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Stuart Du Casse: "They Mistake Activity for Confidence" — 30 Years of Automation Theater

2026-02-1839:11

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 same patterns repeat for three decades — middle management containing bad news, millions wasted on testing theater, organizations throwing bodies at problems instead of fixing root causes — Stuart built AutoSpec QA and started selling his expertise directly t...

When Corporate Betrayal Hits During Cancer Treatment - Tyler Wells Story

2026-02-1039:29

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's response was brutal: "We're not obligated to help you." They repeated it five times. This wasn't some startup. This was a global company with "unlimited PTO" - the same policy they called "abuse" when Tyler actually needed it. In this episode, Tyler breaks ...

She Saw the Rigged System at 25. Most of Us Needed a Layoff at 45.

2026-02-0447:46

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 frac...

001: You're Not Getting Another Corporate Job (The Data & The Bypass)

2026-01-2717:15

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/AARP data on age discrimination (it's worse than you think) • Why HR is incentivized to filter you out — and it's not personal • The fractional executive bypass: Talk to founders, not recruiters • "Qualify hard, close soft" — the framework that actually works • The David story: What founders r...

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