Private Coaching
For Consultants, Freelancers, and people with portfolio Careers who are Tired of Running a business that runs them
Build the business you want to run
You're good at what you do. The work is there. The revenue is there. Now you want the breathing room, the boundaries that hold, the calendar with white space and the client or project roster that energizes you instead of draining you.
That's what we'll build together.
What you came here for
You know how to do the work. You're here for what comes after that:
You're saying yes to things you should be saying no to, and your calendar is paying the price.
Your clients have slowly drifted into order-taker dynamics, and you're not sure when that happened or how to walk it back.
Your boundaries exist in theory. In practice, they leak every Tuesday afternoon.
You're billing late because invoicing makes you anxious, and you're not sure why.
You've built something that looks successful from the outside and feels exhausting from the inside.
What Changes When We Work Together
You stop bending. You start leading.
You charge what you're worth and you stop apologizing for the number. You make decisions on purpose. You catch the drift in a client relationship six weeks before it becomes a problem, because you can finally read the room without spiraling about it.
You get more deliberate about everything.
You walk away from your desk without guilt because the structure you've built does the work your endurance used to do.
This isn't a personality transplant. You're already capable. What helps is someone being straight with you about what's working and what isn't, and a practical way to change it.
You’re closer than you think to building a business that supports the life you want.
Let me help you get there.
Two Ways to Work Together
The Architecture
3 Month Deep Dive
For when your business is technically functioning, but quietly exhausting you. The deeper, longer-arc work of rebuilding how you run this from the inside out. The runway to make new patterns stick around.
Included:
60-minute kickoff + 6 bi-weekly sessions
Slack access for the full 3 months
Written follow-up after each session
3 monthly payments available
$5,997
The Reset
1 Month Intensive
For when you have something specific to work through. A client situation gone sideways. A pricing decision you've been avoiding. A boundary you keep meaning to set. A move you want to think through before you make it.
Included:
4 sessions over 1 month (45 minutes each)
Slack access between sessions
Written follow-up after each session
Option to extend into The Architecture
$2,997
Prefer to connect before you commit? Have other collaboration ideas? Schedule a time for us to get to know each other using this link.
How I work
I spent 16 years in the Salesforce ecosystem and ran my own consulting practice for 12 of them, entirely on word-of-mouth referrals. No outbound marketing. No cold pitching. What made it work was knowing how to listen, set expectations, and have hard conversations before they became crises. I was never the most technical person in the room, and that was never the point.
The work rests on two skills:
The first is emotional intelligence as a business skill. A learnable, sharpenable muscle, despite how often it gets written off as a personality trait. It's what lets you read a room, catch a client relationship going off-track while it's still easy to fix, and tell the difference in yourself between "this is hard and worth it" and "this is wrong."
The second is intentional time and energy management. Most people hear "time management" and stop listening, because they've got the calendars and the systems and they've read the books. But time and energy are two different resources, and you can't manage them the same way. Energy is the one that quietly runs out, and it's where sustainable businesses get built or lost.
These two skills show up across five places most working lives break: how you set your value, how you protect your energy, how you build a network, how you run your client relationships, and how you make decisions. It isn't complicated. What makes it hard is that most people are running their working lives without these skills, on willpower and personality, patching the symptoms instead of building the structure that would prevent them.
The work we do together is half skill-building and half tending the specific thing in front of you. I help you make the decisions sitting on your desk this week, and I teach you how to make the next one without me.
About Me
I'm Carrie Andrews. I built my consulting practice to serve my life, not the other way around. It took me a few years and a serious health scare to figure out how.
Now I help other people do the same. I'm based in Bentonville, work mostly online, and have a three-year-old, a permanently broken back, and a pair of yellow overalls I wear to networking events. That last detail is the one that matters. It tells you how I work: practical, grounded, deeply human, and unbothered by the version of "professional" that's never going to fit you.
I built this practice because I want the people I work with to have the same freedom I built for myself.
