Build a Business that Fits Your Life
Strategic Consulting & Advising
For solo business owners who want a right-fit, sustainable, and genuinely satisfying way to work for themselves.
This isn't a one-size-fits-all business plan. It's a human-centered approach to building a strategy that works for your life, your brain, and your bank account.
Strategic Clarity
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Aligned Creative
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Nimble Operations
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Meaningful Experiences
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Strategic Clarity ✳︎ Aligned Creative ✳︎ Nimble Operations ✳︎ Meaningful Experiences ✳︎
Strategy Services
Get a structured approach to finding clarity so you can make the strategic decisions required to power your aligned business.
Are you ready to do something daring?
Building a business for yourself is one of the more courageous things you can do. Make sure you're building the right one.
Let’s find the right starting point.
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You're curious about starting a freelancing side hustle or side gig to supplement — or eventually replace — your day job.
You're exploring what self-employment actually looks like before committing to it.
You want to know what it really takes to bootstrap a tiny, sustainable business.
You’re in the weeds of building and running a solo business and need strategic support and guidance.
You’re a founder still figuring out your model.. and maybe your value proposition and offering.
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You’re deeply invested in following the venture funding, capital-seeking, startup scale-quickly and grind track. (There are other resources out there, though. Good luck!)
You're interested in MLM. (They're a scam!)
Not sure where to start? Book a free discovery call!
Kickstart Your Strategy
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Async Advising
Asynchronous feedback. No meeting required.
Sometimes you have a specific question and you need a smart, honest answer.
Avoid timezone math and availability tag and submit your challenge and any relevant assets via an intake questionnaire. Add an optional short voice memo or video explaining the details.
Async Advising gives you strategic thinking feedback delivered to your inbox within a week in either audio, video, or written format.
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Strategy Call
One focused conversation to solve a problem.
Jump on a dedicated 1:1 75-minute Zoom call with me to work on addressing a single question, decision, or challenge in your business.
Walk away with ideas, guidance, and a way forward. Get brief follow-up notes with key recommendations via email.
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Strategic Intensive
Navigate an inflection point in your business.
A full or half day intensive creates a dedicated block of focused time to dive deep, gain clarity, make decisions, and move forward.
This a working session where we figure things out real-time.
Check out the menu of focused Daring Intensives that each address a specific challenge.
Submit an inquiry to kick off the process.
Daring Intensives
Need a strategic thought partner to help you navigate an inflection point?
Right now, you feel overwhelmed. Your list of ‘shoulds’ and to-do’s would require a 12-person support team to complete - which you’d first have to hire, manage, and pay. Ugh. No, thanks. But then how do you do it?
You feel frustrated with your progress. You’re hustling trying to build a business but feel like you might be walking in circles through a maze of the bad-fit ‘best entrepreneurial practices’.
And you’re craving clarity and guidance in the worst way. You know continuing on your current path leads to not-your-goal, but the avalanche of advice on the internet isn’t at all helpful. You need more clarity and a plan of action.
You could use support and structure to help you navigate building your business strategically without losing yourself to chaos and confusion.
Find clarity, confidence, and strategic action with a Daring Intensive.
What do you need to focus on?
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You have been circling the leap… let’s prepare the emotional, mental, and logistical dive plan.
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You have a business idea… let’s clarify what you need to do to get started as a business owner.
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You need to earn and track your money (because capitalism and taxes)… let’s make the math math.
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You need to talk about your business…Let’s dial in on your positioning, messaging, and presence, including your website and brand strategy.
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You have the craft covered.. you just need to build nimble systems to support your business operations.
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You have a business but now you need clients… so let's help you be findable by the right people.
Details to help you decide what’s the right fit for you:
Half-Day Intensive: $495
3-hour of focused 1:1 time via Zoom
Cover 1-2 focus areas.
Includes a pre-session intake questionnaire, session recording, a post-session strategy summary, plus two weeks of follow-up email support to answer questions.
Full-Day Intensive: $850
5.5 hours of focused 1:1 time via Zoom with a midday break.
Cover 2-3 focus areas.
Includes everything in the half-day intensive, plus a 30-minute check-in call two weeks post session to review progress, answer questions, and provide accountability.
Need something lighter? Book a Strategy Call or an Async Advising session instead.
Not sure where to start? Book a free discovery call!
Rachel Thompson
Hi, I’m a strategist, facilitator, and creative who helps solopreneurs and independent business owners build businesses that support your life, brain, and bank account.
Decide instead of default.
The sway of shiny new tools makes it easy to add complexity and bloat to your to-do lists and operating expenses. But it also distracts you from the focused effort required to build a strategic business.
Do you know which tools you need - and the one’s you don’t?
The best tool is the one you use.
Defaulting is easy. Questioning assumptions and interrogating your actual needs, energy, business model and more requires effort and attention. But then you get to decide on the path forward.
Which means deciding all the things you won’t do and making choices about tradeoffs.
Strategy requires tradeoffs.
Being the boss of your business - and life - means owning your sphere of responsibility. You make the decisions and either reap the rewards or deal with the consequences.
Are you willing to set boundaries and hold them? Take a risk? Make a mistake?
Become the boss.
Pausing to reflect, orient, and make a strategic approach to move forward is helpful. It’s a moment of clarity informing your next series of decisions.
And also, the strategy plays out along the journey. It requires execution so you can play the long game.
Sadly, you cannot learn, research, or plan your way into success. (I’ve tried.)
Take deliberate action.
What People Are Saying
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"Rachel Thompson is truly gifted and effective. Every time I speak with her, she helps me to see the bigger picture and more possibilities than I could have imagined on my own while also helping me then narrow my focus into actionable steps. Highly recommend working with her!"
— Emily G.
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"Your guidance freed me from the decision paralysis that has plagued me for over a year! 🎉 "
— Nikki R.
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"I deeply appreciate how intentional she is in designing experiences that feel both structured and flexible. She brings a mix of clarity, creativity, and strategic thinking that helps move ideas from concept to action."
— Sarah S.
Are you ready to make strategic progress?
Get in Touch!
If you're interested in working with me, please complete the form and share details about how I might best support you. I’ll get back to you within 2-3 business days.
Or, if you’d rather chat, schedule a FREE discovery call.
Ready to build once you’re clear on your strategy?
The strategy work is the beginning of something larger. And something that likely requires more time, effort, and money.
Once you know what you’re building and how you positioning it, the next step is the make sure your brand, website, and copy reflect that clarity completely.
That’s exactly what the Creative Services at Daring Studios are build to do.