Will Bachman: Building an Independent Consulting Practice With a 5-Decade Success Mindset
- 0:00 – Intro
- 1:30 – Wtf is a McKinsey?
- 6:14 – From consulting to content creation & leisure optimization
- 8:45 – The economic returns of non-work
- 12:23 – Coping with money insecurity by accepting uncertainty
- 16:36 – The Pathless Path in a nutshell
- 20:16 – Portfolio breakdown
- 29:40 – Leaning into anti-strategies
- 31:56 – The currency of energy
- 35:07 – Combating admin creep
- 38:24 – Venkatesh Rao, designing for liking work, & embracing mediocrity
- 45:01 – Quality ambling
- 47:22 – The architecture of independence
- 53:34 – Deconstructing work
- 56:32 – Lessons learned from writing a book
- 1:08:34 – Do metrics matter?
- 1:11:49 – Optimizing for quitting
- 1:16:06 – The ecstasy of turning down $40K
- 1:21:59 – Taking the long, slow, dumb, & fun path
- 1:24:11 – Winning the game of self-employment
- 1:26:23 – Closing words
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
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How he thought about independent consulting in 2008 versus now in 2020
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How his talent platform, Umbrex, was born and how it has remained community focused
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What led him to create his course and some of the
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What makes him want to “keep playing the game” of self-employment
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How independent consultants can think about finding new clients
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How he designs experiments to keep his learning journey alive
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How he builds his virtual team to help him succeed as a consultant
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How he filters everything he does through a 5-decade time horizon
If you want to connect with Will, connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter,
If you want to get the Guide To Setting Up Your Consulting Practice:
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E-mail guide@umbrex.com for a gift form
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Or enter “Boundless” for $100 Off
Books Mentioned:
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Tribes by Seth Godin
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The Irresistible Consultant’s Guide to Winning Clients by David Fields
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