How Kevin Pivoted from CISO to an even greater Breakthrough!

<p>Kevin Erickson was working 120 hours a week. Seven days a week. No weekends. A schedule he describes as a recipe for heart failure.</p><p>He was a CISO earning top 1 percent income. And he was completely depleted.</p><p>In this episode, Kevin sits down with Olivia and Ryan to break down how he navigated one of the most complex and unconventional transitions in Career Evolved&#39;s history. Multiple simultaneous contracts. A W-2 and fractional hybrid model. And a potential outcome that could reach seven figures when bonuses and profit sharing are included.</p><p>But the real story is not the income.</p><p>It is what it took to get there. The resilience. The days he wanted to quit. The methodology he adapted to fit an impossibly busy life. And the moment everything that had been building for months suddenly fell into place in two weeks.</p><p>This one is for every executive who is still in the middle of it and wondering if it is ever going to work.</p><p>It does. Trust the process.</p><p><strong>FULL SHOW NOTES:</strong></p><p>Kevin Erickson arrived at Career Evolved in a situation most coaches would not know how to handle.</p><p>120 hours a week. Seven days a week. A CISO role that was producing top 1 percent income and costing him everything else. No weekends. No family time. Five Mondays and two Fridays, as he describes it. A life that was, in his words, not even human.</p><p>He did not come to Career Evolved looking for a rescue. He came looking for a different model. A way to keep the income, increase it if possible, and get his life back at the same time.</p><p>What he found was a hybrid W-2 and contract model that, depending on how the final pieces land, will more than double his income while cutting his hours to 45 to 50 a week.</p><p>With profit sharing. With IPO equity. And with the kind of structural freedom that no single employer could have offered him.</p><p>In this conversation, Kevin breaks down exactly what the process looked like from the inside. The methodology he adapted using AI to compress the work that his schedule would not allow him to do manually. The open source intelligence gathering he used to build genuine personal connections with every decision-maker he reached out to. The multiple simultaneous conversations he was managing in the final weeks, three organizations, multiple contract structures, and a potential Sword engagement that could change the income ceiling entirely.</p><p>He also talks about the days he wanted to quit