Craft of Consulting Podcast

Financial and tax consultant Diana Crabtree-Green shares how to plan for financial health and wealth when you are preparing to become a consultant and as your business grows. She highlights a new innovative tool and content she created called Buck the Budget, which helps you more easily make financial choices that support the life you want to have.

Host Deb Zahn shares a powerful "big net" technique to get your existing network to help you get clients in their networks. She also shares specific techniques and tips to increase the likelihood that people in your network follow through and that prospective clients see information that ignites them to want to work with you.

Ashley Pinakiewicz breaks down what human-centered design or design thinking is, how she uses it with her clients, and how it helps her build her consulting business. She also talks about how she helps clients develop complementary branding strategies that are also focused on empathy for and a deep understanding of the humans being they serve.

Christine Beal Dunst shares what was essential as she and her co-founder built a successful consulting and coaching business in the health and wellness space, including what they did to get corporate and executive clients, how they keep them, what she wishes they had done differently, and how the business has evolved over time.

Consultant and Coach Shann Vander Leek, co-host of the wildly popular Anxiety Slayer podcast and former TV advertising sales director, shares guidance about how to recognize and manage anxiety so you can be a successful consultant.

Host Deb Zahn leads a powerful exercise on creating more life balance with three consultants and encourages her listeners to use the free tool on the Craft of Consulting website to do the exercise themselves.

As a consultant, knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do. In this episode, Host Deb Zahn gives two of her top tips for what to never do if you want to build a successful consulting business and features answers from four past podcast guests to the same question.

Kate Breslin, a client who frequently hires consultants, shares what she wants from consultants, including what makes her hire them and rehire them again and again. She also shares what she doesn't want consultants to do when pursuing business with her and during an engagement.

Deri Hughes shares his expertise about what new consultants and small consulting firms need to do and have in place before and as they launch to be successful. He also identifies common pitfalls and offers advice on how to avoid them.

An essential skill for being a successful consultant is creating balance in your life. Consulting does not have to be all stress and grind! In this episode, we revisit how four successful consultants think about life balance, create and sustain it, and use it to enrich their consulting business.