This week I’m talking to Abi Weissman, a psychologist, founder of Waves Group Practice in San Diego, providing queer and trans centered depth work, and a sought after speaker.
Ask Your People With Ayelet Marinovich
Meet Ayelet Marinovich, an author, pediatric speech-language pathologist, parent educator, and podcaster.
Ayelet built the Learn With Less Empire, helping parents learn to maximize the time and energy they have with their tiny humans, so they can do the big job of raising them.
As you listen to Ayelet's journey to creating learn with less as it is today, there's a theme I want you to listen for:
Ask Your People.
One of the rebel therapists in my program asked me recently what sets apart people who's programs succeed, and this is one of those things: have a regular practice of asking your people.
Have a habit of asking your people from the very beginning and then along the way.
I think this episode can serve as a master class in that practice.
Ayelet asked her people at every step of building her company. The first person she listened to was herself. As a new parent, she asked herself what she was needing, and then she asked other parents and caregivers what they were needing. She responded to those things.
From there, she continued to ask what they were finding most helpful about what she was providing, and what else they needed. She iterated her program several times and published 2 best-selling books, all in response to what she learned in these conversations.
As you're listening to this episode, I hope you'll be getting yourself ready to take action on ASKING YOUR PEOPLE. If you haven't created the first iteration of your signature program, I hope you'll look for opportunities to start conversations to find out what your people are struggling with.
If you've already offered one iteration or more of your program, I hope you'll ask your people what they found most helpful and what else they need.
Asking is a practice we've got to do over and over, because we can't take one person's answer and run with it. Your people won't all agree.
We've got to ask and listen over and over again so that we can notice the patterns and tendencies.
What Drives A Rebel Therapist
Membership Communities With Kim Restivo Lange
This week I’m talking to Kim Restivo Lange, a therapist and entrepreneur in Wilmington, North Carolina. Listen as we talk about how and why she created the Growing Up Confident Collective, a membership for parents who want to help their kids with social and emotional learning. Kim tuned out the most common advice and conventions about what she SHOULD be doing in her business in order to create the vision for her collective. In this conversation we get into how she made the rebellious decision to start her community before some people would have said she had a big enough audience.
Your First Scaled Offer With Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
This week I’m talking to Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, a financial therapist and entrepreneur. Lindsay describes herself as being at the very beginning of her journey of scaling her services beyond 1:1 or 1:2. We dive into how she's creating a group workshop and a 6-month course to help couples with personal finance. You'll hear how she is using all of her experiences in the therapy room to create thoughtful programs that encourage deep transformation.
Time & Energy Management With 2 Rebel Therapists
Write Your Book With Dr. Holly Sawyer
So Do It! With Kelly Pratt
Radical Business With Sonalee Rashatwar
Beyond Psychiatry With Dr. Erin Griffiths
What You're Known For With Sarah Argenal
Pricing Your Genius With Jacquette Timmons
This week I’m featuring Jacquette Timmons, a financial behaviorist in New York City. We focused on two areas: how she prices her offerings and how she builds and nurtures her audience. If you're working on expanding your business beyond the therapy room, those are two areas you know require a lot of thought and attention. If you don't pay attention to them, your business can't thrive, even if your work is amazing.
Location Freedom With Ali Psiuk
Permission To Do It Differently With Heather Gray
This week I’m talking to Heather Gray, a mindset consultant who works with entrepreneurs all over the world. Listen to what Heather is doing in her business that’s working for her. It's totally different from what most other therapists and coaches are doing. Listen to how she’s using ONE form of marketing to make her business thrive. Listen also to how she’s providing service to her clients on demand rather than in regularly scheduled sessions. Of course, you’ll hear some of the mindset work she’s moved through herself, which she now helps her clients move through.
I left this conversation with new ideas for my own business and I think you will too!
Multi-faceted Expansion With Jamie Marich
Smart Growth With Tara McMullin
This week I’m talking to Tara McMullin, a powerhouse in the realm of serving small business owners. She’s the founder of the What Works Network and host of the What Works podcast. Listen as we talk about the transitions Tara has been through in her business. You’ll hear how starting with a VERY narrow niche helped to accelerate her growth. We also talk about how her ROLE has changed, and how and why she’s shifted away from advice-giving. You’ll also hear what’s been working extremely well for Tara in communicating on social media. It’s all about story telling. As soon as you hear her experience with human-sized stories, you'll start using social media differently. Tara believes in sharing experience rather than advice, and you’re in for a treat as she shares some key parts of her own experiences in business.
Why Branding Matters With Jenny Ambrose
I brought in the branding goddess who's helped me with Rebel Therapist, Jenny Ambrose of Puree Fantastico. She's here to tell you that branding is not what you think it is. Branding is a way to express who you are, what you do, and even what it FEELS like to work with you. Yep, good branding goes deep. Good branding integrates everything in your business. In this conversation, we talk about my experience working with Jenny and how my own ideas about branding evolved with her help. She also gives us ideas about how to get started with branding on your own and how to know whether it might be a good time to hire a pro.
Lessons Learned In Leveling Up
This is episode 100! I wanted to do something special and different this week.
The theme today is lessons learned in expanding your business.
I’ve been running this program, Rebel Mastermind, where therapists level up their businesses and serve in new ways beyond the therapy room.
I invited some folks who are in the middle of that program to bravely share with you.
I asked each of them to tell us one surprising thing they’ve learned or are learning in the process of expanding their businesses, and how that lesson is playing out in their businesses so far.
Creating A Podcast With Jessica Jones
This week I’m talking to Jessica Jones, a registered dietician and co-founder of the very popular podcast Food Heaven Made Easy. Listen as we talk about how Jessica and Wendy Lopez developed their podcast, exactly how they plan and create each episode, and how they maintain a healthy business partnership and close friendship. I’m really into bringing you amazing people like Jessica. It’s helpful to hear from people in our field, but it’s also SO helpful to hear from people in adjacent fields. Sometimes that’s where I’ve gotten my best ideas and practices, and that’s been true for the Rebels in my masterminds as well.
Business Trauma With Nicole Lewis-Keeber
Do you have a healthy relationship with your business? Or is it sometimes toxic and abusive? Have you recreated old unhealthy patterns into your business? Nicole Lewis-Keeber is an expert on how trauma impacts business and how to heal it. When I looked at my own business through this lens, I realized I had been unconsciously setting up some damaging habits. For example, I was sometimes setting myself up to try to please everyone. Even though I would never tell others to do this. I was sometimes doing things I no longer wanted to because...who was I to say I wanted to make a change. Listen as we talk about how and why Nicole created a VIP one-on-one service for entrepreneurs and how she’s getting her message out to entrepreneurs everywhere. She’s opening up a very important conversation and I’m glad to share it with you.