Eric Dickmann's Podcasts
Welcome! This is home to podcasts designed to inform, challenge, and inspire professionals at every stage of their journey.
Here you’ll find The Virtual CMO, where Eric shares practical insights on B2B marketing, growth strategy, leadership, and the evolving world of modern marketing.
You’ll also find Beyond Expertise, a podcast exploring reinvention, identity, and what comes next when career titles no longer define who we are.
Whether you’re building a business, leading a team, or…
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May 28, 2026
The Grief of Outgrowing a Successful Career and Feeling Unfulfilled
A big title and a steady paycheck can still come with a surprising emotion: grief. When you wake up one day and realize you’ve outgrown the career that made you “successful,” it can feel disorienting, and even embarrassing, to admit that you want something different. I unpack why that misalignment happens, how it builds slowly over years, and why so many high-achieving professionals feel oddly guilty for not feeling more satisfied.
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May 21, 2026
How Getting Fired Sparked a Purpose Driven Social Enterprise with Merry Korn
Getting fired can punch a hole straight through your identity, especially when your career has been the proof that you’re “doing fine.” Mary Korn’s story cuts through that illusion. She had the title, the money, and the corporate ladder momentum, yet privately felt misaligned and depleted. Then she gets fired from a job she took in desperation and suddenly has to answer the scariest question of all: what now, with kids to support and no clear runway?
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May 19, 2026
From Corporate Communications to Purpose Driven Work with Ivonne Furneaux
Success can look flawless on LinkedIn while still feeling wrong in your body. That tension is exactly where my conversation with Yvonne Furneaux begins and where it gets most useful for anyone thinking about identity reinvention, career change, or a second chapter beyond a corporate title. Yvonne spent more than 25 years in corporate communications, employee experience, HR, and DEI leadership, and she shares what she learned from working within large systems that don’t treat everyone the same.
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May 14, 2026
A Real Estate Leader Discovers Alignment Helping Agents with Joe Arnao
A career can look successful and still feel strangely unfamiliar. Joe Arno spent decades building in sales, real estate leadership, and recruiting, only to realize that the work he was doing no longer matched the life he wanted to live. After a move, a bout with cancer, and one too many “shiny new” opportunities that didn’t fix the underlying problem, the misalignment became impossible to ignore.
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May 12, 2026
A Widowmaker Wake Up Call That Changed Everything with Adrian Jones
Two widowmaker heart attacks will either break your story or rewrite it. I sit down with Adrian “AJ” Jones, a longtime financial services leader who had to confront the question most high performers avoid until something forces it: what if the life you built no longer matches who you are? AJ walks me through the early twists that pulled him from international relations into finance, how comfort can become a trap, and how “fine” can mask deep misalignment.
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May 12, 2026
Building Visibility and Influence Without Being an Influencer
The hardest part of leaving corporate life is not losing a paycheck. It’s losing the built-in credibility that came with your title, your team, and the company name on your badge. When you become independent, you are the marketing department, the PR department, and the sales team overnight, and it can feel scary to put yourself out there when visibility was never part of your old job.