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Annie Schuessler
The Best Niches Beyond Private Practice

This week I shared my thoughts on niching beyond private practice and at the end I gave you a small list of niches I think we need more of you to create programs and services around.

The Best Niches Beyond Private Practice

Less Social Media With Maddi Rundle

Less Social Media With Maddi Rundle

How do you sell a program? Make a dream list. Make a list of the people you’d love to work with and invite them. Meet Maddi Rundle, a master yoga instructor, therapist, and entrepreneur in Ontario, Canada.  In this conversation, we talk about how Maddi co-created a training program for yoga instructors and a year-long online course. You’ll hear how Maddi has grown her programs without doing all the stuff she saw other people doing online. She has pushed past fear and other people’s rules to create a business she’s in love with.

Throw Away The Box With Ali Shapiro

Throw Away The Box With Ali Shapiro

Ali Shapiro is the host of the podcast Insatiable and the founder of the program Truce with Food. She created a unique framework for helping people transform their relationships with food and life. Listen to Ali developed her framework and built her thriving business. You’ll hear that Ali is committed to helping her clients achieve radical and lasting change and that the decisions she makes in her business are all aimed in that direction.

Yoga For Trauma With Lisa Danylchuk

Yoga For Trauma With Lisa Danylchuk

This week I’m talking to Lisa Danylchuk, founder of The Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery. She’s an author, psychotherapist, yoga teacher trainer and entrepreneur. You’re gonna hear how Lisa’s business has developed organically from her drive to help more people with the Yoga for Trauma movement. We can learn a lot from listening to how she went from leading in-person trainings to creating her online training program. She’ll also talk about why she created in-person retreats around the world. Listen in particular to how Lisa leans into the value of persistence. Persistence is one of the most important and perhaps under-rated keys to success in your business.

Running Retreats With Rebecca Wong

Running Retreats With Rebecca Wong

Today we are talking about in-person retreats. If you’ve ever run an in-person retreat or considered adding in-person retreats to your business, you’re going to love this conversation. Rebecca talks about why in-person retreats are such an important part of her business, some mistakes she and others have made in running retreats, and some things she does to make her retreats such life-changing experiences. We’ll also talk about the retreat Rebecca and I are co-leading at the end of April 2019, Signature Heart & Soul Retreat.

Express Yourself With Joe Zarate-Sanderlin

Express Yourself With Joe Zarate-Sanderlin

Joe has discovered a new, more introverted way to be an activist within his business, therapy sessions, and teaching work. He finds that the more open he is about his identities and his experience, the more helpful he is to others. Listen as Joe talks about the gender journey he’s experienced in the past couple of years and how his personal experiences have expanded his leadership as a therapist and an educator.

Creating A Conference With Mercedes Samudio

Creating A Conference With Mercedes Samudio

Mercedes was tired of seeing a lack of diversity at professional conferences. She had respect for the celebrated leaders in the field, but she also saw a need for new voices. She decided she needed to do something about it, and in just a few months, Mercedes founded the Diversity In Parenting Conference. Listen to the incredible growth she’s had during this process. You might not be putting on a conference, but you’ve got your own brave moves to make. Where is YOUR voice needed? Listening to Mercedes talk about her deep mindset work will help you get moving too.

Creating A Second Business With Ellie Vargas

Creating A Second Business With Ellie Vargas

We all face moments when we see an opportunity to do something new, and we either take action, or we don’t. Ellie took action and created Bay Area Immigration Evaluation Center, a company providing evaluations all around the Bay. Listen as we talk about how and why she did this when she already had a therapy practice. You’ll hear how she grew her skillset and her mindset as she grew her business. If you’re thinking of adding ANY offer to your practice or creating a second business, you’ll want to hear Ellie’s story.

Rebel Leadership With April Harter, Part 2

Rebel Leadership With April Harter, Part 2

April Harter has built an anti-racism coaching program, and she’s doing things in a totally new way. If you haven’t heard the first half of our conversation, go back to Part 1, where we talked about the business she’s built. This week we delve further into her mindset shifts, self-care, and boundaries. You’ll hear April’s advice for her former self, and you might find that a lot of it applies to you.

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Rebel Therapist

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Rebel Therapist

This week it’s just you and me. I’m taking this podcast and my company in a new direction, and I want to tell you about it.

This has been percolating under the surface for quite a while. There’s been this part of me, which started as kind of a whisper and then became more of a shout. And now I’m ready to share it and I think you’re ready to hear about it.

Amplifying Your Impact With Danielle Matthew

Amplifying Your Impact With Danielle Matthew

Focusing on meeting the needs of your right-fit clients may take you beyond the therapy room. Danielle Matthews is devoted to helping kids who are dealing with bullying. This work led her to write a book, give presentations, and create a 10-week program to help kids, their parents and their schools to address bullying. Find out how Danielle accomplished all of this in less than two years and what it takes to make a bigger impact on your business.

Making Business Sacred With Isa Gucciardi

Making Business Sacred With Isa Gucciardi

If you believe being of service or being spiritual doesn’t go with making money, this conversation is for you. Isa Gucciardi, the creator of Depth Hypnosis and founder of The Sacred Stream, believes that money and life energy can be in alignment. When you reject money, she believes you limit how much help you can give. Listen as she describes how she has developed her services far beyond the therapy room over the last 30 plus years. You’ll hear both the tactical stuff and the theories behind her tactics.

Relocating Your Therapy Practice With Kaitlin Geenen

Relocating Your Therapy Practice With Kaitlin Geenen

Moving your therapy practice to a new town can be scary. Kaitlin walks us through how she moved her business from San Francisco to Livermore, a smaller town an hour away. In our conversation, she talks about everything from finding new office space to creating a new network of colleagues to working through the mindset issues came up during this transition.

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Your Fitness And Your Business

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Your Fitness And Your Business

What if you need to BE different in order to accomplish your next goals? What if the missing link is not working harder or investing more money in your business, but rather making your SELF more resilient and strong?

This week it’s just you and me. I’m gonna talk about something that’s been on my mind.

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Once You're Full With Maureen Fiorelli

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Once You're Full With Maureen Fiorelli

Listen as Maureen talks about how she keeps her practice full and what she’s doing to leverage her skills beyond her therapy room. You’ll hear some solid ideas about marketing online and creating high-quality referral partnerships. You’ll want to implement some of these right away.

Maureen has used two different business models to expand her income. You’ll hear what worked, what didn’t, and what she might do next.

More Creativity With Loretta Staples

More Creativity With Loretta Staples

Are you tapping into your creativity to run your business and your life? Loretta Staples is a private practice entrepreneur as her 5th career. She’s proudly 64, and she’s learned quite a lot about how to follow your intuition and take action to get yourself unstuck. If you’re heading for burnout in your life or business or if you feel like there’s a lack of YOU in your business, listen up.

Stopping The Chase With Montoyia McGowan

Stopping The Chase With Montoyia McGowan

Starting a private practice can be hard. Raising your fees can be hard. Putting yourself out there to grow your practice can be hard.

This week I talked to Montoyia McGowan, and we talked about how she pushed through a low moment. Six months in, her practice was extremely low, and she was considering letting it go. A friend told her to give it another six months. She did. She challenged herself to network, market her business, and really put herself out there. She came through the other side with a waitlist. Listen as she dives into her mindset work and the steps she takes to keep her business thriving.