back in.

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