There’s a place in time in your wellness biz when waiting is absolutely appropriate.
1) When you need to get more information before you make a decision.
2) You need a few days (not weeks or months!) to let yourself process some feelings about a decision instead of making an impulse choice (great if you have a [...]

At some point in private practice, you have to face your fears.
Your fear of rejection, backlash and ‘what will they think of me?!’…
Your fear of no one signing up, showing up or people throwing tomatoes during your seminar…
Your fear of standing on your own, standing out, being a leader/guru or expert and taking a chance [...]

Last Spring I spent a weekend in Santa Fe with friends.
While I was there, we spent a day hiking in the ancient ruins of the Pueblos Native Americans in Bandelier National Park.
We took the extra loop of the trail to visit a special Ceremonial Kiva from the 1200’s carved into the rock face of a mountain [...]

Here’s a quick tip for upgrading how you talk about what you do.
Most wellness pros use the word “help” or “teach” when referring to their services.
For example, “I help people lose weight using my unique 7-step nutrition for weight loss system I created after losing 100 pounds.”
I used the word “help” for years and years.
And I [...]

Hands down, giving presentations to your chosen niche market is the FASTEST way to attract new clients – be in the form of tele-classes or in-person. There are other good ways to attract clients — networking, article writing, video marketing, social networking and more  – but they take much longer to attract clients and frankly, nothing [...]

I stumbled upon this video by Derek Sivers via Christian Mickelson’s blog and found that it perfectly highlights the principles of summoning the courage to get out in the world, share your message, face your fears and ultimately, create a movement fueled by your passion for wellness.
This came on the heels of finishing the popular leadership book, “Walk the [...]

It totally is. 
And I’m living proof of it.
This Thursday, Feb 11th at 8pm Eastern Time, I’ll be interviewed by Relationship Expert Michelle Conboy of Relationship Cafe.net on what I learned in love as a self-employed woman.
The reason I agreed to share pretty candidly about this topic is that it’s something that comes up A LOT for [...]

New Expert Interview is released to members today!
WellProNet’s Guest Expert is Dan Clements of AlternativeHealthPractice.com and author of Escape 101: Sabbaticals Made Easy
Interview Topic: Do What You Love without Burning Out
Meet husband and wife team Dan Clements and Tara Gignac, ND.
Together, they own and operate StoneTree Clinic, a successful naturopathic clinic in Ontario, and they are [...]

Do you have to choose between being the best at what you do or being successful?
I don’t think so.
Yet does being the best at what you do mean you’ll be successful?
No it doesn’t.
Mega-author James Patterson understands this very well.
He outsells other critically acclaimed, best-selling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown and John Grisham . “According to Nielson [...]

Have you ever felt that you didn’t know enough?
I know I did for the first few years in my practice.
And so this is what would happen:
- I would spend most of my free time pursuing additional credentials and reading tons and tons of books about my modality (which was nutrition at the time)
I collected and [...]