Goa / remote(Unsplash)
Priya Nair
Independent research & tutoring
4 years off the clockEnglishHindiMalayalam
Priya sells research retainers and language hours instead of slide decks for a firm. She is blunt about rates, Indian tax, and the difference between ‘freelance’ and ‘still checking Slack at midnight for a partner.’
Left from: Big Four consulting
How they got off the 9-to-5
She productized one research memo she kept rewriting for clients, sold it as a subscription to three nonprofits, then added tutoring blocks that paid the rest of rent. The firm got four weeks’ notice and a finished handoff. No dramatic exit video.
- Independent Research
- Teaching & Coaching
- Digital Products
- Freelance Craft
What you leave with
The session is the conversation. These are the artifacts that follow it.
- Offer and pipeline planOne paid offer, a rate card, and a 60-day outreach list that is not ‘post more on LinkedIn.’
- Admin stackInvoice, contract, notes, and a calendar you will actually keep.
- Async review for 30 daysSend drafts of emails, rates, and the first deliverable; she marks them up.
- Session recordingPlus a one-page scorecard of what to stop doing this week.