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Send us Fan Mail Your initial exam can be shorter and still leave your patient feeling cared for.  In this episode of Better Skills, Better Doctors , I share the 12-minute consult with my knee surgeon that never felt rushed, and the coaching call where a client realized she was equating time with care.  You’ll hear how Parkinson’s law can help you set a shorter target for your intake, how to decid...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I talk about what to look at when growing your acupuncture practice has stalled, even though your strategy, messaging, and website are all dialed in.  When you’ve done the strategy and your results still aren’t moving, the only thing left is you. I explain how the survival mode that built your practice stops fitting as your busin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I talk about bringing creativity back into your acupuncture practice, and why the business side of your practice is where that creativity lives. I share how reading The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks helped me see that my years as a clinician in Boston were spent in my zone of excellence, and how building TCM Hub, Harmonize, and this po...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I talk about the fear of success in growing an acupuncture practice: the fear of it actually working. I share a Blueprint Call where a Harmonize student told Michael and me he didn’t need to be rich.  I also share a Fit Call with a practitioner who believed a busy clinic meant missing time with her kids, and a friend whose fear of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I share why lasting fulfillment in your acupuncture practice, and your life, starts with what you give yourself. I open with a scene from Yellowstone   and connect it to the way so many of us set goals, change our schedules, grow our revenue, and look to the people in our lives to finally make us feel relaxed, free, loved, or app...

Send us Fan Mail Choosing your next acupuncture continuing education course is about more than the skill you'll walk away with.  In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I talk about why the people in the room shape your growth as much as the curriculum does. Entrepreneurship in Chinese medicine can be lonely, and seminars are often the one place where people understand what you do....

Send us Fan Mail Click here to watch this interview on YouTube. What does growing an acupuncture practice look like when you design it around the life you actually want? On this special episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I sit down with Dr. Eileen Li, acupuncturist, clinic owner, and creator with over a million followers. Eileen shares how becoming a mom reshaped the way she practices, why...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of us were taught to start as general practitioners and earn a niche once we had enough experience. In this episode, I ask what happens when you flip that order. I share how my first-year idealism shaped the way I believed a practice had to be built, why general practice is the hardest business model to start with, and what came into focus when I specialized in orthopedics....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about a habit most practitioners don't know they have: answering the question "who are you" entirely from the past. Your history is a record of what happened. The moment you start letting it decide what's possible next, it becomes a ceiling. If this content and material resonates with you and yo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors . I'm talking about potential, and specifically why the gap between where you are and where you could be has very little to do with your capability. It starts at the gym, where I kept surprising myself lifting in kilograms, and only got nervous when I converted to pounds. The weight never changed. My thought about the number di...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what happens to your circle when you start doing well, why it happens, and how to shrink your world on purpose instead of letting other people's reactions shrink you. It starts with a coaching call where a client, fully booked through the end of 2026, told me she can't talk to her Chinese medicine c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about how I went from tiptoeing around sales and apologizing for it to genuinely loving it, and why that shift changed everything. I get into what's actually underneath the discomfort, why your attitude about sales is running your business whether you're paying attention to it or not, and what it means ab...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about why the wrong patients keep showing up, and why the answer has nothing to do with your location, your fees, or the economy. It starts with an Instagram comment, and it leads somewhere most practitioners don't want to go: your messaging is a filter, and you built it. The patients you're attracting ar...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about a set of behaviors that look like excellence from the outside and are quietly capping your growth from the inside. I'm calling it toxic femininity: the "I'll just do it myself" identity that built your practice and is now keeping it stuck at the size of one woman's capacity. I'm...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about a conditioning you've had since first grade and have probably never questioned: show up with the right answer, or don't show up at all. That rule made you an excellent clinician. It is also making growing your business really hard, because entrepreneurship doesn't have a right answer, and waiti...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the motivation dip that shows up for a lot of practitioners at certain points in the year, and why it's almost never the personal failing they think it is. I walk through the hunter and farmer framework: two modes every business owner moves between, why getting stuck in one of them leads to either burnou...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what actually happens right after you commit to a direction in your business, and why the thing that feels like a sign you got it wrong is very often the opposite. The moment you niche down, the wrong fit patients flood in. Your survival brain reads that as proof the decision was a mistake. I want to show you...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors . I'm talking about legacy, and I'm taking it somewhere you might not expect: your practice. It starts with a woman on Instagram facing the end of her life, and what she said about forgiveness, contribution, and what we leave behind. From there, I get into what it actually means to build a practice worth leaving behind, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors . I'm making the case that most practitioners are only doing half their job, and the half they're skipping is the one their business actually depends on. If all you're doing is treating patients and calling that a business, I want to offer you a reframe: your business is your most important client, and right now she&a...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking to the practitioners who decided somewhere along the way that they're just bad at marketing, and I want to make the case that they're wrong. Most marketing advice hands you one version: loud, on camera, always on. If that version drains you, I want to show you the one that runs without you. Regist...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors . I'm making the case that planning is not the opposite of freedom, it's the thing that creates it. Using my own story of paying off $142,000 in debt, I get into why most people resist planning, what it actually costs them, and why the chaos in your practice and your money almost never gets solved by changing your schedule...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about confidence: specifically, where it actually comes from and why waiting to feel ready before you act is the thing working against you. It starts with a story about the first offer I ever built, a program I sold while feeling like a fraud the entire time, and what that cost me. The real confidence gap, it turns...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors . I'm talking about a reflex that's showing up everywhere right now, and what it's actually costing you. It starts with Reddit, blocking people the second something feels uncomfortable, but the real conversation is about what that reflex looks like in your practice, your relationships, and your business, and why elimi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the "what if" question: what it actually is, why it feels like diligence but functions like fear, and how to stop letting it kill your ideas before they make it off the page. I introduce a tool I've been using on coaching calls called Disney Mode, a specific way to build a new offer or idea wit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what it actually takes to step into the future version of yourself, and why most practitioners refuse to do it. It starts with a story about a kid in a backyard who told me he was going to be an actor with zero doubt and no plan B. That kid is now Captain America, and the lesson has stayed with me ever since....