The Six-Figure Public Health Consultant Quiz
"You've already started testing the waters — and your expertise is in demand. You're ready to take the leap."
You're already doing the work — freelance projects, side gigs, the friend-of-a-friend ask that turned into a paid invoice. What's missing isn't talent or proof. It's structure: a niche you can stand on, a pipeline that doesn't depend on luck, and the mindset shift from "side-hustling" to running a real consulting practice.
You're past the hardest part — you've already proven the work has value outside your day job. Side-Hustle Strategists usually have 5+ years of direct public health experience plus a track record of paid (or paid-in-kind) gigs on the side. Now the work is to stop dabbling, pick a lane, and put real structure behind it. That's exactly what PHC 101 is built to do.
Side-Hustle Strategists are the public health pros who've already started — a freelance eval, a workshop facilitation, a friend-of-a-friend ask that turned into an invoice. The interest is there. The work is there. What's missing is the operating system: a clear niche, a real business behind your name, and a pipeline that brings the next contract before this one ends. Here's what to lean into, what's keeping you stuck in dabble-mode, and where the breakthrough lives.
Each one is sized to fit on a lunch break. Do them in order — you'll walk into PHC 101 with a clear sense of your niche, your offer, and where your next contract is going to come from. We'll sharpen all of it together, live.
List every paid or paid-in-kind project you've taken on outside your day job in the last 18 months — freelance evals, workshops, advisory calls, speaking gigs. Next to each, write what kind of consulting service it really was.
Fill in this template until it stops feeling weird out loud: "I help [who] with [what specific outcome] through [your service]." No more "I do a bit of everything."
Write down the three types of projects that fit your niche — and the ones you're done taking. "Yes to evaluation design. No to last-minute grant edits." That single boundary is what turns a side hustle into a real practice.
Open one doc called "Opportunities." Log every person who has mentioned consulting work to you in the last 6 months — name, what they said, last touch. This is your pipeline; you just didn't know it yet.
A two-day live workshop — ninety minutes per session — built for Side-Hustle Strategists ready to stop dabbling and stand up a real consulting practice. You'll walk in with the four exercises above; you'll walk out with a clear niche, the language to position yourself, and a real plan for where your next contract comes from.
Take your audit from exercise #1 and turn it into a niche you can say in one sentence — with the type of client who actually pays for it.
The mindset, language, and visibility shifts that take you from "someone who freelances on the side" to a public health consultant clients seek out.
The real channels behind first-time contracts — RFPs, referrals, warm networks, and the LinkedIn moves that bring inbound asks.
You leave with a personalized plan — the niche, the offer, and the three concrete moves to make in the next 90 days.
You're not starting from zero. You've already done the work, already had someone hand you money for it, already gotten that quiet voice asking "wait — is this actually a business?" The answer is yes. The next move is treating it like one.
PHC 101 is two ninety-minute sessions designed for exactly where you are: you've got the receipts; now you need the structure. Come bring the homework above and let's get your next contract on the calendar.
Side-Hustle Strategists thrive when they have a room of people running real practices alongside them. The Public Health Club is 900+ public health professionals — sharing contracts, swapping client wins, and quietly turning each other's side work into full-time businesses.