HeyJaredPurpose and Profit: The Sustainable Therapy Practice Podcast
Purpose & Profit: The Sustainable Therapy Practice Podcast is for therapists who are done performing success and ready to actually build it — sustainably.Hosted by Cecilia Mannella — mental health practitioner, seven-figure group practice owner, and creator of the Sustainable…
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49 | Leadership that lasts: building a practice that runs without you (opens the original)
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Most delegation advice tells you to get something off your plate. That advice is why it doesn't work. Handing someone a task while you keep the decision leaves the work exactly where it was — the illusion that it's off your desk, when you're still standing in the middle of it. This episode draws the line between delegating for relief and delegating for ownership. One buys you an hour. The other hands over a piece of your authority, and changes what the practice can do when you're not in it. Ceci
48 | Leadership decision-making for therapy practice owners (opens the original)
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The difference between a practice owner and a CEO isn't what she knows. It's how she decides. And most of the weight you're carrying right now belongs to decisions you could undo next week. You were trained to decide under pressure, with almost no information and very little time. A lot of us started in crisis work — I spent my early career in victim services, on call with the RCMP and we got very, very good at it. That skill is now the instrument you reach for on a Tuesday afternoon when nothin
47 | Leadership mindset: why leading a session is easier than leading yourself (opens the original)
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Most practice owners are told they need to work on their leadership. Almost none are told they already have it. You lead a container every fifty minutes. You keep the time, guide the process, assess as you go, read what nobody says out loud. That is leadership — it simply has a client at the centre. What you have never built is the same container with you in the middle, and that is why the judgment you trust completely in the room deserts you the moment the decision is commercial. This episode i
46 | Therapy Is Leadership: Why the Definition You Inherited Never Fit (opens the original)
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The word leadership is about two hundred years old. The word underneath it — lead — is ancient, and it was never meant to command. It meant to guide. To go before someone. To set them on their way. Which means you have been leading for thousands of hours and calling it something else. Leadership is a word most therapists flinch at. Not from modesty — from inheritance. The version we were handed was written in the 1840s, built around Victorian heroes and a great man at the top, and co-opted along
45 | Growing Revenue Will Not Fix a Leaky Practice with Emily McNamara (opens the original)
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Emily McNamara left a corporate finance career to build her own bookkeeping firm, then her world fell apart during a move overseas and a therapist put it back together. She rebuilt her entire business around one commitment: helping the people who help people get profitable. In this conversation, she names the number most practice owners get wrong from day one. Your billable rate is not your income, and for a solo practitioner the real figure lands closer to half. What follows is her five-step pa
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