The Leveraged Practice Podcast

If you are a private practice owner or a health entrepreneur, then it's been a rough past 18 months. Business has changed and the way people are looking for and purchasing services has changed.   In this moment, you need to reflect on where your business has landed. What are you doing day to day? What kind of work fills your schedule? Do you love what you do? Or have you created a job that doesn't...

You may be wondering if shifting to an online group program is the right move for your practice.  Perhaps having a hard time visualizing what an online program could look like. In this week's episode, Stefanie Wilkerson, a Registered & Licensed Dietitian, share's how she shifted her thinking from one-to-one to an online health program. She explains the benefits of creating a community and group pr...

I've seen many clinicians take jobs that drain them, or that lack the fulfillment they desire because they are hoping for job security. The harsh reality is that job security is a myth. Positions are eliminated as budgets or directives change.   In this episode I share the importance of developing your skills and expertise, and how to use them to create a career you love through entrepreneurship. ...

It's interesting to have been given this 1-1 model throughout our education, and now with the changing times and technology, we are able to innovate and find ways beyond that 1-1 model to better serve our clients.   The idea of a hybrid program, where you can do your 1-1 sessions, and use a community so your clients don't feel alone and can learn together, or using online education by recording so...

At The Leveraged Practice, we understand the importance of bringing together a team with different experiences and backgrounds to better serve our clients. Throughout this 3-episode series, we put our TLP Advisors in the hot-seat as they share their best advice, tips, and strategies. In this week's episode, we chatted with Allison Riederer, one of our Accountability Advisors and a successful busin...

At The Leveraged Practice, we understand the importance of bringing together a team with different experiences and backgrounds to better serve our clients. Throughout this 3-episode series, we put our TLP Advisors in the hot-seat as they share their best advice, tips, and strategies. In this week's episode, we chatted with Liam Mcelwee , one of our Accountability Advisors and a successful business...

At The Leveraged Practice, we understand the importance of bringing together a team with different experiences and backgrounds to better serve our clients. Throughout this 3-episode series, we put our TLP Advisors in the hot-seat as they share their best advice, tips, and strategies. In this week's episode, we chat with Alex Fell, one of our Accountability Advisors and a successful business owner....

Ready to start planning and developing your first online program, but not sure when is the best time to get started? The Leveraged Practice program is here to help you along the way. If you are on the fence about starting your online program, you may what to consider when you would like to make it available to your clients. While deciding when to open the doors for enrollment for your online group...

Here at The Leveraged Practice, we exclusively work with clinicians and health professionals to help them offer online programming in the health field. We find that offering that first version of a program is really challenging for you.... Why? There is a risk of overthinking, overplanning and stressing about perfectionism in the first version. Whether our clients spend 6 weeks or 6 months on thei...

One of the things I hear the most from health practitioners and clinicians is the hesitation to move from a one-to-one model into an online group program, because each client is different and unique, so they require customization when working with them. Your best practices become your guiding principles to the way that you serve people. Which means you are repeating yourself every day as you see y...

How do you define success?   Here at The Leveraged Practice, we define success as being both profitable AND having a sustainable business. Both of these things are incredibly important and there are several best practices that we use in our company to attain these.   Today, I'm sharing with you 7 of the best practices that we've put together that help our clients do things right the first time, by...

Have you been seeing the need for a specific professional development program - and wondering how you can get started in creating it? This month we'll be discussing professional development online group programs, courses and memberships and how to create one to educate your peers within the health industry. This would allow you to bring your expertise in health, so that your colleagues can help th...

You've bought a lot of things in your life - but yet, many clinicians and health practitioners are often uncomfortable with asking people to buy their services and programs.    There definitely are some things that have hindered our ability to understand marketing and selling as a positive way to make an impact on people's lives, and how it's critically important to share with people why they need...

Whether you're starting your business or have been running your practice for years, there usually are several things that we spend time on that either: we don't need to do in our business OR don't directly impact the results we're working towards   One of these areas that often is a struggle is being productive with the time we spend on marketing. Another one is having the strategy behind knowing...

Does coming up with your marketing system to grow your audience and move them into becoming clients seem like a challenge for you?   If so, I've found that it's one of the biggest challenges that often comes up for clinicians and health professionals.   Today, I want to talk about building or improving your marketing system that works to bring in your ideal audience and turn them into clients. I w...

If you: -> want to create an online program -> are curious or nervous about starting an online program  -> or you're already running a program, but it's not doing as well as you had hoped ...it's so beneficial to hear the different stories, scenarios and businesses that your peers and colleagues have - and how they are successfully pivoting from the traditional model of one to one counseling to on...

Creating an online group program for your clients can feel a bit overwhelming...    Just like when our clients want to make a change in their lives, it takes bravery and courage for us to pivot the direction of our private practice to continue helping our clients in a different and improved way.   Today, we have another incredible guest and client, Selena De Vries, Registered Dietitian and owner o...

Does the idea of building a profitable, results-based online health program that attracts and supports your ideal clients - and gives you an improved life-work balance - seem out of reach?   Although it will take work, time and a strategic plan, it's completely possible.. and those clients are currently looking for your expertise, support and accountability to help them solve their problem.   I'm...

Whether you are just getting started in the health field or are growing your practice, hearing about the roller-coaster journey, lessons and wins that other health professionals have along the way, helps you to see the options you have for your own path. Their business stories help us see that although business requires persistence, perseverance and continued action to keep growing, it's incredibl...

As health professionals, one of the biggest areas that most of us struggle with is not having a business or marketing background. Your goals may be that you want to work for yourself, start a private practice, help more people and increase your income potential.  But in order to really scale a business and grow exponentially into multiple six figures, you have to look at how to position yourself a...

Listen on your favourite podcast app like  iTunes  or  Spotify . If you want to build an online program and pivot away from doing one to one and more towards group programs, hearing some of the lessons that other health professionals learn along the way is so beneficial.  Today, we have another amazing client, Lisha Knicely, Registered Dietitian and Integrative & Functional Practitioner specializi...

"What should I price my program?" "Can I sell a lower priced product?" "Do I have to sell an expensive program?" Anything related to money can feel tricky - and these are the common questions I get asked often around pricing. Today, I give you real actionable steps that you can take to determine the pricing of your program, because the truth is you don't have to choose the lowest or the highest pr...

Listen on your favourite podcast app like  iTunes  or  Spotify . Have you offered in person group programs before - and wondered how you could transition those to online? If so, you'll want to catch this episode about expanding your business by going virtual. Today, we have another amazing client, Sharon Fast, Registered Dietitian and private practice owner of HealthStyle Solutions. She shares her...

Listen on your favourite podcast app like  iTunes  or  Spotify . As you start to think about how you can deliver an incredible service to your clients with online programs, there is an incredible feature that can make that program extra amazing - and that is incorporating audio. Even though I come from a background in health science, I have studied program planning and focused on what can be done...

Today, we have a special episode for you. To mark our 100th episode of The Leveraged Practice Podcast, I've asked you, our listeners and clients, for questions on what you want to hear from me - and asked Erica Drewry, from Aligned Nutrition to interview me! We're going to take you behind the scenes of my life to answer your questions and talk about the struggles of growing a business, lessons I'v...