Compassionate Climb

In honor of Ring Rx renewing their sponsorship of the show, I am replaying the episode where I interview Doug Parent, the CEO of Ring Rx, a HIPAA compliant telephone, text, and fax communication platform. He shares his start in the family business which was a call center for healthcare providers. He describes the start and growth of the company, what sets them apart, and upcoming enhancements. I h...

Mary Dibble is a life coach who helps busy moms live better lives by prioritizing themselves and their needs, allowing them to show up fully not just for themselves but others, too.  Her life started with adversity that taught her a great deal of resilience. Growing up with financial insecurity with a single mom and an absentee father, she had low self-esteem and felt like she was desperate for at...

Leslie Kuny is a dance educator of over 20 years who also works as a choreographer and adjudicator in the dance world. In this week’s episode, she shares her experience with leaving a business partnership and how important it is for values to be in alignment. She explains how she started working on a dance studio with a colleague right during the beginning of COVID, how she came to realize that sh...

Meet Brenda Meller, owner of Meller Marketing and LinkedIn coach who helps business owners, job seekers, and those looking to market themselves and network get “more of the LinkedIn pie”. While she started in corporate marketing, she quickly found a niche for herself with a side hustle helping people market themselves on social media and doing speaking events. After her position was eliminated at...

Meet Nick DeCourcey, an LICSW who recently started his private practice, Aspirations Counseling, and is transitioning full-time! His career climb has been fueled by a desire to work within his values. After getting his MSW, he began working in outpatient community mental health but felt that there was a misalignment in his views of helping clients compared to the agency which led him to consider p...

Julia has made mention of the Enneagram in several episodes so it was time to give it a full one! Julia provides an overview of the nine types, wings, and triads, shares how this model of the human psyche has been transformative in her self-development journey, and how she incorporates with her team. Julia provides Enneagram trainings to team to improve communication and enhance relationships. If...

Meet Brianna Pelletier, the Director of Operations at Compassionate Counseling Company. She shares her career climb from obtaining her Bachelor's in Psychology to working as a practice manager, and her decision to return to school for her Master's Degree. She reflects on her journey with the practice over the past year and a half, from her start as an Administrative Assistant to her promot...

Sabrina Trobak is a counselor who works with clients to get to the bottom of their core beliefs to help them challenge and manage their anxiety. As a child, Sabrina always wanted to be a teacher, and ending up doing this for 20 years. When she was suddenly put into an administrative position, she had to attend graduate school to continue in that role. While she had no interest in administrative wo...

Meet Jenny Cheifetz, a life and breathwork coach at Jentle Coaching who went from running a food truck to finding herself in a dark mental space during the pandemic. Finding that with nothing to keep her as busy, she was forced to deal with her internal demons led to her being deeply unhappy. She found spiritual life coaching through Kismet and the positive impact on her inspired her to do the sam...

Meet Dedee Cai, an entrepreneur who has found success in coaching and business development. She did all of the things expected of a first-generation immigrant: do well in school and get a great job, but it didn’t make her happy. Running a restaurant with her mother helped her find community, but it was also burning her out. Her wake up call came when she was on vacation in Venice and found herself...

Meet Laura Rippeon, a licensed clinical social worker and self-identified introvert who also runs a coaching business, Aspire Coaching and Consulting. After graduating with her master’s degree, she worked in community mental health, for non-profit organizations, and even worked with insurance companies for a time. Eventually, she found herself in a group private practice where she was able to obse...

Meet Gill Brabner, an executive coach and founder of Resound Training and Development where she uses forum theater workshops to help employees solve workplace problems. She uses the ECA (Empathy Care Action) model to foster compassion. In this episode she shares advice for being an effective leader. Key takeaways: -when meeting with your team members, ask "what really matters to you right now?" -e...

As we continue this series of consulting episodes with practice owners considering expanding to group, we are joined by Irene Faioes, a therapist in Rhode Island who owns All Family Wellness. She asks how to determine whether to hire contractors or employees, how to ensure clinicians are fulfilling the expectation, and how to achieve her income goals. Learn more about Irene: https://allfamilywelll...

Meet Amy Sanders, a serial entrepreneur who currently owns 5 businesses, one of which is a coaching business where she helps women inspire, transform, and thrive. She self-identifies as a recovering people-pleaser who married a man after 3 weeks because she did not want him to feel bad. She shares her process for helping women thrive and the factors that contribute to her own ability to thrive. Ke...

Today we are kicking off a series of consulting episodes with solo practice owners who are considering what it might look like to expand to a group practice. For more conversations like these, join Julia this summer for Master Your CEO Mindset starting this July 11th! It is a 6 month program with weekly meetings covering all aspects of successfully transitioning to group practice, with focus on le...

Meet Libby Murdoch, a therapist and trainer. While focusing on her own mental health with an EMDR therapist, Libby jumped straight into private practice. Just a year later, when her husband was relocated for work, she set the private practice to the side and joined a group practice where she not only learned the ins and outs of owning a practice, but also became an EMDR Basic Trainer. She has sinc...

Meet Lisa Desforges, co-founder and chief operating officer of Echodify, a tech startup that she and her brother created. Lisa had many stops along her career climb, but the time she spent at the Four Seasons had the greatest impact on the core values that she holds today. As you interact with Echodify, you’ll see their values in play; service is a joy, integrity is absolute, privacy is their duty...

Meet Lisa Duez, the owner of  Turning Point Counseling, a group practice in the Virginia Beach area. Recently Lisa organized her first conference, the Clinician Connection, alongside her clinical director. She shares what she learned along the way and is planning on this being a yearly event. Key Takeaways:  -Make sure you and the hotel are on the same page about everything -Know your audience and...

Meet Laura Hulleman, a small business owner and creator of the Endotype Personality System. Along her climb, Laura has started more than 5 successful small businesses. In her second to last business, a personal training studio, she started to weave in aspects of personal development, which soon opened the door to the life coaching industry. Since then, Laura has developed the Endotype Formula Pers...

Meet Layci Nelson, president of the Transcend Leadership Collective, a leadership and communication consultancy. One of the stops on her career climb was as a director of youth services for a major nonprofit; at the age of 26 she was leading a team of 18 plus and managing a multi-million dollar budget, but didn’t feel as though she had the leadership skills necessary for a healthy team. Layci was...

Meet Matthew Joseph, creator of Noveltor, a therapy tool designed for therapists to easily engage clients between sessions. Matt has always had a desire to intersect the overlap between entrepreneurship and mental health. As he interviewed therapists to determine some of the biggest challenges they faced, he found that therapeutic homework was an area that often wasn’t quite hitting its mark; from...

Meet Amy Dover, a group practice owner and business consultant in Alabama. Throughout her 20 years in the field, Amy has worked in a variety of mental health settings; as she faithfully stepped through the doors that were opened to her, she began in private practice which has now grown to a group practice with 15 providers. While walking through the good, bad, and ugly of owning a group practice,...

Meet Christy Pennison, owner of Be Inspired Counseling and Consulting, co-owner of Practice Collab, and host of the Inspiring Possible podcast. Christy began her career climb as a forensic interviewer, but found herself with a desire to do more. As she began working in the counseling field, Christy noticed the lack of mental health support in her hometown and made the decision to move back and ope...

Meet Clara Capano, a professional speaker and corporate trainer. The path to where she is now took some trial and error, but she began to see the pieces fall into place once she was in a management position overseeing multiple offices and teaching others how to run the business. As soon as she entered the training and coaching space, she knew that that was where she was meant to be. Do not miss he...

In this episode, I discuss how to run a successful insurance based private practice. We discuss the pros/cons, steps, and how to avoid issues. If you believe in providing quality mental health treatment that is affordable and accessible, this episode is for you!