Will Humphreys talks with a healthcare entrepreneur about why growth means abandoning the identity that got you here. Physical therapists who stay locked in "I am a therapist" miss the business skills that scale a practice.
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And you just kind of start going through the same cycle of like, okay, that's who I am. I'm a coach or I'm a medical billing owner. And then like, I had to do the same thing all over again. I had to step out of that mindset. So it's like, this isn't just like, hey, if you're, if you're listening to this and you're a healthcare private practice owner or leader, it's not about, like, getting away from patient care. That's not what we're saying. It's about changing the mindset for continual progression. And it's. And it looks similar at every step. It's scary, it's insecure. But then you can you gain some competence. And right behind some competence comes a whole lot of confidence. And then we get comfortable in that confidence which prevents us from making more progress. Right. So if we're not careful.
Right, right. It's a, it's a similar song that has been sung over and over and over again by entrepreneurs everywhere. And yeah. And I guarantee even people outside of healthcare have the same. Same story it is.
You know, I've been in a business networking group for almost 20 years. None of them are healthcare owners. They're all business owners outside of healthcare. It's the same thing. If you're the cookie maker getting. It's harder in healthcare, in my opinion, because we define ourselves so cleanly by being a healthcare. Like, I am a physical therapist. No one says I am a cookie maker. It's like, I don't know why I'm obsessed with cookies. Maybe I've got low blood sugar.
