Thriving Practice with Tracy Cherpeski

What if burnout isn't really about overwork — and has more to do with being stuck at the wrong altitude? Join us for our upcoming Masterclass, Prevention Paradigm: Catching Burnout Before it Catches You. https://www.tracycherpeski.com/prevention-paradigm Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. In this solo episode, Tracy introduces the Altitude Shift: the skill of moving, on purpose, between zoomed-in execution and zoomed-out vision. It's the practice that sharpens your decisions, protects you from burnout, and keeps you connected to the reason you built your practice in the first place. You'll hear the story of Dr. M — a thriving solo practice owner who couldn't remember the last time she wasn't in firefighting mode. Tracy shares the two altitudes, why most bad decisions come from the wrong one, and a simple audit you can use before any significant choice. She also gets into the neuroscience of why slowing down isn't optional — and the daily practices she architects into her own life to keep the horizon in view. If you've been running on will power, feeling reactive, or sensing that you've lost the thread of what you're building — this episode is for you. Is your practice growth-ready? See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

With acquisition offers arriving, reimbursement cuts looming, and colleagues selling, a lot of practice owners are quietly asking: is staying independent even worth it? In this SNACK episode, Miranda Dorta sits down with Tracy Cherpeski to get her unfiltered take on that question. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Tracy shares her framework for helping practice owners separate burnout from a genuine readiness to sell—and why making a major life decision from a place of exhaustion or fear is never the right move. She talks about what independent ownership actually gives providers that a hospital employment contract can't, why cash reserves and a 12-month plan are non-negotiable right now, and what due diligence looks like if selling really is the right path. Tracy also opens up about the personal story behind her mission—her daughter's health journey and the independent provider who changed everything—that explains why this work is more than professional for her. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

What if the biggest obstacle to your health isn't time or willpower—but the fact that nobody ever taught you how to take care of yourself? In this episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Dr. Hannah Brandt, a doctor of physical therapy and founder of Physique Triage, who helps women in healthcare build sustainable fitness and nutrition habits without turning their lives upside down. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Dr. Hannah lost over 60 pounds herself—and discovered that even with a doctorate, she had to figure out healthy living the hard way. Now she helps other women in healthcare do it smarter. Her approach: find your gaps first. Assess your hydration, movement, and eating before changing anything—then make small, sustainable shifts that actually stick. In this episode, you'll hear why healthcare providers are conditioned to put themselves last, what a realistic first step really looks like, and why 'okay' and 'fine' are a lot closer to 'great' than most people realize. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

What separates a thriving private practice from one that's perpetually stuck? According to Paul Vigario, founder of SurfCT and strategist to over 12,000 healthcare practices worldwide, it comes down to two things: attention and compliance. Getting the right patients in the door, and building systems that keep them—without the owner burning out in the process. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment In this episode, Tracy sits down with Paul to unpack what branding really means for independent practice owners (hint: it's not your logo), why flat revenue is actually a loss, and how awareness—not intelligence—is the true driver of business success. Paul also shares the surprising lessons his wine vineyard taught him about patience, vision, and building something that grows on its own timeline. If you've been wondering why your practice isn't growing the way you imagined—or you're ready to stop being an operator for someone else's system—this episode is for you. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

If you make good revenue but still feel like there's never enough money in the practice, you're not broken—you're probably just missing financial clarity. In this SNACK episode, Tracy Cherpeski and Miranda Dorta get into one of the most common and least-discussed gaps in independent healthcare: the difference between having a great accountant and having a real financial strategy. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Tracy talks about why even accomplished practice owners avoid their numbers (it's not laziness—it's cultural, professional, and deeply human), what to look for when revenue looks fine but money is always tight, and why she sees money as a tool rather than a moral statement. You'll also hear about the newest offering from Tracy's team: fractional CFO support for practice owners who are ready to move from financial survival mode to strategic, forward-looking growth. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

Most practice owners know they need to market their practice—but far fewer know how to evaluate whether it's actually working. In this episode, Tracy sits down with Cameron LiButti, founder of Bidview Marketing, who brings an engineer's precision to healthcare practice marketing strategy. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Cameron shares how he uses local SEO data to assess competitive landscape before recommending any budget, why results realistically take 6–12 months (and what changes that timeline), and why your front desk team is a critical piece of your marketing success—not just your operations. He also covers the costly pattern of turning marketing on and off without giving it time to work, why rural and urban practices need entirely different strategies, and how newsletters consistently hit 50%+ open rates when they lead with relationship over promotion. If you've wondered whether your marketing dollars are doing anything—or where to even start—this is an episode worth your time. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

You were trained to put yourself last. Not explicitly—nobody handed you a brochure. It happened through culture, through modeling, through what got rewarded in medical school and residency and every clinical environment since. And by the time you opened your own practice, you were running yourself exactly the way the system trained you to: straight into depletion. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. In this solo episode, Tracy Cherpeski names what most providers already feel but rarely say out loud: the conditioning that made you extraordinary in the clinic may also be what's driving your burnout. She breaks down why early-stage burnout looks nearly identical to excellence, what it costs the practice when the leader is operating from last place, and what genuine sustainability actually looks like in a thriving independent practice. This isn't about working less. It's about leading smarter—treating your capacity as a real variable, building structures that don't require superhuman endurance, and finding the kind of community that actually getsit. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn

Perfectionism can feel like a strength—until it starts quietly costing you time, momentum, and peace of mind. In this SNACK episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Miranda Dorta to talk about one of the most persistent challenges for practice owner CEOs: knowing when good enough actually is good enough. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Tracy shares her 80% rule for getting things out the door, how the Time Leadership Quadrant helps clarify what belongs on your plate (and what doesn't), and why celebrating incremental progress is often more powerful than holding out for a perfect outcome. She also draws the line between high standards—which are non-negotiable—and perfectionism, which is really just rigidity in disguise. Plus, Tracy shares a real-time story from a current client opening a second practice location: how letting go of control and trusting her lead clinician created a launch so strong they were nearly fully booked before the doors even opened. If you've ever wrestled with handing something off, sitting with a decision too long, or holding your team to a standard that's more about fear than excellence—this one's for you. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

What if the most healing thing a healthcare provider can do has nothing to do with a diagnosis or a prescription? In this episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Dr. Fred Moss—a psychiatrist with 46 years in the mental health system who believes that human connection, not medication, is at the heart of all healing. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Dr. Fred is the founder of Welcome To Humanity, a coaching practice that helps people undiagnose, unmedicate, and step away from conventional mental health models that treat discomfort as pathology. He shares why he calls himself an “undoctor,” how diagnoses can become identity traps, and why discomfort is a feature of being human—not a sign that something is wrong with you. In this episode, you’ll hear about Dr. Fred’s journey from childhood communicator to psychiatric rebel, his work in prisons, orphanages, and homeless shelters, and why he believes anyone can practice the art of genuine healing through connection. Tracy shares a personal aha moment that will resonate with any provider who’s questioned the limits of conventional care. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page

If you opened your practice to help people heal but spend most of your day checking, correcting, and redoing your team’s work, this episode is for you. Tracy explores why this pattern isn’t a team problem—it’s a leadership identity problem rooted in your clinical training. The same precision and thoroughness that makes you an exceptional clinician can quietly erode your team’s confidence, initiative, and desire to stay when applied to every aspect of how you manage people. Is your practice growth-ready? See Where Your Practice Stands: Take our Practice Growth Readiness Assessment Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. In this solo episode, Tracy walks you through three practical shifts you can implement immediately to change how your team experiences you as a leader—without upending everything you’ve built. You’ll learn the critical difference between managing micro details that genuinely need your eyes and micromanaging the people you hired to be competent professionals. Plus, Tracy shares a powerful client story about a practice owner expanding to a second location and the coaching conversation that shifted everything. Whether you’re struggling with delegation, dealing with team turnover, or realizing that your clinical instincts might be holding your practice back from its next level of growth, this episode offers a clear, compassionate path forward. Read the full show notes, memorable quotes, and key takeaways. Connect With Us: Be a Guest on the Show Thriving Practice Community Schedule Strategy Session with Tracy Tracy’s LinkedIn Business LinkedIn Page