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The Business Side of Occupational Therapy with Brandon Seigel

Episode Summary

Understanding the business side of occupational therapy is pivotal for any therapist and practice owner to know. In order to be successful within our profession, we must be aware of the state of healthcare and be solid within our purpose as a clinician. Our guest today, Brandon Seigel, is a private practice business consultant and executive director of Wellness Works Management Partners with years of experience helping practitioners start, run, and advance their practices to the next level. Brandon recently published a book called The Private Practice Survival Guide, outlining highly useful information for therapists and practice owners alike. He presents all over the country at local and state conferences and has an online course and private practice podcast launching soon. His goal is to help therapists in creating a business model that ultimately helps them excel both on a business side and on a clinical side.

Episode Notes

Understanding the business side of occupational therapy is pivotal for any therapist and practice owner to know. In order to be successful within our profession, we must be aware of the state of healthcare and be solid within our purpose as a clinician. Our guest today, Brandon Seigel, is a private practice business consultant and executive director of Wellness Works Management Partners with years of experience helping practitioners start, run, and advance their practices to the next level.

Brandon recently published a book called The Private Practice Survival Guide, outlining highly useful information for therapists and practice owners alike. He presents all over the country at local and state conferences and has an online course and private practice podcast launching soon. His goal is to help therapists in creating a business model that ultimately helps them excel both on a business side and on a clinical side.

Brandon and Sarah discuss:

• Brandon’s current professional life
• Wellness Work Management Partners- Consulting Firm
• Works with private practices all over the country and internationally (OT, PT, SLP & physician)
• Consultation services and management services
• Executive Director at Every Child Achieves in Southern California
• Speaking all over the country, including 3 courses at American Occupational Therapy Association
• New book just released called The Private Practice Survival Guide
• Creating a new private practice podcast
• Importance of prioritization
• Why he does what he does
• His start business and then how occupational therapy came into play
• Struggles in school as a child and how that played a role in his desire to help others
• Going to community college, then the University of Southern California, and graduating from California State University Northridge
• Starting the workforce after college with entrepreneurs and managing other companies and multimillion dollar projects
• His company was moving to a different state as he was marrying an occupational therapist whose mother had a successful therapy practice which needed some business support
• Revolutionized that company and then branched out to start his own consulting company
• Always felt a calling to purpose
• His willingness to help his clients at any time and any day
• How Brandon and Sarah met
• Power of clinical integrity
• Our current state of healthcare
• The most asked question that he gets from private practice owners
• Recognizing a therapist’s cost to a company
• Shifting the employee mindset
• Knowing the responsibilities of the employer and of the employees
• Tips for therapists to stand out when being considered for a job
• Resume building strategies
• Importance of writing a cover letter and quickly responding to any correspondence for a job that you apply for
• Self-awareness and his biggest perceived weakness is something that is not self-aware
• Be specific in your skills and attributes
• Discussing financials upfront
• How to cut ties with an employee?
• Upcoming online course coming in 2019

Find his book here: The Private Practice Survival Guide

Contact Him:

Email: brandon@wellnessworksmp.com

Web: http://www.wellnessworksmp.com

Twitter: @wellnessworksmp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellnessworksmp