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Wisepreneurs | Women Entrepreneurs Over 50 Monetizing Expertise

Nigel Rawlins | Solopreneur & Expertise Monetization

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:

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52:55

Ella Zhang Professional Operating Systems: Leadership...

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2026/04/09

Ella Zhang built her Sydney consulting practice on leadership capability development, inner operating systems, and expertise around leadership capability development using inner operating systems and micro habits drawn from neuroscience and Chinese medicine. Ella explains how four inner operating systems—mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical—shape sustainable performance. She covers her approach to diagnosing organisational issues using root-cause analysis rather than treating surf...

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51:59

Ben Legg Portfolio Careers After Corporate: From...

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2026/03/26

Ben Legg served as COO of Google Europe, led Coca-Cola's India turnaround, worked at McKinsey, and served in the British Army's Royal Engineers before co-founding The Portfolio Collective, a 16,000-member community for portfolio professionals.Ben explains why experienced professionals are leaving corporate careers for portfolio work, covering the practical mechanics of building advisory practices, keynote speaking, and consulting across multiple clients. He introduces the Designer vs

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57:08

Michael Zipursky Consulting Success: Why...

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2026/03/12

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 industries at Consulting Success.Michael Zipursky is the co-founder of Consulting Success and author of Consulting Success and The Elite

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56:27

Dante St James The Generalist Advantage

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2026/02/26

Dante St James has lived the kind of career that makes most CVs look cautious. From psychiatric medicine and radio in the early 2000s to digital marketing, cafe ownership, menswear retail, and AI-powered software products, he has built a portfolio of ventures from Darwin that largely runs without him at the centre of daily operations. In this conversation with Nigel, he traces the arc from a $150,000 failed startup to a digital marketing business he sold just before the buyer went into liquidation —

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44:55

Miklós Pohl OAM Music Is Medicine

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2026/02/12

Dr Miklós Pohl OAM is a Melbourne-based plastic surgeon, violinist, violist, and founder of the Australian Doctor's Orchestra. Born in Hungary, he fled as a nine-year-old during the 1956 Revolution and arrived in Australia as a refugee. Music has been a constant thread through his life, from childhood violin lessons to performing chamber music across the globe.During COVID, Miklós wrote Music Is Medicine, featuring interviews with 28 doctor-musicians alongside his own reflections on amateur

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49:08

The Tradie Who Built an AI Business: Darren Waldron's...

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2026/01/29

In this episode of the Wisepreneurs Podcast, host Nigel Rawlins speaks with Darren Waldron, an Australian who has made a remarkable career pivot from carpenter to AI automation specialist while living in Zurich, Switzerland.Darren shares how his personal frustrations with slow business follow-up, both as a tradesperson sending quotes and as a consumer waiting for responses, led him to develop AI-powered solutions for lead management. His company, DS Walden, specialises in two core services: database

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51:43

Building a Sustainable Consulting Practice with...

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2026/01/01

Melisa Liberman accidentally started consulting 13 years ago when her CEO asked her to stay on after she resigned to move to Hawaii. That unplanned beginning revealed something most consultants learn too late: that success comes from systematic business development, not perfect pitches. Now a coach for consultants, Melisa helps experienced professionals build practices that generate $500,000+ without employees or feast-famine cycles.In this episode, you'll discover why consultants who think

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63:23

Making Space for Deep thinkers with Meredith Fuller OAM

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2025/12/12

Psychologist Meredith Fuller returns for her fourth Wisepreneurs conversation to address a challenge facing many experienced professionals: feeling invisible at work despite making substantial contributions. Drawing from over 45 years counseling individuals who "don't quite fit," Meredith explores why reflective, introverted thinkers struggle in organizations that reward rapid-fire responses over deep insight. She introduces the concept of "liminal space"—that uncomfortable transition ...

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54:02

Mark Trinham: Building Sustainable Art Practice...

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2025/11/28

Mark Trinham has spent 30 years building a thriving full-time art practice without formal business training—creating large-scale public artworks, running a successful collaboration company, and maintaining creative independence. In this conversation, Mark reveals how he moved from illustration and graphic design into public art and sculpture, developed a sustainable business model that keeps him booked 18 months ahead, and learned when to say no after decades of saying yes to everything.You'll

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67:12

Jon Younger Why Keep Working at 73? On Talent,...

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2025/11/14

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.At 73, Jon Younger has spent his career understanding how talent evolves—from HR executive at Exxon to business builder to independent advisor on the future of work and AI. In this conversation, Jon addresses the positioning challenge experienced professionals rarely voice: how do you justify premium rates when younger consultants cost less and AI handles routine knowledge work?Jon explains why accumulated professional judgment

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36:50

Mayumi Kataoka: When Your Brain Needs Trees, Not More...

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2025/10/30

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.In our hyperconnected world, we respond to time scarcity by optimising, accelerating, and implementing more productivity systems. But what if the solution isn't doing more—it's doing less?Mayumi Kataoka, a certified forest therapy guide based in Sydney, takes professionals on three-hour walks that cover barely 1.2 kilometers. Participants consistently report losing track of time and finding clarity they didn't

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37:36

Anna Burgess Yang on Business Resilience and Smart...

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2025/10/16

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.When Anna Burgess Yang was diagnosed with a brain tumor just weeks before surgery, her three years of systematic business building became the difference between collapse and continuity. In this conversation, Anna shares how strategic financial planning, smart automation systems, and operational frameworks allowed her FinTech writing business to run for two months without her active involvement. She reveals the specific tools,

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44:16

Michael Best on Career Reinvention, Cannabis...

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2025/10/03

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.At 74, a routine phone call during COVID changed everything for Dr. Michael Best. After 50 years practicing medicine, he discovered the endocannabinoid system—a biological network in every human body that he'd never learned about in medical school. Now 80, he's writing a scientific book on the topic while mastering AI tools, Obsidian, and Zotero, proving that intellectual challenge sustains cognitive vitality rather

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177:23

Robert Vlach Why Your Good Name Beats Personal Branding

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2025/08/28

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.Most career advice tells experienced professionals to modernize, rebrand, and compete with younger workers on their terms. Robert Vlach, who leads Europe's largest freelance community, says that's backwards.In this three-hour deep dive—our longest episode ever—Robert explains why your "good name" built through decades of professional relationships is more valuable than any personal brand. This conversation

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82:05

Amy Alkon Reclaiming Your Vitality in Menopause

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2025/07/31

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.For many accomplished women, the sudden arrival of brain fog, fatigue, or memory loss can feel like a professional crisis, sparking fears of losing one's edge. But what if these challenges aren't a sign of burnout, but a solvable physiological issue? In this vital episode, Nigel Rawlins sits down with award-winning investigative science writer Amy Alkon, author of Going Menopostal. Amy pulls back the curtain on the

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57:37

Sönke Ahrens From Highlight to Insight—Making Your...

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2025/07/17

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.If you’ve ever underlined a passage, bookmarked an idea, or highlighted something brilliant—only to forget it—this episode is for you.In this thought-provoking conversation, Sönke Ahrens joins host Nigel Rawlins to show how to turn a lifetime of learning into real, shareable value. Sönke, best known for his book How to Take Smart Notes, shares how digital tools like Obsidian and Readwise can help professionals externalise their

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52:01

A Realistic Guide to Starting a Business After 60...

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2025/07/03

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.This episode is a masterclass in career reinvention after 60. For professional women considering entrepreneurship, the path can seem filled with challenges, from overcoming age discrimination to navigating financial uncertainty. Nigel talks with LinkedIn expert and veteran solopreneur Sue Ellson to create a practical roadmap for success. Sue defines her "Geekster" identity—using technology to build a flexible career

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55:36

Laetitia Vitaud Networked Entrepreneurship

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2025/06/19

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.Episode OverviewWhat if your 60s could be the launchpad for a thriving solo venture? In episode #71, feminist and work-revolution thinker Laetitia Vitaud returns for her third appearance to share how women over 60 can reinvent their careers using their relationships and wisdom. From leveraging your 150 trusted connections to embracing seasonal work rhythms, Laetitia offers practical ideas for career reinvention for women over

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44:49

Laurie Smale on Reinvention, Mentorship, and Technology

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2025/06/05

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.In this quietly remarkable episode, Laurie Smale—former dropout, junkyard worker, communication mentor, and now digital storyteller at 79—joins host Nigel Rawlins for a conversation that redefines what it means to start over late in life.Laurie shares how he walked away from school at 13 after brutal treatment by a maths teacher and began working in a junkyard under the guidance of Old Bill, his first mentor. Decades later, he

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58:58

Curating for the Curious: How Tomáš Baránek Picks...

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2025/05/22

Ask Nigel Rawlins a question or send feedback, click the link to text me.In this Wisepreneurs Podcast episode, host Nigel Rawlins speaks with Czech publisher and technologist Tomáš Baránek about the enduring value of curated publishing in a world saturated by fast content and generative AI. Tomáš shares how his team at Melvil Publishing selects nonfiction titles with long-term value, from authors like Yuval Noah Harari and David Grann, and why translating a book well is just as much a craft as

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