I Left Corporate and Discovered I Actually Like Selling Myself

Podcast: Anyway: On being different, and doing it anyway · Laurence Paquette

Opublikowano: 2026-08-31

Before leaving corporate, I assumed finding clients would be one of the parts of working independently that I would hate. Cold outreach. Following up. Talking about myself. Selling what I can do. Except that isn't really what it has felt like. In this short reflection, I talk about one of the most unexpected things I have discovered since leaving a 15 year corporate career: I genuinely enjoy the commercial side of working for myself. Maybe selling feels very different when what you are really doing is meeting interesting people, asking questions and...