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OT Yourself to Freedom — 136 episodes

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136. OT Pay in 2026: Why Occupational Therapists Are Still Underpaid and the One Shift That Changes Everything

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135. OT Imposter Syndrome Is Killing Your Business: How High-Achieving Occupational Therapists Get Unstuck

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134. Energy Is Everything: The One Business Asset Occupational Therapists Keep Neglecting

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133. From Blood Pressure Meds to Closing His Clinic: How OT Ivan Hardcastle Built a Freedom Business in 2 Years

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132. Why OT Business Owners Avoid Their Numbers, and What To Do Instead, with Accountant Fiona Jansen

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131. OT Burnout or Loss of Control? Why Busy OTs Stay Stuck (And How to Break Free)

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130. What a 12-Hour Work Week Looks Like: How I Designed My Freedom Life as a Former OT

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129. Why Your OT Business Is Draining You — and How to Flip the Model for More Freedom

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128. Finding Your OT Niche: What Do You Want to Be Known For as an Occupational Therapist?

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127. OT Online Business: How to Keep Selling After a Launch That Didn't Go to Plan

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126. How to Start an OT Business: What Every Occupational Therapist Needs to Know First

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125. Trapped in Your OT Business? How Occupational Therapists Accidentally Lose Their Freedom

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124. OT Abroad: How One Occupational Therapist Built an Online Business While Living Overseas

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123. Why Good OTs Leave: The Hidden Cost of Compromised Values

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122. Starting an OT Business Feels Messy — Here's Why That's Normal and What to Do Next

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121. OT Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Why Occupational Therapists Keep Burning Out and How to Stop

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120. How This OT Built a Business on Maternity Leave, with Helen Buteux

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119. Every OT Who Sends Paper Handouts Needs This Episode with Laura Simmons

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118. 2025: Leaving the NHS as an OT: 6 Years On — What Happened When I Outgrew the System

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117. OT Success Stories: Real Occupational Therapists Share How They Beat Burnout and Built Freedom Businesses (Special Episode)

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116. OT Hyperfocus and Drive: Why Your Obsession Is the Key to Building an Online Business That Works

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115. Healthcare Benefits That Box You In: Why Your “Security” Is Costing You Wealth

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114. The OT Path to Freedom: Burnout Recovery, Alignment & Farm OT with Alex Viera

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113. Ageing as an Occupational Transition: Why OTs Are the Ones to Lead

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112. How This OT Built a Sensory Parenting Business Online — Anna Willis on Turning OT Skills into Income

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111. Your Hormones Aren’t the Problem. Your Business Model Is - with Renae Fieck

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110. How to Build an Online OT Practice Using Somatic and Yoga Therapy — Sarita Sloane's $21k Launch Story

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109. OT Supervision as a Business: How Lynsay McFarlane-Shaw Built a Scalable Wellbeing Service for Occupational Therapists

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108. Do I Need Kajabi or Not?

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107. Why OTs Struggle to Sell — and Why Selling Your Services Is the Most Ethical Thing You Can Do

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106. From Baker to OT to Business Owner: How Brad Williams Created a Driving Programme for Neurodivergent Learners

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105. OT Business Goals: Are Your Daily Habits Actually Moving You Forward? A Brutally Honest Reality Check

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104. What the OT Freedom Lifestyle Really Looks Like: Nature, World-Schooling, Travel and Working 12 Hours a Week

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103. OT Burnout vs Burn In: How to Reignite Your Passion for Occupational Therapy with Rhiannon Crispe

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102. Creating a Freedom-Based Business with Beki Eakins and Rachel Elliott

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101. Freedom After the Storm: Redefining OT Success Beyond the Clinic with Alyce Svensk

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100. 100 Episodes: What I've Learned Helping OTs Build Freedom Businesses - and What's Coming Next

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99. From Clinical to CEO: How Lisa Baxter Hong Built a Digital Empire in Dementia Care

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98. How to Stop Waiting and Finally Start Your OT Business — What's Really Keeping Occupational Therapists Stuck

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97. How Kelsey Baker Built Two OT Businesses From Scratch — Including a $35,000 Launch

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96. OT Perfectionism Is Killing Your Business: How High-Achieving Occupational Therapists Get Unstuck

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95. Scaling Doesn’t Mean Selling Your Soul: Why More Growth Shouldn't Mean More Graft

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94. Are You Showing Up Ready? OT Strategies for Success

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93. What I Wish I Knew at the Start of My Business

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92. Pivoting a busy OT practice to Get your time back

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91. Finding Freedom Through Meaningful Occupation: A Journey from Burnout to Purpose

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90. Is It a Pay Cut… or a Wake-Up Call?

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89. Doing Less, Receiving More – A Radical OT Business Shift

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88. Clients, Cash & Confidence – The OT Business Trifecta

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87. Collaboration Over Competition: Why There's Room for All of Us; with Reina Olivera.

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86. Breaking Myths About Passive Income for Occupational Therapists

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85. Take the Busy Out of Business: The Shift OT Entrepreneurs Must Make Now

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84. Why Perfectionism Will Hold You Back in Business

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83. Empowering OTs: Building a Freedom-Based Business with Clare Batkin

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82. Mindset and Energetics – The Engine of Your OT Business Success

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81. No Business Idea? Uncover Your Hidden Genius with OT Freedom Collective

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80. OT is not suited to traditional healthcare systems - Reclaiming our Roots

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79. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Why Occupational Therapists Struggle

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78. Ditch the Paperwork: How to Run an OT Business with More Freedom

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77. Debunking Cold DMs: Mindset, Strategies, and Authentic Connections for OTs

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76. Why Running a Business Gives You More Freedom

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75. What’s Your Paradigm? And how it rules your life.

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74. Pressing Your Reset Button

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73. Nature, Mindfulness, and OT: The Sarah Good Episode

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72. No gas left in the tank?

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71. Stress, Success, and Starting Over: Lessons from Clare Welsh

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70. Are You the Whinger or the Go-Getter?

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69. Pleasure And Purpose: Tanya Peterson On OT And Sexuality

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68. Why Paediatric OTs are so Ideally Suited to Online Business

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67. Happiness in Action: Ivan’s Path to His Dream Life

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66. Is Your Traditional OT Business Model Leading to Burnout?

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65. Quality Over Quantity: Hanna’s Approach to OT Business and Wellness

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64. Leaning into Trust and Surrender

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63. From Burnout to Book Writing, with Brittany Ferri

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62. The 3 Principles that Guarantee you Fast Results

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61. The Tactics OTs are missing in Sales - with Rob Higton

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60. Unleashing Your OT Genius: Building a Successful Online Business

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59. Taking Risks to Build a Successful OT Online Business

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58. The Power of Self-Belief: How Confidence Transforms Your OT Business

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57. Find Your Authentic Sales Voice

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56. OTs Rising

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55. Reflecting on growth and stepping inside the OT Freedom Collective with Lynsay McFarlane-Shaw, OT Supervisor.

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54. Moving into Alignment

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53. Total Freedom

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52. The Darkness of the Entrepreneurial Guilt

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51. Are you ready for Expansion?

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50. How Human Design can help your Business

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49. Why do OTs pull each other down?

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48. Navigating unhelpful projections from family or friends

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47. The Energetics of Content - Part 2

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46. The Energetics of Content Part 1

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45. You struggle to trust that you have what it takes?

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44. An OT business with energy and functional medicine, with Troy Shelton

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43. Embracing your Unique Journey

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42. How to Strengthen Your Self-Identity

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41. Speaking a Visual Language with Photographs, with Suzanne Fells

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40. Building Your OT Business on Three Core Pillars

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39. Take the BUSY out of BUSINESS

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38. Pleasure and Energetics

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37. It's ok to ruffle a few feathers

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36. When you already have a business

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35. Reducing your work hours

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34. Setting Boundaries

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33. A 23k launch

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32. How to energise and become magnetic, with giggles and joy with Bethany OT

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31. Self Sabotage

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30. Positioning yourself on the market

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29. I would love to start a business but I need more experience or qualifications

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28. Heal burnout with pleasure, with sex coach Jem Ayres

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27. Dealing with Overwhelm at the Start of a Business

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26. Why creating a website will slow your business growth

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25. What lifestyle do you really want?

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24. Understanding Human Design, with Meg, Wholebeing OT

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23. Why rushing for passive income will slow your financial growth

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22. Using your body to move through resistance and feeling stuck with Aja Perry

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21. Raising Your Awareness of Your Money Mindset Blueprint

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20. Alex Viera, coaching for Dysregulated Moms

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19. This one thing, that the most successful entrepreneurs have.

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18. Release What’s Holding Your Back. The Possibilities are Endless!! With Timothy Waterman

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17. Worldschooling

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16. The Energetics of Success

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15. Your Social Media Mindset

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14. Interview with Lynsay McFarlane-Shaw, OT Supervisor

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13. Running a Business from a Campervan!

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12. Shaenelle and her Parent Coaching Business

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11. Giving Hope

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10. Gratitude

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9. Setting Your Intention

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8. How to waste your time as an Entrepreneur

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7. Short of Time? Or is it in your head?

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6. High Ticket Offers

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5. Do you Dream Big Enough?

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4. Mindset and a Daily Wellness Regime

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3. Why are OTs so suited to online business creation?

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2. What is Freedom anyway?

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1. How I OT'd Myself to Freedom