Underneath The Title: When High Achievers Start Questioning the Success They Built
You did everything right. Built the career. Earned the title. Hit the number. And somewhere along the way, you stopped recognizing the person doing it.
Underneath The Title is a podcast for executives and senior leaders who have experienced a significant exit and are starting to ask the questions they've been too busy to ask: Who am I when the role goes away? What was I actually building toward? Is this it?
Host Kevin Simcock spent 25 years leading creative work for some of the world's most recognized brands at global ad agencies like Y&R, Havas and Ogilvy. He was furloughed from a global VP role at 50, turned down the replacement offer, and chose to figure out what success actually meant to him. What he found changed everything.
Each episode goes beneath the surface of professional identity to explore what drives the decisions we make, the success we chase, and the fulfilment we keep expecting to arrive. Kevin draws on his own experience, his work with senior leaders and business owners navigating major transitions, and his framework, The Dance, which holds that your professional and personal identity were never meant to be separate.
If you're in the middle of a transition, questioning what comes next, or simply wondering why the success you've built feels quieter than you expected, this show was made for you.
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Kevin is also the author of Whose Ladder Is This? and an executive advisor working one-to-one with high-achievers navigating identity and transition.
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Underneath The Title: When High Achievers Start Questioning the Success They Built
The Truth About Building Your Next Chapter
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Most people think the hardest part of leaving an executive role is figuring out what comes next. It isn't. The hardest part is who you are without it.
In this episode of Underneath The Title, Kevin Simcock unpacks the realities of transitioning out of an executive career or business ownership, and what it actually takes to build your next chapter. After more than two decades building his global advertising career, Kevin walked away from it to start over in a new industry. This is the honest version of what that journey looks like.
What you'll hear in this episode:
The grief no one warns you about. Why the empty calendar, the silent phone, and the loss of routine quietly destabilize your sense of self, and what to do when grief shows up in the middle of a professional shift.
The role your inner critic plays. A grounded look at the Ego, the Super Ego, and the complex, and why understanding the difference helps you stop letting the wrong voice run your decisions.
How to answer the question most accomplished leaders can't answer cleanly: tell me who you are without giving me a title, a role, or describing what you do. Kevin shares the values-based exercise he used to find his own answer, and the one his clients use to find theirs.
This episode is for executives, founders, and senior leaders standing at the edge of a major shift, the ones who've built something significant and now find themselves asking what's underneath all of it.
Mentioned in this episode: Kevin's book, Whose Ladder Is This? Available on Amazon (Kindle, paperback, hardcover), Barnes & Noble | Indigo Books
Connect with Kevin: Website: kevinsimcock.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kevin-simcock YouTube: youtube.com/@kevinsimcock
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