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The REAL Connection System (How Solo Escapees Actually Build a Pipeline) w/Janice Porter
May 29, 2026
39m 50s
Your Age Is the Asset (UGC, AI, and the GenX Advantage) w/Megan Collier
May 21, 2026
42m 29s
8 Service Offerings GenX Escapee Could Offer Tomorrow
May 20, 2026
27m 51s
No One Is Coming to Save You: The Mindset Shift That Works Whether You Escape or Stay
May 13, 2026
20m 52s
What a Life First Future Actually Looks Like (& Why You Can't Build One You Can't See)
May 6, 2026
23m 49s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/29/26 |  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... | 39m 50s | ||||||
| 5/21/26 | 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... | 42m 29s | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | 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... | 27m 51s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | 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... | 20m 52s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | 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 ... | 23m 49s | ||||||
| 4/30/26 | Stop Waiting for Permission. Nobody is Coming to Give It to You✨ | personal developmentcorporate life+3 | — | — | — | permissioncorporate escape+3 | — | 16m 53s | |
| 4/17/26 |  3 Surprising Ways GenXers Are Replacing Their Corporate Income✨ | GenX income strategiesAI opportunities+3 | — | — | — | GenXcorporate escape+6 | — | 15m 33s | |
| 4/7/26 |  When the Work Stops Lighting You Up: Leaving Corporate Before They Push You Out w/ Kristen Hamborg✨ | burnoutcareer transition+4 | Kristen Hamborg | — | — | corporate escapeinterior design+6 | — | 34m 09s | |
| 4/1/26 |  2 Kids Under Two, Full Time Job, & She Still Built It. No Excuses! w/ Danielle Burken✨ | corporate escapesolopreneurship+4 | Danielle Burken | human design | — | corporate escapesolopreneur+5 | — | 34m 03s | |
| 3/20/26 |  AI Doesn't Replace Escapees — It Supercharges Them✨ | AI in businesscorporate escape+4 | — | AIChatGPT+2 | — | AI toolsbusiness strategy+4 | — | 17m 35s | |
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| 3/13/26 |  4 Real Paths to Replace Your Corporate Income (And Why Franchising Deserves a Second Look)✨ | corporate escapefranchising+3 | — | — | — | corporate incomeconsulting+3 | — | 15m 25s | |
| 3/6/26 |  Laid Off 4 Times: What the Job Hunt Won't Teach You About Getting Back Up" (ft. Steve Jaffe)✨ | job lossemotional toll of layoffs+5 | Steve Jaffe | The Layoff Journey: From Dismissal to Discovery | — | layoffsjob hunt+6 | — | 31m 47s | |
| 2/25/26 |  I'm My Own Worst Enemy (And You Probably Are Too)✨ | self-sabotageentrepreneurship+4 | — | The Escapee CollectiveTikTok+1 | — | self-improvementconsulting+5 | — | 20m 45s | |
| 2/18/26 |  The Truth About Fractional: Rates, Retainers, and Getting Your First Client (John Arms)✨ | fractional workclient acquisition+3 | John Arms | — | — | fractional workclient acquisition+3 | — | 45m 34s | |
| 2/17/26 |  Breaking Corporate Dependency: Why Going Solo Alone Keeps You Stuck w/Brett Trainor✨ | corporate dependencygoing solo+3 | — | — | — | corporate professionalsfirst client+4 | — | 17m 22s | |
| 2/11/26 | Corporate Is Changing — 3 Trends Creating New Opportunities for Escapees in 2026✨ | corporate trendsEscapee economy+3 | — | — | — | corporate layoffsRevenue Per Employee+3 | — | 20m 21s | |
| 2/6/26 |  Ashley Returns: Two Years Into the Escape — What Worked, What Didn’t, What’s Next | 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... | 36m 31s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 |  Your Job Title Isn’t Your Identity: How to Tell a Bigger Story w/ Catherine Jelinek | 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... | 28m 36s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  Special Episode: What Happens After Corporate Breaks (w/ John Arms) | 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... | 58m 22s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 |  The Surprising Keys to Succeeding Outside of Corporate | 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 ... | 13m 41s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 |  Sequence Over Strategy: How Escapees Actually Find Their Path w/ Michelle Warner | Michelle Warner took the “escapee avoidance” route — she planned to do the traditional MBA-to-consulting path… then graduated straight into the Great Recession (the day Lehman fell). That curveball pushed her into entrepreneurship early: a founder-for-... | 38m 06s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  The Zillow of Franchising: A Smarter Way to Leave Corporate w/ Alex Smereczniak | If you’ve been thinking about leaving corporate but the risk feels too big, this episode gives you a smarter way to look at it. Brett sits down with Alex Smereczniak, a former EY consultant who left corporate early, built a high-growth business in the ... | 45m 49s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 |  “What Am I Doing Here?” — How Tom Mirabella Escaped Corporate at 30 | Tom Mirabella left corporate at 30 and never looked back. Seventeen years later, he’s built Wingman into a 25-person business by doing what corporate rarely rewards: solving problems fast, betting on relationships, and staying obsessively close to cust... | 54m 28s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 |  From $40K in Debt to $20K Months: The No-BS Path to Profit + Freedom w/Pia Silva | What if scaling your business didn’t require hiring, hustling harder, or stacking endless clients? In this episode, Brett sits down with Pia Silva (No BS Mastery) to break down a simple model for building a highly profitable solo (or two-person) busine... | 41m 46s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 |  Why Most Corporate Escapees Fail (And How to Avoid It) | Why do so many people leave corporate… only to end up going back? In this solo episode, Brett breaks down the two core reasons most corporate escapees fail—and more importantly, how to avoid them. Failure here doesn’t mean experimenting and choosing co... | 18m 02s | ||||||
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