As an entrepreneur, fledgling creative person and travel enthusiast
myself, I always keep learning from other entrepreneurs who
have successfully combined business, creativity and travel in
their own way. Last fall I took a seminar at the Learning Annex
in Toronto with the title "How To Support Your Wanderlust",
which ended up being a very entertaining and informative seminar.
Barbara Winter is a Minneapolis-based
entrepreneur, writer and speaker who has spent the past 17 years
helping people discover their passions and turn them into profitable
businesses. She is the author of the best-selling book, Making
a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That
You Love (Bantam, 1993), and the publisher of Winning
Ways, the newsletter for people living and working with
passion.
Bestselling author Barbara Winter.
In addition, Barbara teaches seminars and teleclasses on "Establish
Yourself as an Expert", "Making a Living Without a
Job", and "How To Support Your Wanderlust". Barbara's
most recent endeavour, her book Jumpstart Your Entrepreneurial
Spirit is hot off the press and just came out last month.
One of Barbara's mantras is to turn artists into entrepreneurs
and to turn entrepreneurs into artists. This is incidentally
exactly where I am at in my life right now: after 2 business
degrees and 15 years in business as an independent entrepreneur,
the time has come for me now to reintegrate creative passion
back into my life, which the website and my travels will offer
me to do.
Barbara likes to turn people into inspired entrepreneurs who
expand their horizons. I knew that Barbara would be a great
candidate for an interview, she is funny, creative and full
of great ideas and energy. I am sure that her seminars and books
have inspired thousands of individuals to get up and pursue
their passion and create their own businesses.
What I like to do in my interviews is I like to talk to the
person, get to know them a bit better on the phone so I can
compile written questions (hopefully semi-intelligent ones..;)
for them that they can answer in their own words. The hour I
spent on the phone with Barbara has been very entertaining and
informative for me at the same time and I felt totally energized
after talking to her.
As a novice writer myself, just listening to Barbara gave me
lots of ideas for my own writing and publishing endeavours.
Barbara really knows how to capture her audience and I am actually
planning to take her upcoming teleclass A Beginner's Guide
to Getting Published.
Barbara is an interesting, inspiring individual that many of
us can learn from. Stay tuned for my first interview!
Barbara's book:
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Here is the completed interview with Barbara
Winter
Read how Barbara got my creative
juices flowing
