Brett Trainor Unplugged

Brett Trainor
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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 experts, and features in Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Inc., Brett Trainor is still on the quest to build his ideal life—and he shares what he learns along the way. Part personal journal, part practical guide, and part curious conversation, this is a candid, lightly produced show about stripping away the noise, rejecting unnecessary grind, and seeing more of what is possible. Brett is a deconstructor, explorer, dot connector, and self-admitted high-functioning lazy person. Through solo episodes and unfiltered conversations with Gen Xers, founders, creators, and experts, he explores the decisions, habits, tools, tradeoffs, and ideas that can help you build a life you actually want to live. The conversations span the areas that make life worth living: money, mind and body, purpose, connections, possibility, and fun. There is no singular path. No hustle theater. No permission required. Just better questions, useful ideas, and real examples that help you see what is possible—and ask: Why not me?

  1. 22h ago

    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...

  2. 3d ago

    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...

  3. Aug 11

    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...

  4. Aug 1

    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...

  5. Jul 25

    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 ...

  6. Jul 17

    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...

  7. Jul 15

    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 ...

  8. May 29

    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...

    The REAL Connection System (How Solo Escapees Actually Build a Pipeline) w/Janice Porter
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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 experts, and features in Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Inc., Brett Trainor is still on the quest to build his ideal life—and he shares what he learns along the way. Part personal journal, part practical guide, and part curious conversation, this is a candid, lightly produced show about stripping away the noise, rejecting unnecessary grind, and seeing more of what is possible. Brett is a deconstructor, explorer, dot connector, and self-admitted high-functioning lazy person. Through solo episodes and unfiltered conversations with Gen Xers, founders, creators, and experts, he explores the decisions, habits, tools, tradeoffs, and ideas that can help you build a life you actually want to live. The conversations span the areas that make life worth living: money, mind and body, purpose, connections, possibility, and fun. There is no singular path. No hustle theater. No permission required. Just better questions, useful ideas, and real examples that help you see what is possible—and ask: Why not me?

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  • Creator
    Brett Trainor
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    348
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 2019 B.T. LLC
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    Brett Trainor Unplugged

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