The Truth About Building Your Next Chapter After an Executive Career | Underneath The Title Ep 6

The truth about building your next chapter after an executive career, and what it actually takes to navigate the identity shift that comes with leaving a role you spent decades building. Learn more about Kevin's advisory work: https://kevinsimcock.com Most people think the hardest part of leaving an executive career or selling a business is figuring out what comes next. It isn't. The hardest part is who you are without it. In this episode, Kevin Simcock unpacks the realities of professional transitions, including the grief no one talks about, the role your inner critic plays when the familiar disappears, and how to define your real identity once the title is no longer doing the work for you. This episode is for executives, founders, and senior leaders standing at the edge of a major shift. The ones who've built something significant and now find themselves asking what's underneath all of it. After more than two decades building his global advertising career, Kevin Simcock left it behind to start over. He failed. He started again. He built what looked logical based on his experience, but it didn't give him the fulfilment he was looking for. This episode is the honest version of what that journey actually looks like. Kevin gets into the grief that quietly destabilizes your sense of self when the empty calendar arrives, the role your inner critic plays in pulling you back to the familiar, and the values-based work of defining who you are when your title is no longer doing it for you. If you've recently exited, are contemplating one, or have been carrying the quiet sense that the identity you built no longer fits, this one's for you. Connect: Website: https://kevinsimcock.com LinkedIn:   / kevin-simcock   Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jtK... Book: Whose Ladder Is This? Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Indigo