Starting a Consulting Business – The Rollercoaster of Freedom (With Extra Loops of Anxiety!)

This is ME, Candice Grover, a consultant, right before realising that starting a consulting business means juggling clients, proposals, and imposter syndrome... and still thinking, 'How hard can it be?'" HA! Retrenched and at a Crossroads – What the Hell Now?! So there I was, sipping lukewarm coffee (which felt like a metaphor for my life at that moment), when I got the news: I was being retrenched. Yep, no job, no payslip, and absolutely NO clue what was next. Cue the emotional rollercoaster—complete with a few loops of “OH Shit, what now?!” On one hand, there was the lure of safety: brushing up my CV, hunting for another full-time gig, and jumping back into the glorious world of office politics, performance reviews, and meetings that absolutely could have been emails. On the other hand, there was this wild, nagging thought in the back of my head: “What if I start my own consulting business?” You know, something where I call the shots, set my own schedule, and finally sto...