WP104 | Leading the Way: Changing Your Mindset from Solo to Group Practice Owner - Podcast Takeover with Amy Dover
In this special episode of the Wise Practice Podcast, Amy Dover takes over to share her remarkable journey from solo practice to successful group practice ownership. Amy's transition wasn’t just about scaling her business—it was a deep transformation in mindset, leadership, and trust. She candidly discusses the challenges she faced in shifting from managing everything herself to empowering a team, adopting a leadership approach grounded in servant leadership and clarity. Listeners will gain valuable insights into the importance of delegation, trusting your team, and how faith and an abundance mindset can guide a growing practice to new heights. Don’t miss this episode full of practical wisdom and inspiring leadership lessons.
From Independence to Leadership
Amy's transition from solo to group practice ownership is a transformative journey, one that requires a shift from independence to leadership and collaboration. As a solo practitioner, Amy thrived in managing all aspects of her practice, from client care to administration. However, scaling into a group practice introduced new challenges that required a shift in mindset—one focused on leadership, teamwork, and trust. This evolution demanded not only technical changes but also a transformation in how she approached her role within her business.
As a solo practitioner, Amy made all decisions herself, leading and executing every task. This structure, while simpler in some ways, had its limitations, both in terms of income and personal fulfillment. The constant demands of managing everything left her feeling exhausted and isolated. Transitioning to group practice, however, expanded her responsibilities and opened up new opportunities for growth and leadership.
Servant Leadership in Group Practice
Amy recognized that leading a group practice required adopting a leadership mindset. It involved fostering collaboration, empowering her team, and setting a vision for success. A key principle in Amy’s leadership style is leading from the front—never asking her team to do something she hasn’t done herself. She draws on the servant leadership model, which resonates deeply with her, inspired by Christ’s example of serving others.
Servant leadership, for Amy, means asking, “How can I serve my team?” By prioritizing the needs of her team, she ensures they provide excellent care to clients. This leadership approach creates a powerful trickle-down effect, where a supported and empowered team delivers high-quality service, enhancing the practice’s reputation and client satisfaction.
A Guide to Effective Leadership Communication
One of the most important aspects of Amy’s leadership is clarity. She often uses the phrase, “Clarity is kindness,” to emphasize the importance of clear communication. Being direct about expectations, goals, and boundaries allows her team to perform at their best, minimizing confusion. Amy has seen firsthand how a lack of clarity can lead to misunderstandings, inefficiency, and frustration. Whether in group meetings or one-on-one interactions, she has honed her communication style to be specific and direct, leading to better outcomes and stronger relationships with her team.
In 2019, Amy experienced a pivotal moment when her administrative assistant pointed out that she was too overwhelmed with client work to be available for her team. This observation led her to realize that she hadn’t fully embraced her leadership role. At the time, Amy was still seeing clients full-time, leaving little room for her to focus on her team’s needs. This realization prompted her to prioritize leadership development, shifting her focus away from client care.
Since then, Amy has embraced her role as CEO of her practice, investing in leadership education, attending workshops, and studying how to run a high-functioning team. This shift also required a change in her financial mindset, moving from scarcity to abundance. As a group practice owner, Amy recognized that embracing a growth-oriented mindset not only expanded her income potential but also allowed her team to flourish.
A Journey from Solo Practitioner to Empowered Group Practice Leader
One of the most challenging aspects of Amy’s transition was learning to let go of control. As a solo practitioner, she had been accustomed to managing everything herself. However, as her practice grew, she had to learn to delegate tasks and trust her team to handle them. Amy understands that delegation doesn’t mean sacrificing quality; it means empowering her team to take ownership of their roles. Over time, she built a strong leadership team, including a practice manager and clinical director, who now run the practice smoothly in her absence. This trust was built over years of training, trust-building, and empowering her team to make decisions aligned with the practice’s values.
Another key challenge in Amy’s leadership journey was shifting her focus from direct client care to managing her team. She adjusted her schedule to make time for her team, creating space for office hours where they could bring questions, concerns, or ideas. This shift required balancing leadership responsibilities with client care and redefining what success looked like for her as a practice owner.
Leadership, Amy acknowledges, will test your limits, build confidence, and challenge insecurities. Fear of failure can creep in, especially when managing a larger team and a growing practice. But Amy believes that failure is rare in practice ownership—when things don’t go as planned, there’s always room to pivot and adjust.
Faith-Driven Leadership
Embracing change and growth is central to Amy’s approach to leadership. Whether transitioning her team from contractors to employees or redefining success, she understands that growth requires flexibility, resilience, and trust—in both her team and herself.
Throughout her journey, Amy has been guided by her faith. She believes in a God of abundance, not scarcity, and this belief helps her navigate the financial and leadership challenges that come with running a growing practice. Trusting in God’s plan provides Amy with a sense of peace, knowing that she can lead her team with confidence and clarity.
Ultimately, Amy’s leadership philosophy centers on the bigger picture—recognizing her team’s strengths, delegating effectively, and trusting in God’s plan for her practice. While growth and success may look different than she initially imagined, Amy knows that leading with confidence, clarity, and faith will ensure that her practice continues to thrive.
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[00:00:00] Whitney Owens: Want to quickly grow your client base? Google Ads can do the trick. TherapyFlow specializes in creating and managing effective Google Ads. They have helped thousands of practices succeed with paid ads, and they can help you too. Whether you're new to ads or looking to improve, don't wait. Book a call at MyTherapyFlow.
com for a full practice marketing consultation today. Hi, I'm Whitney Owens. I'm a group practice owner and faith based practice consultant, and I'm here to tell you that you can have it all. Want to grow your practice? Want to grow your faith? Want to enjoy your life outside of work? You've come to the right place.
Each week on the Wise Practice Podcast, I will give you the action steps to have a successful faith based practice while also having a good time. Now let's get started.
[00:00:51] Jingle: Where she grows your practice, she don't play, she does business with a twist of faith. It's Whitney Owens and the Wise Practice Podcast.
Whitney Owens and the Wise Practice Podcast.
[00:01:11] Amy Dover: Hello everyone and welcome to the Wise Practice Podcast. Podcast. I'm Amy Dover, your host today. My last episode of this podcast takeover in the month of October. And again, shout out to my girl, Whitney Owens for letting me step into her chair and do this. This has been, I've really enjoyed doing this. I love being able to, to come on here and I hope really give some, some valuable content and speak to some things that some of you are dealing with to offer encouragement and most importantly to.
To remind you guys of just the. The power and the privilege that we, we have in doing private practice and having our faith and utilizing our faith in God in our private practices. So I hope that all of you are definitely tuning into the power of prayer that you have. so maybe somehow it works for you.
Daily quiet time in to your routines and that you're seeing some really great things from that talking to our heavenly father about what you want to do with the practice where you feel like he's leading you to go with your practice and um today specifically i'd like to Talk to you about leading the way changing your mindset from solo to group practice ownership and particularly I'm going to be speaking to leadership, and this is going to be a bit of a shorter episode, and I really enjoy talking, speaking on the topic of leadership.
I find that it has been such a fun and challenging journey to work on my own leadership skills and to become a leader in my own practice. And it, it's been enjoyable for the most part, but there have been times that, like I said, I've been challenging and I've had to overcome obstacles. And I think that when you are a solo practitioner, you, you already, even though you're the main decision maker, you are, you're still doing things.
I mean, you're still a business owner. So there's still leadership involved in that. But when you scale into a group, There's a transition that has to happen in your mindset that will help you be more successful. And so I'm going to speak on some of that today, particularly with the leadership piece. So, as I said, when you're moving from a solo owner or a solo practitioner into a group.
Being a solo provider meant that you're really the decision maker. You're the team, you're the team lead, you handle everything. And a lot of times there's some comfort in that. There's a simplicity in that, but there's also some other challenges. Sometimes it can feel lonely. Sometimes you feel like you hit the ceiling of your income and what you can do with your practice pretty quickly because it's just you, but when you're moving into a group ownership.
You become the decision maker for an entire team. And so this means developing that leadership mindset. So fostering collaboration, earning the trust of your team and empowering them to do good work to take the initiative. And to to have to embrace the autonomy that you are probably giving them, but also to have a spirit of excellence in their work to really lead from the front.
I'm very much about that. There's nothing I want to ask my team to do that. I haven't already done or that I'm not already doing. So if I'm not willing to do a task or to do something, I've asked them to do. I don't. I don't think that's good leadership. I also very much want to be a servant leader, which is how Christ certainly served when he was on earth and how he continues to serve.
He's aware to be a servant leader as he was. And that is definitely the leadership style that I lean towards. And I will, you'll hear me say a lot of times in my phrasing, you know, how can I serve my team? How can I do things that will serve my team? Well, how can I hone this specific leadership?
Characteristics so that it serves my team better. So that's very important to me because if I serve my team well, they're going to serve our clients. Well, there's definitely a trickle down effect and leadership is important. So, 1 of the other things that's important to you with embracing that leadership role, particularly when you're going, when you're moving into a group practice is really the importance of that clear communication and setting a vision for your practice.
And then communicating that vision, communicating expectations. There's a really great quote out there in business that says clarity is kindness. And I have certainly come to understand that about leadership overall. My team performs better when, when I'm speaking clearly, when I'm communicating well, when I'm letting them know my expectations, when I'm letting them know my concerns, how I meet with them as a group versus how I meet with them individually.
Clarity certainly is kindness, and I think this is just part of being human, but if If a leader is talking to us and not giving us as many details as we might need, or not being as clear as we need them to be, our brain has a tendency to fill in the details. And a lot of times those details are not correct.
And so as leaders, the more clear that we are with limits and boundaries and expectations and all of that, the better our team is going to function. So one thing that I definitely did in 2019, I opened my practice in January of 2015. 2019, pre COVID, I decided that I really needed to lean more into this leadership thing.
My practice at that point, I had around 10 team members and my admin came to me one day and she said, Amy, I'd really like for you to think about Maybe not seeing so many clients because you've got a line of people standing outside your door of therapists who need to speak with you and you're back to back all day long and they're asking questions that I can't answer and she really made me pause and think it was actually, I'm very thankful that she said that to me because I had not.
Really done a great job up until that point of embracing my leadership role in my practice. Yes, I was the owner. I was heading up a team, but I did not make time for them because I mean, five years in, I was still billing at a full time level. And that was it was too much. I should have been backing off at that point and having more time and space in my schedule for team members who needed to come and speak with me.
But I had been a therapist my whole career. So, that's what I was used to doing, and that was a transition, definitely, of learning how to say no to more clients, so that I could say yes to time with my team. So, in 2019, I decided, okay, I'm really going to lean into my leadership role. My role as CEO of my practice, I'm going to, instead of reading in books and taking CEs on therapy models and different interventions and all these things, I'm really going to lean into.
CEs and, and speeches and talks on leadership. I'm going to read more books on leadership. I'm going to read more books on communication. I'm going to read more books and listen to more talks on how to empower your team, how to make a, an effective team run well. Like I just dived in and I really haven't stopped.
I've really enjoyed my journey on the leadership side of things. And part of that too, was. finances. I really wanted to learn how to tighten up finances, how to, how to move from that scarcity mindset into an abundancy mindset, because that is really crucial when you're talking about finances and group ownership.
So 2019, I leaned into that. And I've learned so much and I've had the privilege of just hearing really incredible leaders speak. I've made it an intentional effort over the last several years to, to build money into my budget, to travel, to go see leaders that I really admire, to listen to them talk in person, to hear what they have to say about leadership and business and, and finances and money and, and, Team effectiveness, and I do think that it has changed and improved the way that I lead my people.
So I definitely encourage you to be thinking about that. If, if you are solo, and you're looking to move into a group practice, really be thinking about your mindset around communication, building trust in your team. What vision you have for your practice and how you communicate. Do you need to improve how you communicate?
Do you need to do you have trouble delegating? I really had a struggle with that because one of the shifts in your mindset is going to be letting go of control over some things. Again, when you're solo, you're doing everything on your own. You may outsource your county, you may outsource some of your billing, but for the most part, again, you're the big decision maker.
And so when you start growing, it can be a little daunting and challenging to, to train, to hire someone and to train them to do a task that you used to do and that you used to do well. And so I really had to come into My own and really understand the importance of let me hire someone who I'm comfortable with.
Let me train them. Well, because I do not want to micromanage because micromanaging shows a lack of trust. And who I hired, and it looks like controlling behaviors on my part, and who has time to micromanage? I mean, we got other stuff we need to get done. So really, if you have trouble trusting others to do certain admin tasks, or even trusting other therapists to work under your name or in your practice, I encourage you to kind of sit back and take a look at that and ask yourself why, where you think it's coming from.
Because if you want to scale, That is a part of your leadership that you're going to have to take a look at because you are going to have so many other things put on your plate as a group practice owner that you're not going to have time to do those other things. And we never want to be the bottleneck for our practice.
We don't want all the decisions to stop with us. We, we want to empower people to make decisions. We want to train them well, so that they know what we would do what we would think. For instance, I have a really great leadership team. It's my practice manager and my clinical director, and we meet as a leadership team every other week.
And I know when I step away from my practice, I could step away for three or four weeks. And those two ladies could run this place just fine. And the reason I know they could is because when I've stepped away in the past for conferences or trips or whatever. When I come back, we always meet and sort of debrief and they say, well, we did this and this Amy, we didn't want to bother you while you were gone.
And we knew that this is what you would like, or we knew that this. Decision would align with your values and this, and they're always right. And so really making sure that you're surrounded by people, particularly those who you're delegating important tasks to making sure that you're surrounding yourself with people who you have trained well, who want to learn, who are invested in the practice, invested in you, that is going to help you be able to delegate well, and trust that they're doing the job that you need them to do.
Part of letting go of control, too, is just learning to focus on the big picture strategy, again, rather than micromanaging. Recognizing the strengths and expertise of your team members and then giving them credit for it. I love, I love saying good things about people in team meetings. I love going to people one on one and saying, hey, you, you killed it with that presentation that you gave us.
That was awesome. Or, girl, you, you saw a lot of clients last week, and you look really good, like. Your notes look good, like everything look good and just really giving people props when they do well and making sure that you're recognizing them, giving them credit for the work that they're doing, recognizing that that some people, they might even have better clinical skills than you, and that's okay.
You know, my clinical director is phenomenal. Her name is Stephanie, and she is. phenomenal. And hey, I mean, she can work with a larger number of clients than I can. She's got some clinical skills that I'm not very good at, and I'm absolutely going to give her the credit for that. And I'm not going to feel insecure about it or upset about it.
I think it's amazing. And I think that I'm so blessed that she is on my team. So a lot of that is part of that That shifting away from it's just me. I'm doing everything into I'm a leader. I've got multiple people underneath me. I need to be looking at the big picture. I need to recognize strengths. I need to look at needs and see how I can meet those.
So I spoke about transitioning from a scarcity mindset to one of abundancy and possibility, and I want to remind all of you that if you struggle with your money mindset in particular, I just want to remind you that we serve a God who is abundant. He is an abundant God who gives and who loves to give to his children.
And so please keep that in mind when you are. Worried about decisions that you need to make and, um, when you have got maybe some big financial picture needs coming up, or if you need to hire and you're not quite sure how you're going to do that, it's really easy to get into that worried, anxious, scarcity mindset.
But just remind yourself of. of who our God is. He is not a God of scarcity. He is a God of abundance and overflow. Part of the transition in your leadership too, is going to be just embracing change and the potential for growth within your practice. So I spoke to you guys in the last episode about how the transition from a 1099 contractor model to a W 2 employee model has changed my practice.
And some people would look at me going from 15 team members in January to 7, well 8 in just a couple months since I made a new hire, to 8 in just 8 months time. And they would say, wow, Amy, like, that's not good. You've been cut in half. And I mean, that's kind of scary and that's not growth. And, but I would challenge that.
I believe that pruning, which is what I believe my practice has been going through for the last eight months, I think that pruning is preparation for huge growth. And my idea of growth and success has changed over the last several years. What I was, what I thought growth was and success was even just a year ago, seven figure practice.
You know, 1516 therapist to admin huge building looking at opening up another place. That's great. But that's not necessarily my definition of success anymore. And so I challenge you that if you are a growth mindset is very important, but also looking at. Of course, how you feel the Lord is leading you.
And are you, are you embracing potential for growth in your practice? But is your definition of growth and success really in alignment with our faith too, and what God is calling you to do with your practice and understanding that as a group practice owner, we really need to know how to roll with the punches because they are going to come and they're going to come fast and I used to say this all the time when I worked for another practice owner 13 years ago, when we first moved to Alabama, she did not run her practice the way that I run mine.
She taught me a lot of what not to do, but I always admired her ability to problem solve and I really noticed right away because I watched her a lot. There were some things about her that I just really admired and she had this magnetic personality, but she had some issues too that affected us as a team.
Um, and. The practice did not operate at the level that it could have because she had a lot of insecurities and trust issues, and she was a micromanager, and that was just very off putting, but I always admired her ability to problem solve. She has very good out of the box thinker, and I noticed very early on that needs in private practice.
Change pretty, pretty quickly. Like what my practice might need today might not be what it needs next week. And so having the flexibility and not having such rigidity in your thinking will be important as you're looking at shifting your mindset from solo to group, because you don't want to stymie your own growth just because you have some rigid ideas about what that might be.
[00:18:07] Whitney Owens: You juggle so much sessions, intakes, billing issues, These are just some of the things that you're dealing with on top of running a business. However, one of the greatest challenges is where to find new clients. At RevKey, owner and digital marketing consultant John Sanders has firsthand experience with this specific concern as he's helped his wife, who is a psychologist, market her practice for years through digital advertising.
This led him to start RevKey and help other psychologists who are experiencing the same problems. At Revkey, their digital marketing experts work with therapy practices of all sizes to find the right clients for their therapists and maintain steady grid. If you're ready to get more of the right clients in your practice, it may be the time to explore Google ads with Revkey.
Connect with them today.
[00:18:57] Amy Dover: So let's talk for a minute about overcoming challenges and leading with confidence because leadership would definitely test your confidence. It will build your confidence, but it will test your insecurities. It will test your limits. No doubt. It One of the things that is a common challenge for leaders is just addressing the fear of failure and uncertainty of being a leader.
There have been many times I've just been in prayer and I'm talking to God and I'm asking him, like, what, what am I even doing here? I'm not even sure what I'm doing here. And thankfully, He always brings me comfort and just reassurance in those moments that he has chosen me to do this and he is walking with me.
But as I told someone in my mastermind group a couple of weeks ago, in my mind, in private practice, there is no failure. Unless you do something just unethical and criminal and you have to you go to jail and you shut your place down, which I don't see that happening to any of us, but there is no failure.
You're not going to do anything. That just completely ruins your practice. It might, you know, things might happen that you have to pivot and shift and do things a bit differently than what you thought. Maybe you were going to do originally, but there's no failure. And so understanding that really helps us to kind of open up the picture to.
What is growth? What is success? I can do this over here and not have to do this anymore. And being able to, again, kind of roll with life's blessings and bruises will help build your resiliency as, as a practice owner, another common challenge of navigating leadership is just managing the complexities of running a larger practice that is finances and logistics, and also just personalities, big personalities on your team sometimes.
And that can be a lot to manage. Balancing your time between leadership responsibilities and client care. I spoke specifically about that a few minutes ago, just how really my admin came and sort of did an intervention on me that day and said, Amy, your team needs you and I can't answer their questions and they need your guidance and they need you to be able to come to and talk about these things.
So really understanding. The shifts that will happen with your time and your scheduling. I was so used to seeing clients and I had to shift my, my idea and my understanding that. Okay, so instead of feeling so many, putting so many clients on my schedule, I need to start putting slots or team members to come in or sort of like office hours.
For people to come in and talk with me and being very open about what my schedule looks like and making sure that everyone has access to it. You can see what I'm doing. So they can see what I might have a minute to kind of pop their head in and my schedule. Now, it's very different than it did even just a few years ago.
I definitely do better when I block time and and I can track. My, my tasks and what I'm getting done, and I try to look at that quarterly and daily. And so, again, how I manage my time is very different than how it was just a few years ago. And that is a part of that mindset change and just leading the way, you know, being that leader that your team needs you to be.
And giving them the time and space they need to come to you as the practice owner. Part of one of the part of overcoming the challenge to is, is learning how to lead with confidence. So, the importance of continuous learning and professional development, I always want to get better when something happens in my practice, and maybe it's not a great thing.
I always want to sit back and do some self reflection and, you know, Amy, how could you have. How could you have done that better? How could you have communicated this more clearly? Were you, were you really showing Christ in that moment? Because it's very important to me that if people walk away from me, that they feel heard, seen, and that I, Care for that doesn't always happen.
But that's always my goal. And was I was a good ambassador for Christ. That's very important to me to as a Christian practice owner. And so always learning, always seeking to get better to improve to just develop myself professionally and in my leadership style, seeking mentorship. And support from other group practice leaders.
I have a really fantastic mentor. He used to be my supervisor for my Alabama license a long time ago. And when we finished my, my supervision, I asked him to to just stay in relationship with me and be my mentor and he agreed. And so we typically have breakfast once a quarter and we get together and we talk about cases and we talk about business and.
It's bittersweet. He's actually getting ready to retire in October and he's closing his practice. And so he's been giving me lots of information about what that process looks like. And it's been really interesting to, to listen to his journey and, and have him talk about that with me. And again, it's bittersweet, but he's of course still in my life, but he has been such a wonderful mentor to me.
And I've been open almost 10 years and he's been in step with me almost the whole time. So that's been such a blessing. And just the support of other group leaders. I have colleagues in the community who I trust who are practice owners and group practice owners, but I cannot tell you how great the wise practice community is and if there's some of you listening to the podcast today, and you're not a member of the wise practice community.
You need to become a member of the community. There's so many great resources, but just the support that's involved in the community. And, you know, being able to hop on a on a group on Wednesday, a group meeting, or get some questions answered in our platform and being able to connect with people and a person at summit, it's just.
It definitely makes things feel less lonely, and that is one of the big challenges of leadership, is that the, the bigger your team grows, the boundaries start to shift, and you can easily become lonely, and that is definitely something that I have experienced in leadership. Also, part of leadership is just staying true to your vision and values as your practice grows.
You're going to have team members who push back, who, who seem to change. How they act in their personality, and you have to deal with that while staying true to your desire to be a faith based practice owner and make sure that your practice is aligning with that, but also setting firm limits and boundaries on people because people are going to take whatever you give them, whatever you're willing to give them.
One of the things that I think, too, that's important is just knowing your own limits and knowing your strengths and your needs, understanding who you are as a person, what you're really good at, maybe what you struggle with. And that will help you take better care of your team too. In the mornings I shared with you guys a couple of episodes ago that I like to spend time getting up.
I do Bible reading where I'll listen to some, to some worship music. And then typically after that I will step outside in my garage or, and do a quick workout or I'll take a walk around my neighborhood. I'll do something to move my body because I've definitely learned over the years that if I spend my time with God in the beginning of my day, And then I engage in some kind of physical activity that sets me up to be much more mentally clear.
When I come into the office, my thinking is better. My body feels better. I don't feel rushed. My spirit is at peace. And for the most part, because there's always some days that are the exceptions, but for the most part, I'm ready to lead if I can get that time in the morning, get those activities done in the morning.
It sets me up. It sets the tone for a good day. And that's part of leadership and also understanding. Not everyone on your team is going to see what you do as a leader and learning to be okay with that. Understanding that they're not going to see the hours you put in outside of the office. They're not going to see the way that you research and sometimes agonize over decisions that you have to make.
They're not going to see the stress and anxiety that comes from that. They're going to see where you are on the other end of that. But people have no idea really of what a practice owner does and goes through. And just. Learning how to be okay with that, to accept that Jesus sees what I, what I'm doing, He knows what I'm doing, and His approval is really the only one that I care about anyway, and coming to a place of peace with that.
I had a conversation with my clinical director about that a couple of months ago, and we both decided, well, you know, people don't see what we do, but that's okay, because it's just part of leadership. Celebrating successes and learning from setbacks. Like I said, I don't think there's anything. I don't think there's anything like failure in private practice.
I think it's just opportunities to do things differently and to improve on different systems and things that you have in place, but definitely when setbacks and and what you perceive as failures happen. Again, it's an opportunity to, to build your, your resilience and your adaptability, because you are going to face challenges.
You are going to face the storms that as you hone your leadership, as you go through those storms, lean on your faith, it's only going to make you a better leader, only going to make you better for your team, and then you get to pass that experience on to another practice owner who may be struggling with that same thing at a, at a later time.
And you can speak into that. With that practice owner or that therapist or whoever it might be and really be there, be there for them at a time because you have gone through that already. I hope that this was helpful for you guys to just be thinking about the mindset change that needs to happen between solo practitioner and group.
I love again working with practice owners who are struggling with this because it is. It is definitely a process. This mindset shift and just leading the way in this way for your team is definitely different than the early, the early years of maybe solo practice ownership. And if any of you have questions, if I can be of any help to you, again, please drop me an email.
Would love to talk to you. My email is amy at wisepracticeconsulting. com. Again, if you're interested in working with me with some consulting, my packages and my bio are on the website. It's whyispracticeconsulting. com. If you're interested in the membership community, check it out. It's a great place with lots of great folks who would love to come alongside you, too, and just be with you and support you on this private practice journey.
You guys, thank you so much for being with me on these four episodes. Shout out to my girl Whitney for allowing me to do it. And, uh, I hope you guys have an awesome day. So
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Special thanks to Marty Altman. For the music in this podcast, the Wise Practice Podcast is part of the Site Craft Podcast Network. A collaboration of independent podcasters focused on helping people live more meaningful and productive lives. To learn more about the other amazing podcasts in the network, head on over to site craft network.com.
The Wise Practice podcast represents the opinions of Whitney Owens and her guests. This podcast is for educational purposes only, and the content should not be taken as legal advice. If you have legal questions, please consult an attorney.
