Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

I Slept In A Parking Deck To Build My Business

12 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal narrative, Kelly Alhooie recounts the gritty beginnings of her mobile practice in Washington, DC. She describes lugging a heavy suitcase up three flights of stairs to see clients, the physical toll on her back, and the mistake of using a suitcase instead of a backpack. To eliminate a one‑hour commute from her home, she slept in a parking deck, parking her car on the second level and taking calls from there. This extreme hustle allowed her to see five patients a day, working from 8 am to 9‑10 pm, with tight hour‑long buffers between appointments to stay punctual. Throughout, she warns viewers about the pain of such sacrifices and offers practical advice for aspiring mobile practitioners.

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For those that may or may not know my story, I started mobile. And as you can see in this bottom right-hand corner, there's me, okay, with my full-on suitcase and my table. It's freaking heavy as heck. I'm in Washington, DC. We got stairs going up and down. I had to climb 3 flights of freaking stairs with that thing. It was so freaking heavy. My back was so— oh, it was so bad. Okay, I don't recommend that. Just bring a backpack. Do not bring a suitcase. Like I had a full-on suitcase. Okay. Anyways, so in the left-hand side of the corner right here, this parking deck, this is where I literally used to sleep. I used to sleep here because I didn't want to go from my house. My house is like an hour away from DC. So I would have most of my clients down in DC. So I would just stay down there and I would just literally right here on the second level, I'd park my car in that corner and I would just sit there and be like, okay, let me take phone calls. Like you could see in my car right here, Let me take phone calls. Let me just try to book people. Let me try to call people because I didn't have time to keep going back and forth to my house. That's how I started. Okay, now that's the hustle mode. I don't want you guys to go through all that pain. Okay, it was painful. I missed out. I missed out on so much. I was gone from like 8 AM to freaking 9, 10 o'clock at night to see 5 patients. When I was mobile, took me 10 hours because I scheduled an hour between because I don't like to be late. I'm like very timely. Okay.