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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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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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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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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Back Pain, Travel, and Our Brain | PoP 291
Do you find yourself so caught up in your business that you’ve forgotten to focus on your lifestyle? Can you remember the last time…
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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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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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Kasey Compton Started a Million Dollar Practice in Three Years | PoP 290
Are you wanting to grow your practice into a group practice? Do you struggle with the business side of private practice? Are you looking…
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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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Pia Silva Talks About Badass Branding | PoP 289
Are you sick of working with agencies where it’s a constant process of feedback and revision? Do you know how to create a new…
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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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Something Small You Can Do Today | PoP 287
Are you wondering what the next steps are for your practice? Do you know what you can do to optimize your business? Are you…
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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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Dr. Taunya Lowe is a Riot Starter | PoP 283
Are you wanting to start a private practice, but are fearful to take the leap? Do you want to leave a legacy, but don’t…
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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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Dr. Andrea Maxim’s Practice is Scaling Quickly Series 5 of 5 Five Fierce Females | PoP 282
Are you in the process of starting, growing, or scaling a practice? Do you have children to raise at the same time that you…
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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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Rachael Norman’s App Helps with Out of Network Benefits Series 4 of 5 Five Fierce Females | PoP 281
Are you an out of network private practice? Do your clients struggle to submit claims and get their money back from their insurance companies?…
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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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Live Consulting with Joe and Melissa Dohse Series 3 of 5 Five Fierce Females | PoP 280
Have you ever wondered what consulting with Joe Sanok is like? Do you wonder whether or not it would be beneficial to your business?…
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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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Dr. Angela Johnson is Chasing the Mind Series 1 of 5 Five Fierce Females | PoP 278
Are you thinking about starting a private practice, but are doubting whether or not you can do it? Are you worried about how to…
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Five Business and Marketing Videos
These five videos with Jay Abraham, Donald Miller, Dave Ramsey, Gary Keller, and Warren Buffet represent some of the best financial, business, and marketing…
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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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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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What I Learned From Launching a Member Community
About three months ago I proposed a question to Sam, Emily, and Alison, the Practice of the Practice team. We were on a Zoom…
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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 Grow a Private Practice | December 2017 Monthly Income Report
Beyond working to grow a private practice, December was an amazing month for consulting, leveling up, and ending the year strong. I was off…
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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 Micro-Goals Will Change You
In the next thirty days, we will see an entire nation set goals and give up on them. Depending on the study, anywhere from…
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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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Why You Must Blog | PoP 269
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about why it is important that you blog when starting a private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the…
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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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How to Get More Clients in Private Practice | PoP 268
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to get more clients in private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a…
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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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How to Create a Marketing Plan | PoP 267
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to create a marketing plan. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a private practice?…
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Systems to Grow a Practice: Marketing Plan, Flow, and Blogging | PoP 266
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about the systems necessary to grow a practice, which include a marketing plan, flow, and blogging. Podcast Sponsor Confused…
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How to Go Private Pay | PoP 265
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to go private pay when starting a private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on…
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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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How to Network to Get Clients, The Starting a Practice Series | PoP 264
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to network to get clients when starting a private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice…
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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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How to Make a Website? Starting a Practice | PoP 263
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to make a website when starting a private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on…
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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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Should I Specialize? Starting a Practice | PoP 262
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about whether or not to specialize when starting a private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on…
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Starting a Practice & Finding Cheap Rent | PoP 261
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about starting a private practice and finding cheap rent. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a…
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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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Legal Structures in Private Practice | PoP 260
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about legal structures in private practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a private practice? I’d…
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How to Name a Practice | PoP 259
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to name your practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a private practice? I’d…
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How to Find a Specialty | PoP 258
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to find a specialty. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a private practice? I’d…
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How to Start a Thriving Practice | PoP 257
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to start a thriving practice. Podcast Sponsor Confused by all the advice on starting a private practice?…
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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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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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How to Hire the Right People in Your Group Practice | Pop 254
In this episode, Alison Pidgeon speaks about how to hire the right people for your group practice. Podcast Sponsor In This Podcast Summary In this…
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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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The “Nuts and Bolts” of How to Build a Group Practice | PoP 253
In this episode, Alison Pidgeon speaks about the “nuts and bolts” of how to build a group practice. Podcast Sponsor In This Podcast Summary…
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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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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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Ginny Mills Did W-2 Instead of 1099 and Here’s Why | PoP 249
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Ginny Mills about why she has gone the W-2 route instead of the 1099 route. Podcast Sponsor From…
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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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Next Level Private Practice | PoP 246
In this episode, Joe Sanok speaks about reaching for the next level of private practice. Podcast Sponsor Brighter Vision is a turnkey website solution designed…
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