How do you create and fill a group program?
How do you navigate a full therapy practice at the same time?
We’re about to go behind the scenes and find out exactly how my guest has done it.
Meet Sonya Brewer, a trauma specialist and relationship expert who specializes in creative life and relationship design for overachieving trauma survivors and their partners.
People ask me all the time “What should I do now to grow my business?”
Often they say: “I heard….is a good idea. Should l do that?”
Every online business expert is selling their thing to us. (Including me!)
Our friends and colleagues tell us that what they are doing now is THE thing that works.
It’s confusing to figure out what to invest our time and money in and what to try.
What should YOU focus on next?
My approach to goal setting and productivity have changed in a big way based on what you’re about to hear.
Listener favorite Tara McMullin is back on Rebel Therapist Podcast, talking about a huge pivot she’s made in her work life. She's also sharing her new book, What Works, A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal-Setting.
People ask me all the time: How can I compete with the big names?
My short answer: Don’t.
Your program has the potential to be better than those of the big names, if you lean into providing a high touch, highly intimate experience.
In this episode I share how and why you can ignore what the big names are doing and instead be a valuable disruptor in your field.
If you’re wondering what kind of program you should create when you move beyond private practice, keep listening. Our guest has created a totally unique program. She figured out its format by trusting herself. She had to move through the doubt and questions that so many of us deal with.
Is this enough? Am I enough?
Mishara also talks about why she’s retired her license. You’re going to love her reasons even if you know you’re keeping yours.
This is the final episode in a miniseries featuring entrepreneurs who have created phenomenal programs, and the lessons they’ve learned.
Today you’ll hear why one of these entrepreneurs needed to bring her farmer self to her program, why a solo mom realized she needed to create a different program, why one psychologist finds her coaching program liberating, and why collaboration is so so important.
I’m so glad you’ve been with me on this series.
This is part 5 in a podcast mini series featuring rebellious entrepreneurs.
This is a treat. I’ve roped these four wonderful entrepreneurs into showing up and sharing their stories with you. You’re about to hear about the programs beyond private practice they’ve each created, and one lesson each person learned in the process of creating and marketing their program.
These lessons cover everything from mindset to marketing strategy.
This week on the podcast, we're hearing from four entrepreneurs who have created phenomenal programs beyond private practice. This is part four in a pod mini series featuring cameo appearances (or a-hear-ances?) from folks who have been through Rebel Therapist programs this year. You’ll hear what they created and the biggest lesson they each learned in the process.
Here's part three in a series within Rebel Therapist Podcast sharing the voices of people who have been through Rebel Therapist programs recently. They have created some phenomenal offerings.
I want you to hear from them because
It will inspire you to realize you can create something amazing too.
You will get to hear a bit about what they learned in creating these programs and that will help normalize the process entrepreneurs go through.
You may fall in love with them. I know I have.
They're sharing all about the programs they've created and the lessons they've learned so far in leveling up beyond private practice.
This is part 2 in a series sharing the voices of people who have been through Rebel Therapist programs recently. They have created some phenomenal offerings.
I want you to hear from them because
It will inspire you to realize you can create something amazing too.
You will get to hear a bit about what they learned in creating these programs and that will help normalize the process entrepreneurs go through.
You may fall in love with them. I know I have.
So for this series, you’ll be hearing from these incredible folks.
Show Notes:
I briefly mentioned some really incredible entrepreneurs in episode 164: The Best Niches Beyond Private Practice. My friend Podge listened and then said something like: Are we going to have a chance to hear more about all of these people? I want to hire ALL of them!
That is a fantastic idea. Even better, I want you to get to hear FROM a lot of these people.
This is a series sharing the voices of people who have been through Rebel Therapist programs recently. They have created some phenomenal programs.
I’ve craved this sabbatical for years. My sister is a public school teacher and sometimes she takes several weeks off during the summer.
I’ve always envied her weeks off. As my sister went on long road trips with her family or just slowed down at home, I’d find myself thinking…”must be nice.”
Then immediately I’d feel ashamed about my envy.
Bari Tessler, M.A., is a Financial Therapist and the Founder of The Art of Money, a year-long money school. She’s a pioneer in the Financial Therapy field and the Author of The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness.
In this episode, she shares the journey she’s been through with the marketing of this course over the last two years, including some really tough moments. You’ll hear about the financial decisions, the marketing strategy, and the emotional side of this journey.
So let’s say you’ve created a wonderful signature program, and people sign up. Fabulous!
Then someone asks for a refund.
😕
What should you do?
That’s the question I answer in this week’s episode.
I walk you through how to get through the initial moment, then to make a decision, create a solid refund policy moving forward, and finally to make moves that will help you have less refund requests and more happy participants.
Lots of my clients are afraid to do webinars. Like I can’t think about anything else, I just want to cancel it kind of afraid. Like I’m convinced I will make a total fool of myself kind of afraid. Like can I just get under the covers instead kind of afraid. Like sweaty-as-hell-armpits kind of afraid.
I used to be afraid to do webinars too. In this episode I talk about why it might be worth it to move through that fear, and I share 23 ways to make webinars go better for you and your attendees.
The short answer to the question “Do I have to do a webinar?” is, of course, no. You are the boss of you.
Meet Silvana Espinoza Lau.
She’s a psychotherapist, consultant, and embodied liberation educator dedicated to supporting other mental health practitioners in their journeys of decolonization and liberation. Through Decolonize Your Practice, she helps fellow colleagues decolonize their practices in a wholesome and embodied way so that they can serve their clients in a practice centered on anti-oppression, liberation, and decolonization.
What should I charge the very first time I offer my program beyond private practice?
Um, actually I get this question pretty much EVERY week. It’s one of the most common questions I hear and it’s one of my favorites to dig into.
I’m talking about pricing an offer beyond your therapy sessions...something like a workshop, coaching program, retreat or course.
Introducing Miranda Palmer and Kelly Higdon, the founders of ZynnyMe. They are two licensed therapists coming together to empower private practice owners to serve at their highest and best, improve clinical outcomes through business planning, and to break the statistic that mental health clinicians are the worst paid Masters’ degree.
In this conversation, they let me get extremely nosy about how things work behind the scenes with their very successful and popular flagship offer.
