How do I find clients I actually enjoy? How do I make more money without feeling guilty? Can I run a private practice and still have a life? These are just some of the questions long time psychotherapist, group practice founder, and serial entrepreneur Wendy Pitts Reeves tackles each week on The Ideal Practice Podcast.Here, you’ll learn how to create your version of an Ideal Practice that serves you as well as you serve your clients. Learn how to think like a marketer, attract clients you lo ...
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#151. When Your Business Calls You Forward: How to Turn Courage to Confidence
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41:38Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Growing a successful private practice takes a lot more than a nice office and some cool posts on Instagram or a brief profile in Psychology Today. It takes courage - and lots of it. There have been countless times when I knew I wanted to go somewhere with my practice that would require me to step up…
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#150. How Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs Can Learn to Love Networking, with Melissa Snow
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1:22:31Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! “There’s no such thing as a solopreneur.” That’s what Melissa Snow said to me when we first met to discuss her possible appearance on the podcast. And just like that, I was hooked. Her point? She went on to explain that our network is our strength, and finding ways to build deep connections with oth…
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#149. How to Use "Profit First" in Your Private Practice, with Shannon Simmons
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1:08:36Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Okay, friends, let’s have a conversation that could change your entire relationship with money in your practice. 🧐 I’m thrilled to bring you my conversation with the fantastic Shannon Simmons. Shannon is the owner of “Fit For Profit”, a company dedicated to helping health and wellness professionals …
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#148. My Top 3 Energy Tools for a Thriving Practice (and Life!)
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45:07Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! If you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time, then you know that I’m just as likely to talk about how your sun sign affects your practice, as much as your marketing strategy does, right? But today, I thought I’d go a little deeper. A little more personal. I thought maybe it was ti…
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#147. Why You're Stuck (and How to Finally Break Free) with Riana Malia
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1:20:53Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Listeners - I’ve got an episode here that could genuinely shift things for you … 😲 We’re meeting the inspiring Riana Malia today. Riana is a dynamic speaker, author, and reinvention strategist who specializes in helping ambitious women clear out the subconscious patterns holding them back so they ca…
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146. I Had No Idea How Important a Professional Will Was - And Then I Met Robyn Miller.
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1:19:35Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Okay, y’all, today we're digging into a topic we often push aside. We talk a lot about what it means to build an Ideal Practice(c), attracting perfect clients, doing the work we were called to do... but what happens to all of that – and more importantly, to our clients – if the unexpected happens to…
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145. How to Ditch Tax Panic Once and For All - Steal These Dead-Simple Strategies
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23:13Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Well, it's tax time here again in the US, my friend. 💸 So - how are you feeling? Are you sitting back, cool, calm, and collected because everything's handled? Yay you! 😎 Or... are you maybe feeling that familiar knot of stress, scrambling at the last minute, worrying about having the funds to cover …
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144. Build Your Money Dream Team: Who You Need & Why – with Danielle Hayden
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1:15:25Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! We talk a lot about hiring help for your business here on the Ideal Practice© podcast, but we haven’t talked yet about getting help for your finances. So today - as we’re knee deep in tax season 😵💫- let’s start with a look at who you need to have on your money team. (Did you even know you needed a …
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143. Simple Steps To Overcome Burnout: An Inspiring Conversation With Christina L. Woods
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1:11:51Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Do you ever find yourself feeling a little, you know, frayed around the edges? If so, you’ll love what I have for you today, because I’m talking to the lovely Christina L. Woods, as we dig into the topic of burnout. 😵💫 Christina is a hypnotherapist and coach who helps exhausted, overwhelmed, powerf…
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142. A 10 Step Process That Will Change The Way You Connect With Your Dream Clients
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40:41Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Hey there everyone! Have you ever wondered why some clients light you up 🤩, while others leave you drained 😒? That happens because we, as healers, often feel like we can help anybody. But that doesn’t mean we should help everybody. Here’s the thing … I guarantee you will be better at helping some cl…
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141. Do You Really Need To Be On Social Media? The Truth Might Surprise You...
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34:40Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Hey there, folks! A LOT of my coaching clients really struggle around social media and marketing. They feel like they need to show up constantly… They worry about how to show up and what to post. And that doesn’t begin to cover the challenge of where they should be… Instagram? Facebook? LinkedIn? Ti…
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140. Unpacking The Power of True Connection: A Deep Dive With Gary Katz
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1:14:16Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! You’re in for a real treat today, folks, as we take a deep dive into what it means to cultivate true connection with our clients, with our colleagues… And with ourselves. I am SO thrilled to share this episode with you, where I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Gary Katz, founder of the Cen…
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139. Three Operational Pillars to a Profitable (and Enjoyable!) Private Practice
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36:51Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Did you catch last week's episode where we talked about the first 3 pillars that lay the foundation for an Ideal Practice? If you didn’t, I think it will help if you listen to that episode first. Check out Episode #138. Just be sure to come back here afterwards so you can get the rest of this oh-so-…
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138. Laying the Right Foundation: A Deep Dive Into 3 Pillars of an Ideal Practice
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43:38Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today, my friends, we’re diving into something really important … how to lay the foundation for a thriving, successful, sustainable private practice. If you’ve been doing this for a while, you already know that success isn’t just about getting more clients. It’s about building a practice that actual…
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137. Why Your Word Of The Year Could – And Should – Make You Uncomfortable
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44:06Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! So, hey, that whole ‘word of the year‘ thing … Do you do that? Did you pick out a Word to guide you through the year?? And now for some real talk …. Do you remember what it was?? If you answered “no“, you’re not alone. That’s why we’re going to talk about choosing your word of the year today - becau…
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136. Welcome Back! A Personal Message on Where I've Been, and Where We're Headed
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31:08Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Returning to the podcast after a longer-than-expected mid-winter break, I’m excited to share with you guys some of what I’ve been up to, a decision I’ve made, and where the podcast (and my practice) is going from here. While we’re at it, I also have a few thoughts about how to navigate the intense e…
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#135. Navigating “The Great In-Between” With Grace: A Message for New Year’s Eve
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18:40Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Well, Happy New Year, everyone! 🥳 As we say goodbye to the year that has been, and step forward into who we are becoming, I wanted to share a bit of inspiration with you. (Someone special once shared this with me at a time when I really needed it, and I’ve been passing it along ever since.) Here’s t…
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#134. Mindset Expert Kimberly Spencer on How to Clear Unconscious Beliefs for Lasting Success
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#133. One Last Step Before 2024 Ends: Why You Need to Celebrate Your Wins This Year
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28:09Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! The end of 2024 is fast approaching, my friends - but we’re not done just yet! Today, I’m inviting you to take some time to reflect on all that you’ve accomplished over the past 12 months. And I don’t want you to blow this off… Because here’s the thing: Learning how to recognize and honor your ongoi…
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#132. Your 5 Step Plan for Making More Money Next Year (or Even Next Week!)
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28:57Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Well, it’s that time, folks. The year is drawing to a close, things are winding down, and it's almost time for the holidays. 🌲🧑🎄 As you look back on 2024, what comes up for you? Did you hit the income goals you set for your practice this year? If so, that’s fantastic and I am so excited for you! Bu…
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#131. Use Your Website to Attract Dream Clients 24/7, with Whitney Bateson
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1:19:35Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Oops! Can’t believe I haven’t already covered this oh-so-important topic already on this podcast. Gonna fix that today. 🤨 Today we’re talking websites - and there is a LOT here for you. I’m speaking with Whitney Bateson on how to turn your website into a 24/7 marketing system. Whitney began as a die…
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#130. Want to Make 2025 Your Biggest Year Yet? Start With These 5 Questions
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38:50Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Hey there - are you planning BIG things for your private practice in 2025? If so, you'll love what I've got for you today. 😍 I'm sharing 5 clarifying questions to help guide your success next year. Whether you’re a planner, or you like to figure things out as you go, taking the time to think through…
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#129. Next Year Has Already Begun. Here's How to Start Getting Ready Now.
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24:30Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! FIRST: a quick head's up. In this episode, one I've pulled from the archives because it is THAT good, you'll hear that I was talking about an upcoming workshop that I held in December of 2024. Ignore that date, because that was, uhm, so last year. 😉 (I made a few tweaks to the audio to try to fix th…
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#128. Are You the Visionary Your Business Needs? A Conversation with Brie Chrisman
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1:21:50Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! You’re reading this most likely because you’re the owner of a private practice (or you’re heading that way.) How do you think of yourself? An entrepreneur? A small business owner? Or a CEO? (Erm, Wendy … aren’t they the same thing?? 🤔) Well no - they’re not - and that’s what we’re going to dive into…
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#127. 10 Ways to Lean In Before the End of the Year and Finish Strong!
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25:36Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I have something for you to think about today, folks … Are ya feeling kind of ready to switch off and grab a little downtime? After all, it’s almost the holiday season and let’s be honest … nothing much happens at this time of year, right?? 🌲 I get that. But what if - instead of stepping out - you l…
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#126. Private Practice Need a Little Clean Up? Use the 7 Pillars to Get Unstuck.
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29:52Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Now that we are fully into the 4th quarter of the year, I want to ask you something … How are all those cool ideas and big intentions you had back at the start of this year panning out for you? Are you right on track, smashing your goals like a rockstar? Or have things gotten a little …flat? 😬 If yo…
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#125. How Learning About Human Design Can Help You Reach Success More Naturally
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1:14:43Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Success doesn’t have to be so hard. In fact, my guest this week, Mel McSherry, says that when we understand our true nature, we can design our business (and all that goes with it) in ways that will come MUCH more easily. (Her own story about how she figured that out for herself was really interestin…
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#124. Learn How to Embrace Uncertainty (and Watch Your Practice Thrive)
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24:56Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today on the podcast, we're talking about what it means to thrive on uncertainty. Because like it or not, that's pretty much what life as an entrepreneur is all about. But oh my gosh, once you can get comfortable being uncomfortable, amazing things start to happen for you... Honestly, I’ve seen it s…
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#123. Finding Your Wise Tribe: The Power of Peer Support in Entrepreneurship
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28:37Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Let’s face it. Running your own business can be exciting, challenging, empowering... - and lonely. And if you’ve been in practice for a while, you know what I mean when I say that friends and family – unless they are entrepreneurs themselves – may have trouble understanding what it’s like to stand i…
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#122. 5 Steps to Get Back On Track When Life Throws You Lemons
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30:29Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today’s episode is a little different, my friends. I want to share some things with you that I don’t normally talk about here on the Podcast. I want us to talk about what to do when life throws you lemons, what to do when all those carefully laid plans we make don’t work. It happens to all of us. (S…
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#121. Are Your Thoughts Holding You Back? Let's Change That Right Now.
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31:52Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today on the podcast, I want to talk about THE thing that holds most of us back. Our thoughts. It’s such an important topic y’all, because here’s the thing … Your sense of satisfaction, your sense of well-being, your joy, and literally your success all come down to the way you think. Period. As entr…
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#120. How Will AI (& Other Tech) Change Therapy? A Fascinating Conversation With Amity Cooper
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1:22:00Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Doesn’t it feel like AI is everywhere all of a sudden? I can be a bit of a nerd sometimes. (You know I geek out over productivity tools.🤓) And I think it could help to learn more about this - but where do you even start? Well, today’s guest can help. She challenges us to lean in and embrace AI and o…
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#119. Is Your Business Calling You to Grow? How to Know and What to Do Next
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27:22Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I have something for you to think about … I believe that running a business and growing your private practice is really kind of a spiritual practice. 🤔 I say that because building a business will challenge you to grow in ways that you didn't even know you needed, and it will call you forward to be y…
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#118. 7 Common Marketing Mistakes (That You're Probably Making Right Now.)
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34:31Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! One of the hardest lessons we have to learn when we start a private practice is that we actually have to market ourselves. 😬 Now, I don't know about you, but I sure didn't take any marketing classes in grad school. And at the time, I wouldn’t have wanted to! But I know better now. And I know that th…
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#117. How to Build Visibility and Connection via Video: A Conversation with Faith Dey
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1:16:30Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! OK guys, let’s talk about something that freaks you out. 😱. No, it's not money. Today, we're turning to that OTHER thing that freaks us all out … being on camera. Eeeeek!! 😰 But seriously, as uncomfortable as this might seem, putting yourself out there is an essential part of growing your Ideal Prac…
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#116. Finding Your Why: A Deep Dive into How Purpose Fuels Business Success
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36:05Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. - Simon Sinek Simon Sinek is known for having one of the most watched TED Talks in the history of that platform. Have you seen it? If so - then you’ve probably heard this quote before. He’s right. And today on the podcast, I want to take a closer…
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#115. 5 Common Pricing Mistakes That Therapists Make (And What To Do Instead)
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25:39Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Hey there, everyone! So, for the past few weeks, I have been talking a lot about packages. Way back in episode #95, we talked about why adding packages can help to grow your practice. In #112, I showed you how to craft a service-based package for your repeat clients. In #113, I gave you a full blown…
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#114. How Meditation Can Make You a Better Clinician - An Interview With Tania Ho
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1:05:05Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I am very, very excited about today’s episode, my friends. This topic is near and dear to my heart, and it’s something that I think we all need desperately. Today we’re talking about the importance of having a sacred practice in your life … finding a way to reconnect with your own soul, your own hea…
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#113. How to Design a Perfect Signature Package for Your Private Practice
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36:20Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Hey folks, I want you to think about something for a minute. Just imagine if there was a way to … Offer more to your clients and help them get better results. Build loyalty, establish a deeper connection, and build an ongoing relationship with them at the same time. Stabilize your workflow and your …
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#112. Packaging for Profit: How to Boost Your Revenue and Strengthen Cash Flow with Packages
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29:36Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Hey there, everyone - Today we are talking about packages … what they are, how to add them to your business, what they should include, and much, MUCH more. If you have an insurance-based private practice and you’re eager to make the shift to private pay, you’ll love this episode, because we are goin…
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#111. How Therapist Kim Lange Used Digital Products to Build Her Ideal Practice
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1:16:32Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I have a treat for you today, folks. I’m talking to someone who has perfected the art of building her very own Ideal Practice©, and her story is nothing short of inspiring. 🥰 I’m talking to Kim Lange, a former teacher, child and adolescent therapist, and now digital product creator and mentor. In th…
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#110. My Favorite Tools to Power Up Your Productivity
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45:18Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Can you believe it folks? We are HALFWAY through the year already! 😱 So how are things tracking for you? How are you doing with the goals you set back at the beginning of the year? Have you accomplished some of them? All of them? None of them? Or - maybe some of those goals don’t quite fit anymore, …
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#109. 7 Stages of a Client’s Journey (& Why You Need a System for Each)
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29:31Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that I talk often about the 7 Pillars of an Ideal Practice©, that is, what it takes to build a thriving, healthy private practice … Purpose, People, Product, Process, Payment, Promotion, and Perspective. Well, today I want to talk about the one Pillar t…
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#108. Why Authentic Marketing is Your Superpower: A Conversation with Mika Ross
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1:17:06Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! If there’s one topic that makes us all break out in hives at the thought of it, it’s marketing. 😵 Marketing is such an essential part of any successful practice, but for a LOT of you, I know the concept itself just brings up images of used car salesmen out to run a scam. Yeah ….yuk!! 😬 BUT - my fri…
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#107. The Harder Side of Owning a Private Practice (and How to Handle It)
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23:30Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! In this week's episode, we'll take a look at the hard side of owning a business. As you'll hear in the passage I share from one of my favorite books, "The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur" by Christine Kane, business is hard - but not because of all the strategies you have to learn or the sales you have to…
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#106. The One Thing We All Struggle With - and a Surprisingly Simple Fix
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37:37Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I want to get real for a moment folks. I want to talk about one aspect of growing a private practice that we all struggle with at one point or another. It’s so exciting in the beginning, when you first get out from under the thumb of your employer and start your very own practice. There you are - ru…
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#105. Can Astrology Actually Help You Build Your Ideal Practice? A Conversation With Taylor Shuler
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1:23:03Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today we're going to talk about something a little different … Astrology. I know some of you will roll your eyes at this. 🙄 And some of you will absolutely lean in (Hello there, Pices!). 🤩 But I encourage ALL of you to listen because there is so much more to this topic than checking a horoscope in t…
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#104. The True Cost of a Non-Ideal Client: What You Need to Know
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43:44Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! You have a big heart, and I know you feel like you could help almost anyone in your private practice. But that idea, as lofty as it is, just isn’t true. The truth? There is a cost to working with those who aren’t a good fit for you. And in this episode, we’re talking directly about what that cost ac…
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#102. Pay Attention to Your Money - and Watch It Grow: A Conversation with Jacquette M. Timmons
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1:18:19Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! We’ve talked a lot about money stories here on the Ideal Practice© podcast. But today, I want you to dive a little deeper into your own money story. I want you to think about how your money makes you feel. For example: Do you feel energized when you think about your finances? 🤩 OR…do you feel stress…
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#101. 7 Marketing Mistakes You Don't Want to Make
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28:11Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Have you ever walked into a favorite coffee shop or lunch spot and instantly felt at home? You know what I mean. The atmosphere is just what you need right now, the food is great and the service is top of the line. It feels SO good to find just what you want, and need, doesn't it? That's the power o…
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