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Hosted by Lauren Wambold Patel · business · EN · 55 episodes
If you’re an expert executive considering independent consulting—or already running your own thriving practice—this podcast is for you. The 2x2 Podcast for Independent Consultants goes beyond the usual business advice. We talk to real-life practitioners—strategists, deep thinkers, and multi-hyphenates who thrive on autonomy, intellectual curiosity, and portfolio careers. Whether you're exploring the leap from corporate, navigating a career transition, or scaling from solo consulting to a microfirm, we dig into how top independents build, grow, and sustain their businesses. Hosted by Lauren Wambold Patel, a seven-figure consultant who learned the game the hard way, this show brings you candid conversations with independent consultants and fractional executives who are building successful businesses on their own terms. We go deep—breaking down their strategies, pricing models, niche positioning, client acquisition, and how they balance working on their business with running it interna
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The 2x2 for Consultants
What keeps work interesting for you? I sat down with Dana Hager to talk about career transitions, the leap from corporate to independent work, and embracing flexibility (geographically and otherwise). We also got into the “squirrel mentality,” staying engaged, and what it really takes to build a path that fits *you*.
The 2x2 for Consultants
How do you go from BCG to startups—and homeschool your kids along the way? I sat down with Amelia Waters to talk about career transitions, managing operational chaos, and what it means to build a life that works on your terms. We also got into learning science, work-from-home flexibility, and raising curious kids while leading big projects.
The 2x2 for Consultants
Susan Dabbar never really retired. She just keeps climbing uphill. She's designed nuclear submarines, played professional poker in Russia, built and sold an educational consulting practice. Then, at an age when most people retire, she launched PROVOKEDmagazine , a media company for women over 60 that's already hit 45,000 subscribers with a team of 20+ writers. For Susan, every new chapter is just another hard problem worth solving. Here, she breaks down exactly how she thinks about starting over, at any age.
The 2x2 for Consultants
Leaving a prestigious job and starting a consulting business is a hard decision that every independent consultant had to face. But Pradnya Haldipur did it and she did it successfully – no consulting business plan involved. She left a senior role at Doctors Without Borders to start a consulting company. Twelve months in, she was doing better than she'd expected. We first talked to Pradnya during the first few months of her launching her independent practice. We brought her back a year later to see what happened, and ask her a few things we missed the first time around. This is the third part of our Win Trust, Win Six Figures series about establishing a trusted brand as an independent consultant. Pradnya Haldipur to show us what happens when someone executes this advice under real pressure.
The 2x2 for Consultants
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