Episode #46
046 | Like the Babysitters Club, but for Creatives with Tricia Mirchandani
In this episode, Kate sits down with Tricia Mirchandani, founder of T Collective – a collective of designers, copywriters, and video editors who deliver agency-quality work without the agency baggage. Tricia lives outside DC with her husband, two teenagers, and four pets, and she started her business the way a lot of us do: one bad day at work and a CEO who rewrote everything overnight. She and Kate get into what it actually looks like to build a business you believe in, manage a team the same way you parent, and stop trying to be the wizard behind the curtain for everyone in your life. They also get into: The Babysitters Club model: one call, one invoice, zero Fiverr anxiety Getting pushed out of a job you didn't love and why that's actually a gift Teenagers are great, actually and why they might be the best business partners you didn't know you had The parallel between parenting a team and raising kids who figure things out themselves Why Tricia went freelance, went back to corporate, and went freelance again, and what the timing taught her Imposter syndrome: everyone's too busy thinking about themselves to notice yours Fail fast, fix it, move on: why that's both a business strategy and a parenting philosophy Scar tissue, gut feelings, and the meeting where Tricia showed up ready to have the hard conversation Why boundaries need to be drawn around your kids just as much as your clients Hiring an ops manager sooner: the advice she wishes someone had shoved in her face at the beginning This one hits on all the things we don't say out loud: the muscle memory from jobs that didn't value us, the guilt of pouring into a business instead of our kids, and the very freeing realization that nobody's watching us as closely as we think they are. Connect with Tricia: Instagram & LinkedIn: @withtcollective Website: withtcollective.com LinkedIn: Tricia Mirchandani Connect with Kate Christy: Website Instagram
