Can I Use That Picture?
The use of images within the online world has become almost unavoidable. With the rise of social media and blogging, it’s difficult to tell…
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How do You Teach Group Therapy Skills?
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Using Yelp in Private Practice
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Alison answers the question based…
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Dr. Steve Taylor is One of 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People | PoP 293
Have you ever experienced a spiritual awakening? Do you feel ‘separate’ from society? Have you ever wished to have inner stillness and be self-sufficient?…
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Marketing in Print Publications
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Alison answers the question based…
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What is the Correct Way to Share Content Online?
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Private Pay in Private Practice
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Alison answers the question based…
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How to Save Time and Not Lose Money
Do you find yourself overwhelmed with things that need to get done? Are you constantly finding there not to be enough hours in one…
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Google Artificial Intelligence and the Enneagram with Earl J. Wagner Ph.D. | PoP 292
Have you ever heard of the enneagram philosophy? Do you sometimes struggle to understand other people’s point of view? Are you interested in different…
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Marketing and Networking Play Therapy Services: 7 Top Tips
I remember when the economy was in a serious slump. One of my colleagues, who sees only adult clients, commented on how his phones…
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Should You Have Professional Testimonials on Your Website?
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Where to Spend or Save When Starting a New Practice
Starting out in private practice, there are many things to consider. Most of which mental health practitioners did not learn when in graduate school….
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Should You Have a Ghost Writer?
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: March 2018
The month of March included, primarily, the updated Website Roundtable Series of podcasts on Practice of the Practice, with experts John Clarke, Jaime Jay,…
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Networking in Private Practice
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Alison answers the question based…
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How Do You Get Client Reviews?
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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How to Publish an E-Book on Amazon
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Mistakes Private Practice Owners Make When Marketing
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Alison answers the question based…
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Should You Date Your Blog Posts?
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Kate and Katie Talk about S&M | PoP 288
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of sales and marketing? Do you hate the idea of ‘selling’ yourself?…
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How Facebook Pixels Work
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Creating a System of Success for Your Practice
One of the big shifts of going from a school counseling setting to private practice was my lack of having a regular rhythm. Having…
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Low-Hanging Fruit on Websites | Website Roundtable with John Clarke, Perry Rosenbloom, Joe Sanok and Jaime Jay | PoP 284
Have you ever wondered what low-hanging fruit you could improve on your website? Do you know what the essentials to every website are? Are…
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Five Money Mindsets to Master
I want to talk about five money mindsets that to me are essential for you to master. 1. Know What’s Happening With Your Money…
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What You Can Do While Waiting For Your Website to Go Live
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: February 2018
In the month of love, our top stories were to do with selling play therapy services to parents in private practice, how to optimize…
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Feeling Exhausted? Here Are 10 Tips to Identify First Signs of Mental Illness
Mental illness comes in degrees. The obvious illnesses that have observable and extreme behaviors are actually a small percentage of the entire spectrum. The…
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Blog Images: 15 Tips To Nail It!
If you’re into blogging, you most likely consider it to be a content medium, right? Well, not exactly. Blogging is, in fact, a visual…
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Build It And They Will Come
Finding the Way Forward As I look back at those early months of my practice, for this blog series, I find myself asking how…
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The Difference Between Google / Yelp / Facebook Reviews
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question based…
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Why Your Business Will Fail in the Next 10 Years
Here’s the Bad News: According to numerous sources only 4-30% of businesses will be open in ten years. That means that ip to 96%…
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How to Optimize Your Psychology Today Profile
Q&A was part of Next Level Practice, the most supportive community for therapists starting a private practice. In this video, Joe answers the question…
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How to Grow an Income and Impact | January 2018 Monthly Income Report
This month we launched Next Level Practice, it’s a supportive community that helps people start practices. Our goal is for it to be as…
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Anna Lindberg Cedar has Dealt with Some Trauma Series 2 of 5 Five Fierce Females | PoP 279
Are you on the verge of burnout? Do you know what steps you can take to avoid burnout? Do you suffer from ‘survivor’s guilt’?…
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Selling Play Therapy Services to Parents in Private Practice
If you are a therapist in private practice providing play therapy to child clients, you probably are quite familiar with how important it is…
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Why You Need to Clean Up Your Money Issues
You and money are in a long-term relationship. The courtship started years ago. Perhaps you have early memories of begging for arcade coins, or…
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Jeffrey Shaw Knows How to Attract Your Ideal Clients | PoP 277
Do you struggle to attract your ideal client to your practice? Do you know how to speak the language of your ideal client? Are…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: January 2018
Practice of the Practice has started 2018 off with a bang! Bringing you articles providing guidance on how to take your practice to the…
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Steps To Get To The Next Level
We’ve covered a lot! In Part 1 | The Low-Hanging Fruit, we hit on how to determine your lifestyle goals, looking at the numbers,…
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Lessons from a $456k Year
Last year I grossed $456,983.53. That’s a crazy chunk of change, considering I got paid $30k/year at my first job. That’s really crazy considering…
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Three Differences Between Six-Figure and Multi-Six Figure Practices
In the last article, we discussed playing bigger and how to keep leveling up. Wasn’t that interview with Christopher awesome?! When I was first…
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Phil Singleton Moved to Asia and Came Back a Different Man | PoP 275
Have you ever wondered how to rank higher in Google? Or how to create content that you can use in various forms? Or whether…
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How to Invest In Your Practice | PoP Bonus
Are you wanting to start a practice, but you’re not sure what to focus on first? Have you been running a private practice for…
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How To Think Bigger
In the last post, we looked at the blueprint to create “aha” moments, slow down to spark innovation, and then how to actually plan,…
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6 Must-Haves for a Child and Family Therapist
As a therapist who works with kids, teens, and parents, having a bag of tricks is essential. Clients come to a stranger and, almost immediately,…
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Intellectual Property and How to Not Get Sued with Bobby Klinck | PoP 274
Have you ever stayed up at night wondering if you could get sued for the images on your website? Should you trademark your practice? …
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How to Set Up a Facebook Business Page in Under 5 Minutes
Today I’m going to be showing you how to create a facebook business page. Categorizing Your Business The first thing you need to do…
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The Blueprint For Achieving (Almost) Every Goal
In the last article, I asked you to reflect and take action where you had missed spots. I hope you went back through so…
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7 Ways to Significantly Improve Your Online Reputation
To develop a successful brand takes months and years of practice, hard work, failures, small successes, turnarounds, and so on. In short, a great…
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Your Office Lighting is Hurting Your Business and other Tips from Cheryl Janis | PoP 273
Is your biggest fear that your clients won’t come back? How can you make your office environment more nurturing so that they do? What…
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The Systems to Get to the Next Level
In the last post, we covered how to get way more done using the 3E approach I use every day. Is your mind spinning?…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: December 2017
In the festive month of December, Practice of the Practice featured a comprehensive podcast series on how to start a practice that thrives. Gearing…
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18 Practical Tips for Rocking Out Private Practice in 2018 | PoP 272
Do you have your goals for 2018, for your private practice, set up already? Do you know how you plan on growing and improving…
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How To Stay Focused On The Big Goals
If you didn’t get the paperwork packet, make sure you take some action to get your contracts in order. I know my paperwork has…
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How to Start a Practice Next Year | PoP 270
What are the most common challenges practitioners experience when it comes to starting a private practice? What are some solutions around these challenges? In…
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Adding Clinicians To Your Practice
In the last post, we discussed how to add a virtual assistant (VA) and that you were going to make a list with three…
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8 Habits of Emotionally Strong Leaders
The best leaders are the strongest leaders. Not in terms of how much they can bench press, perhaps, but in terms of how they…
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Substance Abuse is Related to Mental Health: 3 Things Therapists Should Know
I am going to make a really bold claim; substance abuse issues are mental health issues. What does this mean you might ask? Often, substance…
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Ethnocentric to a Cosmocentric View of Life
Today I’m going to talk about something that’s a little outside of what we typically talk about, when it comes to business. We are,…
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How To Use Assistants To Grow Faster
At this point, my consulting clients and Next Level Mastermind folks often ask very similar questions, and have similar concerns, and fears: If I…
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Sowing the Seeds of a New Practice: Negotiating Rent
My wife and I had made the move across Tampa Bay. We now resided about as close to the Gulf of Mexico as you…
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Why and How to Give More On-Going Feedback
A common question that I get is, ‘how to give feedback to assistants, intake coordinators, other counselors, and people that are working in your…
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Costs of a Private Practice | November 2017 Monthly Income Report
It’s amazing the power of scaling a business! This month I went to Colorado with my friend Paul, got to hang out with Michael…
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5 Tips to Overcome Imposter’s Syndrome
I was about two weeks into private practice when it really hit me. My confused and overwhelmed client was pouring her heart out to me. And,…
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How To Name a Private Practice
Today, we are talking all about naming a practice. The name of your practice is one of the most important things that you can…
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Multiplying Your Time and Money
In the last post, we discussed playing with numbers to add clinicians, raise your rates, and work the same, or less, but still make…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: November 2017
The month of November was jam-packed with articles aimed at helping you start, grow, and scale your practice. Our top stories include how to…
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Why You Should File a LLC
In case you’ve been living under a rock (no judgement), or you are completely new to the world of business, a LLC stands for…
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This One Mindset Will…
In the last post we discussed looking at your numbers to see where you are spending time, money, and energy. How’d it go? Mindset…
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7 Ideas to Market a Practice
So, you’ve decided to take the leap into starting a private practice. And, now, you’re faced with the often daunting task of marketing it….
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Don’t Let This Happen To You
In the last article, your action was to block off time for something outside of your business. I hope you’re already finding some interesting…
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Do You Need a W-2 Employee or a 1099 Contractor?
Whether or not you own your own private practice (yet), you would of – more than likely – come across the terms ‘W-2’ and…
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How to Scale a Business | Monthly Income October 2017
Wondering how to scale a business? Is your private practice growing and you’re ready to scale? It can be frustrating and overwhelming. This monthly…
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Creating Headspace for the Next Big Thing: Finding a Supervisor
Graduation day had finally arrived – after 18 straight semesters with no breaks. Taking semesters off just wasn’t an option for me. I wanted to…
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Imagine You Could Go On Vacation
Come the weekend, I turn off my phone on Friday at noon. No more email, text, or business planning. I keep it on for…
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6 Ways for a Private Practice Business to Handle Negative Reviews
It doesn’t matter how amazing your service is, it could even be the best in town. But, you’re still going to get negative customer…
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Productivity Hacks | Three Ways To Get More Done In a Week
Just wanted to share with you a couple of tips on how to get more done by structuring your week a little bit differently….
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Private Practice: The Long Game
When I opened my private practice, everyone told me that I would love it. They told me that it would change my life. I was told…
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Why Most Practices Can’t Level Up
Last week, I spoke all about how to understand the competition. Did you do the quick five minute exercise? Where We’re Headed In the…
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How To Set Up a Business Pinterest Account
So, today, I’m going to be walking you through how to set up a Business Pinterest Account. Benefits of Pinterest Driving traffic to your…
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One Five Minute Exercise To Level Up Your Practice
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be posting some steps that will walk you through getting to the next level of private practice….
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: October 2017
This month, we interview four private practice owners who are running multi-six figure practices. They reveal how they got to where they are today…
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How To Grow Your Private Practice With Email Marketing: Beginner’s Guide
Marketing within the medical community comes with a set of unique challenges. This is due to the fact that confidentiality and consideration for your…
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Is Blogging Worth The Time?
When people ask me how to blog, it’s often filled with fear, anxiety, and worry. What is a meta description and SEO? Most practice…
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John Bowen Discovered 6 Key Drivers of Success | PoP 251
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks with John Bowen about the six drivers of success. Podcast Sponsor From verification of benefits to month-end reporting and…
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How To Confidently Build a Private Practice
Today, I’m going to share with you a little bit about how to confidently grow your business. This is mostly aimed at people that…
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Stages of Change into Private Practice: The Contemplation Stage (Part 2 of 5)
Coming out of denial is a gradual process. It was like having an addiction, an addiction to allowing other people to be masters of…
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How much money can a counselor in private practice make? September 2017 Monthly Income Report
How much can a counselor in private practice make? In trying to make money in private practice you have to know what stage you…
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Midlife Grad School Grad Goes For Brass Ring
I have been given the opportunity to be a guest blogger for the Practice of the Practice website. This is an honor I’m really…
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Sherry Shockey-Pope Started Creating Systems And This Happened | PoP 250
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Sherry Shockey-Pope about creating systems and what happened as a result of that. Podcast Sponsor From verification of…
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Eric Connor is Making Six Figures Running Groups | PoP 248
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Eric Connor about how he is making six figures running groups. Podcast Sponsor From verification of benefits to…
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Dr. Mark Mayfield On How Nametags Made a Multi-Six Figure Practice | PoP 247
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Dr. Mark Mayfield on how nametags made a multi-six figure practice. Podcast Sponsor From verification of benefits to…
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How to Win Clients at Every Inquiry
People looking for counseling have been struggling. You know this. Have you stopped to think about all the barriers between a client’s decision to get…
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Monthly Round Up Of Posts: September 2017
This month’s round up of posts includes another great mix of blog posts around how to start, grow, and scale your private practice. Whether…
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9 Advantages To Using QuickBooks
QuickBooks is the world’s biggest selling accounting software. The platform has over 42 million users throughout the globe and offers the most comprehensive audit…
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Stages of Change Into Private Practice: The Pre-Contemplation Stage (Part 1 of 5)
I’d been in private practice for the last twenty plus years in St. Louis, Missouri, working in the field of ADHD and adolescent male…
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Private Practice Income | August 2017 Monthly Income Report
One of the ways that people make more private practice income is through going beyond just seeing clients. They create podcasts, write books, or…
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How To Overcome The Anxiety Associated With Blogging
It was much easier when I didn’t have to know that anyone read my blog. I told myself, “I just have to publish something,…
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How To Get Beyond Analysis Paralysis
Since opening my practice, a year ago, I have been inundated with information from various sources. These sources are touting the next great practice…
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John Clarke Has a Private Practice Workshop and Some Questions | PoP 242
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks with John Clarke, in a reverse podcast, who has a Private Practice Workshop and some questions. Podcast Sponsor Brighter Vision…
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