Renegade Profile: Karen Salmansohn
September 15, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off
This week’s Renegade Profile is former NYC advertising VP turned author, speaker and creative genius, Karen Salmansohn. You can find him online at NotSalmon.com and get her new book, Prince Harming Syndrome in bookstores everywhere.
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How she became one of the youngest VPs in a giant NYC ad firm in NYC
- How knowing more people makes you more lucky
- How she landed her first book deal and grew that to 1 million books now in print
- What made her walk away from the job to pursue her passion
Renegade Profile: Zach Even-esh, Underground Strength Coach
September 3, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off
This week’s Renegade Profile is school teacher turned passionate husband, dad, strength coach and fitness info-entrepreneur, Zach Even-esh. You can find him online at ZachEven-esh.com
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- Why he just walked out of a $90,000 a year job to do what he loves
- How he developed a passion for fitness
- How he turned that passion into a part-time business and began to build his renegade path on the side
- Why he decided now, in the middle the bad economy, is the time to go renegade
- What conversation he had with his wife and family
Renegade Profile: Writer Dad, Sean Platt
August 26, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 3 Comments
This week’s Renegade Profile is writer, dad and creator of, believe it or not, the web’s best potty-training info-product—Sean Platt. You can find Sean at WriterDad.com and @writerdad on twitter.
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- Why Sean decided to leave a mainstream job to create his own future
- How he and his wife started their own school
- How they not only taught little kids, but became known as the potty-training whisperers
- What led Sean to start turning to the online world
- How he launched a blog that got dozens of comments on each post within weeks
Renegade Profile: Voice Artist Jeffrey Kafer
August 19, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 1 Comment
This week’s Renegade Profile is voice artist, Jeffrey Kafer. You can learn more about Jeffrey at JeffreyKafer.com
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How Jeffrey discovered the world of voice talent while working a day job
- How he began to build his voice career on the side
- What the different paths to being a voice artist are
- How getting laid off has allowed him to focus on his renegade path
- How social media has helped grow his reputation and biz
- And, much more…
Renegade Profiles can now be downloaded in two ways:
Renegade Profile: Founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry
August 6, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 2 Comments
This week’s Renegade Profile is a bit of a legend in the world of entrepreneurship and business planning—Tim Berry. Time founded Palo Alto Software, also known as the creator of the world’s #1 business planning software, Business Plan Pro. He’s also a prolific author, blogger all around nice guy. You can find Tim all over the place online, but start out with TimBerry.com and look for @Timberry on twitter, where he’s very active
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How Tim made the jump from journalism to B-school, with a family in tow
Renegade Profile & Career Renegade TV: Erik Proulx
July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 2 Comments
This week’s Renegade Profile is PleaseFeedTheAnimals.com founder, Erik Proulx.
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How he built a longtime career on the creative side of the big ad firm industry
- How, after being laid off, he decided to step back and do things differently
- How he launched his website and then parlayed that into…
- A documentary with everything from airfare to editing donated
- How twitter has been a massive tool for both community building and marketing for him
- How he handled the challenge of launching a new business after being laid off
Renegade Profile: Epic Fantasy Writer, Joely Black
July 22, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 2 Comments
This week’s Renegade Profile is speaker and epic fantasy writer and creator of the Anmar series, Joely Black. You can find Joely and her incredible world at JoelyBlack.net and the first book in her Amnar series “Amnar: The Awakening” has just been released as a free audiobook/podcast at PodioBooks.com
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How Joely began to create her lush fantasy world that the Anmar books revolve around,
- What drives her to create a world that now unfolds in more than 15 books,
- Why she decided to take the series online, instead of go mainstream
Renegade Profile: Glen Allsopp from PluginID.com
July 15, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 2 Comments
This week’s Renegade Profile is personal development blogger and online marketer, Glen Allsopp. You can find him at PluginID.com and be sure to check out his new book/course on “Cloud Living,” too. It’s one of the few affiliate income courses I’ve seen that delivers non-scammy, step-by-step information at a ridiculously low investment [$37. PS - I am not an affiliate].
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- What led Glen to walk away from college at 19 years old and fly to South Africa for a job in social media
- How he became interested in blogging and started down the internet marketing path
Renegade Profile: Philippa Kennealy, The Entrepreneurial MD
July 8, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off
This week’s Renegade Profile is phsycian turned blogger and entrepreneurship coach specializing in doctors, Philippa Kennealy. You can find her at EntrepreneurialMD.com
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How Philippa invested years training to be a doctor in South Africa and then again in the U.S.
- The experiences she had with patients that made her ask if what she was doing was what really made her come alive
- How she dealt made the move from full time doctor to full time dotcom entrepreneur.
- How she discovered the world of coaching and what she thought about the value of the training both before she went through it and after,
Renegade Profile: Paralegal Turned Pro Pet-Sitter, Joni Brennan
July 1, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off
This week’s Renegade Profile is legal assistant turned pro pet-sitter, Joni Brennan. You can find her at Sam-Cali.com
In our interview, you’ll discover:
- How Joni Decided to make the jump from a buttoned down office into taking care of pets
- What she did to launch and then market the business
- The surprising business potential of the personal pet care/sitting space
- How she built her business adopting an abundance mindset,
- Where she’s going from here (there’s lots to come)
- And, much more…
Renegade Profiles can now be downloaded in two ways:
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- Family
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- Career Renegade Merging With Awake@TheWheel
- Renegade Profile: Karen Salmansohn
- Renegade Profile: Zach Even-esh, Underground Strength Coach
- What’s the Best Online Business Model?
- Renegade Profile: Writer Dad, Sean Platt
- Basecamp Renegade: 3 Days That Will Change Everything
- Renegade Profile: Voice Artist Jeffrey Kafer
- When Pain Doesn’t Get You Money
- F2 | Fire Fly Manifesto: Remixed – It’s Alive
- Don’t Make Me Pay to Hear You Pitch
