Healers Get Vulnerable

If you've wanted to create a new offer in your business, but haven't known how to do it, you'll want to hear this. Maya Benattar has taken bold steps in the past year in her business. She created a new workshop, "Reclaim Your Rhythm," for helpers and healers. Listen as we talk about how she filled up her workshops, the vulnerability of leveling up, and tuning into the rhythms of your business.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Creating a workshop for helpers and healers helping them find calm in the chaos
• How she came up with the idea for the workshop and designed it
• Leaning into her email list to fill her workshop
• Tuning into your internal rhythms
• How to tune into your rhythms within your business
• The vulnerability and boldness of leveling up
• Next steps and new offers in her business
• Her fees (real numbers as usual)
• Working through money mindset issues

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/52

Narissa Harris says "I'm a black woman first and a clinician second." Her happy place is working on awareness around African American culture. She's extremely generous in her approach to helping therapists find their way to more humility and sensitivity. She dives into how she created her workshops, built her practice, and became her own boss.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Offering workshops on cultural awareness
• Creating several effective Cultural Awareness workshops
• Dealing with the resistance of people who are afraid to discuss racism
• Her monthly newsletter, "Walk A Day In My Culture"
• Being raw and unapologetic
• Being profiled and knowing her husband is profiled
• Her fees (real numbers as usual)
• Getting through low moments in her practice
• Cycles of ebbs and flows in her private practice
• Making the transition to private practice
• Using insurance as a part of her private practice
• Reminding herself that she's the boss of her business

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/51

How are you doing with social media? Patrice N Douglas will show you how to have fun with it. In this conversation, she shares her passion for destigmatizing mental health issues and ways she uses to social media to get her message out. She also dives into how she uses social media to support other therapists. Not only is Patrice not competitive with her peers, she's a champion of their work.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Providing online therapy
• Creating and selling "Black Minds Matter" and "Therapy Saves Lives" T-shirts
• Specializing in anger management
• How she balances her time between agency and private practice
• Her big why: Destigmatizing mental health issues
• Her Therapist of the week spotlight on Instagram
• Developing her brand with a branding specialist
• Networking online with other therapists

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/patrice-n-douglas

Think you've got to be someone else in order to succeed in your business? Nope. April Snow shares how she ignored the noise and listened to her wise inner voice as she was setting up her private practice. She knew she wanted to work with Highly Sensitive People, and that's what she does, quite successfully. Listen as we dive into her entrepreneurial journey.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Taking the leap and niching with highly sensitive people
• Clearing away the noise and taking her time with business decisions
• Managing the overwhelm of private practice with self-care and systems
• Taking self-care seriously
• Starting a community for Highly Sensitive Therapists
• Being OK with seeing fewer clients every week
• Her journey of taking her fee from 120 up to 175 and soon higher
• Getting comfortable with money
• Her writing routine
• The Highly Sensitive Therapists Retreat in July in Santa Cruz
• Marketing without getting overwhelmed
• A sneak peek at her 5-year plan

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/april-snow

Sarah Leitschuh believes you could be feeling calmer and happier in your life. She helps therapists find ways to feel more energy outside the therapy room. Just a few of the keys are: creating systems that work, saying no more often, and prioritizing self-care.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Recognizing when you need help
• Knowing when to say no
• Her own examples of saying yes to too much
• Tips on getting your email under control
• Figuring out what only you can do and what you can delegate
• Looking at systems in your business and figuring out how to make them work for you
• Blocking out time for tasks
• Her fees for both therapy and coaching and how she feels about them

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/sarah-leitschuh

Traci Ruble wants you to play bigger. She's tired of the false message that the more powerful one of us is, the smaller others have to be. She believes that the bigger you are, the more room you make for others to be big too. As a public speaker, founder of a therapy center, and creator of the Sidewalk Talk movement, she's had lots of opportunities to navigate this challenging territory. Listen as we dive into her journey of embracing her power.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Creating a group private practice called Psyched In SF
• Managing our inner dialogues of self-criticism
• Creating a movement called "Sidewalk Talk" to be out in the community, listening
• Balancing her different kinds of work, parenting, volunteering, and partnering
• How she delegates big parts of her work life
• Owning her Superpower of public speaking more and more
• Getting support from her inner circle and ignoring the opinions of others
• Distinguishing her smaller self from her more powerful self
• Being generous to other women who inspire her
• The myth that if you're bigger you'll make others smaller
• Why she charges a relatively high fee
• Talking to clients about money in deep and helpful ways
• Adulting around her own money
• The money rituals and systems that are helping her

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/traci-ruble

Does documentation stress you out? Maelisa Hall shares how you can create a more peaceful relationship with your private practice paperwork. As a documentation expert and a person living with ADHD, Maelisa has tons of tips to help you change your relationship to the paperwork monster.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How she found her business bestie and started a podcast with her
• Taking a work retreat to get stuff done
• Closing her therapy practice to focus on her online business
• Why paperwork is so painful and daunting for some therapists
• Some ways to make documentation work for you and your personal preferences
• When to do your notes if you don't want to do them between sessions
• The importance of talking about your documentation worries so you can get help
• Making a sustainable plan for taking care of documentation
• How ADHD impacts her own story with documentation and time management
• Her advice about taking pressure off of yourself as an entrepreneur

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/maelisa-hall

If you ever fear that you can't serve the people who need you AND make a great living, you'll want to hear Selma's story. She's the creator of the podcast The Parent-Child Relationship Guru and she serves children and families who struggle with trauma and attachment issues. Selma has created a business that gives her a balanced life and helps her avoid burning out.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How she delegated to cut WAY down on the time she was spending on her podcast
• How she keeps referrals coming in
• Her fees (actual numbers as usual) and how she arrived at them
• How she went from a scarcity mindset to embracing being an entrepreneur
• Simplifying her business so that it serves her right fit client and keeps her doing what she's great at
• Offering in-person therapy, online consultations, and parenting classes
• How she's set her schedule
• Her advice for an overwhelmed therapist

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/selma-bacevac

Dr. Natalie Jones tells us that when you're a private practice entrepreneur, you've got to be constantly working on yourself, growing, and opening up to helpful feedback. Listen as she talks about the limiting beliefs she's worked through and how she's established herself as an expert in her field.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Working with criminal offenders and folks who have been victims of narcissistic abuse
• Charging a higher fee than most of her colleagues
• Creating the podcast A Date With Darkness and how much time she puts into it
• Building her profile as an expert witness
• How she sets up her schedule wearing many hats
• The way she thinks about public speaking: as conversation and story-telling
• The limiting beliefs she's needed to work through to own her own business
• Making sure she's compensated through her fee for all the non-face-to-face work she does

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/natalie-jones

Do you believe you have to do things you hate in order to fill your practice? Chris has a few ways of keeping her practice full, and she enjoys all of them. She shares how she maintains a balance between parenting, private practice, and being a singer-songwriter. If you want to create a private practice you'll love for years and years, you'll want to hear her story.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Choosing a niche related to her own life journey (parents and future parents)
• Negotiating different roles in her life (parent/singer-songwriter and therapist)
• Setting fees and what gender has to do with it
• How she keeps her practice full
• Her networking strategy
• Advice for a therapist planning a maternity leave
• Finding the right schedule for her life

Show notes at http://coachingwithannie.com/podcast/chris-weipert