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Welcome! My guest today is Jo Muirhead, a rehab counselor in Australia. Jo helps health professionals grow successful practices and has helped clinicians for over 20 years! We’re discussing some great topics today, so join us!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Objectivity as a business owner
- Three biggest mental roadblocks in starting private practices: fear of rejection, the sense that I’m “not good enough,” and avoidance
- Why clinicians have a fear of peer rejection
- “Mental health professionals are so good at ‘therapizing’ that we can make any excuse sound legitimate.”
- Cultural and societal pressures around “not being good enough”
- The intersection of perfectionism and fear: how it hinders us
- Take the smallest positive step that you can
- As a clinician, have a few “go-to” topics to talk about
- Always look for the risks
- The different developmental stages of your practice
- How to exercise your “entrepreneurial muscles”
- Jo’s Book of Evidence: what it is and how it works
Resources Mentioned:
www.jomuirhead.com – Jo's Website
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