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How to Start a Networking Conversation
Want to let go of being tongue-tied, confused and anxious?
This FREE 5 part video series steps you through how to craft a conversation in any networking situation.
Download the first chapter for Free
Facebook Lives
Ask Me Anything – How do I prepare for the recession?
How do I prepare for the recession?
Ask Me Anything – Do I have to market my private practice on social media?
Do I have to market my private practice on social media?
Ask Me Anything – Niche Ideal Client Avatar
Niche ideal client avatar
This is Private Practice
I created the This Is Private practice series quite by accident. One day I was so sick and tired of the awful telco service I was receiving, that I thought – wait this is the stuff no one talks about when it comes to starting, building, and growing a private practice.
Articles
THE HUFFINGTON POST: How Positive Reflection Changed My Life and Business
Let’s talk about the new kind of evidence-based health care. It starts with you and your evidence.
PSYCH CENTRAL: Are You Doing the Work You Love, the Way You Love to Do It?
I see it all the time. Burn out, stress, not enjoying the people you are working with and generally those feelings you had when you were employed – those feelings that made you want to leave and start your own practice.
Let’s make a promise to ourselves to start looking after ourselves and start accepting the RIGHT referrals so we can do the work we love, the way we love to do it.
GLOSS MAGAZINE: Why Selling My Time for Money Wasn't Smart for Me
Read about my journey of escaping the trap of constantly trading my time for money and finding freedom in my private practice.
Interviews & Podcasts
Ep. 244: Thriving in Adversity, Personal Wellness & Preventing Burnout as a Business Owner
I was a guest on the PPMP podcast with Cathy Love of @nacre_consulting.
We shared about how allied health professionals can avoid burnout and some of my observations of our allied health industry in the last few years.
We also touched on topics such as wellness and how business owners can thrive in adversity.
Episode 26: Therapists Are Risk-Averse — Let's Change That [Featuring Jo Muirhead]
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Patrick Casale for his podcast
He makes it so easy to just talk among other things:
How health professionals are taught to be risk adverse
How this helps us clinically
But not so much Entrepreneurially
And I try, again, to explain test cricket to an American (he asked I swear)
Navigating the road of trauma with Rebecca Saunders
It was a pleasure to be a guest on Rebecca Saunders podcast sharing my own story of rehabilitation alongside the lessons I’ve learned from working with clients which motivated me with my own health recovery.
How to Do the Work You Love With People You Like
It was an honour to be invited on to Paul Wrights Practiceology Podcast and share my thoughts on something I’m incredibly passionate about: How to do the work you love with people you like.
This is a quick fire interview with 7 questions in 7 minutes. Phew. A lot of fun.
The Difference Between Clinical Thinking and Entrepreneurial Thinking
It is my passion to help health professionals do the work they love the way they love to do it with the people they are best able to serve.
The COVID era has provided us with both the NEED to embrace entrepreneurial thinking and also the opportunity to practice entrepreneurial thinking.
I was thrilled when Katie Cannon on Gold Medal Coaching invited me to be an expert on her virtual interview series. speaking into entrepreneurial thinking for health professionals, and why we need to let go of our fear of risk and embrace our superpowers as health professionals to help us manage uncertainty
The link between financial health and self care
Do you find yourself struggling with your relationship with money? This can lead to shame-spending and financial frustration! Just like you would set time aside for personal self care, you should also focus on your financial self-care. Setting a date with yourself to pour a glass of wine and figure out a sustainable budget can make the world of a difference.
Start a Therapy Practice Podcast with Scott Harmon
Here is what you will learn in my interview:
- The number one barrier for therapists who are just considering starting a private practice
- Why Jo doesn’t take or play the private insurance game
- How Jo helped implement an energy management training system that a corporation bought for $12,000
ZYNNYME: How to Set Your Fees in Private Practice
ZYNNYME: How to Set Your Fees in Private Practice
I had a chat with Kelly & Miranda of Zynnyme about the dreaded topic among health professionals: MONEY!
Moving Past Self Sabotage
How often do we do the same things expecting different results? In the interview Jo talks about: Her work and “Purple Co” which is an organization dedicated to helping people reinvent themselves – where a sense of purpose shows up in us and what happens when we ignore it – her personal experiences with self sabotage and burnout – where we’ve got “burnout” and “self care” all wrong – what she does to make her day a success and how she takes care of herself- her tips on how to begin leading a life with purpose and avoid the overwhelm that can show up for all of us. Jo has a wealth of knowledge and insight in her decades of working with her clients as well as her own personal struggles and successes.
Abundance Practice Building
Jo and her team also provide a range of career development and coaching services to professionals who are ready to explore change in their career and find the map towards career fulfillment.
Jo is Uber passionate about private practice. You should see the video on her home page of her website She loves to empower clinicians to build profitable and sustainable businesses through doing more of the work they love, the way they love to do it.
Brighter Vision: Making a 6 Figure Income in Your Cash Pay Practice
Brighter Vision: Making a 6 Figure Income in Your Cash Pay Practice
6 Figures. It’s a phrase and a financial goal that has a lot of emotional weight.
In the final episode of Brighter Vision’s mini-series on Becoming a Cash Pay Private Practice, we speak about how to make a 6 figure income off of a cash-pay private practice.
We discuss why making 6 figures is easier in private pay, specific strategies you should employ, and what kind of roadmap you should outline to accomplish the significant goal of making a 6 figure income in private practice.
Love Without Barriers: Rehabilitation Counseling with Jo Muirhead
Love Without Barriers: Rehabilitation Counseling with Jo Muirhead
As a rehabilitation counsellor, I often work with people facing chronic pain, illness and disability. One thing that we often forget to talk about in “vocational rehabilitation” is the role of family and how pain affects not only us, but our loved ones too. In this episode I talk to Stuart Fensterheim about pain, relationships and intimacy.
Let's Talk Creating Online Income Streams - Featuring Jo Muirhead
Jo shares insights to help you create a successful online income stream as a therapist in private practice.
We discuss:
- Why building income streams matter
- Some solid ideas for online income streams
- The mindset shifts you may need in order to be awesome at making and marketing a service or product.
- Some example stories of therapists that have built successful income streams.
- One thing you can do right now to start getting on the right track towards creating your online income stream.
Watch the video to get these multiple income stream insights and more. Session notes and links can be found below the video embed.
How to Deliver Excellence Through Your Work
Jo takes us through:
- Her background as a Rehabilitation Counsellor and her transition from employment to self-employment
- How she defines excellence as moving beyond compliance and prescription
- How Jo teaches businesses to embrace excellence
- She gives us her thoughts on people vs the paper trail
- Why you should be curious
- The value Jo derived from learning mediation
I give you a motivational quote from the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
The Practice of the Practice Podcast: Know Your Worth
Joe Sanok and I talk about knowing your worth in to grow your business.
Learn: how to never run out of work, why a specialty always works, and how to determine what you should do yourself versus what you need to recruit support for.
Why your videos, podcast episodes and blogs aren't getting the response you expected
I meet so many clinicians who have done blogging courses, pod-casting courses, video making courses and have spent hours and $$$$ on website copy only to experience lackluster results. These types of activities are immensely valuable , ONCE you have nailed who you are, who your ideal client is and how to speak to them in a way they can understand you.
Enjoy this fun conversation!