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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

High Functioning Anxiety In Your Business With Nancy Jane Smith

High Functioning Anxiety In Your Business With Nancy Jane Smith

I deal with a lot of anxiety. Sometimes people don't know that because I usually appear calm. And I tend to get a lot done. I cope with my anxiety BY getting things done.

But my anxiety isn't only helpful. It's also kind of nasty.

I have an inner critic that speaks up when I'm anxious, and I don't like that. It hurts. Still, me and anxiety are such old friends, and we've gotten so much done together. My productivity is fueled by my anxiety.

How am I gonna give that up? Who would I be without anxiety? would I get anything done?

The work of Nancy Jane Smith has really helped me step out of this binary way of thinking about my anxiety and my productivity.

When I recorded this interview, I had just finished her book The Happier Approach. It's been a couple months now, I'm still using her concepts regularly, and they're helping. In fact the pandemic classification and shelter in place happened after we recorded this. So anxiety much? Yes! I'm glad to have read this book.

I appreciate how she shares her OWN journey with anxiety in this interview.

You'll also hear a lot about how she developed her unique message about high functioning anxiety and is building her company around that unique message.

Small And Sustainable With Megan deBoer

Small And Sustainable With Megan deBoer

How do you find your ideal business model? A business model is simply the different ways you make money. When you go beyond the therapy room, you've got SO many options. How do you decide the optimal combination of offerings for you?

Small group? Large group? Evergreen course? Workshop?

That's the question I wanted to delve into with my guest this week. Her answer is unique to her own superpowers and the needs of her clients, but listening to her process will help you think through your own answer.

Introducing Megan deBour, a financial wellness coach. Listen as we explore how she developed her current offerings, her take on growth, and what she had to work through in order to grow her own income.

Stages Of A Rebel Business, Part 2

Stages Of A Rebel Business, Part 2

This is part 2, a continuation from the last episode. We're talking about the stages a Rebel Business goes through. Here are the stages as I think about them:

Create stage: this is where you create your business beyond the therapy room.

Grow stage: this is where your business starts making a real income.

Expand stage. this is where you really hit your stride.

Limitless Growth stage: this is where you grow your empire to 7 figures and beyond.

For each stage, I'll talk about the biggest internal change that can happen, what we most need to do and put in place during this stage, and what can go wrong. I'll also tell you what programs I've got to help you through the different stages.

Stages Of A Rebel Business

Stages Of A Rebel Business

One of my Rebel Therapist Masterminders mentioned recently that they like it that these episodes feature people at different stages of business. That got me to thinking. I've never really done an episode on the different stages and what gets folks from one stage to another. I realized I would have found an episode about that really helpful when I was going through the earlier stages, so I'm making it for you.

I'm gonna talk about what I know I needed and what I see my clients and colleagues needing in each of these stages. I'll give examples and refer you to Rebel Therapist episodes you might want to listen to about people going through each of these stages.

Ask Your People With Ayelet Marinovich

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.

Membership Communities With Kim Restivo Lange

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

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.

Pricing Your Genius With Jacquette Timmons

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.

Permission To Do It Differently With Heather Gray

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!