You're setting goals you're scared to miss and grinding through tasks you're bad at because asking for help still feels like failure. Sound familiar?
Host Samantha C. Prestidge chats with Dr. Andrea Lowe, nonprofit consultant and founder of Social Impact Studio Consulting, who helps organizations expand their impact through strategic planning, program development, and community-centered leadership.
Andrea went from 15 years in government and public health to running her own consulting firm — and hit the exact wall that most solo founders hit: trying to do everything herself, including the stuff she was genuinely terrible at. What changed wasn't a system. It was admitting she needed one.
In this episode:
- Why the A+ student mindset actively works against you when you're running a business
- The difference between a strategic plan and an implementation plan — and why having one without the other is why nothing gets done
- How to set goals that are ambitious without becoming the standard you quietly beat yourself up for missing
- What collaboration over competition actually looks like in a saturated consulting market
- The moment Andrea realized doing it all herself wasn't discipline — it was a problem