Beyond Expertise
If you’ve spent decades building a career and now find yourself wondering what’s next, this podcast is for you. Beyond Expertise is a podcast about identity reinvention for professionals ready to explore who they are beyond their careers.
Recent Episodes
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.
How Getting Fired Sparked a Purpose Driven Social Enterprise with Merry Korn
From Corporate Communications to Purpose Driven Work with Ivonne Furneaux
A Real Estate Leader Discovers Alignment Helping Agents with Joe Arnao
A Widowmaker Wake Up Call That Changed Everything with Adrian Jones
Building Visibility and Influence Without Being an Influencer
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Recent Blog Posts
Getting fired is one of the most destabilizing career experiences a professional can face. It can strip away your identity, your income, and your sense of direction, all at once. But for those willing to sit with the discomfort long enough, it can a…
Some careers look like a straight line from the outside. From the inside, they feel like a long series of decisions made under pressure, in motion, with no map. Ivonne Furneaux spent more than 25 years navigating corporate America, from Target to Of…
About the Host
Host | Fractional CMO
Eric Dickmann is a former corporate executive who built a successful second chapter as an entrepreneur, fractional CMO, and podcast host. After years of leading marketing, product, and growth initiatives for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups, he made the leap from corporate leadership to building his own consulting business to help B2B companies grow through strategic marketing leadership.
As the host of The Virtual CMO, Eric has published more than 130 episodes featuring marketing leaders, founders, and growth experts. Through those conversations, he noticed a deeper theme that extended far beyond business strategy: many successful professionals eventually reach a point where they begin asking what comes next when titles, roles, and career identity no longer feel like the full story.
That realization inspired him to launch Beyond Expertise, a show exploring reinvention, relevance, confidence, and building a meaningful next chapter in midlife and beyond. Eric brings a rare mix of executive experience, entrepreneurial perspective, and personal honesty about navigating change in real time.
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