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Janine Garner helps women entrepreneurs over 50 turn accumulated expertise into independent consulting practices that charge what professional judgment is worth. After 20 years in corporate marketing, finishing as group marke...
Michael Zipursky studied 1,300 coaching engagements to show how experienced consultants build expertise-driven practices. Building a consulting practice through relationships and conversations rather than marketing systems re...
Experienced independent professionals building portfolio practices will find a practical operating model in this conversation with Dante St James. For generalists juggling multiple ventures, this episode maps the daily discip...
Professional reputation built through decades of relationships beats personal branding built through content marketing. Robert Vlach leads Europe's largest freelance community, supporting over 250,000 professionals. In this t...
Starting a business after 60 using LinkedIn, relationships, and minimal cost strategies for financial security during career transition. Sue Ellson has been an independent consultant since 1994 and joined LinkedIn in 2003. Sh...
Episode Overview Career reinvention after 60 using your professional relationships as startup capital rather than cash, savings, or business loans. Laetitia Vitaud is a feminist and work-revolution thinker returning for her t...
Anna Burgess Yang shares her solopreneur workflow for building independent professional practice with lean thinking, automation, and AI.After leaving a FinTech executive career, Anna built a content writing business around Zapier, Airtable, and ChatGPT Pro. She explains why operations is the part…
Tonianne DeMaria co-wrote Personal Kanban to help professionals make work visible through simple workflow systems that replace conventional task management with better decision-making and sustained energy. Tonianne explains w...
Emergent strategy as a design framework for independent professionals and consultants managing business uncertainty without organisational support. Peter Compo is author of The Emergent Approach to Strategy, drawing on 25 yea...
Cedric Chin founded Commoncog to help professionals develop business expertise through rigorous testing of ideas against real-world evidence rather than relying on theory or conventional frameworks. Cedric explains how experi...
Karen Wickre shows experienced professionals how career independence works well beyond conventional retirement age, drawing on senior roles at Google and Twitter and decades of authentic relationship-building across Silicon V...
Anna Molnar helps women entrepreneurs over 50 navigate pricing for freelancers and charge what their expertise is worth. Based in The Hague, Anna left embassy work at 40 to build an independent coaching practice. She covers why undercharging is the most consistent problem among women entrepreneurs …
The Indie List is a high-touch marketplace connecting freelance marketing professionals with Irish clients, serving approximately 7,000 independent marketing solopreneurs. Úna shares how she left advertising in 2005 when the ...
Robert Vlach wrote The Freelance Way and founded Freelancing.eu to help independent professionals develop pricing strategies that match their actual expertise rather than competing on cost. Robert explains how experienced fre...
Tash Menon Verheul founded MASH, a creative technology company that curates teams of independent professionals across 31 countries for branding and marketing projects. She shares how she built the business from Melbourne with no local network, the referral-only recruitment model, and why demonstrat…
Amanda Reeves has worked in administrative support for over 40 years, building an independent practice in Melbourne entirely through referrals. She provides executive-level support to solopreneurs and independent consultants, from annual reports and conference materials to websites and social media…
Elina Jutelyte explains pricing for freelancers through a first-of-its-kind global study across 13 independent communities.Her survey of 400 freelancers found that 90 per cent find work through personal networks, while only 14 per cent rely on platforms. The conversation covers trending freelan…
Alison Grade helps experienced professionals build sustainable freelance practices as the author of The Freelance Bible, published by Penguin. Her path runs from film and TV production, where she spent years as a freelancer a...
Matt Dowling founded the Freelancer Club, a 60,000-member community that helps independent professionals build sustainable freelance careers, after an unpaid invoice nearly ended his own. Early in his freelance photography ca...
Jon Younger helps experienced professionals understand the freelance economy through his Forbes column on the Freelance Revolution and his book Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts , published by Harvard Bus...
Suzanne Noble has reinvented her career more times than most experienced professionals manage in a lifetime: from singer with The Dirty Blondes, to Channel 4 TV producer, to co-founding a PR agency that grew to 1.4 million po...
Lisa-Marie Cabrelli turned corporate expertise into a location-independent eCommerce company in 2006, starting with $500 and a book on building a Yahoo Store, then retiring young when she sold the multi-million dollar business. She explains her process engineering approach to solopreneur business b…
Karen Wickre worked at Google and Twitter before writing Taking the Work out of Networking, her guide to building genuine connections without transactional pressure. Karen explains why networking does not have to feel like wo...