Take The First Step

Are you ready to explore self-employment / starting your own business?

Completing the free Self-Assessment Quiz. The prompts will allow you to explore areas such as:

Your motivation & goals, your skills & experience, and your financial readiness.

You'll gain insights into your readiness to take the next steps to explore self-employment.

The assessment is quick, easy, and entirely confidential.

Start the Assessment

Get started by answering these key questions

Can I afford to start my own business?

Find out if you have enough money to start your own business

Do I have the skills & experience?

Discover your unique skills and experience that make you valuable.

When should I start my own business?

Work out a plan to launch, reducing the risk of getting into debt

Products and Services

1:1 Mentoring Program

Feel like you’re at a crossroads and not sure which path to take? 1:1 Mentoring gives you the flexibility to explore all your options. Over six sessions, we'll use a unique set of tools and systems to uncover your passions, assess financial readiness, explore business possibilities, and cover essential marketing principles to give you the confidence you could – if you wanted to become self-employed. Past mentees have experienced remarkable transformations, taking immediate steps to do more of what they love.

£500 GBP

Financial Foundations: start your own business

Curious if your business idea can sustain your livelihood? Our program offers you a starting point. Calculate launch costs and learn how to manage without going into debt. Drawing from personal experience and extensive research, I've crafted this course to guide you through financial assessment, projecting expenses, and understanding startup costs. Access practical budgeting tools & checklists to determine when you can comfortably quit your day job.

£50 Introductory Offer

Start your own business, 9 weeks to launch

Answer the question “Can I start my own business”. This nine-week course helps you to identify what you love, your skills and strengths, and where you want to get to. You’ll assess your financial readiness and work out when you can comfortably give up the day job. You’ll also be taken through business and marketing basics, giving you the confidence and clarity of what your potential new venture could look like. Starting your own business isn’t for everyone; work out if it’s right for you, right now. Launches 29th February 2024

£300

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NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Claire Kavanagh

Self-employment isn't right for everyone, right now.

I quit my job twice.

The first time, wasn't the right time. I learned from my mistakes and shifted direction to gain valuable experience to set up my future self for success.

Seven years ago, I became a Customer Experience-focused Marketing Consultant, embracing the journey from boss-lady to independent entrepreneur.

As a business mentor over the last 4 years, I have spoken to hundreds of businesses. In that time, I've discovered that without guardrails, checks, and proper execution, venturing into a Startup can put an individuals finances at risk.

I'm on a mission - I am creating assessment tools and processes for people before they leap into self-employment - so they can assess if it's right for them and if now is the right time.

And for business owners, offering insights from my practical marketing and business experience to help boost their chances of success. Through skills, financial, and market assessments.

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What have Claire's previous mentees & course participants said?

"Claire gave me the confidence to commit to throwing myself into my own business 100%, in a way that felt safe and made sense financially. She was incredibly kind and patient with me as I had never set up a business before and I had lots of questions!"

- Victoria, Education

"Thanks Claire for a brilliant session - very much appreciated your energy and your listening and understanding. Great to have tools to take away to help with day-to-day planning going forward. And very helpful to have your insights to help me create a clear action plan. Amazed at how much we covered in the session!"

- Melissa, Health

"Claire is an amazing mentor and a great support. Claire is so enthusiastic and supportive. Always an inspiring conversation."

- Thalia, eComm

"This course guided me through the fundamentals I needed to launch a business, giving me the confidence to back myself and my idea."

- Renee, Environmental Science

"Claire has helped me practically apply marketing concepts and strategies to my business, she's able to make seemingly overwhelming 'marketing things' simple to understand."

- Julie, Executive Coach

"After becoming a mum, I was keen to explore leaving the corporate world to own my own time and start a business. I connected with Claire for some 1:1 coaching and advice and I'm so glad I did."

- Rachel, Technology

"Claire was very easy to understand from the outset & she added value all the way through so I'll definitely be requesting another session with her."

- Geoff, Media

"This was one of the best mentoring sessions I have had. Claire was so friendly and enthusiastic about helping me. She talked me through exactly what I needed to do has given me some very actionable steps and some additional material to watch and digest. I really enjoyed this call and it has been an enormous boost to my confidence especially when I discovered that I really don't need to be making things so complicated. Thank you Claire."

- Sarah, FMCG