Nate the Great
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Nate Thorne, EA, CF-L1—better known as “Nate the Great”—is the CEO and Founder of CFO on Call, LLC, a tax and advisory firm serving clients from Scottsdale, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. An Enrolled Agent authorized to represent taxpayers before the IRS, Level 1 CrossFit Trainer, Certified Tax Maverick Tax Strategist, and RamseyTrusted Tax Pro, Nate has more than 28 years of experience helping high-net-worth individuals and business owners build wealth through strategic tax planning. Under his leadership, CFO on Call has grown to approximately $2 million in annual revenue. Alongside his wife, Kimberly Wang—a successful Arizona Realtor, entrepreneur, singer, and songwriter—Nate has built a life centered on recovery, health, entrepreneurship, financial freedom, and giving back.
Nate’s greatest success, however, is his comeback. After years of addiction left him with just $150, facing the loss of his home and detoxing on a jail floor in 2018, he rebuilt his life one day at a time. He went from 300 pounds to competing as a Masters CrossFit athlete and now serves on the boards of The Barbell Saves Project and Steps to Recovery Homes. As host of The Great Comeback with Nate the Great, Nate shares his journey to inspire others to believe that sobriety, fitness, financial freedom, and personal transformation are all part of the same journey, and that everyone deserves a Great Comeback.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- How Nate the Great transformed a 2018 jail-floor detox into a $2 million tax and advisory firm.
- Why he credits daily consistency—not special talent—for his comeback from addiction, poverty, and obesity.
- How CFO on Call helps high-net-worth clients save hundreds of thousands of dollars through proactive tax strategies.
- That losing eighty pounds and becoming a CrossFit Level 1 coach started with showing up every day.
- How Nate replaced drugs with food, then replaced food with fitness to compete in Masters CrossFit events.
- Why he believes recovering out loud can keep others from dying in silence during their own struggles.
- That anyone can go from broke to millionaire, fat to fit, and addict to purpose through the next right thing.
- How owning three homes and leading a RamseyTrusted tax practice grew from borrowing money for tax software in 2018.
about the show
Overcoming addiction requires discipline, clarity, and resilience — the exact qualities needed to build a successful commercial business. Clean and Thriving TV reveals how business owners in recovery translate their personal transformation into building and running real commercial enterprises.
Clean and Thriving TV is a premium television docuseries spotlighting business owners who refused to let their past define them. Honoring the grit required to overcome addiction and build a business, the series focuses on operational growth, daily execution, and commercial success beyond recovery.
The series takes viewers inside the authentic stories of business owners who turned their lives around and built thriving companies. Clean and Thriving TV serves as the definitive national stage for these entrepreneurs to share their business insights and inspire others.
