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A Freelance Photographer Career from Scratch: Matt Bond, Episode 21
I wonder whether I’ve done Matt Bond a disservice. The most important thing to him is being a great freelance photographer. He’s all about the quality of his work and building his reputation on it. In...
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Making Video Games as an Employee and Solo: Henry Smith, Episode 23
Okay, you gamers out there. What’s your favourite game design studio? You know you’ve got one, just like you’ve got a favourite game platform. Wouldn’t you just love to work there, making video games...
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Improving Body and Spirit: Emazon, Episode 24
When she appeared on the 2009 season of Australia’s The Biggest Loser, the red-haired, red-gloved, hooded Emazon cut straight into not only her trainees but also the audience, demanding nothing less...
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Podcast Marketing: Tim Reid, Episode 25
It’s one thing to talk about getting paid to play, and another to turn your play into something that others will want to buy. But getting the word about how great your thing is and how it will help /...
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Ultimate Freedom through Internet Entrepreneurship: Michelle Ward, Episode 26
I’ve listened to a fair few life-change and small business podcasts in the last year or so, and a lot of them talk about Financial Freedom as an aim and an achievement. It’s one thing to hear...
View ArticlePursuing Sweet Dreams of a Bakery Career: Vanessa Musi – Episode 29 / Brazen...
UPDATE 13 June 2014: Vanessa has just unveiled her new web site where she offers coaching to fellow foodies looking to start their own businesses! It’s my pleasure to announce that the second episode...
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Solopreneur Style Maven: Gerlinda Aras, Mirror Image Consultations – Episode...
Gerlinda Aras, owner, operator and chief stylist of Mirror Image Consultations. Image provided by Gerlinda. Welcome back for the third edition of The Paid to Play Podcast released in conjunction with...
View ArticleFusin’ Music and Boozin’: Ali Spagnola – Episode 33
Ali Spagnola is one of my ultimate Career Crazies; she’s taken two things she digs – making music and making parties – and fused them into The Power Hour, an album of sixty one-minute-length sings that...
View ArticleHenry “Hengineer” Smith and the Spaceteam Admiral’s Club – Episode 34
UPDATE (8 July 2014): The Spaceteam Admiral’s Club Relaunch met its funding goal! Congratulations, Henry! It’s been almost two years since Henry Smith quit his job at triple-A game studio BioWare to...
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A Friendly Local Game Store in the Tropics: Mick Archer, The Wicked Goblin –...
Opening a friendly local game store in an out-of-the-way, tropical tourist town might seem downright crazy, but Cairns boy Mick Archer has not only done it, he’s made The Wicked Goblin a success. He...
View ArticleLong Distance Sex Therapist: Isiah McKimmie – Episode 36
Becoming a sex therapist in the cosmopolitan environment of a major city is one thing, but it’s another thing entirely to start a sexual health practice in a tropical town with canegrowing and...
View ArticleComic Art on Page and Skin: Paul Abstruse – Episode 37
Diversification is a byword nowadays; building your life around one source of income is risky, even when you’re doing the nine-to-five. Sometimes it’s unavoidable, especially when your dream job simply...
View ArticlePaying Sight and Sound Forward: Matt Bond – Episode 38
I’m pretty sure that I said that Matt Bond puts the rest of us to shame when I first chatted with him at the beginning of 2013. At the time, Matt had successfully overcome the ongoing pain from a pair...
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Cosplay’s Best Mate: Beethy Photography – Episode 39
Beethy is a photographer based in Australia who has chosen to focus his craft on portraits of cosplayers; people who not just make costumes based on fictional characters, but also go out in public and...
View ArticleHelping People Light Up: Kristen Baker – Episode 44
Kristen Baker was already a success. She’d completed a degree in opera, then become a commercial real estate agent raking in lots of money. Yet she still felt that neither opera nor real estate were...
View ArticleThe Thrill of Self-Publishing Thrillers: Joanna Penn – Episode 45
If Joanna Penn wasn’t an entrepreneur when the novelist bug bit, she was certainly on her way there, with a web log and podcast about self-publishing and a regular speaking gig. Then a chance encounter...
View ArticleA Chat with an Artist: Joy Harjo – Episode 47
My wife Vickie requested that I chat with Joy Harjo right in the early days of the podcast. Joy is one of the people Vickie truly admires; a poet whose works are just as often abstract free prose as...
View ArticleLine and Colour: Nei Ruffino – Episode 49
Nei Ruffino has been working freelance in the comic book industry as a colourist and overall artist for almost a decade. While she’s done work for all the major labels, Nei is probably best known for...
View ArticleRetailing Two-Wheeled Joy: Linc Biggins, ScootaCo – Episode 51
Linc Biggins is a longtime petrolhead, driving, riding and modifying vehicles on two wheels and four for as long as he can remember. after discovering the simple joy (and lack of expense) of commuting...
View ArticleLove of the Eighties on Camera: Dez Green – Episode 53
Cairns filmmaker Dez Green pays the bills by shooting video for local artist collectives and indigenous groups, but his passion project is a love letter to Eighties movies and TV called Dimension Man!...
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