Sean Mueller built a hedge fund empire from the ground up—without a college degree—raising over $100M and becoming “the guy who never lost money.” But in the pressure-cooker era of Bernie Madoff and Wall Street crackdowns, a string of ethical blind spots and performance-driven decisions led to a securities fraud conviction and a 40-year state prison sentence.

In this episode of Nightmare Success In & Out, Sean opens up about the mindset shifts that fueled both his rise and his downfall, the moment everything collapsed, and what it took to rebuild his life from inside prison walls. Today, he’s a summa cum laude graduate, an advocate for prison education, and the author of the upcoming book: After The Walls: Living Without Shortcuts—speaking to leaders, compliance teams, and professional audiences about ethical decision-making under pressure and transforming setbacks into strength.

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