Soft Tissue Treatment Revolution with Dr. Matt Maggio

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year what is going on in the world is absolutely bonkers. The cost of living is high and goes up each day. Inflation is higher than we have ever seen in most of our lifetime, this leads to uncertainty and everyone being tighter about what they spend their money on. It seems like everyone is raising their prices to help adjust to what is going o...

As the world continues to become crazier by the day, so many people are left being fearful, angry, uncertain, and frustrated. Most of what is going on are completely not our fault and out of our control. Unfortunately, it is impossible to not get sucked into it all and all those emotions built up can lead us to question if it's even worth continuing doing what we do anymore. We find ourselves stru...

Social media platforms can be a powerful and transformative tool to help market and grow your business. Social media can also be a destructive tool when used directly as the consumer, ranging from endless time-wasting to negative views of others and your own self-worth. The key is recognizing how to use it to help grow your business while also recognizing how it can suck you in when you consume it...

Back at it for my favorite podcast segment, Q & A: This week I got a great question from an awesome Massage Therapist from the Chicago area that also likes to use choice language like me😂 " Could you please can talk about how big of a waste of time and money Medical Massage Therapist Certifications are.  They take hundreds of hours to get, they cost thousands of dollars... and you don't...

Over the past two years, our relationships have become less connected and more superficial. As humans, one of our survival mechanisms is connecting with other humans, allowing us to feel safe and secure. One of my core values in my treatment process is, "to actually give a shit about helping the person in front of you." As the world has gone crazy over the past two years we have become internally...

Got a great question from an LMT on how to respond/handle when a client says treatment is too expensive or they can't afford it. This came at a good time because unless you live under a rock the economy, inflation, and people's views on where to spend their diminishing money supply are rapidly changing. In this episode I dive into our negative relationship with money, change your perspectives on w...

Something that really pisses me off is when a Physical Therapist bashes soft tissue treatment modalities. These are garbage people and at the core of their bashing is a deep sense of inadequacy about what they can do. Instead of looking internally and realizing they could be better at soft tissue treatments, which are the best treatment option out there, they decide to talk shit about it to help s...

𝐆𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐭...⁣ ⁣"𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦? 𝘐 𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭."⁣ ⁣In this episode I share my own blunders wasting 75k on marketing agencies/services, lessons learned from that, and give you 3 free strategies you can implement right away...

In my last episode, I was adamant about the idea that being fully booked up and not taking on new clients was keeping people who are in pain from getting access to your great treatments. If you haven't listened to the first one you can find it by clicking HERE I got a lot of feedback, some good and some bad, but the biggest rebuttal back was that it was "impossible" to do shorter treatment times b...

I have been thinking about making this podcast for quite some time and I realize the hypocritical nature of it as I am always touting the idea of the importance of being selfish so you can help more people. We are in the midst of eradication of our younger population, and I'm not talking about that virus, it's pain pills that eventually lead to fentanyl overdose deaths. We don't hear much of anyth...

I am back at it for my very first episode of 2022 and I took some to reflect on some lessons learned last year when writing my first published article in the Massage Therapy space. I know technically I am an "outsider" in the profession but have been outspoken on the superiority of quality hands-on soft tissue treatments being delivered to those injured and in pain, so they can avoid pain pills, i...

I thought 2020 was the craziest & most challenging year I have ever experienced, but then 2021 came along and took that to a whole new level! As I have gotten older & probably more grouchy I have spent more time slowing down, evaluating & trying to figure out why people do dumb shit. I also do some deep reflection on myself when I do dumb shit myself & how not to be so reactive to...

As 2021 comes to an end I am ramping up for 2022 and have a full schedule for Peak Method CEU seminars coming up! I get messages from awesome bodyworkers from all over the country wanting to learn more and take their practice to the next level. I can sit there and tell them how fucking great the seminars are, how they are in all honesty better than the majority of mediocre courses being offered, o...

Does it ever seem like you just never have enough time to get things done? Does your personal life keep you from being able to really focus on your business, or does your business life keep you from getting the most out of your personal life? I struggled for years with never-ending to-do lists, always running out of time and trying to juggle my personal life with my business, leading me to stress...

A lot of us in the bodywork profession started off with high hopes of being able to work with professional athletes, many of us were motivated to get into the field for that very reason. Working with pros can be a truly amazing opportunity, but it also can be extremely frustrating and hard to consistently be able to retain these clients because so many other practitioners are targeting them as wel...

This might be one of the most important episodes I have ever made and it's a topic that every practitioner struggles with. A major component of the treatment process is effective communication and education for the client of what they need to do to help assure a good outcome. Too many clients live in a fantasy world where they get injured doing stupid shit to their bodies, only to go right back to...

We all struggle, some more than others. Somewhere deep inside of us is an inner bitch voice that constantly fucks with us, telling us it's okay to cut corners in our life, health, business, and mindset. I am someone who struggled immensely with all of the above, most of which were my own doing and letting that inner bitch voice control me. Recently I just finished the 75 Hard challenge and wanted...

I was inspired to make this episode from an issue I had with a patient the other day and realized that we all put up with too much nonsense from some real pain-in-the-ass clients. I have gotten much better over the years at recognizing these problem clients early in the process, but every once in a while one sneaks through and can really ruin your whole day! In this episode, I plead with you to st...

This was an important episode for me to make and it came out of motivation for letting my own health and wellness go down the drain the past few weeks. I was riding high doing the 75 Hard Challenge, feeling awesome both physically and mentally, then life decided to kick my ass. This almost negated all my progress on 75 hard and I found myself completely neglecting my health and well-being. I began...

Five years ago today I lost my dad Fred to a pain-pill overdose at the age of 58. It was absolutely the worst day of my life, but nothing compared to the horrors my dad went through. That day, and the years leading up to it completely transformed my views of the medical model and where conservative care was failing people every day. I don't have a day pass where I don't think about what happened t...

I have been outspoken for years now on the extreme importance of soft tissue-based treatments being the key to getting a solution for an injury. I have shared my own experiences and limitations of other conservative care treatments, especially PT and Chiropractic.  An issue I have seen over my 10 plus years in practice is when the client wants to do what I call, "kitchen sink treatments." Bas...

I am in the process of publishing an article on why massage therapists are the key to solving the pain pill epidemic and part of my article was pointing out the nonsense in the profession that got the profession to be falsely labeled as "non-essential." I had forgotten that I made this episode last year and went back and listened to it again. All of what I said still remains true and with all the...

I haven't done a Q & A in a while, but this past week I had a really great question from an LMT about my thoughts on if massage therapy would be shut down again with the COVID resurgence.  The question was, " I am in a state that had some pretty serious lockdowns during COVID and still has some tight restrictions that appear to be coming back. Do you think they are going to shut down mass...

If you have been listening to the podcast or following for some time you know my absolute conviction that quality hands-on soft tissue treatment is the best and most effective method to help fix an injury. I have been accused over the years of "bashing" other treatment modalities, specifically Chiropractic or traditional Physical Therapy. It's not that I am being mean, I'm just being honest and so...

I truly believe and know that it can be possible for a self-employed massage therapist to easily make 100k per year, all working less than 25 hours per week. Most therapists think that is complete nonsense, never would work for them or I must be doing some kind of shady trick on the clients. I get it for people thinking that way because there is a lot of bullshit out there in the world and people...