In this live coaching session, Kelly Alhooie challenges therapists who are operating solo to avoid slowing their growth momentum. She argues that hesitating to scale creates more pain, limits time with family, and leads to burnout. Using anecdotes about a mom of three who lost over $1,000 by staying solo, Kelly emphasizes that the ultimate goal is to build a team, even if the therapist initially only aims to increase income. She explains that hiring and delegating tasks—especially marketing and administrative work—are essential to reclaim personal time and achieve financial milestones (around $30k‑$50k monthly). Kelly contrasts the burnout experienced in solo practice with the freedom she found after growing a multimillion‑dollar clinic where she was minimally involved. She stresses that fear of added responsibility is misplaced; scaling actually reduces personal liability and stress. The session repeatedly underscores that rapid, focused effort now leads to faster time freedom and a transformed family life, while cautioning against self‑sabotage and the illusion that working more hours will solve the problem.
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Okay, I'm challenging you to this because— and I'm challenging everyone on this call— because if you guys move slow, you're going to create more pain for yourself.
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And I know the kids are home right now from school.
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And I know that you want to spend time with them. I get it.
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However, when you slow down the momentum, it is 10 times harder to keep moving forward when you slow down. And, and when people tell me, Kelly, I just don't want to grow that fast right now, and I understand because it's scary. Basically, it's just fear. You're— it's fear coming to your brain, okay? And I get the whole kid situation because they're home and they only are little once and you want to hang out with them, right? Okay. However, you are actually limiting how much time you're going to be hanging out with them. You are. And I say that because the longer that you guys stay in the position of being solo— for instance, someone else was supposed to be on this call today. She's like, Kelly, I can't come on because I'm sick. I had another person in Power Circle today. She's like, Kelly, I can't see my 6 patients today. And she's mobile and she's like, shit, I just lost over $1,000-something. What do you think's happening? She, she can't run a business without her being the one. And she's a mom of 3 in New York City.
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And so if I always say if you don't have 2, you got zero. So be very mindful of this because the ultimate goal— and I'm just being straight up honest with you, okay— the ultimate goal is to actually have a team. And I know right now at the stage you guys are at, you can't even fathom that because you just actually want to just make your income and that's it. I understand. I completely understand.
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But if you just stop there and let the vision just stop there, you're going to be sucked into this your entire life.
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And you will miss so many more games and dance recitals and all the things of your kids, guys, if you don't just allow what is supposed to happen to happen. I'm telling you right now, I see it all the time where people are like, nope, it's too much. It's just, I'm good. And they think that when they grow, that it's going to be something astronomical and it doesn't have to be. 2.5 therapists, guys, you have a million-dollar practice. Now, I'm not saying everyone on this call wants to get there, but I'm saying personally, I like to move people in that direction because it's the thing that actually buys you the time. Y'all all want time with your kids, correct?
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If every single person on this call wants time with their kids— okay, now you got me fired up— but every single person on this call that wants time with their kid— my child right now is bothering me. Here she goes. Okay, okay. If we all want time with our kids, the only way that you're going to get time with your kids is not seeing 6 to 9 patients a week. It doesn't work like that because it's 6 to 9 patients a week. You're going to have to do— go outside and tell him— 12 hours of marketing. You're going to have to answer those emails, guys. It doesn't work like that. It sounds magical, but it's not. The only way that you get your time back is when you make money. And you hire. Because when you go out, because your kids took you out because they gave you some disease, I don't know, you know, when they, when they are sick, right? Okay, like, you've got to be able to take care of them, and that's what does matter. And then you got to cancel the patients.
So now, yeah, I thought about how that would work too. I'm like, oh no, like, what if the kids get sick or I get sick because I'm out of my house?
I know, that's what I'm saying. This is why we cannot slow down the growth, because— and this is amazing— you guys are at the point that you had no patients, now you have 5 to 6 patients. Guys, let's freaking go! Like, let's freaking go! Like, this is huge, but you cannot slow down the momentum. You can't.
I was gonna ask you if I should slow down because I was like, I have all— I have like 3 or 4 elite. I know. Well, I don't know. I don't know any of this.
I know, this is why I'm here. This is why I'm here.
I have like 3 or 4 leads and I'm like, what am I gonna do with them?
Like, let's not self-sabotage because before this we were like, we don't even know if we can make this work. And now look at you. I already knew. I already knew we could make this work and I know you could crush it. I told, I told you that. I know you can crush this, but the only way that you're gonna get time with your kids and guys, I'm gonna be again, very honest with you. On the front end right now, there is sacrifices to be made. 110%. I'm not lying. Okay, 110%, there's sacrifices in their seasons. Yes. Okay, however, the faster that you can get through the solo journey, I promise you, the faster you're going to get time with your kids. That's it. And you will change your family's life forever. You really will, as long as you stay committed, in focused. Okay, as long as you stay on the path and don't go like very off the path, as long as you stay, your life will be changed. I can't tell you how many people's lives I've changed. I can't tell many how many people's lives that say, you know what, they start in the exact same position as you guys. I just want to place my income. I start in the same exact position as well. And then I started to realize, oh shit, there is way more to this game. And I'm not saying that you have to like, you know, be the million-dollar maker. What— but what I am saying is you at least want to get to $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 mark. Okay. Because that is when you start seeing money come in your account. Okay. And you change— it's a, it's a life-changing amount. And you also get time with your kids.
Yeah. And I'll just be honest, like, I think part of me is afraid of burnout. Like, correct.
Like, Yeah, there's, there's the honesty. Yes. And I appreciate that. Yes. Like, yeah, people think if I do more, I'm going to be burnt out. No, you're going to be burnt out if you stay solo. That's how people burn out. You guys will be burnt out. Mark my word, you will be burnt out because you're answering the emails, you're treating the patients, your kids are sick, you can't, you can't take care of them because you literally have to see the patients or you just cancel the patients. And then now you're like stressed about the business.
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And so there's always a trade-off, guys. There's always a trade-off. But what I do know is the more on the front end that you can actually take the business from here to here, the faster you will get out of pain. When I say pain, that means the faster that you can automate things and that the business doesn't rely on you. And when the business doesn't rely on you, then you have way less liability and you're able to grow. And people think this— this is where the fear is coming from. If I grow this thing, I have more responsibility, and that is going to make me more stressed out and more whatever. And it's actually the opposite. When I had a multi-million dollar clinic, it was the least I was ever involved in orthopelvic, and I was here in California, and I had no communication with my team. I did the least amount possible, and my clinic was at over $2 million. When I was at $30,000 a month and just still solo I was a psycho, and I was at 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and I literally was white as a ghost, and I was in a basement treating forever and ever, and that was no bueno, no fun. Yeah, I hear you. Yeah, I'm just being honest, right guys?
