We believe your best work may still be ahead of you.
ThriveHive helps professional women turn what they know into consulting businesses they own.
discover your consultant success typeYou deserve guidance from someone who’s already built it.
I didn’t learn this from a playbook. I built an eight-figure business, put my own money on the line, navigated the hard parts, and took it through a successful exit.
What I teach comes from doing it.
Hi, I'm Tricia Dempsey.
Before any of that, I was exactly where you are. The breadwinner at heart. The one who tied her worth to her title, her paycheck, and what everyone else needed her to be.
Successful enough that leaving felt reckless. Unfulfilled enough that staying felt impossible.
But it wasn’t just the work that was driving me out. It was what the work was costing me. My daughter Catherine was leaving for college, and I was missing it. My 30-year marriage to my best friend, Jeff, deserved more than the version of me that came home exhausted with nothing left to give.
I wanted my life back. Not just my career—my actual life.
So I engineered a way out. One that didn’t interrupt my income or put my family at risk. Then I systematized it and helped 968 professional women use it to generate over $8.1M in first-client revenue.
That’s ThriveHive. And if you’re here, it was built for you.
What building it taught me
Along the way, five beliefs emerged — and they shape everything ThriveHive teaches.
1
We believe you can love what you do after 40.
The best consulting businesses are built by women who know exactly what they're doing and are done chasing someone else's definition of success.
Your experience isn't a starting point here. It's the whole point.
2
We believe one paycheck is the riskiest bet
you'll ever make.
One employer. One decision made in a boardroom you weren't in.
One restructure, and decades of loyalty can mean nothing.
This isn't just about income replacement. It's about building financial security.
3
We believe not selling is the real disservice.
The client who needs you most is paying for inferior solutions right now because she doesn't know you exist. Getting in front of her isn't pushy.
It's your responsibility.
4
We believe freedom isn't working less.
It's choosing more.
The freedom to decide. Who you work with. What you work on. How you show up for the people you love most—like the elderly parent who needs you on a Tuesday.
Does this give you more choice or less? That's the only question that matters.
5
We believe alone is the one thing you should
never have to be.
The loneliest part of building a consulting business isn't the hard work. It's doing it without anyone who truly understands what you're going through.
Real community. Real coaching. Real accountability. People who know what you need next.
How it started, how it's going…
2002
Newly diagnosed with breast cancer and mother to a two-year-old, Catherine, I could have waited for a better time to start a business. I decided there wasn't one. My first business, Agile, an IT staffing and consulting business was born.
2005–2015
The most grueling grind of my life. Twelve-hour days, and a personal life that was quietly falling apart. I was so proud of what I was building and so exhausted by what it was costing me.
Through a tear-filled conversation with my coach, I decided it was time to sell my company.
2018–2019
I went all in on ThriveHive—bouncing from niche to niche, trying to be everything to everyone, struggling to gain traction.
Then I launched Pinpoint Your Purpose to 1000 women who showed up because no one had asked them what they actually wanted in years. I knew we were onto something real.
2020–2023
COVID hit. So did the "She-Cession." Faced with a choice about who we are really here to serve, I found my answer in the women who never wanted to go back after being laid off and furloughed and our Passport program was born.
We taught Passport live across 18 cohorts. Tweaked, refined, and perfected every single element until we had the best results and client experience on the market.
2024-2025
Our women generated over $8.1 million in new client revenue before ever graduating from Passport. Their results and our reviews reflected that we'd built a world-class program that worked.
2026
We relaunched the ThriveHive brand to reflect what we’ve become—a community of more than 100,000 professional women exploring and building consulting businesses.
