Going Solo
Business & Economics Podcasts
Going Solo shares stories, strategies and ideas to help consultants, coaches and small business owners build success as entrepreneurs following a late-career job loss. We believe you should be able to take control over your career destiny, do what you love, what you’re competent at doing, and get paid what you’re worth, consistently. We are committed to the success of expertise-based businesses. Ready to go even deeper? The Smashing the Plateau Community uses a structured, supportive process to implement the kinds of strategies we discuss in this podcast. It is a community that is built to be a safe, caring place, where inclusive, direct, active and empowering conversations are welcome. If you want to get your consulting, coaching or small business to grow, on your own terms, so that you can deliver great results to your ideal clients, while supporting the lifestyle you want, and you don’t want to do it alone, apply to become a member of the Smashing the Plateau Community. Learn more at https://smashingtheplateau.com.
Location:
United States
Description:
Going Solo shares stories, strategies and ideas to help consultants, coaches and small business owners build success as entrepreneurs following a late-career job loss. We believe you should be able to take control over your career destiny, do what you love, what you’re competent at doing, and get paid what you’re worth, consistently. We are committed to the success of expertise-based businesses. Ready to go even deeper? The Smashing the Plateau Community uses a structured, supportive process to implement the kinds of strategies we discuss in this podcast. It is a community that is built to be a safe, caring place, where inclusive, direct, active and empowering conversations are welcome. If you want to get your consulting, coaching or small business to grow, on your own terms, so that you can deliver great results to your ideal clients, while supporting the lifestyle you want, and you don’t want to do it alone, apply to become a member of the Smashing the Plateau Community. Learn more at https://smashingtheplateau.com.
Twitter:
@smashingplateau
Language:
English
Contact:
2127310770
Episodes
Reflections on Going Solo
6/17/2022
We have produced 150 episodes of Going Solo since we launched this show in 2019.
In today’s episode you will hear my reflections on what it takes to be successful when you leave your job and start your own consulting business.
We are pausing Going Solo. We are continuing to produce weekly episodes of Smashing the Plateau, sharing stories, strategies and resources to help you build your consulting business after a long career as an employed professional.
Duration:00:08:13
Laura Rotter and Rock Robinson: Building Businesses of Purpose and Value After a Long Corporate Career
6/10/2022
After 30 years of successfully managing money for institutional investors including Citicorp and Para Advisors, Laura Rotter founded her own firm, True Abundance Advisors, a fiduciary, fee-only financial planning firm located in White Plains, NY with a satellite office in New York City.
Laura created a business that was in alignment with her own values and took advantage of her strengths.
Rock Robinson is an accomplished Sales Executive with 40 years of achievement growing revenue with the likes of McGraw-Hill, Sallie Mae, Stericycle & the Univ. of Phoenix.
Rock developed a framework for developing new relationships that can open up fabulous opportunities.
Learn more about them here:
Laura Rotter: https://trueabundanceadvisors.com/
Rock Robinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rockrobinson9
Duration:00:44:30
Think and Grow Rich – the $5 million SECRET Featuring John Mitchell
6/3/2022
John Mitchell is a serial entrepreneur. John has created a 12-minute-a-day technique, related to the popular book, Think and Grow Rich.
In todays’ episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how a 12-minute-a-day technique creates success.
John and I discuss:
John’s technique caused his own income to go to $5 million a year, after 20 years of low six figures a year.
You can learn more about John and get access to a private podcast that lays out his technique by texting AUTOPILOT to 55444.
You can also find John at:
https://thinkitbeit.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mitchell-76483654/
Duration:00:27:01
How Conversations Support Profitability Featuring Diane Tarshis
5/27/2022
Diane is Founder and Principal of Startup Distillery — a global consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs launch successful businesses and secure funding. She focuses primarily on early-stage startups, regardless of industry. That means Diane gets to work with founders in a wide variety of fields, ranging from clean energy to cannabis, movie studios to life sciences, consulting, consumer products, design... and distilleries, of course. Her extensive background in finance, manufacturing, operations and retail informs all the work that she does as she helps entrepreneurs distill their ideas into growing businesses. We discuss:
Learn more about Diane at https://startupdistillery.com.
Duration:00:25:13
Freedom vs. Responsibility Featuring Jacquie Doucette
5/20/2022
Jacquie Doucette has undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy and has worked for Canada’s Defence Department, both in uniform and as a civilian, for 40 years. We discuss:
She knows there's more to life than a job... and more to retirement than just leaving a job. With Beyond Retirement, she's hoping to shed some light on other paths people have taken in their journeys away from the corporate world, to share with her listeners and her clients a variety of ways to lead rewarding and fulfilling lives outside that 9-5 world. Learn more about Jacquie at https://beyondretirement.ca.
Duration:00:22:10
Should You Buy a Consulting Franchise Featuring Tom Scarda
5/13/2022
Tom Scarda is a Certified Franchise Expert. He was the number one franchisee of the year with his first franchise concept and failed miserably in his second franchise. The lessons learned from failure are what make him such an expert. We discuss:
Tom is the author of several books including the number one bestseller, Franchise Savvy. He hosts The Franchise Academy Podcast and has produced an online Master Class on investing in a franchise. He has helped more than 1600 people figure out if franchising is for them since 2005. Learn more about Tom at www.thefranchiseacademy.com
Duration:00:24:45
Reinventing Yourself as a Writer in Your Own Business Featuring Kristi Meenan
5/6/2022
Kristi is a Dallas native and at 50 years young, she reinvented herself and transitioned from a job she needed to creating the career she always dreamed of. Kristi is a certified resume writer, job search strategist and LinkedIn pro. In 2018, she launched her business We Write It Now and has never looked back. We discuss:
Learn more about Kristi at www.WeWriteItNow.com and LinkedIn.
Duration:00:24:23
Designing a Business that will Enable You to Leave Your Job Featuring Jake Lang
4/29/2022
Jake Lang is an author, entrepreneur, and founder of over eight online businesses. Jake now helps new entrepreneurs start and scale their first online business at TheEntrepreneurRideAlong.com where he shares his experiences along the entrepreneurial journey of starting and growing new businesses.
We discuss:
It’s Jake’s mission to start a new online business every year and share everything behind the scenes through his books, Podcast, and Blog so that new entrepreneurs can learn from Jake’s mistakes, understand the struggles of starting a new business, and find the path to entrepreneurial success.
Learn more about Jake at https://theentrepreneurridealong.com/.
Duration:00:23:28
How Mick Spiers Launched The Leadership Project
4/22/2022
Mick Spiers is the Founder and Principal of The Leadership Project and the host of The Leadership Project podcast. His vision is to inspire all leaders to challenge status and to have people stop, reflect and rethink what it means to be a leader. His mission is to empower leaders with all of the tools and skills they need to create amazing teams and workspaces. We discuss:
Learn more about Mick at www.mickspiers.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.
Duration:00:25:07
The Power of a Sabbatical Featuring Cornelia Walther
4/15/2022
Following two decades in the humanitarian sector, Cornelia Walther quit to focus on POZE, a paradigm for social change that begins with individual transformation. Over the past years, she published a couple of books. Now Cornelia is expanding the network of like-minded thinkers and doers, whilst making the POZE perspective and related mythologies accessible around the world. We discuss:
Learn more about Cornelia at www.poze.cc and LinkedIn.
Duration:00:22:50
Building a Fractional Expert Business Featuring Jen Hamilton
4/8/2022
Jen Hamilton's love of effective and efficient teams and processes started as a CPA with PwC. Now as a Fractional Integrator with Wolf's Edge Consulting, she loves to work with burnt-out visionaries by managing the business's day-to-day operations so they can focus on profit and impact growth, and do what they love to do most. We discuss:
Jen is a natural collaborator, problem-solver, strategic thinker, and leadership coach. She keeps the team laser-focused on what is best for the company and who they serve while developing the team. Learn more about Jen at www.wolfsedgeconsulting.com and LinkedIn.
Duration:00:27:30
Interpersonal and Political Savvy Featuring Rick Brandon
4/1/2022
Rick Brandon, PhD, is founder and president of the globally respected Brandon Partners, offering workshops on interpersonal and political savvy. His courses are taught worldwide in scores of Fortune 500 corporations as well as in many government agencies, healthcare organizations, and educational institutions. We discuss:
Dr. Brandon wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success, which won book of the month for Fast Company, Forbes, CEO.com, and the Institute for Management Studies (IMS). He is a distinguished faculty member for the Institute and spent a year presenting in 20 cities around the world as its most requested speaker. With 35 years of performance improvement experience, Dr. Brandon has directly trained hundreds of thousands of people in workshops and speeches. He has consulted, trained, and presented at companies worldwide, from start-up e-commerce to blue-chip companies. Learn more about Rick at www.BrandonPartners.com.
Duration:00:26:48
How to Heal from a Toxic Workplace and Create a Business You Love Featuring Kerstin Ramstrom
3/25/2022
Former Wall Street stock analyst who walked away to focus on her own health and helping others improve theirs. We discuss:
Learn more about Kerstin at www.carefullyhealing.com and Instagram.
Duration:00:27:27
How to Grow Your Leadership Coaching Business While Employed in a Full Time Job Featuring Earl Breon
3/18/2022
Earl Breon is a former active-duty United States Marine with over 25 years of experience in coaching and leadership development. He is the CEO and Founder of The Leadership Phalanx where he combines his civilian and military experiences with his love of history to bring you what he calls, "The 11 Shields of The Leadership Phalanx”. These shields work together like the ancient Spartan formation to provide you a strong leadership foundation that values diversity and inclusion as fundamental to building strong, successful, and innovative teams. We discuss:
Learn more about Earl at https://www.leadershipphalanx.com/ and LinkedIn.
Duration:00:26:42
Leaning into Your Unique Skills and Experiences Featuring Gayathri Shukla
3/11/2022
Gayathri Shukla is the founder of Campfire Kinship, a social enterprise on a mission to unlock the power of empathy through story-based solutions. She practices human-centered design and is also certified in an innovative method of storytelling called guided autobiography. We discuss:
Gayathri empowers individuals to discover their authentic strengths while creating inclusive cultures via workshops, keynotes, and creative storytelling campaigns. Gayathri transitioned to entrepreneurship after a 17-year career in the energy sector. She has an electrical engineering and Executive MBA degree and volunteers on the Board of Calgary Immigrant Women's Association. Learn more about Gayathri at www.campfirekinship.com and Instagram.
Duration:00:26:29
When Opportunity Knocks on Your Door Featuring Adam Mirabella
3/4/2022
With clients like Amazon, Dell, Tik Tok, LinkedIn, eBay, Facebook and Peloton, Adam specializes in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Creating a “Winning Culture” and Career Transition. He works with industry leaders to strengthen leadership and communication skills. We discuss:
Adam is especially skilled in working with leaders to understand and build their capabilities in the areas of emotional intelligence, team dynamics, and powerful communication. Adam has a style that resonates with leaders at all management levels, successfully helping them portray their leadership vision and improve their business results as well as their professional life. Learn more about Adam at LinkedIn.
Duration:00:21:52
Feeling Grief After Losing a Job Featuring Jennifer Fondrevay
2/25/2022
Jennifer J. Fondrevay is the Founder and Chief Humanity Officer of Day1 Ready™, an M&A consultancy that advises Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and small businesses on the people challenges of business transitions. An advisor to senior and frontline leaders, Fondrevay ensures a company’s human component, such as culture, engagement, and employee experience remains central to the transformation strategy. We discuss:
A survivor of three multibillion-dollar acquisitions, Jennifer sheds light on navigating a rapidly changing work environment through her speaking, contributions to HBR, Inc, Fast Company, and Forbes, and book NOW WHAT? A Survivor’s Guide for Thriving Through Acquisition, published Nov. 2019. Learn more about Jennifer at https://jenniferjfondrevay.com and LinkedIn.
Duration:00:27:10
Work from the Inside Out Featuring Tammy Gooler Loeb
2/18/2022
Tammy Gooler Loeb is the author of Work from the Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You. She is a career and executive coach, speaker, and facilitator who focuses on career satisfaction, and leadership development. Tammy’s clients represent many sectors and industries. We discuss:
Tammy’s weekly podcast, Work from the Inside Out, showcases career transition stories of people who found more meaningful work. Her expertise has appeared in Harvard Business Review Ascend, Forbes, Fast Company, The Boston Globe. Tammy holds a B.A. in Psychology from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, and an MBA from Boston University, Boston, MA. Learn more about Tammy at www.tammygoolerloeb.com and www.workfromtheinsideout.com.
Duration:00:25:08
Adding a New Revenue Stream Featuring Diana George
2/11/2022
Diana George is the founder and president of By George HR Solutions. While working with small business owners, Diana found a common thread with most of her clients; the ability to hire employees that fit their company culture. We discuss:
Diana has worked with global companies such as BOSE and the luxury watch brand OMEGA where she learned early on how to motivate and get the best out of people. She teaches entrepreneurs how to hire right the first time so that their brand is a reflection of them, and they can focus on growth. Diana is the person you go to when you want to learn how to hire right the first time. Learn more about Diana at https://hireforgrowth.com/.
Duration:00:25:55
Becoming Unstuck from Your Midlife Career Featuring Lucia Knight
2/4/2022
Lucia Knight is a midlife career satisfaction researcher and designer. She spent 20 years in the world of corporate headhunting in UK and Australia before embarking on her quest to design work that would be MUCH more satisfying. We discuss:
After diving headlong into a MSc Psychology in her early 40s, she designed a personal research project to interview 100 midlifers who changed careers and felt happier because of their changes. She then wrote a book on the secrets she discovered. Her career consultancy is called Midlife Unstuck. She now helps midlife professionals who feel stuck doing work that isn’t fully satisfying - to design work that is. Learn more about Lucia at https://www.midlifeunstuck.com/.
Duration:00:25:06