Wellness Center Creators

Tamika Lewis is a cognitive behavioral therapist and the founder of WOC Therapy Inc., a mental health and wellness community that helps womxn of color heal from personal and inter-generational trauma. Womxn of color are rising in bold and beautiful ways, and yet are still disproportionately affected by higher rates of depression, anxiety, and physical illness. The women that she and her team supports go on to pursue their dream careers, experience deeper and more meaningful relationships, and learn ways to more effectively manage stress. Tamika believes that self-compassion and authentic connections with people are the most effective tools for healing. WOC’s team of therapists lead with being human by using the art of storytelling and shared experiences to guide healing. Tamika and I unpack some interesting topics during our chat, including common issues her clients face and what are key elements of healing for women of color. And since we’re both Mothers, we reflect on some of the challenges running a business while balancing motherhood. And we both agree that the pandemic was definitely tough, but it allowed our kids to see what we do and develop a deeper connection to our wellness work. Listen to this wonderful conversation today! Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it

Today we are focusing on nutritional and functional psychiatry practices. Did you know you can often prevent and treat mild cognitive impairment and early dementia through diet and nutrition? My guest, Nicole Laurent, applies functional nutrition and specifically therapeutic carbohydrate restriction as a mental health intervention to help improve brain health. Nicole explains how ketogenic diets work and reassures us that we won't die without dietary carbohydrates. We dive deep into some of the ways ketogenic diets help treat mental illness and neurological disorders. You’ll learn why a ketogenic diet is potentially superior to medication therapy and what kinds of conditions improve on ketogenic diets. Dietary changes have the power to improve neurotransmitter imbalances, brain energy, and function and even help your brain heal and make new connections. Brain fog be gone! These types of dietary changes have also been seen to improve symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders. If you, or someone you love, suffers from mental and brain health issues, get in touch with Nicole. She offers free 15-minute consultations if you want to learn more. Listen to this fascinating conversation today! Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!

Patients sometimes cannot find answers in conventional medicine, and often people want a deeper understanding of their health. Dr. Lisa Bryant joins the podcast today to unpack her integrative approach to health care for men, women and children. Dr. Lisa is a naturopathic physician and the medical director at Vancouver Wellness studio where she collaborates with other providers to provide whole-person care. Dr. Bryant explains how this collaboration works and gives examples of patients who have benefited from this integrative approach. We also answer a common question about whether patients need to choose between conventional or naturopathic medicine. We also talk about Dr. Lisa’s “Bottom of the Pyramid” which helps us create the most stability in our bodies, and how taking incremental steps can lead to bigger changes over time. By approaching the changes in phases, it creates an environment of sustainability and a higher chance of success. She says, “What is this person ready for? And what should be the next step?” Dr. Bryant has also had her own private practice before coming to the Vancouver Wellness Studio and offers advice for someone starting their own wellness practice. It’s important to think about what problem you’re solving, and what your community needs. And above all, help people in the best way you know how. Listen to this great conversation today! Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!

Building your own practice can be hard enough – but what about building a 100% Online GROUP practice? Well, Dr. Lisa Lovelace of Synergy eTherapy has done just that, and she has successfully grown this practice to be fully licensed in 16 states and able to help serve another 30 or so states as a member of PSYPACT. Many of us have grown to understand the benefits of telehealth over the past few years, and the platform has allowed therapists like Dr. Lovelace and her team to provide services to more in need than ever before. Dr. Lisa is truly an innovative entrepreneur, and we are so lucky to have her tell us how she did it. In the podcast interview today, we talk about hiring therapists, managing them, learning and training on the technology part of everything and some of the mistakes she made along the way that you should avoid. She has some golden nuggets of advice! And even if you aren’t thinking of creating a group practice, you’re going to get lots of tips from today’s guest. Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!

Mini Description: Do you obsess over your body, your diet, or your weight? Do you feel stressed as you get dressed or like you’re in a never-ending cycle of wishing your body was different? You are not alone. If you feel too fat, too thin, or that there is no hope for you in finally finding peace in your body, this episode will speak to you. Author and embodiment coach Emily Wishall shares her powerful and practical process to learning to love your body right now. Bust through core limiting beliefs that are keeping you stuck in the vicious cycle of body dissatisfaction Release shame and anxiety around how you look Feel powerful and confident in your body Make peace with your body so you can relax and enjoy just being you Empower yourself with next steps to end the battle with your body for good Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!

Business owners can get overwhelmed and feel stuck by the very business that was meant to provide freedom. Paul Kuthe of Tributary Coaching joins me today to talk about marketing and what sort of pitfalls brands can fall into, the common mistakes they make, and how to avoid them. Paul and Tributary use the power of story to help entrepreneurs take action on the right things to help their team and their customers understand their mission with clarity. A lot of the time, brands will start off focusing on one thing or one area, and then as they grow, the message can get sort of confusing or muddled. Paul and I discuss how to keep your brand message clear with a story that makes sense, even if you add different modalities and offers. As a StoryBrand Certified Guide, Paul helps brands fine tune their messaging and marketing. We often think about marketing as an external thing we engage in to get clients in the door, but often we also need to be marketing internally to the team members. Paul explains that it is important to craft and shape the story for our clients so that everyone's working together in a unified way. This can be challenging with several modalities in play, and Paul provides some strategies to find success with this. Paul and I go through some common pieces entrepreneurs may be missing on their website, and unpack what every website should have, and why. This is an amazing checklist you can use to quickly look at your site and understand which tweaks you may need to make to increase conversions. Listen in, this part of our discussion can be a game-changer for your business. Paul also shares his “Grunt Test” which will help you when adjusting your site for increased clarity! Paul is offering you a guide to the five things your website should have. We cover them quickly here, but the guide has some good details to help people get those things up on their website quickly, so they can see some real impact. He also has a free consultation and website audit for you. Simply connect via email or his website! Don’t miss this! Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!

Casey Wyckoff has started a number of businesses, and in this episode he joins me to share some of his biggest takeaways and what he has learned from that experience. Early in his career as an architect, he was able to learn from his clients who had big visions that it was important to listen, and to understand his core motivations, his “why.” Then to have courage and step out to do the things that were on his heart to do. As an entrepreneur, Casey has started several businesses, and we unpack the common thread between them. Looking from the outside, they may all seem to be very separate, but Casey explains how the core focus for all is on relationships, wellness, effective creation of space or place, and integration with technology. We also dive into the nature of the relationship between Casey’s professional life and his personal life, which can often be challenging for entrepreneurs. We also talked about the most difficult aspect of being a CEO and business owner, and how he’s been able to find success as a leader of high-performing teams who love what they do. Casey also shares the inspiration for his RoadCast project. Traveling with his customized Airstream podcast studio, RoadCast authentically tells the story of designers, creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs by meeting them in the places where their ideas are born. Highly recommended. You should check it out, along with listening to this fantastic conversation I had with Casey! Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com

As someone who grew up in an entrepreneurial family, starting a business seemed like a natural step for my guest, Heather Jolma-Fray. And in today’s episode, we unpack how she came to open her own yoga studio, and what that journey was like for her. Heather says that part of what appealed to her about studying yoga and learning how to teach movement and mindfulness was this idea that she could play with how to schedule her own time and how to create classes that she really liked to teach. She also mentions that part of the appeal was that she could move around and teach where she wanted. As entrepreneurs, we all dream of and enjoy this “lifestyle freedom,” but it usually comes with some work as well. Heather and I also talked about how entrepreneurship allowed her to be the creative person that she feels like she is and to kind of live life with a certain amount of creativity, and fun, and joy that we get to play with to make our living. And even with the responsibility, Heather feels like entrepreneurship was all encompassing in a good way. It required her creativity and her focus. She says she felt like she could give all of herself to her work and kind of make it what she wanted, put things where she wanted them to be, figure out systems that worked well for her and her clients, rather than kind of having to adapt to something that maybe didn't fit super well. Listen to this episode, because there is so much more that we talk about, like bringing kids to work, and getting to fill your days with the relationships and things that nourish us. You can join Heather for her weekly virtual classes, everyone is welcome. Visit her website at https://www.heatherjolmafray.com/ to learn more. Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com Sponsored by Jane App, Jane offers online booking, charting, scheduling, secure video and invoicing on one secure, beautifully designed system: https://jane.app/ Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!

Let me guess, you are a health and wellness provider and the place you really want to practice doesn't exist yet. You know better patient outcomes require a whole person multidisciplinary approach that you can't provide on your own. But thinking about starting or expanding into something new feels daunting. You've dreamed up your vision that you just cannot get out of your head because you know how much your community needs this type of care and how impactful it will be. Hi, I'm Kendall Hagensen. And over the past several years, I've created and led a truly holistic, collaborative and multidisciplinary healthcare center in Vancouver, Washington, United States. When I started my business, I was very aware that I didn't know much about the business side of things, but as a therapist, I knew a lot about people, how to build relationships with them, how to find ones that were smarter than me in certain areas, and how to build a positive community. Today, the center is thriving, and we're building a second location. It is my absolute passion to work with health and wellness providers every day, providing business coaching specific to creating multidisciplinary practices and wellness centers of all kinds. My favorite part is when it clicks. And my clients embody the felt sense that creating a wellness center doesn't have to feel like starting over and that they actually don't have to reinvent the wheel. It felt like the right time to develop this new resource, the Wellness Center Creators podcast, where I, along with my guests, help you find WELLth in life and business. Welcome! I’m glad you’re here! Get all the links, resources and show notes here: https://wellnesscentercreators.com And we are grateful to be sponsored by https://jane.app, check them out!