August 27, 2025 • 33 mins
SStarting — or restarting — your practice can feel overwhelming, especially if your life looks nothing like the “conventional” model you see everywhere.
In this episode of Boutique Practices, Dr. Alex Pankoke and new co-host Dr. Lauren Collins share their parallel journeys of building boutique practices through moves, motherhood, financial challenges, and unexpected pivots.
Dr. Lauren walks you through:
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How she started her first cash-based boutique chiropractic practice with just a $10k and a credit card
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Pivoting through life changes: moving cities, pregnancy, and even a pandemic
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The realities of launching (and relaunching) a practice in different seasons of motherhood
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The underestimated power of networking and building community relationships
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Why the boutique model is a sustainable, values-driven way to practice — even in challenging circumstances
Whether you’re starting from scratch, pivoting into a new season, or giving your practice a “glow up,” you’ll leave this episode knowing you’re not alone and that it is possible to build a profitable, part-time, low-maintenance, transformational practice that fits your life.
💡 Next Step: Join us for the Boutique Practice Bootcamp starting September 22nd! In 5 days, we’ll teach you the exact steps to start, pivot, or realign your boutique practice — even if you have limited resources, a busy family life, or feel “late” to the game.
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Hello friends and welcome back to the Boutique Practice Podcast, y'all.
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I'm super excited that we are here today because today we are going to jump in and talk about, something really, really interesting and exciting and I think going to be illuminating for a lot of y'all who might feel like starting a practice feels like a big burden.
Or maybe you've started a practice and you feel like you need to pivot or shift and you're like, oh, I don't know if I could do that again.
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Because today I'm gonna be.
Talking, sharing with y'all a little bit of my story, but a lot of Dr.
Lauren's story.
If y'all have not listened to the last episode, we introduced the amazing Dr.
Lauren Collins.
She's a chiropractor, a mama, a doula, an entrepreneur.
She's been in practice for 10 plus years.
She's also an amazing brand expert as well as boutique practice owner, micro influencer, and she is going to share with us her journey in the different practices that she's had over the last 10 years.
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Again, if you wanna learn more about her, definitely check out the last episode to, to hear from her and get to know her a little bit better.
One thing that we did notice as we went through is our stories are super similar and paralleled.
And so I'm just, I'm, but she brings a, a fresh and different perspective that I do not have from a, a design and, a aesthetic and a social media standpoint.
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Like she brings so many amazing things that I have struggled with.
So like that come natural to her and we, I feel like we're like.
And carrots.
So I'm super excited she's here.
We're gonna go through her story as far as becoming a boutique practice owner.
And I think we'll just go ahead and jump in and get started.
I think our, our starts are very similar.
If you did not know if you haven't listened to previous episodes, I actually started a boutique practice very shortly out of chiropractic school after an associateship did not really go the direction that I expected.
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It just did not fit my lifestyle as a mom.
And I actually started to practice 'cause I felt like I was.
Backed into a corner, which is not something that I recommend for anyone.
But I'll let Dr.
Lauren go ahead and share her story about how she got started, and we're just gonna walk through that journey.
Yeah, I'm excited to be here.
I, I don't think I realized either until going through the previous episode how much we have parallels, but I'll, I'll also echo what you said as it relates to.
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I feel like there's so many things that you're really great at that don't come naturally to me and vice versa.
So I'm excited for the listeners to be able to grab a little something from each of us through this process.
So I started in, I graduated from chiropractic school in April of 2015, and I also had the ambitions and intention to.
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Start as an associate.
I knew that eventually I would want to have my own practice, but it wasn't on the radar for me, just like fresh out of school.
And I, with that in mind, I had been making all kinds of connections in Dallas thinking that we were gonna stay in DFW and that was gonna be our journey.
And my fiance at the time, my now husband actually got.
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A position in DA or, or excuse me, in Houston instead of Dallas for his job.
So we ended up moving to Houston, which I was excited about because that's my hometown.
Born and raised here, currently back in Houston again.
But I had no professional connections in Houston.
I didn't know anybody at the chiropractic school down here in Houston, and I was.
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Kind of starting from scratch with, you know, networking, making those connections, making a name for myself, because our industry is very like, you know, it's not like a, a big corporate industry where.
You have the credentials and maybe you've done an internship here, there, or you have at your school, maybe some job placement resources and internship opportunities, and you can kind of go into your field.
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I feel like it's very relationship based.
It's a very kind of tight-knit type of.
Community.
So, you know, I'm, I'm just walking into this cold and I'm interviewing and for six months I interviewed, I didn't find anybody that had openings in my.
Passion in my niche spec specifically, which was more prenatal pediatric family care people actually told me that if I was too focused on prenatal, that I was just niching myself down too much by wanting to serve the populations I wanted to serve.
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But I was just so passionate about it and it just kind of dug my heels into that and.
With a $10,000 micro loan from a nonprofit lender and a five thou, $5,000 limit credit card from my local bank, I decided to open up, and that was in the fall of that year.
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So six months after graduating, two months after actually getting my license, I started up in one room and, it was a 4,000 square foot O, or excuse me, 400 square foot office and.
I just kind of like hit the ground with what I knew how to do, which was go out and connect with people, form relationships to build my practice.
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So I expanded into a bigger office space after two years and I continued to build, you know, my name for myself locally and to keep that model where I was focused on the populations that I love serving.
And then my life just kind of blew up where.
We were building a house.
We had just come off of Hurricane Harvey, which if you're from the south or from Texas, you might know that's like, it was like a hundred year flood situation where there was damage all over the city.
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And just for the year following that really there were lots of repairs and things backlogged in the local government.
So we were building a house and our house was six months behind schedule on the build.
Our apartment lease had ended, so we had moved in with my parents just waiting for things to move forward with our house we were building.
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Then my husband.
His work environment turned toxic and he had to resign from his job.
And it was just like everything.
My, at the time, my, the building owner sold the building that I was 18 months into a three month lease.
They pressured me to move out of the building.
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I dug my heels in.
They would not buy me out.
The most I negotiated was a $5,000 buyout.
So here I am.
My husband has no job.
We really have no home.
I have no building to practice in, and I just had snowballed my business loan.
So all I had was like my equipment and everything.
And probably about $8,000 total to figure out what to do from there.
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So at that point we moved to DFW.
My husband took a new job.
I did a, a short stint at, as an associate had gotten pregnant with my first.
Found out two weeks after I started this associateship that I was pregnant.
It wasn't a great fit for me practice style wise.
It was more of a high volume type of practice.
And with me being pregnant, it was too hard on my body.
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My midwife every week would be like, so when are you gonna put in your resignation? 'cause you're at work? Serving hundreds of people having contractions at 20 something weeks pregnant, like something's gotta give.
So I leave that job at 28 weeks and it was also an hourly job.
So, you know, here I am pregnant, every time I wanna go home to see my family while I'm pregnant, where I need to leave for a prenatal appointment I'm losing money.
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So that was.
Obviously impacting me and me showing up at work and just feeling just so, so torn in this season of, you know, I'm excited about becoming a mom.
And then just work is becoming so tiring and also a stressor with being like, gosh, that's every time I gotta go see my midwife, that's a cut to my paycheck.
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So or you know, if I wanna go home.
And I remember going home for my baby shower and it was like, all right, my paycheck's gonna be a little light this week.
'cause I was working.
Saturdays and overall it was a great experience, but just again, not a great fit for my lifestyle at the time.
So I quit at 28 weeks and started out of a birth center, just one room, and started building up my practice again and have my baby at the end of 2019.
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So excited to come back for maternity leave in January.
I'm getting some momentum in March.
COVID hits, and the world shuts down in March, 2020.
So here I am as a person who's very community based.
I'm used to just hitting the streets, doing breastfeeding groups and mommy walks and going to meet providers and doing coffees, and nobody's doing any of that, especially at the beginning of 2020 when nobody knows what's going on in the world.
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So, you know, I'm in this one room doing the best that I can and just feeling like.
What is happening? Like, you know, I have this entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial experience.
At this point I still have people calling me 'cause I kept my business phone number.
Like, Hey, I wanna see Dr.
Lauren like I'm pregnant.
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I'm wanting to book an appointment, having to refer them elsewhere.
And I just cannot seem to find my footing professionally in DFW.
2021 rolls around and I let my husband know.
I'm like, Hey, babe, if we are gonna, I, you're completely remote.
Now.
Being in DDFW has been such a challenging experience for me.
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I'm ready to go back home.
And that was a contentious season for us trying to find that balance.
And eventually we decided to come back and I was just gung-ho about starting my practice back up and the way that I had envisioned it.
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And I moved forward with opening up in a little cute historic bungalow, still serving the people I love to serve the most with more funding behind me.
I did the build out, I did all the things to find out I was pregnant again.
So I opened.
My practice at 20 weeks pregnant.
The practice I currently have now in Houston, and I will have been in this location, in this practice for, let's see, that was 2021.
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So coming up on four years in October.
And I am now rocking and rolling and moving forward.
But it, as y'all already know, by listening, it's been quite a journey and I've had multiple iterations of my practices, so I know what it is to start up in different seasons of life with different levels of income from having financial backing to starting up on a shoestring, to being, you know.
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A wife and wanting to be you know, a new wife and wanting to.
D be present in, in that relationship, but also build my business to then being a new mom and having multiple kids and, and wanting to be a present mom and still run my dream practice.
So I'm now four years in at this location.
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Still solo doctor and I have a great team.
I get to serve a wonderful community here in Houston at a cute little.
To practice in the bungalow that I've always wanted and not without challenge as I still navigate, if any of you all that are listening that are also mothers in this season of the different stages we go through from the baby stages and having the time to, you know, breastfeed and be with your baby even though you're an entrepreneur.
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So maternity leave looks much different for you than someone who maybe has a corporate career.
Or navigating now with my oldest starting kindergarten and now we're figuring out activities and PTA meetings and all of those things while still serving my practice members.
So that's, that's my journey and all the different iterations of practice that I've been through.
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So.
I know that early on in the previous episode, I, I touched on how I, in the beginning, in the early days, I felt so frustrated with my journey because I was like, God, why are you throwing me all of these twists and turns? Like I had this vision that I was gonna build this high volume family practice, and now I can look back and see that that just was not the journey that he had set out for me.
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That just wasn't.
My story, but through all of these different twists and turns, I've gained so much knowledge and skills and I've been able to be creative and have had to be resilient because of different situations that came up out of my control.
And then while in the past, it used to make me feel defeated or like, you know, why is this happening? I can now.
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See how much it's benefited me and has allowed me to learn so much and become such a savvy and resilient entrepreneur.
Not to say that, you know, anybody else's journey isn't valid or to, to shade anybody's experience, but sometimes I think about, you know, if you've had kind of, if you've done one thing successfully and you've, you know, done this thing and you've taken off with it.
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I feel like while that is a valid perspective and experience as it relates to, you know, bringing up other people behind you and, and teaching people how you did it, but I love my experience in that I not only did it once and you know, was successful and profitable and able to build a great community.
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I've now done it three times and I've done it under circumstances that were what most people would not consider ideal with.
Not having the finances and having to start up on a shoestring, being fresh outta school.
And I, I didn't have a, a family support as it relates to, you know, I didn't have a mom, uncle, grandmother, or whoever to kind of invest in my business or to be able to secure a big business loan.
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So I was able to start that up, or, you know, circumstances where.
I was, it was during COVID and I was a new mom at the height of the pandemic.
So I am learning how to be a mom and what this new season looks like for me.
And also, you know, learning how to navigate this new business environment during the pandemic, or being pregnant and starting up a practice and finding that balance while I'm pregnant, while taking care of another child.
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So.
Saying that to say, again, not to to necessarily highlight my, my journey or methods is like, you know, I'm better than this person or the other because I've been through X, Y, Z.
But to say if you're listening to this in your journey is a little unconventional, if your circumstances may feel overwhelming or if you're like, you know, I'm seeing other practices or other people, or, you know.
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Clinics that I'm, I'm looking at as a model or looking up to, but man, their life looks a little bit different than mine.
You know, I've got kids at home or I'm juggling all these different roles in my life.
Saying that to say that you're not alone in that and I have been there, as you know, Dr.
Alex has been there with different twists and turns and iterations of her journey.
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So, now I can look back on that, those experiences and feel grateful for them because they do allow me to pour into other people who are feeling a little different in, you know, how they've gotten their starter or what season of life that you're in.
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I love that.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
Again, like so many parallels and what I wanna bring up is not that there's so many parallels to my story.
But I think there's so many parallels of your story to so many women out there, y'all.
I have interviewed over a hundred of of y'all listeners, people who have been interested in working with me, people who just wanna know more about how to start a boutique practice between chiropractors, PTs, OTs, y'all.
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So many of us have the same story or have a very similar story, and I think that there's this.
Spiritual warfare around the concept of like feeling alone.
And that's why I think this podcast is so crucial and I'm so glad that God's put me back on this assignment because the more people I talk to, the more even just going through the Facebook groups, and I love that we have this anonymous post now that you can do on Facebook, but more people are opening up and sharing that.
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The conventional way of practicing is not necessarily what most women have the bandwidth to do, whether it's financial, emotional, like the season of life that we're in, because let's face it, like we get at a school and a certain age, usually typ like the, the typical range is like late twenties, early thirties, and that's also the same window that we have to become mothers and to nurture young children.
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And it's like we can't necessarily change the order of how we wanna do things.
And so, so many people I've talked to, so many of y'all listeners have reached out and shared that this is what's going on.
And I'm like, girl, you are not alone.
So many of us are going through the same thing, whether it's, you know, we don't have a ton of money to get started.
And I've talked to a lot of people who feel like, man, like I, I can't get a loan.
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Like I've only got, some of y'all have.
I've had people reach out.
I'm like, oh, I only got $30,000.
I'm like, girl, I wish I had $30,000.
And, and, and we've been telling, or we've been told the story like, you have to start this way or you have to do something this way.
And what I want to really pour into, if that's your, where you're feeling like, man, like I can't get started because of X, Y, and Z, or I started.
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This way, and there's no way I'm gonna get to where I wanna go because I started this way.
As women, we are designed to be cultivators and nurturers.
Like we take a little like two cells and turn them into a whole person in 10 months.
And so if God designed you to do that with a human like.
Imagine what he has for you in practice, if that's what he's calling you to.
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And it, it might not be like in nine months, like, yeah, we can build a whole person in nine months.
It might, it might be that whole person isn't like the person that they're gonna be at 18 years either, right? Like it takes 18 years to, to develop a, a.
Full adult.
Right.
And so and, and you all, we all know when we were 18, we weren't really adults anyways, but I was gonna say out on another five to six for the brain to gel.
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So develop like, I feel like at 30, almost 36, I'm just now adulting.
And so, but the thing is, is like we are designed to cultivate over time.
Like I still, you know, call my mom and have a spiritual mothers and like we are still nurtured over time as people, so.
If you are feeling this pressure to have a practice, and we're actually gonna dive into this in another episode, that you are anointed to something, but you're like, man, it's taking way longer than I expected, or, I feel like there's all these roadblocks in the way, or like, you know, this season of life just is making things challenging, or I just feel out of step, or out of alignment, or out of a sight, whatever it may be.
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I just want you to know that you're not alone.
That so many women have been on this journey.
And when I started Boutique Practices and I started creating my practice, I was like, I know it's possible because I see it.
Like it's not necessarily advertised out there.
You know, I googled like how to start a small practice, like who's coaching small practice owners and I couldn't find anything.
I found one person who had like, would speak into that and that's really how I got started.
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But there really wasn't somebody saying like, yes, you can be a woman and start a small practice and grow it over time.
Specifically to that message, there was the conventional model and the conventional model only.
And I knew, I knew it was possible because I had shadowed and talked to so many women who had done it, who had said, yeah, I started in a small room with $500 on a credit card and a table in my hands.
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I've seen, and I've seen it happen over and over again, not just behind me, but ahead of me too.
I, you know, there's a, a gal here in Dallas that.
I've had the honor to serve and support on her journey, who literally started in her car with a table and she's growing one of the biggest physical therapy practices for children who, have developmental dis delays and disorders and it's, it's an amazing, phenomenal practice that is exploding.
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And I remember when I first interviewed her, she was like, is this even possible? I'm like, girl, this is not only possible, like it is, it is going to happen.
Like it's, I I, and I'm just so honored to have been on her journey.
But there's so many different, there's so many women that I, I've worked with and so many women that I haven't worked with that I've had the opportunity to interview and but still get to watch and cheer on the side from social media and like just conversations that.
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Are growing these practices from tiny little mustard seeds and sometimes having to move and get up and change because their spouse is either in the military or their life is shifting and, and their seasons have shifted and what we are going to be diving into.
Not only here on the podcast, but also in the Boutique Practice Bootcamp is what are the foundational pieces that will allow for something that is so small to really get up and running.
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And Dr.
Lauren like mentioned one of those things is networking.
And I think in our society, networking is a soft skill that we have to be intentional about developing.
It's something that came natural to you.
It came naturally to me.
But it is something that doesn't always come natural, and it's something that since COVID is kind of feels like a lost art.
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Like if you didn't really like get in there and start doing that work and learning and getting the bruises and the scrapes on your knees and going through that process, and it's something that.
We've gotta bring back, because I, I told y'all in like, I think a couple episodes ago, like there was one thing that I did that even when I tried to burn my practice down and I felt like it was dying and God said, Lazarus, stand up.
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It just exploded out of nowhere.
It was that piece of learning how to network and develop communication or connections with people that like, literally, like I turned two switches on.
And it was like this practice that I thought was dead, that was dying.
And I'm gonna talk to all in another episode about all the things I did wrong that I feel like put my practice in an early grave.
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And then when I was done with it at the same time, I was like, you know, it's not gonna work.
I'm just gonna burn it down.
I'm gonna tell you, talk to y'all about all the things that I did wrong in another episode, but some of the things that we did right and that some of the things that I feel like Lauren, you really touched on are, you know, really developing a network and learning to connect with people.
Really.
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Being rooted in what God is calling you to do because he's gonna move mountains that you don't ever expect are gonna be moved if you're working with him, co-laboring with him, versus just like often doing our own thing like I've done for a while.
And another piece to that is just believing that it is possible, like knowing that it is possible, just having this, knowing that, hey, like I know what it looks like right now, but.
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I also know that what it seems is not what it actually is or what it's going to be and being rooted in that.
And so Lauren, I'm so glad that you shared your story.
'cause like I said, my story has so many parallels.
You know, I mentioned in the beginning starting feeling kind of like in a corner.
There weren't really options.
It was ironic 'cause I was in Dallas around the same we've been in, we were around the same time.
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And.
Dallas and Houston are really weird.
It's kind of like me and you are like Dallas and Houston.
Like we got so much in common and so many things that are different.
To where asserting a prenatal perinatal practice is like there's one on every corner now.
It almost.
People have created competition outta it.
There's no reason we need competition.
But a perinatal practice is like, it's not even like a weird thing.
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Yeah.
It's not like a a it's, but at the same time it's, it's a different game.
You have to play here.
And that's when I started and I've moved my practice.
Now I've had four locations in Dallas and Loca, and if y'all have not been to Dallas, Dallas is huge.
So, and they've all been spread enough apart that I did not really have much of a following because people were like, I ain't driving that far.
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Like, or some people, I have that experience where a lot of the things that I, I did in Houston, that worked in Houston, I found they didn't work in Dallas because like you're saying, there's so many practices.
So I knew that it wasn't impossible to do, but I realized quickly like, oh, this is a long game for me to really make.
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A name for myself in this community because compared to Houston, where it was kind of like a desert for that type of practice, like you said, there was a lot of a lot of people.
So you just had to really work a little more strategically to find your people.
I think in, in DFW.
Yeah, it's I, I've al also had a lot of people ask like, Hey, like, is this like.
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Really possible to do this niche practice or this style practice.
'cause I'm not in a big place like Dallas.
I'm like, honey, if you can build in Dallas, you can build anywhere.
Because it's, it's so, it's it.
There's, again, I've talked about multiple times, like there is no competition.
The competition is between our ears.
Which is so true, but if the competition is between other people's ears, they will create, like there's, there's mountains and boundaries and barriers that it does make it like functionally challenging to do some things that you might not be able, you might not encounter in a community that doesn't have your niche.
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Actually it's, it's, I feel like it's easier to build a niche space practice when you are not in a place that has somebody on every creamer doing what it is that you do or claiming to do what you do.
And if they, they don't, so yes, all of that said, yeah, I'm super excited.
In these, these upcoming episodes, we're gonna talk to y'all more like about how.
To start a boutique practice.
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And if you wanna really wanna dive in on how to start or give yourself your boutique practice a glow up, or if you're like, Hey, I need to pivot.
Like maybe I've had to practice for a while and it's just not working for my lifestyle anymore, and I feel like God's calling me to do something else.
I still feel like I have this mantle to heal.
The style way I'm doing, it's just not working.
Like it's, it's causing other problems in my life.
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And I'm not here to say it's gonna be easy, as y'all heard Dr.
Lauren say, like, it was not easy.
It wasn't easy for me.
But there's difference between something that is challenging and that might seem impossible from the outside.
Then something that is going to exhaust you, something that requires effort and is worth doing and that you are called to, God is going to supernaturally make it happen.
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In ways that you can never fathom or understand.
And if you're feeling like, okay, like I know I'm called to this and I'm assigned to this right now and you wanna know how to create a boutique practice, I invite y'all to join us in the Boutique Practice Blueprint.
We're gonna start that September 22nd, and we are gonna walk through all of the steps and the foundational pieces that we have both used over the la the combined 17 years of owning practices and moving and changing and shifting, and I guess.
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Technically between us, like eight startups in practice and, and scaling those practices.
We're gonna talk about all those things that, that make it possible regardless of, you know, if you have a ton of money coming in, regardless of if you have a name for yourself or if you're just getting started or if you're pivoting and shifting.
So.
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I cannot wait for that bootcamp.
And I want you guys, all you gotta do is go to boutique practices.com/bootcamp
to get registered.
It will cost less than a breakfast taco and a coffee, and we will be in there learning, teaching y'all together.
I'm super excited about that.
Dr.
Lauren, before we hop off, is there anything else you wanted to share? I always try to be short, but it sometimes end up being a little more long, long-winded.
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So I promise I'll keep it short this time.
Just definitely to reiterate everything that you're saying about keeping eyes open for the bootcamp, because that's gonna be so packed with value and.
I feel like I'm always still learning things just from our conversations and then speaking specifically with you, Dr.
Alex.
So that's gonna be an amazing opportunity.
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And how we were talking about, you mentioned like that feeling of isolation.
That is very common.
But you know how the enemy wants us to feel isolated and like we're going through these things just in a silo, which is not the case.
And then the other really important part too is with this approach and being God centered and God led as boutique practice owners and clinicians is also sometimes when you're looking at other situations and other.
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People knowing that sometimes values aren't the same amongst people in that, in this program that we want.
To, you know, people to be successful and to really just like crush it and practice, but at the same time really crush it in the ministries that matter.
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Like in your personal walk, in your motherhood journey, in your marriages, in those other things your relationships with your community.
And maintaining your values while also building.
And I think that's so huge.
'cause that was something that, again, like going through and kind of falling into that trap of comparison, like you said, I was definitely, in my head, it was definitely a problem between my ears and then down the road.
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Either the Lord revealing things to me or life revealing things to me and be like, man, I was looking at these different approaches and these different people, and feeling like, why do I not have what they have? Or, Lord, why have you taken me on this journey? And then being able to see, oh, okay, this is why, because I, I'm, I'm wanting to build something that's not only sustainable in business.
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But sustainable in my life and compatible with my values and with my faith.
And so I'm really excited about this program that's gonna be able to marry those things.
And it's like, you don't have to to choose like, am I gonna be successful or am I going to, you know, be able to maintain.
My family life and maintain what's important to me as far as my values and, and my integrity within how I do business.
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Those things can coexist.
So I'm really exci excited to dive into that and to keep chatting it up with you guys on the podcast.
In the meantime.
Awesome.
I love that.
I just wanna remind everybody, like if God wanted you to do it, he's gonna provide a way.
Like if he called you to be a mom, he's gonna provide a way.
He called you to be a wife.
He called you to be a practice owner.
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He called you to be an entrepreneur.
He called you to be a community leader.
He called you to do whatever it is that you have.
The mantles let you have.
He's going to make a way for it to happen, and he's got an assignment for you in the season.
And assignments look different from season to season, so.
Listen, I'm super honored, super blessed.
This is a great episode if I do say so myself.
I am so glad you are here and I cannot wait to chat with y'all in the next episode.
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Bye y'all.
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Hello friends and welcome back to the Boutique Practice Podcast, y'all.
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I'm super excited that we are here today because today we are going to jump in and talk about, something really, really interesting and exciting and I think going to be illuminating for a lot of y'all who might feel like starting a practice feels like a big burden.
Or maybe you've started a practice and you feel like you need to pivot or shift and you're like, oh, I don't know if I could do that again.
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Because today I'm gonna be.
Talking, sharing with y'all a little bit of my story, but a lot of Dr.
Lauren's story.
If y'all have not listened to the last episode, we introduced the amazing Dr.
Lauren Collins.
She's a chiropractor, a mama, a doula, an entrepreneur.
She's been in practice for 10 plus years.
She's also an amazing brand expert as well as boutique practice owner, micro influencer, and she is going to share with us her journey in the different practices that she's had over the last 10 years.
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Again, if you wanna learn more about her, definitely check out the last episode to, to hear from her and get to know her a little bit better.
One thing that we did notice as we went through is our stories are super similar and paralleled.
And so I'm just, I'm, but she brings a, a fresh and different perspective that I do not have from a, a design and, a aesthetic and a social media standpoint.
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Like she brings so many amazing things that I have struggled with.
So like that come natural to her and we, I feel like we're like.
And carrots.
So I'm super excited she's here.
We're gonna go through her story as far as becoming a boutique practice owner.
And I think we'll just go ahead and jump in and get started.
I think our, our starts are very similar.
If you did not know if you haven't listened to previous episodes, I actually started a boutique practice very shortly out of chiropractic school after an associateship did not really go the direction that I expected.
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It just did not fit my lifestyle as a mom.
And I actually started to practice 'cause I felt like I was.
Backed into a corner, which is not something that I recommend for anyone.
But I'll let Dr.
Lauren go ahead and share her story about how she got started, and we're just gonna walk through that journey.
Yeah, I'm excited to be here.
I, I don't think I realized either until going through the previous episode how much we have parallels, but I'll, I'll also echo what you said as it relates to.
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I feel like there's so many things that you're really great at that don't come naturally to me and vice versa.
So I'm excited for the listeners to be able to grab a little something from each of us through this process.
So I started in, I graduated from chiropractic school in April of 2015, and I also had the ambitions and intention to.
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Start as an associate.
I knew that eventually I would want to have my own practice, but it wasn't on the radar for me, just like fresh out of school.
And I, with that in mind, I had been making all kinds of connections in Dallas thinking that we were gonna stay in DFW and that was gonna be our journey.
And my fiance at the time, my now husband actually got.
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A position in DA or, or excuse me, in Houston instead of Dallas for his job.
So we ended up moving to Houston, which I was excited about because that's my hometown.
Born and raised here, currently back in Houston again.
But I had no professional connections in Houston.
I didn't know anybody at the chiropractic school down here in Houston, and I was.
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Kind of starting from scratch with, you know, networking, making those connections, making a name for myself, because our industry is very like, you know, it's not like a, a big corporate industry where.
You have the credentials and maybe you've done an internship here, there, or you have at your school, maybe some job placement resources and internship opportunities, and you can kind of go into your field.
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I feel like it's very relationship based.
It's a very kind of tight-knit type of.
Community.
So, you know, I'm, I'm just walking into this cold and I'm interviewing and for six months I interviewed, I didn't find anybody that had openings in my.
Passion in my niche spec specifically, which was more prenatal pediatric family care people actually told me that if I was too focused on prenatal, that I was just niching myself down too much by wanting to serve the populations I wanted to serve.
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But I was just so passionate about it and it just kind of dug my heels into that and.
With a $10,000 micro loan from a nonprofit lender and a five thou, $5,000 limit credit card from my local bank, I decided to open up, and that was in the fall of that year.
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So six months after graduating, two months after actually getting my license, I started up in one room and, it was a 4,000 square foot O, or excuse me, 400 square foot office and.
I just kind of like hit the ground with what I knew how to do, which was go out and connect with people, form relationships to build my practice.
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So I expanded into a bigger office space after two years and I continued to build, you know, my name for myself locally and to keep that model where I was focused on the populations that I love serving.
And then my life just kind of blew up where.
We were building a house.
We had just come off of Hurricane Harvey, which if you're from the south or from Texas, you might know that's like, it was like a hundred year flood situation where there was damage all over the city.
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And just for the year following that really there were lots of repairs and things backlogged in the local government.
So we were building a house and our house was six months behind schedule on the build.
Our apartment lease had ended, so we had moved in with my parents just waiting for things to move forward with our house we were building.
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Then my husband.
His work environment turned toxic and he had to resign from his job.
And it was just like everything.
My, at the time, my, the building owner sold the building that I was 18 months into a three month lease.
They pressured me to move out of the building.
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I dug my heels in.
They would not buy me out.
The most I negotiated was a $5,000 buyout.
So here I am.
My husband has no job.
We really have no home.
I have no building to practice in, and I just had snowballed my business loan.
So all I had was like my equipment and everything.
And probably about $8,000 total to figure out what to do from there.
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So at that point we moved to DFW.
My husband took a new job.
I did a, a short stint at, as an associate had gotten pregnant with my first.
Found out two weeks after I started this associateship that I was pregnant.
It wasn't a great fit for me practice style wise.
It was more of a high volume type of practice.
And with me being pregnant, it was too hard on my body.
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My midwife every week would be like, so when are you gonna put in your resignation? 'cause you're at work? Serving hundreds of people having contractions at 20 something weeks pregnant, like something's gotta give.
So I leave that job at 28 weeks and it was also an hourly job.
So, you know, here I am pregnant, every time I wanna go home to see my family while I'm pregnant, where I need to leave for a prenatal appointment I'm losing money.
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So that was.
Obviously impacting me and me showing up at work and just feeling just so, so torn in this season of, you know, I'm excited about becoming a mom.
And then just work is becoming so tiring and also a stressor with being like, gosh, that's every time I gotta go see my midwife, that's a cut to my paycheck.
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So or you know, if I wanna go home.
And I remember going home for my baby shower and it was like, all right, my paycheck's gonna be a little light this week.
'cause I was working.
Saturdays and overall it was a great experience, but just again, not a great fit for my lifestyle at the time.
So I quit at 28 weeks and started out of a birth center, just one room, and started building up my practice again and have my baby at the end of 2019.
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So excited to come back for maternity leave in January.
I'm getting some momentum in March.
COVID hits, and the world shuts down in March, 2020.
So here I am as a person who's very community based.
I'm used to just hitting the streets, doing breastfeeding groups and mommy walks and going to meet providers and doing coffees, and nobody's doing any of that, especially at the beginning of 2020 when nobody knows what's going on in the world.
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So, you know, I'm in this one room doing the best that I can and just feeling like.
What is happening? Like, you know, I have this entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial experience.
At this point I still have people calling me 'cause I kept my business phone number.
Like, Hey, I wanna see Dr.
Lauren like I'm pregnant.
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I'm wanting to book an appointment, having to refer them elsewhere.
And I just cannot seem to find my footing professionally in DFW.
2021 rolls around and I let my husband know.
I'm like, Hey, babe, if we are gonna, I, you're completely remote.
Now.
Being in DDFW has been such a challenging experience for me.
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I'm ready to go back home.
And that was a contentious season for us trying to find that balance.
And eventually we decided to come back and I was just gung-ho about starting my practice back up and the way that I had envisioned it.
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And I moved forward with opening up in a little cute historic bungalow, still serving the people I love to serve the most with more funding behind me.
I did the build out, I did all the things to find out I was pregnant again.
So I opened.
My practice at 20 weeks pregnant.
The practice I currently have now in Houston, and I will have been in this location, in this practice for, let's see, that was 2021.
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So coming up on four years in October.
And I am now rocking and rolling and moving forward.
But it, as y'all already know, by listening, it's been quite a journey and I've had multiple iterations of my practices, so I know what it is to start up in different seasons of life with different levels of income from having financial backing to starting up on a shoestring, to being, you know.
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A wife and wanting to be you know, a new wife and wanting to.
D be present in, in that relationship, but also build my business to then being a new mom and having multiple kids and, and wanting to be a present mom and still run my dream practice.
So I'm now four years in at this location.
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Still solo doctor and I have a great team.
I get to serve a wonderful community here in Houston at a cute little.
To practice in the bungalow that I've always wanted and not without challenge as I still navigate, if any of you all that are listening that are also mothers in this season of the different stages we go through from the baby stages and having the time to, you know, breastfeed and be with your baby even though you're an entrepreneur.
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So maternity leave looks much different for you than someone who maybe has a corporate career.
Or navigating now with my oldest starting kindergarten and now we're figuring out activities and PTA meetings and all of those things while still serving my practice members.
So that's, that's my journey and all the different iterations of practice that I've been through.
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So.
I know that early on in the previous episode, I, I touched on how I, in the beginning, in the early days, I felt so frustrated with my journey because I was like, God, why are you throwing me all of these twists and turns? Like I had this vision that I was gonna build this high volume family practice, and now I can look back and see that that just was not the journey that he had set out for me.
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That just wasn't.
My story, but through all of these different twists and turns, I've gained so much knowledge and skills and I've been able to be creative and have had to be resilient because of different situations that came up out of my control.
And then while in the past, it used to make me feel defeated or like, you know, why is this happening? I can now.
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See how much it's benefited me and has allowed me to learn so much and become such a savvy and resilient entrepreneur.
Not to say that, you know, anybody else's journey isn't valid or to, to shade anybody's experience, but sometimes I think about, you know, if you've had kind of, if you've done one thing successfully and you've, you know, done this thing and you've taken off with it.
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I feel like while that is a valid perspective and experience as it relates to, you know, bringing up other people behind you and, and teaching people how you did it, but I love my experience in that I not only did it once and you know, was successful and profitable and able to build a great community.
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I've now done it three times and I've done it under circumstances that were what most people would not consider ideal with.
Not having the finances and having to start up on a shoestring, being fresh outta school.
And I, I didn't have a, a family support as it relates to, you know, I didn't have a mom, uncle, grandmother, or whoever to kind of invest in my business or to be able to secure a big business loan.
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So I was able to start that up, or, you know, circumstances where.
I was, it was during COVID and I was a new mom at the height of the pandemic.
So I am learning how to be a mom and what this new season looks like for me.
And also, you know, learning how to navigate this new business environment during the pandemic, or being pregnant and starting up a practice and finding that balance while I'm pregnant, while taking care of another child.
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So.
Saying that to say, again, not to to necessarily highlight my, my journey or methods is like, you know, I'm better than this person or the other because I've been through X, Y, Z.
But to say if you're listening to this in your journey is a little unconventional, if your circumstances may feel overwhelming or if you're like, you know, I'm seeing other practices or other people, or, you know.
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Clinics that I'm, I'm looking at as a model or looking up to, but man, their life looks a little bit different than mine.
You know, I've got kids at home or I'm juggling all these different roles in my life.
Saying that to say that you're not alone in that and I have been there, as you know, Dr.
Alex has been there with different twists and turns and iterations of her journey.
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So, now I can look back on that, those experiences and feel grateful for them because they do allow me to pour into other people who are feeling a little different in, you know, how they've gotten their starter or what season of life that you're in.
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I love that.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
Again, like so many parallels and what I wanna bring up is not that there's so many parallels to my story.
But I think there's so many parallels of your story to so many women out there, y'all.
I have interviewed over a hundred of of y'all listeners, people who have been interested in working with me, people who just wanna know more about how to start a boutique practice between chiropractors, PTs, OTs, y'all.
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So many of us have the same story or have a very similar story, and I think that there's this.
Spiritual warfare around the concept of like feeling alone.
And that's why I think this podcast is so crucial and I'm so glad that God's put me back on this assignment because the more people I talk to, the more even just going through the Facebook groups, and I love that we have this anonymous post now that you can do on Facebook, but more people are opening up and sharing that.
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The conventional way of practicing is not necessarily what most women have the bandwidth to do, whether it's financial, emotional, like the season of life that we're in, because let's face it, like we get at a school and a certain age, usually typ like the, the typical range is like late twenties, early thirties, and that's also the same window that we have to become mothers and to nurture young children.
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And it's like we can't necessarily change the order of how we wanna do things.
And so, so many people I've talked to, so many of y'all listeners have reached out and shared that this is what's going on.
And I'm like, girl, you are not alone.
So many of us are going through the same thing, whether it's, you know, we don't have a ton of money to get started.
And I've talked to a lot of people who feel like, man, like I, I can't get a loan.
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Like I've only got, some of y'all have.
I've had people reach out.
I'm like, oh, I only got $30,000.
I'm like, girl, I wish I had $30,000.
And, and, and we've been telling, or we've been told the story like, you have to start this way or you have to do something this way.
And what I want to really pour into, if that's your, where you're feeling like, man, like I can't get started because of X, Y, and Z, or I started.
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This way, and there's no way I'm gonna get to where I wanna go because I started this way.
As women, we are designed to be cultivators and nurturers.
Like we take a little like two cells and turn them into a whole person in 10 months.
And so if God designed you to do that with a human like.
Imagine what he has for you in practice, if that's what he's calling you to.
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And it, it might not be like in nine months, like, yeah, we can build a whole person in nine months.
It might, it might be that whole person isn't like the person that they're gonna be at 18 years either, right? Like it takes 18 years to, to develop a, a.
Full adult.
Right.
And so and, and you all, we all know when we were 18, we weren't really adults anyways, but I was gonna say out on another five to six for the brain to gel.
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So develop like, I feel like at 30, almost 36, I'm just now adulting.
And so, but the thing is, is like we are designed to cultivate over time.
Like I still, you know, call my mom and have a spiritual mothers and like we are still nurtured over time as people, so.
If you are feeling this pressure to have a practice, and we're actually gonna dive into this in another episode, that you are anointed to something, but you're like, man, it's taking way longer than I expected, or, I feel like there's all these roadblocks in the way, or like, you know, this season of life just is making things challenging, or I just feel out of step, or out of alignment, or out of a sight, whatever it may be.
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I just want you to know that you're not alone.
That so many women have been on this journey.
And when I started Boutique Practices and I started creating my practice, I was like, I know it's possible because I see it.
Like it's not necessarily advertised out there.
You know, I googled like how to start a small practice, like who's coaching small practice owners and I couldn't find anything.
I found one person who had like, would speak into that and that's really how I got started.
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But there really wasn't somebody saying like, yes, you can be a woman and start a small practice and grow it over time.
Specifically to that message, there was the conventional model and the conventional model only.
And I knew, I knew it was possible because I had shadowed and talked to so many women who had done it, who had said, yeah, I started in a small room with $500 on a credit card and a table in my hands.
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I've seen, and I've seen it happen over and over again, not just behind me, but ahead of me too.
I, you know, there's a, a gal here in Dallas that.
I've had the honor to serve and support on her journey, who literally started in her car with a table and she's growing one of the biggest physical therapy practices for children who, have developmental dis delays and disorders and it's, it's an amazing, phenomenal practice that is exploding.
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And I remember when I first interviewed her, she was like, is this even possible? I'm like, girl, this is not only possible, like it is, it is going to happen.
Like it's, I I, and I'm just so honored to have been on her journey.
But there's so many different, there's so many women that I, I've worked with and so many women that I haven't worked with that I've had the opportunity to interview and but still get to watch and cheer on the side from social media and like just conversations that.
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Are growing these practices from tiny little mustard seeds and sometimes having to move and get up and change because their spouse is either in the military or their life is shifting and, and their seasons have shifted and what we are going to be diving into.
Not only here on the podcast, but also in the Boutique Practice Bootcamp is what are the foundational pieces that will allow for something that is so small to really get up and running.
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And Dr.
Lauren like mentioned one of those things is networking.
And I think in our society, networking is a soft skill that we have to be intentional about developing.
It's something that came natural to you.
It came naturally to me.
But it is something that doesn't always come natural, and it's something that since COVID is kind of feels like a lost art.
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Like if you didn't really like get in there and start doing that work and learning and getting the bruises and the scrapes on your knees and going through that process, and it's something that.
We've gotta bring back, because I, I told y'all in like, I think a couple episodes ago, like there was one thing that I did that even when I tried to burn my practice down and I felt like it was dying and God said, Lazarus, stand up.
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It just exploded out of nowhere.
It was that piece of learning how to network and develop communication or connections with people that like, literally, like I turned two switches on.
And it was like this practice that I thought was dead, that was dying.
And I'm gonna talk to all in another episode about all the things I did wrong that I feel like put my practice in an early grave.
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And then when I was done with it at the same time, I was like, you know, it's not gonna work.
I'm just gonna burn it down.
I'm gonna tell you, talk to y'all about all the things that I did wrong in another episode, but some of the things that we did right and that some of the things that I feel like Lauren, you really touched on are, you know, really developing a network and learning to connect with people.
Really.
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Being rooted in what God is calling you to do because he's gonna move mountains that you don't ever expect are gonna be moved if you're working with him, co-laboring with him, versus just like often doing our own thing like I've done for a while.
And another piece to that is just believing that it is possible, like knowing that it is possible, just having this, knowing that, hey, like I know what it looks like right now, but.
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I also know that what it seems is not what it actually is or what it's going to be and being rooted in that.
And so Lauren, I'm so glad that you shared your story.
'cause like I said, my story has so many parallels.
You know, I mentioned in the beginning starting feeling kind of like in a corner.
There weren't really options.
It was ironic 'cause I was in Dallas around the same we've been in, we were around the same time.
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And.
Dallas and Houston are really weird.
It's kind of like me and you are like Dallas and Houston.
Like we got so much in common and so many things that are different.
To where asserting a prenatal perinatal practice is like there's one on every corner now.
It almost.
People have created competition outta it.
There's no reason we need competition.
But a perinatal practice is like, it's not even like a weird thing.
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Yeah.
It's not like a a it's, but at the same time it's, it's a different game.
You have to play here.
And that's when I started and I've moved my practice.
Now I've had four locations in Dallas and Loca, and if y'all have not been to Dallas, Dallas is huge.
So, and they've all been spread enough apart that I did not really have much of a following because people were like, I ain't driving that far.
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Like, or some people, I have that experience where a lot of the things that I, I did in Houston, that worked in Houston, I found they didn't work in Dallas because like you're saying, there's so many practices.
So I knew that it wasn't impossible to do, but I realized quickly like, oh, this is a long game for me to really make.
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A name for myself in this community because compared to Houston, where it was kind of like a desert for that type of practice, like you said, there was a lot of a lot of people.
So you just had to really work a little more strategically to find your people.
I think in, in DFW.
Yeah, it's I, I've al also had a lot of people ask like, Hey, like, is this like.
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Really possible to do this niche practice or this style practice.
'cause I'm not in a big place like Dallas.
I'm like, honey, if you can build in Dallas, you can build anywhere.
Because it's, it's so, it's it.
There's, again, I've talked about multiple times, like there is no competition.
The competition is between our ears.
Which is so true, but if the competition is between other people's ears, they will create, like there's, there's mountains and boundaries and barriers that it does make it like functionally challenging to do some things that you might not be able, you might not encounter in a community that doesn't have your niche.
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Actually it's, it's, I feel like it's easier to build a niche space practice when you are not in a place that has somebody on every creamer doing what it is that you do or claiming to do what you do.
And if they, they don't, so yes, all of that said, yeah, I'm super excited.
In these, these upcoming episodes, we're gonna talk to y'all more like about how.
To start a boutique practice.
(26:34):
And if you wanna really wanna dive in on how to start or give yourself your boutique practice a glow up, or if you're like, Hey, I need to pivot.
Like maybe I've had to practice for a while and it's just not working for my lifestyle anymore, and I feel like God's calling me to do something else.
I still feel like I have this mantle to heal.
The style way I'm doing, it's just not working.
Like it's, it's causing other problems in my life.
(26:55):
And I'm not here to say it's gonna be easy, as y'all heard Dr.
Lauren say, like, it was not easy.
It wasn't easy for me.
But there's difference between something that is challenging and that might seem impossible from the outside.
Then something that is going to exhaust you, something that requires effort and is worth doing and that you are called to, God is going to supernaturally make it happen.
(27:19):
In ways that you can never fathom or understand.
And if you're feeling like, okay, like I know I'm called to this and I'm assigned to this right now and you wanna know how to create a boutique practice, I invite y'all to join us in the Boutique Practice Blueprint.
We're gonna start that September 22nd, and we are gonna walk through all of the steps and the foundational pieces that we have both used over the la the combined 17 years of owning practices and moving and changing and shifting, and I guess.
(27:47):
Technically between us, like eight startups in practice and, and scaling those practices.
We're gonna talk about all those things that, that make it possible regardless of, you know, if you have a ton of money coming in, regardless of if you have a name for yourself or if you're just getting started or if you're pivoting and shifting.
So.
(28:08):
I cannot wait for that bootcamp.
And I want you guys, all you gotta do is go to boutique practices.com/bootcamp
to get registered.
It will cost less than a breakfast taco and a coffee, and we will be in there learning, teaching y'all together.
I'm super excited about that.
Dr.
Lauren, before we hop off, is there anything else you wanted to share? I always try to be short, but it sometimes end up being a little more long, long-winded.
(28:37):
So I promise I'll keep it short this time.
Just definitely to reiterate everything that you're saying about keeping eyes open for the bootcamp, because that's gonna be so packed with value and.
I feel like I'm always still learning things just from our conversations and then speaking specifically with you, Dr.
Alex.
So that's gonna be an amazing opportunity.
(28:59):
And how we were talking about, you mentioned like that feeling of isolation.
That is very common.
But you know how the enemy wants us to feel isolated and like we're going through these things just in a silo, which is not the case.
And then the other really important part too is with this approach and being God centered and God led as boutique practice owners and clinicians is also sometimes when you're looking at other situations and other.
(29:32):
People knowing that sometimes values aren't the same amongst people in that, in this program that we want.
To, you know, people to be successful and to really just like crush it and practice, but at the same time really crush it in the ministries that matter.
(29:54):
Like in your personal walk, in your motherhood journey, in your marriages, in those other things your relationships with your community.
And maintaining your values while also building.
And I think that's so huge.
'cause that was something that, again, like going through and kind of falling into that trap of comparison, like you said, I was definitely, in my head, it was definitely a problem between my ears and then down the road.
(30:23):
Either the Lord revealing things to me or life revealing things to me and be like, man, I was looking at these different approaches and these different people, and feeling like, why do I not have what they have? Or, Lord, why have you taken me on this journey? And then being able to see, oh, okay, this is why, because I, I'm, I'm wanting to build something that's not only sustainable in business.
(30:45):
But sustainable in my life and compatible with my values and with my faith.
And so I'm really excited about this program that's gonna be able to marry those things.
And it's like, you don't have to to choose like, am I gonna be successful or am I going to, you know, be able to maintain.
My family life and maintain what's important to me as far as my values and, and my integrity within how I do business.
(31:13):
Those things can coexist.
So I'm really exci excited to dive into that and to keep chatting it up with you guys on the podcast.
In the meantime.
Awesome.
I love that.
I just wanna remind everybody, like if God wanted you to do it, he's gonna provide a way.
Like if he called you to be a mom, he's gonna provide a way.
He called you to be a wife.
He called you to be a practice owner.
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He called you to be an entrepreneur.
He called you to be a community leader.
He called you to do whatever it is that you have.
The mantles let you have.
He's going to make a way for it to happen, and he's got an assignment for you in the season.
And assignments look different from season to season, so.
Listen, I'm super honored, super blessed.
This is a great episode if I do say so myself.
I am so glad you are here and I cannot wait to chat with y'all in the next episode.
(31:59):
Bye y'all.
Bye. 321 00:32:03,468.9189484 --> 00:32:03,978.9189484 Hey, friend. 322 00:32:03,978.9189484 --> 00:32:05,388.9189484 I hope today's episode stretched. 323 00:32:05,388.9189484 --> 00:32:09,318.9189484 You, encouraged you and gave you a fresh perspective on what's possible in your practice. 324 00:32:09,858.9189484 --> 00:32:17,988.9189484 If it did, would you go ahead and take 30 seconds to leave a review, subscribe and share it with a friend who's been praying for a breakthrough in her practice and her business. 325 00:32:18,408.9189484 --> 00:32:24,618.9189484 Your reviews help this podcast get into the hands of other women who are looking and praying for the exact same thing. 326 00:32:25,608.9189484 --> 00:32:29,388.9189484 And if you're ready for more, go ahead and join us in the Boutique Practice Bootcamp. 327 00:32:29,703.9189484 --> 00:32:38,343.9189484 Girl, this is where we're gonna show you the exact step-by-step system to build a purpose led all cash practice in 20 hours a week or less. 328 00:32:38,433.9189484 --> 00:32:41,343.9189484 So just go to boutique practices.com/bootcamp 329 00:32:41,343.9189484 --> 00:32:42,273.9189484 to get registered today. 330 00:32:43,113.9189484 --> 00:32:54,183.9189484 Or if you're like, okay, this is exactly what I've been praying for, I've been looking for, and I would love some mentorship and some guidance, and you're ready to take a deep dive with one-on-one coaching. 331 00:32:54,828.9189484 --> 00:33:02,538.9189484 Plus, you'd love to join a community of like-minded women who are on fire for the kingdom and ready to take ground both in their businesses and their family lives. 332 00:33:03,48.9189484 --> 00:33:03,738.9189484 That sounds like you. 333 00:33:03,738.9189484 --> 00:33:08,28.9189484 I want you to go ahead and apply to the Boutique Practice Mentor Mind. 334 00:33:08,478.9189484 --> 00:33:12,78.9189484 All you have to do is go to boutique practices.com/mentor 335 00:33:12,78.9189484 --> 00:33:15,228.9189484 Mind to fill out the application, and I'll see you there. 336 00:33:15,828.9189484 --> 00:33:23,28.9189484 And girl, if you didn't know it already, you are so loved and there's nothing you have to do to earn it, and there's nothing you can do to lose it. 337 00:33:23,493.9189484 --> 00:33:25,113.9189484 Have a blessed day, and I'll see you soon.
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