Most career advice centers on passion and purpose, but chasing fulfillment often leaves bank accounts wanting. Contrary to popular belief, a six-figure income isn't built on loving your work it's built on a system. Career coach Sarah Jensen claims to have cracked that system with her “Monday Method,” and early adopters are reporting impressive results.
This is the moment Makenzie, the creator of The Monday Method, describes in the opening of her course materials. She writes directly to the person sitting in that corporate parking lot, savoring a few extra moments of peace before walking into another week. The description is specific enough to feel like a confession, universal enough to resonate with anyone who has ever felt the gap between a comfortable job and genuine fulfillment.
"You know things need to change," she writes. "You're sick of feeling left behind. You're so overwhelmed you don't even know where to begin. You are over of feeling unmotivated and underutilized at work."
What makes this opening notable is not just its accuracy but what it leads to: a 6-week course that has helped clients move from that parking lot moment to running their own businesses. The Monday Method, as described in the course materials, offers a structured roadmap combining psychology and business strategy with what the creator calls "humour and heart." The program promises participants will gain clarity on what they want and the exact steps to make it happen.
The Architecture of Career Clarity
The Monday Method is built on a simple premise: most people have already consumed enough information. They have read the blogs, taken the career aptitude tests, listened to the podcasts about finding passion and starting a business. The problem is not information but action.
"You've read books and blogs but just can't seem to take action," the course materials state. "You've taken every online quiz that resembles 'Which career do I actually belong in?' You've listened to 62 podcasts on 'How to find your passion and start a business.' Your recent YouTube search was 'Should I quit my job?'"
The course positions itself as the bridge between awareness and execution. more than offering more content, it provides what the materials describe as "the keys and a roadmap." Participants are invited to enter what Makenzie calls "your next 6 weeks" and imagine what it would feel like to get clarity on what they want and the exact steps to make it happen.
Testimonials from the course describe transformative experiences. One participant, identified as Rachel, a copywriter, wrote that working with Makenzie "has been transformative. She has this quality about you feel comfortable with, it removed the barrier of shame that I have with being a young entrepreneur and allowed me to ask questions and receive helpful, supportive and actionable feedback. She honestly has changed the way I show up in my business: with confidence and a plan."
Another testimonial describes coaching that helped discover core values and align them to business operations on a daily basis. The language in these testimonials emphasizes practical outcomes confidence, a plan, actionable feedback more than abstract inspiration.
From Personal Experience to Public Framework
The story behind The Monday Method illustrates a pathway that many successful consultants have followed: the decision to document and teach what they themselves learned through their own career transitions. Makenzie's materials explicitly reference this journey, acknowledging that she has "been there myself" and positioning herself as someone who can help others step into the future they have been dreaming about.
This approach building a practice around documented personal experience appears across multiple consulting and coaching businesses. Amy Rasdal, founder of Billable at the Beach, describes a similar trajectory. "My name is Amy Rasdal, and I'm the founder of Billable at the Beach," she writes on her site. "I traded my corporate job for consulting 15 years ago and make more money than most executives."
Rasdal's program emphasizes the practical side of this transition. "It's easier than you think to get started," her materials state. "If you start right away, you can be doing billable work as soon as next week." The Billable at the Beach approach is described as "hands-on, practical" and focuses on walking clients through simple programs step-by-step.
The emphasis on action and simplicity reflects a broader pattern in successful consulting practices: the framework developed is often a direct reflection of the creator's own journey, refined through experience and then offered to others facing similar challenges.
The Wall Street Exit: A Parallel Pathway
Courtney Taylor's story follows a similar arc. As documented in an interview with Ted Prodromou, Taylor was working 80-hour weeks on Wall Street before deciding to make a change. "She quit her job, took some time to recoup her energy, invested in herself and built a 6-figure business doing what she loves and working on her terms," according to the profile.
Taylor's background is described as having "humble beginnings." She was small-town born and raised with what the profile calls "a burning desire to help people succeed beyond their wildest dreams, a rickety old laptop, and relentless determination." The language emphasizes resourcefulness and drive more than formal credentials.
What distinguishes Taylor's practice is her approach to work-life integration. The profile notes that she "takes every Friday off to volunteer at a ministry AND takes December off to travel around the world." This detail serves as proof of concept for the freedom that a successful consulting practice can provide.
"Life is simply way too short to live and play small," Taylor is quoted as saying. "And, it's up to each of us to make the most of EVERYTHING we've been blessed with, no matter what that looks like! You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to DREAM BIG and breathe life into your dreams by taking action that produces measurable results."
The Platform Parallel: How Monday.com Scaled Without Overwhelming
There is an instructive parallel between how individual consultants build their practices and how successful software platforms scale their messaging. Eran Zinman, co-founder and co-CEO of monday.com, discussed this challenge in a conversation at SaaStr Annual.
Monday.com began as a flexible platform where users could build their own solutions. The first use case was project management, though the company always viewed itself as a platform beyond a project management tool specifically. "You have to understand: what people are searching for, what their intent is, what the product is that you're building," Zinman explained. "It's a marrying of company vision and go to market."
When the company expanded to multiple products including monday CRM and monday Dev they faced a communication challenge. How do you share something as rich as their platform without overwhelming customers, especially small and medium businesses?
Zinman's answer reflects a principle that applies to consulting practices as well: "You don't need to tell the whole story from the beginning, especially when you sell to SMBs. Focus on giving people value as soon as possible. Serve customers a CRM or project management first, and as they scale and use it more, they're exposed to more features."
He calls this approach "gradual discovery." more than presenting the full scope of an offering upfront, you serve the immediate need and let deeper value emerge over time. For a consultant building a practice around a framework like The Monday Method, this might mean leading with the specific pain point career confusion, lack of action before revealing the full scope of the coaching methodology.
Measuring What Matters
Both the Monday.com story and the consulting practice examples emphasize the importance of measurement from the beginning. Monday.com built an internal analytics tool called Big Brain that tracked revenue, marketing expenses, and product usage. "Since the beginning, monday.com built and has used a BI tool called Big Brain a major investment for that size of company," according to a SaaStr profile of Zinman.
The context for this investment was actually resource constraint. The company started in 2014, and their first funding round was only $1.4 million. "Money wasn't in abundance, so they had to measure and track everything, and it stuck with them," the profile notes.
This discipline around measurement appears in the consulting practice examples as well. Amy Rasdal's Billable at the Beach emphasizes practical steps and progress tracking. The program description states: "We help you stay focused and make progress each day." The emphasis on measurable progress reflects an understanding that clients need evidence of movement, not just inspiration.
For consultants building practices around documented decision-making processes, this measurement discipline serves a dual purpose. Internally, it helps refine the framework being offered. Externally, it provides the evidence that builds credibility with potential clients.
The Decision to Document
What unites these examples is a common decision point: the choice to document and share the decision-making process more than keeping it private. Makenzie's Monday Method emerged from her own experience of career limbo. Amy Rasdal's practice grew from her decision to teach what she learned transitioning from corporate to consulting. Courtney Taylor built her business by sharing the strategies that worked for her.
This documentation serves multiple functions. It creates the intellectual property that forms the basis of a consulting practice. It provides social proof evidence that the framework has worked for others. And it establishes the consultant as an authority who has thought through the problem systematically beyond just offering generic advice.
The Monday Method materials explicitly acknowledge this documentation function. "I want to hand you the keys and a roadmap," Makenzie writes. The keys are the specific steps; the roadmap is the documented process. By creating this documentation and offering it as a course, she transforms personal experience into a scalable practice.
Building the Practice Step by Step
The practical advice from these sources emphasizes incremental action over grand launches. Rasdal's Billable at the Beach program promises that "if you start right away, you can be doing billable work as soon as next week." This emphasis on immediate action reflects an understanding that momentum builds momentum.
The program materials describe a "simple programs step-by-step" approach. more than overwhelming new consultants with everything they need to know, the focus is on making progress each day. This mirrors the gradual discovery approach that monday.com uses with customers: serve immediate value, then reveal more as the relationship develops.
For consultants building practices around documented decision-making, this suggests a pathway: start by documenting your own process for your own use, then share it with a few clients, then formalize it into a framework, then package it as a course or program. Each step builds on the previous one.
What This Means for BloggerPost Readers
For bloggers and content creators exploring consulting as a revenue pathway, the examples in these sources illustrate a specific mechanism: the decision to document your own decision-making process publicly can become the foundation for a practice. The Monday Method is not a generic productivity course it is a specific framework developed from one person's experience of career transition, refined through working with clients, and packaged as a structured program.
The parallel with monday.com's gradual discovery approach is instructive. When you have a rich framework, you do not need to present everything at once. You serve the immediate pain point career confusion, lack of action, overwhelm and let deeper value emerge as clients engage more deeply with your work.
The measurement discipline from monday.com's Big Brain also applies. Even a simple tracking system for client outcomes, content engagement, and practice growth can provide the data needed to refine your offering and demonstrate credibility to future clients.
The Risk and the Reward
Building a consulting practice around documented experience requires willingness to take risk. Rasdal's materials acknowledge this directly: "A solid consulting practice is built through hard work and a willingness to take risk. No check goes into my bank account unless I go out and win the business. In consulting, you have to hunt what you eat."
This risk is balanced by the freedom that a successful practice provides. The testimonials from The Monday Method emphasize confidence and a plan. The Billable at the Beach materials promise "freedom, flexibility, control, interesting work and excellent pay." Courtney Taylor's profile highlights the ability to take Fridays off and travel in December.
The common thread is that the risk is worth it because the practice is built on something real: documented experience, refined through use, and offered to others facing similar challenges. This is not a generic business model but a specific framework developed from lived experience.
Where to Read Further
For readers interested in exploring The Monday Method directly, the course materials are available at Love Your Mondays' The Monday Method page, which includes detailed descriptions of the 6-week program structure and testimonials from past participants.
Those interested in the broader consulting practice building context can explore Amy Rasdal's Billable at the Beach program, which offers a practical, step-by-step approach to starting a consulting business with an emphasis on immediate action.
For the platform scaling perspective that parallels consulting practice building, Eran Zinman's discussion of Monday.com's growth journey at SaaStr's interview on scaling and growth in uncertain times provides insights into gradual discovery, measurement discipline, and the importance of serving immediate value before revealing full scope.
Courtney Taylor's story of transitioning from Wall Street to a 6-figure coaching practice is documented in Ted Prodromou's interview with Courtney Taylor, which includes her perspective on work-life integration and building a business around personal values.
A Practical Starting Point
The Monday Method, and the broader ecosystem of consulting practices built around documented experience, offers a specific pathway for bloggers and content creators considering practice building. The key insight is not that everyone should become a career coach but that the decision to document your own decision-making process can become the foundation for a practice.
This documentation serves multiple functions: it clarifies your own thinking, provides evidence of expertise, creates intellectual property, and offers value to others facing similar challenges. Whether the framework is career-focused like The Monday Method, business-focused like Billable at the Beach, or industry-specific like Courtney Taylor's marketing and training company, the mechanism is the same.
The final insight from these sources is that the practice does not need to be launched all at once. It can begin with documentation sharing your own process, even privately at first. Then it can grow through client work, refinement, and formalization. The gradual discovery approach that monday.com uses with customers can apply to how you reveal your own practice to the world.
For anyone sitting in that Friday afternoon parking lot, wondering if there is another way, the documented experiences of Makenzie, Amy Rasdal, Courtney Taylor, and others suggest that there is. The pathway begins with the decision to document not just for yourself, but as the foundation for helping others.
Summary: Key Elements of Practice Building
| Element | Source Example | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Documented Experience | The Monday Method | Creates intellectual property and establishes authority |
| Gradual Discovery | Monday.com's product rollout | Serves immediate needs before revealing full scope |
| Measurement Discipline | Big Brain analytics | Refines offering and demonstrates credibility |
| Incremental Action | Billable at the Beach | Builds momentum through daily progress |
| Risk Acceptance | Consulting practice builders | Enables transition from corporate to independent |
The common thread across these examples is that building a practice around documented decision-making is not a single event but a process. It begins with personal experience, moves through documentation, refinement through client work, and formalization into a framework. Each step builds on the previous one, and the gradual discovery approach applies not just to how you serve clients but to how you reveal your practice to the world.