The Physician Business Podcast

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You’re investing in courses, conferences, coaching, books, and business advice… but are you actually getting a return? It’s easy to spend thousands of dollars (and even more hours) “learning,” only t...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Thinking about leaving insurance, but terrified of what happens next? After nearly a decade running an insurance-based primary care practice, family nurse practitioner Lynn Masih was burned out. Reim...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Is the “corporate medicine hangover” following you into private practice? You left the bureaucracy behind, but the urgency, overcomplication, and frustration can be harder to shake. Before long, you’...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Imagine trying to buy a car without knowing the mileage, safety rating, features, or even what makes one car better than another. That’s basically what your prospective patients are doing when they c...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You are finally ready to do the thing: quit the job, start the clinic, make the big move. You’re excited, relieved, maybe even a little smug. And then…the opinions arrive. Suddenly your coworker is p...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** What do you do when the career you spent your whole life building suddenly stops working for you? After a wrist injury ended her career as an OB-GYN hospitalist, Dr. Kristen Wolfe had a choice: squee...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Does marketing your clinic feel confusing, overwhelming, or just a little… awkward? There's no shortage of advice telling you what to do next. Join this platform, boost that post, hire someone,...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** What does a business consultant actually do when you hire one? That’s usually the part people are curious about. Do we start with your numbers? Your marketing? Your schedule? The team issue that’s be...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You left corporate medicine to have deeper conversations with your patients. So why does the thought of a longer visit make you break out in a cold sweat? Corporate medicine trains you so well to pri...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Have you ever imagined opening your own clinic… only for your brain to immediately start writing a disaster movie starring guilt, financial ruin, and the loss of your "safe" paycheck? But w...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Identifying your ideal patient isn't just a marketing exercise. It’s the difference between loving your clinic and dreading Monday mornings. If you ever leave the clinic feeling completely drain...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You spent over a decade training to be an excellent clinician. So why is the clinic schedule in your own practice half empty? You've run the mental checklist a hundred times and have asked yours...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** When you worked for someone else, HR was where people went when they got hired, fired, promoted, or needed to complain about the office thermostat. But once you're running the clinic, HR becomes...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Starting or growing your own clinic is exciting. But it can also feel… like a lot. You’re putting yourself out there, breaking the “rules” of corporate medicine, and wondering where your next patient...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** We’re officially halfway through the year. But wait... before you start piling on new goals, new plans, and new projects for the next six months, it’s worth asking: do you actually have space for the...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You have a growing to-do list, a packed calendar, and a business pulling at you from every direction. You're working hard. So why does it still feel like you're barely moving? Most entrepre...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You opened your clinic to practice medicine differently, but now you’re staring at a crowded market, rising costs, unpredictable competitors, and patients who have more options than ever. In this epi...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** If you were starting your business from scratch today, what would you absolutely not choose again? In this episode, I'm sharing a simple decision-making tool I learned in my business school fina...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** Credit card out, ready to sign, completely sold on a new doctor... and then I put the card away. I spend my days coaching physicians on how to win patients, so when I went shopping for my own direct...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** There’s a pattern that keeps even the smartest, most capable entrepreneurs stuck. Chances are, you’ve lived it. I know I have. It looks like progress: the podcasts, the saved posts, the courses you’r...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** This episode is a replay of a live Q&A webinar that Dr. Matthea Rentea and I did on April 15, 2026 for female clinicians who are thinking about starting—or looking to grow—their own clinic. We di...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You’re seeing more patients than ever… but somehow delivering less care. The visits are shorter. The admin is endless. The pressure to produce more never really lets up. And over time, it can start t...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** This episode is a replay of a live Q&A webinar that Dr. Matthea Rentea and I did for female clinicians who are thinking about starting—or looking to grow—their own clinic. We dive into the real q...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** You went into medicine to help people. You knew it would be hard, but you were ready for that. What you weren't ready for? Being told, year after year, that the way you were trained to treat pat...

**Send us a Text Message! Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us.** How could you guarantee you never fill your patient panel? Strange question, I know... but hear me out. During a delayed flight home, I stumbled across Charlie Munger's inversion rule. He believ...