How to line yourself up for CMO roles

I decided that I was playing the long game. I didn't care. I could keep doing nothing or whatever. It didn't really matter. So I decided that, hey, I'm going to look at some of these companies that are interesting. And I reached out to the chief HR officers at a bunch of these companies and said, hey, as you're doing your succession planning for your cmo, keep me in mind because I actually check all the boxes for you, right? I've done this at this scale before. I'm local. This is why it would be interesting. And I'm sure you got a great person there already. But if you're responsible in what you're doing, you're doing succession planning. And surprisingly, it worked really well. So I actually didn't end up taking one of those jobs, but there was a lot of like, wow, oh, thanks. When you get to a company that skill, they need to do a succession plan, right? That's part of what you should be doing.