Allied Health Business Brilliance

This week’s focus is on the power of honest conversations and self-care in business. Those are truly two of the most powerful, impactful things you can do right now to further your life both professionally and personally. As business owners, many of us forget the other side of it all. There are many pieces to the puzzle, and taking care of ourselves makes up a big chunk of those pieces. I&rs...

I’m a firm believer that a clean space translates to a clear mind.  When was the last time you had some “thinking time”? I’m talking about real thinking time, where you can sit down with a calm, clear mind and reflect on many working parts within your business. Offload all the heaviness you’ve been carrying. Give your brain time to recalibrate.  It truly beg...

When was the last time you had a think about your summer programs? Summer revenue? Business during summer in general? Summer business activity is something you really need to start thinking about in September, and now that it’s October, what better time to get started?    There seems to be a lot of resignation about summer. Business owners appear to experience a combination of low...

This episode is very much an exploration of my ramblings on Stoicism and its Four Main Virtues, the notion of the locus of control, and how it all applies to you as a business owner.   Stoicism provides a sense of rationality through being able to take an objective view of problems. Another fabulous talking point is that of visualisation - negative visualisation, to be exact. The saying &ldqu...

If we choose to see the good, we will always see silver linings despite the circumstances. This is what Stephanie Schlencker has proven to us in running her business Spread the Word Services and current side hustle. You see, COVID did not stop this go getter from pursuing her goals. Aside from running her clinic, she extended her services to her home office, and has also started a side hustle deli...

Support for your clients should continue and strengthen especially during tough times.  But how do you lead your team in situations such as a pandemic to give their 100% to support your clients?  In this episode of the PPMP Podcast, I’ve invited Carly Treloar, Occupational Therapist and owner of Living Without Boundaries, to talk about how she is managing her team and business thro...

COVID-19 has made such impacts in our businesses - both negative and positive. It has been such a journey as we all acclimate to this business as new usual.  In this episode of the PPMP podcast, I’ve invited Lisa Hues, Founding Director of Occupational Therapy Helping Children in Sydney. She will be sharing her experience and how she and her team navigated through COVID-19, coming out w...

Recruitment is one of the most interesting and hardest parts of running an allied health business because so many business factors depend on it. I’m sure you’ll agree with me on this. All of us have tried one too many ways of recruitment, but it still remains a tough ball game. In this episode of the PPMP podcast, I share how you can learn a different but successful way to help you get...

How are you marketing your business in the time of COVID? In episode 155 of the PPMP Podcast, I have a conversation with Chris McCarroll, the Founding Director of Allied Health Marketing. He shares his expertise in creating content and messaging that connects with your audience, especially during this time. We also tackle the different platforms we can use to publish our content, how we can make o...

Many business owners will agree with me when I say that one of the hardest things in business is finding the best team members. When we successfully hire people we like and love working with, we need to take care of them to keep them in our team.  So my question to you today is - do you have a care plan for your team?  Setting up a team care plan is so important and you’re going to...

In this episode of the PPMP Podcast, I am so excited to bring on our guest Narelle Hypatidis who I’ve wanted to have on the show for so long. Narelle is the owner of Macarthur Paediatric Occupational Therapy in Sydney, Australia. She proudly describes herself as an accidental business owner. We talk about so much private practice goodness in this conversation.  We cover her business jou...

Are you constantly being asked questions by your team? Are you becoming a human encyclopedia? Most business owners see this as an everyday occurrence. Once you know it, so many minutes of your day have been taken away from the activities on your schedule that you have to complete on that day.  Every business owner aspires to have a high performing team who can think and make decisions for the...

How are you? In my conversations with allied health business owners throughout June and July, I have seen that most of them are generally tired and fatigued. So I want to ask you today, have you already booked your annual leave? As allied health business owners, we need to manage the fullness of our own cup in order to serve others. During these times, many of us have been working on sprint pace....

Today on the PPMP Podcast, I’ve invited Lisa and Ross Archer, founding directors of Strong Mind Psychology. Their practice provides psychology services to children, adolescents, and adults across their lifespan. There are heaps of gold nuggets throughout this conversation as we talk about starting their business and growing their team despite being rurally-based. They have a strong commitmen...

In this episode of the PPMP Podcast, I talk about critical thinking and why you need it in your business. I’ll be drawing on the incredible wisdom of Mr. Keith Cunningham and his book The Road Less Stupid. Critical thinking is a very strong and important concept that I’ve brought into my business. It is also one that I highly suggest to many business owners I work with. We’ll be...

In this episode of the PPMP Podcast, I’ve invited the founding directors of Red Frog for Families - Rochelle and David Appleby. It was such an interesting conversation where we talked about their family-centered business. It’s so refreshing to see practices like theirs, giving importance to teams, relationships and culture. It’s really an important factor to how their business an...

In this episode of the PPMP Podcast, I thought I’d share with you my thoughts on using practice management softwares especially at a time when you practically have to let your teamwork from home overnight. If it weren’t for these softwares, practices would probably have a hard time managing their businesses remotely. Customer service and allied health business are so much easier when y...

Allied health business practice owners sometimes have a hard time transitioning from client-facing to team facing. The experience and pivotal shift is different for everybody. For Charmaine Owen, director of Kids & Community, her realization came when she felt more challenged by thinking and more excited to see solutions rather than working face-to-face with clients. In this episode, we talk a...

As a business owner navigating through this pandemic, we know you have many, many questions going through your head. And as everyone, including allied health business owners, are going out of hibernation, there are a lot of things to be done to get ready for the next phase of business. It is a time when business owners like you are asking what you need to do about their business, your team, moving...

In this episode of the Private Practice Made Perfect Podcast, be inspired about running and scaling your private practice while having enough time for family and the things that matter the most. Be inspired by Emily Hayles’ story, a Physio who founded Move and Play Pediatric Therapy in Australia in 2015. Learn how she grew her private practice and her team while managing to have a 3-day work...

You can definitely manage your private practice the best way you want to and Power Diary gives you the ability to do that while growing and developing together with your business. In this episode, Australian Psychologist and Co-Founder of Power Diary, Damien Adler, gives us a rundown of the Power Diary’s best features that can help solve our practice management problems. We also discuss comm...

A few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic and we’ve seen remarkable changes in allied health businesses, its owners and teams. In this episode, we’ll be tackling the concept of living in our new normal.  I know that there are some allied health business owners who prepared pandemic plans, but a vast majority have not. I will share the top things you need to rethink and re-evaluate to...

2020 has definitely not been a year that we expected! And when we think about the survival of allied health business owners, teams, clients - our team at NACRE Consulting can’t salute you enough for all the work that you’ve achieved! We want to be able to continue supporting your growth through this time and that’s why we’re announcing something for you in this podcast! Epi...

In episode 140 of the PPMP podcast, Jack O’Brien and I have a conversation on the allied health industry amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic. Jack is the CEO of Clinic Mastery and host of the Grow Your Clinic podcast. Jack and I talk about the experiences of allied health businesses, the role that Telehealth plays, and the things we need to consider and expect amidst the crisis and moving fo...

Running a successful business isn’t a walk in the park and doesn’t happen overnight. For Emily Lively, Founding Director of Lively Eaters, it has taken her over 10 years for her to get to where she is today. In episode 139 of the PPMP Podcast, Emily tells us the story of her business journey. We talk about her experience with the NDIS, changing their business model, leading her team, w...