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The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)

The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)

Hosted by Brett Trainor

Episodes

346

Latest episode

Aug 2026

Language

EN

About the show

Life's too short to keep going through the motions. If you're Gen X and you did everything right, but somewhere in your 40s or 50s you looked up and thought "is this it?", this show is for you. The Time Rich Project is about one thing: taking back control of your time so you can live the life you actually want, on your terms. Not someday. Now. Whether you're still in corporate or already out. Host Brett Trainor brings you two kinds of episodes. Real people living time-rich lives, so you can see what's possible. And the simple how, the moves that free up your time and fund the life you want in the fewest hours. No guru talk. No hustle. Just an operator a few steps down the road, showing you it's doable. Start living the life you want, on your terms.

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August 22, 202620 min

9 Things I Learned in 6 Years Out of Corporate

Corporate quit on me just over six years ago. At the time I thought this was about one thing: replacing my income. Six years, 350 episodes, and a whole lot of experiments later, I've figured out it was never really about the money. This is the first so...

August 19, 20268 min

Brett Trainor Unplugged

Brett Trainor Unplugged is for Gen Xers who want to get one step closer to living the life they want—on their terms. After six years of building life beyond the default corporate playbook, thousands of conversations with Gen Xers, entrepreneurs, and ex...

August 11, 202625 min

You Can Always Make More Money. You Can't Make More Time

You can always make more money. You can't make more time. This is the episode that ties the whole thing together: what a time rich life actually is, and why control of your time, not your income, is the key to the life you want. My first year out of co...

August 1, 202631 min

15 Ways I've Made Money Since Leaving Corporate

Making money outside corporate is easier than landing your next corporate job. After a thousand-plus conversations with people leaving corporate, the blocker is almost never skill or experience. It's that we overcomplicate it. This one is all mechanics...

July 25, 202622 min

What Pro Athletes Know That Corporate Won't Tell You

Pro athletes know their career has an expiration date. Corporate never tells you yours has one too. Here's the part nobody says out loud: when corporate moves on from you, it usually isn't because your talent slipped. You just got too expensive. Gen X ...

July 17, 202645 min

The Hardest Boss to Fire Is You (with Diana Alt)

"Work should feel good. Not a long, slow march to oblivion." That's Diana Alt, and it's the perfect line to open our first guest episode under The Time Rich Project. Diana is an executive and career coach who came out of tech. She works with people who...

July 15, 202622 min

Sunrise, Not Sunset: Life After 50 Isn't the Wind-Down

For six years I thought I was running from corporate. Turns out I was chasing the wrong thing. Welcome to The Time Rich Project. Same host, evolved mission, new name. This is the first episode under it, and I get into why the change and why it matters ...

May 29, 202639 min

The REAL Connection System (How Solo Escapees Actually Build a Pipeline) w/Janice Porter

Janice Porter has been on LinkedIn since 2004, hosts the Relationships Rule podcast (368+ episodes), and has spent almost two decades teaching solo operators the part of business most of us got wrong in corporate: the relationship part. In this convers...

May 21, 202642 min

Your Age Is the Asset (UGC, AI, and the GenX Advantage) w/Megan Collier

Episode Description Megan Collier (@megan_ugc, 300K+ on TikTok) is back on The Corporate Escapee for a Round 2 conversation, and the market has shifted under our feet. UGC, user-generated content, is now a real path to $2K to $15K a month for people wh...

May 20, 202627 min

8 Service Offerings GenX Escapee Could Offer Tomorrow

Episode description: GenX is elite at overcomplicating making money. A Millennial gets a side hustle idea and is live by Sunday. A Gen Z is already filming the TikTok. A GenXer opens a Google Doc, then a spreadsheet, then researches LLC structure, then...

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