Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
Vanessa Newton
Welcome to Brave and Well! On this podcast, host Vanessa Newton LCSW-S teaches mental health professionals how to build sustainable, profitable and values-aligned businesses. You’ll hear about decolonizing the business side of private practice and supporting the entrepreneur in the therapist. We’ll also invite fellow therapists and healers to share their stories. New episodes release on Tuesdays. Produced by Softer Sounds.
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Running a Group Practice — Then & Now
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
02/21/23 • 18 min
January 1st was my six-year anniversary of group practice ownership! So I thought it’d be fun to reflect and share what group practice ownership looked like back in 2017 and now in 2023.
Tune in to this episode to learn—
- How I went from solo practice to group practice
- The story of my first hire & the reality of moving locations
- Expanding the team & bringing on admin support
- Why I think it’s harder to run a group practice now than it was in 2017
- The challenges of a hybrid self-pay and insurance model
- How the pandemic impacted therapy practices
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to let me know what questions you have about running a group practice! And don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, then share this episode with a friend.
Links
- Follow Brave and Well on Instagram
- Sign up for the Brave and Well newsletter
- Get my workbook — Laying the Foundation for your Private Practice
- Join my Private Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/private-practice-circle
- Join my Group Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/group-practice-circle
How to Set Up Profit First for Your Therapy Practice
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
02/07/23 • 21 min
Nothing changed my relationship to my business more than implementing the Profit First model for business finances.
What makes it so radical? Well, it’s all based on paying yourself first. (Yes, really!)
Tune in to this episode to learn—
- How Profit First works
- Why it’s so important to pay yourself first
- The magic of having five bank accounts
- How to organize & use your accounts
- Learning to look at & allocate your money
If you want to transform your business finances, I hope you’ll listen to this episode and share it with a friend!
Links
- Learn more about Profit First
- Therapy for Your Money
- Follow Brave and Well on Instagram
- Sign up for the Brave and Well newsletter
- Get my workbook — Laying the Foundation for your Private Practice
- Join my Private Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/private-practice-circle
- Join my Group Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/group-practice-circle
How to Plan for Maternity Leave in Private Practice
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
01/24/23 • 20 min
I’m currently on my second maternity leave, and I’ve learned a lot while planning and taking two periods of extended time away from work.
So in this episode, I’m sharing everything I’ve learned about planning a maternity leave with you all!
Tune in as we explore—
- Figuring out how much you want to save for maternity leave and when you plan to start saving
- Deciding when you want to start sharing with your clients
- Processing with your clients how they’re feeling about your leave
- Creating a plan for transferring client care, terminating or taking a pause
- Providing clients with a list of other therapists they can contact should they need someone to reach out to
- Making clients inactive in your EHR system and document the plan of care while you’re away on leave
- Setting your out of office message
- Really giving yourself permission to take the break and the time you need
If you’re considering any kind of leave, I hope you’ll listen to this episode and share it with a friend.
Links
- Follow Brave and Well on Instagram
- Sign up for the Brave and Well newsletter
- Get my workbook — Laying the Foundation for your Private Practice
- Join my Private Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/private-practice-circle
- Join my Group Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/group-practice-circle
It’s been a minute! Checking in with all things Brave & Well
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
11/29/22 • 18 min
We don’t often talk about the messy parts of being an entrepreneur. So in today’s episode, I’m taking y’all behind the scenes and sharing some recent changes & challenges in my personal and professional life.
Tune in to hear more about:
- How I’m juggling being a mom, wife, leader & full-time entrepreneur
- Learning to maximize my time
- Q4 reflections & looking ahead to 2023
- Planning my second maternity leave & my first sabbatical
- The challenges of letting other people run your business
- Hiring & all it requires
- The importance of celebrating milestones
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to let me know your Q4 is going. And don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, then share this episode with a friend!
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How to create accessible care for clients while running a profitable business
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
09/20/22 • 35 min
So many of us become therapists because we want to help people. And we want to make money. But sometimes those seem in be in conflict?
In today’s episode, I share how I balance offering accessible care for clients with running a profitable business that supports me and my employees financially and energetically.
Tune in to hear me explore—
- How to set your rates to best serve your clients and yourself
- Why taking insurance is a form of accessibility
- How to offer a sliding scale without overextending yourself
- Why I love offering support groups & evergreen resources
- How I make money with speaking engagements & workshops
- The power & value of partnerships for your practice
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to share your thoughts about accessible care and profitable businesses.
And don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, then share this episode with a friend!
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How to build passive income as a therapist — lessons from managing multiple businesses
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
08/30/22 • 33 min
Let’s get down to business! In today’s episode, I unpack how I’ve built three businesses that bring in over 7-figures in revenue. And I offer suggestions for how you can create passive income streams to support yourself financially without having to work all the time.
Tune in to hear me explore—
- What passive income is and why most clinical work isn’t passive
- How to find time to develop passive income when you’re busy with clients
- How I’ve created different passive income streams in my businesses
- Why you need to hire support & release control to make things happen
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to let me know your questions about building passive income. I’d love to do a follow-up on this topic.
And don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Then please share this episode with a friend!
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Knowing yourself inside and out — counseling & somatic practice with Bernadette Chavez Piñon
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
07/26/22 • 49 min
Let’s welcome our first guest to the podcast! In this episode of Brave and Well, I’m joined by my friend and colleague Bernadette Chavez Piñon. Bernadette is an Austin-based counselor who supports individuals in their journey to have a healing connection within themselves so that they may have meaningful connections with others.
Tune in to hear us explore—
- Grounding practices for challenging times & simple ways to check in with ourselves
- How Bernadette holds space for herself and her clients
- Bernadette’s journey to private practice & how she aims to find flow in her business and life
- Disconnecting productivity & worthiness
- Supporting yourself & your practice by building relationships
Bernadette even opens and closes our conversation with a grounding meditation, so all of us can get more comfortable in our bodies and clear in our minds.
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to let me know what you think. And don’t forget to visit Bernadette’s website to learn more about her work!
Links
- Visit Bernadette’s website to learn more about her work
- Sign up for the Brave and Well newsletter
- Follow Brave and Well on Instagram
Evolving as an entrepreneur & a parent — From full-time job to group practice to taking my first maternity leave
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
07/12/22 • 27 min
What does it look like to build a successful therapy businesses? And how do we make space for our lives in the process? In this episode of Brave and Well podcast, I share my journey from full-time job to group practice to taking my first maternity leave.
Tune in to hear me explore—
- Everything I learned about self-care and boundaries during my “hustle period”
- Uncovering what I desired in my clinical career & in my life
- Learning to build a team and let go of control when I had my first child
- How being a mom has changed everything about my life and my work
In this episode, I get super honest about my struggles with perfectionism. And I get emotional about how my family has become the foundation for my work.
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to let me know what you think. Until next time, don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and share this episode with a friend!
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Expanding from solo to group practice — The best (and worst) decisions I’ve made in my counseling business
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
06/28/22 • 24 min
How do you know you’re ready to go from solo practice to group practice? In this episode of Brave and Well podcast, I share my journey from solo practitioner to founder of Colors of Austin Counseling.
Tune in to hear me explore—
- How my commitment to access and representation led me into group practice
- What it was like to see clients full-time while growing the practice
- The worst decision I made in my first year of business
- How (& who) I hired to grow with ease
I get super about my business structure, operations, and finances in this episode. And I share heartfelt advice about when to start a group practice and when not to.
I hope you’ll listen then get in touch to let me know what you think. Until next time, don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and share this episode with a friend!
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Decolonizing Mental Health & Building a Business from an Empowered Mindset with Dr. Ebony Butler
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
06/13/23 • 48 min
In this energetic and powerful episode, Dr. Ebony Butler and I talk about her journey through overcoming a poverty mindset to growing a practice and a product-based business.
Dr. Ebony is a Licensed Psychologist and Food Relationship Strategist who has made it her mission to help women of color heal and thrive in the areas of trauma, including racial trauma and recovering from food and body trauma experienced through diet culture.
She is the host of the Food is Not Bae Podcast, author of the book Food is Not Bae, and creator of My Therapy Cards®, the first-ever self-exploration card deck for Black women and other women of color.
Tune in as we explore:
- Learning not to live from a place of fearing poverty
- Creating systems and processes that take you from making money to building a business
- The power of pivoting in business and in life
- Realizing you can’t do it all by yourself and getting the help you need
- Using social media as an archive tool and not for comparison
- Setting a price point that is right for you and your business, showing up at that level, and trusting the community to support you
More from Dr. Ebony:
- Visit Dr. Ebony’s Website
- Follow Dr. Ebony in Instagram
- Follow Dr. Ebony on Facebook
- Follow Dr. Ebony on TikTok
- Buy My Therapy Cards & take 10% off with the code BW10
- Listen to the Food is Not Bae Podcast
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- Get my workbook — Laying the Foundation for your Private Practice
- Join my Private Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/private-practice-circle
- Join my Group Practice Circle in Fall 2023 — https://www.braveandwell.com/group-practice-circle
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How many episodes does Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business have?
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business currently has 33 episodes available.
What topics does Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Podcasts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business?
The episode title 'How to Set Up Profit First for Your Therapy Practice' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business?
The average episode length on Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business is 33 minutes.
How often are episodes of Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business released?
Episodes of Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business are typically released every 14 days.
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The first episode of Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business was released on May 25, 2022.
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