The Physician Business Podcast

When you think of a successful entrepreneur, what comes to mind? 

Someone working around the clock, juggling endless responsibilities, and squeezing every last minute out of their day?

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing that building a successful business means constantly doing more...

Why would a patient pay you more when they can see another doctor, maybe for less or just down the street?

Hint: It's not your credentials, longer appointments, or fancy clinic branding.

Corporate medicine has trained physicians to think in terms of time, services, and efficiency. But when...

You can spend a lot of money trying to become a better business owner.

Courses, conferences, coaching, masterminds, books, software, networking events… all of it can be useful. 

But usefulness alone does not guarantee a return. 

It is entirely possible to invest thousands of dollars, absorb ...

Thinking about leaving insurance, but terrified of what happens next?

That's exactly where family nurse practitioner Lynn Masih found herself after nearly a decade running an insurance-based primary care practice. 

On paper, the practice was successful. In reality, reimbursements kept shrinki...

Is the “corporate medicine hangover” following you into private practice?

You left the bureaucracy behind, but the urgency, overcomplication, frustration, and constant sense that everything should somehow be harder than it is can be much more difficult to shake.

And before you know it, you’re...

Imagine trying to buy a car without knowing the mileage, safety rating, features, or even what makes one car better than another.

That’s basically what your prospective patients are doing when they choose a clinician.

They don’t have a neat comparison chart for your expertise, judgment, or wh...

You finally make the big move: quit the job, start the clinic, change everything.

You’re excited, relieved, maybe even a little smug.

And then…the opinions arrive.

Suddenly the people around you are questioning the plan, pointing out the risks, and making you wonder whether you’ve lost your ...

Physicians spend years building their careers. Medical school, residency, fellowship, long shifts, missed weekends… with the assumption that eventually, all that work leads somewhere you actually want to be.

But what happens when the career you worked so hard to build suddenly stops working fo...

Marketing your clinic can feel overwhelming, especially when there’s no shortage of advice telling you what you should be doing next. 

There’s always someone telling you what you should be doing next, whether that’s getting on another platform, spending money on ads, posting more, or handing t...

What does a business consultant actually do when you hire one?

That’s usually the part people are curious about. Do we start with your numbers? Your marketing? Your schedule? The team issue that’s been slowly driving you nuts?

A big part of my job is figuring out what’s actually keeping your ...

You left corporate medicine to have deeper conversations with your patients. So why does the thought of a longer visit make you break out in a cold sweat?

Corporate medicine trains you so well to prize efficiency, that even after you leave, the old operating system keeps running in the backgro...

Have you ever imagined opening your own clinic… only for your brain to immediately start writing a disaster movie starring guilt, financial ruin, and the loss of your "safe" paycheck?

But what if the path that looks safest may be the one costing you your health, creativity, and love for medici...