Wisepreneurs | Independent Professionals Building Practice on Their Own Terms
Wisepreneurs | Independent Professionals Building Practice on Their Own Terms

Wisepreneurs | Independent Professionals Building Practice on Their Own Terms

Nigel Rawlins | Solopreneur & Expertise Monetization

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Wisepreneurs is a podcast for experienced independent professionals building practice on their own terms. Working lives now extend far beyond what anyone predicted. Organisations need people who can navigate complexity and ambiguity — and increasingly, experienced professionals are choosing independent practice over employment.Real conversations with experienced professionals — particularly women — about what that transition actually takes.What we explorePositioning accumulated expertise as visible market presenceBuilding independent practice through partnerships and collaborative networksAI tools that amplify rather than replace experienced professional judgmentNavigating the transition from employment to independent practiceSustaining cognitive vitality for the long term90+ 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 Rawlins Find transcripts and more: wisepreneurs.au Connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nigelrawlins/ Subscribe to The Wisepreneur newsletter: wisepreneurs.com.au/newsletter/

Recent Episodes

Johanna Rothman Independent Consulting: Principles That Outlast Every Trend
JUN 4, 2026
Johanna Rothman Independent Consulting: Principles That Outlast Every Trend
Johanna Rothman has worked as an independent consultant since 1994 and written 21 books on management, consulting, and professional writing, including Successful Independent Consulting. Johanna uses the Consulting Role Grid from Champion, Kiel and McLendon (1990) to draw a distinction that matters for every experienced professional: hands-on experts who take no responsibility for client growth are really contractors, not consultants. She explains the nine consulting roles from reflecti...
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58 MIN
Bex Thomas Intentional Career Breaks: Sabbaticals That Lead to Real Change
MAY 21, 2026
Bex Thomas Intentional Career Breaks: Sabbaticals That Lead to Real Change
Bex Thomas spent 20 years in recruitment before an intentional career break became the catalyst for a portfolio career as a career transition coach, sabbatical coach, and podcast host of Sabbatical Stories. Bex explains her five-question framework for planning intentional career breaks: why you are taking the break, when to take it, where to go, who to spend time with, and who you want to become afterwards. She describes the financial planning behind extended breaks, including spending ...
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47 MIN
Margareta Krizova Freelance Advice: Six Questions for Professional Reinvention
MAY 7, 2026
Margareta Krizova Freelance Advice: Six Questions for Professional Reinvention
Margareta Křížová offers freelance advice for professional reinvention, sharing six questions that replace the business plan. After co-founding a boutique M&A advisory firm in Prague in 1993, Margareta spent almost 30 years in dealmaking before selling her equity stake at 53 to rebuild as an independent freelancer. She now combines selective advisory work with entrepreneurship mentoring and runs the NEWTON University Business Accelerator, now in its fifth year with 14 projects in ac...
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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 ...
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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...
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52 MIN