She was working 20 hours a day in fee-for-service medicine, and her supervisor was online at 3am too, totally unbothered. That's when Dr. Victoria Leventis-Shew knew nothing was ever going to change. So she changed everything.

Dr. Leventis-Shew is the founder of Victory Family Medicine in Columbia, SC, a physician-only micropractice she built intentionally, organically, and on her own terms. In this episode she gets radically honest about the financial decisions that shaped her DPC journey: using retirement savings to launch, hiring a consulting firm she wasn't sure she needed, growing slowly without advertising, and why a financial advisor has been one of her most important investments.

What we cover:

• The 3am moment that made leaving feel like survival, not a choice
• Using retirement funds to launch, and why she'd do it again
• The real cost of hiring a consulting firm (and the complicated truth about whether it was worth it)
• Why slow, organic growth is a financial strategy, not a failure
• How a micropractice under 130 patients can be sustainable and deeply fulfilling
• What financial sustainability actually looks like when you're a solo physician with no staff

🗓️ March on My DPC Story: Sustainable DPC Economics Every episode this month explores what it takes to build a DPC practice built to last. Listen to the full series.

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