For Gen X, whether you are still in or already out
Take control of your time, and be intentional about how you spend it. That is a time rich life. This is where you build it, and you don’t do it alone.
Define it → Fund it → Live it
Start free. The Time Rich Life Guide, the simple path to taking back your time.
As featured in
“Top career coach warns Gen X…” Fortune
The reality
Some will hang on longer than others, but it ends. That is not a scare tactic, it is arithmetic. Careers are ending earlier, pensions are gone, and we are living decades longer than the old model was built for.
If you are still in it, you may not see it coming. I did not. They made the decision for me. What I decided was that I was not going back.
Nothing about this is easy. But if everything is hard, choose the hard that benefits you.
Keep your head down, hope it lasts, and figure it out when the decision gets made for you. Most people pick this one by default, not on purpose.
Start now, while you still have runway. Decide what you want, work out how to fund it, and meet the exit on your terms instead of theirs.
What to expect
Most people picture one of two things when they imagine life after corporate. Both are available if you choose them. Most people choose neither.
Same kind of work, fewer meetings, better hours. A softer version of what you already know.
Raising money, building a company, working 80 hours to escape working 50.
What actually happens is stranger, and better, than either one. Nobody describes it accurately, which is exactly why it feels so scary.
None of that means you made a mistake. That is the process, and almost everyone hits most of it. The good news is the first stretch is the hardest, you need less money than you think, and nobody is judging you. That feeling is corporate too.
The framework
It comes down to three moves. This is how you get out in front of the transition instead of letting it happen to you.
Everyone is smart enough to figure this out on their own. I did. It just took me years, I did it alone, and it did not have to be that hard.
Why the community
Your still-in-corporate friends mean well, but they can’t see the path you’re on. In the Collective, everyone can. People in it right beside you, and people a step or two ahead who already did what you’re staring down.
You don’t do this alone.
What’s inside
The Collective
The community for experienced professionals taking control of their time and building a life they actually want. This is the human part, surrounding yourself with people on the same journey, at the same time.
A small group going through exactly what you're going through. Your friends still inside can't relate. These people get it.
Not a support group, not a lecture. Real ideas run through the filter, together. People who work, ideate, and push each other forward.
Define your life, fund it, live it. The path that turns talking about it into actually moving. It's the reason this works.
Get there quicker, and not alone.
Who this is for
It does not matter where you are standing right now. The work is the same, only the urgency changes.
Laid off, pushed out, restructured. You’re figuring out what’s next, and you’re done chasing another version of the same job.
You made the leap, but it’s not quite clicking, and you’re tired of piecing it together alone.
You can see the door coming. The smart move: use the time and income you still have to get ahead of it.
The podcast
Two kinds of episodes: people who built a life on the other side of corporate, and the simple moves that get you there. I ask every guest if they'd go back. Not one has said yes.
Where to start
Life is too damn short to do this alone. Your circle of five, monthly working sessions, and the full program. Gen Xers making the same transition, together.
Join the Collective →Real people living on the other side of corporate. What it looks like and how they got there. I ask all of them if they would go back. Not one has said yes.
Listen on Spotify →What corporate taught you that you now have to unlearn, and what actually works on the other side. Short, useful, no fluff.
Subscribe →You can keep spending it on autopilot, or take control now and build the life you’ve earned. Come do it with people who get it.
Join the CollectiveNot ready? Start with the free Time Rich Life Guide.