Track #3: Jeff Perkins – Why Your LinkedIn Profile Shouldn’t Read Like Your Resume

In this episode, Tom sits down with Jeff Perkins, CEO of Soundstripe, to talk about gaming LinkedIn to escape career purgatory. Jeff shares how changing his title from “Marketing Manager” to “Executive Leader” suddenly had recruiters calling about CEO roles instead of lowball offers. They discuss the brutal reality of transitioning from CMO to CEO and why Soundstripe built an AI music supervisor. (Spoiler: because scrolling through 58,000 songs to find the perfect track is soul-crushing.)