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From Farm to Fortune to Footlights With Clay Creasey

What do a Napa Valley farm, Stanford University frat life, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and the Ojai stage have in common?

Clay Creasey.

In this wide-ranging and unexpectedly fun conversation, Clay traces his journey from early mornings on the farm to high-stakes corporate finance, navigating takeovers, turnarounds, and the slow, relentless shift of retail in the age of Amazon. Along the way, we dig into how he thinks about risk, decision-making, and the difference between problems you can fix — and forces you can’t.

But this isn’t just a business story. It’s about reinvention. About landing in…

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