As 2025 winds down, it’s natural to reflect on how your practice is doing—and where you want it to go in the year ahead. If you've found yourself tweaking your brand colors (again), posting to Instagram without real direction, or wondering if a new website design will finally bring in clients, this episode is for you.
I’m introducing a powerful new metaphor: your private practice is a vehicle, and your marketing is the engine. The brand colors and website design? That’s just the paint job. What really drives client inquiries, consults, and bookings is your client conversion engine. I’ll walk you through what that engine includes, how to know which part might be stalling your progress, and the kind of long-term maintenance that creates a predictable, sustainable flow of right-fit clients.
This isn't about doing more—it's about doing the right things in the right order. Let’s get under the hood and make sure your engine is ready for 2026.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:
1️⃣ Why so many therapists stay stuck chasing “paint job” tasks—and what really needs your attention instead
2️⃣ The three essential components of a strong client conversion engine
3️⃣ What consistent, aligned visibility looks like in 2026—and how to fuel your marketing without burnout or busywork
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About Marketing Therapy
Marketing Therapy is the podcast where therapists learn how to market their private practices without burnout, self-doubt, or sleazy tactics. Hosted by Anna Walker—marketing coach, strategist, and founder of Walker Strategy Co—each episode brings you clear, grounded advice to help you attract the right-fit, full-fee clients and grow a practice you feel proud of.
Hey everyone.
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Welcome back to Marketing
Therapy, episode 43.
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We're nearing the end of the
year here, which is wild.
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I know they say as you get
older, years go faster.
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And so far I can confirm
that's exactly what happens.
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2025 has been the fastest year of my life.
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And it's also, of course, a natural
time for kind of reflection.
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Thinking about the year behind you,
thinking about the year ahead in this
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episode, I want to encourage you as
part of your year end practice here to
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look under the hood of your practice a
little bit and maybe start thinking about
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things just a little bit differently
as you take your practice into 2026.
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Now there's a really common cycle
that I see and that I hear in the
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clinicians that I talk to and the
conversations I get to have with y'all.
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And it's things like, I
changed my brand colors again.
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Yeah, I probably should get on Instagram.
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Sometimes we'll ask a question in
our Facebook group, something like,
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what is one marketing activity
you're focused on this week?
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And oftentimes it centers around social
media and getting more consistent there.
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Or maybe I need a new website design.
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It's these questions and these thoughts
and these cycles of needing to do more.
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I wanna introduce you to a metaphor here
that these things, the brand colors, the
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time on Instagram, the website design,
these are the paint job of your practice.
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They are not the engine.
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So in this episode, I want you to
think about your practice as a vehicle.
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So your practice is a vehicle.
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Your marketing is the engine that
actually makes that vehicle go.
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The real issue for many clinicians,
those who feel like they need to be
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spending more time on Instagram or
are weighing whether or not they need
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a website redesign, isn't actually
their visibility, their time on social
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media, the aesthetics of their website.
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It is more often than not the engine
under the hood that is missing or has
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weak components that is leading to
the lack of results in their practice.
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And so many clinicians focus on the
paint job and for whatever reason,
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whether not knowing or not being
willing, they don't ever lift up
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the hood and check out the engine.
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So today I wanna walk you
through the client journey.
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If you've been in my world for a while,
you might be able to state the stages
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with me, the three major components of
your engine, how to fuel that engine,
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and then the maintenance of that engine.
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And again, this is a new way of
thinking about your practice.
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To equip you as you move into 2026.
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So first and foremost, we have to get
really, really clear on the progression,
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the journey that your engine is
designed to move people through.
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Okay?
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So this is what we call
the client journey.
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There are three phases
of the client journey.
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The first is unaware.
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Your client has no idea you exist yet.
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They've never heard your name,
they've never seen your website.
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All they know is that they have an issue,
a challenge that they need support with.
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Sometimes they don't even fully
understand their own problem
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yet, so they are unaware of you.
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The next stage they move
to is aware, hooray.
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They've found you.
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They found your content somewhere.
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They heard your name, they
saw your Psych Today profile.
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They landed on your website.
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They're starting to understand their
situation a little bit differently
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and see you as a possible match.
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But just because someone knows you
exist as a therapist, does not mean
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they're gonna become your client.
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Wouldn't that be nice?
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No.
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In order for them to become a
paying client of yours, they
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have to move to the final stage
of the client journey, which is.
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Sure that is where they are.
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Sure.
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You are the therapist that they've
been looking for and they decide
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to proceed to work with you.
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I want you to imagine unaware, aware,
and Sure in a linear line, and then
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we're gonna put booked at the end.
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So they are a secured, converted client.
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Getting a client booked is the
result of a well functioning engine.
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It is not a separate marketing stage.
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It's the result of this journey
doing what it's supposed to do.
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Why do therapists get stuck so much?
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I hear from so many clinicians how
clarifying this idea of the journey is
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how much sense it makes to them, and
yet so many of them get stuck on it.
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Why?
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Often because people are trying
to get clients, they're trying
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to jump them straight from
unaware all the way to booked.
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They're expecting their marketing
to just do that unaware to booked.
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And so they rely on these really
random bursts of visibility,
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which they expect to not just help
someone become aware of them, but
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also sure, and then convert them.
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They believe that their prettier
website is automatically gonna create
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more clients without understanding.
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The prettier website plays a
function in the journey, but it
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is not itself propelling people
through all of these stages.
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So your client conversion engine,
what we're talking about in this
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episode is the entire system that
moves people from not knowing you at
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all, all the way to choosing you and
booking with you with confidence.
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It's a system.
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It's not a random act.
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It's not a brand color.
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It's not a posting on
social media, it's a system.
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And the way that clinicians have been
taught marketing, which for many isn't at
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all, leads them to think that it is single
activities, single disparate activities,
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instead of activities made in sequence
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instead of activities made
in a thoughtful sequence.
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One after another in order to build
that engine that can run on its own.
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So your client conversion engine, that's
what's under the hood of your vehicle.
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Okay?
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There are three parts to your
client conversion engine that
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I want to teach you about.
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And as part of this, I want you
to be thinking what part of your
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engine, what component of these
three needs the most support?
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Where has your engine not been
running as well as it could?
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Okay, so be thinking about
that as we go through these.
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So the first part of your
client conversion engine is
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what we call confident identity.
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Confident identity is knowing what you
do, who you do it for, and why you are
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the right therapist for the right client.
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It is one thing to know
you're good at what you do.
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To know the types of clients you enjoy,
it is another to be grounded firmly in
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what you do, who you do it for, and why
you are the right therapist for them.
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It's a next level of
clarity and confidence.
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This is deep, deep clarity about
what you do, who you do it for, and
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why you're the right therapist for
some clients and not for others.
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And it's getting comfortable with that.
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It's embracing it, it's
letting that come through.
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When your confident identity is
strong, you know what to say.
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When people ask about your niche,
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you can confidently say
no to poor fit clients.
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Even when you've got a spot on
your caseload, you can say no if
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they're not the best fit for you.
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You stop wasting time wondering how you're
different from the anxiety therapist
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you share an office space with, or the
other person that serves women or the
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other expert in OCD because you know,
you bring something special to the table.
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Is that true of you right now?
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Do you know those things?
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Do you know what to say when
people ask about your niche?
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Can you confidently say
no to poor fit clients?
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Do you know what makes you different?
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Because there are more therapists
out there, there are more choices
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available to your clients than ever.
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Do you know?
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What sets you apart now, when your
confident identity is strong, when
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this component of your engine is not
functioning the way it needs to, you
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are constantly second guessing yourself.
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You're second guessing how you
show up, what you say, what
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you do, what you don't do.
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You're attracting poor fit inquiries.
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So people are coming to you,
but they are not the people that
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you are best equipped to serve.
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They're not the people that , fill
your cup and make you excited to
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come to work or you get no inquiries
and you sit around wondering why.
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When you're confident identity is weak,
you often spend more time doubting
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yourself than stepping into and
embracing the clinician you already are.
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This is a tough spot to be in and I
think it's a place more therapists find
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themselves in than might admit to it.
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Are you spending more time doubting
yourself than stepping into the
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incredible clinician You already are.
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You sitting here listening right
now, you have the ability to help
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your clients change their lives.
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That is no big deal, and there is
something you bring to the room that is
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special and that makes those right fit
clients say, I'm so glad I found you.
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Are you spending more time second
guessing yourself than stepping into that?
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I don't care how many years you've been in
practice, I don't care what you're trained
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in or what you say you specialize in.
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That is something, are you embracing that?
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So this first piece of your client
conversion engine, confident identity.
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It's like the ignition system.
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Like if this isn't strong, the
engine's not even gonna turn over.
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We gotta have this in
place for the rest to work.
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Okay, next up is confident presence.
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This is the second
component of your engine.
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This is how your marketing shows
up in the world and how effectively
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it invites clients into action.
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So this is how you present
yourself to the world.
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It is the part of the engine where
you're putting something out into the
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world that reflects the quality of
your work, not just checking a box,
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but that actually represents the depth
and the power of the work that you do.
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This includes your website, your
psych today profile, your marketing
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materials, your social media, however
you're putting yourself out there.
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When your confident presence is
strong, when this component is
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doing its job, people come to
your website and take action.
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They do what you ask them to do.
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They say things like, I read your website
and I knew you were the therapist for
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me, you probably experience less price
resistance because again, what you're
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putting out there reflects the quality
of your work and when what you put out
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there reflects the quality of your work.
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Your perceived value in the eyes of
your clients automatically goes up.
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It's not that you're a better
clinician, but the way that you are
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being perceived is different, and
therefore less price resistance.
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Often consults also feel easier
because your marketing has
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already pre-qualified people.
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Your marketing has already attracted
the right fit clients and blessed
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and released those who are not the
right fit, and what a beautiful thing.
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When your confident presence is
weak, you often have little traffic
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or traffic that doesn't convert.
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You have a website, but it
doesn't feel like that website
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is really doing anything.
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There's nothing to measure.
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Consults often feel misaligned.
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You get on a consult call and
they ask if you do couples therapy
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when nowhere on your website did
you talk about couples therapy?
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Nothing more frustrating than that, right?
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Or you're feeling like you have
to land the entire plane of
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your practice during every call.
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Every consult you feel this weight
of needing to communicate what it is
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that you do, who you're a good fit
for, what your approach is, really
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connect with the client like you're
having to do all of this on the call.
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And so every consult feels like this
massive undertaking as opposed to this
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extension of an understanding that people
already gained from your marketing.
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Can you see the difference there?
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So what's true of you right now, this
confident presence as you go into 2026?
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Are people coming to your
website and taking action?
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Are they telling you.
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That it's resonating with them.
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I read your profile and I saw this on
social media, and are you having to talk
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about fees and justify them and bring
them down to a sliding scale over and
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over and over again more than you'd like?
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Do your consults feel clunky or do they
feel smooth because people are already
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showing up with an understanding of
what it is that you do and how you work?
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That will point you to whether or
not this confident presence component
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of your engine is doing its job.
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Your confident presence is
kind of like the engine block.
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I don't know if you're into vehicles.
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I'm not really, but I have learned
more than I care to know because my
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husband loves them, which is great
when the car needs an oil change.
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But the engine block is really
the structure that, in this
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metaphor, we can say, creates trust
and momentum in your practice.
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So check in with yourself.
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How is that confident presence doing?
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Is that a component that
needs your attention?
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And then finally, confident connection.
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That's the final component of your engine.
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Confident connection is consistent,
aligned, and genuine visibility that
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is fueling your results over time.
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It's where you are actively and
confidently putting yourself out there.
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So the presence is what exists for
people to consume, right, to run across,
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to land on confident Connection is you
putting that out there, making that
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available, helping people become aware.
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Okay.
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That unaware to aware
phase of the journey.
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Confident connection is the
ongoing part of marketing.
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It is the lifetime habit.
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As a business owner you must engage in.
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It is not a one-time push.
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It is not a check the box or
set it in, forget it situation.
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It is the ongoing engagement that
is required of today's therapist to
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attract right fit, full fee clients.
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And I only say that because I
have been observing that shift.
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Especially since the pandemic
toward the need to be regularly
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engaged with your marketing.
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When your confident connection is
strong, marketing feels like connection.
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Is marketing your practice always gonna
be your 100% favorite thing to do?
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I hope not.
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I hope that serving your clients and
doing therapy is what remains your
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number one favorite thing to do, but
it does feel like a natural element of.
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Business ownership.
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It feels like connection
with the right fit clients.
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It feels like an outpouring of what you
know you do well and who you do it with.
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That confident identity piece.
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When your confident connection is
strong, you also know what works and
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so you can trust that the effort you're
putting in is going to turn into results.
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It's not that hair on fire throwing
spaghetti at the wall hoping
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something sticks a situation.
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It's when I do A plus B, I usually get C,
and so I know that if I invest in A and
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B, I'll probably get what I need here.
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It's turning levers in your marketing as
opposed to always starting something new.
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When your confident connection is strong,
you also are taking consistent action
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in a way that doesn't deplete you.
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And I wanna be clear about that
marketing might not be your
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favorite thing in the world.
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It can be done in a way that doesn't
absolutely, positively drain you.
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That's the beautiful thing.
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You can choose not to be on
social media one little bit.
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You get to decide what this
looks like on an ongoing basis.
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It's just a matter of doing it, committing
to it, and recognizing that that is part
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of what it takes to be successful today.
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And when your confident connection
is strong, it feels aligned with
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what you are naturally good at.
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That's the cool thing.
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Your marketing can actually be
an extension of you, of you and
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your personality and your energy,
and how you prefer to show up.
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When your confident connection is weak,
and I wonder how many of you listening
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right now can resonate with this?
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Marketing feels like a grind.
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It feels like pulling teeth.
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It feels like something you gotta do.
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The number of times I've heard
the exact quote, I hate marketing.
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I mean, I wish I could calculate them
over the last six and a half years.
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Marketing feels like burnout
and dread and avoidance.
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And worst of all, you're probably still
doing it because you're a good clinician
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who wants to be successful, but you're
spinning your wheels, you're seeing
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minimal return, and it's discouraging.
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That can point you to the fact
that your confident connection
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might be the weak point.
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Confident connection is like
your fuel system, so it's
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what keeps the engine running.
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You and I both know that without
fuel, the car doesn't move, right?
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So this is what brings
fuel into the engine.
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We're not gonna go anywhere
without this piece.
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Now it's the fueling of the engine.
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Like I said, that is the ongoing
work of growing a private practice.
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So maybe you're sitting here and
you're realizing my confident
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identity is not where it needs to be.
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My confident presence is
not doing what it should.
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Once you have that client
conversion engine built.
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Then it comes time to fuel it.
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That's the ongoing work
of being a business owner.
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But I see a lot of clinicians falling
into what I'm calling a dopamine
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trap, and when I look at the most
successful therapist that I know.
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I got a voice message from a
friend of mine, client turned
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friend, who just raised her rates
to $400 a session, was terrified
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to do it, and is now doing great.
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Just booked an intensive at
her new rate, has had multiple
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inquiries since making the shift.
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You know, when I think of clinicians
like her, and I know a lot of them,
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they're doing a lot of unsexy work.
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Like if you ask them, what are you
doing day in and day out to grow
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your practice, it's not flashy.
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It's not the paint job stuff, but
I see so many therapists chasing
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dopamine hits in their marketing.
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I think because they've told
themselves they hate it, and so
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they're seeking the things that feel
good, even for just a fleeting moment.
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I'm talking things like chasing
likes or comments or numbers of
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follows or rebranding or changing
the color of their buttons on
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their homepage for the sixth time.
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This feels like you're doing something.
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But it's not actually
turning into anything.
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Is it, these tasks feel good, but are
they moving clients along the journey?
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Are those things moving people from
unaware to aware or from aware to?
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Sure.
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Not really.
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And so as much as I would like to
present marketing as the super, super
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fun, amazing thing you get to do, and
obviously as someone who specializes
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in marketing, I do actually think
that, but much of what it takes to be
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successful right now is building that
solid engine and then committing to
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the work that maybe doesn't feel as
exciting, but that does fuel the engine.
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That does get you somewhere.
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Okay.
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What actually fuels an engine right now?
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What actually moves practices forward?
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Consistent visibility, not
constant, but consistent visibility.
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Recognizing in order for more
people to become unaware to
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aware, they got a know I exist.
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So taking action on a regular basis to
grow visibility and awareness regularly,
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reminding people who you help and how.
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Weaving that into conversation, not being
afraid to talk about the work that you do.
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Putting yourself out there, staying
present in your chosen marketing channels.
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Like I said earlier, you get to choose.
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This is not a one size fits all.
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Must follow this plan situation.
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Your chosen channel might be Google.
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So you stay committed, you pour in
budget, you optimize, you get results.
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Your chosen channel might be blogging.
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Your chosen channel might be speaking
or podcasting or social media or
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networking, but you choose a channel or
two and then you stay committed to it.
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You don't jump between.
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You stay present, you stay committed.
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You recognize, again, if I'm
gonna create that A plus B equals
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C situation, I've gotta lock in.
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Again, not as flashy, not
as sexy actually works.
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Sharing the same message in multiple ways.
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You are gonna feel like in your
marketing, you're saying the same
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thing over and over and over again.
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Guess what?
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That's a good thing.
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Repetition is needed.
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I mean, if you've been around in my world
for a while, how many times have you
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heard me talk about the client journey?
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Because it bears repeating it's useful.
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And reinforcement in your marketing
actually is the thing that builds trust.
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So it's being willing to say
the same thing in multiple ways
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over time, over and over, and
building that awareness steadily.
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Not in these bursts.
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These, oh, I'm feeling good this
week, so I'm gonna focus on this.
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And then completely ghosting your
marketing for the next three.
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Taking consistent action.
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Because the thing is, and I've
seen this happen, unfortunately,
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you can build a perfect engine.
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You can check all the boxes.
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You can have the confident identity
you can have the confident presence.
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You can even have the confident
connection, the ability
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to put yourself out there.
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But if you're never actually
fueling it, it's not going anywhere.
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It's like the pretty website.
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You invested thousands of dollars in
that get zero traffic and zero results.
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Remember, fueling doesn't require being
on all the time, but it does require
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being findable and visible and consistent.
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So I really here wanna normalize
long game thinking in your practice.
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We are headed into 2026.
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An entire year is
stretching out ahead of us.
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I want to encourage you to think
about the long game maintenance.
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Of this engine.
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That is what creates predictability,
maintenance of your fueling process.
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That's what creates predictability.
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Keep track of where your
inquiries come from.
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We recently talked about using that data.
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I'll link it in the show notes.
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Keep track of where those
people are finding you.
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Adjust your specialties based on demand.
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Look at trends.
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Pay attention to what's working.
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Take regular action and build, but allows
you to show up consistently because like
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I said, the most successful therapists
aren't doing the flashy stuff right now.
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They're doing the maintenance.
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They're just keeping the engine running.
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Not flashy, but holy
cow, is it productive?
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When I see practices struggling, when
I get on phone calls with clinicians
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who are deeply discouraged, I so
understand them and I see that
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the, it's not a lack of brilliance.
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It's not a lack of ability.
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It's not even a lack of interest.
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It's just a lack of this maintenance.
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It's a lack of building the engine and
then making sure that it's running well.
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Something in that system is broken.
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And if we can identify
what is broken, guess what?
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It can start to run and as someone who
again talks to hundreds of therapists per
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year in a one-on-one setting, I know that
this can feel like an oversimplification
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that you're sitting here saying,
well, yeah, Anna, but what about this
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or, I'm different because of this.
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And really like when I look at.
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The hundreds, thousands now of clinicians
that we've supported the breakdown, the
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challenge, it's somewhere in this system.
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If we can troubleshoot, we can fix.
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When your client conversion engine
and this system is strong, that's
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when you get those easier consults.
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Not feeling like you gotta land the
plane, but getting on the phone with
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people who are literally ready to
book their first appointment with you.
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Who already know you're the therapist.
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They've been looking for
better fit referrals.
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That's one of my favorite wins
to hear from our Confident Copy
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students and our done for you clients
is not necessarily more clients,
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although I love that volume in and
of itself is not always great, right?
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We want volume from people that
are actually right for them.
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So to get on phone calls, to get emails
from people who make you excited to do
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your work, like that's the best feeling.
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Predictability in your
inquiries and in your marketing.
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Again, treating marketing like
levers, you can pull right dials.
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You can dial up and down because
you know that they're going to work.
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That's what creates true safety and
sustainability that allows you to
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rest in the business that you've
built and enjoy the rest of the
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life that it's allowing for you.
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Confidence around your fees,
especially that confident identity
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piece, that first component of your
engine man, when you know that.
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Yeah, you charge what you're worth
and you stand firm in it, and then
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that confidence grows as your presence
grows and your connection grows.
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That freedom to say no that I
mentioned, I heard from a clinician
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who said, I can't believe.
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I used to feel like I had to
say yes to everyone, like how
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liberating it's been to say, I don't
think I'm the best fit for you.
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Here are some referrals, so liberating.
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A marketing system, right?
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A website that works for you, that
doesn't just sit there and you wonder
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if it's working, but there are actual
tangible results that are coming from
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that website and from that marketing.
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You're not just wondering.
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I hope you can see here that
when your engine is working.
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Everything else about your
marketing becomes easier.
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The visibility, the consults,
the pricing, the boundaries
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you hold, the long-term growth.
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If the engine's functioning,
we can build on that.
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So I'm curious, as you sit here and
you're ending 2025, maybe you're
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ending 2025 as this being your
first year in private practice.
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If so, congratulations.
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Maybe you're preparing to
launch, maybe 20, 26 is the year.
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Maybe you're 10 years in and
you're ready to take it up a notch.
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What's showing up for you here?
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What part of your engine needs support?
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Where on the client journey?
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Unaware, aware?
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Sure.
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All the way to booked.
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Where do you need to be
giving it some attention.
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What is your marketing
not doing for you yet?
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And how can we diagnose the issue?
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If you're realizing that it's that client
conversion engine, it's that core system
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under the hood that needs some support.
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That's exactly what we build in
Confident Copy, the confident
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identity, the confident presence,
the confident connection, what
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you do next in your marketing.
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That's where we help clinicians
build this end to end.
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Everything comes together in
confident copy, in a repeatable
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system that you learn, that you
get to get your hands dirty with,
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but that you don't do by yourself.
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Confident copy comes with live coaching
and feedback and a proven system.
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The truest up-to-date strategies
I can give you right now for what
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I'm seeing work in this market.
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Confident Copy has been around for
over four years and the curriculum has
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evolved as all good programs should, but
it has changed with the market because.
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Marketing four years ago in
2021 is different than now.
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And so it's the program where you know
that you're getting access to exactly
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what's working today, and then real
time support and community and feedback
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to help you implement it in your own
specific niche, in your own specific area,
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in your own specific stage of practice
if you want for 2026, a full practice
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that feels grounded and predictable.
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This is the container
to build that engine.
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Now twice every year I reopen
confident copy at a reduced price and
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with some incredible extra bonuses.
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We always do one in January
to kick off the new year.
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So that means that our next
one is coming next month.
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And this podcast episode is
literally the first place that you.
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Are hearing about our wait list.
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So if you are someone who knows you're
an action taker, who knows you wanna
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make 2026 the year that you hit your
goals for your practice, whether you
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are just launching a year in or 10
years in, go head over to the wait
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list walker strategy code.com/waitlist.
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By doing so, you secure early access to
all of the bonuses and the curriculum
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as well as an extra discount on top
of what we're offering publicly.
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The way that I have seen
Confident Copy transform people's
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practices this year has been wild.
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And again, we're in a different market
than in 20 21, 20 22, and 2023 for sure.
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But what's happening today and what's
needed today is different than it's
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ever been, and in Confident Copy.
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It is my absolute joy to equip you
with that and to watch as you put
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it into action, and as you start to
build a system that actually works
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for you, not just now, not just next
year, but through the life of your
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practice, that's what I want for you.
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So like I said, if you're interested,
if you know you're an action taker,
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head over and join the wait list.
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There is no obligation, but
it does secure you that early
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access and the extra discount.
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No reason not to join walker
strategy co.com/waitlist.
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All right, y'all have a wonderful week.
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I hope this one was helpful for you
and I'll see you in our next episode.