Keynote Speakers:
Barbara J. Winter (US)
Keynote Topics: Small is Still Beautiful and It’s About Time
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Bio:
On the day that her daughter went off to kindergarten, Barbara J Winter set up a card table in her family room and started her first business. That was thirty-five years ago and she’s been joyfully jobless ever since.
Combining her love of creative self-employment, travel and personal growth, Barbara created her popular Making a Living Without a Job seminars in the early 1990s. Those seminars, along with others including Establish Yourself as an Expert and How to Support Your Wanderlust, found enthusiastic audiences throughout the US, Canada and UK.
In 1993, her book Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love was published by Bantam Books. That book, which has never gone out of print, was updated in August 2009.
A resident of Las Vegas, NV, Barbara also publishes Winning Ways, the longest-running newsletter on self-employment, now in its twenty-third years.
You can find out more about Barbara at JoyfullyJobless.com
John Williams (UK)
Keynote Topic: Screw Work, Let’s Play (Also the title of John’s new book.)
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Bio:
John Williams is author of bestselling book Screw Work, Let’s Play: How to do what you love and get paid for it. He is a career maverick who quit his position as Senior Managing Consultant at Deloitte and declared, “I never want another job for the rest of my life”.
Since then, John has fashioned a unique portfolio career to suit his personality. He turned a full-time job offer into a three-day week contract paying the same money, then became an independent consultant earning enough to only need to work for three months of the year. He has also created a thriving London event for ideas people, and got his experimental music played on radio stations around the world.
You can find out more about John at: ScrewWorkLetsPlay.com
Mickey Mikeworth (US)
Keynote Topic: The Prosperity Equation
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Bio:
Mickey Mikeworth has been educating and speaking to people about financial fitness for twenty-one years. Mickey believes “Everyone needs someone in their corner,” and her primary goal is to coach individuals and entrepreneurs toward financial fitness and resource building. To accomplish this goal, Mickey works closely with community leaders and non-profit organizations to ensure that all socioeconomic groups get access to useful, quality financial information, which is also motivational. Friends and clients describe her as charismatic and having a zest for life.
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Karyn Ruth White (US)
Keynote Topic: More Fun
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Bio:
For over 15 years, Karyn Ruth White has been entertaining and motivating business/corporate audiences. Prior to that, she performed professionally for over 12 years as a stand-up comedian. In between comedy “gigs”, she assisted top managers in large corporations and observed with a keen eye, the inner-workings of a wide variety of business environments.
She is the author of several books including Kiss My Botox, Laughing in the Face of Stress and Your Seventh Sense: How to Think Like a Comedian. Karyn Ruth White is a unique blend of motivator, business consultant, philosopher, life-skills coach and stand-up comedian. Her programs use humor to grab the attention of the audience and give them practical, real-life tools for being more productive and fulfilled as people.
You can find out more about Karyn at: KarynRuthWhite.com
Breakout Speakers:
Alison Marks (US)
Topic: Home on the Range: Create a Home Work Space to Inspire the Wild Cowgirl or Cowboy in You
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Bio:
Alison Marks has helped hundreds of smart, stressed out entrepreneurial women make more money and have more time off by getting focused and organized, bringing ease, flow and fun (yes, really!) into their home offices and their work days.
Alison is the author of From Clutter to Order in 8 Weeks, The Little Book of Freedom From Clutter, and The Little Book of Sanctuary. She is a business coach and consultant and a Certified Classical Feng Shui Consultant, and she holds an MA in Organizational Development and Transformation.
You can find out more about Alison at: www.FromClutterToOrder and www.InsideOutDesignCoaching.com
Charles McCool (US)
Topic: How to Save Money and Have More Fun on Every Trip
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Bio:
My name is Charles and I have been joyfully jobless for 11 years. Sounds like a recovery program…
Empowering people to enjoy travel is my specialty. I am the author of Winning the Airfare Game –which I wrote and published primarily to justify creating a business to do what I enjoy (help people travel better). I leveraged my book into opportunities in adult education (taught classes at 3 local programs), speaking (travel shows), corporate sessions, and private consultations. In my travel skills seminars, I teach attendees to save money, time, and stress while planning and taking their trips. I focus on breaking down the feelings of powerlessness while promoting fun.
Fun. I try to incorporate fun in whatever I do, whether it is conducting seminars, coaching youth teams, or just being. My license plate is “FUNNESS” and I own FUNNESS.com (future project). I am trying to do justice to my given surname of MCCOOL.
I have also had careers in high tech, professional athletics (very short), and family and household management (ongoing).
You can find out more about Charles at: All Things McCool, Travel Skills and www.LowerAirfares.com
Connie Hozvicka (US)
Topic: Painting Made Me Quit My Job
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Bio:
I am a full time Artist/Creative Wildwoman that breathes fire into the world through my business Dirty Footprints Studio. I believe that Art can change lives and that painting is THE powerful tool to unlock all possibility. I teach FEARLESS Painting, Art Journal LOVE, and all things creative juicy–in person, online and in my sleep! And when I’m not playing a FEARLESS painter on YouTube, I’m actually living my dream-painting FEARLESS in the studio!
You can find out more about Connie at: www.dirtyfootprints-studio.com/
Jami Yanoski (US)
Topic: Vision Boards- Manifesting Your Dreams Into Reality
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Bio:
In October 2008 I walked away from my corporate marketing job to form Y Marketing LLC., providing marketing support to other food companies in the form of product demonstrations, publicity, conferences and trade shows. At the same time, I started another LLC with 2 business partners, the Foodservice Educators Learning Community, a professional membership association for culinary arts and hospitality educators where my role is partner, office manager, membership, company marketing and conference planning. I recently got interested in the power of Vision Boards, and just received my certification as a Vision Board Counselor from the Vision Board Institute.
On a personal note, I have many interests when I’m not working. One of my biggest passions is travel. I was lucky enough in my former j-o-b to have the opportunity to travel a lot and now having my own businesses, I get to spend more time traveling for fun! I enjoy pretty much any kind of art and crafts, scrapbooking, rubber stamping which plays into my recent Vision Board activities. I love to read and always look forward to a great book discussion and since I live in Colorado, enjoy outdoor activities- concerts, camping, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing.
You can find out more about Jami at: FoodEd.org/
Sherri Garrity (Canada)
Topic: Enjoying the Entrepreneurial Ride
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Bio:
Sherri Garrity is the Chief Corporate Fugitive and creator of a step-by-step system for ex-corporate employees and aspiring entrepreneurs to go from overwhelmed employee (or feeling like one) to extraordinary entrepreneur. Corporate Fugitive provides training and consulting services to show entrepreneurs how to save valuable time, energy and money by setting themselves up for success and creating a custom fit business.
Sherri’s career path and entrepreneurial journey are living proof that breaking free from the unexpected can lead to an extraordinary business and transform your life. Her message is that aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners can create dream businesses that the right ones for them, when armed with the right balance of realistic expectations, knowledge and support.
Sherri and her family live in Central Canada in the small town where she grew up.
You can find out more about Sherri at: www.CorporateFugitive.com
Marianne Cantwell (UK-Australia)
Topic: How To STAND OUT From The Crowd: More Money, More Fun, For Less Effort
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Bio:
Marianne is an unconventional work-life coach and branding geek who is campaigning for the removal of ‘mediocrity’ from the dictionary.
Having consulted to multinational companies (such as Nokia and Disney) on how to stand out in a tough marketplace, when Marianne decided to become her own boss she followed her rules from the start. In under 12 months she had one of the most successful brands in her competitive industry, had recouped her old salary and was actually turning away clients. All while having fun, working her own hours and doing what she loves, every day .
Now, Marianne helps others stand out and do the same. Her advice has been featured in national newspapers, business journals, bestselling books and BBC television.
Originally from Australia, and currently based in the UK , Marianne is a Free Range Human who works and lives where she chooses. She is joining the Joyfully Jobless Jamboree as part of 2 months running her business while traveling around the USA on a fun-and-work roadtrip.
You can find out more about Marianne at www.free-range-humans.com
Joyfully Jobless Jamboree
More Time, More Fun, More Money
Austin, Texas
Friday, October 15, 2010
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
