Breaking Corporate Dependency: Why Going Solo Alone Keeps You Stuck w/Brett Trainor

17 feb · The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)

Jon the Escapee Collective! What keeps 79% of corporate professionals stuck isn't lack of skills or opportunity—it's something deeper. In this solo episode, Brett shares the story of landing his first client, making good money, and then doing something...

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The REAL Connection System (How Solo Escapees Actually Build a Pipeline) w/Janice Porter
29 maj· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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Your Age Is the Asset (UGC, AI, and the GenX Advantage) w/Megan Collier
21 maj· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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8 Service Offerings GenX Escapee Could Offer Tomorrow
20 maj· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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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No One Is Coming to Save You: The Mindset Shift That Works Whether You Escape or Stay
13 maj· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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What a Life First Future Actually Looks Like (& Why You Can't Build One You Can't See)
6 maj· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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 ...
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Stop Waiting for Permission. Nobody is Coming to Give It to You
30 apr· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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3 Surprising Ways GenXers Are Replacing Their Corporate Income
17 apr· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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When the Work Stops Lighting You Up: Leaving Corporate Before They Push You Out w/ Kristen Hamborg
7 apr· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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. ...
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2 Kids Under Two, Full Time Job, & She Still Built It. No Excuses! w/ Danielle Burken
1 apr· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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AI Doesn't Replace Escapees — It Supercharges Them
20 mar· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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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4 Real Paths to Replace Your Corporate Income (And Why Franchising Deserves a Second Look)
13 mar· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
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...
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Laid Off 4 Times: What the Job Hunt Won't Teach You About Getting Back Up" (ft. Steve Jaffe)
6 mar· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
750 layoffs a day. No, that's not a typo — and it's not slowing down. Brett sits down with Steve Jaffe, marketing veteran and author of The Layoff Journey: From Dismissal to Discovery, to talk about what most career books completely skip: the emotional...
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I'm My Own Worst Enemy (And You Probably Are Too)
25 feb· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
There's a Lit song that's been stuck in my head for weeks: "My Own Worst Enemy." And it's the perfect metaphor for my entire solo journey. I've blocked myself at every stage—consulting, fractional leadership, and now with The Escapee Collective. Not in...
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The Truth About Fractional: Rates, Retainers, and Getting Your First Client (John Arms)
18 feb· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Fractional work is exploding — and it’s still confusing for a lot of corporate escapees. In this Featured Speaker session inside the Escapee Collective, John Arms breaks down Fractional 101 in plain English: what fractional really is, who it’s for, how...
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Breaking Corporate Dependency: Why Going Solo Alone Keeps You Stuck w/Brett Trainor
17 feb· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Jon the Escapee Collective! What keeps 79% of corporate professionals stuck isn't lack of skills or opportunity—it's something deeper. In this solo episode, Brett shares the story of landing his first client, making good money, and then doing something...
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Corporate Is Changing — 3 Trends Creating New Opportunities for Escapees in 2026
11 feb· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Corporate isn’t stabilizing—and that matters if your income still depends on it. In this solo episode, Brett breaks down three trends shaping the Escapee economy in 2026: a corporate metric that’s quietly driving layoffs, the rapid expansion of revenue...
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Ashley Returns: Two Years Into the Escape — What Worked, What Didn’t, What’s Next
6 feb· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Ashley Evenson returns for her third appearance on The Corporate Escapee Podcast — and this time it’s a real update from the field. Two years into her escape, she breaks down what actually helped her land fractional work, what surprised her, and the bi...
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Your Job Title Isn’t Your Identity: How to Tell a Bigger Story w/ Catherine Jelinek
4 feb· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Corporate gives you an easy identity: your title, your company, your lane. But once you start building something outside corporate—consulting, fractional, content, a book, a business—that identity disappears fast. And that’s where most people get stuck...
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Special Episode: What Happens After Corporate Breaks (w/ John Arms)
29 jan· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Post Corporate Life with Brett Trainor & John Arms I recently had the chance to join John Arms on his podcast: Fractional Unfiltered Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0z9pQOOMZEVI4T2NvoOiqP?si=uJoycF4LRGyZQNB4MofrtQ John was kind enough to allow m...
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The Surprising Keys to Succeeding Outside of Corporate
28 jan· The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee)
Most people believe the ones who succeed after escaping corporate are the smartest, most experienced, or most credentialed. They’re not. In this solo episode, Brett breaks down a pattern he’s seen across hundreds—if not thousands—of conversations with ...
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The REAL Connection System (How Solo Escapees Actually Build a Pipeline) w/Janice Porter

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

8 Service Offerings GenX Escapee Could Offer Tomorrow

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

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

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

3 Surprising Ways GenXers Are Replacing Their Corporate Income

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

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

AI Doesn't Replace Escapees — It Supercharges Them

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

Laid Off 4 Times: What the Job Hunt Won't Teach You About Getting Back Up" (ft. Steve Jaffe)

I'm My Own Worst Enemy (And You Probably Are Too)

The Truth About Fractional: Rates, Retainers, and Getting Your First Client (John Arms)

Breaking Corporate Dependency: Why Going Solo Alone Keeps You Stuck w/Brett Trainor

Corporate Is Changing — 3 Trends Creating New Opportunities for Escapees in 2026

Ashley Returns: Two Years Into the Escape — What Worked, What Didn’t, What’s Next

Your Job Title Isn’t Your Identity: How to Tell a Bigger Story w/ Catherine Jelinek

Special Episode: What Happens After Corporate Breaks (w/ John Arms)

The Surprising Keys to Succeeding Outside of Corporate