The Corporate Escapee: Get Busy Living with Brett Trainor

Brett Trainor
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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.

  1. 5D AGO

    No One Is Coming to Save You: The Mindset Shift That Works Whether You Escape or Stay

    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...

    21 min

  2. MAY 6

    What a Life First Future Actually Looks Like (& Why You Can't Build One You Can't See)

    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 ...

    24 min

  3. APR 30

    Stop Waiting for Permission. Nobody is Coming to Give It to You

    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...

    17 min
  4. 3 Surprising Ways GenXers Are Replacing Their Corporate Income

    APR 17

    3 Surprising Ways GenXers Are Replacing Their Corporate Income

    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...

    16 min
  5. When the Work Stops Lighting You Up: Leaving Corporate Before They Push You Out w/ Kristen Hamborg

    APR 7

    When the Work Stops Lighting You Up: Leaving Corporate Before They Push You Out w/ Kristen Hamborg

    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. ...

    34 min
  6. 2 Kids Under Two, Full Time Job, & She Still Built It. No Excuses! w/ Danielle Burken

    APR 1

    2 Kids Under Two, Full Time Job, & She Still Built It. No Excuses! w/ Danielle Burken

    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...

    34 min
  7. AI Doesn't Replace Escapees — It Supercharges Them

    MAR 20

    AI Doesn't Replace Escapees — It Supercharges Them

    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 ...

    18 min
  8. 4 Real Paths to Replace Your Corporate Income (And Why Franchising Deserves a Second Look)

    MAR 13

    4 Real Paths to Replace Your Corporate Income (And Why Franchising Deserves a Second Look)

    The 4 Real Paths to Replace Your Corporate Income Most corporate escapees think they only have two options: find another job or figure out how to start a business from scratch. But there are actually four legitimate paths to replacing your corporate in...

    15 min
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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.

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