Hosted by Brett Trainor
Episodes
341
Latest episode
May 2026
Language
EN
The mission: help 1 million GenXers escape corporate control and build life-first futures. Corporate trained us to build our lives around a job description. Most of us didn't notice until something cracked. A layoff. A burnout. A quiet morning where we realized we'd traded a life for a paycheck. This show is for GenXers who are done letting corporate run the whole show. Some of you are still in, stirring. Some just got walked out. Some are a year past the WTF moment and figuring out what comes next. The work is the same. Take back control of the six things that actually matter. Financial. Friends and family. Fitness. Fulfillment. Fun. Focus. A Life-First Future isn't a side hustle. It's not a survival plan. It's a life you actually designed. Each week, host Brett Trainor talks with escapees, solopreneurs, and experts who've built one. No theory. No gurus. Real stories from people who left corporate behind and figured out what came next, plus solo episodes on what's working now. In a world racing toward digital and AI, we believe real human connection still matters most. That's why this show exists. Conversations you can't find on a feed, with people who get it. Get Busy Living.
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...
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...
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...
No one is coming to save you. Not your company. Not HR. Not the next reorg, promotion, or administration. That's not doom and gloom. That's actually the good news. Because once you accept it, you stop waiting. You stop hoping. And you start doing somet...
The Setup Six-plus years ago, when corporate quit on Brett, the goal was simple: make more money than corporate was paying him. That was it. Money, money, money. It took two years to realize money was never the real prize. What he was actually chasing ...
This one is personal. Brett flies solo to deliver the one thing he wishes someone had told him when he was still inside corporate grinding it out and telling himself it was the responsible thing to do. You already have permission. Permission to want so...
Most people leave corporate and immediately chase the familiar paths — consulting, coaching, fractional work. Those are valid. But they take time, runway, and a warm network. In this episode Brett breaks down three unexpected ways GenXers are generatin...
Kristen Hamborg is six weeks out of a 25-year corporate interior design career — and she's never looked back. In this episode Kristen shares how burnout, a pandemic pivot, and a coaching certification she pursued on the side slowly shifted everything. ...
Danielle Burken escaped corporate in September 2023 — but her journey started six years before that. In this episode Danielle shares how she went from a full-time agency job with two kids under two, to building a six-figure solopreneur business in unde...
Corporate is using AI to eliminate jobs. Escapees get to use it to multiply themselves. In this solo episode Brett pulls back the curtain on exactly how he runs his entire business with AI — the tools, the use cases, and the honest truth about what it ...
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