Started a business to escape corporate BS, ended up creating different BS

left my corporate marketing job 18 months ago to start my own digital marketing consultancy. was so done with pointless meetings, office politics, having to ask permission to do basic shit. thought being my own boss would solve everything. and in some ways it has. no more commuting, no more pretending to look busy, no more corporate buzzword bingo.

but i've somehow created a whole new set of problems. now instead of one demanding boss i have 6 demanding clients. instead of office politics i have to deal with late payments and scope creep. instead of pointless meetings i have endless sales calls with people who want champagne results on a beer budget. plus the feast-or-famine cycle is fucking brutal. one month you're turning away work, the next month you're panicking about making rent.

i don't want to go back to corporate. but entrepreneurship isn't the magical freedom solution everyone makes it out to be. it's just a different kind of stress. anyone else feel like they traded one set of problems for another? how do you make the business side sustainable without losing the reasons you started it in the first place?