Unleashed - How to Thrive as an Independent Professional

Susan Harte has deep experience as a site selection consultant, helping companies choose where to place their next headquarters, contact center, distribution facility, or factory. In this episode, Susan shares an insider's view of the site selection process. Connect with Susan on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-harte-esq-mcr-2002a04/ Unleashed is hosted by Will Bachman and produced by Umbrex. Learn more at www.umbrex.com    

Robert Glazer has an incredible portfolio career: Founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, a leading affiliate marketing agency Keynote speaker Best-selling author Find out more at https://www.robertglazer.com/ In this episode we discuss Glazer's latest ways to build four areas of your capacity: Spiritual Capacity, Physical Capacity, Intellectual Capacity, and Emotional Capacity. Our discussion centers around his latest book: Friday Forward: Inspiration & Motivation to End Your Week Stronger Than it Started Check out my previous discussion with Glazer, Episode 262 of this show, in which we discussed his last book: Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others

Jeffrey Fidelman started as a solo consultant in 2015. He had more demand than he could handle, so he hired a couple freelancers, and then saw more demand, and engaged more support.   Fast forward to 2020, and Fidelman & Company has 30 employees. Fidelman & Co. serves primarily lower-mid-market firms, i.e., those with revenues in the $1 - 100 million range. In this episode, Jeffrey discusses three of his core service lines: - Outbound growth - Supporting fundraising - Documenting operating policies and procedures to support business continuity Learn more about Jeffrey's firm at: https://www.fidelmanco.com/ Follow up with Jeffrey directly at: jeffrey@fidelmanco.com The Unleashed podcast is produced by Umbrex. Learn more at: www.umbrex.com  

Jeff Wald is the Founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to efficiently and compliantly organize, manage, and pay freelancers (purchased by ADP). Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffreyWald Jeff has founded several other technology companies including Spinback (eventually sold to Salesforce). He is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors. Jeff was a Managing Director at hedge fund Barington Capital and started his career at JP Morgan. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard University and a MS and BS from Cornell University. Jeff is the author of The Birthday Rules and the upcoming book, The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff was named “One of the 100 Most Influential People in Staffing” by the Staffing Industry Analysts in 2017 and 2018.

Deb Zahn is an experienced healthcare management consultant who coaches professionals interested in transitioning into consulting.  On her website she has a wealth of resources to help get started with your own consulting practice:  https://www.craftofconsulting.com/start-here Also, check out Deb's podcast: Craft of Consulting https://www.craftofconsulting.com/podcasts    

Laura Gariepy left a corporate job and set up as a freelance writer. Within a year, her income as a freelance writer matched her former corporate salary. Laura continues to work as a freelance writer and also serves as a coach to other writers seeking to make the leap to freelance. Visit her site at:  https://www.everydaybythelake.com/

Melanie Espeland is a McKinsey alum, independent management consultant, voice actor, and executive voice coach. In this episode, Melanie walks me through two sample voice exercises that she often uses when coaching executives - and you can follow along at home. If you are listening to this episode before September 24, you can register for a free Umbrex-sponsored webinar Melanie is leading from 12-1 p.m. EST that day. Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwocO-uqzgtGtY1meKqLMzVSV8f56unIJcs If you miss the webinar, email us at unleashed@umbrex.com and we'll send you a link to a recording. Definitely check out the website of Melanie's firm, where you can learn more about her voice coaching and hear her demo real, with clips from commercials she has done for the iPhone, Macy's, Claritin, Nob Creek, Lexus, and more. https://www.espelandenterprises.com/executive-voice-coaching  

Daniel Vasallo left a great job at Amazon in February 2019 with the idea of working independently. He thought about building a product, but decided that he first ought to build an audience, so he set out to learn Twitter.  From a base of a couple hundred followers 18 months agao, @dvassallo now has over 44K followers. He wrote a technical book on Amazon Web Services that generated over $100K in revenue. And then he created a guide on how to build a Twitter following, "Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience," based on his own experience - that guide has also grossed over $100K. After I spoke with Daniel I purchased his Twitter course and I recommend it.  Purchase it on Gumroad here: https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/ And do follow Daniel on Twitter at @dvassallo  

Dan Daugherty is the Co-Founder and COO of Sounder.fm, a podcast platform for creators focused on growth and discovery. In this episode, Dan describes the features of Sounder.fm, including FREE HOSTING for shows with under 20K streams per month. Sounder provides in-stream audible search, soundbite audio share, basic transcriptions, and other tools not available with other podcast syndication tools. Check them out at https://sounder.fm/  

Lemon Williams is a cyber security and operational risk management professional with extensive multi-industry experience establishing sustainable cyber security programs for the public and private sector applying leading industry processes and regulatory standards including Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX), North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) among others. In this episode we discuss the book he recently published: How-To Write Quality Compliance Documentation: Policy and Setting the Tone for Controlling Process.   On Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C96QRDH/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_MMoaFbW785DAQ Lemon is the Founder of The Ionado Group, and you can learn more about his work here: https://www.ionadogroup.com/