Private Practice Survival Guide
This podcast is all about empowering you to create the change you want to see in your practice. As a private practice strategist, I have dedicated my career to transforming the way that healthcare functions.
Brandon Seigel, President of Wellness Works Management Partners, is an internationally known private practice consultant with over fifteen years of executive leadership experience. Seigel's book "The Private Practice Survival Guide" takes private practice entrepreneurs on a journey to unlocking key strategies for surviving―and thriving―in today’s business environment. Now Brandon Seigel goes beyond the book and brings the same great tips, tricks, and anecdotes to improve your private practice in this companion podcast.
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Episodes
147 episodes
How To Find Your Ideal Private Practice Buyer
In this Private Practice Survival Guide quick tip, Brandon Seigel breaks down how to find the ideal buyer for a private practice using a strategy-first lens—grounded in market realities, buyer behavior, and value drivers that impa...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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14:07
Identifying Your End Game: Forecasting Your Final Play
In this episode of The Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon Seigel breaks down one of the most overlooked—but most critical—elements of private practice ownership: defining your endgame and building a deliberate exit strategy. Rath...
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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39:26
Defining Your Private Practice Sales Valuation
In this quick tip episode of Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon Seigel breaks down how to accurately define the sales valuation of a private practice—and why misunderstanding valuation mechanics can cost owners hundreds of thousand...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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14:45
Succession Planning: The Art Of Planning For The Future
In this episode of the Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon Seigel delivers a comprehensive, real-world breakdown of succession planning for private practices—and why it’s far more than just an exit strategy. He explains how s...
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Season 1
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Episode 97
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29:06
The Benefits For Private Practices To Operate As An MSO
In this Quick Tip episode of the Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon Seigel breaks down what it really means for a private practice to operate as a Management Services Organization (MSO)—and why owning your MSO can be a power...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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11:36
Understanding A Multiple Tax ID Private Practice Approach
In this episode of the Private Practice Survival Guide Podcast, Brandon Seigel breaks down the multi–tax ID private practice model and why relying on a single tax ID can limit growth, care delivery, and operational freedom. Drawin...
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Season 1
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Episode 95
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29:51
Brandon's Favorite Leadership Books
In this Quick Tip episode of the Private Practice Survival Guide Podcast, Brandon Siegel shares the leadership books that shaped how he builds culture, earns trust, and leads teams in healthcare. He breaks down key lessons from Leaders Eat ...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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16:26
DNA Of A Private Practice Leader
This episode breaks down why leadership fails in practice operations—and what high-performing leaders do differently. Starting with the real barriers to leadership, Brandon uses a Tom Brady example to explain the drive, standards, and internal ...
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Season 1
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Episode 93
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35:44
3 Tips To Optimizing your Call-To-Action Approach Via Direct Mail
In this quick-tip episode of The Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon Siegel breaks down three practical ways to improve your direct mail results by sharpening one thing most campaigns get wrong: the call to action (CTA). He explai...
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Season 1
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Episode 92
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10:55
How Direct Mail Marketing Is Transforming Private Practice Growth
We tackle a reality most practice owners are feeling: digital marketing is getting more expensive, more crowded, and less predictable. As search and social costs rise, “disruptive” marketing is shifting from being optional to being a competitiv...
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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25:02
3 Ways HR Can Transform The Private Practice Owner's Role
In this Private Practice Survival Guide quick tip, Brandon reframes HR as the single biggest catalyst for owner freedom—because the path from burned-out operator to strategic CEO is built on people systems, not more hustle. He explains...
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Season 1
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Episode 90
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9:36
The HR Effect: Building A Workforce That Moves The Needle
Most leaders think payroll is a simple math problem. This conversation breaks down why it is more complex—and why the way you classify, pay, and structure your team directly impacts profitability, valuation, retention, and culture. From the rea...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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26:29
Why Exempt Salaries Often Fail
In this episode, you’ll learn why exempt salaries often fail in private practices—even when they look like a clean solution for predictable payroll. The episode breaks down what “exempt” actually means under the Fair Labor Standards A...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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9:02
ABC's of Employee Compensation
Most leaders think payroll is a simple math problem. This conversation breaks down why it is more complex—and why the way you classify, pay, and structure your team directly impacts profitability, valuation, retention, and culture. From the rea...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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37:44
Does A Personality Test Translate To Performance?
Do personality tests actually translate into real-world performance—or are they just another hiring trend? In this episode, we break down how personality assessments, when used correctly, can become a powerful predictor of performance, retentio...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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10:36
Defining Your Personality Assessment Criteria Within Your Organization
In this Private Practice Survival Guide episode, Brandon Seigel explains how personality assessments become truly useful when you treat them as decision-grade data—not labels. He reframes assessments as a way to understand patterns in thoughts,...
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Season 1
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Episode 85
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32:57
3 Tips To Relationship-Driven Marketing
We break down why the future of effective marketing is no longer transactional, but transformational. Rather than chasing one-time conversions, the conversation reframes marketing as a trust-based, value-driven process built on dialogue, collab...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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12:19
Enhancing Your Relationship-Based Marketing Approach
Relationship-based marketing is not about sounding polished—it’s about sounding human. In this episode, we break down what separates genuine relationship marketing from transactional “used car salesman” tactics, and why trust, consistenc...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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38:21
Developing Progress: Why Employees Must Reach Goals
In this episode of the Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon Siegel breaks down why the “another day, another dollar” mindset quietly limits growth—and how reframing progress changes everything. Instead of chasing outcomes alone, th...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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13:33
Developing An Employee Goal Measurement System
Most employee goal systems fail for one simple reason: they measure output, not purpose.In this episode we break down why people don’t disengage from work—they disengage from work that feels meaningless. Real performance doesn’t come fro...
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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36:27
Strategies For Evaluating A Trailing KPI
Strategies for Evaluating a Trailing KPI breaks down how private practice owners can use historical performance data to make smarter, more confident business decisions. In this Private Practice Survival Guide quick-tip episode, Brandon S...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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14:46
Evaluating Your Past Financial Analytics & Preparing For The Future
If you’re making decisions based on “how it feels” instead of what your financial data is actually saying, this episode will reset your approach. We focus on a practical, operator-friendly way to evaluate your past financial analytics—so you ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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38:54
Why Majority Of Private Practices Fail A HIPAA Compliance Audit
In this quick tip episode of The Private Practice Survival Guide, Brandon breaks down the real reason most private practices fail a HIPAA compliance audit: they don’t realize how easily PHI can be exposed—often in ways that...
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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13:38
Avoiding HIPAA Pitfalls: Common Mistakes In Private Practice
HIPAA compliance can feel like a moving target for private practice owners—but most violations don’t come from “bad intent.” They come from gaps in training, inconsistent workflows, and unsecured handling of Protected Health Information (PHI). ...
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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31:43