You don't have to figure out your portfolio career alone

Ready to accelerate your portfolio career with like-minded peers who just get it?

If you have 5+ years of working experience, join our invite-only community.

Enrollment closed. Apply now for the November 2025 intake.
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Here's what our members say

Ines Lee

Head of Content, Ali Abdaal
After 8 weeks:
  • Closed her first two content consulting clients, 5x’ing her course investment.
  • Clarified how to craft and validate a compelling offer using her expertise.
  • Gained confidence in selling using her existing experience and network (without a huge audience).

Frankie Le Nguyen

CEO & Co-Founder, Staging Labs (acquired)
After 8 weeks:
  • Closed his first fractional product client, 4x’ing his investment in the course.
  • Reframed his go-to-market approach to be more time-efficient, leveraging his existing network instead of social media.
  • 1 month after the cohort, closed two more clients to cover his monthly burn, unlocking freedom to explore career paths at his own pace.

Janani Chandran

Engineering Program Manager, Apple
After 8 weeks:
  • Closed her first two project management coaching clients and is on track to delivering their desired outcomes.
  • Clarified her superpowers and identified opportunities to leverage them in her business.

Makar Stetsenko

Fractional CTO, Luce
After 8 weeks:
  • Launched his second fractional CTO client on a 50 hours/mo retainer - 5x'ing his investment in one month.
  • Transformed from having one consulting client to confidently scaling his fractional CTO service using the structured workbooks and coaching sessions.
  • Gained clarity on his offering and found the motivation to conduct cold outreach, leading directly to winning his second client.

Jenny Orlova

EdTech Growth Strategy Consultant (Ex-Cintana VP)
After 8 weeks:
  • Secured 3 new clients (1 consulting + 2 coaching) and 4x'ed her hourly rate.
  • Launched her first website after 3 years of procrastination and leveraged high-engagement Linkedin posts to generated new leads.
  • Clarified direction on her value proposition, shifting from scattered overthinking to confident client acquisition.

Struggling to get your portfolio career off the ground?

You’ve spent hours upon hours racking your brain on what to offer and how to position yourself.

When you finally put yourself out there, you wait for responses.

Results? Crickets.

Imposter syndrome and self-doubt are killing you.

You’re unsure of what step to take next.

And somewhere deep down, you hear this nagging voice: ”Am I doomed to be stuck forever?”

Sounds familiar?

Here's the truth: you’ve been lied to by “experts” who've never built what you're building.

There is a better way…

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You need a community that gets it

Portfolio Path Community is an invite-only group for experienced professionals building sustainable portfolio careers together.

Connect with peers who are doing the work, not just talking about it.

Get real answers to your pricing questions. Test your positioning with people who understand your market. Learn what's actually working today, not theory from 2019.

The best part? You won't figure it out alone anymore.

Build your career alongside talented professionals who challenge your thinking, share proven strategies, and celebrate your wins.

Is Portfolio Path Community Right for You?

  • Are you a professional with over 5 years of experience?
  • Has imposter syndrome or self-doubt kept you from getting started?
  • Are you struggling to plan, launch, and grow your portfolio career?
  • Do you have 5 hours a week to dedicate towards making your portfolio career successful?
  • Ready to get started but don’t want to build alone?
If you can relate to any of these, the community is for you

How it works

Focus on progress, not perfection

Perfection and imposter syndrome hold most portfolio careers back. But not you anymore.

You’ll get structure, feedback, and community accountability to help you keep growing—at your own pace.

Get access to our flagship products

Your membership includes full access to the Part-Time Consulting Launchpad and Consulting Offer Blueprint — the exact systems hundreds have used to design and grow their portfolio careers.

Learn at your own pace, and revisit the lessons anytime as your business evolves.

Build meaningful relationships that accelerate growth

Join an invite-only circle of experienced professionals who share insights, swap feedback, and celebrate wins together.

You’ll build genuine relationships that inspire new ideas, partnerships, and opportunities.

Take action with challenges and momentum

Every few weeks, join 30-day challenges that push you to test ideas, refine your offer, and build momentum.

You’ll stay consistent through group accountability and peer support.

Learn through live sessions & peer discussions

We host fireside chats with experts, community calls, and peer workshops.

Each month, you’ll gain practical insights and frameworks you can apply right away.

Get leverage with AI and shared resources

You'll get access to our AI copilot and a treasure trove of fresh resources like Tech Offers Library, Portfolio Career Database, AI Consulting Proposal Builder, and AI Prompt Library.

Think of these as your turbo chargers.

👋 Meet your community lead

The Portfolio Path Community was created by Dexter Zhuang. I know first-hand about building a portfolio career that has earned 6-figures, created leverage, and allowed me to pursue meaningful work.

Dexter Zhuang is the founder of Portfolio Path, a community that helps high-performers live on their own terms. He shares his lessons with over 7,000 newsletter subscribers and over 23,000 LinkedIn followers.

He's also a fractional product leader & advisor. Over the past 10 years, he's worked with companies like Dropbox, Xendit, and growth-stage startups across the US, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. His work has been featured in global publications like Business Insider, CBS,  and Tech in Asia. He graduated from Dartmouth College.

🧠 Part-Time Consulting Launchpad ($997 Value)

Included in your membership is lifetime access to our flagship program — a step-by-step system for designing, testing, & validating your service offering.

Week 1: The Roadmap
  • AI Copilot - Setup an AI copilot to give you personalized feedback on your workbook and business.
  • Your Starting Service  - Use your superpowers, curiosities, and market validation to define your starting service.
  • Understanding Your Clients - Uncover unique insights about your clients' pains, fears, hopes, and dreams.
  • Your Roadmap - Craft an actionable, 5-step roadmap to start validating your side income hypothesis.
Week 2: The Offers
  • Designing & Pricing Your Offer - Construct a compelling offer using 4 building blocks. Price using time-based or value-based formulas, as well as market benchmarks.
  • Positioning Your Offer - Differentiate your offer in a crowded market.
Week 3: Offer Validation I
  • Running Your First Experiment - First cycle of  validating your offer through gathering real client feedback.
Weeks 4 & 5: The Growth Engine
  • Your Channels - Learn the building blocks of your growth engine. Choose a starter channel and understand the trade-offs between referrals, inbound, and outbound.
  • Your Inbound Engine - Create content systematically using my 3-step approach (including templates).
  • Your Website - Quickly build a website using free/inexpensive tools. Implement 6 crucial parts of your site to start generating leads.
  • Qualifying Your Leads -  Use simple frameworks to assess leads in your forms and calls and write effective offer copy.
 Week 6: The Sales
  • Your Discovery Calls - Run successful calls using my Discovery Call Structure Template.
  • Objection Handling - Respond to popular objections like "it's too expensive" and "I'll need to think about it".
  • Your Proposal and Payments - Create a winning proposal using a simple structure. How to handle invoicing, contracts, and payment terms.
Week 7: Offer Validation II
  • Experiment Round 2 - Second cycle of validating your offer through gathering real client feedback.
Week 8: Demo Day
  • Demo Day - Showcase your consulting offer to your peers in the cohort!
Bonus Resources
  • AI Consulting Proposal Builder - Generate draft proposals in minutes
  • AI Prompt Library - 10+ prompts I personally use for product, consulting, and content tasks
  • Tech Offers Library - 12+ real tech consulting examples from various industries (AI, fintech, SaaS, services)
  •  Portfolio Career Database - 27+ case studies of real portfolio careers

🚀 Join the membership

Community
Self-paced lifetime membership
$397
$527
Best for professionals who want to build at your own pace with ongoing community support
  • Lifetime access to invite-only community to build your consulting practice alongside trusted peers
  • Full access to PTCL video lessons and workbook - just follow the steps and get results
  • Expert fireside chats, peer workshops, & community calls to learn from guests speakers on their own portfolio career journey
  • 30-day challenges and group accountability to help you stay on track
  • AI Consulting Proposal Builder + LLM Prompt Library to generate draft proposals and more in minutes
  • Tech Offer (12+ examples) and Portfolio Career Libraries (27+ case studies)
  • Full access to Consulting Offer Blueprint: our system for how to validate your consulting offer in 48 hours
Time commitment: Self-paced (flexible)
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Only 5 seats left for November 2025

What members say about Portfolio Path Community

FAQ

What do you get inside?
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💬 Private Member Forum & Chat→ Connect, ask questions, and share wins with high-performing peers across the world.

📚 Shared Resource Library→ A community-sourced database of best case studies, AI prompts, offer breakdowns, and more.

🎙️ All Workshops & Fireside Chats→ Immediate, full access to all past and future sessions led by consultants, creators, and entrepreneurs.

🎯  Coaching→ Join bi-weekly live sessions with Dexter and your peers for personalized feedback and guidance.

What is the investment?
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The investment is $397.

All members will have:

  • Lifetime access to Portfolio Path community
  • Expert fireside chats, peer workshops, & community calls.
  • 30-day challenges and group accountability
  • Shared resource library (AI workflows, offer templates, etc.)
  • Full access to PT Consulting Launchpad lessons + workbook
  • Full access to Consulting Offer Blueprint
Why join the Portfolio Path Community?
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🔥 Build momentum - The earlier you join, the faster you’ll benefit from real-time experiments, wins, and lessons shared inside

🏆 Founding member perks - you’ll lock-in lifetime access special (price will go up for future intakes)

🧭 Shape the community - as a founding member, you’ll get to co-create the culture, topics, and future direction of our membership

Who might not be a fit for the Community?
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This program will not work for you if:

  • You don’t want to put in the work. While we provide guidance and coaching, you’re ultimately responsible for execution
  • You're looking for a "get-rich-quick" scheme. We focus on achieving realistic, sustainable results—which requires time and dedication

Remember, our goal is not to make empty promises of overnight success, but to help you grow a sustainable portfolio career.

Is there a refund policy?
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We have a 14-day Money Back Guarantee.

If you decide the community isn't for you, just let us know within 14 days of purchase, show you've used the product, and share the reason you believe you are not getting results. We will gladly issue you a full refund.

To make a refund request, please email support@theportfoliopath.com