120. How to Build a 100k Business Without Quitting Your 9-to-5
From You're Overqualified Podcast - Career and Leadership Strategies for Women by Dani Tan - Leadership Coach and Speaker
March 25, 2026 · 22 min · Season 3 · Episode 120
About this episode
In this episode, Dani Tan discusses how to build a $100k business while maintaining a 9-to-5 job, sharing strategies and insights for leveraging existing expertise.
In episode 120, we're talking about how to build a $100k business without quitting your 9-to-5. You already have the expertise. You have been solving high-level problems for organizations, teams, and people for years, and that expertise is worth far more than one company's paycheck. This episode is for the person who has been wondering if it is possible to build something for themselves without letting go of the stability they have worked so hard to create. It is. And I am going to show you how. In this conversation, I break down the three moves I use with my clients to help them go from senior leader to paid consultant, without burning anything down, quitting their job, or waiting until they feel ready. In this episode, I cover: → Why you do not have to choose between stability and building something for yourself→ The Safety Illusion and how it has been keeping your expertise bottled up for everyone else→ Move 1: Getting specific on your one signature problem→ Move 2: Market research outreach (not pitching, never pitching)→ Move 3: How to get paid before you have a website, a logo, or a business license→ A client story: from a company reorg to landing her first consulting…
People in this episode
Host: Dani Tan
Topics covered
- business development
- consulting
- career transition
- entrepreneurship
- work-life balance
Keywords
- 100k business
- consulting
- career strategies
- market research
- expertise
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