The Executive Nomad Podcast
Your employer owned the job. It never owned the experience.
Honest conversations about building an independent life after a corporate career. The wins, losses and lessons.
The podcast has its own home at executivenomad.fm, with every episode, the upcoming recordings and guest bookings.
This show isn’t about changing jobs.
Most career change conversations focus on changing jobs, promotions or life after redundancy or retirement. This show isn’t.
Every episode is a straight conversation with someone who spent decades inside an organisation and is moving on to build their own thing, using what they’ve learnt to decide what they’ll offer.
Turning thirty years of experience into a business
Which parts of a long career are worth paying for, and how do you turn them into work you own?
“What do you know that somebody would pay for?”Losing the role, not the value
The company name comes off the business card when you leave. The knowledge in your head doesn’t.
“You can lose the title without losing the value.”AI and the experienced professional
Why AI makes experience worth more, not less, and where judgement still matters most.
“AI handles the tasks. You bring the judgement.”The portfolio career
Advisory work, board seats, workshops and part-time leadership, combined into one working life.
“Is your next chapter designed or accidental?”Life after the exit
The first year after an exit is where most people drift. How to decide what comes next on purpose.
“An exit buys you time. It doesn’t buy you a plan.”Where you live, and who decides
When the work is yours, where you live comes back to you, whether that means another country or simply staying home.
“Nobody else decides where you work today.”Recorded live. One guest at a time.
Intimate conversations with Jamie. If you’ve made the move, or you’re helping others make it, come and tell your story.
- Second Thursday of the month
- 2pm to 3pm UK · 9am US Eastern
- One guest per recording
Your host
Jamie Sylvian
Jamie is the founder of Executive Nomad and author of The Executive Nomad Operating System. He has worked for himself since 1991 and lived in 13 countries, with a client base that’s been global from day one. He co-founded SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com, which sold for £210 million in 2006.
He brings a candid founder’s view to building a business across borders: leading a dispersed team, working across cultures and generations, testing ideas and choosing the tools that get the work done.
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Every episode, the upcoming recordings and guest seats are on the podcast’s own site.
A look at executivenomad.fm, the podcast’s home.