020 \\ The 5 Types of Margin That Will Save Your Practice (and Your Sanity) For Moms in Healthcare

If you’re a woman in healthcare who feels torn between your mantle as a healer and everything else God’s called you to — you’re not alone.

In this episode, Dr. Alex unpacks the non-negotiable that every Christian chiropractor, physical therapist, and healthcare provider needs for a sustainable, purpose-led business: margin.

You’ll learn:

• Why margin is more than just “free time” — it’s breathing room for your calling

• How the world’s definition of success can steal your peace (and how to protect it)

• The five types of margin every boutique practice owner needs: time, energy, financial, relational, and spiritual

• Practical ways to create space in your schedule, your budget, and your heart so you can run your race at God’s pace

• How margin in your practice actually fuels profitability, impact, and long-term sustainability

Whether you’re starting a boutique practice or ready to give your current one a “glow up,” this conversation will challenge the hustle narrative and equip you to build with intention, alignment, and heavenly strategy.

💡 Next Step: Join us for the Boutique Practice Bootcamp starting September 22nd! In just 5 days, we’ll help you design a low-maintenance, part-time, cash-based practice that gives you the margin you’ve been craving while making a life-changing impact. Join the Boutique Practice Bootcamp for $17 - boutiquepractices.com/bootcamp

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, friend, and welcome to the Boutique Practices Podcast.
If you're a woman in healthcare who's felt torn between your mantle as a healer, and let's just say the rest of your life, you are not alone.
If you've been praying for a business model that is low maintenance part-time.
All cash, highly profitable and potentially social media optional because you don't have time to be dancing on TikTok all day and you know that you can deliver life-changing results for your patients, but you need something that allows you to have the margin you've been craving, then you're in the right place.

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I'm your host, Dr.
Alex, and I'm here to show you how to use heavenly strategy to grow a practice and a business that honors every role God's given you.
From your practice to your home and everything in between.
Think Proverbs 31.
Wisdom meets boutique practice simplicity.
So whether you're rocking scrubs, yoga pants, or a spit on cupboard t-shirt, take a deep breath, press play, and let's build the dream practice God's placed on your heart today. 11 00:01:07,441.338 --> 00:01:11,341.338 Hey y'all and welcome back to the Boutique Practice Podcast. 12 00:01:11,341.338 --> 00:01:12,391.338 It's your host, Dr. 13 00:01:12,391.338 --> 00:01:12,871.338 Alex. 14 00:01:12,871.338 --> 00:01:35,311.338 And today we're gonna be diving into a topic that is foundational to a boutique practice in the model and really the reason why boutique practice exists, which is understanding that it is crucial for us as women, like the crucial piece as women that we need to protect. 15 00:01:35,986.338 --> 00:02:00,436.338 And create space for in our lives, and that is margin y'all, if you have listened to me or coached with me or just seen anything that I've posted, I have shared multiple times over and over again why it is so important for us to really consider our time and our schedules, and to consider creating a practice that fits in our life and not the other way around. 16 00:02:01,396.338 --> 00:02:13,696.338 The reason for that is, is because when we have a practice that we build first and then we try to like put our life around it, it is so easy for that to consume our lives. 17 00:02:13,966.338 --> 00:02:25,336.338 The conventional model of practice and really business in general, demands so much from the person starting it that oftentimes you have to put everything else aside for it. 18 00:02:25,336.338 --> 00:02:27,496.338 And I'm not here to say that. 19 00:02:28,771.338 --> 00:02:31,981.338 Owning a business or owning a practice means there won't be sacrifices. 20 00:02:32,341.338 --> 00:02:43,771.338 What I am saying is that sacrifices often have to come from somewhere, and I am saying that it is actually okay to sacrifice success or quote unquote, what people will call success. 21 00:02:43,771.338 --> 00:02:46,621.338 In a business, it is okay to sacrifice growth. 22 00:02:46,861.338 --> 00:02:50,881.338 It is okay to sacrifice scaling, or what the world is. 23 00:02:51,301.338 --> 00:02:55,591.338 The world's expectations of all of those things in your business for your family. 24 00:02:55,831.338 --> 00:03:01,81.338 As a matter of fact, it's almost a non-negotiable to do so at times. 25 00:03:01,231.338 --> 00:03:19,711.338 There will be times where you have to choose, and if you're like me and you're a mama and you know that you have a ministry inside your home and you are not willing to put that ministry in your back pocket for a season, you know that it's important and that you need to show up there. 26 00:03:20,866.338 --> 00:03:21,976.338 No matter what. 27 00:03:23,266.338 --> 00:03:25,786.338 You are gonna have to make sacrifices in your business. 28 00:03:25,786.338 --> 00:03:30,76.338 Now, this is not like, I don't wanna get give like be a Debbie Downer here and be like, you're gonna have to sacrifice. 29 00:03:30,76.338 --> 00:03:31,966.338 You're not gonna be able to have your dreams and your goals, your business. 30 00:03:32,206.338 --> 00:03:33,736.338 No, that's not at all what I'm saying. 31 00:03:33,916.338 --> 00:03:45,16.338 What I am saying though is that God gives you a calling, but he also gives you assignments in seasons and sometimes the assignment in a season, uh, in one category of your life. 32 00:03:45,366.338 --> 00:03:46,626.338 Is not that big. 33 00:03:46,626.338 --> 00:03:49,506.338 It might be like, Hey, just chill out, relax, things are gonna go easy. 34 00:03:49,506.338 --> 00:03:59,16.338 God's gonna make and smooth things over in that category of your life to make it simple for you to be able to focus on the assignment in another category. 35 00:03:59,226.338 --> 00:04:12,756.338 And so oftentimes what I feel like the world calls us to do when we are starting a business is to deprioritize different categories out of God's Co, out of God's. 36 00:04:13,396.338 --> 00:04:14,776.338 Plan for our lives. 37 00:04:14,776.338 --> 00:04:18,286.338 Like it's like this is the common, our brain always wants to do the common sense thing. 38 00:04:18,286.338 --> 00:04:22,606.338 If you're starting a business, like you need to go hard, you need to go in, you need to go long. 39 00:04:22,606.338 --> 00:04:27,136.338 Like you need to give it three years of like your life it, your blood, sweat, and your tears. 40 00:04:27,166.338 --> 00:04:28,186.338 It is your baby. 41 00:04:28,186.338 --> 00:04:36,976.338 And can I tell you, when we do that, if you're called to do that, I'm not putting chain out, I'm I've, God is saying like, yes, these next three years is, it's time for you to hustle. 42 00:04:36,976.338 --> 00:04:37,711.338 It's time for you to. 43 00:04:38,956.338 --> 00:04:40,966.338 Move and, and here's the thing. 44 00:04:40,966.338 --> 00:04:52,216.338 When God calls you to hustle and calls you to move, it's not grinding because you're moving in grace, because you're moving in his, under his umbrella, under his covering upper because it is your assignment. 45 00:04:52,216.338 --> 00:04:52,486.338 But. 46 00:04:53,536.338 --> 00:04:55,306.338 That's not everybody's assignment. 47 00:04:55,306.338 --> 00:04:59,566.338 That is not how God calls everybody to start a business, to start a practice. 48 00:04:59,806.338 --> 00:05:05,776.338 As a matter of fact, I, I think he probably calls a fewer people to that model than we realize. 49 00:05:05,776.338 --> 00:05:10,481.338 I think the world says this is how it's supposed to be, and we just accept it and we don't realize that. 50 00:05:11,371.338 --> 00:05:21,181.338 Sometimes slow is fast and that God wants to do something in your life in a way that you never anticipated or expected, but you've gotta move at the pace He has you on, on the track. 51 00:05:21,181.338 --> 00:05:23,941.338 He has you running, and the race he has you running. 52 00:05:23,941.338 --> 00:05:28,711.338 Because if we decide to just say, okay, this is the way it is, this is the way the world do it, number does it. 53 00:05:28,711.338 --> 00:05:30,751.338 Number one, we're in the world and not in the kingdom. 54 00:05:30,751.338 --> 00:05:33,836.338 We're not operating under kingdom, under a kingdom plan. 55 00:05:34,406.338 --> 00:05:37,946.338 We have to do it ourselves, then you have to do it in your own strength. 56 00:05:37,946.338 --> 00:05:42,896.338 And having done so many things in my own strength and business and practice, y'all, can I tell you it's not worth it. 57 00:05:42,896.338 --> 00:05:44,696.338 It's not number one, it's not fun. 58 00:05:44,696.338 --> 00:05:45,476.338 It's frustrating. 59 00:05:45,476.338 --> 00:06:00,146.338 Like even if you like have a good like wind behind you and you're like moving with speed and hustle, you will eventually run out gas because trying to move mountains on your own or scale a mountain on your own, that God is not calling you to in that season. 60 00:06:00,476.338 --> 00:06:03,566.338 And so if you're a woman, you're listening to this right now and you're like, okay, like. 61 00:06:04,231.338 --> 00:06:06,691.338 I have this big vision of this big, beautiful practice. 62 00:06:06,991.338 --> 00:06:09,601.338 I want you to know, hold onto that vision. 63 00:06:10,231.338 --> 00:06:12,721.338 God gives people vision years before. 64 00:06:12,721.338 --> 00:06:14,461.338 Often he brings them to fruition. 65 00:06:14,461.338 --> 00:06:18,421.338 Sometimes he brings 'em to fruition, like out of nowhere and like, I have no idea this is gonna happen. 66 00:06:18,421.338 --> 00:06:23,281.338 I think of so many testimonies where people finally surrender and it something happens in. 67 00:06:23,866.338 --> 00:06:26,596.338 Six months to a year, that should have taken 10 years. 68 00:06:26,836.338 --> 00:06:28,36.338 That happens all the time. 69 00:06:28,36.338 --> 00:06:29,806.338 But that's because they moved in the pace. 70 00:06:29,806.338 --> 00:06:37,996.338 God had them moving in and oftentimes the pace God had them moving in was way slower, or it almost seemed like you were going in the opposite direction. 71 00:06:37,996.338 --> 00:06:46,546.338 But because they moved in obedience, because they moved in under assignment, God moved that mountain in a way nobody ever intended or expected. 72 00:06:46,546.338 --> 00:06:48,556.338 I've seen that happen so many ways in my life. 73 00:06:48,556.338 --> 00:06:49,426.338 I've seen that happen. 74 00:06:50,266.338 --> 00:06:53,236.338 So many times just in friends and communities. 75 00:06:53,236.338 --> 00:07:00,406.338 And so I just want you to know that you do not have to conform to the world's version of doing business. 76 00:07:00,406.338 --> 00:07:07,696.338 And so that brings me to back to this topic of margin and why in a boutique practice margin is so important. 77 00:07:07,906.338 --> 00:07:19,216.338 Y'all, we often, so often when we start a practice or we start a business or we think about going into practice or even just like as we graduate and get our degrees and our licenses, whether we're going into the marketplace or not. 78 00:07:19,301.338 --> 00:07:20,771.338 We have this calling. 79 00:07:20,951.338 --> 00:07:40,211.338 We know we were called to do this thing, but if we only operate in the calling and we do not sit and get clear on what the assignment and the season for that calling is, it is so easy for us to go off and veer off into the wrong direction and find ourselves again, like I said in burnout. 80 00:07:40,961.338 --> 00:07:43,241.338 But if we are building a practice. 81 00:07:43,831.338 --> 00:07:44,881.338 That is intentional. 82 00:07:44,881.338 --> 00:07:49,261.338 God has called us to do it in this season, in this time, but also hasn't called us to put down our other. 83 00:07:49,786.338 --> 00:07:54,466.338 Mantles are other callings we have to build with margin. 84 00:07:54,796.338 --> 00:07:58,366.338 Margin is actually the first thing we start with, with boutique practice. 85 00:07:58,366.338 --> 00:08:00,976.338 Like we know our calling, most of us know our calling. 86 00:08:00,976.338 --> 00:08:06,976.338 Sometimes we need to get more clear on it, and we'll talk about what that looks like as far as getting clear on your knees, getting clear on your avatar. 87 00:08:06,976.338 --> 00:08:08,596.338 I can't wait for that episode that's coming up. 88 00:08:08,866.338 --> 00:08:13,546.338 Getting clear on, you know, um, the look and the field and the brand. 89 00:08:13,576.338 --> 00:08:17,176.338 Getting clear on the, the operations and how things. 90 00:08:17,691.338 --> 00:08:18,261.338 Move. 91 00:08:18,261.338 --> 00:08:27,21.338 But So as we're talking about margin, though, like obviously, let's define it first because it's, it's so important to define what it is that we're talking about. 92 00:08:27,321.338 --> 00:08:33,141.338 The first piece that I need y'all to understand or that we need to understand with margin is that margin is holistic. 93 00:08:33,141.338 --> 00:08:37,821.338 Like it's not just, um, it's not just one sided or one thing. 94 00:08:37,821.338 --> 00:08:46,191.338 Margin is the intentional space you build into your schedule, your energy, your finances, your relationship, um, your like. 95 00:08:46,596.338 --> 00:08:58,86.338 In all places like you as a holistic person, the intentional space you build, so you can show up as your best, not just for your, your patients, but also for your family, for yourself, for the people that are in your life. 96 00:08:58,386.338 --> 00:08:59,976.338 It's not just free time, y'all. 97 00:08:59,976.338 --> 00:09:02,106.338 It's not just blank space on your calendar. 98 00:09:02,106.338 --> 00:09:02,316.338 It's. 99 00:09:02,346.338 --> 00:09:06,186.338 Breathing room that keeps you from living on the edge of burnout. 100 00:09:06,606.338 --> 00:09:12,486.338 Y'all, when we are operating in our assignment, God does not call us to do more than he wants us to do. 101 00:09:12,486.338 --> 00:09:18,156.338 He doesn't call us to cannibalize ourselves, and so he makes and provides windows for us to have this margin. 102 00:09:18,486.338 --> 00:09:20,556.338 Actually, Jesus did this all of the time. 103 00:09:20,736.338 --> 00:09:22,686.338 He would step away for a while. 104 00:09:22,926.338 --> 00:09:26,406.338 From the disciples, from the people and just get away and pray. 105 00:09:26,406.338 --> 00:09:27,276.338 That was his. 106 00:09:27,606.338 --> 00:09:29,766.338 Uh, we talk about self-care all the time. 107 00:09:29,826.338 --> 00:09:32,226.338 Self-care exists within margin. 108 00:09:32,226.338 --> 00:09:35,586.338 If you don't have margin, you cannot really, truly have self-care. 109 00:09:35,586.338 --> 00:09:36,546.338 And I don't know about y'all. 110 00:09:36,546.338 --> 00:09:41,706.338 I've had experiences where I'm like, yeah, I'm doing self-care 'cause I'm, you know, gonna go do this thing. 111 00:09:41,736.338 --> 00:09:48,216.338 And at the same time I'm working on my phone or thinking about my business when I really should be chilling and, and like. 112 00:09:48,501.338 --> 00:09:56,271.338 Enjoying this space or this time, or maybe I'm thinking like, I need to capitalize on this moment for social media, or I need to, you know, X, Y, and Z. 113 00:09:56,271.338 --> 00:09:58,821.338 Like, maybe I'm just going through my list of things I need to do at home. 114 00:09:59,91.338 --> 00:10:01,671.338 If you feel like you're constantly on. 115 00:10:02,61.338 --> 00:10:14,991.338 Um, we're gonna talk about some signs that you do not have enough margin, but that also is, um, you know, one of the signs of high performing anxiety, which is a whole other episode, something we are gonna talk about another day. 116 00:10:15,601.338 --> 00:10:22,891.338 The first place that we can get started really is like showing or talking about what are the signs that you don't have enough. 117 00:10:23,101.338 --> 00:10:25,921.338 These are burnout, yellow and orange flags, y'all. 118 00:10:26,281.338 --> 00:10:49,881.338 Um, here's the thing, if you constantly compromise, you regularly shorten visits with patients or like you feel like you skip breaks, breaks, you've gotta squeeze people in or you're person pushing your personal Priorities like lunch or going to the bathroom or like getting off early to do something with your kids or scheduling and planning, you know, date nights and things like that. 119 00:10:50,151.338 --> 00:10:54,291.338 That is a sign that you do not have enough margin if you're constantly late. 120 00:10:54,351.338 --> 00:10:57,141.338 Y'all, this is a time, a time one. 121 00:10:57,141.338 --> 00:11:03,951.338 This is something I'm like, I know I don't have enough margin because I'm constantly late and here's the thing. 122 00:11:03,951.338 --> 00:11:04,791.338 I've got three kids. 123 00:11:04,791.338 --> 00:11:06,711.338 Like it is very easy to. 124 00:11:07,596.338 --> 00:11:09,306.338 Be late when you have three kids. 125 00:11:09,306.338 --> 00:11:15,846.338 And that's one thing that actually, it wasn't until I had my third that I realized like I need margin in so many different ways. 126 00:11:16,416.338 --> 00:11:24,186.338 It should, in my mind, only take 15 minutes for us to get in the car once we've done everything we need to do. 127 00:11:24,186.338 --> 00:11:25,26.338 But it does not. 128 00:11:25,326.338 --> 00:11:26,16.338 It does not. 129 00:11:26,466.338 --> 00:11:29,496.338 Never ever does it take 15 minutes for us to get in the car. 130 00:11:29,736.338 --> 00:11:32,526.338 It takes 45 minutes for us to get in the car. 131 00:11:33,351.338 --> 00:11:41,541.338 And when I schedule enough margin, it allows for us to do the thing and still be on time, and maybe even be early and not be stressed on the way there. 132 00:11:41,541.338 --> 00:11:53,751.338 So if you constantly feel like you're on the go, you don't have enough time to do things, and you're always late, or you're like pushing it and you're frustrated with yourself and your kids and the people around you, and you're practice members and da, da, da, you probably don't have enough margin. 133 00:11:54,621.338 --> 00:11:57,861.338 Number two, perpetual low grade exhaustion. 134 00:11:58,416.338 --> 00:12:11,46.338 You're maybe not in a full collapse yet, but you never fully feel rested and even on good days where you feel like I should be good 'cause I got enough sleep, or I like my aura ring tells me that I'm should be rested, but. 135 00:12:11,661.338 --> 00:12:17,361.338 You still feel like you're having to push through life and you feel like, you know, you're just slow as molasses. 136 00:12:17,361.338 --> 00:12:19,521.338 Like you're just like, I need another coffee, I need another energy. 137 00:12:19,521.338 --> 00:12:20,601.338 I drink, I need another this. 138 00:12:20,601.338 --> 00:12:22,941.338 Like, I just, I don't have enough to keep going. 139 00:12:23,211.338 --> 00:12:27,201.338 That is a sign that you are leaning towards or already in exhaustion. 140 00:12:27,501.338 --> 00:12:36,81.338 And here's the thing, there's a difference as something I've learned from, um, Kristen, uh, um, I think it's Roland, uh, I think that's her last name. 141 00:12:36,261.338 --> 00:12:40,881.338 Anyways, I've learned that there's a difference between effort and exhaustion. 142 00:12:42,471.338 --> 00:12:55,41.338 Like effort can make you tired, like, and, and you can be tired, but your perception of that effort is really the key to whether or not you feel exhausted. 143 00:12:56,181.338 --> 00:13:02,391.338 And if you are running without margin, it can be really hard to perceive the effort you're putting in. 144 00:13:03,396.338 --> 00:13:07,176.338 As something that is not going to tire you out or exhaust you. 145 00:13:07,176.338 --> 00:13:11,916.338 Like if you don't have margin, you can try and mindset your way around it all day long. 146 00:13:12,276.338 --> 00:13:22,266.338 But if the effort you're putting in there's, there's no way to, uh, say it other than to say it like, you know, your stats, maybe your HRV is showing you're exhausted. 147 00:13:22,566.338 --> 00:13:26,136.338 Maybe your body, your, your people around you. 148 00:13:26,136.338 --> 00:13:28,21.338 Like people are saying like, girl, like you're pushing too hard. 149 00:13:29,1.338 --> 00:13:38,121.338 You can, like I said, try to mindset your way around it and say, I'm just gonna push, push, push, push, push, and I'm just gonna believe that this effort isn't exhausting me because I want to believe that thing. 150 00:13:38,361.338 --> 00:13:45,21.338 If you don't have margin, um, honey, it, your body will tell you if you, if your mind doesn't tell you first. 151 00:13:45,171.338 --> 00:13:48,81.338 Okay? The third one is emotional edginess. 152 00:13:49,371.338 --> 00:13:55,521.338 If you feel as a practitioner, especially small patient requests feel overwhelming or maybe small requests from your kids. 153 00:13:55,521.338 --> 00:14:16,521.338 Like I got little kids that like, they just literally ask me all the time things that I'm just like, why? Why so many questions? Why? Like, like just feels like people are constantly taking from you a little bit all the time and you're feeling edgy and you catch yourself starting to resent either your work or maybe your role as a mom. 154 00:14:17,766.338 --> 00:14:21,366.338 And, and, and things that you love start to seem just really, really hard. 155 00:14:21,786.338 --> 00:14:23,526.338 It might be that you don't have enough margin. 156 00:14:24,6.338 --> 00:14:25,836.338 It might be that you're not in the right assignment. 157 00:14:25,836.338 --> 00:14:27,66.338 We talked about this before. 158 00:14:27,96.338 --> 00:14:31,656.338 In the season that you're in, you might be in the wrong running the wrong race right now. 159 00:14:32,496.338 --> 00:14:37,176.338 Um, and because you're running the wrong race, you don't have the margin that you need. 160 00:14:37,956.338 --> 00:14:41,671.338 So, um, I want y'all just to take a quick reflection. 161 00:14:42,561.338 --> 00:14:48,621.338 Do you notice any of these things happening on a regular basis? Like I get, there's gonna be days that are hard and you're just like, oh my goodness. 162 00:14:48,621.338 --> 00:14:55,311.338 Like the kids are asking literally all the questions, I didn't get enough sleep last night, but that's like once in a blue moon. 163 00:14:55,581.338 --> 00:14:59,121.338 Or maybe, maybe it's, I know for me it's around my, around my cycle. 164 00:14:59,121.338 --> 00:14:59,721.338 I'm not gonna lie. 165 00:14:59,761.338 --> 00:15:05,166.338 I'm learning to take care of my body better, to provide more margin around my cycle to not get to this point. 166 00:15:06,226.338 --> 00:15:10,66.338 At the same time, like if it's every now and then, that is so different. 167 00:15:10,66.338 --> 00:15:12,946.338 But if you're like, it feels like all the time, I want you to reflect. 168 00:15:12,946.338 --> 00:15:16,186.338 If you've noticed that you don't, you're constantly compromising. 169 00:15:16,186.338 --> 00:15:23,866.338 You perpetually feel low grade exhaustion or you feel like you constantly have this overwhelming feeling from little things. 170 00:15:23,866.338 --> 00:15:29,121.338 Is this something that should be addressed? Which of these do you feel like. 171 00:15:29,646.338 --> 00:15:39,126.338 Might be because you're out of alignment in the season or assignment that you're in, and I want you to reflect if you're feeling this way, if you're not, I'm so grateful that you are not. 172 00:15:39,126.338 --> 00:15:55,236.338 But if you are, what is it potentially costing you outside of your office, outside of your practice? Okay, so here's uh, before I, we just dive in and journal here, I wanna give you a couple of handles as well because I want you to know, um. 173 00:15:55,881.338 --> 00:15:58,131.338 There are places that we can create margins. 174 00:15:58,131.338 --> 00:16:08,691.338 So if you're feeling this way and you're like, okay, thanks Alex, for letting me know that I'm exhausted and I'm going to burnout out, or I already knew this, like, you know, what do I do about it? Here are the handles. 175 00:16:08,691.338 --> 00:16:13,41.338 What can we do about it? If you feel like you do not have enough space, here's the places we need to have. 176 00:16:13,41.338 --> 00:16:13,371.338 Margin. 177 00:16:13,371.338 --> 00:16:14,541.338 Number one is time margin. 178 00:16:14,541.338 --> 00:16:16,251.338 This is space on your calendar. 179 00:16:16,671.338 --> 00:16:17,156.338 This can be. 180 00:16:18,6.338 --> 00:16:20,166.338 Space for thinking, for resting. 181 00:16:20,466.338 --> 00:16:26,766.338 Maybe it's absorbing the unexpected things that you deal throughout the week that might have derailed your plans. 182 00:16:27,366.338 --> 00:16:28,656.338 Maybe it's just time. 183 00:16:28,656.338 --> 00:16:34,386.338 Like I said, getting in and out of the door margin sometimes is created by creating systems. 184 00:16:34,626.338 --> 00:16:40,266.338 So for me, I talked about like it does not take 15 minutes for me to get my kids outta the house. 185 00:16:41,136.338 --> 00:16:43,26.338 Well, the truth is. 186 00:16:45,51.338 --> 00:16:46,221.338 It takes longer. 187 00:16:46,251.338 --> 00:16:48,681.338 It's always, it's going to take longer for a season. 188 00:16:48,861.338 --> 00:16:56,271.338 So not only have I planned more space around the things that it is that we do, but I've also created systems to make it simpler so my kids. 189 00:16:56,661.338 --> 00:17:04,41.338 One of the things we're doing is training them in how to prepare to get outside of the house, like how to prepare when you get up in the morning to be ready for whatever comes for the day. 190 00:17:04,341.338 --> 00:17:08,691.338 What are the five things we need to do? And you need to be able to learn how to do on autopilot. 191 00:17:09,21.338 --> 00:17:12,711.338 So creating systems can help with your time margin. 192 00:17:13,11.338 --> 00:17:15,51.338 The second thing is energy mar margin. 193 00:17:15,201.338 --> 00:17:25,941.338 This is a sustainable rhythm that you will have in your office with patient care and admin, um, but also allows for recovery and honors your physical limits. 194 00:17:27,471.338 --> 00:17:37,441.338 This prevents that chronic depletion I have been touched out many times because I did not have enough energy margin, like physical touch, energy margin. 195 00:17:37,831.338 --> 00:17:40,651.338 And so we need to make sure we have that space. 196 00:17:40,651.338 --> 00:17:42,331.338 So if you're like, man, I'm just tired. 197 00:17:42,331.338 --> 00:17:45,781.338 Maybe we're not getting enough sleep, that's usually the easiest answer. 198 00:17:45,781.338 --> 00:17:48,721.338 But sometimes just getting more sleep is not the easiest answer. 199 00:17:48,991.338 --> 00:17:51,271.338 You know, if you're a mom and you've got kids, they constantly wake you up. 200 00:17:51,511.338 --> 00:17:53,971.338 Maybe it's, we need to be doing less work. 201 00:17:54,571.338 --> 00:17:59,101.338 Physically or in a less taxing or less, uh, we need to take out. 202 00:17:59,101.338 --> 00:18:01,471.338 Again, this is where systems really can come in handy. 203 00:18:01,801.338 --> 00:18:10,711.338 We can take out some of the, uh, decision fatigue that we may have as women, uh, practice owners, business moms, so having systems. 204 00:18:12,151.338 --> 00:18:14,671.338 The fourth one is financial margin. 205 00:18:15,631.338 --> 00:18:20,281.338 Again, if you're in a, your household or in your business and you're feeling like. 206 00:18:20,731.338 --> 00:18:25,501.338 You know, there's nothing left over or you're having to borrow from Peter to pay Paul. 207 00:18:25,831.338 --> 00:18:29,881.338 Uh, there's a chance that we don't have enough financial margin and you could be profitable. 208 00:18:29,881.338 --> 00:18:46,356.338 Like you could be looking and saying like, I have no idea how I make, you know, and I've been here because I wasn't super crystal systemized and budgeted and, um, obedient in this place where I'm like, how am I making $40,000 a month? I don't even know where that money is going. 209 00:18:47,461.338 --> 00:18:49,981.338 There's no reason making $40,000 a month. 210 00:18:49,981.338 --> 00:18:56,701.338 There should not have been margin, but it was simply for the fact that we hadn't been intentional about creating margin. 211 00:18:56,911.338 --> 00:19:05,731.338 Profitability and reserves come from having financial margin, and what it allows you to do is to say no to the wrong opportunities. 212 00:19:06,121.338 --> 00:19:12,241.338 Invest when you need to invest in help, and also handle seasons that might be slower than others without a panic. 213 00:19:13,651.338 --> 00:19:13,981.338 Okay. 214 00:19:14,581.338 --> 00:19:17,491.338 And the fifth one is relational margin. 215 00:19:18,301.338 --> 00:19:18,661.338 Y'all. 216 00:19:18,721.338 --> 00:19:24,451.338 We have to have intentional space for our relationships, not just relationships with our patients. 217 00:19:25,531.338 --> 00:19:27,871.338 And this might be, you know, longer visits. 218 00:19:27,871.338 --> 00:19:35,461.338 This is one of the foundations of boutique practices, is to really give your patients the opportunity for the transformational care that you can offer. 219 00:19:35,461.338 --> 00:19:41,851.338 And a lot of times that means longer visits than three minutes in and out, where you don't really have the time to like go deep with your patient. 220 00:19:43,531.338 --> 00:19:45,541.338 But it also means relationships with God. 221 00:19:46,51.338 --> 00:19:58,441.338 It means your relationship with your family, relationships with your friends, relationships with yourself, okay? Your practice cannot and can never consume the other people you're called to serve outside of your office. 222 00:19:58,651.338 --> 00:20:00,481.338 And one of those people is yourself. 223 00:20:00,931.338 --> 00:20:03,541.338 Okay? And I'm not saying it's all about you 'cause it's not. 224 00:20:03,541.338 --> 00:20:05,581.338 That's one of the things I feel like God keeps reminding me. 225 00:20:05,581.338 --> 00:20:06,601.338 It's not all about you. 226 00:20:07,246.338 --> 00:20:13,246.338 But the other person, we are called to have a relationship and probably the most important relationship is our relationship with God. 227 00:20:13,726.338 --> 00:20:18,766.338 So if you feel like, you know, maybe that prayer time that you've always wanted to have just never happens. 228 00:20:19,396.338 --> 00:20:24,76.338 You're like, oh, that morning prayer time that I plan to sit down with my coffee in my notebook, it just never happens. 229 00:20:24,286.338 --> 00:20:25,906.338 First of all, I, I just wanna release anybody. 230 00:20:25,906.338 --> 00:20:27,526.338 He feels like that has to be that way. 231 00:20:27,706.338 --> 00:20:33,796.338 That does not mean you're like, you do not have to have this Instagramable Bible study with God every single morning. 232 00:20:33,841.338 --> 00:20:34,131.338 Okay. 233 00:20:34,966.338 --> 00:20:42,106.338 I want you to know that you can create space wherever God has carved for you, for him, for that relationship. 234 00:20:43,81.338 --> 00:20:52,381.338 I personally am not that person who gets up at five 30 in the morning every morning and sits down with my cup of coffee and my Bible and my devotional. 235 00:20:52,381.338 --> 00:20:53,71.338 That is not me. 236 00:20:53,311.338 --> 00:20:57,841.338 I do it sometimes I will say I do it, sometimes it's usually when God wakes me up and he is like, wake up. 237 00:20:57,901.338 --> 00:20:59,11.338 And I'm like, okay, I'm up. 238 00:20:59,611.338 --> 00:21:04,81.338 And he, we are, and we're gonna sit down and I'm gonna talk to you 'cause you, you told me to get up and I'm gonna talk to you. 239 00:21:04,381.338 --> 00:21:05,821.338 That's usually how that happens for me. 240 00:21:06,931.338 --> 00:21:08,851.338 I don't always, I'm not the most obedient all the time. 241 00:21:08,851.338 --> 00:21:09,841.338 I'll say I'm human, but. 242 00:21:11,641.338 --> 00:21:37,21.338 I have created margin in the space, in the flow of my life, slowed things down in a way that when God says I've got my routine, but I also have got, when God says, stop, listen to me right now, I don't feel I having margin allows you to actually do that without feeling like, oh my gosh, the whole day's gonna fall apart because I sat down for 10 minutes and got clear and listened. 243 00:21:37,846.338 --> 00:21:44,991.338 Or God gave me this little whisper to go talk to this random person over here and I, it's gonna derail my whole day 'cause I'm gonna be 10 minutes behind. 244 00:21:46,126.338 --> 00:21:47,476.338 This literally just happened the other day. 245 00:21:47,476.338 --> 00:21:48,256.338 I was like, okay. 246 00:21:48,256.338 --> 00:21:54,796.338 I realized I didn't have enough margin 'cause I scheduled myself to do three things in an hour plus driving that. 247 00:21:54,796.338 --> 00:21:57,346.338 It was impossible to do in the first place, but I tried to do it anyways. 248 00:21:58,36.338 --> 00:22:05,86.338 Um, and then God literally placed somebody in the parking lot that I hadn't talked to forever, and I heard her voice hadn't been five or six years. 249 00:22:05,316.338 --> 00:22:08,826.338 Since I've seen her and I heard her voice and I was like, I know that voice. 250 00:22:08,826.338 --> 00:22:09,756.338 I know this person. 251 00:22:09,756.338 --> 00:22:11,376.338 And God was like, yeah, go talk to her right now. 252 00:22:11,376.338 --> 00:22:12,786.338 And I was like, God, I don't have enough time. 253 00:22:13,236.338 --> 00:22:17,76.338 And that that anxiety and that feeling of like my whole day's derailed having margin. 254 00:22:17,866.338 --> 00:22:28,396.338 I, I went ahead and did it anyways, but having margin would allow for me to actually have had that conversation without feeling that stress of like, I've, you know, I had to really lean in and be like, okay, I know God's gonna make up for it. 255 00:22:28,396.338 --> 00:22:30,826.338 I know that this heavenly time is important. 256 00:22:30,826.338 --> 00:22:33,346.338 I do not, I'm not gonna cut this conversation any shorter. 257 00:22:33,556.338 --> 00:22:36,136.338 I'm gonna listen and hear what God wants me to say. 258 00:22:36,436.338 --> 00:22:41,116.338 And, um, the other things are gonna have to find their own time and be rescheduled. 259 00:22:41,566.338 --> 00:22:43,491.338 And they did, and it worked out just fine and it wasn't a big deal. 260 00:22:44,131.338 --> 00:22:53,161.338 But margin, I didn't have margin in the moment, but I had margin throughout the rest of my day to be able to say, okay, things can shift and I don't have to freak out, and that things are still gonna happen, that need to happen. 261 00:22:53,851.338 --> 00:23:02,911.338 So with all of that said, y'all margin is something we all need, whether we have a bucci practice or not. 262 00:23:03,121.338 --> 00:23:06,751.338 It's just that in a BCI practice, we're very protective of that margin. 263 00:23:07,801.338 --> 00:23:10,621.338 So I, I want you to know that. 264 00:23:11,476.338 --> 00:23:17,56.338 If you feel like margin is something that, is it possible for you to attain right now? It is. 265 00:23:17,146.338 --> 00:23:18,466.338 It is number one. 266 00:23:18,496.338 --> 00:23:21,406.338 Not only possible, but it is crucial. 267 00:23:21,406.338 --> 00:23:26,716.338 And when we sit back and we get quiet enough, God is gonna show us where we can create that. 268 00:23:27,286.338 --> 00:23:27,586.338 Okay. 269 00:23:27,586.338 --> 00:23:33,856.338 So I want you to go ahead and if you're feeling like, okay, this is something I know I need to work on, here's three things you can do. 270 00:23:34,156.338 --> 00:23:38,86.338 You can audit your current patient load and visit types, and you can see are they aligned. 271 00:23:38,431.338 --> 00:23:48,751.338 With your energy, are they aligned with your offer? What it is that you do? Are they aligned with the transformation that people are trying to receive? Okay, a second thing you can do is schedule white space. 272 00:23:48,871.338 --> 00:23:56,251.338 Schedule white space, which is blank space for you to get quiet and still you need to schedule white space in your business. 273 00:23:56,251.338 --> 00:24:01,171.338 So this is white space for you to be creative in your business, but this is also a white space for you at home. 274 00:24:01,711.338 --> 00:24:04,51.338 Okay? This is time where you don't have to do anything. 275 00:24:05,251.338 --> 00:24:09,31.338 And then I also want you to, and, and it's not just once a week, y'all. 276 00:24:09,31.338 --> 00:24:10,411.338 You need to have white space every day. 277 00:24:10,411.338 --> 00:24:12,991.338 This is something I thought you could just block out for once a week. 278 00:24:12,991.338 --> 00:24:20,401.338 I'm like, no, I have to have white space because unexpected things happen every single day, and I need to be able to be flexible. 279 00:24:21,601.338 --> 00:24:33,211.338 Okay, and then the last piece that I want y'all to consider and be praying about is if you are struggling with financial margin to be praying about, number one, a budget and getting clear. 280 00:24:34,681.338 --> 00:24:36,631.338 But budgeting also can only go so far. 281 00:24:36,631.338 --> 00:24:40,471.338 So if you're like, I don't know why I don't have, like, you're, you're in that place where you're like, I make enough money. 282 00:24:40,471.338 --> 00:24:41,191.338 I should have margin. 283 00:24:41,191.338 --> 00:24:44,131.338 I don't budget praying about that. 284 00:24:44,191.338 --> 00:24:45,151.338 Bring that to God. 285 00:24:45,151.338 --> 00:24:45,811.338 Bring that to the Lord. 286 00:24:45,811.338 --> 00:24:46,591.338 Sit down with your spouse. 287 00:24:46,591.338 --> 00:24:48,481.338 If it's personal, bring it to your business partner. 288 00:24:48,481.338 --> 00:24:50,911.338 If you have one in the business, pray about that. 289 00:24:51,661.338 --> 00:25:03,661.338 But number two, if you're like, okay, like we've got the budget and we still feel like we don't have enough margin, I want you to be praying about what solution does God potentially have for that problem that you're facing right now. 290 00:25:03,661.338 --> 00:25:07,471.338 Maybe it's raising your fees, maybe it's streamlining your offers. 291 00:25:08,941.338 --> 00:25:17,251.338 Maybe it's looking at combining that with your time margin and being crystal clear that you're in alignment with what he's assigned you to do. 292 00:25:18,331.338 --> 00:25:19,711.338 And sometimes that means. 293 00:25:20,101.338 --> 00:25:21,451.338 Not playing small. 294 00:25:22,201.338 --> 00:25:24,31.338 Maybe it means not playing small in your fees. 295 00:25:24,451.338 --> 00:25:26,371.338 Maybe it means not playing small in your giving. 296 00:25:26,671.338 --> 00:25:28,651.338 Maybe it means not playing small in your budget. 297 00:25:28,651.338 --> 00:25:30,571.338 I don't know what it is, but I want you to pray about that. 298 00:25:31,711.338 --> 00:25:41,461.338 So y'all, I cannot wait to be chatting with y'all in these upcoming episodes about some of these other amazing, I feel like they're amazing 'cause I know they, they didn't come from me. 299 00:25:41,551.338 --> 00:25:46,351.338 So they're, they're from God, uh, topics that he has for us to chat about and I cannot wait to chat with you then. 300 00:25:46,891.338 --> 00:25:47,461.338 Have a great day. 301 00:25:50,951.338 --> 00:25:51,461.338 Hey, friend. 302 00:25:51,461.338 --> 00:25:52,871.338 I hope today's episode stretched. 303 00:25:52,871.338 --> 00:25:56,801.338 You, encouraged you and gave you a fresh perspective on what's possible in your practice. 304 00:25:57,341.338 --> 00:26:05,471.338 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. 305 00:26:05,891.338 --> 00:26:12,101.338 Your reviews help this podcast get into the hands of other women who are looking and praying for the exact same thing. 306 00:26:13,91.338 --> 00:26:16,871.338 And if you're ready for more, go ahead and join us in the Boutique Practice Bootcamp. 307 00:26:17,186.338 --> 00:26:25,826.338 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 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