Career Renegade Merging With Awake@TheWheel

October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off 

For the better part of a year, I’ve been maintaining two blogs, Awake@TheWheel at JonathanFields.com and CareerRenegade.com. Funny thing is, half the time, when I write a post, I don’t know whether to put it on CareerRenegade or on Awake@TheWheel. So, I flip a coin.

At the same time, I’ve just relaunched TribalAuthor.com as a full-on blog and began contributing a weekly column to the new Huffington Post book section.

Now, as I begin to do some retooling and reigning in (part of my “bigger game” plan), I’ve decided to merge the blog element of CareerRenegade.com into JonathanFields.com (which should make the sizable chunk of you who subscribe to both blogs happy, too).

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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:

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• 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:

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• 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

What’s the Best Online Business Model?

September 1, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 2 Comments 

People constantly ask me what the best model is for making money online…

Fact is, there is no single “best” model, but one of the most powerful ones is the approach shared by famed blogger and friend, Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com—membership sites that teach high-value/how-to information.

In fact, Brian’s first big monetization play as a blogger was his own membership site called Teaching Sells that (cough) teaches people how to build membership training sites.

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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:

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• 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

Basecamp Renegade: 3 Days That Will Change Everything

August 24, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off 

I’ve been keeping something from you guys for a few months now…

It’s an insanely cool event called Basecamp Renegade and it’s going down in Charlotte, NC on September 25-27th. And, because I can’t do anything the way I’m supposed to, it’s not in a conference room or hotel. It’s in a 200 acre man made outdoor adventure center called the U.S. National Whitewater Center.

For 2 1/2 days, me and Olympic Gold Medal whitewater kayaker, Joe Jacobi, are going to guide a mini-tribe of 25 people through the whitewater, mountainbiking, rock climbing, zip lining, renegade lifestyle and career transformation experience of a lifetime.

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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:

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When Pain Doesn’t Get You Money

August 17, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 12 Comments 

I was recently watching TV when a commercial came on for a law firm with the slogan:

If You Have Pain, You Need Law

My jaw dropped. I was really bothered.

First, at the law firm. And then at society at large. Because this commercial, sadly, reflected a growing and in my mind somewhat perverse expectation (at least in the U.S.) that if you get hurt someone’s gotta pay…even if it was nobody else’s fault

Even if it was YOUR fault!

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

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F2 | Fire Fly Manifesto: Remixed – It’s Alive

August 12, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · Comments Off 

On November 20, 2008, I released the original Fire Fly Manifesto as a catalyst to change the conversation from one of despair to one of hope. I was blown away by the worldwide reception.

In the 9 months since its release, though, both the economic climate and the mood throughout the world have changed in a fairly profound way.

And, again, I felt the need to revise and expand the Fire Fly Manifesto to address the questions that were being asked of me and the challenges that lie ahead. Things like, “should I really be thinking about starting my own adventure in this economy?” Or, “can I really go renegade if I’ve just lost my job?”

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Don’t Make Me Pay to Hear You Pitch

August 11, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 6 Comments 

So, I recently asked the twittersphere for recommendations for a contact management app for professional offices and solopreneurs. A bunch of different options were repeated often enough for me to check them out. And, 37 Signals’ HighriseHQ and NetSuite CRM were among that group

The first thing I did was go to each website to learn more. And, without even diving into the details of the apps, I was taken aback by a very impactful difference in the marketing sequence that immediately said one vendor gets it and the other doesn’t.

Here’s what I saw when I clicked over to the HighriseHQ website:

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