Starting Over: After Moving Across the Country

After living in Seattle for the last 7 years, I packed up my stuff and decided to drive across the country to be closer to my family.

I had zero community and zero professional connections. Which was quite the stark difference of the incredible community of colleagues, mentors, and friends I had built around me in Seattle. 

I had to build from the ground up and start a second business from scratch. 

I wanted to offer a window into how I rebuilt my practice from the ground up.

I'm writing this specifically for the next generation of naturopathic doctors- students and recent graduates who are stepping into the profession and wondering what comes next and how to navigate the wide blue ocean of private practice. Over the past several years, several of you have reached out and asked to come to shadow me in practice. I didn’t think I was ready then to give advice in a way that would truly do you service then. 

But now, after several years of building a practice from the ground up, I finally feel ready to share some of the lessons I've learned with those of you who are dreaming of starting your own naturopathic medical practice.

The truth is, if I can do it, so can you. But hopefully you can do it even more efficiently than I did with these pointers.  

In this blog I plan on sharing the system I created for myself to follow that allowed me to tap into the local community, find my smallest viable audience, provide value, and grow my practice.