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.

Jelicia Walker

Prior to attending law school, I was always certain that I wanted to own my own business and work for myself. As I began law school in 2017, I did not find any interest in working at a law firm, as I had already gained experience working at law firm as an undergraduate student at Indiana University. I took the route to learn law practice management and initially start my practice subsequent to graduation. Read more>>

Tiffany Andras

Making the decision to step away from the stability of the corporate world and start my own business in mindfulness and stress resilience was one of the most frightening experiences I had encountered in my 28 years of life (at the time). Having no real experience in starting a business or running one, there is the first hurdle of imposter syndrome, the second hurdle of how the hell you’re going to make it while you build something from the ground up, and the biggest one: Read more>>

Jessica Thompson

65 miles. I remember working as a technician in a pelvic floor specialty clinic as I was applying to become a doctor of physical therapy. One of my tasks was to schedule patients for clinicians, and 65 miles was the farthest a patient would drive to see this pelvic floor physical therapist. It was that experience that first gave me the idea of becoming a pelvic PT to fill in the gap and challenge that lack of providers was causing patients. Read more>>