The Private Practice Success Podcast
Private Practice Specific Business Coaching, Mentoring & Consulting for Allied Health Business Owners.
Episodes
69 episodes
69. The Q1 Reality Check: Are you where you said you'd be?
In Episode 69, Gerda invites you to pause, reflect, and take a hard but necessary look at the first quarter of this calendar year. If January started with big intentions but you have since found yourself pulled back into the day-to-day of clien...
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Episode 69
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32:04
68. The Hidden Revenue Engine in Your Private Practice
In this episode 68, Gerda challenges one of the most common assumptions in private practice and reveals the often overlooked driver of sustainable growth, profitability, and client experience, being your admin team.While most practice ow...
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Episode 68
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37:14
67. How to Network Effectively, Even if You're an Introvert
In Episode 67, Gerda dives into the art of networking for allied health practice owners, so if walking into a room full of strangers feels like your worst nightmare, then this is most certainly is the episode for you. As a self-proc...
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Episode 67
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34:30
66. Credibility VS Authority: The Missing Link in your Marketing
In Episode 66, Gerda gets straight to the heart of why so many practice owners struggle to fill their books, even when they feel like they are “doing all the right marketing things”.Unfortunately, many practice owners don’t even realise ...
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Episode 66
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39:12
65. Leading Through Uncertainty
Irrespective of whether you’re a solo or a group practice owner, uncertainty is part of the allied health business landscape. Cue funding changes, policy shifts, a lingering cost of living crisis and the multitude of unexpected curveballs...
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Episode 65
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47:35
64. The 5 Most Important People in the Life of a Practice Owner
In Episode 64, Gerda unpacks a truth every private practice owner needs to hear: It really does take a village to build a sustainable, thriving business. If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying the weight of your practice on your own shoulders...
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Episode 64
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48:52
63. More Clients, More Team, But Less Freedom? Here's Why...
In Episode 63, Gerda gets real about a dilemma so many private practice owners face in that is: More Clients, More Team... But Less Freedom.If you started your practice for flexibility and freedom, but now find yourself with a big...
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Episode 63
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30:58
62. Marketing & Branding in Private Practice: What to Do & When
In this episode, Gerda breaks down the difference between marketing and branding (spoiler alert: they’re not the same!), why they both matter and most importantly how to know which one your business needs right now, depending on your stage of g...
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Episode 62
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61. Remuneration Roulette: Why Guessing What to Pay Your Team is Costing You More Than You Think
In Episode 61, Gerda tackles one of the most stressful and high-stakes challenges for group private practice owners being: Remuneration.If you’ve ever felt a wave of panic when a clinician asks, 'So, what’s the pay?' or found your...
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Episode 61
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27:29
60. Salutogenesis: In Treatment & In Business
In Episode 60, Gerda explores a powerful concept that can transform both your clinical work and your business: Salutogenesis - the science (and art) of moving from 'dis-ease' to 'health-ease and how understanding and applying Salutogenes...
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Episode 60
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46:06
59. Delivering a 10/10 Client Session
In Episode 59, Gerda dives into something every clinician cares about, being how to deliver a 10/10 client session - every single time.This is important because although the actual session is only one part of the broader client ex...
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Episode 59
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47:33
58. Busting the 10 Biggest Myths about Group Private Practice - PART 2
In Episode 58, Gerda continues busting the 10 Biggest Myths about group private practice.If Part 1 in Episode 57 stirred something for you, then get ready because these next five myths go even deeper. This episode is less about spreadshe...
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Episode 58
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36:27
57. Busting the 10 Biggest Myths about Group Private Practice - PART 1
In Episode 57, Gerda busts the first 5 of the 10 Biggest Myths about Group Private Practice.Why? Because right now there is so much misinformation floating around in the allied health industry and it’s keeping incredibly capable cl...
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Episode 57
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56. 3 Reasons Your Team Sucks (and it's not what you think)
In Episode 56, Gerda tackles one of the most common and probably most frustrating challenges in allied health private practice being: when it feels like your team sucks!With her trademark honesty (and a little humour), Gerda unpacks why ...
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Episode 56
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37:21
55. Three Reasons Why you will Never have a Self-Running Practice
In Episode 55, Gerda gets real about what’s holding so many practice owners back from building the self-running business they dream of. With her signature honesty and a dose of tough love, she unpacks the three big reasons most prac...
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Episode 55
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54. How Smart Practice Owners Plan their Year & Why They do it in January
In Episode 54, Gerda reveals why January - not December - is the secret weapon for smart, sustainable business planning in private practice. She shares her own experience of ditching frazzled “December brain” for the clarity and creativity that...
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Episode 54
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28:43
53. Private Practice for Dummies
In Episode 53, Gerda strips private practice back to basics and reminds us that simplicity is often the secret to success. Inspired by the iconic “For Dummies” series, Gerda uses humour and real talk to break down what actually matt...
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Episode 53
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40:26
52. 3 Reasons Why Your Diary is Still Not Full
In Episode 52, Gerda unpacks the three core reasons why your diary is still not full and why “just do more marketing” is almost never the whole answer. Whether you run a solo practice or a growing group practice, empty appointment s...
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Episode 52
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37:09
51. Proper Business Planning: The Allied Health Way
In episode 51, Gerda dives into one of her favourite and most transformative topics, being how proper business planning, done the allied health way, sets thriving practice owners apart from those stuck in constant catch-up mode. Ger...
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Episode 51
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29:29
50. The 3 Hardest Things I've Ever had to Do in my Private Practice
In Episode 50, Gerda shares a raw and honest account of the three hardest things she’s ever had to do as a private practice owner. From firing her accountant and performance managing a ‘trusted’ team member, to letting go of a contr...
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Episode 50
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40:45
49. The REAL Reason your Cash Flow Sucks
In episode 49, Gerda gets brutally honest about one of the most painful topics for private practice owners: cash flow. Drawing on her own practice owner experience and countless client stories, Gerda reveals the three biggest...
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Episode 49
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38:15
48. 3 Actions to Transform your Practice before Year's End
In episode 48, Gerda delivers a motivating call to action for private practice owners who want to finish the year strong - no matter how challenging 2025 has felt thus far. Gerda reminds you that the last stretch of the year is wher...
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Episode 48
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31:12
47. No Time, No Cash Flow: The Excuses Blocking your Success
In episode 47, Gerda gets real about the most common excuses that hold group practice owners back from the business growth and freedom they truly deserve. Drawing on years of candid conversations with fellow allied health business o...
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Episode 47
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52:48
46. The Rapid Refill: 3 Simple Strategies to get Booked Out
In episode 46, Gerda shares three simple, high-impact strategies to quickly fill open appointments - without slipping into '911 marketing'.You’ll learn how to pair consistent, foundational marketing with smart, rapid-response tactics tha...
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Episode 46
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47:15
45. The NDIS Debacle: My Take & Your Next Steps
In episode 45, Gerda shares a candid, practical take on the current NDIS landscape as well as her take as to the right next steps to future proof your practice.From inconsistent pricing and slashed travel allowances to the newly announce...
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Episode 45
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38:37