Solo Pro Radio was created by Solo Pro Success Coach Barbara Saunders as an extention of her mission to Raise the time and lift all the boats for self-employed professionals.

A Community for Solos
As the Director of International Association of Self-Employed Communication Professionals (IASECP - founded in 1997), she pioneered the collaborative community for creative pros where business experience was shared and developed. Given the shift in the world of business in the 1990s, there was a desparate need for professionals to learn a better way to earn a living. Most are experts at what they do, they just need to learn how to set up and run a business.

Today, business is technology driven and global. Knowledge and expertise is valuable commodity. New business models and social media makes it possible for a Solo Pro to take their career into their own control and earn their own financial stability.

An Academy for Solos
By 2007, the Solo Pro Academy was launched to show Solo Pros exactly how to set up, structure, and run their business - step-by-step - welding their knowledge and experience with the power of new technology and the web.

A Weekly Solo Pro eZine
Every week, Barbara publishes the Solo Pro News, an email newsletter jam packed with business tips, tactics and resources - as well as a timely business tip article.

An Advocate and A Voice
Self-employed professionals are not counted by the government in the US. That's the reason we are over taxed and under represented. One of her missions is give Solo Pros a voice. Solo Pro Radio provides the place for Solos to unite and be heard - as well as build community and learn to grow.

We're joining voices with the Freelancers Union. By pooling our resources, we will have the political power to be a loud, strong voice that represents independent workers – 30% of the workforce. We can ensure that freelancers' needs, rights, and visions for the future are written into our nation's policies and plans. It's time for us to build a new social support system that reflects our new workforce, and we can do it if we come together and speak in one, unified voice. Learn more about the Freelancers Union Political Action Committee (PAC).

Solo Pro Radio
Spend one hour a day with us on Solo Pro Radio - you'll leave energized, inspired and connected to a tribe that is creating the new future of business. Call in with your questions and get live answers from today's Solo Pro business experts.

Working for yourself can be scary. Sometimes, you can feel isolated...you don't have to do it alone.

Drawing on his 20+ years of experience across various disciplines as a teacher, linguist, food service worker, actor, sales professional and human resources consultant, diverse audiences immediately resonate with Tshombe's signature enthusiasm and connect with his warm, down-to-Earth, teaching style.

Multimedia expert Caelan Huntress describes Tshombe as "High energy, high impact, big results!," and the Sales Strategist and Auctioneer Lori Richardson calls Tshombe "one of the most enthusiastic, helpful, 'can-do' business leaders I know in the NW. . . (He is) real and stands out in a world full of bland and boring."

Tshombe's inspiring message is that every entrepreneur can and should make money AND meaning through effectively selling their products and services. "After all," says Tshombe, "Spiritual Selling is all about Coaching, that is, helping people get what they want."

Tshombe has been a guest on the local cable TV show, The Success Curve, in Eugene, OR, and he is regularly interviewed by teleseminar by leading internet and education-based coaches and marketers.

He has been privileged to address audiences as diverse as the Whatcom Association of Realtors, Skagit Women In Business, the Wedding Network USA, Biznik, and others.

Tshombe is the creator of SalesSuccessSeries.com, and the author of the popular audio workshop "5 Secrets for Getting More People to Eagerly Buy What You Sell. . .Starting Right Now!"

You can find Tshombe online at YourSignatureConsulting.com, and discover more tips and strategies for magnetic sales success on his blog, TheMagneticEntrepreneur.com.

Living in the world of entrepreneurs has been a way of life for me - it's in Bonnies blood! Her grandparents, parents, husband, brother and many of my friends are entrepreneurs. She can't imagine a life in the corporate world.

Through the multitude of entrepreneurial experiences, Bonnie discovered that you can build a thriving business without sacrificing family, health, finances and spirit. Her entrepreneurial spirit to make a difference began when she was in college at San Jose State University. Through active involvement in community groups organizing fund raising events, she was inspired to be an event planner. For twenty years her event planning experience empowered her to be active in the non-profit volunteer world and run my event planning business, Majestic Galas. During this period she followed a personal mission to better children's education by creating and building an educational organization, the Silver Oak Educational Partnership, to benefit a local elementary school in our community.

Today, Bonnie has created a financially successful business that is stress free, gives her the freedom to enjoy her family, enrich her spirit and make a difference in the world.

Coaching small business women is Bonnie's passion. As a Certified Coach of Kendall Summerhawk's Coaching Programs: Money Breakthrough Method and Money, Marketing and Soul and having received additional training through ADDCA - Attention Deficit Disorder Coaching Academy; she brings her enthusiasm, expertise, experience and knowledge to mentor and inspire her clients. Her purpose is to teach and empower women how to embody their vision, share their gifts, run a successful and lucrative business so they can live the life of their dreams.

Bonnie's goal is to empower entrepreneurial women into a 6-figure mindset with amazing tools, strategies and systems to make a lucrative income and make a big, bold difference in their communities. With enthusiasm, creativity, authenticity, elegance and grace; She coaches and mentors women to create their ideal business and live the life of their dreams.

Jackie B. Peterson

Her grateful clients recently named her “One of the 100 most Powerful Women in the Northwest” because of the success she has had in helping entrepreneurs to make choices that result in thriving creative enterprises. She was recently honored by the Portland Business Alliance, the largest Portland business association for her long term work to help small businesses thrive. When she speaks about what makes a creative businesses successful, even the Portland City Council listens. She was asked by Portland’s Mayor to advise him on steps the City can take to support the small business engine of creative entrepreneurship in the coming recession. She led a team that has brought a small business Bill of Rights to City Council; a document that is seen as a model for other Cities and states.

Jackie's book Better, Smarter, Richer! shows creative entrepreneurs how to practice their craft AND make money doing so. The book’s lessons are told in the form of real life stories of creative entrepreneurs making the choices that result in a financially successful and sustainable enterprise. Topics include, just to name a few, the fantastic power of focus, making business decisions from passion rather than from fear, how to charge more money and overcome competition, tools for leveraging a single hour of work over and over again, and finally, how to develop a following of happy clients.

Barbara Saunders, the Solo Pro Success Coach is the Director of the International Association of Self-Employed Communication Professionals and the Founder of the Solo Pro Academy. She is the creator of Solo Pro Radio.

For more than a decade, Barbara has run a successful custom publishing service specializing in periodicals for large companies. She's mastered the solo-based sustainable business by using the latest technology, forward-thinking partnership tactics and innovative business models that allow solos to flourish in the 21st Century.

As the Director of the Self-Employed Communication Professionals, she's honed her understanding of the Solo Pro business for over 14 years by helping hundreds of others go from freelance to flourishing. By growing this unique community, she has amassed a wealth of connections, resources, and insider knowledge that is invaluble in helping others grow.

At the Solo Pro Academy and through private programs, Barbara teaches 21st Century business models, easy-to-master systems, and creating a custom-fit business for every Solo Pro. Apply for a Business Mapping Strategy Session and get on your way to a flourishing Solo Pro Business.

Barbara stands as a tireless advocate for the Solo Pro condition by creating a platform - such as Solo Pro Radio - to give self-employed professionals a voice in changing the way business is done.

Monday | February 20, 2012
The Selling with Spirit Hour
with Tshombe Brown
We’ll check in with Joe Nunziata, best-selling author of Spiritual Selling – who began his sales career on the unforgiving streets of New York selling beer, soda, advertising, direct mail marketing, you name it – about what he has to say on the matter.

Tuesday | February 21, 2012
Entrepreneurs in Focus
with Bonnie Marie Kuhn
Sarah Kirkish, owner of Work Life Organization, is a Certified Coach and Professional Organizer with over 18 years of project management experience in corporate America. She has advanced degrees in both engineering and business. She blends these disciplines to create unique organization systems for her clients.

Sarah's mission is to help busy professionals simplify their lives from the inside out. She regularly presents her Simple Life Workshops to various business and professional groups all across the nation, covering Time Management and Information Management.

She is a trainer for Referral Leaders International and a leadership coach for the Society of Women Engineers. She is a regular contributor to various websites such as Small Business Trends and Small Biz Lady.

Wednesday | February 22, 2012
Better, Smarter, Richer
with Jackie Peterson

Shawna Schuh is an extraordinary storyteller, who works with corporations and associations to develop environments that help people bring their best selves to the work they do. She graduated from finishing school three times (ask her about that one some time) and taught finishing and fashion, as well as commercial work and interviewing skills, for over two decades. (She started out really young!) Shawna addresses communication and motivation, all forms of business and social etiquette, and leadership.  Her presentations are humorous, overflowing with energy, and her audiences are left raving for more!

Thursday | February 23, 2012
Solo Pro Success
with Barbara Saunders
Monica Hamburg and Stephanie Michelle Scott - both social media professionals. they see people using social media - hopping on the bandwagon, but not necessarily doing it well - or getting their desired results. We'd be happy to talk about how people can improve what they do or about social media topics in general.

Monica is a social media consultant who has worked on many campaigns. She aims to educate her clients about the workings of social media, so they are able to understand and use the tools to better connect with their clients. Monica was named one of "Vancouver's Social Media Innovators" in BC Business and has been profiled and interviewed in The Georgia Straight, The Vancouver Sun, 24hrs and Backbone Magazine.

Stephanie is the Lead Strategist at Wildfire Effect Consulting, She guides creative companies to develop an integrated social media strategy and engaging targeted content. She's also the Director of Communications for the Social Media Club – Vancouver BC chapter, and the 1st appointed Social Media Officer for British Columbia's Toastmasters.

Together, the run the Social Media Audit & Twitter Workshop called Social Media Radified.

Friday | February 24, 2012

The Solo Pro Radio Co-Host Experts PLUS Susan Rich from SusanRichTalks ALL get together one day a week to share insights, tips, trends, tactics and answer your questions. Call in at 561-422-4365, Skype to "w4wnRadio" or email your questions here >>

This week's topic is about your professional image and networking. Showing up is a big part of networking - but how you show up totally matters too. Join in on the fast-paced discussion.