The Start Up Support Surgery

In this podcast we discuss difficult topics like burnout, money, imposter syndrome and hear some fantastic top tips. We can do hard things is my take home Katya statement. Hope you enjoy. To find out and connect with Jo: Business coaching and mentoring for Doctors | Jo-Watkins From 'Stethoscope to Start up' free PDF giving you the blueprint for getting started as a Medic becoming an entrepreneur....

An honest and frank reflection on her journey. Dr Alice Faulkner joins me to discuss how she is now working in the woods, gets a bit of an unwell feeling when I suggested a yoga studio and is a huge advocate of one of my favourite mantras. "Just send the email" Dr Alice Faulkner is an Locum Emergency Medicine Registrar who runs her own business called Yoga In The Woods. Alice is a Hatha, Vinyasa,...

Charlotte Ellis Maldari has spent nearly 20 years helping leading creative businesses find their ideal clients and build lasting authority. Charlotte believes you should establish yourself as the authority in your field, and then automate your outreach—so clients come to you, ready to invest. Charlotte and I met nearly a year ago through a group programme with Gemma Gilbert and I was fascinated ab...

Richard is an entrepreneur who is now supporting doctors on their entrepreneurial journey. In this episode we share our experiences of working with doctor and the struggles we have specifically around starting and scaling our businesses. We discuss vision, mission and values, establishing our authority and getting used to selling. There are so many transferable skills between medicine and business...

Kate Toon is honest, funny, straight talking and just the energy you need as you get started and moving in business. In this episode we talk about all things online business. Starting, scaling, funnels, social media, building an audience, offers, books, passive income and building the thingies. It's brilliant. More about Kate: Kate Toon is a British born business mentor and award-winning digital m...

Annie Padgett joins me this week on the Podcast. She is someone I have never spoken to before but we met last week on social media and we set up a call to chat. We decided to hit record. She is quite literally wonder woman. Annie has 4 businesses and is a GP Partner plus she is mum to 5 children under the age of 10. We connected on social media, sent some voice notes to each other and then jumped...

Dr Emma Presern is back for a second episode! We first spoke in Episode 9 of the first series which was recorded in March 2023. This was before Emma launched her first cohort of Rebellious Medics. Now she has navigated a successful launch and is about to go for the second cohort. Emma is a GP who has had a real journey. She has suffered with burnout and is now supporting others who feel the same. ...

Aileen Alexander is a medic who has done what so many medics hope to do. She's now running an incredibly successful online lifestyle medicine business with clients across the globe. In this episode we talk about how she started off on this path as a bit of an accident but has had the same struggles and hurdles as us all along the way. Pricing, imposter syndrome, failed launches… Her story will ins...

I can think of no better way to wrap up the first series of the podcast than with a case study episode from one of my founding members. Dr Sui Wong is an expert in her field. Working within the NHS and private sector splitting her time along with her research post and running a business… and writing books! She's amazing. In this episode Sui shares, warts and all, her journey into business. The hig...

Jo Randall is a website designer who create stunning and strategic Squarespace websites for savvy female service-providers who are ready to make an impact. She started out in design many years ago, but of a different kind (interiors), veered wildly off-path into the corporate world and recently returned to design, this time focused on websites, which feels like coming home for her. Jo spends most...

Something a little bit different today as we chat with a lawyer who lives and breathes the issues around Medics and GP's.   As Medics we tend to avoid lawyers like the plague.   Shanee Baker is a strong corporate commercial lawyer, having qualified at the Bar of England and Wales.   She has held a number of senior roles in large corporations including Capita PLC and the British Medical Association...

My guest today is Emma Today I am sharing something a bit different. People have been telling me to do a Podcast for a little while and I when we were in Canada during the winter I decided to just get on and DO it. So, I asked one of my clients, Emma Presern to be my first guest. She said yes and we hit record while I was in my Zoom office which is a switched off sauna while we are in Canada durin...

Chatting to Dr Rosie Khan is always a pleasure.   She is a calm, knowledgable and inspirational GP who has followed her gut and her own path out of full time GP and into a world that has given her skills such as coaching, NLP, hypnosis and lifestyle medicine.   Rosie gives an honest account of what it takes to move into the entrepreneurial space and shares her reflections. We discuss the use of AI...

Tanya Lynch is a therapeutic journalling coach and expert retreat facilitator.   Her company Ease Retreats specialises in collaborating with all sorts of authors, both well known and first timers on her writing retreats. She is most alive when supporting people in their journaling and making real life experiences rich and rewarding for others.   Tanya and I connected via Twitter over 9 years ago,...

Dr Rebecca Ryell, Bex,   is one of my clients yes, but more importantly, we go back a long way, she is a great friend and inspiration to me and my family.   Becs helped give us the push we needed to decide to take a year out and travel with the kids back in 2017 which led to me wanting to work more remotely to fit it around more travel in our lives.   Now, 7 years later she's on her own journey do...

I first connected with Rachel back in January 2018 when I went to a networking event at Allbrights in London. She was offering an online training programme to get people doing their first 10km run at the time and we connected as I was asking her about software.   She jumped on a call with me in August 2019 with me when I was weighing up my options and introduced me to Kajabi the software I continu...

Nerys has a story that every GP who wants to embark on an innovative service within their own practice, GP cluster or in a private capacity needs to hear.   In this discussion Nerys talks us through her own journey from securing some funding for a group NHS project through to running a successful online business for patients with pre diabetes and diabetes.   Nerys didn't wake up one morning wantin...

Well this is EXCITING! I figured that my first ever Podcast should be with one of my first ever members. Dr Sara Lou Wylie is a powerhouse of a Mum, GP and now an Overwhelm Coach to women up and down the country. When we connected she was just embarking on her journey and had started the Transformational Life Coaching Diploma with Tom Dillon. She jumped into The Start Up Support Programme and The...

This is a question I get asked over and over again. It is a minefield, a hot potato, a can of worms and every other possible analogy. Tracey Jones from Inspire to Outstand helps us understand a little more about the process and may well have the answer to any questions you have. Tracey has been on both sides of the CQC as she has her own aesthetics clinic and works now with a previous CQC inspecto...

Portia is innovative, relentlessly passionate about helping others and a pleasure to work with. Portia has been a part of The Start Up Support Programme and The Digital Doctor Membership for 9 months and has been on every twist and turn along the way. This interview tells us more about this and the mindset it took to keep going. Portia shares her sound advice and top tips and is always looking for...

The Start Up Support Surgery is a podcast to inspire medics and healthcare professionals who want to take their medical skills, passions or interests and start a business or side hustle alongside their busy day job and family life which creates flexibility and freedom along with a completely different way of helping people outside of the limitations we are all facing in the NHS today. Getting star...