What's Next After Success
Formerly Underneath The Title, What’s Next After Success explores the personal and strategic questions that emerge on the other side of achievement.
You built the business, earned the title and reached the goal. Now you are asking a different question: What comes next after success?
Underneath The Title: What Comes Next After Success is a podcast for founders, business owners, executives and accomplished professionals navigating life after selling a business, leaving a leadership role or reaching the point where the success they built no longer feels fulfilling.
Hosted by Kevin Simcock, the show explores the personal and strategic questions that surface on the other side of achievement: Who am I without the role? Why can success feel unexpectedly empty? What gives me meaning now? And what do I want to do next?
Through candid conversations and solo episodes, Kevin explores founder identity after a business exit, finding purpose and meaning after success, executive and career transitions, redefining success and building a meaningful next chapter. Rather than telling listeners to reinvent themselves, Underneath The Title offers another possibility: reconnecting with the parts of themselves they left behind while becoming the version success rewarded.
Kevin brings more than two decades of global creative and corporate leadership experience, along with the perspective of navigating his own major career transition at 50. He is the creator of the RECLAIM methodology, author of Whose Ladder Is This?, and a private advisor to successful founders, business owners, executives and accomplished professionals world-wide.
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Episodes
47 episodes
AI Can Help You Build Almost Anything. But What Should You Build?
AI is making it easier than ever to research an idea, test a business, and build something new. At the same time, it is changing how companies think about roles, headcount, and the future of work, raising a bigger question for accomplished prof...
The Other Side of Success
Success was supposed to be the destination. So why doesn’t it feel like enough?After years of chasing promotions, growing businesses, building wealth, or reaching major career milestones, many accomplished professionals discover a...
Finding Your Purpose: Why Success Doesn’t Always Lead to Fulfillment
What if purpose isn’t something you find… but something you reconnect with?Many successful professionals spend years chasing achievement, believing that the next promotion, business milestone, or financial goal will finally bring ...
How to Choose Your Next Chapter
Most people design their next chapter using the identity that built the last one. That's exactly why it doesn't fit.In this episode, Kevin unpacks why defaulting to your past self when planning what's next leads so many high-achievers ba...
The Truth About Building Your Next Chapter
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 transit...
Who Is Your Inner Critic?
There's a voice in your head that shows up every time you're about to do something that matters.It arrives right on cue. You've thought the decision through. The logic holds. You can see the path. And then it starts. What if this goes wr...
The Days When Nothing Works
Some days after a big exit, nothing feels right. You're not inspired. You're not productive. You can't make yourself care. And underneath the flatness, there's a quiet question: is this even what I want to be doing?In this episode, Kevin...
Success Doesn't Prepare You For This.
You built the career. You hit the numbers. And then one day, you woke up and didn't quite recognize yourself anymore.That feeling has a name. Most people never learn it.In this episode of Underneath The Title, Kevin Simcock unpack...
What the Most Cited Career Reinvention Book Gets Wrong
Herminia Ibarra's Working Identity is one of the most cited books in career reinvention. It's been assigned in business schools, recommended by coaches, and trusted by high-achievers navigating major transitions. And it gets something ...
The Hidden Cost of Exit: What No One Tells You About Exiting A Business & Executive Leadership
Everyone talks about the exit. Nobody talks about what comes after it.If you've recently stepped away from a business you built, a company you led, or an executive role that defined you for decades and something feels off, you're not bro...
Finding Your Direction After Exiting a Corporate Career or Business Ownership
Podcast Description: Finding Your Direction After the ExitAre you navigating the space between what was and what’s next? Whether you’ve recently sold a business, transitioned out of a long-term corporate executive role, or are sim...
New Beginnings: Building What's Next After Pivotal Transitions in Life
In this episode of Pivotal with Kevin Simcock, we are talking about new beginnings, and why they rarely feel like a fresh start at first. More often, they feel like an ending that left you standing in a quiet room with an empty ca...
Scaling You: The Inner Work Founders Must Consider to Grow Their Business
Your business isn’t stalled because of your systems, team, market conditions, or even strategy. It’s stalled because of something far more uncomfortable. Something most leadership advice completely misses.You.In this episode of
The Most Expensive Leadership Mistake: Leading From Misalignment
When your business looks successful but feels off, something deeper is happening. In this episode, Kevin breaks down one of the most expensive leadership mistakes: leading from misalignment. He shares how even high-performing founde...
From Exit to Alignment: The Real Work of Finding What’s Next
You’ve stepped away from the corporate career or business you built over decades. The title, the structure, the recognition—they’re behind you. Now you’re facing the question that matters most: What’s next?In this episode of
What Fulfillment Really Looks Like (Beyond Success & Burnout)”
Spoiler: it’s not a French villa, a gold watch, or a bigger business.If you’ve built success that looks great on the outside but secretly feels exhausting, disconnected, or empty this final episode of The Clarity Series is for you...
The Hidden Cost of Leading Without Clarity | Why Misaligned Leadership Fails
Your team mirrors your leadership. So if you’re misaligned they feel it.In this episode of The Clarity Series, I break down what really happens when leaders operate without clarity and why it’s the #1 reason cult...
You’re Not Burnt Out—You’re Misaligned (The Truth About Hustle Culture)
What if your exhaustion isn’t from doing too much—but from doing the wrong things?In this episode of Pivotal, I challenge one of the most toxic beliefs in business: that success requires constant hustle. If you're a founder or l...
You've Evolved But Your Business Hasn't. Now What?
You built the dream—but now it feels like a trap. If your successful business no longer fits who you've become, it’s not a sign of failure; it’s an invitation to evolve.In Episode 2, we explore the critical moment many purpose-driven fou...
You’re Winning—So Why Does It Feel So Empty?
You’ve hit your goals. The revenue is strong. The team is growing.But deep down… you feel disconnected, restless—even empty. Why?In this episode of The Clarity Series, I unpack one of the hardest truths founders face at the height o...
Finding Your Creativity
What if your creativity isn’t lost—it’s just been waiting for permission to speak?In this deeply human conversation, I sit down with Pia Leichter—award-winning creative professional turned “creative midwife”—who helps people birth the id...
The One Vital Element to Maintain Growth
In this episode Kevin shares his experience and knowledge on the one key element most business founders struggle with to maintain their growth - staffing. There is an art to finding the right people and knowing exactly who and how many people y...
4 Keys To Increase Sales In 2025
It's 2025, is your sales strategy cutting the mustard? In this episode, I'll show you four key elements you need to leverage to help you drive sales this year. Did you know that 70% of consumers say that they would switch brands if they...
How to Grow Your Business in 2025: Set Smarter Targets, Avoid Pitfalls, Use AI Agents, & Master Branded Content
Want to turn your business challenges into more money, more clients and more time, without increasing your marketing budget? In this episode, I'll show you proven strategies to set growth goals for your business, how to avoid common...
Ho Ho Holy Cow, big changes in AI and marketing
In this episode Kevin talks about the top AI and marketing campaigns that are disrupting business and the marketing industry. We discuss the behind the scenes effort of the latest Coca Cola AI holiday commercial and other top stories impacting ...
