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The Physician Business Podcast
The Physician Business Podcast is your weekly resource for building, growing, and sustaining a profitable private medical practice—without burning out.
Hosted by Amanda Sabicer, an MBA graduate with healthcare experience and over a decade of experience working with startups, talks on the podcast specifically to physicians who want to leave corporate medicine and launch or scale their own independent clinics.
Each episode covers practical business strategies, private practice management tips, and mindset tools to help you create a successful, burnout-free clinic. We dive into topics like entrepreneurship, physician burnout, clinic operations, human resources, and bookkeeping.
🎙️ Weekly episodes
💼 Built for private practice physicians
🩺 Focused on sustainability, profit, and freedom
Whether you're planning to leave your job, already running a clinic, or somewhere in between—this podcast gives you the real-world tools to thrive as an independent physician.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only.
Episodes
53 episodes
The Sales Conversation Every Physician Needs to Master
Credit card out, ready to sign, completely sold on a new doctor... and then I put the card away.I spend my days coaching physicians on how to win patients, so when I went shopping for my own direct primary care doctor recently, the table...
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How to Break Free From the Low Investment Loop and Build the Business You Actually Want
There’s a pattern that keeps even the smartest, most capable entrepreneurs stuck. Chances are, you’ve lived it. I know I have.It looks like progress: the podcasts, the saved posts, the courses you’re definitely going to finish, ...
Starting & Scaling Your Clinic: Live Q&A with Dr. Matthea Rentea (4.15.2026)
This episode is a replay of a live Q&A webinar that Dr. Matthea Rentea and I did on April 15, 2026 for female clinicians who are thinking about starting—or looking to grow—their own clinic.We dive into the real questions that come up...
Three Things Thriving Independent Clinicians Get Right First
You’re seeing more patients than ever… but somehow delivering less care. The visits are shorter. The admin is endless. The pressure to produce more never really lets up. And over time, it can start to feel like corporate medicine is extracting ...
Starting & Scaling Your Clinic: Live Q&A with Dr. Matthea Rentea (4.1.2026)
This episode is a replay of a live Q&A webinar that Dr. Matthea Rentea and I did for female clinicians who are thinking about starting—or looking to grow—their own clinic.We dive into the real questions that come up in the early stag...
Service Fatigue, Burnout, and the Case for Practicing Medicine on Your Own Terms
You went into medicine to help people. You knew it would be hard, but you were ready for that.What you weren't ready for? Being told, year after year, that the way you were trained to treat patients isn't actually how you're allowed<...
The Inversion Rule: Stop Quietly Killing Your Clinic’s Growth
How could you guarantee you never fill your patient panel?Strange question, I know... but hear me out.During a delayed flight home, I stumbled across Charlie Munger's inversion rule. He believed life's hardest problems be...
How to Stop Dreading Admin and Start Getting It Done: A Guide for Physician Entrepreneurs
You started your own practice for the freedom. To practice medicine your way, work with the patients you actually want to see, and build something that’s yours.And then… the admin hit.The forms. The tracking. The never-ending list...
Bad Business Investments: How to Spot Them, Survive Them and Learn From Them with Dr. Matthea Rentea
Ever hired someone to help grow your business and felt that sinking feeling when it just… wasn't what you were promised? Or maybe you're so scared of making the wrong call that you just… haven't made one at all?In this episode, I’m joine...
The 8 Ways Community Accelerates Your Growth as a Healthcare Entrepreneur
Your inner circle loves you… but they’re not always the best people to turn to when you’re riding the emotional highs and lows of running a healthcare business. In this episode, we unpack why community isn’t just “nice to h...
You’re Asking the Wrong Question About Making More Money in Your Clinic
What if the reason you’re not making more money in your clinic… has nothing to do with your pricing, services, or strategy?In this episode, we unpack a deceptively simple question many clinicians ask: “What should I offer to ...
Announcing the Next Cohort of the Female Founders Accelerator Program
The Female Founders Accelerator isn't your typical medical practice business program that ignores your life and wellbeing. And it's not another personal wellness program that tells you to slow down your ambitions and meditate.It's a 10-m...
Stop Pretending Luxury Escapes Are Going to Fix Your Burnout and Dissatisfaction (Clinic Founder Series)
What if your dissatisfaction at work, your burnout wasn’t because you weren’t trying hard enough or couldn’t optimize your life the right way, but because the system you’ve been trying to survive in is broken?In this raw, behind-the-scen...
You’re Not Bad at Marketing—You’re Thinking About It Wrong (ClinicFounder Series)
If marketing your practice feels uncomfortable, confusing, or overwhelming… you’re not alone.And more importantly—your job is not to confuse your discomfort doing marketing with a belief that you are bad at marketing.In the latest...
The Skill That Will Make or Break You as an Clinical Entrepreneur (Clinic Founder Series)
In this latest episode of our Clinic Founder Series, Dr. Matthea Rentea and I discuss the toughest gap all entrepreneurs face (including ourselves!): handling feedback.Whether it’s a comment about your social media, your clothes or your ...
The Hidden Reason You Feel Stuck Starting Your Practice...It’s Not What You Think (Clinic Founder Series)
Starting your own medical practice can feel overwhelming—especially when you're trying to balance clinical responsibilities, personal life, and the pressure to “do it right.”In this episode, we break down one of the most common challenge...
The 3 Phases Every Doctor Goes Through Before Leaving Corporate Medicine (Clinic Founder Series)
Leaving corporate medicine isn’t just a career decision—it’s an identity shift.In this episode of the Clinic Founder Series where we share insights and lessons from working closely with physicians inside the Female Founders Acce...
We Thought We Were Underqualified… Then We Ran a Founder Photoshoot Anyway (Clinic Founder Series)
What happens when you decide to step into a bigger version of yourself before you feel ready?In this episode, my friend and colleague, Dr. Matthea Rentea, and I take you behind the scenes of our recent Female Founders Accelerato...
Insights from the Female Founder Accelerator Program (Clinic Founder Series)
After hosting a five-day, in-person retreat for our Female Founder Accelerator (FFA) program, my colleague Dr. Matthea Rentea and I decided to record several podcast episodes reflecting on the biggest insights we’ve gleaned so far from running ...
What to Do When Life Doesn’t Pause for Your Business
Sometimes life throws you a curveball right when you need it least.This week, days before the most complex retreat I've ever planned, I got some difficult personal news that forced me to completely pivot.The temptation in moments ...
3 Reasons Difficult Conversations Go Wrong (And What to Do Instead)
One of the hardest skills we're never taught? How to have difficult conversations well. So we put them off… until they're living rent-free in our heads. When we finally do have them, we wing it, things get awkward or defensive, and we end up av...
Re-Parenting Yourself: The Secret to Stopping Your Inner Toddler From Sabotaging Your Business
Snapping at yourself, avoiding the tasks you know would help your business, and wondering why you just can't do the thing?While exploring how to truly “be the boss of me” as a business owner, I had a harsh realization: my inner toddler w...
The Decision-Making Skill They Don’t Teach in Med School
You’ve spent years learning how to make the “right” clinical decision. You come from a world with protocols, gold standards, and someone above you to blame when things go sideways. Then you start a business and realize it’s just you, your brain...
The Confidence Myth: How to Start Before You Feel Ready (Even If You Want to Barf)
“I’m just not confident enough.”I hear this all the time from smart, accomplished women who are more than capable, but still waiting to feel “ready”.Recently, I met a woman with a beautiful idea and watched her almost tal...
Why You Dread Difficult Conversations as a Leader (And How to Handle Them With Confidence)
Ever find yourself lying awake rehearsing a conversation you really don't want to have? Maybe it's a performance issue, a behavior problem, or that feedback you know you need to give, but keep putting off.If this feels harder th...