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The Wisepreneurs Podcast features conversations with experienced professionals, authors, academics, and consultants about building sustainable practice on their own terms.
Hosted by Nigel Rawlins, the show explores how experienced independent professionals position accumulated expertise, work with AI tools, and use 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. 90+ episodes.
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Filip Dřímalka wrote The Future of No Work and now helps independent professionals become superpowered with AI. He returns for the Wisepreneurs Podcast's 100th episode after selling both companies he built. Filip describes the parallel worlds now opening between professionals who work with the top AI models and everyone else, and walks through his PACT system (Projects, Agents, Context, Tools), why his 130 agents collapsed to a handful of skills, and the four levels of AI maturity – Explorer,...
Alex Hayes, president of Boost Pricing, says independent professionals undercharge from fear of losing the relationship. Alex trains sales teams at Boost Pricing to win deals at higher prices and hold that price when the buyer pushes back. She explains why solo practitioners cave: discounting is the easiest lever to pull, and a 5 per cent cut comes off profit, not revenue, so one handshake can erase a quarter of the year's margin. She describes lifting her own team's net margin fr...
Krystal Hille, founder of Hille House Publishing, helps experienced professionals turn expert positioning into a book. A former theatre director, she reads authors the way she once read actors, through the body, the breath and the story. She explains how she draws out an author's onlyness, the one thing only they can write, through the void to value exercise and stream-of-consciousness prompts, and how she maps authors to the four elements of earth, water, fire and air. She also t...
Sarah Duran is a fractional COO who helps solo business owners extract their business from their own head and turn it into systems that scale. She never planned to run a business — she watched her parents do it her whole life and wanted none of the weight of other people's livelihoods — but contract work turned into a decade-long practice she now runs in under 40 hours a week. Sarah explains why what got you to six figures will bankrupt you at seven: the moment the business outgrows one...
Liz Micik shows independent professionals what AI agents see when they read a website, after 28 years fixing broken ones. Her framework puts four questions to a site: can an agent find you, understand you, trust you, and use you. The free Signal Check at lizmicik.com/signal-check asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini about your business three times each; Nigel scored +24, with 14 checkable facts from Perplexity and none from Claude. Liz explains why schema now matters for a ...
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