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Hello and Welcome to Episode 8 of The Healthy Business Lab Podcast
where we normally talk to allied health business owners
and plenty of their learnings and knowledge
and insights on both their expertise
how they’ve grown what they’ve Learned in running a business
and then some of their powerful transformations
that they get for their clients
today is going to be just a little bit different
it’s me flying solo here as I said Episode 8
2 months into this podcast
this is an experiment in itself
something I love talking about experiments and the like
I thought it was useful two months into
have a little bit of a review have a recap
here’s some of the insights that have really stuck in my mind from the
early conversations that we’ve had with our amazing guest
but then also share what we’ve got coming up
and how we’re looking to tweak modify and yeah
curate the content that we’re sharing with our listeners
so to kick things off
as you touch about what we’d like to share is plenty of
the expertise that the knowledge that allied health practitioners
and business owners have as well
and what we love to share here is the expertise of an allied health
business owner in the respect of
one of the things that business owners don’t do
is look after themselves and from some of
our early interviews even from Episode 2
the second one we had Claire Wu on who is talking about breath work
and actually run us through a nice simple
easy breathing technique which
calms the nervous system
and it’s something that I know I’ve been working on
doing some breath work and so what Claire shared with us again
another great thing to be mindful of
that we can put into everyday practice
nice and simply nice and easily and it will help us get through a day
it will help us do what we need to do in business and a nice
simple way to be able to start looking after ourselves
following on from that the Episode 4 with Pip Reed
I was the other one that stuck out in my mind in this sort of space
and it was again looking after our body and being a nutrition expert
she said some great little insights on fueling the body
and it was even just a very simple one of needing that quick snack
she said reach for a medjool dates
and that’s stuck in my mind
because it’s something that I just started recently doing
and I shared that on the episode as well
but I know I’m quite conscious of
do I eat much of that because there’s sugars involved
and I always question Mark natural sugars versus unnatural sugars
so he’s like don’t get too lost in the idea of sugar
I mean it’s a nice
healthy snack that can tie you over at times and get you through
the next little
space to fuel your body and what you
need to do so again
another one that I’ve taken on board myself
and the final one that really struck home with me was
the last episode with
Darran Yeow around
the eyesight and how often we neglect it in fairness
and we don’t get regular checkups
without eyesight is what we often do
without general health and well being
it’s sort of
ingrained in us to make sure we have an annual checkup with a GP
but it’s not ingrained in us to have that annual check up for our eyes
and as Darran shared
it was the notion that it’s your most important sense in many ways
and as a business owner much of what we do
we wouldn’t be able to do that
how we do it and the like if we didn’t have great eyesight
and so again that nice gentle reminder of looking after your eyes
extremely important
and he gave a few ideas around or often on technology in like
if we’re not working with clients directly there
and we’re doing all the administration sides of running a business
spending time having a break from technology and
the reducing the eye strain
which eye strain leads to headaches and
just not functioning at our optimal
so from those first episodes
those were the three big ones that really
stood out to me as far as looking after myself as a business owner
so jump in watch each of those episodes to get the full story on those
that’s just me paraphrasing those then that what I touch upon again
some of my highlights
around the experiments that some of our business owners shared
in our episodes
and there’s probably two episodes that strung out that had
a similar theme
it was Episode 5 with Kezia Tieck and Episode 6 with Sara Woodroffe
where they both were very open
and sharing around how they like to network collaborate
learn from others in the space
and given the fact that this podcast is all about that idea
it really resonated with me
to hear their experience of how they’ve approached collaborations
networking and really being able to
just harness that knowledge that goes around
so again highly encourage you to experiment with
getting to know more of your fellow practitioners
and even cross modality sort of thing
that they both sort of share that idea of being able to cross refer
if we’re not the right fit
for clients then where can I put them
point them in that direction so that they can get great outcomes
and what a lot of the experiments I loved hearing from each of
our guests has been that notion of very person centred approaches
and if we’re able to
have that at heart then things like collaboration
networking a
finding out what other people are doing in the space
and how they can help can only be beneficial for everybody involved
and following some of the transformations again
it’s hard to
they all every episode has some really cool transformations
but the one that sort of probably stuck in
my mind the most again but probably could get
resonate with me a little bit
with my journey of wellness and the like
with Matt and Marcus from Connect Health over there in New Zealand
where Matt was sharing that the process of bringing somebody
or seeing a client who wanted to be able
to run pain free and the like
and coming back to people be able to look after themselves
as a business owner if you’re suffering from pain
that’s going to put a inhibitor in that
I’m sitting here right now with a bit of a twingy back
that makes me not function at my best and the like
and so being able to hear
here that transformation that Matt shared around the
sort of the six month process
and it’s looking at the holistic picture
of the client and been able to step them through
and then some of it was he sort of talked about being an osteopath
yes there was physical components
but it’s even the emotional
the relational sort of thinking
that if we’re there for the client through that whole process
and have a plan over a period of time
that it is amazing transformations you can take place
and he’s only gave that person was able to start running again
and it’s like knowing the power of how that can change somebody’s life
to get back to something that they might have thought
they might not get back to
is extremely powerful
so I thought I just share some of my key takeaways
and in future in these podcast
what we’re going to be doing
where this podcast it is going now is
this episode comes to you in the school holidays
here in New South Wales here in Sydney
where I’m based
and my business is very much based ideally around sort of school terms
it’s hey we we have three young kids during school holidays
we only spending time with a family
we wan to devote time to that and have business just take away
do what it needs to do
and so this podcast is kind of going to follow that
process as you’re going to evolve this podcast where we’ll kind of have those
10 episodes sharing learning insights
and then we’ll probably have during the school holiday time
sort of reflection pieces similar to this one
sharing highlights probably in the future as I
refine our processes here with the podcast and continue to evolve
cause I always believe in continuous evolution of this
rather than me just talking
cause in fairness I like doing the interviewing
I don’t like just standing here talking to a mirror
just a mirror, a camera just myself
I like having those conversations
I like learning from others
that will probably extract some of those highlights
and get the snippets out there
so you can hear the gold
from our guests themselves
so that will likely be coming moving forward
we’ll have the interviews then we’ll have during holiday time
we’ll have the reflections and the ideas
and again what’s coming up in the next series
and I’ll sort of start to look at creating some series
within the wider podcast sense
and whether that’s a 10 week run of certain modalities
in the allied health space
a sneak teaser
there will probably be a series on amazing coaches and connectors
and those types of professionals that work in the allied health space
as well that I’ve started to be connected to through this podcast
stories have opened up and so that
idea of having more conversations with people in the space
opens up opportunities to meet more great people again
the experiment for me in creating this podcast
has very much been around more conversations hey
this is definitely done that from my perspective
and I really encourage people to have these conversations
cause with conversations come opportunity as well
there we have it
and I just wanted to jump in share some insights
share where this podcast is going
and if you’re out there and you’ve started to listen to these podcast
and you’re finding getting a little bit of value
I have no doubt that you’ve got plenty of value to share yourself
as well and we’re always looking for more great
amazing guest to share insights
share learnings and show that business can be a challenge
there are ups and downs and there are things that we’ve learnt from
and if there’s lessons that you’ve learnt from your experiences
in managing your practice
and evolving what you do and how you do it
then we’d love to hear those stories because again
we just wan to have real
authentic conversations that people can relate to
and then be able to take all those little bits of nuggets
the ones that work for you
and then you’re able to go and do your own experiments
and see where that lands you in creating sustainable
profitable
businesses that ultimately end up with more transformations
that’s what we’re after is businesses that are able to grow
get more team members
serve more clients and get everybody getting the healthy
happy outcomes that all the amazing
allied health businesses out there provide
so that’s it that’s over for me
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