After the Exit, What's Next? A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Owners, and Executives Navigating the Transition Beyond Business
Each episode features helpful insights, practical tips, and reliable counsel to transform the sudden “what’s next?” void into fertile ground, clarify your vision of life, and build an intentional legacy.
For the next few minutes, enjoy listening as we discuss with Allan Crockett about moving from accomplishment to intention. You’ll learn how to navigate life after you transition away from corporate or business success. How to align what matters most, answer that nagging question of “What’s Next?”, and begin the next chapter of your life with confidence.
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett shares a deeply personal story about nearly boarding a plane that later crashed and killed his friend. A powerful “do not get in that plane” gut check saved his life, but it also left him fearful of flying for years. Later, a former airline pilot challenged him with the words, “It’s not too late,” prompting Allan to finally learn to fly. He uses this story to invite listeners to name the dream that’s been nagging them and to take the first concrete step toward it.
17 Mar 2026
A Word About Risk
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett reframes risk for entrepreneurs who have already achieved business success and are stepping into what’s next. He contrasts youthful, “drive all night” risk with later-life reality, explores the gap between spouses’ risk tolerances, and shows how to build security and freedom without blowing up your relationships or your retirement.
10 Mar 2026
What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett introduces Section 5 of his book—“A Clean Slate”—and uses a client story to show what it looks like to rebuild a business (and a life) when you’re free from financial pressure. He invites listeners to ask a powerful question: if you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you create in your next chapter?
3 Mar 2026
Legacy Planning
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett explains the critical difference between estate planning and legacy planning, showing why high-capacity entrepreneurs must think beyond wills and wealth. He unpacks how your post-exit life—how you use your time, talents, and relationships—creates the real “multi-generational inheritance” your family remembers.
24 Feb 2026
Agreements Vs. Expectations
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett contrasts the emotional chaos of expectations with the clarity of agreements. Using stories about airline upgrades and Christmas bonuses, he illustrates how unspoken expectations often lead to frustration. Then he explains how simple agreements—at work and at home—can transform how you navigate time, money, shared plans, and everyday life after business.
17 Feb 2026
The "Stop Doing" List
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett introduces the idea of a stop-doing list as the counterpart to your to-do list. Instead of trying to cram more into your calendar, you intentionally remove what no longer fits your values or season of life—boards, obligations, unhealthy habits, and even certain social patterns. This simple tool helps you reclaim time, reduce stress, and redirect energy toward what matters most.
10 Feb 2026
Simplify - The Value of Systems
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett argues that complexity kills profitability in business—and it kills impact and joy in life after business. He explains why you must simplify your commitments, calendar, health, and habits, then support them with basic systems. Instead of drifting into a cluttered, reactive retirement, you use simple routines to make this chapter intentional, calm, and deeply impactful.
3 Feb 2026
Culture
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett explains why culture isn’t just for companies. It’s the values, behaviors, and people you choose to surround yourself with in life after business. He shows how deliberate culture decisions—who you spend time with, what you tolerate, what you commit to—shape whether your next decade drifts by or becomes the best chapter you’ve ever lived.
27 Jan 2026
Problems Vs. Symptoms
In this episode, Bestselling Author Allan Crockett uses examples from medicine, agriculture, and business to show how often we medicate symptoms instead of addressing root causes. He applies that same thinking to life after selling a business or retiring from an executive role, where new “symptoms” show up—like boredom, restlessness, or weight gain—and explains why you must keep asking “why?” until you reach the real issue.
20 Jan 2026
Everything Is Connected
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett uses nature to illustrate how everything is connected: soil, plants, animals, and ultimately our own health. The same is true after you exit a business. Your new life is an ecosystem made up of family, friends, former colleagues, causes, and purpose. Honoring those connections—old and new—helps you create a chapter that’s worth getting out of bed for.
13 Jan 2026
Finding Common Ground
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett starts with a story about ranchers and environmentalists, and shows how opposing sides often want the same outcomes—they just don’t realize it. He then applies this to life after business: when the kids are gone and you and your spouse are suddenly together all day, you must rediscover compatibility and design a future that lights you both up. Finding common ground also applies to peers and nonprofits you may partner with in your next season.
6 Jan 2026
Every Problem's A People Problem
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett moves from global conflicts to boardrooms to retirement calendars, showing how the same principle applies: it always comes back to people. They discuss the void that appears when assistants, staff, and packed schedules are gone, and how choosing peers, causes, and nonprofits to serve can turn restlessness into contribution.
30 Dec 2025
Shifting the Paradigm
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett unpacks the idea of a “paradigm” as the thought patterns and filters that shape how you see the world. The beliefs that drove your business success may not serve you when your title is gone and your calendar is open. Shifting the paradigm means examining your stories about who you are, letting go of old labels, and opening up to a different kind of legacy—one that isn’t just about money.
23 Dec 2025
Removing the Blinders
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett explores why focus is vital while you’re building a company—and why it becomes a liability when you’ve sold or stepped away. They talk about how stress narrows your perspective, how good coaching leads to self-discovery instead of advice, and why the transition beyond business is as much about heart and legacy as it is about strategy.
16 Dec 2025
Our Stories and How They Affect Our Actions
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett, digs into the stories we tell ourselves—about who we are, what makes us valuable, and what success looks like. He explains how our subconscious mind learns patterns (like shifting gears in a stick shift) and then runs them automatically, even when those stories no longer serve us. For owners exiting a company, “I’m the CEO” is an old story that must be replaced with a new, intentional narrative about who they are and why they matter now. Allan discusses redefining success around legacy, relationships, mentoring, and contribution, rather than revenue and titles. From imagining what your kids and grandkids will say at your funeral, to mentoring younger entrepreneurs and seeing their wins as your new scoreboard, this conversation reframes what a rich, purpose-driven next chapter can look like.
9 Dec 2025
The Void
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett, uses a powerful metaphor from ranch life: nature hates bare ground, so if you don’t plant something healthy, weeds will take over. The same thing happens when a business owner exits. If you don’t fill the newly created void with meaningful, purposeful activities aligned to your vision, it fills up by default—with boards, golf, TV, or busyness that leaves you feeling empty. He connects back to the vision work from chapter one and explains how to use that vision to decide what should fill your days. From a client who just wanted enough margin to go to church and serve on mini-missions, to the discipline of blocking the most meaningful activities on your calendar first, Allan shows how to create space, not just add more information or commitments.
2 Dec 2025
The Vision and The Why
In this episode, Bestselling Author, Allan Crockett, walks through chapter one of his book, Beyond Business Success. Allan explains why so many owners cling to their business long after they should have stepped away—and how the real problem is a lack of vision for life beyond the company. He unpacks a practical Post-it note exercise he uses with couples, families, and business partners to help them define what they truly want next and turn that into a shared, written vision.
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