with Tessa Lindqvist: Fieldnote : Calm, practical coaching for women who want a business that pays well and still leaves room to breathe.
Slower mornings, Clearer offers, Better-paid work, Room to breathe
What I do
I help thoughtful women build a business that is steady, well paid and kind to the person running it.
You are good at your work and people keep coming back. What you don’t have is time, a clear head or a bank balance that matches the effort. Together we tidy your offers, set prices you can say out loud and build a week you’d choose on purpose. No shouting, no hustle, no pretending to be someone you’re not.
See how I can help
Pick the pace that suits the season you’re in
Some seasons call for a steady companion, others for one clear day and a plan. Every way of working with me comes with the same things: honest numbers, a simple next step and someone who remembers what you said last time.
Not sure? Let’s talkLess noise, More of the right work, A week you chose, Prices you believe
Hello,
I’m Tessa
I spent twelve years as an operations lead for a growing design studio, quietly making other people’s big ideas work. When I left to work for myself, I found the hard part wasn’t the work. It was deciding what to charge, what to say no to and when to stop for the day.
Now I coach women who run small businesses and would like them to feel smaller in their heads and bigger in their bank accounts.
Read my storyWhat I’m here for
To show that a small, calm business can pay as well as a loud one. Plain numbers, clear offers and a pace you can keep for years.
Who I work with
Makers, designers, writers, therapists and consultants who are booked, tired and ready to be paid properly for work they already do well.
Ways to work together
Four ways in, one calmer business at the end
From a single day to four months side by side. If you can’t tell which one fits, that is exactly what the free call is for.
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1:1 Coaching
Four months, just us
Fortnightly calls, notes between sessions and a plan shaped around your business and your real week.
$950 / month
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The Long Table
Ten weeks, ten women
A ten-week small group for women who do their best thinking in good company.
$1,450
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A Reset Day
One day, one clear plan
One unhurried day to sort your offers, prices and the next three months, with two check-in calls after.
$1,800
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The Enough Course
Self-paced, yours to keep
A short self-paced course on working out what your business needs to earn, and pricing your work to get there.
$240
Does this sound familiar?
If you nod at even one of these, we should probably talk.
The work is good and there is plenty of it, yet the numbers never match the hours. That isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a pricing and shape-of-the-week problem, and it’s the first thing we look at.
Perhaps you discount in your head, pad the quote with extras or put off sending the invoice. We’ll find where that comes from and replace it with a number you can say plainly.
A real holiday. Evenings that are yours. A diary you chose. We’ll build the offers, boundaries and few simple habits that make that possible.
You don’t need more motivation. You need one clear next step and someone who will ask how it went. That is what coaching is for.
Let’s talk it through
How I work
No hustle, no hype. Just honest numbers and one step at a time
I won’t hand you a ten-step formula or tell you to post three times a day. We look at what is true in your business, decide what matters this month and do that. I bring the questions, the spreadsheets and the steady voice. You bring the business you already built.
More about me
A new episode every other Thursday
Notes from the Field
Short, quiet conversations about money, time and running a small business without losing yourself in it. About twenty-five minutes, best with a walk.
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How to find your enough number
The sum I do with every new client, and why it changes how you price everything else.
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A full diary is not the same as a good year
What to do when you are booked solid and still short at the end of the month.
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Saying no kindly (with Ingrid Solheim)
A Long Table graduate on dropping a third of her clients and earning more.
Kind words
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“I finally run my studio instead of it running me.”
I came to Tessa undercharging and worn out. Four months on I have raised my prices twice, let two difficult clients go and had my best quarter so far. I also take Fridays off.
Maren K.Ceramicist · 1:1 coaching -
“She listens, and then she asks the one question that matters.”
The Long Table gave me a plan and nine women who wouldn’t let me disappear. I opened my first group offer in week eight and every place went.
Ingrid S.Nutritionist · The Long Table -
“One day with Tessa did more than a year on my own.”
I arrived with a notebook full of half ideas and left with three offers, three prices and a ninety-day plan. I’ve followed it to the letter since.
Opal R.Photographer · Reset Day
A free guide
Find your enough number in one quiet hour
The same worksheet I use with private clients to work out what their business truly needs to earn, spot the offers that cost more than they bring in and set prices they can say without flinching.
- A ten-minute money snapshot
- The enough-number worksheet
- A script for your first price rise
- A one-page ninety-day plan
As heard on
- The Small & Mighty Hour
- Kitchen Table Founders
- Slow Business Radio
- The Good Enough Show
- Makers & Margins
Shall we have a quiet word?
Book a free 20-minute call. Tell me where things stand and where you’d like them to be, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help. No pressure and no pitch.