UNRIGGED with Kirk Coburn
The corporate game is rigged against executives over 40. Unrigged is how you get out.
I'm Kirk Coburn. I created the Fractional CMO category 15+ years ago and built a firm that's placed 2,000+ executives. Now I teach the system — so you can own the playbook, keep 100%, and stop asking permission from HR departments that already decided you don't fit.
This show is for corporate refugees ready to stop playing a losing game:
• The data on why traditional job searching is broken
• The fractional executive bypass (how to talk to founders, not HR)
• Process, not motivation — the stuff that actually works
• Real numbers, real stories, no corporate theater
New episodes weekly.
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Episodes
4 episodes
Stuart Du Casse: "They Mistake Activity for Confidence" — 30 Years of Automation Theater
Stuart Du Casse has spent 30 years inside enterprise systems. Finance. Public sector. Regulated industries. He's the guy leadership calls when dashboards say green but their gut says something's about to blow up. After watching the ...
When Corporate Betrayal Hits During Cancer Treatment - Tyler Wells Story
Tyler Wells spent 8 years building his career at an ad agency in Knoxville. Then brain cancer changed everything.When he asked for basic accommodation during chemotherapy - just a lighter workload while his body fought for his life - HR'...
She Saw the Rigged System at 25. Most of Us Needed a Layoff at 45.
Samriddhi Chakraborty quit corporate in her mid-20s after watching her career become "a black box of templated synergy." Now she runs Evango Group in India as a "fractional everything."In this episode:- Her cold outreach to land cli...
001: You're Not Getting Another Corporate Job (The Data & The Bypass)
60% of executives over 50 experience age discrimination in hiring. The system is rigged — but there's a bypass.HR filters you out. Founders don't. That's the whole game.In this episode:• The LinkedIn...