Today we'll be talking to Jason an FNP working full-time at a reproductive health clinic who wants to venture out on his own and stop working for others, he recently started an IV hydration business that's moving slowly and Jason comes to the show looking for help on how to grow his patient volume and make his practice successful. In this episode, we remember that some areas are not really interested in some services and that's why you shouldn't be afraid to pivot on what you provide, either by ...
Apr 11, 2024•33 min•Ep. 118
Today we'll be talking to Nichole, a dual-certified FNP/ACNP working full time on her own practice that she started a year ago. Nichole's practice offers primary care, HRT, weight loss, and aesthetics in a medical spa-type setting within the practice. Nichole has been feeling overwhelmed in her business, with less personal time and freedom than she had even when she was an employee, and she comes to the show looking for help on how to hire another provider to offload some of the work and how to ...
Apr 04, 2024•51 min•Ep. 117
Today we'll be talking to Sarah who is both acute care and F.N.P, she's currently working part-time at a hospital in trauma and spends the other part of her time working at a regenerative medicine clinic, Sarah wants to start her own practice where she'll be providing integrative medicine services and HRT, she needs help narrowing down her focus and where to put her energy during the practice start-up process. As the episode's name says, we practically have a telemed practice crash course, durin...
Mar 28, 2024•48 min•Ep. 116
Our guest on today's episode is Ella, an FNP currently working at a telemedicine urgent care practice full-time. Ella's in the process of starting her own practice but she's still trying to decide which services she will be providing to her patients, today we'll assist her with nailing down her service line, determining market saturation, telemedicine considerations, and general business start-up advice. This is a great episode for those looking to start their own clinic and for those who are in...
Mar 21, 2024•48 min•Ep. 115
Today we'll be talking to Heather a Family N.P. who's currently working PRN at the VA but she owns and operates her own functional medicine practice predominantly. She started the practice a couple of years ago and Heather thinks it's doing well business-wise, she's needing assistance developing protocols, creating packages, and narrowing down the services she should be providing. The most important thing we got from our conversation with Heather is that you need to focus on what you're doing wh...
Mar 14, 2024•54 min•Ep. 114
Today we'll be talking to Diane who is a Family N.P. Diane owns and operates a primary care clinic full time where she also provides wellness and additional services, she needs help with integrating additional services, including HRT, to increase her practice's revenue as well as finding ways to grow her business. In this episode, we talk about how it is not recommended to make a quick change from accepting insurance into a cash practice, if you're looking to go that route you need to make a tap...
Mar 07, 2024•40 min•Ep. 113
Today we'll be talking to Seth who is a family N.P, currently, he's working full time at a primary care practice but only for four days a week, he wants to start his own weight loss practice, since he's already doing weight control at his current job he would like to venture out on his own. Seth comes to the show looking for help on how to organize his thoughts on the business starting process, how to manage the expenses and finances of the business and what are the most important milestones for...
Feb 29, 2024•45 min•Ep. 112
Today we'll be talking to Mike, a family N.P. currently working part-time at an urgent care but mostly operating his own wellness practice where they provide weight loss and hormone replacement therapy services, the business it's around 2 years old and Mike states that it's going great but he is needing assistance with hiring additional Nurse Practitioners and automatizing processes so the business can start working for Mike and not the other way around. Mike is a great example that even being a...
Feb 22, 2024•48 min•Ep. 111
Today we'll be talking to Carolyn who is a women's health N.P. currently she operates her practice where she provides women's health, HRT, functional medicine, and basic mental health services. Carolyn is looking to rebrand her practice and she needs help narrowing in the services she provides since she's providing more mental health services than she was expecting and wants to step away from that while at the same time she begins pulling away from insurance and transitioning to a cash-based pra...
Feb 15, 2024•45 min•Ep. 110
Today we'll be talking to Nancy who is a psychiatric N.P. She's currently involved in several endeavors including writing nursing educational material, working at an outpatient ketamine clinic, and operating her own tele-psych business. Nancy is currently building her business and she needs assistance with the financial aspect of it and how to optimize her taxes. Our enlightening conversation with Nancy is full of pearls and important knowledge for those trying to navigate the finance side of yo...
Feb 08, 2024•45 min•Ep. 109
Today we'll be talking to Chaka, who is an adult N.P, she currently works in palliative care in a hospital setting, she's started a weight loss clinic about a year ago that provides weight loss treatments and integrative medicine. Chaka comes to the show looking for help on how to structure her business and how to set it up so it can grow easily as well as general help to go in the right direction when managing her business. In our dive into Chaka's business, we realize that offering just one se...
Feb 01, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Today we'll be talking to Jennifer, who is a psychiatric N.P, currently she is working at an out-patient site clinic full time, but she's looking to start her own cash based practice, she wants to start an integrative psychiatric practice where she will provide mental health services in addition to some other niche services such as weight loss, and HRT to treat underlying mental health disorders. She's needing assistance with how to set up a subscription membership plan, how to get the business ...
Jan 25, 2024•50 min•Ep. 107
Today we'll be talking to Darin who is a practice owner, although he's not a clinical person he employs Nurse Practitioners at his hormone replacement therapy clinic, he started the clinic a few months ago but he also owns a lab work company that is tailored towards the fitness community. Darin needs help on how to market the practice to increase business volume, how to focus on his target market, logistics of refills and operating the practice, and how to scale this business as a non-clinical o...
Jan 18, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Today we'll be talking to Nichole who is a family N.P. She's currently working full-time as an orthopedics hospitalist, Nicole started an online coaching business about a year ago and she wants to turn that into a brick-and-mortar practice where she will offer HRT and weight loss. She needs help with the logistics to transition her online practice to an actual location. A lot of times, as was the case in this episode, sometimes all you need is a bit of confirmation, you have everything ready and...
Jan 10, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Today we'll be talking to Heather who is both a psych and family N.P. She's currently working full-time at an outpatient psych practice, on top of that she opened up her own part-time practice a few months ago where she offers general psych care and TMS, Heather comes to the show looking for help on hiring her first employee and the inner workings of having people working for you as well as how to add new services into her practice. From our talk we get to the point of how important it is to tre...
Jan 04, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Today we'll be talking to Caroline who is an adult N.P, Caroline is currently operating her own wellness clinic where she provides H.R.T., I.V infusions, and weight loss, the practice has been open for a few months and it's not doing all that well. Caroline comes to the show looking for assistance in getting more patients and creating more effective marketing. In this episode, we talk about how sometimes the success and growth of your practice are out of your control, of course, you have to work...
Dec 28, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Today we'll be talking to Isabelle who is a dual-certified acute care and Family N.P. Currently, she's working as a hospitalist full time and she wants to start a business of her own but has a problem deciding on the type of business she'll open specifically, her ideas are a transitional care clinic, a medicare risk assessment business, or a functional medicine practice. Isabel comes to the show looking for help narrowing her focus and getting started. When starting a practice or already having ...
Dec 21, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Today we'll be talking to Anne who is an adult N.P. Currently, she's running a successful men's health clinic with 3 locations that do fairly well, the business has been open for about 3 years and Anne has grown it by working on it and in it since she's the only N.P. on her clinics seeing patients. She comes to the show looking for help on how to get to the next level and gradually stop working in the business rather than on it, as well as a possible rebrand. Anne's case is an example that follo...
Dec 14, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 101
In our hundredth episode, we'll be talking to Rick, a unique guest who is currently in school studying to be a psychiatric N.P. a the age of 62 years old. Rick comes to the show looking for help in deciding where to work when he's out of school to get the biggest bang for his buck, he's also planning to open a business while in school so he can hit the ground running once he finishes, in summary, he's after counsel on the best strategy to make his future as optimal as possible. Rick, it's a grea...
Dec 07, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Today we'll be talking to Laura who is a Psych N.P. She's currently working full-time at an outpatient clinic for a hospital system. Laura wants to start her own practice and she has been presented with the opportunity to sub-lease a space at an established practice. She's looking to start an insurance-accepting mental health clinic but she's also interested in offering niche services within the same clinic. Laura comes to the show looking for guidance on the practice starting processes and how ...
Nov 30, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Today we'll be talking to Autumn who is a dual-certified family and psych nurse practitioner, she's currently working full time on her own integrative psych practice where she provides counseling, nutritional assessment, neurofeedback, and psychiatric-based medication management. The practice has been open for a year and Autumn thinks it's not going too well, she's needing assistance in finding out where to go next with the practice. In this episode we talk about the reality of business, there a...
Nov 23, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Today we'll be talking to Terry who is a Family N.P. Currently, he's working full-time at hospital-based urgent care while he's in the initial phases of starting his own men's health clinic. He has the basic setup for the clinic but needs help understanding the operations, patient flow, and some regulatory considerations as well as finding the perfect moment to actually open the clinic for business. In our conversation with Terry, we touched on the basics of selecting the perfect location for yo...
Nov 16, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Today we'll be talking to Lisa who is a Family N.P. Currently, she's working full time at a primary care clinic, Lisa started her own clinic about nine months ago where she focuses on primary care predominately, but also provides bio-identical H.R.T and weight loss but she wants to add more men's health and testosterone replacement therapy services and eventually transition to a full-blown functional medicine practice. Lisa comes to the show looking for help transitioning from insurance to cash ...
Nov 09, 2023•35 min
Today we'll be talking to Erin a family N.P. currently working P.R.N as a hospitalist in the emergency department, Erin is also a senator in South Dakota state where she pushes for legislation to help Nurse Practitioners have more autonomy. Erin recently started an I.V hydration & weight loss clinic and she comes to the show looking for help on how to run a successful clinic and balance her time for the ideal results. Erin is the first Nurse Practitioner State Senator we've had on the show, ...
Nov 02, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 95
In today's episode, we'll be talking to Ashley, an R.N. who is currently working in private plastic surgery predominately on the operative side, and assists with various procedures in the office. Ashley is looking to start an I.V. infusion clinic and would also like to do functional medicine coaching. Ashley is in the starting phases of the practice and she comes to the show looking for help on how to start it cheaply and effectively. Today is our first episode with an R.N. and this shows that R...
Oct 26, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Today we'll be talking to Nicki, who is an adult and psych N.P. she currently operates a phase 1 clinical trial for an oncology company and also sees patients on the side in an oncology office. Nicki recently started her own psych practice that was cash pay only at first but recently started accepting insurance. She's looking for help on how to grow the business, find solid employees, and generally let go as well as strategies to lower her taxes. Nicki has a unique skill set as a practitioner ou...
Oct 19, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Today we'll be talking to Sarah who is an adult gero N.P., she currently works at a nursing facility but also works bedside as an RN to supplement income and benefits. Sarah's planning to start a direct primary care practice working through the mobile and telemed model, she wants to test the field with a low-expense practice at first and then move into a brick-and-mortar practice Sarah comes to the show looking for help on how to start a low overhead practice and with overcoming the fear of goin...
Oct 12, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Today we'll be talking to Cambria a family N.P. who is currently working full time at an aesthetics clinic. Cambria wants to open up her own telemed practice where she'll focus on men's health and weight loss. She needs assistance with the practice opening process, the technicalities of the business startup, and guidance on how to handle and structure a partnership as well as bringing in other practitioners into the business. Cambria is a fairly new Nurse Practitioner and she's a clear example t...
Oct 05, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Today we'll be talking to Michell who is a Family N.P. Currently, she's working at a Men's health clinic and an I.V hydration business, Michell is looking to open her own practice where she'll focus on diverse types of medicine and she comes to the show looking for guidance on choosing a new state to relocate where she can practice more independently and navigating the starting stages of the practice set up process. This episode is full of pearls, Michell is in the starting stages of her practic...
Sep 28, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 90
In today's follow-up episode, we'll be talking to Noreen, who is a returning Family N.P. to whom we spoke way back in episode 34 where we discussed growth strategies for her then-new practice. Since we last spoke her business has grown significantly and Noreen comes back to the show looking for assistance on hiring help to grow even more, adding new services to her practice, and navigating the challenges that come with this kind of success. This is a special episode because we talk about the cha...
Sep 21, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 89
