FOOTWORX™ Podcast

If you're a healthcare professional, clinic owner, podiatrist, physiotherapist, dentist, chiropractor, or private practice owner wondering how to start creating content online, this episode is for you. After years of overthinking content creation, one simple video filmed in my clinic with my feet in a bucket generated over 1,500 views in just 12 hours. No fancy cameras. No studio. No expensive pro...

The Hidden Truth About Running a Healthcare Practice Have you built the practice you always dreamed of… only to discover it now controls you ? 🤔 In the opening chapters of Chaos Control , Damian Murray explores the reality many healthcare business owners experience but rarely talk about. 📈 Chapter One – The Honeymoon Period Discover why the excitement of growth eventually gives way to complexity...

In this episode, Damian Murray speaks with Australian podiatrist Josh Truscott, founder of Ultimate Podiatrist, about his journey from clinical practice and clinic ownership into building a successful online CPD platform for podiatrists. Josh shares how Ultimate Podiatrist began, why CPD compliance matters, the role of high-quality education, and what the future may look like for podiatry, AI, spe...

Welcome to the FootWorX Podcast 👣 — the show where we explore the real issues shaping the future of private podiatry in the UK . In this episode, Damian Murray sits down with Erica Nicholls , Chair of the Royal College of Podiatry Southwest Regional Branch , to discuss a topic that is shaking the foundations of private practice: ⚠️ Is the traditional 50/50 self-employed associate model still lega...

Recorded live at the West Midlands Foot Health Conference, Damian shares a personal story of how his mum selling glasses from the boot of her car sparked a lifelong entrepreneurial drive - and reveals the company that continues to inspire him. 👓 You will hear the origin story of Specsavers• How Doug & Mary Perkins changed UK healthcare in 4 years• How they scaled to 100 practices so fast• Why...

In this episode of The Sole Traders Podcast , Damian Murray sits down with Adele Beckett , a Foot Health Practitioner, educator and founder of The Foot Health College and Next Step Clinic Training School . From her start in corporate banking to running a foot health training collage, Adele has developed a game-changing model that could help tackle the podiatry recruitment crisis head-on. 👉 What m...

Ready to Sell or Buy a Podiatry or Foot Health Practice? Discover the essential roadmap to successfully selling or buying a podiatry / foot health practice in our latest podcast. 💼 Whether you're looking to exit your business and retire, or you’re an ambitious practitioner eager to step into private practice, this episode is packed with actionable insights you can’t afford to miss. Damian de...

Welcome to this episode of the Soletraders podcast, "Curacorn® - Why ‘Curing’ Patients is a Better Business Model than ‘Recurring’ Patients," where we explore a 21st-century solution to an age-old foot problem. For the past 1,500 years, dating back to Hippocrates' "On Regimen" (460 BCE-380 BCE), physicians, chiropodists, and podiatrists have struggled to find a permanent s...

Join Damian on Series 1: Episode 9 of the Sole Traders podcast, which is a recording of a Canonbury Healthcare webinar on: ‘How do I start a successful Podiatry / Foot Health Care practice?’  Damian discusses: What I've learned about private practice from managing a 2.4 million portfolio.  What it really takes to be a successful private practitioner.  How to reverse-engineer the perfect priva...

In this episode, I chat with Hugh Tregoning. Hugh qualified as a physiotherapist in 2008 and continues to practise whilst representing Wales in his role as the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Professional Liaison Consultant. With a background in both NHS and private healthcare settings, Hugh offers a unique perspective on the regulatory expectations of healthcare professionals, drawin...

  This is the first PODCAST + where our listeners can follow the business planning discussed in the episode in the NEW 'FREE RESOURCES ' section of the Sole Traders website.   In this episode Damian shares a cringey but relevant anecdote about wedding planning, how that is relevant to business planning and the shocking fact that both marriages and business fail at the same rate in the UK...

I n this episode, I talk about the importance of completing a feasibility study to assess the risks associated with starting a new business and how you can control the variables to mitigate your risk.  Starting with, "Are you the right person for the job?" I talk about the four main tests to assess your start-up or re-assess your existing clinic so you can make decisions based on facts r...

I n this episode, I compare the difference between achieving a Band 8c salary (£70,000 - £81,000) via the NHS and private practice routes. I explain why you are 98% more likely to achieve this payscale in private practice and how podiatrists who are on the same 'salary' don't get the same pay! In fact, the difference is as much as £1,400 per month!! This may get many podiatrists thi...

In this episode, I chat with Michelle Gibson from Canonbury Healthcare.  Michelle graduated as a podiatrist in 1992 and worked in the NHS with a special interest in diabetes. She attained her master's degree in 2015 and received the Lecture of the Year award from Wolverhampton University in 2021. Michelle is now the Training & Education Manager at Canonbury Healthcare. I asked Michelle ho...

In this episode, I chat with newly qualified podiatrist Stephen Vince.  Stephen qualified from New College Durham in 2022 and in as little as 12 months has gone from new grad to clinic owner via our Joint Venture Partnership. Hear Stephen's journey, and my monolog on how you can do it too. Career Opportunity... If you are a podiatrist or foot health practitioner in the North-East, Stephen is...

In this short episode, I share my thoughts on why podiatrists want to open their own businesses? Have a short rant about the lack of podiatrists in the UK and what I think we should do about it?? Read a very relevant quote from 'The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About '.  See links below: And set the scene for the next podcast where I intervie...

It has always been an ambition of mine to host my own podcast, and today that ambition was realised… with my very first guest Dr Tyson E. Frankin. It was an honour to turn the tables on such a prolific podiatrist, businessman, author, speaker, coach and podcaster.    In this episode, Tyson talks about how and why he opened his first podiatry practice, why you must be crazy to go straight from Uni...

The Sole Trades Podcast is brought to you by the Foot Medic™ Group – a podiatry management company that helps podiatrists start, grow, manage and exit their private practices in the UK & Ireland.  In this short introduction, your host Damian Murray outlines the purpose of the podcast and why he's only as qualified as the next private podiatrist when offering advice on private practice.  ...