Grow Your Independent Consulting Business

Updated: 23 Oct 2025 • 242 episodes
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Are you an independent consultant who’s ready to grow your business into a predictable revenue stream while working on your own terms? The Grow Your Independent Consulting Business is a podcast that shares the blueprint to make your consulting business goals a reality. Each week, Business Coach, Melisa Liberman, brings you solo insights or informative guest interviews that will help you to accomplish your Independent Consultant Business goals. She shares specific tools, actionable strategies, and techniques that successful independent consultants use to create the predictable, sustainable, and impactful independent consulting business you may not even realize is possible.

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"Let me think about it." It sounds harmless. Strategic, even. But for independent consultants, that phrase can quietly erode revenue, momentum, and confidence. In this episode, Melisa breaks down the hidden toll of decision debt, which is the backlog of unmade choices cluttering your mental inbox. From pricing delays t

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What does it really take to hit a $100K quarter as an independent consultant in your first quarter out of corporate? In this episode, Melisa talks with her client Elizabeth Freedman, founder of E•Suite Leader, who went from zero to $100K in the first three months of her business. Elizabeth shares the inside story of no

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If you"ve ever said, “One day I’ll write a book,” this episode is your call to stop waiting and start writing.  LeAnne Lagasse joins Melisa to walk through the real process of writing and launching a book as a consultant, including the parts no one talks about. LeAnne doesn’t sugarcoat the process. From decision fatigu

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Even though the year is wrapping up and vacations take over, landing consulting clients in Q4 doesn’t have to be hard. Q4 isn’t a write-off. When Q4 rolls around, many consultants either start to panic that they won’t hit their revenue goals or they ease off the gas because they’ve already met them. These approaches ca

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Thinking Like a Business Owner Isn’t Just a Mindset. It’s a Skill. Most independent consultants know they should think like a business owner, but what does that actually look like day to day? In this episode, Melisa introduces a simple yet powerful strategy: Business Owner Thinking Time.  You’ll learn how to move beyon

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You might think your lead generation isn"t working because you"re not consistent. Or because you"re not good at marketing. Or because you’re fully booked and don’t “need” leads right now. Those assumptions are common, and they’re also wrong. In this episode, Melisa breaks down the real reasons your consulting pipeline

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