This episode's featured track is CRANK THE 3RD - featuring conversations with inspiring midlife founders, solopreneurs and professionals who are turning decades of know-how into opportunity building meaningful ventures, shaping ideas and designing work that matters.

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Today's guest is Karen Ansen - founder of Ignite HR and Employment Law, and Ignite Your Purpose.

Join us for a raw, inspiring conversation on weaving compliance, compassion, and personal purpose into a business (and life) you love.

Karen shares her remarkable journey: from two decades in government, to studying law in her 40s while juggling work and motherhood, to boldly launching her own boutique firm at 52.

She gets candid about the fear and tears, the setbacks and breakthroughs, and why sometimes you just have to get out of your own way.

You’ll discover:

• Why Karen left a “safe” government job and took a nine-year journey to become a lawyer
• How she bootstrapped her first business, without a single client lined up
• Why Karen believes you should start with what you have (and worry about the website later)
• The power of niching down, and why complexity can be your business superpower
• How Karen melds legal expertise with leadership coaching and trauma-informed retreats in her Ignite Your Purpose passion project
• Lessons learned scaling up to seven employees, then intentionally downsizing for freedom, balance, and impact
• The impact of AI and remote work in reshaping Karen’s business model for a new era

Plus: Karen’s honest take on motherhood guilt, building a values-led workplace, and crafting a “retirement” of meaning, travel, and giving back.

Are you a multi-skilled professional with passions that don’t fit the usual box?

This episode is packed with practical wisdom for blending your talents, overcoming your doubts, and earning the right to build a fulfilling, purpose-driven business.

Connect with Karen Ansen:

• Ignite HR & Employment Law
• Karen's LinkedIn

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This episode's featured track is IN THE ARENA - Trevor Young’s unfiltered take on earning authority in real time — sharp, strategic riffs on content, credibility, connection, and the courage to keep showing up.

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In today’s episode, Trevor dives into the critical difference between being an expert and being recognised as an authority in your field.

Drawing from his own journey and insights, he unpacks why even the most skilled professionals can remain invisible, missing out on opportunities, if they're not seen as leaders in their space.

Trevor covers practical steps for crossing the "perception bridge", from codifying your expertise and owning your point of view, to building a communications platform and showing up in the right rooms.

If you’re ready to move from being the best-kept secret to a sought-after authority, this episode will help get you started!

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ABOUT EARN THE RIGHT:

EARN THE RIGHT is an audio channel for reputation-based authority building, and turning credibility into real-world recognition and opportunity.

Hosted by Trevor Young, it’s for credible founders, experts, and solo practitioners who’ve earned their stripes and are ready to amplify their voice with integrity.

Across four distinct (but interrelated) tracks -

• Crank The 3rd
• Pocket PR Essentials
• In The Arena
• From The Trenches

— you’ll get the ideas, stories, and strategies that help you cut through the noise and build lasting authority.

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This episode's featured track is POCKET PR ESSENTIALS - your audio playbook for mastering PR, content and digital communications for your business, and personal brand.

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Today's ever-evolving marketplace presents some serious challenges for business owners.

We live in a digital-first world; today’s social currency is trust (and it’s in short supply!). This in turn presents business owners with a number of challenges when it comes to marketing our brands and communicating with prospective clients and customers.

KEY MESSAGE: We need to be pragmatic — what’s worked in the past probably won’t work now (although there are some truisms that carry through e.g. human stories, helpfulness, thought provocation, openness and transparency etc - these will be themes we touch on throughout this series).

Onwards!

~ Trevor

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ABOUT EARN THE RIGHT:

EARN THE RIGHT is an audio channel for reputation-based authority building, and turning credibility into real-world recognition and opportunity.

Hosted by Trevor Young, it’s for credible founders, experts, and solo practitioners who’ve earned their stripes and are ready to amplify their voice with integrity.

Across four distinct (but interrelated) tracks -

• Crank The 3rd
• Pocket PR Essentials
• In The Arena
• From The Trenches

— you’ll get the ideas, stories, and strategies that help you cut through the noise and build lasting authority.

Subscribe to the EARN THE RIGHT newsletter - EarnTheRight.co