Alison McLean

Ignite Ur Wellness Business

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For wellness practitioners — physical therapists, yoga teachers, chiropractors, acupuncturists, health coaches and massage therapists — ready to build an online business and stop trading time for money in the clinic. Host Alison McLean, DPT, ERYT, HHP, rebuilt her own practice online after a health event ended her in-person work. Now she works 10-15 hours a week at multiple six figures — and teaches skilled clinicians how to do the same without burnout, debt, or losing credibility. Turn your clinical expertise into income that isn't tied to appointments. New episodes weekly.

Author

Alison McLean

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Business

Podcast website

igniteurwellness.com

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

152. How to Onboard a New Client in Your Wellness Business 06.09.2022

Onboarding new client is more than just sending a welcome email.  Onboarding is an experience you create for a new client and/or a client who wishes to renew their package with you.  In fact a wonderful onboarding and welcome experience can make a great first impression, leading to a lasting impact that remains for the duration of a program.  This is another reason as to why I disco...

151. 3 Main Skills Required to Grow a Holistic Wellness Business with Surprise Special Guest 30.08.2022

If you think getting more and more certifications will bring in more clients you are actually solving the wrong problem.  Yes, you want to continue to learn. Continue with certifications, knowledge, and continuing education.  But do it because you love it. And, do it because you want to get your clients results.  Not because you are hoping to get more clients from that training.&nbs...

150. Push Vs. Pull Marketing in Your Wellness Business 23.08.2022

There are diferent styles of marketing.  You can push clients to you by going for frequency of messages, volume of people you reach out to. Pushing them towards your offer. Or can focus using marketing to help your business become more visible so those that find you resonate with what you have to say, understand their problems more deeply and realize you are the one to help so THEY take the n...

149. Benefits of Consultation Calls & How to Structure Them 16.08.2022

Consultation calls will never be a waste of your time and energy if you like your reasons for doing consult calls. When you commit to doing consult calls you need to have a clear framework in which to guide potential clients through the call. Let’s explore some of your own thoughts right now. Why are consults calls perfect for you, your business and your clients? Why are they not? What is your cur...

148. How to Sell Without Selling as a Yoga Teacher 09.08.2022

Selling is not what you think it is.  It  is not manipulation.  It is not a bait and switch.  Selling can be an awful experience for you and your potential client if you think selling is forcing someone to get on a high pressure sales call to convince them to work with you. Yuck.  Please do not do this.  It’s not needed.  My coach has taught me that selling is co...

147. Planning & Creating Content as a Health Coach 02.08.2022

Content creation can bring up a lot of questions like: Is it worth the time? Am I giving away too much for free? Will someone want to work with me more after consuming my content? Am I wasting too much time? Is it good enough? Is it valuable? Am I saying the “right” thing? Will someone criticize my content? These questions can cause you to feel: Overwhelmed Frozen Confused Frustrated Stressed Bloc...

146. 5 Reasons You Experience Stress As An Wellness Entrepreneur, and What To Do About It 26.07.2022

Stress and anxiety are normal, especially as an entrepreneur. The goal is not to make stress go away completely. That is just not realistic. There is even a name for trying to avoid going through uncomfortable emotions- spiritual bypassing.  Yes growing your business has a spiritual component. When you grow your capacity to handle more stress with ease. When you grow your ability to shift fro...

145. Rehab to Wellness with Kim Nartker 19.07.2022

You can promote rehab or you can promote wellness. Either has the potential to be successful. However, it’s important to understand the differences between the two. Personally, I view rehab as reactive. It’s healing AFTER an injury or health issue. To me wellness is more of a lifestlye. It can be reactive following a health issue, but it also can be preventative. I believe wellness can be more all...

144. Branding Tips for the Wellness Entrepreneur 12.07.2022

Having a niche does not determine if your wellness business will be successful.  A niche does not define your wellness brand.  Neither does a color scheme, or logo. You can have a niche. This is exactly what I work on together with clients in the Awakened 1:1 container.  But you don't have to. Especially when figuring out a niche feels forced, and consumes most of your time.  W...

143. How to Create Your Signature Wellness Program 05.07.2022

One way to stand out in the wellness industry is to create your own signature wellness program. This program will be a representation of your wellness philosophies, values, and unique processes all combined together to allow your clients to achieve their goals in the quickest time possible. So then they can create their next audacious goal, and work with you to achieve that.  Following this e...

142. Creating Success in Life & With a Cash Based Physical Therapy Practice for Runners with Lynne Virant 28.06.2022

Faster, Farther, Stronger This is Lynne’s motto. When runner’s work with her to heal and prevent injury so they can run for life, Lynne helps them to run Faster, Farther and Stronger. For her runners to achieve this goal their body’s and lifestyle must be examined from a holistic perspective. Holistic healing and growth is often misunderstood. It’s often regarded as “out there”, with no concerte s...

141. Entrepreneurial Success as an Interior Designer and Yoga Teacher with Mary Csiki 21.06.2022

When Mary and I first started working together we realized the business and lifestyle she desired was not the same path as the "average interior designer". The work Mary and I do together is creating her version of success. Making her way the "right way". It's not always the easiest. Especially when she has mentors and other interior designers telling her that what she is doing is not the "normal...

140. Cultivating Wellness Entrepreneur Success Through Health & Lifestyle Coaching for Dancers with Jess Spinner 14.06.2022

You can wake up in the morning excited to work in your business.  To have the capacity to trust yourself, and have confidence that you can handle whatever struggle or problem comes your way.  One vision to help keep you going (not from a place of hustle, but from sufficiency) is recognizing the big picture impact you can make in a community.  To realize you hold the key to shift the...

139. How to Prevent Burnout As a Wellness Entrepreneur 07.06.2022

You can work your ideal schedule and make more money. It isn't the fantasy of an unrealistic dreamer. The belief "you have to work hard to earn an honest paycheck" is just a story your grandpa tells. It's not a mantra of the AWAKENED. It's the mantra and recipe for exhaustion and burnout. You are the CEO of your business, schedule and how much money you create. Clients, students and patients...

138. Transitioning from Western Medicine to a Wellness Business 31.05.2022

If you are a health care provider burnout in the Western Medicine model this episode is to help you transition into a Wellness Business Model. This episode is also for health coaches, yoga teachers and wellness entrepreneurs to learn the holes in the western medicine model that need plugging.  You will learn how to serve more people and grow your wellness business. This is a benefit not only...

137. Generational Healing Through the Root with Aubrey Jones 24.05.2022

Imagine waking up feeling energized, calm in your body with less stress. It's possible. Your life may hold more potential with less struggle than you realize. In this episode Aubrey Jones and I talk about the benefits of working with a coach to shift energy and patterns holding you back in your life.  Aubrey explains what it is like to heal fully when addressing and working with the root caus...

136. The Business of Being a Yoga Teacher with Gwen Ferreira 17.05.2022

In this episode Gwen Ferreira and I talk about the business of being a yoga teacher. Gwen describes her story to success as a yoga teacher, and how she currently helps yoga teachers now. You will also hear about my story and how they both differ.  The beauty of these two different pathways as a successful yoga teacher, shows you there is no one right way to build a successful yoga teacher bus...

135. How to Utilize All Your Certifications and Trainings As a Wellness Entrepreneur. 10.05.2022

You have all the certifications you need right now to grow a successful wellness business. Your brain might want to tell you that you need this additional certification or training to "be enough", to be able to guarantee your results for your clients. However, it's not the truth.  Yes, you want to continue to develop your practitioner and business skills. The mistake is waiting sign clients,...

134. Root Chakra Meditation for the Wellness Practitioner 03.05.2022

In this week's episode we are going over implementation tactics for the wellness practitioner to grow their wellness business. This is not "doing work" implementation. Meaning I'm not going to have you directly go out there and market, sell or deliver. This is the behind the scenes work. This is "being work" implementation. These tactics for the wellness practitioner is the gas that will fuel anyt...

133. Show Your Clients, Students & Patients What is Possible 26.04.2022

Today we're gonna talk about how your own healing will help you to grow as a successful wellness practitioner, in whatever version of success means to you. Maybe it means getting more clients and students into your classes and programs. Or maybe your classes are filled, yet you are not receiving the revenue you desire. Or maybe you desire more free time. Time to care for yourself and spend with fa...

132. Different Options to Start & Grow Your Wellness Business 19.04.2022

In this episode you will hear of a few different examples of successful wellness practitioners. No one practitioner runs the same style of wellness business, and this is just the starting point. You are only limited by your creativity and courage.  Listen to this episode for ideas on how to start your wellness business, or inspiration to keep going and refining.  To access the transcript...

131. Feminine Flow, Creativity & Your Wellness Business 12.04.2022

A lot of the structure and systems out there for the entrepreneur are masculine in nature. Which is fine. They are helpful. And when you find the one that works for you it’s a great way to leverage your time and efficiency. However, life happens. We are not robots. We are human so it’s normal to ebb and flow. To have powerful days, and off days. TO have days where the system doesn’t fit. Where it...

130. How to Stop Procrastinating 05.04.2022

Procrastination can show up in sneaky ways in your business and life, causing you to race around and end up exhausted. In this episode you will learn why you procrastinate and what to do about it.  For example, procrastination can be a way your brain and nervous system are trying to keep you safe by not committing and marketing your first workshop.  One way to create a sustainable p...

129. The Root Chakra & Marketing for the Yoga Teacher 30.03.2022

The root chakra and marketing might seem like two topics that are not related. Yet they are intimately connected.  The work of the root chakra is embodied when you feel safe, sufficient and secure. You have a deep trust with yourself and the universe. From the place of security you then have the courage to show up, to take up space and be visible.   In this episode you will learn mo...

128. The Difference Between Hard Work & Hustle. 22.03.2022

There is a difference between hard work and hustle, and being able to discern the difference is the key to having a sustainable business. The cost of not knowing is burnout and exhaustion.  In this episode we will go over the big and subtle differences in the energy or hustle, and the energy of productive work in and on your business. If you find your self scheduling clients in your lunch hou...

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