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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?
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?
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 6 days
Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
359 episodes
since June 20, 2019
episodic
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Hans Weygoldt had everything on paper. Good money, job security, the family business, the life that looks right from the outside. And he was empty.
He spent ten years trying to leave. Every time he sat down to bui…
I've had north of a hundred authors on this show. This one stuck with me differently, and it's because of one word: Purgatory.
Geoff Curtis spent nearly thirty years building a career in healthcare communications. Title, expertise, platform, the whole thing. Then the company was acquired, his role …
Megan Collier's first appearance is still one of my most downloaded episodes, so she's back.
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Shelley McIntyre is back on the show, and her first appearance is still one of the most downloaded episodes I've done.
She was a grief counselor before she was a coach, which is why she talks about layoffs differently than anyone else I know. We opened on the Oracle news, because the math on it is …
Somebody commented on one of my TikToks. He'd started his own solo business a couple years back, it's working, he's happy. Then he said "but it's not for everyone."
I'd been repeating that exact line for years and never once dug into it.
So this episode is two things. Why people still say entrepren…
Wes Wheless got laid off twice inside a few years. COVID, then the tech downturn. He wasn't angry about the second one. He just didn't have the energy to go attach himself to somebody else's mission again and wait for it to get taken away.
He didn't have a plan. He took a couple months, picked up s…
This one's a step back to look at the big picture, because a lot of the Gen Xers I talk to are too busy living life to see it.
Three things are colliding at once.
Corporate is chaos. It's not your age, it's your expense. Somebody can do half your job for half the price, and that's who gets picked. …
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 solo episode under the new name, and I wa…
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