Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Therapists

A question that keeps coming up in Amanda's mastermind is whether it's easier to sell to other therapists than to sell directly to consumers. The short answer is no, and this episode is about why. She gets into why it only looks easier from the outside, what the algorithm is actually showing you when you scroll through Instagram, and what really determines whether any offer succeeds regardless of who you're selling to. She also makes the case that the differentiating factor in any market, B2B or B2C, is never the product itself. It's you, and whether you actually know your ideal client's pain points well enough to make them feel seen. Connect with Amanda: Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website Resources & Links: This episode is sponsored by: Alma - learn more here Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout Apply now for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income Therapist Scaling Intensive Workshop 1:1 Coaching with Amanda Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries! → Submit extra reviews here Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

Proof of concept is one of those phrases that gets thrown around a lot in business spaces without a lot of clarity on what it actually means or when you actually have it. Amanda gets into why most people misread their own data, what it actually means when a launch goes quiet, and why changing your price or restructuring your offer means you're running a completely new experiment, not a continuation of the last one. If you've ever had something work, then changed one thing and watched it stop working, and concluded the whole idea was dead, this episode is going to push back on that. Connect with Amanda: Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website Resources & Links: This episode is sponsored by: Alma - learn more here Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout Apply now for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries! → Submit extra reviews here Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.  

The advice to "charge your worth" is everywhere in therapist spaces, and Amanda has some real problems with it. Not because the intent is wrong, but because for most therapists with complex trauma and a complicated relationship with self-worth, it's not actually useful guidance. She makes the case for a different frame: charging what you need, and not just for right now. That means thinking beyond your current bills and debts and actually accounting for future you, including retirement, which most therapists are either ignoring or treating as a nice-to-have. She also gets personal about her own numbers, what her accountant told her about her projected 2026 tax liability, and why she finally started maxing out her retirement contributions this year. Connect with Amanda: Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website Resources & Links: This episode is sponsored by: Alma - learn more here Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout Apply now for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries! → Submit extra reviews here Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

Amanda gets into what time off actually looks like when you run two businesses, and why it looks nothing like the social media version of passive income and unplugging for weeks at a time. She breaks down how premium fees and a smaller caseload changed what taking time off even felt like, why she still chooses to take some calls while traveling, and how she thinks through which commitments to keep and which ones to move when she's out. If you've been telling yourself you can't take time off because you can't afford to stop seeing clients, this episode is worth a listen. Connect with Amanda: Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website Resources & Links: This episode is sponsored by: Alma - learn more here Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period Therapy Intensives Academy - use code HHWPOD250 as a podcast listener to get $250 off at checkout Apply now for the next round of the Happy, Healthy, & Wealthy Mastermind Free Training: 3 Steps to Booking Your First Therapy Intensive Free Guide: 3 Steps to Double Your Income Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries! → Submit extra reviews here Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.

At some point, if you add therapy intensives and they actually start working, you hit a decision point nobody prepares you for. Your intensive calendar is filling up, your weekly caseload is still full of people you genuinely care about, and a new consult request just landed in your inbox. What do you do? Amanda gets into the three separate decisions most therapists are trying to answer all at once, why a weekly wait list is not always the compassionate move it feels like, and how to know whether a hybrid practice is your actual destination or just a holding pattern you never examined. The through line in all of it: stop letting a full calendar make the decision for you. Connect with Amanda: Follow on Instagram: @amandakbcoaching Check out the Amanda KB Coaching website The Back-to-School sale for the Therapy Intensives Academy was just extended through 8/21! Join now to get $500 off and 6 months free inside the VIP Community and SEO for Therapists membership. Check it out here! This episode is sponsored by: Alma — learn more here Jane - use code: AMANDA2MO for a 2-month grace period Make sure to hit follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Love the show? Leave a review for a chance to win a free coaching session with me each month. Apple Podcasts only allows one official review, so if you want extra entries, use the form below. Comments on Spotify episodes also count as entries! → Submit extra reviews here Just a quick heads up, everything I share in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It's not legal advice, financial advice, or tax advice. Every practice and every state has its own rules. So if you're wondering how something applies to your situation, make sure to check in with an attorney, accountant, or another qualified professional who can give you guidance based on your specific circumstances.