Will Power Podcast by Will Humphreys

This week, Will steps to the other side of the mic. He sat down with Dr. Karen Litzy on Healthy, Wealthy & Smart to talk about the year he almost lost his practice, how he built a hiring system that's led to over 1,000 hires, how he handles firing without destroying the relationship, and why the $20 an hour work practice owners keep doing themselves is costing them far more than $20 an hour.

Key takeaways:

• Will Humphreys near...

Will Humphreys sits down with Rick Lau, founder of Clinic Accelerator, PainHero, and CallHero, and host of The Clinic Boss Show, for a conversation on the forces reshaping physical therapy practices today. Rick has guided more than 100 clinic owners through buying or selling a practice, and his team runs front desk conversion and AI call tracking for clinics across the US, Canada, and Australia.

In this episode:

• Why PTs are earni...

Dr. Josh Schacter spent years as a high volume orthopedic surgeon, performing close to 1,000 surgeries annually and seeing 50 patients a day inside the insurance system. On this episode of Willpower, he joins Will Humphreys to talk about the internal and external transition that took him from burned out technician to integrative orthopedic physician running a cash pay practice built around deep patient connection.

Dr. Schacter walks...

In this episode of the Will Power Podcast, recorded live at APTA CSM, Will Humphreys sits down with Michael Viscuso, CEO of Metro Physical Therapy, and Samantha DiRosa, Clinical Director at Metro, to talk about how intentional leadership development shapes culture, retention, and patient care in private practice.

Michael and Samantha break down how Metro built a leadership pipeline that starts with new grads and continues through cl...

Dr. Milica McDowell, Associate Vice President of Education at US Physical Therapy, joins the Will Power Podcast live from APTA CSM to break down the science behind walking, one of the most overlooked tools in physical therapy. Guest host Mitch Johnson sits down with McDowell to unpack her new book, "Walk," co-written with foot and gait specialist Dr. Courtney Conley, and backed by over 300 research studies.

McDowell explains where t...

Will sat down with Minal and Brijraj from Spry live at APTA CSM to talk about the part of the physical therapy industry most clinicians never see: the technology quietly reshaping how clinics run.

Brijraj was the CTO of Ola, the ride-share company often called the Uber of India, at its $6 billion peak. He left that world to build Spry because the same problem kept showing up: people need to move, and mobility gives them purpose. Min...

In this episode, Neil breaks down a distinction most practice owners have never heard: PR, marketing, and sales are three different things, and they work like a pyramid. PR is the foundation, your reviews, your reputation, what people say about you when you're not in the room. Marketing sits in the middle, your ads, your website, your direct mail. Sales is the tip, and it starts at your front desk, not just with your therapists.

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Will sits down with Paul Cords, physical therapist, adjunct professor, and PRN clinical excellence rep, live at APTA CSM. The conversation centers on primary care physical therapy: the idea that PTs aren't just a referral stop after a doctor's visit. In states like Arizona, they can be the first call for a musculoskeletal emergency, ahead of the ER.

Paul and Will get into what's actually possible under current PT licensure (imaging ...

Servant leadership gets dismissed as a soft skill. Vanessa Labadie and Christina Pagel run operations for Metro, a pediatric therapy company with 500 employees across 18 locations, and they treat it as a process, not a feeling.

In this episode:

• What servant leadership actually means, and what it isn't
• Vanessa's "5% rule" for leading people through stress
• Why letting your team make decisions builds trust faster than any policy
• The re...

This episode is not a straight line success story. Lori built a business, sold it to a competitor who lied about their culture, walked away, lost her company during COVID, and started over with 89 employees in 2020. Five years later she has close to 500.

Will and Lori get into what actually holds a culture together at scale. Weekly virtual training with clinic directors. A mentor role built specifically to protect new grads from bur...

Recorded live at APTA CSM, this episode features JR Bonhomme, a recruiting leader at PRN Physical Therapy, a company operating across 275 locations in 17 states. JR pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to attract and keep great PTs in today's landscape, whether you are a student searching for your first job or an owner building a team that lasts.

Will and JR cover what students get wrong when researching employers, why m...

In this episode, Will sits down with Dan, Vice President of clinical services, live at APTA CSM to talk about the leadership philosophy that built something rare in private practice, a company where people actually want to stay, grow, and build a future.

Dan shares how losing his father at 26 shaped everything about how he leads. How a second grade teacher taught him the power of memorization and names. Why he gives the book "I Love...

Jarom Woodbury is a professional MMA fighter turned physical therapist, regional director at OSR Physical Therapy, and a father of three. In this episode he breaks down how he built a "Warrior Code," a set of seven family values lived out through weekly meetings, daily habits, and hard conversations.

Will and Jarom unpack the Point Story Lesson behind real values. The point: a value is not a word on a wall, it is what you do daily. ...

In this episode, Neil Trickett sits down with Will Humphreys, former physical therapist turned serial entrepreneur and founder of Virtual Rockstar, the fastest-growing virtual staffing partner for private healthcare practices in the U.S. Will shares the hard-won lessons from building and selling a five-location PT practice, why the front desk is really a sales position, and how Filipino virtual assistants are transforming clinic op...

In this episode of the Willpower Podcast, recorded live at the Growth Code Conference, Will sits down with Sarah Bootcheck, Account Manager and Speech Language Pathologist at Raintree, to talk about one of the most important shifts happening in rehab right now: artificial intelligence transforming the way therapy practices operate from the inside out.

Sarah brings a rare perspective to this conversation. She is both a clinician who ...

Eric Boles is a former NFL wide receiver turned executive coach, keynote speaker, and founder of The Game Changers Inc. In this episode, Will and Eric go deep on the real reason teams fail and it's not talent, motivation, or attitude. It's alignment, clarity, and the courage to have direct conversations.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What Mike Holmgren, Andy Reid, and Jon Gruden taught Eric about running an elite organization
• Why ...

What does the perfect business partnership look like? According to Kylee and Tara, it looks like two people who are complete opposites, in the most perfect way.

In this episode, Will sits down with the co-founders of Mind to Body Healing, one of Arizona's fastest-growing pelvic floor physical therapy practices. From a bold cold introduction at a student lecture to signing five-year leases together, Kylee and Tara have built somethin...

What does it actually look like to build a company culture so strong that your team shows up energized, aligned, and genuinely proud to be there every day?

In this episode of The Willpower Podcast, host Will Humphreys sits down live at Growth Code Miami with Haley Addis, founder and CEO of More to Say, a pediatric speech-language pathology clinic with 55+ team members. Haley shares the intentional systems, onboarding strategies, and...

In this special crossover episode, Will Humphreys jumps into the hot seat on Jamey Schrier’s Freedom by Design podcast. If you’ve ever felt like the bottleneck in your own business, this conversation is your wake-up call. Will and Jamey break down why most owners get stuck "optimizing" a broken model instead of "architecting" a scalable one.

Key Takeaways:

• The Architecture of Scale: Why doubling your business ...