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Going Solo episodes
- Reinventing Your Identity Featuring Raj BandyopadhyayRaj is a former data scientist who became a personal branding photographer. He now helps entrepreneurs tell their beautiful, multifaceted stories on camera.26 min
- Soaring as a Consultant Featuring Andrea WrightAndrea made the transition from employee to consultant more than once. As a result, the last time she became a consultant, she set up her company for success.24 min
- Success Leaves Clues Featuring Jamy Bechler
Jamy Bechler is the host of the "Success is a Choice" podcast and author of three books, including "The Bus Trip". He spent 20 years as a college basketball coach and high school AD. Jamy now works with high-level corporations and sports teams helping them maximize their potential in the area of leadership, culture, and teamwork.
We discuss:
- Self-employed or unemployed depending on the day [01:32]
- How having a platform to host a podcast could change the dynamics of your business [03:38]
- Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal [05:53]
- The entrepreneur’s internal battles with discipline [07:11]
- How to avoid having the business running you instead of you running it [09:15]
- Why having a rainy day fund is not enough to go from a paycheck to self-employment [12:45]
- Don’t lose relationships over sale [14:54]
- Coaching coaches and leading leaders [17:39]
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood [20:09]
- Great teams have great teammates [21:19]
Learn more about Jamy at https://coachbechler.com/ and Twitter.
26 min - The Self-Employed Life Featuring Jeffrey ShawJeffrey coaches high achieving professionals who are becoming self-employed following a long corporate career. It’s a transition filled with many challenges. Jeffrey has synthesized all the insights he has developed following his own career as a successful self-employed professional and as a coach into his new book, The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success.30 min
- Finding and Pursuing Your Next Verse and Chapter Featuring Stephanie CarterFollowing a very accomplished career history as a general partner of a growth equity firm, while simultaneously advocating for military families and veterans as the wife of former Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, Stephanie decided it was time for her to Go Solo. She founded The Verse Media, a media platform designed and delivered by grown-ups, for grown-ups, built on real talk; action-ready, beyond-the-masses tips; and original ideas.30 min
- Achieving a State of Realistic Optimism While Feeling Uncomfortable Featuring Mike SmithAfter 25 years as a sports and entertainment executive at the NFL, NBC, and Deloitte, Mike wanted to leave the corporate world and become a consultant and coach. The sudden change in his daily routine is one of the many topics we covered in our thought-provoking discussion.27 min
- Finding Your Why as an Entrepreneur Featuring Scott MasonIt took Scott over 20 years to make a career move that would start addressing his frustration with being a circle trying to fit into a box.27 min
- Becoming a LinkedIn Powerhouse Featuring Brenda MellerBrenda is proud to call herself enthusiastically unemployable. She quickly built a very successful marketing and social media business following her exit from her corporate job.26 min
- Nonprofit Consulting and Coaching Featuring Robert GrabelRobert discovered who his best clients are and how he can best help them. Now, he has a simple structure to build and sustain his business.25 min
- A Corporate Employee Builds Her Coaching Business Featuring Theresa CampbellNot only did Theresa have the foresight to start her coaching business while employed full time by Ford, she had the courage to discuss it with her employer. Today, Theresa is happily employed and a successful coach.25 min
About Going Solo
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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.