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Brett Trainor

Chicago
As seen in: The Time Rich Project (formerly the Corporate Escapee), C-Suite Market Update, LinkedIn, Medium, Substack, beehiiv, Libsyn, Anthesis
Helping $1M–$10M business owners grow with AI, flex staffing & a new operating model. Founder Frictionless AI Operating System
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By Brett Trainor
| LinkedIn
Corporate is completely unstable right now(shocker!). Over $1 trillion in stock buybacks in 2025. C-Suite would rather payback themselves and shareholders vs. investing in people or the business. Layoffs as a business strategy. This is drug corporate will not be able to quit AI being used as an excuse to pile more work on fewer people. There is no plan. The folks remaining will have to figure it out. And yet somehow, we're all supposed to believe the "safe" path is staying.
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Stop Building Your Life Around Your Job

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By Brett Trainor
| beehiiv
The Escapee Insider is a weekly-ish newsletter focused on helping folks transition from corporate to solopreneurship Just a quick reminder: You're getting this because you downloaded something from The Corporate Escapee at some point (and it could have been months ago). If this isn't your thing anymore, no hard feelings, just hit unsubscribe at the bottom. Last week we talked about the 5Fs and measuring your happiness. This week, let's talk about control.
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Introducing The Escapee Solopreneur Playbook

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By Brett Trainor
| Substack
I’ve been writing and talking about the anti-corporate life for a few years now, but I’ve never fully unpacked the biggest breakthrough I’ve had since becoming a solopreneur. It didn’t happen all at once. It wasn’t a single moment. It was more of a series of “wait… why didn’t I see this earlier?” moments that kept compounding. And over time, those moments turned into something clearer, sharper, and far more powerful than anything I expected when I left corporate.
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