The Austin Cohen Podcast

Send us Fan Mail A buddy at Runningman added up the followers between me and the two guys I was sitting with and announced 2.405 million to the whole group, and then pointed out that about 5,000 of those were mine. Everybody died laughing, and I laughed right along with them, but that joke followed me all the way home and turned into something I haven't been able to shake since. In this episode I get honest about the comparison trap, and about how easy it still is to look at another practice'...

Send us Fan Mail I ran a growing practice for about ten years without knowing the single most important number in it. It was 18, that's where our patients were quietly walking away, and the information wasn't hidden from me... I just never went looking for it. In this episode I'm walking through the five retention numbers I'd pull if I were starting over, including net growth, care plan completion, your black hole number, PVA, and one nobody in our profession tracks that I'd argue predicts ev...

Send us Fan Mail A couple days ago I put up a post about quitting chiropractic in 2015, and it traveled further than anything I've shared in a while. So in this episode I'm unpacking what I actually meant by that, because I didn't stop adjusting and I didn't leave my patients... I quit playing it the way I'd been told to play it. Every room I was sitting in measured the same two things, weekly visits and then top line revenue, and celebrated how little sleep you were running on while you chas...

Send us Fan Mail Somewhere between 2022 and 2024 there was a long stretch where I'd wake up before my alarm and lie there in the dark thinking I'd built something bigger than I could carry, and I never said that out loud to anybody. From the outside everything looked like it was working, and that's exactly what made it so hard to talk about. In this one I get into what those two years actually felt like, why working harder never bought me anything, and the thing I got wrong about what was hea...

Send us Fan Mail On August 5th I was squatting 305. First rep of three, coming up — pop, pop, pop. Then I finished the workout. Box jumps, wall balls, dumbbell snatches. Because I wasn't in that much pain yet. Five days later the MRI showed disc extrusions at two levels with a motor deficit in my left quad. This episode is not a recovery story. I'm not recovered. It's what a few weeks of being the patient instead of the doctor has shown me about our profession. I talk about the morning I deci...