OT Yourself to Freedom
The Podcast that shows OTs how to build a life of freedom using skills they already have!Tired of feeling overworked, underpaid, and stuck in a system that doesn’t value your worth?
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153. Successful OT Practices Are One Funding Letter Away From Broke (opens the original)
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You can have a full caseload, a waiting list and a successful OT private practice, and still be one funding change away from a serious problem. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast , Beki Eakins talks about something she is seeing again and again with Occupational Therapy business owners across Australia, the UK and the US. NDIS changes. Frozen therapy rates. Insurance restrictions. Commissioning changes. Rising costs. More paperwork. Smaller margins. The problem is not that the
152. Can You Start an OT Business Straight Out of University? With Rebecca Haythorne (opens the original)
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Every newly qualified OT hears some version of the same advice. Get a few years under your belt. Build your clinical experience. Wait until you know what you are doing. But wait for what, exactly? And who decided? In this episode Beki Eakins is joined by Rebecca Haythorne, Senior Lecturer and Practice Placement Tutor on the MSc and BSc Occupational Therapy pre-registration programmes at Leeds Beckett University. Rebecca moved into academia from clinical practice, having qualified as a mature stu
151. The 12 Hour Working Week, A Manifesto for OTs Who Keep Getting Told to Do More (opens the original)
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Beki Eakins works about 12 hours a week. And she still feels guilty about it. Not because the business is struggling. It's growing, her clients are getting results, and she's built the life she wanted. But she'll open her diary, see the gaps, and hear the voice saying you should be doing more. This episode started as therapy for herself. It turned into an argument. Because the standard advice for growing a business is always the same: double the output, double the hours. Beki has tried it, repea
150. The Basket Weavers Who Forgot to Weave, Why OTs Burn Out and What Actually Fixes It (opens the original)
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Occupational Therapists are the profession built on one idea. Meaningful occupation is medicine. We prescribe it every day. We know the theory works. So why are we burning out faster than almost anyone? In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins goes after the question most of us avoid. What happens when the profession of meaningful occupation stops doing anything meaningful for itself? It starts at a leaving do. Another OT walking out of the NHS, this one to open a baker
149. Sales for Occupational Therapists, Why OTs Fear Selling and How to Fix It (with Rob Higton) (opens the original)
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Selling makes most Occupational Therapists deeply uncomfortable. Not because they lack expertise, but because they fear sounding pushy, dread talking about money, and worry about being judged for charging properly for their skills. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins is joined by sales coach Rob Higton to unpack why so many OTs hold themselves back from building profitable online businesses, and how a shift in mindset around sales changes everything. Rob shares his
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