Therapist to CEO with Nicole McCance 🔹

1 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Nicole McCance recounts an early leadership mistake as she transitioned from therapist to CEO: lacking confidence, she hired inexperienced therapists and initially hired someone unlike herself, which led to client loss. She advises new leaders to hire a "mini me" — a first hire with a similar personality and approach — to maintain brand consistency and ease client transitions.

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I was a baby boss. I was not confident. I didn't know what I was doing. So guess what I did. I hired baby therapists. Pre licensed interns. That was less intimidating for me to say, you know what? You're green, I'm green. Let's build this together. But your very first baby therapist you should hire should be a mini me. Hire a version of you with a similar personality. Especially because I was moving clients over my own. Some of them I moved over to this new person and I did it the wrong way. And I. I first hired someone that was nothing like me. And guess what? No one stayed. The brand needs to be consistent. So have your first person be a baby therapist and have them be specifically a mini me.