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.

Ahmed Sirleaf

My firm is a public sector think tank directly focused on Liberia and the Liberian Diaspora, particularly in the United States. Liberia has enormous challenges with public sector governance. For example, the government struggles to provide efficient services to citizens. Read More>>

Richard Sirop

As a television producer, I had been working with confidence, presence, and goal setting for years, even before I ever called it coaching. Helping people perform under pressure, find their voice, and stay grounded was already part of my daily work. Read More>>

Nicole Linde

At the beginning of my journey, I had a lot of fear around my abilities as a healer. First, I didn’t know exactly the extent of what they were. I needed to figure out if I really was a medium beyond my own personal connections. Read More>>

Susan Van Daal

In many ways, my practice began long before it officially existed. It started the moment I first heard the word “doula.” Something in me lit up immediately. It wasn’t a logical decision—it was recognition. I knew, deep in my body, this is what I am meant to do. Read More>>

Dennis Hughes

I had worked for various corporate medical practices for 25 years. Read More>>

Ijeoma Nwankpa

When I decided to start my own practice, the idea came from a mix of frustration and clarity. I loved pelvic health physical therapy, but I kept running into systems that limited the kind of care I wanted to give. Read More>>

James Harris

I created The HEALing Hub due to the fact that it was limited places where the community can obtain knowledge on wellness and therapy. I am a black male, veteran and grew up as a ward of the state so I lived many lives. As far as main steps, I had to Decide who I wanted to serve (population, issues, demographics). Read More>>

Rachel Stein

When I decided to start my own practice, it wasn’t because I had a perfectly laid-out business plan; it was because I felt a strong pull to create something more human, ethical, and sustainable than what I was seeing in traditional systems. Read More>>

Edna Balboa

When I was 42 I decided to go to grad school to become a licensed professional counselor upon graduating you have to work for someone else for 3000 hours in order to get your full license as soon as I completed my associate ship and became fully licensed I knew I wanted to be in private practice. Read More>>