July 16, 2019

001 - The 4 Seasons of Your Practice

001 - The 4 Seasons of Your Practice

Welcome to The Remarkable CEO Podcast, a show hosted by Dr. Pete Camiolo and Dr. Stephen Franson. In this episode, Dr. Pete and Dr. Stephen identify and analyze the four seasons of the chiropractic career - launch, build, scale, and exit. By breaking the lifecycle of a doctor’s career into four distinct seasons, they provide a holistic viewpoint of what it means to launch, build, scale, and exit a chiropractic practice.

02:01 – Introducing today’s topic, The 4 Seasons of Your Chiropractic Career
04:25 – Identifying blind spots
05:20 – Season One: Launch
09:40 – Season Two: Build
11:15 – The importance of team building
12:34 – The transformation from a having a job to building a business
13:59 – The incredible accomplishment of building a practice
18:38 – Season Three: Scale
21:47 – The value of leverage
25:12 – Questions doctors face in the scale season of their careers
26:35 – Challenges in shifting to a more entrepreneurial mindset
28:25 – The Law of Delegation
31:22 – Season Four: Exit
34:48 – Making a graceful and profitable exit
35:40 – The goal of The Remarkable CEO Program

EPISODE QUOTES

“The beautiful thing is, every season is beautiful! Every season is wonderful. Every season matters. You actually don’t get Spring without Winter. You don’t get Summer without Spring. You don’t get Fall without Summer.” (03:56)

“I made a huge investment in coaching right from the beginning because I knew that chiropractic was gonna change the world, and I’m a world changer. And, if those two things are true, then I better have somebody in my world that can help me do that.” (08:01)

“Ninety-five percent of our problems are people problems. That’s definitely true in chiropractic.” (11:18)

“The difference between a job and a business is businesses are scalable, they’re durable and they’re transferrable.” (12:34)

“Building a remarkable practice, and building it well, is an incredible accomplishment.” (13:59)

“If you insist on wearing all the hats in your practice, you’re putting the lid on your business.” (19:51)

“I had this mindset of ‘Why would I delegate away things that I know I can do better?’” (27:43)

“Getting into scale is actually where you can breathe. And you can begin to have that remarkable practice and business as part of a remarkable life, not instead of one.” (29:46)

“I love the litmus test of ‘If you don’t show up for work on Monday, would anybody notice?’” (33:14)

“We want this whole journey to be remarkable for you.” (37:30)

LINKS MENTIONED

Dr. Stephen’s LinkedIn

Dr. Peter’s LinkedIn

The Remarkable CEO Website