For Independent Professionals Building Practice on Their Own Terms
Wisepreneurs Podcast
Wisepreneurs Podcast
The Wisepreneurs Podcast features conversations with experienced professionals, authors, academics, and consultants about building sustainable practice on your own terms. Hosted by Nigel Rawlins, the show explores how women entrepreneurs over 50 monetize accumulated expertise as solopreneurs, using AI tools, collaborative partnerships, and the cognitive advantages that come with decades of professional experience. Topics include positioning, professional transitions, cognitive vitality, relational branding, and the changing nature of knowledge work. New episodes fortnightly.
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For Women Entrepreneurs Over 50 Monetizing Expertise on Their Own Terms

Working lives have extended far beyond what anyone predicted. Experienced women professionals want to work independently—and the market needs people who can navigate complexity that AI and junior practitioners cannot.
Hosted by Nigel Rawlins, Wisepreneurs features conversations with experienced solopreneurs and independent professionals about what expertise monetization actually looks like after 50.
What we explore:
● Turning decades of professional expertise into visible, sustainable practice
● Marketing and positioning for solopreneurs who'd rather focus on client work
● AI tools that support your work without replacing your judgement
● The transition from employment to independent practice
● Business development, pricing, and finding the right clients
● Staying sharp, productive, and energised as you work longer
85+ episodes. Real conversations. No motivational fluff. Your expertise is your competitive advantage. This podcast shows you how to build a solopreneur practice around it

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Recent Episodes

Janine Garner Expertise Monetisation: How Women Build Independent Consulting Practices
April 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 marke...
Ella Zhang Inner Operating Systems: Building Leadership Capability Through Micro Habits
April 9, 2026

Ella Zhang Inner Operating Systems: Building Leadership Capability Through Micro Habits

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...
Ben Legg Portfolio Careers and Expertise Monetisation: From Google COO to Solopreneur
March 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...
Michael Zipursky Consulting Success: Why Conversations Beat Marketing for Independent Consultants
March 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 re...
Dante St James The Generalist Advantage: Building Systemised Independent Practices
Feb. 26, 2026

Dante St James The Generalist Advantage: Building Systemised Independent Practices

Experienced independent professionals building portfolio practices will find a practical operating model in this conversation with Dante St James. For generalists juggling multiple ventures, this episode maps the daily discip...
Miklós Pohl OAM Professional Longevity: Music, Medicine, and Sustained Practice Beyond 70
Feb. 12, 2026

Miklós Pohl OAM Professional Longevity: Music, Medicine, and Sustained Practice Beyond 70

Dr Miklós Pohl OAM at 78 shows how expertise sustains professional longevity across medicine, chamber music, and publishing His Wisepreneurs conversation explores how sustained creative engagement supports professional longev...
Darren Waldron Solopreneur AI Automation: How a Carpenter Built an Independent Technology Practice
Jan. 29, 2026

Darren Waldron Solopreneur AI Automation: How a Carpenter Built an Independent Technology Practice

Darren Waldron, a Zurich carpenter-turned-solopreneur, built an independent AI automation practice with no coding background. A carpenter by trade, now based in Zurich, he developed AI-powered lead management systems after ex...
Melisa Liberman Solopreneur Business Development for Experienced Consultants
Jan. 2, 2026

Melisa Liberman Solopreneur Business Development for Experienced Consultants

Systematic business development for independent consultants who want predictable revenue without employees or feast-famine cycles. Melisa Liberman coaches experienced professionals to build consulting practices generating $50...
Meredith Fuller OAM Invisible Expertise: How Introverted Professionals Articulate What They Know
Dec. 12, 2025

Meredith Fuller OAM Invisible Expertise: How Introverted Professionals Articulate What They Know

Experienced professionals who think deeply often feel invisible in workplaces that reward rapid responses over considered insight. Psychologist Meredith Fuller OAM, returning for her fourth Wisepreneurs conversation, draws on...
Mark Trinham Sustainable Creative Practice: 30 Years of Independent Work Without Business Training
Nov. 28, 2025

Mark Trinham Sustainable Creative Practice: 30 Years of Independent Work Without Business Training

Thirty years of full-time independent practice, booked 18 months ahead, with no formal business training. Artist Mark Trinham offers one of the most practical case studies on the Wisepreneurs Podcast for how accumulated exper...

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Meredith Fuller Episode on Career Change

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Most People at 78 Have Their Feet Up. I was Just Getting Started!

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Empowering wisdom for professional women 50+

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