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I am always advocating for the simplest possible solution. So in addition to my longer form episodes, I will sprinkle in these brief and actionable Super Simple Strategies episodes that will hopefully spark some inspiration and support for you and your practice.

Today we are talking about the technically easy, but sometimes psychologically hard, act of reaching out. Who can you get in touch with today!?

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There are certain things that make solo, self-employed private practice a great business model for quality of life.

However, I also often see practitioners unconsiously setting themselves up to fail by denying themselves the ability to get the full perks of being their own boss.

I talk about the main perks, and how we often sabotage our ability to enjoy them.

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There is always a lot of excitement and chatter around new business models- running a studio or center, creating an online course, or even developing your own modality and teacher training.

And I am certainly as attracted to shiny objects as much as anyone (in fact, probably much, much more...)

But there truly is no business model that I know of that is as easy to start, maintain, and earn a good living at- while maintaining a really high quality of life- as a solo self-employed private practice.

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Welcome to another edition of summer re-runs! We're going to keep the tough love coming. I mean, it's not really that tough, but it is honest! I want small healing arts businesses to thrive. I want all of us good people who got into our careers because we, first and foremost, really wanted to help people to also be well taken care of. And that means we're talking about money and earning.

When I work with clients 1:1, guess what always comes up? Earning. It's the easiest thing to ignore because it is both stressful and MATH. But it is also the thing that determines if we can take good care of ourselves, and if we are living in constant stress or feel supported. So let's talk about it!

PS- shameless self promotion- the Healing Arts Practice Incubator is open and there is an entire course on practice finances- with spreadsheets that do the math for you. You can check it out if you need more support in this area at simpleprospering.com/hapi

Welcome back to the summer re-run series! I'm pulling out some of my older episodes that I still get the most positive feedback on. And they happen to be related to slaying ideas that keep us miserable. Sometimes we have to pop the bubbles of ideas that we are supposed to agree with or keep up with so that we can make businesses (and lives) for ourselves that are supportive and satisfying.

So- especially if you feel a little lost, hopeless, or like you are on the road to, or already deep into, a burnout stage listen in to Workism, Frankenstein and the Passion Principle. Be prepared to let go of cherished ideas that circulate in the self-employed worlds.

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It's a summer re-run episode which pertains directly to why I still believe everyone should not hop on the social media bandwagon. And that, if you are a healing arts provider in private practice. It just plain will not grow your practice.

So if you love it and posting is a fun hobby for you- enjoy! If you hate it and are only posting on social media because you need to bring in more clients- I release you from this labor! Go be free! It won't grow your practice. Fostering relationships will.

This rerun is actually my first episode of Simple Prospering- titled What is the Influencer Business Model? It goes deep into all the reasons, which I still heartily agree with, about why small healing arts providers don't need to bother.

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What do you have the resources (of time, energy and money), strengths and skills for?

This is the essential question to ask yourself when starting a business, particularly when you are branching out from private practice.

This episode is actually pulled from a lesson in the Business Model Buffet, which is the bonus course within the Healing Arts Practice Incubator (HAPI). https://www.simpleprospering.com/hapi

In that course, I talk all about the different business models that people in the healing arts can use to deliver their expertise or service. Things like:

• Private practice
• Group practice
• Running a studio or center
• Signature courses
• Hosting retreats or events
• Productized services
• Membership/subscription offerings
• And, of course, hybrids of any of the above

Before we get to serving ourselves something at the buffet however (aka before we can choose a business model), we first need to do some informed inquiring into what we are and aren't up for, and what the new model will ask of us.

As we go through the life cycle of our business, we're going to come to all these different forks in the road. That's very normal. We usually wind up asking ourselves some version of the question, "Should I be branching out?" at different stages of our business.

People wonder if they should be trying out different marketing tactics, or create a new offerings, or deliver their services differently. And there is plenty of noise about what the current golden ticket is (podcasts! online courses! membership sites!) as we cycle through new trendy options.

Rather than falling for other people's hype, this episode helps to navigate how to answer the branching out question for yourself through a process I call the Assumption Busting Question Tree. It's not a catchy name, sure, but it will help you surface the assumptions you might be making and get you to a clearer, more true-to-you answer about what your right next steps are.

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Today I want to talk about the lifecycle of a healing arts business. I have been working on figuring this out for, oh… almost 24 years now… Both in navigating my own healing arts businesses (which have spanned many different business models, aka ways of delivering the service), and in helping many many other people to do the same thing.

If that sounds like a snoozefest, the reason why it's useful to connect all the dots in one place is that once you see the patterns, you can spot where you are within them (within your own business). And from there you can do a lot of things! Things like:

• Understanding what is "normal" ups and downs, and what is cause for recalibrating things

• Assessing current challenges and knowing what will actually help to alleviate them rather than throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks.

• Saving you from spending TONS OF TIME AND MONEY on things that will not help you because they are not oriented towards a tiny healing arts business, or because they are just not the right tool at the right time.

• Feeling much more comfortable in your own skin, and in your own business, based on living up to the values and desires that you have for your work, rather than all the "supposed-tos" that float around. Basically, feeling less like you are "doing it wrong" in your business, and knowing that some amount of consternation is just normal when you are self-employed.

So… hopefully this mapping of the lifecycle of a healing arts business will help you to more quickly and easily alleviate unnecessary stress!

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I'm emerging from a creative cave, and so I thought I'd talk a bit about the creative cave itself. This is when you know you want to focus thoroughly on one thing, and so you deliberately stop doing other things that will drain time energy and attention away from the One Thing.

But if you wear all the hats in your business, how do you decide what can be paused? And once you do, how do you make sure to put your creative cave time to good use?

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