The K9PT Academy Podcast: Business lessons for canine rehab therapists

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! As canine rehab therapists and entrepreneurs we are often battling our own insecurities, either clinically for from a business perspective. That is totally normal and quite often we t...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! No matter how long you have been on this entrepreneurship journey, you know by now how it is full of ups and downs… as soon as we think we got this, something will happen that will po...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! There are many pieces of a puzzle that need to come together for us to gradually build a canine rehab business that is profitable and sustainable. During our recent Incubator Mastermi...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! It is extremely rewarding to be a business owner, but as many of you know it can certainly be challenging. One of the most challenging aspects of being a business owner and entreprene...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! For today's episode we discuss how the economy has changed over the last couple of years and how that relates to the field of veterinary medicine and canine rehabilitation. More speci...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! For today's episode we discuss the roller coaster of being a business and entrepreneur in the field of animal rehabilitation. This rollercoaster can be so stressful as many ...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! For today's episode my goal is to help elevate your level of thinking so you can step away from the day-to-day grind and start to see things from a different perspective.  Listen...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! For today's episode we discuss the concept of the confidence gap and its impact on personal and professional growth, including my own struggles with confidence and what helped me...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! For today’s episode I wanted to expand on marketing and hopefully help you expand your views on the benefits that having a marketing strategy brings to your business beyond simply att...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! Recently we have focused a lot of episodes on mindset and personal development with the topics covered on our podcast, and as much as those topics are so vital for our success, f...

Welcome to The K9PT Academy podcast, the only podcast in veterinary rehabilitation that focuses on helping business owners and entrepreneurs build and scale a profitable and successful canine rehabilitation business! I am back from vacation and during that break I had the opportunity to do some reading and reflecting, and for today's episode I wanted to share some of my thoughts about the key to s...

It is crazy to believe that we are now in July and that the 1st half of the year is over! Time has sure flown by and just like that we started Q3 and along with it the 2nd half of 2024. We can’t change how the 1st half has went because that is past us now, but we can learn from it, reflect on how things went, analyze our metrics and KPIs, and make a plan as to how we would like the 2nd half of the...

It is safe to say that one of our biggest struggles as entrepreneurs and business owners is time management, especially when it comes to work-life balance and setting our boundaries. The year of 2023 and the first few months into 2024 were challenging due to changes we had at the clinic, especially when it came to staff which pulled me back into spending more time directly on patient care compared...

Let's dive deep into a personal development topic that I feel can make such a huge impact into how we operate our lives and our businesses: false beliefs. In today's world we are bombarded with information from social media, news, TV, etc... although that is not a bad thing, it can also lead towards us hearing some the same false beliefs over and over again. Technology has also helped us surround...

For this episode we discuss our decision making process as canine rehab business owners and how we can end up putting ourselves in a box. Listen to the full episode as we discuss: how we can only make the decisions we need to make today with the information we have available at this point in time how we can put ourselves in a box when it comes to the business model we chose for our canine rehab bu...

We have hit episode 100, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to discuss the current state of the industry and how we can stand out from the competition in this new era of canine rehabilitation! Listen to the episode as we discuss: The importance of us needing to prove to ourselves that something can be accomplished The current state of veterinary industry with private equi...

As business owners and entrepreneurs, we need to constantly be working on ourselves to overcome any insecurities and second thoughts we might be having about ourselves and this journey that we are on, and that includes working on our “courage muscle”. Much like a muscle, courage can be developed but it can also be lost. Every time we make a decision by taking the easy way out, we weaken our abilit...

Have you ever asked yourself and spent some time thinking about what the market of canine rehabilitation really needs and what are consumers asking for? Well, I did so recently and shared some of my thoughts on this topic with today's podcast episode. Listen to it as we discuss: It is not just about what we do, but how we do it Does the market need just more access to canine rehab? Or does the mar...

Today we discuss the concept of "Real Time, Real Response", and that how that applies to the decisions we make as business owners and entrepreneurs. Listen to today's podcast episode as we discuss: You can only make the decisions you need to make today with the information you have available today Using numbers and metrics to guide our decision-making process while taking some of the emotional att...

Every few months I go down to Florida to spend some time with my business mentor. I have been doing so for the past 6 years, and I can tell you with certainty that doing so is one of the biggest reasons for the success we have had with TheK9PT as well as my ability to help coach and mentor canine rehab therapists to achieve the same themselves. Why is that important? Listen to today's podcast as w...

What would you do if you had no competition? What type of business would you run? How much would you charge? What decisions would you make that would be affected by the fact that no matter what you did, people wouldn’t have someone to compare you to? If you haven’t done so, those are great questions to think and ponder about. I recently shared some of my thoughts...

The truth is that most of us in the field of canine rehab never planned on being an entrepreneur. It is not why we went to PT or vet school, nor the reason why we became a canine rehab therapist. All we wanted to do was help some dogs, but somewhere along that journey we realized that the only way for us to be able to do so on our own terms would be if we opened your...

Today might be a bit of a controversial episode, and I am open to discussion because I understand there are many different marketing strategies that can work depending on each individual circumstance. However, for today's episode I want to discuss why I don't think you will find your ideal clients on Facebook. I will explain my thoughts behind it, and hopefully help you understand my thinking behi...

One of the biggest struggles we face as business owners and entrepreneurs in the field of canine rehab is figuring out how much to charge for our sessions. We all know that we have an issue in our field where many clinics undercharge for what we do, but the challenge is that we tend to undercharge not because we want to, but primarily because we have not shifted our money minds...

Many of us got into business ownership as canine rehab therapists without having much, if any, background in business, marketing, or general operations. While passion for what we do are a must to make this business thing work, we will eventually need to learn and develop a whole new set of skills related to entrepreneurship to make our business sustainable, but how do we balance out all the d...