From Expertise to Authority with Matty Dalrymple
Building professional presence for your second act career or sideline venture, with a practical framework for transforming expertise into influence and income. fromexpertisetoauthority.substack.com
Episodes
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How can the skills from a long journalism career become the foundation for a rewarding second act as a novelist? Journalist, editor, and novelist Joanne McLaughlin joins Matty Dalrymple to discuss how decades of reporting and editing taught her to learn new sub...
Audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast at https://pod.link/1865211396
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
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How do you turn professional expertise into a business that can keep evolving as platforms, customer attitudes, and your own interests change? Author, marketing strategist, and business coach Shelby Leigh joins Matty Dalrymple to discuss her path from corporate...
Audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast at https://pod.link/1865211396
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
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How can you build authority without forcing yourself into a career path that drains you? Fiction author, independent publisher, and story and career consultant Claire Taylor joins Matty Dalrymple to explain how she combined her writing and editing experience wi...
Audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast at https://pod.link/1865211396
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
Video at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple
How do you turn years of hands-on creative experience into authority that reaches beyond a single job or client? Novelist, memoirist, developmental editor, writing coach, and ghostwriter Roz Morris joins Matty Dalrymple to trace a career built through publishin...
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Building authority isn't only about demonstrating expertise—it's also about serving the community around you. Matty Dalrymple talks with Connie Johnson Hambley about how volunteering, moderating panels, interviewing authors, and preparing relentlessly helped her bec...
Audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast at https://pod.link/1865211396
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
Video at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple
Every time you step into meaningful—or controversial—territory as a speaker, you risk drawing a hostile reaction from your audience. In this solo episode of From Expertise to Authority, Matty Dalrymple shares a chapter from her book "From Page to Pl...
Audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast at https://pod.link/1865211396
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
Video at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple
What does it take to turn the hardest chapter of your life into a career built on helping others heal? In this episode, Matty Dalrymple talks with Alexandra Amor, who spent ten years in a cult in her twenties before leaving and spending decades making sense of ...
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
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Have you ever started down a path that seemed right—only to realize mid-journey that a course adjustment was in order?In this episode of From Expertise to Authority, host Matty Dalrymple shares the behind-the-scenes story of how a conversation about creator patronage prompted her to rethink her entire Substack strategy—and ult...
Audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast at https://pod.link/1865211396
Article at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple
Video at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple
What if every unexpected career turn you’ve taken was actually building something powerful? In this episode of the From Expertise to Authority podcast, host Matty Dalrymple talks with Jean Burgess—author, editor, playwright, and former theater educa...
What happens when the thing you’ve loved as a hobby becomes something you want to be known for? In this episode, Matty Dalrymple explores the two-level shift that happens when a hobbyist starts building authority in an area outside their day job—the internal shift in how you relate to the activity itself, and the relational shift in how you navigate the communities you’ve already built around it. She explains what...
After 26 years as an FBI special agent specializing in economic fraud and corruption investigations, Jerri Williams retired in 2008 to pursue a long-held ambition: writing crime fiction. But her transition didn’t begin on her last day at the Bureau. It began years earlier, when she made a strategic decision to step into the FBI’s spokesperson role—not only because she wanted the job, but because she knew it would ...
Many of us have a goal of sharing our expertise after we leave a first career for a second act, or when we expand beyond our main career into a sideline. But you don't have to wait until your primary career is over to start laying the groundwork. Building a foundation before that shift makes the eventual transition smoother, faster, and less dependent on luck.In this episode, Matty Dalrymple explores why some of the professional co...
Jennifer Hilt didn’t set out to become an authority on tropes. She set out to answer a question that had been nagging at her—and then just kept pulling on the thread. In this conversation, Jennifer talks about how a lifelong passion for language that her earlier career never fully tapped became the foundation for her Trope Thesaurus series, why she chose to forge her own path rather than pursue a PhD in the subject, wha...
You’ll find video at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple
You’ll find audio on the From Expertise to Authority podcast.
Most professionals hesitate to share their expertise not because they lack knowledge, but because they're measuring themselves against the wrong standard. In this episode, Matty explores the difference between the peer comparison trap—scanning horizontally to see how you stack up against colleag...
You’ll find video of my conversation with Sara Rosett here; subscribe to the From Expertise to Authority podcast on your favorite podcast app.
Sara Rosett is the USA Today bestselling author of over 30 mysteries — but she didn't stop at writing them. In this conversation, Sara talks about the second jump in her career: from writing cozy mysteries to writing nonfiction books and hosting podcasts that help other authors do...
You've published your content. You've made peace with the silence. Now what? In this episode of From Expertise to Authority, Matty Dalrymple explores practical ways to encourage the engagement that's already happening to become visible—and how to nurture it when it does. From being accessible at events and online to soliciting meaningful input from your audience, this episode tackles the honest reality of building dialogue wi...
You’ll find this article this episode is based on at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple.
You’ll find video, including the interview that inspired it, at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple.
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In this episode, I talk with Andy Vasily—educational consultant, leadership coach, and host of The Run Your Life Podcast—about how a career in physical education, 30 years of international work, and a near-death experience in Cambodia shaped his path from expertise to authority. We discuss FOPO (fear of people's opinions), the power of a beginner's mindset, and why the greatest authorities never stop learning.
You’ll find this article this episode is based on at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple.
You’ll find video at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple.
Subscribe to the From Expertise to Author podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0NXESldHlQ9zCEQymorStO), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-expertise-to-authority-with-matty-dalrymple/id1865211396), and on all other major podcast platfo...
You’ll find this article this episode is based on at https://substack.com/@mattydalrymple.
You’ll find video, including the interview that inspired it, at https://www.youtube.com/@mattydalrymple.
Subscribe to the From Expertise to Author podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0NXESldHlQ9zCEQymorStO), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-expertise-to-authority-with-matty-dalrymple/id1865211...
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