The Exit Interview: The Money Podcast About Leaving

Where to listen: 20 of these episodes are still playable on Spotify, and each one links to its own episode there. The original RSS feed is gone and the show is no longer listed on Apple Podcasts, so this page does not pretend otherwise — the pages below are what survives, recovered from the Internet Archive.

Start with these three episodes

The show, and the archive under it

One guest, one exit, one hour. Every episode follows the same spine: the job they left, the number they left on, what broke in the first year, and what they would do differently. Guests bring their real figures — a deposit, a monthly invoice total, a runway in months — because a story without a number is entertainment, and this is a money show.

It is also the archive of a show that already ran. The Exit Interview published from 2019 to 2022 under the site's earlier hosts, went quiet, and is back fortnightly from August 2026. Every old episode below is still online, because the conversations held up and people still link to them. The mindset desk and the calculators exist because listeners kept asking the same two questions: how did you get over the fear, and what was the number.

The full archive

Twenty-two episodes from the first run, oldest subject to newest. Six earlier untitled episodes are served but not listed.

• Corporate wage slave to property investor
• Property angel investor Helen Chorley, part one
• Property angel investor Helen Chorley, part two
• Side hustle while working full time
• Escape the 9-to-5 with no clue where to start
• The biggest challenge after deciding to quit
• Becoming a beginner digital nomad
• How to travel the world full time with kids
• Finding high-net-worth investors
• The most important skills an entrepreneur can learn
• The most common mistakes businesses make when advertising
• Rebranding yourself
• What you need to start freelancing as a teenager
• Getting more done in less time
• The habits that showed up most often
• Why finding your purpose is B.S.
• How to heal your trauma
• Which social platform is actually worth your time
• Growing an organic following on Instagram
• Using hashtags to grow a following
• Why your followers do not see your posts
• Listener Q&A, part two

On the archive. These episodes were recorded by the show's earlier hosts between 2019 and 2022 and are republished unedited; the bylines on them are theirs, not ours. We keep them because the interviews are still useful and because deleting a back catalogue to look newer is a form of lying. One episode from the first run sits outside this show's subject and is deliberately not listed here.

Three entry points, by where you are

• Still employed and quietly planning. The biggest challenge after deciding to quit — the gap between the decision and the resignation, which is where most plans die.
• Three months out and panicking. Escape the 9-to-5 with no clue where to start, then run your own figures on the runway calculator.
• Building income before you go. Side hustle while working full time and the side-hustle desk that grew out of it.
• Already out and working remotely. Becoming a beginner digital nomad, plus the remote-work desk on which boards actually verify employers.

How the show is made

Guests are not paid and cannot buy a slot; nobody sees the questions in advance. Every figure a guest states on air gets checked against something before publication — a payslip, an invoice, a statement — and if it cannot be checked, we say so in the episode notes rather than dropping it. Nothing on the show is a recommendation to leave your job, and nobody on it is your financial adviser. Where a guest has since gone back to salaried work, we say that too, because the episodes where the exit did not hold are the ones listeners write in about.

Come on the show

We are booking guests who left in the last five years and will talk numbers on the record — including the ones who went back. There is no public inbox for it yet, and when there is it will be listed here first. In the meantime about us covers who you would be talking to, and our editorial policy covers what we will and will not agree to before recording.