Allied Health Business Brilliance

My guest this week is the remarkable Kim Sheppard aka ‘Cool Kim’. Kim is a family psychologist and founding director of Cool Kid Psychology. Kim’s private practice and solopreneur work started back as early as her undergrad years where she worked privately with families. Since finishing her masters and becoming registered, Kim has worked out of rooms and is now running her succes...

Welcome to season 2 of the Private Practice Secrets Podcast. This week it was my absolute pleasure to speak with the dynamic, Bev Sher, director at Bev Sher Speech Pathology. To say that Bev is a wealth of education and knowledge would be an understatement. She is a mother, with a triple degree, her own successful practice and has presented at international health professional conferences. Bev tra...

My guest this week is the incredibly entrepreneurial Fran Nicholson, Director of Sensational Kids. Fran is a mother, mentor, innovator and management expert and has seen huge success in her practice. However, Fran did not start out in paediatrics. Fran was introduced to paediatrics by a friend and former owner of Sensational Kids. With his encouragement and training Fran made the transition, bough...

My guest this week is the incredibly talented Natasha Hawker, director of Employee Matters. She is an author, trainer, speaker and mother of 3. Her book, From Hire to Fire and Everything In-between is a handbook for business owners of the ‘how tos’ of managing staff and even having those difficult conversations. As chance would have it, we spoke on International Women’s Day which...

My guest this week is Melinda Houghton, Director and Senior Planner at Houghton Strategic Solutions. Melinda is a mother, award winning business woman, consumer advocate and the best part – she offers financial planning for real people. Her down-to-earth nature is reflected throughout her work. Melinda’s decision to go into business for herself came from the frustration she felt after...

Jenna Moffat is the Co-founder of Clickability, a rating and review website for disability services that is best likened to Trip Advisor. Needless to say Jenna has a passion for social change which saw her starting her career as a carer and then social worker. Jenna was drawn to working with people with disability however quickly became frustrated by the lack of consumer-focused information and ac...

Spectrum Speech Pathology runs two very busy sites in Melbourne. The large part time team is clinically mentored and supported, the small number of full timers have balanced week of clinical, admin and business development activities to prevent burn out. Their staff retention is exceptional. Christine Kendall and Gloria Staios have seen the private practice and disability landscape change signific...

Emma Price is the founding CEO of Source Kids, has a background in marketing and now leads a business team of 4. Source Kids, issues a phenomenal FREE magazine that links parents who have a child with a disability with product and service providers. This hugely successful publication now has a typical online reach of 240,000 people per month. The magazines are stunning. The content, images and adv...

Tahnee is an occupational therapist and the owner of Sydney’s Hopalong Occupational Therapy for Children. She has extensive private practice experience and has been the owner of Hopalong for ten years. Her two clinics sound wonderful and her team also provide community services. It takes a team to raise a business, Tahnee has a strong admin and business team and readily delegates to their fi...

Cate Schreck is founding owner of Lightbulb Training Solutions a fabulous business that provides customer service training that educates and motivates. Cate is also the author of ‘The A-Z of Service Excellence, the essential guide to becoming a customer service professional’.  Her book is a must read for all business owners who have team providing direct client services, it is cle...

Dino Mennillo is the co-owner of OT for Children, a large well-established private practice in Adelaide. Dino describes the early days of his business, the horrendous hours, not being quite available for family and fun and how he turned it all around. Dino shares all, including how he spent 12 months systematising every aspect of his business so he and his family could take a three month holiday w...

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