From 30 Years in HR to Starting from Scratch, with Stephanie McKee Wright | Ways to Wealth EP154

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Stephanie McKee Wright, founder of Epic People and an HR and leadership development consultant with 30 years of experience.Stephanie spent decades in senior HR roles across public and private sectors before her company was acquired by a global and the job she had built for herself disappeared overnight. The creativity was gone, the autonomy was gone, and she decided it was time to go too.She started from what she calls a standing position. No clients, no website, no product. Just 30 years of knowledge and enough savings to give herself a runway. Ten months in, she is still figuring it out, still building courses between client calls, and still learning what works. Her biggest surprise so far is that TikTok, not LinkedIn, has become her primary source of leads. One video filmed at her kitchen bench with no makeup and messy hair hit 125,000 appearances.This conversation is an honest look at what the first year of running your own business actually feels like, the self-doubt, the wet cement, the Friday that was supposed to be marketing day but got swallowed by a client emergency, and the small wins that keep you going.Check out Stephanie's company Epic People here: https://epicpeople.co.nz/Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: https://www.eccuity.com/podcasts #waystowealth #epicpeople #hrconsultant #entrepreneurship #tiktokmarketing #leadership #nzbusiness #solofounder #startingabusiness #smallbusiness #womeninbusiness #selfemployed #wealthbuilding #yearone