On paper, I'm an OT since 2013 with a post-professional doctorate, a telehealth capstone, and a business that crossed its first million dollars last year. I replaced my full-time OT salary in one year. I have no business degree.
I didn't always have this figured out. I worked the evening hours nobody wanted. I stayed after work to finish documentation. I did max assist sessions alone. When my FMLA ran out during a complicated pregnancy, the hospital offered me a ten-dollar-an-hour job instead of my OT position. And for a long time I raised my girls mostly on my own while my husband worked away six months at a time. I tried to figure out business by myself with YouTube and podcasts, and I overthought everything.
Then I started a tiny telehealth practice, and OTs started emailing me asking what telehealth even was. I answered them. I wrote a book. I grew a Facebook group from zero to 10,000 OTs and taught Zoom classes to help clinics keep their doors open. Every bit of clarity I have came from doing, which is where the one belief I coach from comes from.
Since then I've retired my husband, moved my family to a new state, and started homeschooling our three girls. And I've helped OTs build coaching businesses in pediatric feeding, early intervention, acute care, postpartum, dementia, caregiver support, adaptive equipment, and more. Business to Boss is the process I take every one of them through.
