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Strategic Insight

"Only you can decide whether a shift needs to happen. You are the shift."

What We Learned

You don’t have to learn every lesson the hard way — professionals with fiduciary duty (accountants, lawyers, bankers) have already seen hundreds of businesses and will share what they know if you ask. Coachability isn’t just listening; it’s implementing guidance without getting defensive, then being honest with yourself about why certain advice isn’t landing. And an idea isn’t a business — it becomes one only once people are willing to pay for it repeatedly.

Notable Observation

Michelle ties daily self-reflection directly to business strategy: three questions — what went well, what was the bottleneck, what am I looking forward to tomorrow — compiled over time into a dataset that surfaces patterns a founder would otherwise miss entirely.

Why We Invited

I invited Michelle because she treats community and self-reflection as strategic infrastructure, not soft skills — and because her own path, building a business that runs without her while managing an MS diagnosis, backs up the framework instead of just theorizing it.

Featured Conversation

You're Closer Than You Think
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Michelle Mitchell is the founder of Mitchell Consulting, where she’s spent over 15 years helping service providers get honest about their finances, scale with intention, and break free from the bottlenecks holding their business back. Rather than offering generic financial advice, she gets to the beliefs, fears, and default money patterns actually driving a founder’s decisions — then helps rewrite them. She’s evolved from an overworked “laptop mom” to a CEO who built a business that runs without her, and now coaches other founders to do the same.

Founder, Mitchell Consulting