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The Best Niches Beyond Private Practice

This week I shared my thoughts on niching beyond private practice and at the end I gave you a small list of niches I think we need more of you to create programs and services around.

The Best Niches Beyond Private Practice

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Ask Annie: How Can I Build A Program? My Private Practice Is Full!

Ask Annie: How Can I Build A Program? My Private Practice Is Full!

Here’s the question I answered from a listener I’ll call Susan:

I pretty much constantly have a full caseload. I know that staying full and seeing this many people is burning me out. How do I find time to build a program with a full caseload? I'm really struggling on how to shift slowly out of private practice and into something more sustainable for my own mental health, while also being financially stable. I love my clients but it's exhausting. I hate telling people no, but I'm maxed out and turning multiple people away every week. I've spent the last couple weeks setting schedule boundaries of when I am and am not seeing clients.

Flip To Coaching With Dr. Lynyetta Willis

Flip To Coaching With Dr. Lynyetta Willis

When I was making a transition from private practice to this business, I did it pretty slowly. It wasn't until about 2015 that I fully put myself into what's now Rebel Therapist. In internet years 6 years is a long time.

My guest this week, Dr. Lynyetta Willis, made the flip all at once. She had a thriving private practice, and for reasons you'll hear in this conversation, she decided to flip completely into coaching all at once.

Living In This Queer Body With Asher Pandjiris

Living In This Queer Body With Asher Pandjiris

How do you move towards healing and liberation while creating the business of your dreams?

I wanted to explore this question with someone who centers these values in their work.

Asher Pandjiris is a white, queer, non-binary psychotherapist, parent to a human and two rescue pups, group facilitator and host of the Living in this Queer Body podcast. They live and work on stolen Nipmuc and Pocomtuc land.

Permission To Change Your Business With Caitlin Olsen

Permission To Change Your Business With Caitlin Olsen

My guest today made a move that opened the floodgates and helped her give herself permission to get more creative, honest, and courageous in her work.

That move was expanding from only having a therapy practice into also starting a coaching business.

As you're listening, ask yourself what you're longing to give yourself persmission to step into. I encourage you to take that longing seriously.

My guest is Caitlin Olsen, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as a coach. Caitlin is also working on a mental health memoir while building her online course library.

Creating An Edgy Business With Karen Wolfe

Creating An Edgy Business With Karen Wolfe

How would you do things differently the second time around?

I've talked a lot about the stages of a rebel business, meaning a business beyond the treatment room. In episodes 118 and 119 in February, I walked us through the things you might go through as a business owner during those stages.

This week I'm talking to a business owner who's already got one thriving business, and one business that's just starting out.

I wanted to delve into what she's experiencing differently and what she's doing differently with the benefit of knowing so much more the second time around.

I'm talking to Karen Wolfe, a therapist who specializes in working with parents and children, and with a newer focus that we're going to delve into right.....NOW.

It's called embodiment and sexual polarity.

Legal Matters With Elizabeth Potts Weinstein

Legal Matters With Elizabeth Potts Weinstein

As an entrepreneur creating a business beyond the treatment room, you're gonna have legal questions. I certainly can't answer them. I'm bringing you a podcast episode with someone who can: my own lawyer, Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Before we dived into her thoughts on your legal needs, I asked her about how she runs her own business: the systems she uses, the way she structures her time, and how she works with her team.

Then she shared some helpful and nuanced thoughts on what you need to take care of on the legal side.

Navigating Business As A New Mom With Narissa Harris

Navigating Business As A New Mom With Narissa Harris

I don't talk a lot about being a mom and an entrepreneur, and I've resisted identifying myself as a "mamapreneur." I've always worked with tons of business owners who are NOT parents, and I didn't want to pigeon hole myself in that particular way or to alienate folks who are not parents.

...But we are going there today in a big way. I'm talking to Narissa Harris, a therapist, writer, podcaster and cultural consultant. She and her husband Art cofounded Culture First, where they provide consultation and training around cultural awareness and sensitivity. Narissa and Art are the parents of a 1 year old. In this episode, we dive in and get real about what's working for her in building their company while also raising a tiny human together.

High Functioning Anxiety In Your Business With Nancy Jane Smith

High Functioning Anxiety In Your Business With Nancy Jane Smith

I deal with a lot of anxiety. Sometimes people don't know that because I usually appear calm. And I tend to get a lot done. I cope with my anxiety BY getting things done.

But my anxiety isn't only helpful. It's also kind of nasty.

I have an inner critic that speaks up when I'm anxious, and I don't like that. It hurts. Still, me and anxiety are such old friends, and we've gotten so much done together. My productivity is fueled by my anxiety.

How am I gonna give that up? Who would I be without anxiety? would I get anything done?

The work of Nancy Jane Smith has really helped me step out of this binary way of thinking about my anxiety and my productivity.

When I recorded this interview, I had just finished her book The Happier Approach. It's been a couple months now, I'm still using her concepts regularly, and they're helping. In fact the pandemic classification and shelter in place happened after we recorded this. So anxiety much? Yes! I'm glad to have read this book.

I appreciate how she shares her OWN journey with anxiety in this interview.

You'll also hear a lot about how she developed her unique message about high functioning anxiety and is building her company around that unique message.

Exponential Growth With Joy Harden Bradford

Exponential Growth With Joy Harden Bradford

When your business is growing fast, how do you manage it? Dr. Joy Harden-Bradford has grown Therapy For Black Girls in a big way over the past year. Her podcast reaches a big audience, and it keeps growing because she listens carefully, delivers high-quality content, and focuses on serving. I talked to Dr. Joy about what she’s learned over the past year and what she’s still learning.

Mindful Business Choices With Devona Snook

Mindful Business Choices With Devona Snook

You started your own business so that you could work the way you want to work. You’ve got a vision of how you’d like your business to work, but it’s easy to veer off course and make the wrong compromises. Devona as been careful to make all of her business decisions with her vision in mind. She’s created a business that allows her to do the clinical work she’s most passionate about and engage in a full life outside of the office. Listen as she talks about the practices she uses to stay on track and in balance.

Parenting And Business With Linda Shanti McCabe

Parenting And Business With Linda Shanti McCabe

Dr. Linda Shanti McCabe sees her roles as a parent and business owner as interconnected and always in motion. In this conversation we walk through some of the most challenging things about wearing both of those hats. We talk about finances, child care, time management, identity, and more. You’ll love how down to earth and honest Linda is about all of it.