Grow Your Independent Consulting Business

Updated: 24 Jul 2025 • 229 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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Twelve years into her consulting career, Rachel Hughes has built a business that attracts inbound leads, top-tier engagements, and industry recognition, without sacrificing her sanity or freedom. In this episode, Melisa talks with Rachel about the mindset and strategy shifts that transformed her from overthinking and r

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If you’re avoiding thought leadership because you “don’t know what to say”, this episode is your turning point. In Episode 227, Melisa dismantles the most common blocker independent consultants face when it comes to publishing thought leadership: not knowing what to share, or fearing they’ll just add noise.  She introd

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You’ve made it halfway through the year — now what? Too many independent consultants either stay the course out of habit or abandon their goals altogether. In this episode, Melisa walks you through a five-step framework to recalibrate and intentionally design a second half that actually aligns with what you want, not j

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What are enterprise buyers really looking for in 2025 when they bring in external talent?  This week, Melisa is joined by industry veteran Brian Hoffmeyer (known as “Hoff”), who returns to the podcast to share invaluable, behind-the-scenes insights from his vantage point at Beeline, the world’s largest independent vend

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Think building a seven-figure consulting pipeline in just 16 weeks is impossible?  Think again.  In this episode, Melisa Liberman sits down with Ellie Holbert, a first-year independent consultant, who shares the real story of how she went from zero pipeline and a canceled contract to 56 opportunities and a multi-seven-

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It’s common for consultants to think of AI as a tool to boost efficiency, enhance insights, automate tasks, and improve client deliverables.  It can help you scale your processes and routines. But have you also considered that AI can help you scale your thinking? In this episode, Melisa talks with Amanda Long, marketin

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