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Selling the Couch — 295 episodes

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417: Is Ai Killing Our Ability To Protect Time?

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416: Is Blogging Still Worth It In The AI Age?

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415: What Actually Drives Podcast Downloads Based on Real Data

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ENCORE: Researching and Finding an Audience for Your E-Course

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ENCORE: How to Show Up Imperfect In Your Marketing

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ENCORE: Pro Tips To Improve The Quality Of Live Videos

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ENCORE: How I’m Thinking About YouTube as a Podcaster (and Dad)

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414: Why Most Online Courses Fail (Even If the Content Is Good)

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413: What They Don’t Tell Therapists About Owning a Small Business

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412: How to Create a Podcast That Actually Pays Off

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411: Making Peace with Your Becoming: Navigating Brand Evolution as a Therapist

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410: Why Many Therapists Quietly Reject Social Media Fame

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409: How to Use AI for Content Creation—Without Losing Your Voice

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408: If I Were in Grad School Again: 5 Career Shifts I'd Make

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407: How to Build Emotional Fitness as a Therapist and Quiet Leader

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406: How to AI-Proof Your Online Course as a Therapist

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ENCORE: Charging Premium Prices For Your Online Course (Money Blocks + Fears)

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ENCORE: Mental Roadblocks Of Going From Clinician To Coach with Angela Williams, LCSW

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ENCORE: 3 Tips To Become An Awesome Storyteller Online

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ENCORE: The 10 Biggest Mistakes I Made As An Online Course Creator

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ENCORE: Where Should I Focus My Online Course Marketing?

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ENCORE: 7 Questions to Ask Before Launching an Online Course

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ENCORE: Burnout in High-Achieving Mental Health Professionals

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405: I’m Shutting Down Our $9K Mastermind. Here’s Why.

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404: Building an Anti-Racist Practice in Times Like These

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403: Turning Your Podcast into a Deeper Platform for Courses, Your Book, and Speaking

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402: Closing Your Private Practice: What Therapists Need to Know

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401: How To Create An Online Course That Actually Gets Finished

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400: The Power of Depth Over Scale

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399: How to Create a Personal Brand With Authenticity, Heart, and Grace with Adrienne Wilkerson

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398: What Therapists Get Wrong About Selling Their First Online Course

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397: Mindful Race Talk: How Clinicians Can Use Language For Conversations That Matter

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ENCORE: How to (Correctly) Pitch Podcasts with Dustin Riechmann

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ENCORE: Why Every Course Creator Should Start A Podcast

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ENCORE: Leaving Therapy for Coaching with Dr. Corey Wilks

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ENCORE: How To Avoid Information Overload In Your Online Course

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ENCORE: Behind The Scenes Of A Rebrand

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ENCORE: When An Idea For An Online Course Comes From Therapy Sessions

39

ENCORE: How To Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile

40

ENCORE: The Beginners Guide To Launching A Course Affiliate Program

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ENCORE: 7 Daily Habits That Changed My Relationship With My Podcast (And Made It Sustainable)

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ENCORE: Is Your Course Idea Any Good? Here’s How To Tell

43

ENCORE: What I Learned from Creating a Course for CEUs with Matthew Bierds

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ENCORE: If I Were Launching An Online Course Soon, I'd Do This...

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396: Designing a Life-First Business In An Uncertain World

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395: Building a Private Practice Around The “Nice Guy Syndrome” Niche

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394: How To Set Boundaries With Clients By Managing Up

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393: Is Your Course Idea Any Good? Here’s How To Tell

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392: Insurance Denials and Rejections: Why Do They Happen, and How Do You Fix Them?

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391: Why Quiet Builders Are The Future

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390: How Will AI Impact Website SEO

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389: Why Podcasting Is Still One Of The Best Ways For Therapists To Build A Trusted Voice

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388: Why Some Offers Sell and Others Flop

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ENCORE: 7 Daily Habits That Changed My Relationship With My Podcast (And Made It Sustainable)

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ENCORE: 5 Signs You're Ready To Launch Your Online Course

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ENCORE: Uncomfortable Truths About Private Practice Finances

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ENCORE: What Therapists Should Know As Billions Are Invested In Mental Health Startups

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387: How To Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile

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386: Why I Don’t Want To Be Social Media Famous

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385: 7 Daily Habits That Changed My Relationship With My Podcast (And Made It Sustainable)

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384: Should I Hire An Intake Coordinator For My Private Practice?

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383: 5 Signs You're Ready To Launch Your Online Course

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382: Uncomfortable Truths About Private Practice Finances

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381: 5 Lessons from 2 Years on LinkedIn

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380: Why Are Therapists Burning Out Of Private Practice?

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379: Why I'm Pausing My Private Practice

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ENCORE: If I Were Launching An Online Course Soon, I'd Do This...

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ENCORE: Low Risk Ways To Host Your First Retreat with Megan Gunnell

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ENCORE: Behind The Scenes Of A Rebrand

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ENCORE: How To Work Through Perfectionism When Launching Your Online Course (Katie Lear, LCMHC, RPT, RDT)

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ENCORE: How To Give Better Virtual Presentations with Lorraine Lee

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378: If I Were Launching An Online Course Soon, I'd Do This...

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377: Corporate Transparency Act: What Therapists Need to Know

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376: 7 Non-Obvious Things I Learned from My First Conference Talk

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375: Burnout in High-Achieving Mental Health Professionals

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374: If I Started Podcasting with a Busy Private Practice, I’d Do This . . .

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373: Tips On Starting A Private Pay Group Practice - Dr. Adam Assoian

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372: Decluttering As An Adjunct To Therapy - Sarah Mueller From The Decluttering Club

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371: Leaving Therapy for Coaching with Dr. Corey Wilks

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370: Why I Shut Down a 10K-Member Facebook Group

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369: Behind The Scenes Of A Rebrand

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ENCORE: Strategies for Securing Contracts (with schools and the government)

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ENCORE: 7 Lessons I Learned From Two 7-Figure Entrepreneurs

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ENCORE: What Therapists Should Know As Billions Are Invested In Mental Health Startups

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ENCORE: What I Learned After My First Two Talks

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ENCORE: Finding You're Enough As An Entrepreneur

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ENCORE: Starter Podcasting Setups

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ENCORE: How to Start Writing a Book: Things They Don’t Tell You

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ENCORE: How To Make Money From Your Podcast Without Just Relying On Sponsors with Melvin Varghese PhD

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ENCORE: Low Risk Ways To Host Your First Retreat with Megan Gunnell

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ENCORE: The Anxiety Of Finding A Private Practice Niche

92

ENCORE: Using Brainspotting To Work With Athletes

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ENCORE: What Therapists Should Know As Billions Are Invested In Mental Health Startups

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ENCORE What I Learned from Creating a Course for CEUs with Matthew Bierds

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368: What I Learned After My First Two Talks

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367: Psychedelic Therapy: What You Need To Know As A Therapist

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366: Finding Your Enough As An Entrepreneur with Jeanetta Garrison, LCSW

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365: Starter Podcaster Setups

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364: How to Start Writing a Book: Things They Don’t Tell You

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363: How To Make Money From Your Podcast Without Just Relying on Sponsors with Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

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362: Low Risk Ways To Host Your First Retreat with Megan Gunnell

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361: The Anxiety Of Finding A Private Practice Niche

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360: What I Learned from Creating a Course for CEUs with Matthew Bierds

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ENCORE: How To Work Through Perfectionism When Launching Your Online Course (Katie Lear, LCMHC, RPT, RDT)

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ENCORE: How To Not Let Work Become Your Identity (Dan Cumberland)

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ENCORE: Where Should I Focus My Online Course Marketing?

107

ENCORE: Avoid These 3 Mistakes The Average Investor Makes

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359: What Therapists Should Know As Billions Are Invested In Mental Health Startups

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358: Why I’m Going Back to Private Practice

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357: Using Brainspotting To Work With Athletes

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356: 7 Lessons I Learned From Two 7-Figure Entrepreneurs

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355: Strategies for Securing Contracts (with schools and the government)

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354: Why Every Course Creator Should Start A Podcast

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353: Setting Up An Email Series To Market Your Practice

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352: When An Idea For An Online Course Comes From Therapy Sessions

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351: How to (Correctly) Pitch Podcasts with Dustin Riechmann

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ENCORE: How To Increase Fees With Existing Clients

118

ENCORE: Writing A Children's Book

119

ENCORE: Owning A Therapy Building During The Pandemic

120

ENCORE: Long-Haul COVID-19 and Private Practice

121

ENCORE: Improving Your Sleep As A Therapist: Tips From A Sleep Psychologist

122

ENCORE: 3 Ways To Become A Better Leader In A Post-Pandemic World

123

ENCORE: Building A Directory For Trauma Therapists

124

ENCORE: When Chronic Health Concerns are Dismissed

125

ENCORE: Real Advice To Therapists Launching An Online Course

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350: The Beginners Guide To Launching A Course Affiliate Program

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349: Working Through Messages About What A Therapist Is "Supposed" To Do with Erin Gibb

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348: Could Keeping Your Business Small Be the Next BIG Thing? with Melvin Varghese, PhD

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347: How to Make Money with AirBnb Rentals

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346: How I’m Thinking About YouTube as a Podcaster (and Dad)

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345: How to Become a Speaker with Jasmin Haley

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344: Should I Stop An Existing Podcast To Start A New One?

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343: How to Build Authentic Relationships With Journalists

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ENCORE: Depression and Private Practice Building

135

ENCORE: How To Invest Intelligently: Top Tips From A Certified Financial Planner

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ENCORE: A Live vs. Pre-Recorded Online Course

137

ENCORE: A Slow, Intentional Transition To Full Time Private Practice

138

ENCORE: How To Overcome The Crippling Fear Of Launching A New Product Or Service

139

ENCORE: Building A Personal Brand On Social Media

140

ENCORE: Comparing Yourself to Others in the Field: Avoiding The Pitfalls

141

ENCORE: 3 Powerful Reasons Every Entrepreneur Needs A Daily Hike (Backed By Science)

142

ENCORE: Creating Authentic "Win-Win" Relationships With Colleagues

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342: My $2k Pro Podcasting Tech Stack

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341: 11 No-Code Tools I’m Using as a Six-Figure Course Creator

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340: 3 Meetings 99% of Course Creators Don’t Schedule But Absolutely Need

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339: 3 Vital Questions To Ask Before Launching An Online Course

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338: Why I Spent $10k To Create A Free Online Course

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337: 4 Actionable Strategies I Used to Double My LinkedIn Followers in 6 Months

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336: How To Give Better Virtual Presentations with Lorraine Lee

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335: How To Show Up On Social Media When You Have A Love/Hate With It With Elizabeth Penela, PhD

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334: Mindset Shifts Going From Therapy To Online Course Income with Mineela Chand, LMFT

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333: Why I’m Done Building a $1 Million/Year Business

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332: How To Tell Better Stories In Your Marketing with Brent Stutzman

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331: How To Work Through Perfectionism When Launching Your Online Course (Katie Lear, LCMHC, RPT, RDT)

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330: How To Not Let Work Become Your Identity (Dan Cumberland)

156

ENCORE: Creation, Do's and Don'ts of a Successful Retreat Model in Private Practice

157

ENCORE: Building A Second Brain, Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

158

ENCORE: 3 Tips To Significantly "Wow" Your Telehealth Videos

159

ENCORE: Expert Insights on How to Generate Income Through Podcasting

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ENCORE: Understanding Our Money Stories and Setting Private Practice Fees in Order to Honor Our Stories

161

ENCORE: Growing Your Practice With Retreats, Workshops and Groups

162

ENCORE: Increasing Efficiency in Your Private Practice

163

ENCORE: Using SEO to Grow Your Private Practice

164

ENCORE: The Biggest Bookkeeping Blunders That Clinicians Make and Their Solutions

165

ENCORE: The Concept Of Using Telemedicine For Mental Health Clinicians And Practical Measures To Take

166

ENCORE: Ups And Downs of Transitioning From a Full-Time job Into Private Practice

167

ENCORE: Creating A Conference To Share Your Message In Private Practice

168

ENCORE: What A Clinician Needs To Have In Place Before Scaling To Multiple Income Streams

169

ENCORE: The First Online Marketplace Exclusively For Mental Health Professionals To Buy And Sell Their Original Products

170

ENCORE: A Live vs. Pre-Recorded Online Course

171

ENCORE: How Online Reviews Help Improve The Private Practice with Keely Kolmes, PsyD

172

ENCORE: Tips on Creating a Professional Livestream, Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

173

ENCORE: How I Create Live Streaming Content With 30 Minutes of Prep: Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

174

ENCORE: Charging Premium Prices For Your Online Course (Money Blocks + Fears)

175

ENCORE: 10 Lessons Learned from a Successful Cohort-Based Course Launch

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329: 7 Questions to Ask Before Launching an Online Course

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328: Mental Roadblocks Of Going From Clinician To Coach with Angela Williams, LCSW

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327: An Easier Way to Refer Out Clients with Anna O’Brien and Jim Pasquarella

179

326: Standing Out On Twitter-3 Lessons Learned From 0 to 200k Followers with Aadit Sheth

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325: 7 Ways That Shifting To A 4 Day Work Week Made Me A Better Entrepreneur

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324: How To Grow A New Podcast with Jeremy Enns

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323: 3 Tips To Become An Awesome Storyteller Online

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322: How To Avoid Information Overload In Your Online Course

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321: Business As A Tool For Growth, Creativity, and Social Justice with Ariana Lloyd, LCSW

185

ENCORE: Improving Your Private Practice Website with Daniel Fava

186

ENCORE: Moving From An Online Course To A Membership Model with Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CEDRD-S

187

ENCORE: Building A Personal Brand On Social Media

188

ENCORE: Writing a Children's Book

189

320: 5 Lessons I Learned After 2 Cohort-Based Course Launches

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319: 9 Ways to Turn Your Podcast Into A Money-Making Machine

191

318: Why You Should Not Just Build a Social Media Following with Craig Morris

192

317: A Niche Working With Incarcerated Men

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316: Creating A Breathwork App with Brian Von Ancken

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315: How to Use Loom to Record Your Course Quickly and Efficiently

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314: Finding Our Enough as Entrepreneurs with Keri Nola

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313: The 10 Biggest Mistakes I Made As An Online Course Creator

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312: SEO When Doing Telehealth Across The State

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311: 10 Lessons I've Learned as a Course Creator (part 2)

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310: Creating an Online Course for Parents

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309: 10 Lessons I've Learned as a Course Creator

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308: How Writing A Book Helped Grow My Practice

202

ENCORE: Creating An Epic Welcome Video,Bryan Nixon, MA, LPC

203

ENCORE: 3 Powerful Reasons Every Entrepreneur Needs A Daily Hike (Backed By Science)

204

ENCORE: Moving From An Online Course To A Membership Model with Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CEDRD-S

205

ENCORE: Real Advice To Therapists Launching An Online Course

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307: How to Keep Your Podcast Going

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306: How to Show Up Imperfect In Your Marketing

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305: The Power Of Building In Public

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304: How To Build An Email List Alongside Your Online Course

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303: 3 Ways To Protect Your Personal Information Online

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302: Why I Spent $4K On Studio Lighting For My Home Office

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301: Balancing Fatherhood and Entrepreneurship

213

300: Charging Premium Prices For Your Online Course (Money Blocks + Fears)

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299: Tips To Build Your Email List: Lessons From 300 Newsletters + 5k subscribers

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298: 10 Lessons Learned from a Successful Cohort-Based Course Launch

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297: 3 Tips To Significantly "Wow" Your Telehealth Videos

217

296: Where Should I Focus My Online Course Marketing?

218

295: Avoid These 3 Mistakes The Average Investor Makes

219

ENCORE: 3 Tips on Creating A Membership Site

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ENCORE: How Much Is "Enough" In Our Business?

221

ENCORE: 5 Subtle Ways I Stay Productive Daily: Melvin Varghese, PhD

222

ENCORE: A Deep Dive into Setting Fees That Ensure Our Profitability and Business Growth

223

ENCORE: Website SEO And Why It Is Important To Attract Ideal Clients In Private Practice with Maelisa Hall, PsyD

224

ENCORE: Creating a Sound Social Media Policy While Navigating the Intersection of Personal and Professional Life as Clinicians

225

ENCORE: Signs That Private Practice Is Not For Someone And How To Move Away From It

226

ENCORE: Blogging As A Way To Build Your Practice And Reach Your Ideal Clients

227

ENCORE: The Process Of Launching a Membership Site To Survive The Pandemic

228

294: 5 Business Lessons Learned In 2021

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293: How To Increase Fees With Existing Clients

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292: Writing A Children's Book

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291: Owning A Therapy Building During The Pandemic

232

290: Long-Haul COVID-19 and Private Practice

233

289: Improving Your Sleep As A Therapist: Tips From A Sleep Psychologist

234

288: 3 Ways To Become A Better Leader In A Post-Pandemic World

235

287: Building A Directory For Trauma Therapists

236

286: When Chronic Health Concerns Are Dismissed

237

ENCORE: 5 Tips To Authentically Get On Podcasts: Melvin Varghese, PhD

238

ENCORE: How I create Live Stream Content With 30 Minutes of Prep: Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

239

ENCORE: Expert Insights on How to Generate Revenue Through Podcasting

240

ENCORE: Pro Tips To Improve The Quality Of Live Videos

241

285: Real Advice To Therapists Launching An Online Course

242

284: Depression and Private Practice Building

243

283: How To Invest Intelligently: Top Tips From A Certified Financial Planner

244

282: A Live vs. Pre-Recorded Online Course

245

281: A Slow, Intentional Transition To Full Time Private Practice

246

280: How To Overcome The Crippling Fear Of Launching A New Product Or Service

247

279: Building A Personal Brand On Social Media

248

278: Comparing Yourself to Others in the Field: Avoiding The Pitfalls

249

277: 3 Powerful Reasons Every Entrepreneur Needs A Daily Hike (Backed By Science)

250

276: Creating Authentic "Win-Win" Relationships With Colleagues

251

275: Best Advice I Would Give If Starting A Podcast

252

274: From The First Female-Identified Electrician In Oregon To A Counselor + Trainer With Progressive Vision Loss

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273: Bringing BrainSpotting to BIPOC Communities: John Edwards, LCSW

254

ENCORE: Thinking Outside the Box to Grow Your Practice!

255

ENCORE: Designing and Creating an App for Your Business

256

ENCORE: The Process of Creating and Marketing Your Product Using the Feelings Wheel

257

ENCORE: Dealing With Depression And Anxiety In Private Practice

258

ENCORE: How to Build a Private Practice While Dealing With Grief, Mourning, And Loss

259

272: 20 Colleagues Reflect: How The Pandemic Has Changed Me As A Business Owner

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271: Creating An Epic Welcome Video,Bryan Nixon, MA, LPC

261

270: When A Therapy Practice Is No Longer Your Calling, Melvin Varghese, PhD

262

269: Responding to a Calling Despite Fear: Cyndi Doyle, LPC-S, NCC, CDWF, CCISM

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268: Moving From An Online Course To A Membership Model with Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CEDRD-S

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267: Bookkeeping Things To Consider When Transitioning From Solo to Group Practice With Michael Spencer, BS, MA

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266: How We Connect our Mindset to Systems to Achieve Entrepreneurial Confidence

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265: Transitioning From Conventional Business Model in Private Practice in 2021 And Beyond with Brant Thomsen, LICSW

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264: Building A Second Brain, Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

268

263: How to Show up as a Genuine And Authentic Clinician in Multicultural Identities

269

262: Improving Your Private Practice Website with Daniel Fava

270

261: Adapting New Ways of Doing Things in Private Practice Because of Difficult Circumstances

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ENCORE: Creating Private Practice In Only Two Weeks with The Help of Intentionality And Relationships

272

ENCORE: The Biggest Bookkeeping Blunders That Clinicians Make and Their Solutions

273

ENCORE: Top Five Tips About Hiring a Virtual Assistant

274

ENCORE: Smart Ways To Repurpose Blog Content

275

ENCORE: The First Online Marketplace Exclusively For Mental Health Professionals To Buy And Sell Their Original Products

276

ENCORE: Creating A Conference To Share Your Message In Private Practice

277

ENCORE: Building Sales Funnel And Email List To Grow Your Private Practice

278

ENCORE: Transition From Clinical Work To Online Courses And Challenges Of Course Creation with Miranda Palmer

279

ENCORE: Multiple Income Streams And What is The Best Way to Put Them in Place?

280

260: Following Your Heart And Finding Compassion For Yourself

281

259: How I create Live Streaming Content With 30 Minutes of Prep: Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

282

258: Tips on Creating a Professional Livestream, Melvin Varghese, Ph.D.

283

257: The Concept of Coworking Spaces And If They Meet The Needs of Clinicians

284

256: Emotional And Professional Aspects For Clinicians to Consider Around Money

285

255: Doing Our Own Work in Therapy To Be Effective as Business Owners And Good People in The World

286

254: Expert Wisdom on Complicated Grief and How To Deal with It

287

253: Getting Ready For Unexpected Situations And Dealing With Them in Private Practice

288

252: Dealing with Pandemic Challenges And Growing Private Practice In It

289

ENCORE: Three Non-Traditional Marketing Methods For Introverts To Market Their Practice Effectively

290

ENCORE: What America's Millionaires Do Differently

291

ENCORE: How to Market a TeleMental Health Practice

292

ENCORE: How to Find Ideal Clients And Why It’s Best to Focus on The Ideal Clients

293

251: Colleagues Share The #1 Business Lesson They've Learned from The Selling The Couch Podcast

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250: Pro Tips To Improve The Quality Of Live Videos

295

249: 5 Years and 1 Million Downloads: Melvin Varghese, PhD