{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Independent Executive","title":"Build Your Exit Before You Need It with Julián Hernández","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3655,"description":"TAKE OUR FREE QUIZ ➡️ https://talentandtruth.beehiiv.com/independence-readiness\nWhat should you be doing before you’re ready to leave corporate?\nFor Julián Hernández, the answer started years before his final day.\nAfter more than 30 years in advertising across Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, followed by five years consulting for governments and national champions, Julián had built a successful corporate career. But alongside it, he had also been quietly building something else: optionality.\nIn this conversation with Independent Executive host Sabine Kühn, Julián shares how he prepared for independence while he was still employed - from investing in his own development and building a presence on LinkedIn, to separating his identity from his job title and rethinking where responsibility for his career really sat.\nHe also talks candidly about what happens once you actually leave: pricing your own work, setting up a company, losing the infrastructure you once took for granted and discovering which parts of corporate life you unexpectedly miss.\nThis episode is for anyone who is successful in corporate today, but knows they may not want - or be able - to stay there forever.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Introduction\n01:22 Julián’s 30-year global advertising career\n03:52 Why we treat employment as the default\n07:49 Building options and a lesson from his father\n14:50 Becoming “Julián Inc.”\n22:15 Why your job title is rented\n24:58 How LinkedIn became a source of paid work\n28:08 Ageing at work and leading across cultures\n34:23 Taking responsibility for your own growth\n42:56 What life actually looks like after leaving\n51:08 What to do five years before going independent\n56:05 Letting go of your old identity\nAbout Julián Hernández\nJulián Hernández has spent more than 30 years in communications, primarily in advertising, working across Latin America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. After three decades in agencies, he spent five years consulting for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0w9kqoEBYcBOyPD27txHn7SNeWC8YlW1ZS0ax1gpEaU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMzVi/ZWU4MzkwNTkxNDJh/MzcwOTYxMTMwNzQ4/OTJjNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}