Underneath The Title: When High Achievers Start Questioning the Success They Built
You did everything right. Built the career. Earned the title. Hit the number. And somewhere along the way, you stopped recognizing the person doing it.
Underneath The Title is a podcast for executives and senior leaders who have experienced a significant exit and are starting to ask the questions they've been too busy to ask: Who am I when the role goes away? What was I actually building toward? Is this it?
Host Kevin Simcock spent 25 years leading creative work for some of the world's most recognized brands at global ad agencies like Y&R, Havas and Ogilvy. He was furloughed from a global VP role at 50, turned down the replacement offer, and chose to figure out what success actually meant to him. What he found changed everything.
Each episode goes beneath the surface of professional identity to explore what drives the decisions we make, the success we chase, and the fulfilment we keep expecting to arrive. Kevin draws on his own experience, his work with senior leaders and business owners navigating major transitions, and his framework, The Dance, which holds that your professional and personal identity were never meant to be separate.
If you're in the middle of a transition, questioning what comes next, or simply wondering why the success you've built feels quieter than you expected, this show was made for you.
New episodes bi-weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
Kevin is also the author of Whose Ladder Is This? and an executive advisor working one-to-one with high-achievers navigating identity and transition.
Purchase Kevin Simcock's Book: Whose Ladder Is This?
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Underneath The Title: When High Achievers Start Questioning the Success They Built
Scaling You: The Inner Work Founders Must Consider to Grow Their Business
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Your business isn’t stalled because of your systems, team, market conditions, or even strategy. It’s stalled because of something far more uncomfortable. Something most leadership advice completely misses.
You.
In this episode of Pivotal, I break down the hidden force driving every decision, every bottleneck, every high-stakes moment in your business: your identity as a founder. Not the role. Not the title. The real you behind it. The version of you that shows up under pressure, risk and uncertainty.
Most founders follow leadership advice built for corporations with layers of protection. But you don’t have that luxury. You are the business, which means your beliefs, fears, patterns and blind spots are either accelerating growth or quietly killing it.
This episode digs into:
• The biggest leadership mistake founders make without knowing it
• Why your identity shapes revenue more than your strategy
• How control, fear and avoidance sabotage growth from the inside
• Real-world examples of leadership patterns that cost companies millions
• What actually changes when a founder evolves into the leader their next stage demands
If you’re staring at a growth plateau, wondering what’s really going on, this conversation will give you a clear answer. And it might not be the answer you expected.
This is the work that separates founders who scale from those who stall.
Tune in, get honest, and see what version of you your business has been waiting for.
Purchase Kevin Simcock’s Book: Whose ladder Is This?
Available on Amazon Kindle, paperback and hardcover HERE
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Host: Kevin Simcock
LinkedIn Profile https://linkedin.com/kevin-simcock
