Better Skills. Better Doctors.

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....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that high volume is not the only legitimate shape of a successful practice, and that the framing saying otherwise is doing real damage to this profession. I introduce the concept I've been calling "scale down to scale up": narrowing your focus, building specialized programs around specific ou...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm getting personal about who I used to be before any of this, and why that matters for you. I make the case that what looks like natural confidence or business ability is almost never that, and why the real reason most practitioners stay stuck is that they keep skipping the one category of work that actually moves the needle...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what actually happens to your practice when your day goes sideways, and why most practitioners have no plan for it. Using a real coaching call as the starting point, I get into why building your practice for the perfect day is a liability, what elite performers do differently, and how to create a simple if-th...

Send us Fan Mail Entrepreneurship brings up all your shit, and sometimes what's stopping you is harder to spot than you'd think. In this episode, I name the fear underneath every stuck place in your Chinese medicine practice: fear of rejection. Using a recent coaching call, I break down why your survival brain treats a cold pitch to a referral partner like a real threat, and how that ins...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm sharing a real coaching call where we work through three of the most uncomfortable patient situations practitioners face: the patient who won't follow your protocol, the new patient who's already a bad fit before she walks in the door, and the one whose payment situation is raising red flags. We cover how to have...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the trap that's built into the structure of Chinese medicine private practice, and why the qualities that make you an excellent clinician are often the exact ones working against your business. I get into why staying stuck has nothing to do with your strategy, your niche, or your marketing, and everythin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that trying to be everything to everyone is one of the most common and costly mistakes practitioners make in their businesses. Using a very real lunch experience at an overwhelmingly large menu restaurant as the jumping-off point, I get into why scattered messaging dilutes your value, why niching down actua...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm coming off knee surgery and keeping it short, but I had something on my mind worth saying. After a week of WAY too much scrolling, I kept running into the same pattern: people dismissing success stories as luck, privilege, or circumstance. I get into why that framing is both inaccurate and disempowering, and why taking ful...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that a packed schedule and a waiting list are not a mark of success: they're a sign you're undercharging. I walk through why the high-volume clinic became the profession's default image of success, why busyness is keeping so many practitioners trapped as employees in their own businesses, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I make the case that the Chinese medicine profession doesn't have an external problem, it has a business problem. I break down why 60 to 70% of licensed acupuncturists leave the field, why blaming the patriarchy or lack of insurance reimbursement misses the point, and why the women who dominate this profession are the ones who...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of  Better Skills. Better Doctors. I sat down with Tara Tonini who specializes in women's health and postpartum care.  Tara built a high-touch, in-home postpartum offering that blends TCM clinical care, herbal medicine, and specialized cooking, and she grew her package from $2,500 to $9,800 while hitting six figures within eight months of graduating.  We talk...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share what happened when I injured my knee right as my powerlifting training was peaking and how fast I spiraled into frustration, self-pity, and a full-on slump.  But this isn’t really about my knee. It’s about what happens when you commit to something meaningful, like building a practice, competing, growing your business, and then hit the part no one talks abo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I unpack why so many Chinese medicine practitioners struggle to say how much money they actually want to make, and why that hesitation is not a math problem but an identity problem.  We explore the cultural, professional, and gender-based money scripts that shape our relationship with wealth, why “I don’t want to be rich” is ofte...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I share a story from early in my career when I sublet out of two clinics and thought I was being smart by “hedging my bets.” What actually happened was predictable: split focus, slow growth, wasted energy, and no real momentum.  I unpack why trying to keep all your options open feels safe but is one of the most expensive mistakes...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I talk about the outsized power the one-star review holds in Chinese medicine and why fear of being disliked is quietly undermining clinical authority, boundaries, and self-respect.  I break down how people-pleasing masquerades as kindness, why running your practice like the hospitality industry erodes trust, and how making decis...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I talk about the rising sense of despair many people are feeling in response to the state of the world and why staying stuck in that despair doesn’t serve you, your patients, or your purpose.  I explore how our brains are wired to fixate on the negative, how media algorithms profit from that bias, and why giving equal airtime to...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. , I talk about why most people abandon their goals, often within weeks, and how to stop repeating that cycle.  I unpack the psychology behind vague goals, missing plans, and the fear of disappointment that leads so many practitioners to avoid goal-setting altogether. But the point of goals isn’t to have more. It’s to become more. I...