How to Start a Consulting Business: The One-on-One Method That Built My Practice

How to know when to pivot starts with recognizing what your body already knows — before your brain catches up. Sarah, founder of Careergasm, spent 12 years coaching high-achieving professionals through major career transitions. In this episode, she breaks down the exact framework she developed after thousands of one-on-one sessions: why most people look for the answer in the wrong place (job titles, industries, salary benchmarks), and how to identify the underlying ingredients that actually drive fulfillment and alignment. You'll learn why pressing pause on "needing to know the answer" is the first tactical move — and how spotting consistent patterns across client work is what separates scalable insight from guesswork. Sarah also covers the physical and behavioral signals that show up long before someone consciously admits they're misaligned, and why successful career pivots are driven by inner knowing, not external optimization. ABOUT THE GUEST Sarah is the founder of Careergasm, a consulting practice with a 12-year track record of helping mid-to-senior professionals and executives identify and pursue more aligned career paths. Before building Careergasm, she was a business professor. She developed her signature framework through extensive one-on-one client work before scaling it into group programs. Get the complete show notes, frameworks, and playbooks: https://podcast.rapidproductgrowth.com/how-to-know-when-to-pivot/ Subscribe for more tactical B2B growth strategy: https://www.youtube.com/@productgrowthstories?sub_confirmation=1 #CareerPivot #WhenToPivot #CareerChange #Entrepreneurship #Careergasm