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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

It's My Ride With Michelle Markwart Deveaux

It's My Ride With Michelle Markwart Deveaux

What do you do to package yourself up and make yourself acceptable or popular?

What would it be like to be more yourself in every single place you show up?

How would it impact your business to move further in this direction?

In this week's podcast episode, I dive into those questions with Michelle Markwart Deveaux. Michelle works with voice professionals to become the people they need to be in order to run the businesses they want to create.

Michelle runs a thriving business with a lot of clients and a large audience. When she was just a year in, she ran a 30-day experiment. She tried showing up 100% as herself everywhere.

Burn Your Therapy License With Annie Schuessler

Burn Your Therapy License With Annie Schuessler

I've already talked to some of you about this episode. You've probably already seen the title. Burn your therapy license.

Let me explain. Before you decide I've taken this all WAY too far.

I'm talking about symbolically burning your therapy license. As an exercise.

It may seem extreme, but over these years of helping therapists expand beyond private practice, I've discovered that THIS is sometimes your biggest obstacle.

Title: Ease And Intuition With Michelle Irving

Title: Ease And Intuition With Michelle Irving

What will YOUR signature program look like? How will you create it?

One of the best ways for you to understand how you'll get there is to hear the stories of entrepreneurs who have taken their gifts and turned them into online programs.

My guest this week shares how she created a successful online group program using a ton of intuition as well as experience.

Meet Michelle Irving. She's best known for 2 areas of work: helping women find Feminine Maturity and guiding women into the Sacred Power of Illness. She's been bed bound twice in the last decade with serious illness herself. She now mentors women around the world.

Transparency And Liberation With Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

Transparency And Liberation With Lindsay Bryan-Podvin

This week I'm talking to Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, a biracial financial therapist, speaker, and author. In her clinical practice, she helps people get their mind and money in balance. She's also expanded her services to help private practice therapists grow sustainable practices from the inside out.

Last time Lindsay was on Rebel Therapist Podcast was almost exactly a year ago. Check out Lindsay's episode on December 3rd, 2019 about creating and launching her first scaled offer. It's a popular and valuable episode! Here it is. https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/113

Use Science Fiction To Imagine Your Business With Michelle Auerbach

Use Science Fiction To Imagine Your Business With Michelle Auerbach

You don't have to create your business based on what's already been done. In this moment, there's no excuse to create your business by default.

How do you create a new vision for what your business will look like?

That's the question I'm tackling today. Our guest, Michelle Auerbach, is an author and consultant for entrepreneurs and organizations. She suggests mining science fiction for some of that vision.

Quit Your Job With Jelisha Gatling

Quit Your Job With Jelisha Gatling

When is it time to take a brave step in your business? My guest is Jelisha Gatling. She helps therapists make the brave move of leaving their jobs and jumping all the way into private practice.

I help therapists, healers and entrepreneurs take the brave step of creating a business beyond a traditional private practice.

So we discovered that we have a lot in common. We both help people get ready enough to do scary things, and then we hold their hands while they leap.

One thing we both know through personal experience is that you can't wait until you're ready to take a brave step. You can only be ready enough.

In this conversation, Jelisha shares how it's been for her to take the brave step of creating a business for therapists.

Grow Your Email List With Anya Manes

Grow Your Email List With Anya Manes

Having a list of subscribers who are into what you're doing is a HUGE game changer in your business.

If you're selling a course or membership or workshop series or really ANY kind of scaled offer, you want an email list.

I know my own email list needed to hit 600 people before I was making a significant income in my business. I still have a relatively small list, of just over 2000 people as I'm recording this. I say that to say that you don't need a HUGE list to make a good living, but you do need a list of people who want your stuff.

If you're working on getting your first 1000 subscribers or your next thousand, you're going to want to hear this.

My guest is Anya mahNess, an educator and coach who helps parents have open communication with their kids so they can talk about sex and relationships.

She's grown an email list of 8000 people.

If you google how to grow an email list, you might find some helpful resources, but you'll also find some icky tactics there that don't really resonate.

An email list that was grown with those kinds of tactics is NOT the kind of email list you want. You want an email list you grew by offering value.

That's exactly what Anya Manes has done.

Creating An Edgy Business With Karen Wolfe

Creating An Edgy Business With Karen Wolfe

How would you do things differently the second time around?

I've talked a lot about the stages of a rebel business, meaning a business beyond the treatment room. In episodes 118 and 119 in February, I walked us through the things you might go through as a business owner during those stages.

This week I'm talking to a business owner who's already got one thriving business, and one business that's just starting out.

I wanted to delve into what she's experiencing differently and what she's doing differently with the benefit of knowing so much more the second time around.

I'm talking to Karen Wolfe, a therapist who specializes in working with parents and children, and with a newer focus that we're going to delve into right.....NOW.

It's called embodiment and sexual polarity.

Legal Matters With Elizabeth Potts Weinstein

Legal Matters With Elizabeth Potts Weinstein

As an entrepreneur creating a business beyond the treatment room, you're gonna have legal questions. I certainly can't answer them. I'm bringing you a podcast episode with someone who can: my own lawyer, Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Before we dived into her thoughts on your legal needs, I asked her about how she runs her own business: the systems she uses, the way she structures her time, and how she works with her team.

Then she shared some helpful and nuanced thoughts on what you need to take care of on the legal side.

Navigating Business As A New Mom With Narissa Harris

Navigating Business As A New Mom With Narissa Harris

I don't talk a lot about being a mom and an entrepreneur, and I've resisted identifying myself as a "mamapreneur." I've always worked with tons of business owners who are NOT parents, and I didn't want to pigeon hole myself in that particular way or to alienate folks who are not parents.

...But we are going there today in a big way. I'm talking to Narissa Harris, a therapist, writer, podcaster and cultural consultant. She and her husband Art cofounded Culture First, where they provide consultation and training around cultural awareness and sensitivity. Narissa and Art are the parents of a 1 year old. In this episode, we dive in and get real about what's working for her in building their company while also raising a tiny human together.

Listening To Black Entrepreneurs

Listening To Black Entrepreneurs

Hello Rebel listener. I've decided to not release a new episode this week. I stand in solidarity with Black listeners, podcasters, healers, therapists, entrepreneurs, friends and family.

I want to recommend something right now that's been so helpful to me as a white person who owns a business. Wherever you're listening to this right now, head to the podcast called That's Not How That Works. Hit play on their episode released on May 28th, 2020.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-not-how-that-works/id1358150402

Executive Coaching With Dr. Alyssa Adams

Executive Coaching With Dr. Alyssa Adams

You may have heard about these executive coaches who make hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour. I've been in rooms where therapists are kind of pissed off about how much money they're making.

They say: "Why are these executive coaches bringing in money hand over fist? It's not fair. Some of them don't even have the training I have!"

Could some small part of that reaction be envy? Just a little? And maybe a little bit of binary thinking?

This work over here is altruistic. That work over there is not. Hmmm.

Side note...I know for sure people have those thoughts about business coaches like me, because I've been in those rooms too. But that's for a different day.

I have been really curious about executive coaching. Here's what we tackle in this episode:

What's it like to be an executive coach?

Would you like it?

Could you do it?

How would you get started?

How would you get clients?

Our guest is helping us answer all of that.

Dr. Alyssa Adams is A psychologist, intuitive business coach, and executive coach.

Color Outside With Nailah Blades Wylie

Color Outside With Nailah Blades Wylie

This week, I'm talking to Nailah Blades Wylie, founder of Color Outside. She's a professional coach, consultant, retreat leader, and communications strategist. She runs retreats and in-person events for women of color. That's the part of her work we're focusing on today, so that you can get a master class in what makes an in-person retreat successful.