Wisepreneurs | Women Entrepreneurs Over 50 Monetizing Expertise | Podcast Guru

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For women entrepreneurs over 50, expertise monetization is the path to independent practice that lasts.Working lives now extend far beyond what anyone predicted. Organisations need people who can navigate complexity and ambiguity, and increasingly, experienced professionals are choosing solopreneurship over employment. Wisepreneurs features real conversations with experienced professionals — particularly women — about what that transition actually takes.What we explore ● Expertise monetization: turning professional knowledge into visible market presence ● Building solopreneur practice through partnerships and collaborative networks ● AI tools that amplify rather than replace experienced judgment ● Navigating the transition from employment to independent practice ● Sustaining cognitive vitality for the long term85+ episodes. Real conversations. No motivational fluff. Your accumulated expertise is your competitive advantage. This podcast shows you how to systematically position it.Hosted by Nigel RawlinsFind transcripts and more: wisepreneurs.au Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nigelrawlins/ Subscribe to the newsletter: wisepreneurs.com.au/newsletter/

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Margareta Krizova Six Questions That Replace Your Business Plan

MAY 7, 2026

Margareta Krizova Six Questions That Replace Your Business Plan

Margareta Křížová shares six questions that replace the traditional business plan for independent professionals going freelance after 50. She co-founded a boutique M&A advisory firm in Prague in 1993 and sold her equity stake at 53 to rebuild as an independent freelancer. She now combines selective M&A advisory work with entrepreneurship mentoring, runs the Newton University Business Accelerator (now in its fifth year), and has published three books including Third Career on building ...

50 MIN

Janine Garner Expertise Monetisation: How Women Build Independent Consulting Practices

APR 23, 2026

Janine Garner Expertise Monetisation: How Women Build Independent Consulting Practices

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 marketing director for the Oroton Group overseeing Oroton and Ralph Lauren brands across Australia and Asia, Janine built a seven-figure mentoring business focused on expertise monetisation for experienced women leaving corporate careers. In this conversation, Janine explains ...

56 MIN

Ella Zhang Expertise Building: Micro Habits for Experienced Consultants

APR 9, 2026

Ella Zhang Expertise Building: Micro Habits for Experienced Consultants

Ella Zhang helps experienced professionals monetise hard-won expertise through inner operating systems that rebuild leadership capability from the inside out. From her Sydney consulting practice, she draws on neuroscience and Chinese medicine to design micro habits that make capability stick where one-off training programs fail. Ella explains how four inner operating systems, mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical, shape sustainable performance for independent consultants. She cover...

52 MIN

Ben Legg Portfolio Careers and Expertise Monetisation: From Google COO to Solopreneur

MAR 26, 2026

Ben Legg Portfolio Careers and Expertise Monetisation: From Google COO to Solopreneur

Ben Legg helps experienced professionals monetise expertise as co-founder of The Portfolio Collective, a 16,000-member community for portfolio careers. Before that he was COO of Google Europe, led Coca-Cola's India turnaround, worked at McKinsey, and served in the British Army's Royal Engineers. Ben explains why experienced professionals are leaving corporate careers for portfolio work, covering the practical mechanics of building advisory practices, keynote speaking, and consulting acr...

51 MIN

Michael Zipursky Consulting Success: Why Conversations Beat Marketing for Independent Consultants

MAR 12, 2026

Michael Zipursky Consulting Success: Why Conversations Beat Marketing for Independent Consultants

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 requires a specific set of mindset shifts that corporate experience does not prepare you for. For experienced independent professionals navigating this transition, Michael Zipursky maps the precise patterns he has observed across 1,300 coaching engagements in 75 indus...

57 MIN