Breaking Solo
🎧 Breaking Solo is your go-to podcast for insights from solopreneurs who’ve made it happen—sharing their strategies, challenges, and the tools they use to stay ahead.
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- Sep 26, 2026
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"This Is Mine": Rebuilding Your Business After the Ground Shifts (opens the original)
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What happens when the client you gave eleven years to hits pause without warning? For Jeanne Tan, that moment, along with losing her husband to pancreatic cancer in 2020, forced a hard truth: she'd been running a business while thinking like an employee. In this episode of Breaking Solo , Jeanne shares how she stopped trading hours for someone else's stability and repackaged her expertise into the Sales to Search SEO framework, a program-based offer built for entrepreneurs. You'll hear why ranki
Lisa Bastian: 40 Years Solo — From PR Freelancer to Federal Investigator to Coffee Founder (opens the original)
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What if the thing that keeps your business alive for four decades isn't a niche, a funnel, or a framework — but plain curiosity? Lisa Bastian has been working for herself since the late 1980s. She started Bastian Public Relations while raising a young son, back when a woman who worked from home was too corporate for the playgroup moms and too domestic for the corporate clients. She's written for national magazines across 30 industries, flown to the Netherlands and northern France on economic dev
Trust Your Gut: Donna Price on Building Your Own Success Framework (opens the original)
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What if the "law of attraction" is actually doing women entrepreneurs a disservice? Donna Price, founder of Compass Rose Consulting, works with women entrepreneurs on building more profitable, efficient businesses that make a bigger impact — for their clients and the world. She went solo after five years managing an outdoor education camp, working 16-hour days with a two-year-old at home and realizing something had to change. Inspired by a mentor who made building a coaching business look easy,
From Kitchen Table to Franchise: Liz Wahl on Scaling a Solopreneur's Legacy (opens the original)
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What happens when a solopreneur's kitchen-table business turns into a national franchise — run by her own daughter? Liz Wahl is president of Young Rembrandts, an after-school drawing franchise that started in 1988 when her mother, a fine arts major with no interest in becoming a business owner, began teaching a handful of neighborhood kids in their living room. Liz grew up watching that grassroots hustle turn into something bigger, stepped in as a teacher after graduating college into the tough
The Disney Experience: Shaun Whynacht on Automating the Magic Back Into Your Business (opens the original)
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What if your business could feel the way Disney feels — that unmistakable rush of happiness the moment you walk through the gates? Shaun Whynacht, founder of Blue Cow Marketing, has spent 15 years in marketing automation helping small business owners bring their expertise and their ideal client experience to life through systems, CRM, and AI. He grew up in an entrepreneurial family without even realizing that's what it was — a grandfather who ran a TV repair shop, a mother with a craft store, a
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