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.
Tyraa Caldwell
I started doing real estate back in 2005 and quickly found a niche in working with investor clients. My problem with working with investor clients is that I never had a good property management company to refer them to. This is when I knew I had to start my own business managing properties for my clients. Read More>>
Jahanzeb Khandwala
This is a great story. Plenty to work with. Let me write this in your voice, first person, exactly how a real person would answer this in print. Sharp, honest, no fluff. I graduated from DePaul in 2020. Right into COVID. The plan was to land somewhere big. Google, Yelp, LinkedIn. I had interviews lined up. All three got pulled within weeks of each other. Read More>>
Scott Harris
NAPAICC wasn’t a single decision—it was the result of seeing the insurance industry from multiple sides and realizing there was a gap that wasn’t being filled. Read More>>
Paula Woodruff
When I first became certified as a Reiki Practitioner, it was during the 2020 COVID lockdowns. Because of that, almost all of my early sessions were distance healings through FaceTime, phone calls, text, or sometimes with no electronic connection at all, just pure energetic connection. Fast forward to 2023. Read More>>
McKayla Broadhurst 
I decided to start my own postpartum support practice after realizing how unsupported so many families are during the fourth trimester, something I experienced myself as a mother with my firstborn. I started as a solo postpartum doula alongside my friend and business partner, Tiara, supporting one family at a time and quickly realizing that wasn’t enough. Read More>>
Carmen Blunt-Davis
When I decided to open my own practice, it wasn’t because it was safe. It wasn’t because I had every answer. Read More>>
Mo Hiromoto
Major Record Labels were my home for over 16 years, post college that was the only space I had known. Not necessarily your typical setting in what people think of as “Corporate America”, and yet a very large scale money making machine where I could find security with a W-9 and health benefits. Read More>>