Most consultants assume feast or famine is just the nature of the business. The market goes hot and cold, clients come and go, and you learn to live with the uncertainty. But there's a pattern underneath the pattern that has nothing to do with the market.

There's a number in your head that feels about right, a revenue level that, if you hit it consistently, would feel like things were working. That number is almost certainly not based on the value you create for clients. It's based on something much older than your consulting business, and it's quietly running the show.

This episode reveals why some consultants keep returning to the same revenue year after year, where that invisible ceiling comes from, and what it actually takes to reset it.

For consultants who've been at this long enough to suspect the problem isn't the market.