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
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UNRIGGED with Kirk Coburn
She Saw the Rigged System at 25. Most of Us Needed a Layoff at 45.
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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 client #1 (agencies wouldn't touch them)
- Why "timing beats fit" in prospecting
- Building fractional in a market that doesn't think it works
- The moment she stopped chasing "shimmer" brands
If you think you're too young, too old, or in the wrong market for fractional — listen up.
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