Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Christie Miller, business mentor to health coaches everywhere, has had her share of professional success. But starting her own business was a unique challenge, one that *almost* stopped her. Until, that is, she became more intentional about her own energy - and began to consciously work with the Law of Attraction. If you’re one of those who’s a bit skeptical about all of this, you have plenty of company, lol - AND, you should listen anyway. If n...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Sometimes, a moment arrives when we see ourselves SO clearly that we can no longer avoid the truth. If we’re lucky, that moment of clarity leads to real growth, and expansion, in all the best ways. And certainly - learning my Enneagram type was that moment for me. But whoooooboy - it was rough at first. So - that’s what I decided to share with you today - and, gosh, I’d love to know if something like this has ever happened to you. Have you disco...
Dec 13, 2022•27 min•Ep. 34
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Understanding the Enneagram has been a game changer for me . Not only do I catch myself in patterns all the time, I see them in my clients - and now - I know how to help them see it too. Once we understand those patterns, we can choose how and when to let them help us in our lives. For example, figuring out that I was a 9 with a 1 wing has been both frustrating - and freeing - because I can see when that works for me, and when it doesn’t. The sa...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 33
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Could you use a few more referrals for your private practice? Or maybe just more of the right kind of referrals? Then you’re going to love today’s episode. If your practice is up, open and ready to go — all you need is for the phone to ring with referrals for clients you can’t wait to serve. But how do you make that happen? Turns out, it’s easier than you think. All you really need are a few solid relationships with what I call the Fab Five of r...
Nov 08, 2022•18 min•Ep. 32
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! As I write this, I’m in the middle of a work/travel adventure. For a few weeks now, Anne and I have been on the road, exploring parks and trails and small towns and historic treasures up and down the east coast. Along the way, she’s continuing her consulting work with corporate clients on climate change, while I continue my counseling and coaching work with clients at home and elsewhere. To make the trip even better, we are also claiming a full ...
Nov 01, 2022•23 min•Ep. 31
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Kym Tolson didn’t really pay much attention to her insurance billing service - until the day she discovered she’d lost thousands of dollars through their mistakes. Then - when she questioned their work - they fired her as a client! As crazy as that was, it turned out to be, as we here in the South would say, a blessing in disguise. Because, after a moment of panic, she rallied - big time. She dove in deep and learned everything she needed to kno...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 30
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! “ Do you take my insurance? ” If the answer is yes, that’s an easy question to handle. But if you don’t (or can’t) accept insurance reimbursement in your practice, you may not know quite how to handle it. After you hear this episode, though, that will never be a problem for you again - because I’m going to teach you exactly what to do. Annnnd - what NOT to do, too. Remember this acronym: S.O.S., and then: Stand in your value. Own your offer. And...
Oct 18, 2022•29 min•Ep. 29
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Have you ever had a customer service experience that was so bad it was almost funny? (I said almost .) Just realized as I write this that I could spend an entire hour just talking about cable companies…. but that’s actually not the focus today. :) Instead, we’re taking a look at how our own clients or potential clients might experience their version of ‘bad customer service’ when working with us, even though you and I both know that’s the last t...
Oct 11, 2022•27 min•Ep. 28
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! In today’s episode, we get to meet Melanie McGhee, LCSW, the founder and visionary behind a powerful new treatment methodology that’s breaking new ground in the world of mental health - and beyond. In my own counseling practice, I find myself referring clients to trained AAIT practitioners more and more often - because the work is profoundly effective. Acceptance and Integration Training (“AAIT”) changes lives in minutes - not months, or years -...
Oct 04, 2022•53 min•Ep. 27
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! In this week’s episode, you’ll get 3 strategies AND access to a sample letter, a free downloadable template you can use, to start telling your clients about your decision that it’s time to make some changes in your practice. Following any one of these strategies will allow you to raise rates in your practice in a healthy and positive way. Do this the way I teach you. :) You’ll increase your income, AND you take good care of your clients, all at ...
Sep 27, 2022•36 min•Ep. 26
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Starting a private practice is a big deal. So is running one - whether you’re in the early stages or you’ve been at it for a while. There are just SO many parts to managing a business, don’t you agree? So if you’re at all human, it’s way too easy to get bogged down in the details - and completely overwhelmed. Let’s talk about how to get your head back in the game and your feet back on the ground. Let’s talk about how to get you OUT of overwhelm ...
Sep 20, 2022•22 min•Ep. 25
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Goodness…. I don’t even know how to tell you about this week’s podcast episode. Today, you get to meet Amye Cole, an LMFT who offers counseling and clinical supervision in four states. Most of you have never heard of her - until now, that is. But the truth is that when I met her, and heard more of her story, I knew I had to introduce her to you. Just hearing the way Amye’s path has unfolded will undoubtedly inspire you to rethink your own. In th...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 24
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Sometimes, it’s not about getting more clients at all. Sometimes, your practice may be drowning in referrals and you have more calls for help than you know how to handle, a recipe for burnout. Today, you’ll hear about 7 ways to manage this, feel better, and take care of clients at the same time. Which one are you using in your practice already? Which one could you add? Shoot me a DM and tell me. :) ~Wendy xoxo P.S. If you want to follow the podc...
Sep 06, 2022•28 min•Ep. 23
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Have you heard of the Akashic Records? Ever since I first learned about the concept, I’ve been curious about it, and wanted to learn more. That’s why I invited Anne Marie Pizarro, a former nurse with a strong science background turned Akashic Records reader and holistic practitioner, to join us. Anne has the most delightful energy and I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this conversation! This entire idea might be the strangest thing you’ve ever...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 22
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today we’re talking about what it really means to bring your true self, your real self… what it means to be as you as you can be…in your business. I know we SAY we want that, but do we really? When is it okay to be authentic with our clients? And when is it a little risky? My take: you must be real to be effective. And - when you’re real, you will meet resistance. That’s what we’re talking about today. Check it out - then let me know what YOU th...
Aug 23, 2022•26 min•Ep. 21
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I’ve got a question for you…. Is it possible, just for a moment, that you might be imposing your personal money beliefs…. on your clients? I know you don’t think so - but it’s entirely possible that you are, and don’t even know it. But we have to talk about this…about how we healers, even as compassionate, experienced and unusually self aware as we tend to be (!), might be imposing our OWN money beliefs - our fears, our limitations, and our valu...
Aug 16, 2022•22 min•Ep. 20
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Learning how to overcome objections is an important part of the sales process. Learning how to minimize resistance is an important part of most healing work. As a healing arts professional in private practice, you need to know how to do both, so that’s what we’re talking about on the podcast today. In this episode, you’ll hear a story about one of my clients, Karie, who found herself holding back in her practice in a way that she didn’t understa...
Aug 09, 2022•30 min•Ep. 19
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! So here’s the thing. Free consultations don’t work. Which is why I no longer offer them - in either one of my businesses. Not as a therapist. And not as a private practice coach. Does that sound mean? It’s not. Does it sound like bad business strategy? It’s not. That’s what we’re talking about today. :) In this episode, you’ll learn: why I think free consultations are actually misleading. how a simple change in strategy can set your business apa...
Aug 02, 2022•20 min•Ep. 18
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today we’re doing something a little different. Allow me to introduce you to Janet Feld, a professional musician, singer/songwriter, and a music teacher who lives in the Boston area. Wondering why I’d have a musician on a show meant for healing arts professionals? Because we have more in common than you’d think. :) In this episode, you’ll hear: How Janet made the transition from working 6 exhausting days a week to a healthy schedule that enabled...
Jul 25, 2022•39 min•Ep. 17
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I hate small talk. So when I find a way to connect with others that is truly satisfying, I love it. (There’s a reason I’ve been a psychotherapist for decades, after all.) And when I stumbled on a way to attract client referrals, add outstanding clinicians to my group practice AND make new friends? Well - I was hooked. You are looking at the world’s biggest introvert. Yet when I was building my group practice, I knew I had to get out of the offic...
Jul 19, 2022•29 min•Ep. 16
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Not long ago, someone in my private Facebook group asked: How do I start a private practice where I can serve those dealing with cancer? And today, I’m sharing a deceptively simple answer to that BIG question. Think of this as the roadmap for your Big Idea. It’s a step by step process I’ve used for years to turn courage into confidence, and do anything BIG I didn’t think I could do. Starting a practice. Roaming overseas. Running for office. Crea...
Jul 12, 2022•15 min•Ep. 15
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! “Geez - there’s nothing like hitting us right between the eyes first thing in the morning, Wendy!” That’s what one of my clients said - laughing - right after a coaching session where we’d talked in depth about how to handle the discomfort of success. To be fair, she was being funny — but she also had a point. Most of us are used to failure. We know what it feels like to fall short of a goal - and to be honest, we’re rarely surprised when that h...
Jul 05, 2022•33 min•Ep. 14
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I took the day off on Wednesday. See, this is my birthday week, and I like to do something special if I can. So I spent the day in my favorite way, huffing along through the woods with my boots and my stick, on a rocky, beautiful, high-up trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Could I have used that day to work on the podcast? Of course I could. Could I have scheduled clients instead? Served them well? Made some money? Of course I cou...
Jul 01, 2022•23 min•Ep. 13
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! It’s a story I have heard before, how one exhausted, heart centered healer gives everything she has. How, over and over again, she’s there for her clients, there for her family, but not always there for herself. But today, you get to meet someone who changed all that. In fact, she’s moved from no control over who she saw, or how she worked, or what she could charge - to a thriving practice that she thoroughly enjoys, with open space in her day, ...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 12
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! You need referrals. Right? You’ve done all the things. Got your license. Set up an office. Opened a bank account for all the income you’re about to create. Printed a few business cards. You might even have a website up. Yay for you! Now - you’re ready for the phone to ring with all those clients you can’t wait to serve. But hang on a minute - how do you make THAT happen? Turns out, all you really need are what I call the Fab Five - a few key rel...
Jun 21, 2022•17 min•Ep. 11
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! (You’ll want to take notes with this one, y’all.) Do you HATE small talk? Does just the thought of getting out to do a little networking, meeting colleagues for coffee, making new professional contacts - make you want to lock the office door and hide behind your couch (or maybe under your massage table)? Well I have good news. Because I myself am an EXTREME introvert, I’ve had to develop my own strategies for networking that made it work for me....
Jun 09, 2022•37 min•Ep. 10
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! “I feel like the message I keep hearing from you is that the best way to start owning our marketing is to start really finding that worth in ourselves…” Yes…..! That’s what ALI BOEHM said on her podcast recently when I spoke about the role of marketing in a healing arts practice. Ali is a massage therapist turned business coach, who helps other massage therapists build a thriving practice that serves them financially AND energetically. So when s...
Jun 07, 2022•42 min•Ep. 9
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! Today we’re taking a look at pricing. I want to talk about this because - based on my conversations with so many of you - there’s a good chance you might be selling yourself short in how you price your services. And I get that! Setting your rates is EASILY one of the most stressful things about running a private practice. When I was starting out, I wrestled with questions like: Where do I even start for figuring this out, for Pete’s sake? What a...
May 31, 2022•24 min•Ep. 8
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! You’re an entrepreneur, and if you’re ANYTHING like me or the healers I coach, you have big dreams, more ideas than you can shake a stick at, and a lot of passion. You also may be beating yourself up if you’re not quite where you thought you’d be by now. Am I right? On today’s podcast, we’re taking a look at the way we compare ourselves to others, why that’s a problem, and what to do instead. Being a practice owner is tough, my friend. So in thi...
May 24, 2022•33 min•Ep. 7
Question or comment? 🙋♀️ Send me a text message! I know you don’t like to brag - but you and I both know the truth. 💁♀️ You’re really good at what you do. People who work with you get better. They’re happier. Their lives just work better. And you’re making a difference. Isn't that all you need to be successful in private practice? No, it isn’t. It takes more than that. You have to learn how to think like a business owner, which means paying attention to the business side of your practice, no...
May 17, 2022•21 min•Ep. 6
