Establishing your own firm or practice is an incredibly daunting task. From myriad of legal and regulatory hurdles to the financial and career related risks, professionals who choose to start their own firm have to overcome so much and so we wanted to reach out to those who’ve done it successfully for advice, insight and stories.

Halimah Deoliveira

I started the Be You In HD Marketing agency hosting one off workshops on identity to increase brand awareness for the community of muslim women I wanted to serve but also to educate those outside of the community I served. Read more>>

Sartaj Narang

I think founding a business can happen either as a quick and intuitive decision, or as a natural culmination of experiences and momentum. In the case of my Executive Coaching firm, it was more the latter. Read more>>

Jasmine Gibbs

For as long as I’ve known that I wanted to become a veterinarian, I knew that I wanted to always work for myself. I knew that would not be easy after just graduating vet school in 2018. Read more>>

Sarah Joy Klingenberg

I had planned to open my practice in January of 2022. The main step I had to take was pretty much left to finding a building, since I had already established an LLC, website, logo, business cards, scheduling system, and clientele within my first year of practice. Read more>>

Andy Chen

The biggest step that I had to take while establishing my practice was figuring out what to work on next. When starting out on your own, you don’t have a clear roadmap. Read more>>

Erika Esquivel

Honestly, getting my practice started was rough, but so worth it. I had three months to jump-start my virtual counseling practice and I felt overwhelmed quickly. Read more>>

Candice Harper

For most of my career, I worked in the fashion and entertainment industry. Even though I was a freelancer, I got gigs pretty steadily so I lived the life of a corporate employee. Read more>>

Tony Jackson

We begin our first practice with very little money, but we were driven by our belief that healthcare clinics should provide high quality service, along with positive health outcomes. Read more>>

Hussam Hamoush

Back in the summer of 2018, I was working at a crappy job for a terrible boss. I had JUST started this job I mean like it was literally weeks into the job and the first two weeks were TRAINING. Read more>>

Sarah Boer

Although I had the desire to open my own practice for many years, I finally pursued this goal in 2017. At that time, I was working as a school social worker at the elementary/middle school levels, but wanted to be able to work more clinically with kids and teens. Read more>>

Courtney Dyke-Elliott

I started Island Gyal Fitness 6 months into the pandemic. I had just graduated from Western University with a degree in Kinesiology and I was hitting a wall when it came to finding jobs in my field. Read more>>

Sarah Oleksak

I originally had no desire to start a business. My goal in life was to be a mom. And, yet, somehow, I found myself in a professional role as a physical therapist…and then in motherhood, shortly after. Read more>>

Suzanna Gasso

After spending over a decade as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in NYU Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), I made the decision to pursue a career in the aesthetics industry. Even though I always had the desire to pursue it, but I waited until what I believed to be the right time in my life: Read more>>