Do you love the idea of running a retreat? This week's guest hosted her first retreat this year, and she's about to talk us through her process, from getting the idea during a meditation to planning it, filling it, running the retreat, and all the way to announcing her next retreat which happens this fall. Meet Christa Harrison, founder of Healing For Queer Healers Retreats, where she holds space for fellow queer folx. Christa is a queer therapist in private practice in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma s...
Sep 07, 2021•41 min
This conversation might open up some new possibilities for you about what marketing looks like. Today's guest is going to tell you about how she uses a free monthly workshop as her main marketing activity. She'll explain how these monthly workshops accomplish a bunch of things at once: raising money for a different anti-racist organization every month selling her coaching program collaborating with guest presenters & growing her audience. Introducing Ariana Lloyd. Ariana is an LCSW and busin...
Aug 24, 2021•49 min
If you're a kind and gentle person, do you wonder if you can lean into those qualities AND grow your business? Or do you worry that you have to let those things go to be really successful? In other words, do you wonder if you have to be an asshole to have a really successful business? My guest today is committed to doing things gently and ethically. You'll hear some specific choices we've each made in the past that we wouldn't make again because they didn't feel right. You'll also hear what's ac...
Aug 10, 2021•49 min
Many of Rebel Therapist's program participants and listeners are brilliant folx who feel intimidated by the idea of consulting for organizations, and yet you're the ones who have the gifts those organizations need. It's part of my mission to help healers, especially those who have marginalized identities parachute into organizations, facilitate real change, make lots of money, and not lose themselves in the process. This is part three in a 3-part series on getting those corporate gigs. If you ha...
Jul 27, 2021•54 min
Many of Rebel Therapist's program participants and listeners are brilliant folx who feel intimidated by the idea of consulting for organizations, and yet they have the gifts those organizations need. I'm talking about you. It's part of my mission to help healers, especially those who are queer/trans and/or BIPOC to parachute into organizations, facilitate real change, make lots of money, and not lose themselves in the process. If you want in on this exploration, this is for you. I'm so excited t...
Jul 13, 2021•42 min
Let's go get that corporate money. Shall we? Many of Rebel Therapist's program participants and listeners are brilliant folx who feel intimidated by the idea of consulting with organizations, and yet they have the gifts those organizations need. Yeah, I'm talking about you. It's part of my mission to help healers, especially those who are queer/trans and/or BIPOC to parachute into organizations, facilitate real change, make lots of money, and not lose themselves in the process. If you want in on...
Jun 29, 2021•42 min
Thinking about making the flip to coaching? You might be excited about the liberation that comes with expanding beyond private: Working from anywhere. Working with folks from everywhere. Breaking free of the limits of your therapy license (if you've got one). Getting to create and serve in new ways. If you're going to make that transition, should you do it quickly? Or slowly? When I was making a transition from private practice to this business, I did it pretty slowly. It wasn't until about 2015...
Jun 15, 2021•44 min
We're talking about building your team today. Have you experienced a nightmare with hiring or managing a team member? Or are you imagining a future nightmare because of what you've heard from your peers? Are you confused about what role you should be hiring for? Or whether it's time to hire? Our guest, Tara McMullin, leads 2 successful companies, and she's about to share her experiences building and managing both of those teams. A bonus treat for me is that she's an introvert, like me, so we get...
Jun 01, 2021•49 min
I've been paying attention to my guest's work for probably about 10 years. As soon as I heard her talking about following energy in your life, I was intrigued. It felt deeply right to me. And I also felt like.....well.....I wasn't ready for it yet. I wasn't ready to fully take in her ideas because I was a bit more in push, hustle and suffer mode. I think part of me believed that "following energy" would mean not getting my shit done. I thought maybe following energy would lead me to laziness. As...
May 18, 2021•43 min
You're about to hear how EbonyJanice Moore has dreamed herself free in life and business. You'll be different after you hear from her. You'll hear the 80/20 rule that she lives by (and no, it's not the one you've probably heard of before). You'll also hear how she identifies her trusted collaborators, why making millions of dollars is where she's headed very quickly, and how she builds and manages her team in a truly caring way. Here's a little more about EbonyJanice Moore: EbonyJanice is a dyna...
May 04, 2021•1 hr 8 min
How do you build a team within a joy centered and decolonized business? To answer this question, I've brought you none other than Thea Monyeé! I’m gonna ask listeners who haven’t already discovered Thea Monyeé's work to go listen to the Shaping The Shift Podcast and explore MarleyAyo and The Blacker The Brain and the Free Joy Experience. So go do all that and then come back. The way Thea Monyeé runs her company is so brilliant. The part I want to focus on today is how she builds her team. In epi...
Apr 20, 2021•52 min
How do you move towards healing and liberation while creating the business of your dreams? I wanted to explore this question with someone who centers these values in their work. Asher Pandjiris is a white, queer, non-binary psychotherapist, parent to a human and two rescue pups, group facilitator and host of the Living in this Queer Body podcast. They live and work on stolen Nipmuc and Pocomtuc land. Here's some of what we talked about: Always Coming Home, Asher's 8-week Group Program Embodied T...
Apr 06, 2021•48 min
I invited someone who has created a sacred and beautiful business to share her journey with us. Get ready to slow down and listen to a thoughtful visionary who will help you think in new ways about your own business. You may decide to increase your joy and embodiment practices after you listen! I know I did. Introducing Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza, a Xicana/Mexicana muxer & mother. She is a Seer, energy worker, and healer. She has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, though she has chosen not to pu...
Mar 23, 2021•53 min
Are you a therapist thinking about making the switch to coaching? Maybe you want to be known for something you care deeply about and get to help people all over the world with that thing. Switching to coaching can be part of making that possible. How do you start? What does that transition look and feel like? If you make that switch, what will people think? Don't people think coaches are flakey? Will they think that about you? This week I'm talking to someone who did all that and built a profita...
Mar 09, 2021•41 min
How do you create an incredibly valuable and thriving membership community? As you're about to hear, it takes planning, intention, care and the willingness to experiment. You're about to get a masterclass on creating a community from Erica Courdae, co-founder along with India Jackson of the Pause On the Play Community: a hub of entrepreneurs and change-makers connecting at the intersection of values and visibility. Meet Erica Courdae. She's dedicated her life to expanding how others interact wit...
Feb 23, 2021•42 min
Are you giving yourself permission to create the biz you really want to run? Are you giving yourself permission to work in the ways you want to work? My guest today made a move that opened the floodgates and helped her give herself permission to get more creative, honest, and courageous in her work. That move was expanding from only having a therapy practice into also starting a coaching business. As you're listening, ask yourself what you're longing to give yourself permission to step into. I e...
Feb 09, 2021•30 min
Show Notes: What do you do to package yourself up and make yourself acceptable or popular? What would it be like to be more yourself in every single place you show up? How would it impact your business to move further in this direction? In this week's podcast episode, I dive into those questions with Michelle Markwart Deveaux. Michelle works with voice professionals to become the people they need to be in order to run the businesses they want to create. Michelle runs a thriving business with a l...
Jan 26, 2021•32 min
It's just you and me again today. I've already talked to some of you about this episode. You've probably already seen the title. Burn your therapy license. Let me explain. Before you decide I've taken this all WAY too far. I'm talking about symbolically burning your therapy license. As an exercise. It may seem extreme, but over these years of helping therapists expand beyond private practice, I've discovered that THIS is sometimes your biggest obstacle. If you're not a licensed therapist, you ma...
Jan 12, 2021•13 min
It's just you and me for this episode. I've been watching you, and I see where you're getting stuck in your business. You start out wanting to make a bigger impact and wanting to work in more creative ways. You feel drawn to expanding. You're scared. And you're excited. You start taking action. Then you run into obstacles from outside and also inside. Here are a few of the places I see you getting the MOST stuck and what I see you doing to get through that stuckness: The quitting trap. You take ...
Dec 29, 2020•14 min
What will YOUR signature program look like? How will you create it? One of the best ways for you to understand how you'll get there is to hear the stories of entrepreneurs who have taken their gifts and turned them into online programs. My guest this week shares how she created a successful online group program using a ton of intuition as well as experience. Meet Michelle Irving. She's best known for 2 areas of work: helping women find Feminine Maturity and guiding women into the Sacred Power of...
Dec 15, 2020•44 min
This week I'm talking to Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, a biracial financial therapist, speaker, and author. In her clinical practice, she helps people get their mind and money in balance. She's also expanded her services to help private practice therapists grow sustainable practices from the inside out. Last time Lindsay was on Rebel Therapist Podcast was almost exactly a year ago. Check out Lindsay's episode on December 3rd, 2019 about creating and launching her first scaled offer. It's a popular and v...
Dec 01, 2020•43 min
I ran my first remote coaching group using email and google docs. Zoom wasn't really a big thing yet, so we used the phone. I'm so glad I didn't wait. I'm grateful to my former self for not automating or polishing the offer before jumping in. The 3 entrepreneurs who signed up will always be so special to me. I use more sophisticated tools in my programs now, and I like to geek out about choosing a course platform or integrating and automating my different systems. Please don't allow yourself to ...
Nov 17, 2020•31 min
Why is it important to have a unique framework as opposed to just being magic at what you do? And how do you find your framework? When I started coaching entrepreneurs, I was helping them one by one, using methods I learned from other people and co-creating the experience each time. Nothing wrong with that. Then over time I developed a framework that includes lots of parts that are uniquely mine. To claim my framework I had to first observe it, then get clear about the elements, write it all dow...
Nov 03, 2020•38 min
How do you create an incredible, deep and effective retreat? How do you bring that magic to an online retreat? Those are the questions we're tackling today. Retreats provide a special opportunity for real time transformation. As a participant of a silent retreat at spirit rock a couple of years ago, I had a transformative experience. This retreat was about renewal and rest. Setting aside those days in a sacred space, learning from the teachers, and immersing myself in the process gave me what I ...
Oct 20, 2020•43 min
You don't have to create your business based on what's already been done. In this moment, there's no excuse to create your business by default. How do you create a new vision for what your business will look like? That's the question I'm tackling today. Our guest, Michelle Auerbach, is an author and consultant for entrepreneurs and organizations. She suggests mining science fiction for some of that vision. In my own business and the whole rest of my life, I've been on a journey of reading the wo...
Oct 06, 2020•34 min
How do you create healthy and effective financial practices for your small business? That's the question we're tackling today. Exploring that question for myself has been complicated. I've been tracking every penny in my personal finances since 1997. I've always tracked my income and expenses in my businesses. But all that tracking didn't mean I was doing well with my money. My bookkeeping practices had a stressful and tight energy to them. Several years ago, my wife found a red plastic button t...
Sep 22, 2020•37 min
How do you do feminism in your business? How do you run a thriving, profitable business while living your feminist anti-oppression values? That's the question we're tackling today. I'll give one small example of how feminism has played out in my business: the progression of images of myself I have put out over the last 10 years. I've had my photos done 4 times, 5 if you include the time my wife took a bunch of photos of me because I just really needed some new photos. For the first couple of pho...
Sep 08, 2020•36 min
When is it time to take a brave step in your business? My guest is Jelisha Gatling. She helps therapists make the brave move of leaving their jobs and jumping all the way into private practice. I help therapists, healers and entrepreneurs take the brave step of creating a business beyond a traditional private practice. So we discovered that we have a lot in common. We both help people get ready enough to do scary things, and then we hold their hands while they leap. One thing we both know throug...
Aug 25, 2020•29 min
Having a list of subscribers who are into what you're doing is a HUGE game changer in your business. If you're selling a course or membership or workshop series or really ANY kind of scaled offer, you want an email list. I know my own email list needed to hit 600 people before I was making a significant income in my business. I still have a relatively small list, of just over 2000 people as I'm recording this. I say that to say that you don't need a HUGE list to make a good living, but you do ne...
Aug 11, 2020•24 min
How would you do things differently the second time around? I've talked a lot about the stages of a rebel business, meaning a business beyond the treatment room. In episodes 118 and 119 in February, I walked us through the things you might go through as a business owner during those stages. This week I'm talking to a business owner who's already got one thriving business, and one business that's just starting out. I wanted to delve into what she's experiencing differently and what she's doing di...
Jul 28, 2020•31 min
