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.

Vilash Reddy

My dad came to this country with pennies in pocket and eventually with hard work and determination became a self employed general dentist. Read more>>

Marilyn Ashley

I guess I always knew I wanted my own private practice. Getting there was quite the journey! I’ve always been an entrepreneur of sorts, and I always needed autonomy and independence. Read more>>

Sherida Gayle

I have always dreamed of owning a private practice, and one quality I pride myself on is patience. Starting Empowerment Counseling and Psychotherapy Services, LLC, was both inspiring and challenging. Read more>>

Sarah Senan

I am now a Life & Leadership Coach with my own coaching practice, but before this, I worked in retail management – a job that paid well but took a lot of time, for 13 years. Read more>>

Donald Thomas

As the student representative for a school of health and metaphysics called the Tree of Life. I wrote my doctoral thesis in metaphysical philosophy called the Philosophy of Divine Nutrition. Read more>>

Katie Skaggs Kelsey Carroll

The establishment of Coming Home RVA started with two co-workers (Katie & Kelsey) turned friends with a shared passion for supporting the postpartum journey. Read more>>

Aleida Lynn Clincy

Let me take you back to the beginning. I was in a class at Columbia College Chicago on Entrepreneurship and that’s when the bug bit me. Read more>>

Matt Walsh

From a young age, I had a penchant for entrepreneurship, though I didn't recognize it as such until adulthood. At the tender age of seven, I helped out on my father's farm, picking sweet corn and selling it door-to-door with my trusty red wagon. Read more>>