Beyond Expertise
If you’ve spent years 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. Hosted by former corporate executive and fractional CMO Eric Dickmann, the show explores reinvention, purpose, creativity, and personal growth after decades focused on professional achievement. This isn’t a traditional business podcast. It’s about rediscovering identity, exploring new interests, and becoming more fully yourself.
Episodes
10 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 wa...
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 momentu...
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,...
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...
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, t...
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 ...
COVID Closed the Stage and Opened a New Career with Kate Kayaian
The strangest career clue is not burnout, it's relief. When concert cellist Kate Kayaian watched her entire performance calendar vanish during COVID, she expected panic. What she felt instead was a weight lifted, and that single emotional momen...
From Selling Canned Corn to Purposeful Coaching with Chip Scholz
A layoff. A cross-country move. A booming coaching practice. Then a stroke that forced a hard pause. Chip Scholz’s story is a sharp reminder that career and identity reinvention rarely unfold as we script them, and that “success” can still quie...
So, What Do You Do? Our Identities vs Our Careers
Your job title can make introductions easier, but it can also quietly take over your identity. In this episode, I’m digging into what happens when we tie our self-worth to corporate roles, company logos, and the status that comes with them, the...
Beyond Expertise - When Your Job Title Stops Defining You
Your career can provide you with status, structure, and a straightforward answer to the question “Who are you?” Then one day, that answer stops working. Maybe you’re tired of climbing the corporate ladder. Maybe your role disappears in a layoff...
