Latest episode · October 17, 2026

EPISODE 08 / BRIAN PETRO

When Experience Stops Getting Hired

Brian Petro does business development for consultants and fractional executives. Every week he talks to experienced people, many of them Gen X, who were reorganised out of a job, hear nothing back from a broken hiring system and have to learn to sell themselves.

The panel weighed networking against applications, building your own business with AI as the leverage, and the abundance mindset that makes the rejections bearable. Stephen floated an AI-run fractional firm that wins work for displaced executives.

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOR CONSULTANTS, BRIGHT PRODUCTIONS

THE CONVERSATION

Experience × Hiring

WHO HIRES THE PEOPLE AI SHOULD NEED MOST?
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Brad, Automation Architecture AI

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