Hi, I’m Megan Chalidis.
[Business Strategist. Writer. Strategic Simplifier. Chaos Wrangler]
I help entrepreneurs make more, work less, and actually like their lives again.
– I’m currently available for consulting and strategic partnerships that help smart people build better businesses.
If your Mondays make you want to fake your own death, we should probably talk.
I don’t do sales calls, but I do read applications.
→ Apply here.
– Read my letters →
Come for the income strategy, stay for the therapeutic oversharing. I write about building a business that doesn’t steal your peace, rethinking work, rest and productivity, making money without burning out, and staying sane while the world screams “more.”
You’ll also get the stuff most business blogs leave out—behind-the-scenes lessons, personal pivots, and the occasionally questionable life experiment, shared for your benefit (and my own processing). I tend to stir the pot, and some of it is definitely NSFW. (*Not suitable for work.)
Read The Letters
Free essays on how to work less, make more and actually like your Mondays.
About Me
I built my first business on visibility.
Facebook. Instagram. Daily content. Constant engagement.
It worked—until I realized I didn’t actually want the kind of business I was building.
Also: what the hell was an introvert doing trying to build a career on performing for the internet?
So I stepped back. I stopped chasing the algorithm, deleted the apps, and asked a better question:
What does a business built around actual life—one with space, strategy, and sovereignty—look like?
That shift didn’t slow me down—it made me sharper.
Instead of performing my business online, I started quietly partnering with other entrepreneurs to fix theirs.
I became the person founders call when their business technically works—but feels like a haunted house made of half-built funnels, broken client journeys, and Slack threads they’re too scared to open.
Over the last seven years, I’ve worked with hundreds of clients—coaches, consultants, creatives, and seven-figure founders who looked great on paper but were secretly trapped in the hamster wheel of “just one more launch.”
Sometimes I’m brought in to audit the entire business ecosystem—messaging, delivery, and operations—so the whole thing runs like a business, not a burnout factory.
Sometimes I’m ghostwriting a six-figure sales page that sounds like you, but sharper—because you’re too close to it (and maybe a little tired of selling it).
Sometimes I’m mentoring quietly inside the coaching programs of your favourite “internet famous” names—helping their clients grow faster, set better boundaries, and avoid the mistakes I made.
Other times, I’m embedded in the team, untangling chaos, managing moving parts, and making sure good ideas don’t die in a Notion graveyard.
And in between? I’m building my own resources—designed to help entrepreneurs scale with clarity, support their teams, and stop building businesses they secretly resent.
If your business is making money but slowly stealing your will to live, I’m the one people call when they’re ready to make more by doing less—and actually feel good about it.
I don’t sell hype. I don’t sell blueprints.
I help smart people work less, earn more, and build businesses that feel like theirs again.
This site is part portfolio, part public journal, and part polite middle finger to business and burnout as usual.
I don’t believe in businesses that eat your life. I don’t believe in burnout disguised as ambition. And I definitely don’t believe the 40-hour workweek was designed with women, creatives, or actual humans in mind.
What I do believe in:
Business as a tool for liberation. Work that supports your energy—not exploits it. Structure that creates space instead of swallowing it. Making great money doing fewer things—and doing them well.
My approach is practical, strategic, and deeply intentional. Less noise. More leverage. Zero pretending.
-Field notes from the Freedom Economy by Megan Chalidis
Strategic Consulting
I work with founders to untangle complexity, streamline their offers, and create systems that scale sustainably—without burning their team (or themselves) out. Strategy is my native language; clarity is my love language.
Creative Execution
Whether it’s writing the words that sell, shaping a launch, re-designing a brand identity and web-presence or reworking a client journey from the inside out, I turn half-baked ideas into things that make money and actually work.
Ops & Project Wrangling
Quiet Collaboration
Some people panic in chaos. I map it. I’ve been the embedded thinker on high-pressure teams—keeping launches on track, scoping projects, leading cross-functional builds, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks.
I’m the person you bring in when you don’t need another “voice”—you need a brain that gets it. I ghostwrite, co-create, coach, consult and work inside other people’s programs to elevate the content, experience, and delivery without taking the spotlight.
The Freedom Economy is a new model of success.
It’s about building a business that gives you time freedom, financial stability, and the space to actually enjoy your life.
It rejects the idea that you have to hustle, burn out, or overdeliver to succeed.
Instead, it’s about working in a way that honours your body, your capacity, and your creativity—so you can build wealth without losing yourself in the process.
This is what the new 1% looks like:
Happy. Healthy. Well-paid. And completely in control of their time.
“I don’t want a seat at the table. I want a business that lets me take a nap in the sunshine before noon.”
Megan Chalidis
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