• The anatomy of a "moonshot message" and why people reach out
• How good marketers get fired for competence, not incompetence
• The "allbound marketing" scam and meaningless buzzword creation
• When companies rewrite job descriptions while you're on holiday
• The impossible mandate: enterprise accounts with no budget
• From "never felt so seen" to complete digital erasure
• What a 404 error reveals about industry toxicity
• The difference between changing careers and choosing non-existence
• Why some people delete their professional identity entirely
• The ghosts in your DMs and the cost of caring too much
• What it means to be seen, even when help isn't enough

Themes explored:

• The weight of being someone people turn to for help
• Industry trauma and professional disappearance
• The limits of rescue in a broken system
• When freedom still feels like a trap

This episode serves as both therapy and warning about the real human cost of marketing's toxic culture.

REACH is the marketing podcast for people who hate marketing podcasts.

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