About the Wisepreneurs Podcast
About the Wisepreneurs Podcast
The Wisepreneurs Podcast explores how experienced independent professionals position accumulated expertise and build sustainable practice on their own terms.
Hosted by Nigel Rawlins from the Bellarine Peninsula, Australia, each fortnightly episode features a substantive conversation with an experienced professional about what independent work actually looks like when you have decades of knowledge to draw on.
90+ episodes cover positioning and becoming known and trusted for your work, deliberate thinking and cognitive productivity for independent professionals, working with AI as a collaborative partner while keeping the calls clients actually pay you to make, practice models that work with your energy rather than against it, and the transition from corporate employment to independent work.
The show is grounded in a framework Nigel has developed across these conversations: how experienced professionals recognise, articulate, and deploy the expertise they have already built.
Guests include former Google and Twitter executives, Penguin-published authors, consultants who have built practices generating $500K+, and professionals who have navigated career reinventions across industries and continents.
Who listens: experienced professionals over 50 building or growing an independent practice, professionals exploring independence after corporate careers, consultants and fractional executives building practices on reputation and referral, and anyone interested in how accumulated professional expertise becomes a competitive advantage in an age of AI.
Whether you're launching an independent practice or evolving an established one, the Wisepreneurs Podcast offers frameworks and honest conversations about building sustainable work around what you already know.