In this episode, after 40+ episodes, I share my reflections on the second season of New Media World. I talked about the many amazing entrepreneurs I was grateful to have on the show and what I have learned from them.

New Media World: Business, Life, Freedom

Izabela Russell: Mix That Creates Success - Season Finale

Cesare Rocchi is a software maker, speaker and writer. He is currently working on Podrover. He blogs at Upbeat and he hosts the Cocoaconf podcast.

Cesare Rocchi: Feeding Your Inner Beast

Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Blubrry. He is an author, new media and podcast advertising expert, Podcast Hall of Fame Inductee, and a 12-year podcaster! Todd retired from the US Navy in 2007 with experience in Advanced Airborne Avionic Systems to include EW/Radar/CSM/SAR/IR/ with in depth knowledge of RF systems and components. He retired from the US Navy as a Senior Chief with 24 years active service. He has worked as a government tech rep involved in design, installation, operational testing, and evaluation of new mission systems along with managing multiple aircraft modifications across multiple depot repair facilities worldwide.

Todd Cochrane: Ohana - Podcasting Family

Zohar Dayan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wibbitz. He is a self-educated software developer and graphic designer with a strong passion for combining smart UX, minimalistic design, and clever technology.

Zohar Dayan: Day in Life of a Startup

Krishna De is a digital strategy and social media communications speaker, commentator, educator, and mentor. She's a judge of several Irish digital marketing awards and developed and leads the certificate and social media communication for the PR Institute of Ireland.

Krishna De: Believe in Yourself

Nicola Cairncross is the Founder of the self funded 6-figure startup ClicksAndLeads.com and co-host of Own It! Your Business & Your Life Podcast. Nicola left school at 16 with only three core skills: the ability to talk, a love of books and the ability to type.

Nicola Cairncoss: Core Strength

Paul Boag is the author of Digital Adaptation. He is a leader in digital and user experience strategy with over 20 years experience. Through consultancy, speaking, writing, training and mentoring, he passionately promotes digital best practices.

Paul Boag: Digital User Experience

Joshua Rivers is an Oklahoma-based podcast producer and podcaster at Podcast Guy Media. He started with websites many years ago which he started to build into a business sometime in 2012-2013. When it didn't get a whole lot of traction, so he started podcasting and producing podcasts. Joshus is currently aiming to build his podcast production business to replace his full-time income.

Joshua Rivers: Podcast Production Business

Nick Loper is the founder of Side Hustle Nation, his website that showcases his successes and failures, as well as the actionable lessons from dozens of fellow side hustle entrepreneurs. Some of the biggest pet peeves are people who insist on introducing themselves with a middle initial.

Nick Loper: Side Hustle

Janet Murray is a journalist and PR coach who helps businesses and brands tell their story in the media. Janet has been featured in dozens of national and international publications including the Guardian, Huffington Post, Daily Telegraph, Entrepreneur, BBC Online, The Sun, Daily Mail & many more. Janet is also a blogger, speaker and podcaster and runs her business from her garden ‘shedquarters’, local coffee shop or wherever she happens to be in the world (and thanks her lucky stars for it every day).

Janet Murray: PR and Journalism

Bridget Harris is the CEO and co-founder of YouCanBookMe, a cloud-based service which allows your customers to schedule appointments and make bookings with you using your online calendar. She is also the previous special advisor for Deputy Prime Minister in the UK.

Bridget Harris: Politics to Entrepreneurship

Francesco Baschieri is the founder and CEO of Spreaker, a platform for creating, distributing, and monetizing podcasts and live radio shows. Spreaker currently has more than 6.5 million monthly users and has offices in Italy and the USA. It has won a number of prizes and awards, including the “Most Promising European Startup” at the Microsof Bizspark European event in 2013. Francesco is also a lecturer at the University of Bologna where he teaches a course in Digital Entrepreneurship.

Francesco Baschieri: Serial Entrepreneur

Pete Matthew is a Chartered Financial Planner, Certified Financial Planner, and Managing Director of Jacksons Wealth Management. He also runs his own business for MeaningfulMoney.tv, a website that conveys Pete's belief that financial planning is really simple and for a lot of people.

Pete Matthew: Financial Planning

Colin Gray is a podcaster, writer, and has a PhD in education. He specialises in engaging through content with podcasting at its core. His company, The Podcast Host, helps businesses to grow an audience by combining podcasting, blogging, and video.

Colin Gray: Teaching Podcasting

Rye Taylor is a story architect and podcast launch strategist for many of today's New York Times bestselling authors, influencers, and businesses. He's the host of Daring & Rye podcast and writer for Huffington Post, among many other publications.

Rye Taylor: Adventurous Living

Your host Izabela Russell talks about inspiration, productivity, motivation, journey and habits with highly successful new media users. Interviews feature entrepreneurs, freelancers, business owners. They share their “whys” and behind the scenes “hows”. We talk about life, success, failure, food and even spirituality. Join Izabela on a journey to finding the mix that creates success.

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New Media World: Business, Life, Freedom

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