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Kim Watty Retirement by Design: How Professional Women Plan Beyond Finances
May 9, 2025

Kim Watty Retirement by Design: How Professional Women Plan Beyond Fi…

Retirement planning for professional women that addresses identity, purpose, and community rather than finances alone. Kim Watty spent three decades in Australian academia as an accounting professor before co-founding The Mai...

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Filip Drimalka The Future of No Work: AI Tools for Independent Professional Practice
Feb. 14, 2025

Filip Drimalka The Future of No Work: AI Tools for Independent Profes…

Filip Drimalka helps independent professionals build AI-enhanced workflows that turn one-person operations into sustainable businesses without traditional employment structures. He wrote The Future of No Work and explains why...

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Michal Novotný Preventive Wellness: Physical Foundations for Sustained Independent Practice
Dec. 13, 2024

Michal Novotný Preventive Wellness: Physical Foundations for Sustaine…

Preventive wellness strategies for independent professionals whose practice needs to last another 10 or 20 years beyond traditional retirement. Michal Novotný is a physiotherapist and fitness coach who has worked with elite a...

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Anna Burgess Yang Solopreneur Workflow: AI for Independent Professionals
Nov. 29, 2024

Anna Burgess Yang Solopreneur Workflow: AI for Independent Profession…

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…

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Krisna Hanks Metabolic Sparks: Why Movement Breaks Beat Exercise for Sedentary Professionals
Nov. 8, 2024

Krisna Hanks Metabolic Sparks: Why Movement Breaks Beat Exercise for …

Movement breaks throughout the day matter more than a morning workout if you sit for hours as an independent professional over 50. Krisna Hanks is a metabolic health expert and Director of Employee Wellness Programs at Ovadia...

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Tonianne DeMaria Personal Kanban: Visual Workflow Systems for Independent Professionals
Sept. 27, 2024

Tonianne DeMaria Personal Kanban: Visual Workflow Systems for Indepen…

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...

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Peter Compo Emergent Strategy: A Design Framework for Independent Professionals Managing Uncertainty
Sept. 20, 2024

Peter Compo Emergent Strategy: A Design Framework for Independent Pro…

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...

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Gail Greatorex Expert Positioning: From Government Regulator to Solopreneur
Sept. 13, 2024

Gail Greatorex Expert Positioning: From Government Regulator to Solop…

Gail Greatorex turned 25 years of product safety expertise at the ACCC into a solopreneur consulting practice, helping businesses navigate consumer protection laws, compliance, and product recalls. She explains how self-employment lets her choose projects aligned with her values, including co-found…

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Eliška Šestáková Building Smarter Knowledge Systems for Independent Professional Practice
Sept. 6, 2024

Eliška Šestáková Building Smarter Knowledge Systems for Independent P…

In this episode, host Nigel Rawlins speaks with Eliška Šestáková, an academic and personal knowledge management specialist from the Czech Republic, about how structured note-taking systems support sustained independent profes...

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Leanne Shelton AI for Independent Professionals: Keeping the Human Edge
Aug. 30, 2024

Leanne Shelton AI for Independent Professionals: Keeping the Human Ed…

ALeanne Shelton helps experienced professionals integrate AI into independent practice without losing the human judgment that makes their work worth paying for. She spent ten years as a copywriter and content marketer before ...

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Cedric Chin Testing Business Ideas Against Evidence: Pattern Recognition for Independent Professionals
Aug. 23, 2024

Cedric Chin Testing Business Ideas Against Evidence: Pattern Recognit…

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...

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Karen Wickre Career Independence After 50: Professional Connections at 70
Aug. 16, 2024

Karen Wickre Career Independence After 50: Professional Connections a…

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 Valley. She explains why genuine, mutually beneficial connections matter mo…

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Danielle Joworski Women Entrepreneurs Over 50: Beating Ageism with Visibility
Aug. 9, 2024

Danielle Joworski Women Entrepreneurs Over 50: Beating Ageism with Vi…

Danielle Joworski helps women entrepreneurs over 50 build visibility and overcome the compounding barriers of ageism, sexism, and self-doubt. A visibility strategist and fractional COO near Toronto, she explains why confidence is an outcome of courageous action rather than a prerequisite. She cover…

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Jane Hudson Experienced Consultant: Building an L&D Practice After Corporate
Aug. 2, 2024

Jane Hudson Experienced Consultant: Building an L&D Practice After Co…

Jane Hudson built an independent L&D consultancy specialising in regulatory training after leaving corporate employment, and returns to Wisepreneurs 50 episodes after her first appearance. She covers pricing strategies, managing remote teams, finding a defined niche, and balancing client delivery w…

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Peter Hatherley Semantic SEO and AI Tools: How Authored Intelligence Serves Independent Professionals
July 26, 2024

Peter Hatherley Semantic SEO and AI Tools: How Authored Intelligence …

Peter Hatherley built Authored Intelligence to give independent professionals practical AI tools for SEO and content strategy, including Semantic Author and Conceptuality. Peter explains the difference between generative and ...

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Dr Holly Whelan Sustainable Health Habits for Independent Professional Practice
July 19, 2024

Dr Holly Whelan Sustainable Health Habits for Independent Professiona…

Dr Holly Whelan helps experienced professionals build sustainable health habits using behaviour change science drawn from neuroscience research, global brand management at Unilever, and her co-founded ventures Habit Partners ...

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Debbie Jenkins Writing Short Books for Credibility: Why Concise Books Build Professional Authority
July 12, 2024

Debbie Jenkins Writing Short Books for Credibility: Why Concise Books…

Debbie Jenkins wrote Stop the Credibility Crisis and Stop Writing Books Nobody Reads after moving from engineering into publishing, building a practice around short books as professional authority tools. Debbie explains why c...

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Natasha Ginnivan Aging Stereotypes: Professional Reinvention and Career After 50
July 5, 2024

Natasha Ginnivan Aging Stereotypes: Professional Reinvention and Care…

Natasha Ginnivan researches how aging stereotypes undermine experienced professionals before they even open their mouths, and what the evidence shows about countering them. She explains how stereotypes affect professional identity, why social connections and lifelong learning protect cognitive well…

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Emma Williams PhD Career Transitions: From MRI Research to Coaching STEM Professionals
June 27, 2024

Emma Williams PhD Career Transitions: From MRI Research to Coaching S…

Emma Williams moved from a career in physics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging research to building a coaching business that helps STEM professionals navigate the transition from academia to industry. Emma explains the specific ...

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Michael Greenberg Digital Operations: AI Workflows, Automation, and Outsourcing for Independent Professionals
June 19, 2024

Michael Greenberg Digital Operations: AI Workflows, Automation, and O…

Michael Greenberg specialises in digital operations, helping businesses optimise workflows through AI tools, automation systems, and strategic outsourcing rather than adding more hours to the working week. Michael walks throu...

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Annette Densham Business Awards and Storytelling: How Audacious Agency Builds Professional Visibility
June 13, 2024

Annette Densham Business Awards and Storytelling: How Audacious Agenc…

Annette Densham co-founded the Audacious Agency to help business owners use storytelling and business awards as practical visibility strategies, drawing on her background in journalism and PR. Annette explains how business aw...

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Kate Toon SEO and Copywriting: Building an Independent Online Presence as a Solopreneur
June 6, 2024

Kate Toon SEO and Copywriting: Building an Independent Online Presenc…

Kate Toon created Recipe for SEO Success to teach solopreneurs SEO, copywriting, and how to build sustainable online income. With 16 years in business and four podcasts, Kate shares practical frameworks for solopreneurs build...

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Gill Andrews Conversion Copywriting: Websites That Generate Inquiries for Independent Solopreneurs
May 31, 2024

Gill Andrews Conversion Copywriting: Websites That Generate Inquiries…

Gill Andrews wrote Making Your Website Work to teach solopreneurs how website copy generates inquiries from the right clients. A conversion copywriter and website consultant based in Germany, Gill works exclusively with Engli...

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Fiona Allman-Treen Website Strategy: Building Independent Solopreneur Business-Generation Sites
May 23, 2024

Fiona Allman-Treen Website Strategy: Building Independent Solopreneur…

Fiona Allman-Treen builds business-generating websites using a five-step strategy and ideal client research for solopreneurs. Based in Hastings, UK, Fiona's agency creates custom WordPress and Shopify websites for service bus...

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