Unleashed - How to Thrive as an Independent Professional

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/

Sarah Preisser spent twenty years at Accenture, twelve of those in talent strategy roles. In 2019, Sarah founded Mindset Talent, which specializes in strengthening the organizational capacity and capabilities of business, public and non-profit organizations by igniting the power of their teams. In this episode, Sarah shares lessons about talent management that are useful to any management consultant. Learn more about Sarah's firm at: https://www.mindsettalent.com/

Kit Lisle is a Partner at Acclaro Growth Partners, a research-based strategy consulting firm that serves private equity firms and their portfolio companies. In this episode, Kit shares insights on conducting commercial due diligence projects. Learn more about Acclaro Growth Partners at: https://acclaropartners.com/

Jeff Gothelf is a leading expert on digital transformation an business agility. He is a keynote speaker, consultant, and the author of four books. In today's episode we focus on his latest book, Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking For Work and Let Your Next Job Find You. Learn more about Jeff's work and sign up for his newsletter at: https://jeffgothelf.com/