About

Many pieces go into achieving escape velocity from situations that hold us in their grasp. Maybe you don’t like your job any more. Maybe you’d like to be home with the family more often, instead of slaving away extra hours for little pay. Maybe you’re unhappy with your fitness and health levels. The challenges you face are your own.

Escape Velocity is a project started by Chris Brogan of Human Business Works. It will serve as an education platform for helping people build skills in the following areas:

  • Self-improvement – mind and body.
  • Business – ways to improve your role, or ways to start additional streams of income.
  • Money – how to make it; how to save it.
  • Books – we read a lot.
  • Reviews – alternative education products that we endorse.
  • and more, as we develop.

Escape velocity is your chance to get help with some of the above. Watch for more on this as we grow.

Authors

Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 clients like Pepsi, Titleist, Microsoft, GM and more. He cowrote the New York Times Bestselling Trust Agents, and writes for a number of magazines and blogs. He is president of Human Business Works, and publishes frequently at [chrisbrogan.com].

Liz Strauss is founder of the strategic event SOBCon that incubates ideas and builds new businesses. She owns and writes for Successful-Blog.com and LizStrauss.com Liz works as a brand strategist and community builder helping individuals and businesses reach escape velocity through niche branding and community. She’s @LizStrauss on Twitter.

Carol Roth is a business strategist,  investment banker, deal maker and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Entrepreneur Equation.  Carol has raised more than $1 billion in capital, completed $750+ million in M&A transactions, secured high-profile licensing and partnership deals, designed brand loyalty programs and more.   Carol is a frequent media contributor and blogs at CarolRoth.com.  Twitter: @CarolJSRoth

Chris Garrett is a blogger, new media consultant, teacher, and web geek. He is co-author of five books, occasionally writes for paper magazines, writes more often on the web, and can be found on social media sites 24/7. If you are really interested you can find out more on his About Chris Garrett page. Connect with Chris on Twitter (@chrisgarrett) and FaceBook (ChrisGarrett).

Chris Guillebeau is a writer, entrepreneur, and world traveler. He publishes The Art of Non-Conformity for a small army of remarkable people. Follow his journey to every country in the world here on Twitter.

Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, author, speaker, entrepreneur and biz strategist. He wrote Career Renegade in 2009 and his next book on the mindset behind innovation is out in 2011 with Portfolio. Jonathan blogs about entrepreneurship, creativity, marketing and life at JonathanFields.com, talks book marketing at TribalAuthor.com and kills way too much time on twitter @jonathanfields.

Alexandra Levit is dedicated to helping people find meaningful work and succeed beyond measure once they get there.  A nationally syndicated columnist on career issues and the author of the bestselling They Don’t Teach Corporate in College as well as four other books, Alexandra enjoys blogging, speaking, and tweeting @alevit about workplace issues facing modern employees.

Pamela Slim is a business coach, author and speaker. She speaks about starting and growing effective small businesses, personal leadership and marketing and branding. She has blogged about the corporate to entrepreneur journey since 2005 at Escape from Cubicle Nation, and her book of the same name won Best Small Business/Entrepreneur Book of 2009. She is @pamslim on Twitter, and is found in person chasing her two small children in Mesa, Arizona.

Christopher S. Penn is a technomarketing strategist, speaker, martial artist, and gamer, as well as VP of Strategy and Innovation at Blue Sky Factory email marketing. He writes and speaks about bridging the gaps between marketing and technology as well as proven methods for self-improvement based on ancient traditions at Awaken Your Superhero. He is @cspenn on Twitter.

AJ Leon is an ex-Manhattan Finance exec turned nomadic entrepreneur, blogger, and globe trotter backpacker.  He writes over at [ajleon.me] about the path of remarkable misfits .  AJ wanders the globe with his beautiful wife & their traveling circus working on interesting projects as they find them.  He can be found in coffee shops across the world or in the land of twitter as @ajleon .

 

Disclosures

If we review a product on this site, we endorse it. We’d like to be very clear about which products we stand to make money from, so that you never question when we’re making money or not. You’ll see notation of disclosure within posts that offer links where we stand to profit, so that you can make your own decisions accordingly.