Will Bachman: Building an Independent Consulting Practice With a 5-Decade Success Mindset

Will Bachman is the creator of a community-first talent platform for management consultants, Umbrex and hosts a podcast for independent consultants called Unleashed.  We talk about the recent course he created called the Guide To Setting Up Your Consulting Practice course ($100 off with the code: boundless), which is a product of his 12 years as an independent consultant and his work helping hundreds (perhaps thousands) become thriving solo consultants.  We talk about

• How he thought about independent consulting in 2008 versus now in 2020
• How his talent platform, Umbrex, was born and how it has remained community focused
• What led him to create his course and some of the
• What makes him want to “keep playing the game” of self-employment
• How independent consultants can think about finding new clients
• How he designs experiments to keep his learning journey alive
• How he builds his virtual team to help him succeed as a consultant
• How he filters everything he does through a 5-decade time horizon

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Books Mentioned:

• Tribes by Seth Godin
• The Irresistible Consultant's Guide to Winning Clients by David Fields

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The Pathless Path is hosted by Paul Millerd - a writer, creator, and consultant. He has conversations with freelancers, self-employed entrepreneurs, creators, and vagabonds who share their perspectives on their relationship with work, burnout, bootstrapping, indie hacking, remote work, reinvention, creativity, sabbaticals, leisure, self-employment, unconventional living, and digital nomadism. Past guests include Ali Abdaal, Russ Roberts, Kevin Kelly, Khe Hy, David Senra, Derek Sivers, Joe Hudson, Luke Burgis, Ben Hunt, Dan Vassallo, Steph Smith, Alex Pang, Visakan Veerasamy, Michael Ashcroft, Kyla Scalon, Trung Phan, Justin Welch, and more.