{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-28T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarawinter.com\/jj\/blog\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-11-01T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:53:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Barbara Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If you want to put yourself on the map,<br \/>\npublish your own map.<br \/>\n<\/em>~ Ashleigh Brilliant<\/p>\n<p>Barbara J Winter is a pioneering  self-employment advocate, writer and teacher who has spent the last twenty-five  years pondering the question, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we all self-employed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/barbara-winter-2\/\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"202\" align=\"right\" \/>Helping  others discover the Joyfully Jobless life is her favorite occupation.\u00a0 To  readers of <em>Winning Ways<\/em> newsletter, the longest-running self-employment  publication of its kind, she is editor\/publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Readers of <strong><em> <a> Making a Living Without a Job<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, a book that\u2019s been in print since  1993, know her as the author. Participants in Barbara\u2019s seminar of the same  name, along with others including <em>Establish Yourself as an Expert<\/em> and <em> How to Support Your Wanderlust<\/em>, know her as a passionate teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Followers on Twitter know her  as @joblessmuse. To Zoe and Zach, she\u2019s Grandma Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>She also leads retreats that  include <em>Compelling Storytelling<\/em> and <em>Follow Through Camp<\/em> to help  small business owners bring creative thinking and fresh ideas into their work.  She is convinced that small is still beautiful and loves working with one-person  enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is also an intrepid  world traveler and curious lifelong learner. When she isn\u2019t out exploring the  world, she can be found blogging at <a href=\"..\/..\/blog\"> JoyfullyJobless.com<\/a>, connecting with other entrepreneurs on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joblessmuse\" class=\"broken_link\" class=\"extlink\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/barbara.winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\" class=\"extlink\">Facebook<\/a> or  reading a really good book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/contact-barbara\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Click Here to Contact Barbara<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant Barbara J Winter is a pioneering self-employment advocate, writer and teacher who has spent the last twenty-five years pondering the question, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we all self-employed?\u201d Helping others discover the Joyfully Jobless life is her favorite occupation.\u00a0 To readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/about\/\"class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\"  title=\"ReadMeet Barbara Winter\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","jsn-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}