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.

Sherard Robbins

I founded the firm in 2018 because I saw an opportunity for me to make a real and honest impact on the work of diversity, equity, & inclusion in ways that I had not been able to up to that point. Read more>>

Eric Barnhart

Growth and Grit Counseling is my most successful business, but it isn’t my first. For over a decade prior to starting Growth and Grit Counseling, I had a small business, Upcycle Hockey, where I built furniture out of broken hockey sticks. Read more>>

Dr. Larissa Assam

The journey to starting my private practice begins when I was seven years old and living in Cameroon. I had the privilege of having a father who was a medical doctor, radiologist by specialization. Read more>>

Stephanie Nguyen

I had always worked in women’s health, either as a Registered Nurse or as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. It wasn’t until I had my own children that I realized the industry was lacking in prenatal/postpartum/breastfeeding support. Read more>>

Julie Walker

Working in private practice had long been a goal that I had always been too afraid to consider. I’ve spent the bulk of my career working in agency and school-based mental health, first for an agency and then for a school district directly as their mental health clinician but I had always told myself “someday”. Read more>>

Ledora Yerks-Birdlow

Early Days and Decision to Start My Own Practice: The journey to establishing my own counseling and coaching practice began from a deep-seated passion for mental health awareness and a desire to improve relationship dynamics among individuals and couples. Read more>>

Dalene Davis Goodwine

Parents Zone was birthed from my personal experience of being overwhelmed in my role as a parent of a young Black boy. As an intentional parent, I have always leaned into my role as a parent. Read more>>

Patricia Delzell

When I was transitioning from being employed by a large medical establishment to opening my own practice, I was a bit overwhelmed with all the steps I needed to complete before I actually started seeing patients. Read more>>

Ashkan Khodabakhsh

Starting out was tough. Coming out of school with no money and a huge debt was a real challenge. I searched tirelessly and eventually found a chiropractor who was willing to let me work in his office for a significant percentage of what I brought in. Read more>>

Briana Young-Roane

I decided to start my own studio when I was tired of entering spaces where no one looked liked me. I found the practice of yoga in 1999 and for years I’d attended trainings, workshops, festivals and classes and I’d be the only Black woman in the room. Read more>>