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.

Dina Grishin

I had a p icture in my mind of how I was going to become a full-time self-employed coach. At the time, I was a full-time coach, but I wasn’t self-employed. I was employed at a start-up. That was a dream job and I absolutely loved it. I had variety in my days, I got to travel internationally for work, I had a coaching team I managed, I coached creatives who were super inspiring, and I was given a lot of freedom and autonomy in my position. Read more>>

Rebecca Anuru

Starting Dream Keep Consulting was a complex journey! The journey was mostly internal as I grappled with real-world manifestations of anti-Blackness trying to stifle my life’s mission. Read more>>

Lisa Roberts

I became a nurse in 1994 and thought I would always work in a hospital. I love to learn new things, so one of my co-workers and I decided to take a class to learn how to administer botox and filler. Little did I know at the time, that one weekend would change my career path and change my life. That was in 2019. Read more>>

Tiffany Wright

Launching my private practice began with steps taken way before the actual launching. I believe in the power of visualization and intentionality, and I often spend time connecting to the question, what type of life and emotive experiences do I want to cultivate? Visualization is just about what you see, but it’s a somatic and emotional experience; how your body feels the emotions you experience, when you envision anything tell a story. Read more>>

Michele Canon

Fitness has always been a passion of mine, mainly because of my athletic background of being a tennis player all of my life. However, as a first generation Asian American, it was never something that my parents would ever consider an acceptable career path. Doctor, lawyer, CEO YES- fitness instructor- NO WAY. So I did as many high achieving Asians and got straight A’s got into a good college and set my sights on climbing the corporate ladder immediately after graduation. Read more>>

Stephanie Hyland Junge

When I first started my business, I had just been attuned to Reiki and learning about shamanism and other spiritual energy healing tools. I started off giving sessions to family and friends, and slowly increasing the amount I charged for sessions. I had already been selling essential oils, but doing a Reiki business really requires you to step out on your own and establish your own practice. Read more>>

Kaley McKee

My business partner and friend, Jessica, and I met while working in a long-term care facility. Through informal conversation, we realized that we had a similar drive to pursue new ways of making healthcare more convenient for patients and providers. With that parallel mindset, we evolved Vitality Health Services. Read more>>

LisaMarie Arreguin

The decision to start my own practice, LA Bodywork, was a significant turning point in my career. After dedicating seven years to The Massage Place, where I worked grueling six-day weeks, each day consisting of twelve hours and ten hours of manual work, I found myself fully booked and craving a new challenge. Although I had never considered myself capable of managing a private practice, largely due to my lack of knowledge about the business aspect, I decided it was time for a change. Read more>>

Kylie Sligar

I have always known that I wanted to one day own my own therapy practice. One of my closest friends and I have shared this dream since we were in high school together. There is a lot of steps before starting your own business. We spent months planning, researching, and dreaming what this would look like. Read more>>

Amanda Hill

The work that Healing by Choice! engages is done through a Healing Justice Framework. Per the originators of this framework – Cara Page and the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective – HJ “identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds”. Read more>>

Rachael Cappuccino

I decided to start Cappuccino Physical Therapy after the birth of my second child. I realized that there were very few resources, especially pelvic floor physical therapists in the Conejo Valley and I wanted to change that. The main steps that I had to take were setting up my business entity, finding a space, and getting all of the equipment necessary to treat pregnant and postpartum Mamas. Read more>>

Jabari Dobson

Jabari Dobson serves as the president and a founding member of Healthcare Finders. Jabari currently is a private practice psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and has a vast amount of experience in healthcare dating back to high school when he first became a CNA. Jabari’s passion for healthcare and education sparked the idea of creating a conglomerate of healthcare which led to the collaborative creation of Healthcare Finders. Read more>>

Luci Fry

I hear many people talk about their ‘love language’ or how they show their love and affection for others. For me, that’s easy to determine – it’s food! I have always enjoyed food and not just eating it but everything about it. I love talking about what I’m going to make for dinner, looking at cookbooks or following food blogs for inspiration and of course, I enjoy cooking and baking. Read more>>