Wisepreneurs NewsletterA weekly email on marketing, expertise, and building a professional practice on your own terms. Practical, brief, and written for people who value their time.
Debra Zahay-Blatz taught digital marketing for 25 years at St. Edwards University after 17 years in customer data management. With a Kellogg School of Management MBA and a PhD in customer information management, Debra explain...
Hazel Edwards OAM wrote 200 books over 50 years sustaining independent professional practice as an Australian authorpreneur. Best known for There's a Hippopotamus on My Roof Eating Cake — now 45 years old and adapted into a f...
Anna Molnar helps women entrepreneurs over 50 navigate pricing for freelancers and charge what their expertise is worth. Based in The Hague, she left embassy work at 40 to build an independent coaching practice focused on expertise monetisation for women solopreneurs. She explains why undercharging…
Knowledge management tools for independent professionals who need to curate information without burning out. Tomas Baranek is a Czech publisher who rebuilt his working practice around tools like Readwise and Roam Research after experiencing burnout himself. He explains practical approaches to manag…
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 ...
Melisa Liberman coaches solo consultants to grow their practice using a 14-step roadmap and free IEC Toolkit. (110 chars ✓) An accidental consultant who stayed on at her employer when she moved to Hawaii, Melisa went from Acc...
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...
From her base in Belgium, Marleen draws on 26 years building HR staffing strategy at Randstad (world number one in staffing services) before launching Nextconomy, an online knowledge platform covering the evolving world of fl...
Michelle Kvello, founder of Lantern Partners and creator of the Corporate to Consultant course, shares what independent professionals need to know about finances when leaving corporate employment to build a solopreneur consulting practice. Drawing from 12 years running her own CFO advisory firm, sh…
Sue Ellson moved from corporate banking to becoming an independent LinkedIn specialist, author of five books including Gigsters, and a self-described gigster who has built a multi-stranded career across consulting, writing, a...
Sandra McGuire, founder of Money Wellness, turned two decades of corporate accounting expertise into an independent coaching practice. Her journey from corporate roles to solopreneur practice is itself a case study in expertise monetisation. She explains how unconscious money stories drive adult fi…
Charlotta Segerlund-Darnell helps experienced professionals treat psychological wellbeing as something to maintain, not something to fix after it breaks. Based in Stockholm and working with clients worldwide, she is a CBT the...
Paula Ronan helps experienced professionals understand what marketing actually requires when you move from corporate to independent practice. Based in rural Ireland, she made the transition from corporate marketing in London ...
Connie Malamed helps experienced professionals understand how instructional design makes workplace learning actually work. With 25 years in the field, she is the author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Desig...
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…
Valentine Gatard has been an employee for only nine months in her entire life. Based in Paris, she works as a coach, speaker, and podcast host, helping companies and independent professionals rethink their relationship with work. Valentine explains how jazz improvisation shapes her approach to coac…
Andrea Chase, Canadian entrepreneur and founder of True Marketing Verse, shares how she built expertise across psychology, teaching, hospitality, and sales before channelling it into a digital marketing agency serving women-owned businesses and solopreneurs. She covers the mental stamina required t…
Tracy Enos, LinkedIn consultant and founder of a Kansas City-based consultancy, shares how solopreneurs and independent professionals use LinkedIn to find clients, build referral networks, and grow a sustainable business without a website. She explains her HEAT system (Human, Expertise, Authority, …
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…
Terri Connellan helps experienced women professionals navigate career independence through self-leadership, creativity, and psychological type awareness. After 30 years in TAFE, she trained as a life transition coach, wrote Wholehearted: Self-leadership for Women in Transition, and built an indepen…
Meredith Fuller OAM about the award-winning documentary, 'Home Truths', which focuses on domestic violence and is co-produced by Lesley Coleman & Rod Winning. Wisepreneurs explores how independent professionals turn accumulated expertise into sustainable practice. Subscribe for new episodes.
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…
Aging, employment, and retirement research from a gerontology professor on what the 100-year life actually means for experienced professionals. Professor Martin Hyde from the University of Leicester studies how aging reshapes...
Gabrielle Sun explains how AI is reshaping expertise building in corporate learning, from instructional design principles to the tools every knowledge worker should explore. She covers what makes training effective, why alignment between learning goals and practice activities is the foundation of g…
