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Barbara Winter, author of the bestselling book, Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love, is also a business owner, itinerant teacher, and self-employment advocate who found her own right livelihood after overcoming her early notions that work was meant to be drudgery. 

It all began in 1974 when she founded The Successful Woman, a pioneering training and development company, which conducted programs on self-esteem and entrepreneurship for women. She went on to found several small businesses-all with the intention of passing along to others the lessons she had learned.

A former high school English teacher, Barbara has turned her considerable energies to the teaching of adults. Her popular seminars, including Making a Living Without a Job and Establish Yourself as an Expert, are regularly held throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Barbara also shares her passion for creative entrepreneurship in events in her new hometown of Las Vegas.

In addition, she is the editor/publisher of Winning Ways: the newsletter for people living and working with passion, the longest running small-business newsletter in the United States.

Barbara is the mother of an adult daughter, a devoted Anglophile, an intrepid world traveler and is ferociously committed to lifelong learning. She is particularly enthusiastic about being an inspired grandmother.