Healers Get Vulnerable

Quandra Chaffers created Sexual Abuse and Sex Solutions less than a year ago. She's surrounded herself with people she can grow with and moved away from those who might have held her back. Listen as she dives into her thoughts on reaching her right fit clients, networking, marketing, and money mindset.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How she wrote her About page
• Reaching out to clients who are marginalized
• Why she loved writing her copy
• Why she almost didn't continue in this profession a year ago
• Working through money mindset issues in order to embrace earning
• Getting advice from many different sources to start her business
• Stepping into networking with "nerdy" curiosity.
• Taking steps to create a future business model that can run even when she isn't working
• Her fees (real numbers as usual)
• Public speaking and writing about consent

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/61

Dr. Linda Shanti McCabe sees her roles as a parent and business owner as interconnected and always in motion. In this conversation we walk through some of the most challenging things about wearing both of those hats. We talk about finances, child care, time management, identity, and more. You'll love how down to earth and honest Linda is about all of it.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Writing her book
• Returning to work after maternity leave
• Paying for child care
• Finding her entrepreneur tribe
• Marketing by sharing her message
• The best compliment she's ever gotten
• The impact of parenting on her business
• Her fee (real numbers as usual)

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/60

If you think you've got to sacrifice your values in order to make a profit, listen up! Kerrie Thompson Mohr has expanded her therapy business thoughtfully and ethically. Listen as she talks about how she decided to bring clinicians into her practice and how she balances her various roles within the business. It's not what you usually hear. Kerrie is honest about working more right now than she plans to in the future.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How she decided to hire employees
• How she looks out for her team and encourages self-care
• Moving into a new, larger, and more costly physical space
• Balancing her roles as boss, CEO, and clinician
• Working a lot during a time of growth
• Holding boundaries around her hours
• How her center handles inquiries
• The fees her center charges (real numbers as usual)
• The factors they use to adjust fees
• Starting a chapter of Sidewalk Talk

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/59

Renee Beck didn't waste any time in her therapy business watering down her. Right out the gate, she put her more alternative work front and center and built a practice working with alternative healers and artists. Listen as she shares the steps she takes to bring in her right-fit clients and how she handles the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Using dreamwork and tarot in her sessions
• Managing the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur
• Online networking
• How she learned to do her own SEO
• Her fees and how she thinks about money
• Co-creating rituals for her clients
• What she wants newer therapists to know about private practice

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/58

Thien Pham says she never imagined she'd be here. In this conversation, she shares her journey of moving to a new city, transitioning into private practice, and working through all of the money issues that came up. Listen as she shares how she took the leap of faith and built the business she has now.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Working with 1st and 2nd generation immigrant women in tech
• Negotiating career and location with her partner
• Working with the Vietnamese community
• Transitioning out of agency work
• Transitioning to a group practice and then to her own business
• What it's like when you make more than your parents do
• Securing a full-time office
• Building a network in her new city
• Creating her schedule and boundaries in private practice
• Her fees (real numbers as usual)
• Supporting other therapists rather than competing
• The ebb and flow of clients

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/57

This is a minisode of Therapist Clubhouse. I wanted to give you this as an extra Mother's Day present. I was on my friend Rebecca Wong's podcast a little while ago. On her podcast, The Practice Of Being Seen, she takes deep dives with change makers. We took a dive into motherhood. I'm going to give you a little snippet of the conversation now, and if you want to hear the whole conversation and check out Rebecca's other wonderful episodes, you can find them all wherever you're listening to this. It's called The Practice Of Being Seen. This segment starts right when I'm talking about whether I need to produce this podcast every week or not, which is really about the rhythms of life. After this we go into race and privilege, creating a business, and finding time and energy for what matters.

When you find your niche and your calling, bringing the right clients into your business becomes pretty much inevitable. Lily Sun is fascinated with what it means to be single today, and she helps her single clients embrace vibrant and full lives. Listen as she dives into how she filled her practice and why self-care is integral to creating the business she loves running.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Finding her niche of "singlehood and relatability"
• Being a single person herself and identifying the issues single folks struggle with
• Networking as a joyful activity
• Building her business slowly and consciously
• Why she ends up giving away so many business cards
• How massages and other self-care activities fit into her life
• Starting out private pay
• Her fees (real numbers as usual)
• How she thinks about fees
• The way she's built a robust professional community

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/56

Filling your practice quickly takes a combination of creating a good strategy and working your butt off. Niketa Kumar did both and filled her practice in five months. Listen to how she did it and why she's taking a moment before she strives for the next thing. You'll enjoy our dive into fees and mindset around money.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How she wrote the copy for her website to speak directly to her clients
• Why she stayed away from professional jargon when creating her site.
• Filling her practice in 5 months
• Breaking the habit of always striving for the next thing.
• What might be next for her: creating a mentorship program for therapists of color
• How her clients are finding her
• Her fees (real numbers as usual)
• Mindset around fees
• Talking to clients about money

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/55

If you want to reach a more people than you possibly can in your office, you'll want to hear Dr. Bob Navarra's story. He has a passion for delivering high-quality services to struggling couples and particularly couples in recovery. He's become a leader in his field, and he's been at it for 35 years(!) He writes, teaches, and runs workshops for couples and clinicians. Listen as he talks about how he developed the mindset to keep on moving forward way before he achieved this level of success.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Starting out in private practice and going through challenging times
• Developing a mindset around what "success" means
• Pivoting his business more and more towards workshops and teaching
• Why taking the "one next step" works for him better than planning years out
• Reaching out to his mentors and heroes to collaborate
• Keys to finding work/life balance as a business owner
• Starting his couples workshop with few attendees and building from there

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/54

Do you sometimes freak out about whether private practice can really work for you? Maryellen Mullin has important advice for you: collaborate and ask for help. She's leaned into her superpowers and created a business she enjoys running. Rather than focusing on just one thing, Maryellen's business allows her to do many things she loves. Listen as she dives into her journey.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Doing many different things in her business instead of choosing just one
• "Messy parenting", a workshop she presents for organizations
• Running a long-term group for mothers & daughters
• Using Gottman Institute research with teens and their parents
• Hiring both an intern and an independent contractor
• Starting a business networking group for therapists and other small business owners
• Why she loves being self-employed
• Stepping into a mentoring role at this stage in her career
• How she made the leap to full-time private practice
• How she sets her fees
• Why it's impressive when you know what you don't know

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/53