Allied Health Business Brilliance

Today in the podcast we talk to Paul Dunn, chairman of B1G1 and a speaker and mentor for entrepreneurs globally. B1G1, a social enterprise, is a global movement that helps businesses become giving businesses. This non-profit organization helps small- and medium-sized businesses embed giving activities in their everyday business operations and transactions to create lasting social impact and transf...

Today in the podcast we talk with Madeline Avci, an occupational therapist and founder of Jump Up for Kids . Jump Up for Kids is a specialised child-centered development service that supports children through their programs, Jump Up Therapy and Jump Up Outdoors. Jump Up Therapy is Occupational Therapy that provides support, knowledge, skills, and abilities to parents and children in a positive and...

Today in the podcast we talk with Marijn Kortekaas, Senior Manager and Head of Asia Pacific for Physitrack . Physitrack is a cloud-based patient to client engagement solution used by 25,000+ healthcare practitioners with over 1.5M patients in 102 countries. With Physitrack healthcare practitioners better engage patients and help them achieve better outcomes. What is covered in this episode: How Ma...

Today on the podcast we talk to Jacqui Pretty,  Founding CEO of Grammar Factory . Grammar Factory is a publishing company that works with small business owners and leaders, entrepreneurs, health practitioners, topic experts, and turn their knowledge into published books. What is covered in this episode: The reason people put off writing a book Ways to manage the fear or hesitation of starting...

Today in the podcast we talk with Jo Muirhead, the founding director of the Purple Code. Purple Code is a company that helps people return to work following illness, injury and trauma and works with the tagline “Purpose for People.” What is covered in this episode: The story of how and why Purple Code was born Importance of sense of work and contribution for people People in her busine...

Today in the podcast we talk with Emma Price, founder of Source Kids. Source Kids, founded in 2014, is a multi-channel resource magazine for parents and carers who are raising children with disability. What is covered in this episode: Emma’s inspiration in building this business Range of channels where Source Kids information is available How Source Kids has grown over the course of 4 years...

Today on the podcast we chat with lawyer and author Jeremy Streten from the Business Legal Lifecycle. No matter what the size your practice is, you must pay attention to the legal aspects right from the start. If you don’t take care of your legal obligations and plan for the inevitable problems that will surface, you will be exposing yourself to additional stress as a private practice owner....

Today on the podcast we talk with Melbourne based clinician and private practice owner Dee Wardrop .   What is covered in this episode: How one family helped Dee to start her speech therapy business The juggle of balancing a family and starting an allied health business Highlights of her business development of the last 10 years that has led to currently 12 staff and 3 sites The importance of...

Today on the podcast we talk with Amanda Abel, founder of Northern Centre for Child Development (NCCD), a multidisciplinary paediatric practice in Preston Melbourne. Amanda has over fourteen years’ experience as a psychologist working with families and has a special interest in paediatrics, autism spectrum disorders, developmental delays, learning difficulties, disabilities and behaviour man...

Today on the podcast we talk with Tara Stafford who is the founder of Learning Links Speech Pathology about her start up journey of the last 2 years.   What is covered in this episode: Rebranding and the ups and downs of opening new clinics over the last 12 months. The steps and modelling she did in the planning phase and how that has led to rapid growth. How she came up with the business nam...

Today on the podcast we talk with Sandra D’Souza, author of Social Media for Baby Boomers and CEO of social media and marketing agency Curate Bee .   What is covered in this episode: Social media tips for the allied health professionals Why it is important to understand how your customers use Facebook The struggles Sandra faced 8 years ago to find information online when researching her...

Today on the podcast we talk with Steven Whittington, Chief Product Owner from coreplus . coreplus is an Australian online e-health practice management software that’s accessible anywhere, anytime saving time and money for their users. What is covered in this episode: How coreplus got started and the impact the cloud has had on the uptake of the software Developments in the last 6 months of...

Today on the podcast we talk with Ingrid Cole from Everyday Independence . Based in Victoria, Everyday Independence supports children, adolescents and adults living with disabilities to improve their independence in everyday life through the provision of occupational therapy, speech pathology and physiotherapy     What is covered in this episode: What Ingrid learnt going 'back on the too...

My superstar guest this week is the founding director of Pro-Assist, Karina Follent. After embarking on her journey as a virtual assistant and finding that the market was peppered with talent and often hard to break into, she stumbled on her niche. Commencing work with a physiotherapist she discovered the lack of support available in the virtual space for allied health professionals. Thus, Pro-Ass...

This week’s super intelligent and talented guest is the founding CEO of Cliniko, Joel Friedlaender. Joel has a background in software development and has been introduced to private practice by his partner. His partner is an Osteopath and was becoming increasingly frustrated with the practice management software options available. She suggested to Joel that he spend a few months creating some...

My very remarkable guest this week is Maria McKenzie, founding director of Adaptive Abilities and Hartley Knows. She has been working in the Private Practice space for 19 years, starting out ‘very part-time’ as a sole trader while on maternity leave. She gradually grew her business as her children got older to move into working with schools and in rooms with other private practitioners...

This week’s exceptional guest is the Founding Director of Same View, Danny Hui. Danny is developing the Same View App to give families of those with a disability a collaborative platform to manage their care teams. The idea for this app came from his own experience with the stresses of managing a loved one’s care. Danny has a background in engineering, emergency and disaster management...

My very experienced and talented guest this week is Founding CEO of One on One Children’s Therapy, Sue Marden. Sue was the first mobile Speech Pathologist in Sydney’s eastern suburbs when her private practice journey began 27 years ago. Sue started her business when she was 6 months pregnant and by the time her son was born was already at a full case load. With baby number 2 the busine...

My trailblazing guest duo this week are the founding directors of Therapy Connect, Sue Cameron and Simone Dudley. Sue Cameron a Speech Therapist and Simone Dudley an Occupational Therapist met online. They are both located in rural, Australian communities, married to famers and share a passion for providing therapy to those that aren’t able to access it as easily as those in metro areas. The...

My dynamic guest this week is the Founding Director of Melbourne Child Development, Robyn Stephen. Robyn is a pioneer of private practice in Melbourne. Starting out, like most of us, from her own home as Robyn Stephen and Associates she has grown to a multi-disciplinary practice in her very own building. With the assistance of some innovators in the private practice space and her husband as her bu...

My guest this week is the super savvy founder of Allied Health Marketing, Chris McCarroll. Allied Health Marketing looks after allied health professionals in a marketing capacity. While Chris is the first to say that he is not a business coach but in fact a service that sits between the business and business coach developing marketing strategies and offering a range of solutions to grow the busine...

My incredible guest this week is the founding director of Occupational Therapy Helping Children, Lisa Hughes. Lisa Hughes is a Paediatric Pioneer when it comes to private practice. An extremely talented Occupational Therapist she opened her first private practice in 1994 on Sydney’s northern beaches, when most were working in the public health sector. Like most allied health professionals, s...

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My guest this week is the true wild card of the Private Practice Secrets Podcast, Jacinta McMahon. Jacinta McMahon is the founder and director or Learning Fundamental, a centre for children with a variety of learning difficulties. What makes Jacinta, a wild card? Her background is primary teaching, rather than allied health! Jacinta started as a primary school teacher in the catholic education sys...

My guest this week is Rebekah Fraser speaking to us from Auckland, New Zealand. I met Rebekah coming up on one year ago on a trip to Cambodia where we were invited as coaches, to work with a social enterprise start-up. Rebekah has since founded her own business, The Back to Work Coach, supporting mums on their journey back into the work force. Rebekah has an interesting background, starting with c...