
The EntreMD Podcast · 2026-06-29 · 28 min
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Dr. Una examines why intelligent physicians with clear knowledge of effective business strategies still feel stuck in their practice growth, often mid-year after initial enthusiasm fades. Drawing on observations from her private practice summit and entrepreneurial business school, she identifies that the barrier isn't knowledge - these doctors have read the books, hired coaches, and have written plans - but rather psychological obstacles preventing implementation. She highlights three core reasons: (1) allowing an undefined past to run the business, where circumstances get reframed as failure stories rather than data points for learning; (2) protecting oneself from disappointment by avoiding high-impact activities like YouTube channels, referral building, and ambitious revenue goals; and (3) a third factor introduced but not fully detailed in this segment. The episode speaks directly to physician entrepreneurs at any stage - those starting practices, scaling teams, or pursuing seven-figure growth - offering tactical mindset shifts that Dr. Una claims can produce transformation within 60 days, illustrated through real examples of doctors who've hired clinicians, eliminated mental load, built revenue-generating teams, and stepped into authentic leadership identities.
The barrier isn't knowledge but psychology. According to Dr. Una, smart doctors possess the information and plans needed but are held back by three core obstacles: allowing an undefined past to paralyze them with shame-based narratives, protecting themselves from disappointment by avoiding high-impact activities, and one additional factor she introduces in the episode.
When circumstances like missing a revenue target happen, the undisciplined mind creates negative stories (e.g., 'I can't make $100,000') rather than treating the past as neutral data. Dr. Una advises reframing the same outcome - bringing in $75,000 instead of $100,000 - as progress and a lesson, not as failure.
Dr. Una doesn't fully detail the solution in this segment, but she identifies specific examples: doctors avoid starting YouTube channels due to fear of negative comments or low views, skip referral-building despite knowing it's a seven-figure strategy, and don't set ambitious goals to avoid feeling like a failure - all of which leave significant revenue on the table.
One doctor went from being afraid of business and saying 'I'm not an entrepreneur' to showing up as a boss within 60 days. She hired great employees, negotiated tough vendor deals, and saw revenue and practice transformation - all because of simple mindset shifts Dr. Una teaches.
The past itself is just a set of neutral circumstances you don't control. What you do control is the meaning and story you assign to those circumstances - you can choose to see $75,000 in revenue as failure or as progress, depending on the narrative you curate.
Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.
The episode delivers three generic mindset frameworks - reframe your past, stop protecting yourself from disappointment, upgrade your identity - that are standard fare in business coaching. The 28 minutes are padded with motivational cheerleading, program promotion, and rhetorical repetition, yielding very little that a B2B operator wouldn't already know from self-help books.
your past is not a story, it's a set of circumstances
failed projects, not me being a failure, I don't fail. Failed projects are kind of part of the game
All three frameworks are well-worn territory in business coaching and personal development (cognitive reframing, fear of failure, identity-first growth). The physician-specific veneer adds cosmetic novelty but no contrarian, first-principles, or counterintuitive thinking surfaces anywhere in the episode.
you don't accidentally go uphill
I am not a failure for trying to move forward. I may have failed projects that is very different.
It is a solo episode with the host, Dr. Una, who is a real physician entrepreneur running a multi-year coaching program - giving her genuine practitioner standing. However, she never demonstrates deep operational expertise in the episode itself, and there are no guests to elevate the conversation.
we've been delivering for seven years
she's running this phenomenal cash-based surgical practice
The episode relies heavily on unnamed, vague anecdotes ('a doctor hired a clinician,' 'a doctor had tough negotiations with vendors') and a single hypothetical revenue example. Named specifics are rare and shallow, with no real metrics, timelines, or dollar figures beyond illustrative hypotheticals.
You wanted to bring in $100,000, you brought in $75,000
She had tough negotiations with vendors who, if I told you who they were, you're like, what? You don't negotiate with those people.
This is an uninterrupted solo monologue; there are no guests to question, push back on, or follow up with. The host poses only rhetorical questions to an imagined listener, and no claim goes challenged or tested at any point in the episode.
Okay, now if this were a live session, I'll say if you got it, type in the chat, I got it.
So, what do I want you to do?
Computed from the transcript - who did the talking, and the words that came up most.
Send us Fan Mail Most physicians are not stuck because they don’t know what to do. They have read the books, made the plans, gotten the coaching, and still find themselves struggling to execute. In this episode, Dr. Una shows why the real issue is often not knowledge, but the stories doctors are carrying from the past, the fear of disappointment, and the identity they have not yet upgraded. Dr. Una shows physicians how to redefine failure, stop protecting themselves from disappointment, and intentionally become the kind of leader who can build a thriving business. This episode is a powerful reset for the doctor who is ready to stop circling, take ownership, and create the dream business and dream life they know is possible. Tune in! Additional Resources: Learn more about my 12-month program . Interested in 1-on-1 coaching? Apply here . Grab a copy of the "The 7-Figure Physician CEO" book. When you are ready to work with us, here are three ways: The Profitable Private Practice Movement - If you want to build a thriving private practice that serves a lot of patients, while creating time and financial freedom for you, come join us here.
Transcribed and scored by The B2B Podcast Index.
1 - > SPEAKER_00: What you have control over is what you make 2 - > those circumstances mean. 3 - > You may say it's positive, it's negative, but really it's 4 - > neutral. 5 - > It just is. 6 - > Hi dogs.
7 - > Welcome to the OnTraMD Podcast, where it's all about helping 8 - > amazing physicians just like you embrace entrepreneurship so you 9 - > can have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on 10 - > your terms. 11 - > I'm your host, Dr. 12 - > Imna. 13 - > Well, hello, hello, my friend.
14 - > Welcome back to another episode of the Entre MD Podcast. 15 - > I am super pumped we get to have this conversation today. 16 - > And that is because I am so um intimately aware of how 17 - > radically we can change when we have access to the right 18 - > strategies, the right mindset shifts, and all of that. 19 - > I just had a fun conversation with the doctors who came to the 20 - > private practice summit that we hosted about a month ago at this 21 - > point.
22 - > And it was just a it was a reunion. 23 - > It was a fun meeting to get together, meet everyone again, 24 - > hear, you know, the things they're doing and the results 25 - > they're creating. 26 - > And if if I tell you I was blown away, I am that is an 27 - > understatement of understatements. 28 - > These doctors are radically changing their lives and their 29 - > businesses.
30 - > We're talking doctors who have hired, you know, hired and hired 31 - > a new uh clinician in their practice, hired new medical 32 - > assistants, getting their time back. 33 - > One doctor told me the I've gotten rid of the mental load, 34 - > right? 35 - > I got rid of the mental load. 36 - > I can I can really rest, I can take time off, I can have more 37 - > impact.
38 - > Another doctor has talked about having difficult conversations 39 - > with her team members. 40 - > And now her team members are all revenue generators. 41 - > So they're serving and earning. 42 - > They have revenue targets that they're chasing after and 43 - > they're coming up with ideas and all of this.
44 - > We had another doctor who, you know, really just walked into 45 - > this boss identity and is transforming her whole business. 46 - > I was like, oh my goodness, who are you? 47 - > And what did you do with this doctor? 48 - > Right.
49 - > And and and, you know, is the revenue changes to match and all 50 - > of that. 51 - > It was just a thing of beauty to see. 52 - > And it gives me so much hope because this is what I've always 53 - > known about physicians. 54 - > You're a physician, you're listening to this, you're 55 - > watching this, you're amazing.
56 - > And you have the ability to change and you have the ability 57 - > to transform and you are not stuck. 58 - > And yes, they say all these things about, you know, all 59 - > these challenges out here, but you are tough. 60 - > You can overcome challenges. 61 - > And I don't mean in a hustly way where you don't have a life.
62 - > I mean in a way where you can build your dream business and 63 - > you can build your dream life, you can decide the future you 64 - > want to have, curate it and walk into it. 65 - > So I'm it's just, you know, it's so exciting for me. 66 - > But at the time of this recording, we are at the end of 67 - > June, which means we're at the end of the second quarter of the 68 - > year, um, end of the second of the first half of the year. 69 - > And by this time, most people, not you, are completely, you 70 - > know, like disillusioned, if you will.
71 - > I came into this year thinking, oh my goodness, I will, you 72 - > know, throw away the last year. 73 - > Here's a new year, this new year is going to be amazing, and all 74 - > of that. 75 - > And a lot of times at this point, people feel stuck because 76 - > it didn't turn out to be what they thought it was going to be. 77 - > And, you know, it and it's particularly challenging when 78 - > you think about a smart physician, you know what to do, 79 - > you know what will give you the result, and you still feel 80 - > stuck.
81 - > Okay. 82 - > And you, you know, so you've read the books, you've been 83 - > coached, you have a written plan, you have all of this 84 - > stuff. 85 - > And so clearly it's not, it's not knowledge, right? 86 - > And you're like, I'm able to take great care care of 87 - > patients, I'm able to do all this stuff, but in a business, 88 - > it looks like I'm not sure what's happening here.
89 - > I'm I'm trying, but it's like I'm knocking my head against the 90 - > wall. 91 - > And that's whether you're starting, that's whether you're 92 - > growing, whether you're scaling, whether you're having these new 93 - > team members to bring on, whether you have this big 94 - > opportunity in front of you, whatever it is. 95 - > Today on this video, I am going to show you how to break through 96 - > the quote-unquote stuckness and start making progress. 97 - > I'm going to show you some of the things that I find are 98 - > getting in the way of physicians the most.
99 - > Okay. 100 - > And again, once you figure this out, everything changes for you. 101 - > Again, I was talking to one of the doctors of the 102 - > entrepreneurial business school, and she, you know, she was 103 - > sharing the transformation that she's made. 104 - > And she's like, it's for her, it's about 60 days, right?
105 - > And she is so blown away. 106 - > She has gone from being afraid of business, saying I'm not an 107 - > entrepreneur, saying I just want to take care of patients, even 108 - > though she had a private practice, to being something who 109 - > is show somebody who is showing up like the boss. 110 - > She just hired a great employee, right? 111 - > She had tough negotiations with vendors who, if I told you who 112 - > they were, you're like, what?
113 - > You don't negotiate with those people. 114 - > But oh yes, she did, right? 115 - > And like all of these things happening, revenue is different, 116 - > practice is transforming, and it's all because of some simple 117 - > shifts that she made. 118 - > So we're gonna talk about some of those today.
119 - > Okay. 120 - > So I'm gonna show you three reasons why smart doctors stay 121 - > stuck even when they know what to do. 122 - > Okay. 123 - > I'm gonna show you three of those reasons, and I'm gonna 124 - > show you how to fix them.
125 - > Okay. 126 - > And the first one is probably the most important, and that is 127 - > that a lot of times um the undefined past is still running 128 - > the show. 129 - > Okay, the undefined past is still running the show. 130 - > What does this look like?
131 - > This looks like, you know, I had a quarter where I wanted to 132 - > bring in$100,000 in revenue and I brought$75,000. 133 - > And we look at that and interpret it as a problem. 134 - > Okay. 135 - > So we're like, this is a problem.
136 - > I am$25,000 short, and then we start creating stories. 137 - > I'm not the kind of person who can make$100,000, you know, 138 - > like, you know, some people feel shame around it. 139 - > I wasn't able to hit my goals and all of those things. 140 - > And so we walk into the new quarter or the new season, the 141 - > new year, the new week, whatever that is, we walk into it 142 - > thinking there's a problem.
143 - > We walk into it ashamed of the mistakes or the failures that we 144 - > had. 145 - > And if there is almost nothing that is as crippling and as 146 - > paralyzing as that, right? 147 - > So we have this past and we just made up a story to make it 148 - > terrible. 149 - > And we're just like, this is the way our lives are, this is the 150 - > way our businesses are.
151 - > It just is what it is. 152 - > So we didn't hit a revenue target, or we had a really good 153 - > employee that left, and maybe they told us some choice words 154 - > before they left, or maybe there was a you know vertical you 155 - > wanted to bring in, and then that didn't work. 156 - > And maybe you want whatever that is, you got this one-star 157 - > review, all of these things, all of this undefined past, we let 158 - > it in, it just keeps continuing. 159 - > It's like baggage, it's like trying to run a hundred meters 160 - > when you have 50 pounds on your back.
161 - > Okay. 162 - > So what can we do instead of approaching it this way? 163 - > I want you to think of this this way. 164 - > Your past is not a story.
165 - > Your past is just a set of circumstances. 166 - > Okay, that you don't have control. 167 - > It's a set of circumstances. 168 - > What you have control over is what you make those 169 - > circumstances mean.
170 - > It is it is the story that you weave. 171 - > Remember, your past is not a story, it's a set of 172 - > circumstances. 173 - > And it you you may say it's positive, it's negative, but 174 - > really it's neutral. 175 - > It just is.
176 - > The past just is. 177 - > The question is, what does that then mean? 178 - > Okay, so let me let me pull up a few examples. 179 - > You wanted to bring in$100,000, you brought in$75,000.
180 - > Okay, crime a river. 181 - > A year for a year ago, you were bringing in 20. 182 - > Five years ago, you didn't even know you'd be an entrepreneur. 183 - > And so you can choose to see it as okay, I wanted to bring in 184 - > 100, I didn't bring in 100, I brought in 75.
185 - > This is amazing. 186 - > Like that's a story, and it's a story as it's a story, the story 187 - > of, you know, oh my goodness, we we can't hit 100,000. 188 - > We tried and we failed. 189 - > That's also a story.
190 - > Now, what story paralyzes you and what story inspires you, 191 - > right? 192 - > And so if it were me, I'm like, oh, what 75? 193 - > This is amazing, even though I went after 100 with all my 194 - > heart. 195 - > Now, I'm not only going to take that, I'm also going to say, 196 - > okay, what is the lesson here?
197 - > The lesson here is if you want to, so let's say maybe it was 198 - > me, I said this go for 100 and I ended up with 75. 199 - > But when I look at it critically, I use the same 200 - > strategies for 75, the same strategies at the same speed and 201 - > volume I used for 70, um, you know, it's for 75 for I had used 202 - > in the past on my way to 100. 203 - > And so, of course, it didn't work. 204 - > So now I have a story that is actually the win.
205 - > Like, oh my goodness, look at that. 206 - > We've never made 75 before, but we made 75. 207 - > And um, yes, when you want to experience a different result, 208 - > you're gonna have to do something different. 209 - > It may be a different strategy or a different volume or 210 - > different speed or applied at a higher level, like so maybe 211 - > targeting higher level people, whatever that is.
212 - > But if I do things the same, I'm gonna get the same result. 213 - > And so this past, instead of being a past, a story of 214 - > failure, is a story of progress and a powerful lesson. 215 - > Okay, now if this were a live session, I'll say if you got it, 216 - > type in the chat, I got it. 217 - > But if you got it, I want you to send me a DM and say, Oh my 218 - > goodness, Dr.
219 - > Una, the thing about the undefined past, thank you for 220 - > sharing that. 221 - > Like I got it now. 222 - > I've allowed my past to stop me, but now I understand exactly 223 - > what to do. 224 - > Okay.
225 - > Okay, so that's the first thing. 226 - > We cannot let and we cannot let the undefined past, you know, um 227 - > um control the show, run the show. 228 - > And the reason why I'm saying undefined is because left to 229 - > itself, your undisciplined mind will come up with a story. 230 - > If you do not curate the story of your past, your mind will 231 - > come up with a story.
232 - > And chances are 99.999% of the time, okay, it is going to be a 233 - > story that will cripple you, not empower you. 234 - > Okay, so are we saying make things up? 235 - > No, we're not.
236 - > We're saying in the midst of the when you look at the past, look 237 - > for progress. 238 - > Okay, look for progress, look for lessons, look for all of 239 - > that, and then curate your own story of the past, one that will 240 - > empower you to keep going, to keep moving, to keep pressing 241 - > on. 242 - > That's number one. 243 - > Number two, number two.
244 - > So we're looking at three reasons why smart doctors stay 245 - > stuck even when they know what to do. 246 - > Number two, you are protecting yourself from disappointment. 247 - > Okay, you're protecting like you're protecting yourself from 248 - > disappointment. 249 - > You know that if you started a YouTube channel, it will bring 250 - > transformation to your practice.
251 - > But you don't want to be disappointed by somebody who 252 - > comes in the comments and says something nasty about your 253 - > video. 254 - > You don't want to be disappointed that you're 255 - > thinking, oh my goodness, I'll get a thousand views or 200,000 256 - > views on this video, and then you only end up with 15. 257 - > Okay. 258 - > You don't want to be disappointed by any of any of 259 - > those things.
260 - > You don't want to be disappointed in the way you look 261 - > on camera. 262 - > And so, because of that, you could start or grow your YouTube 263 - > channel and you don't. 264 - > And it turns out you're leaving leaving tens, hundreds of 265 - > thousands of dollars on the table every single year because 266 - > you do not have a YouTube channel or you do not have a 267 - > YouTube channel where you're showing up like the boss you 268 - > are. 269 - > Okay.
270 - > You know that if you build a referral base, if I build a 271 - > referral base, this is going to be absolutely amazing. 272 - > I'm gonna have 12 people in my world, 24 people in my world who 273 - > preferentially refer to me. 274 - > You know this will change your life, but you think about the 275 - > disappointment of hearing a no, so you don't talk to them. 276 - > You think about how people perceive your business.
277 - > Maybe your business is not good enough, and then they'll find 278 - > out if they came any closer, so you don't do it. 279 - > So, because of your fear of disappointment, you do not talk 280 - > to your referral base, which is a seven-figure strategy, and 281 - > you're not using it. 282 - > You could show up on social media, but you think about the 283 - > trolls, and you're like, oh my goodness, I don't want the 284 - > disappointment, so you don't do it. 285 - > You can take your business to five million in revenue, but 286 - > you're like, what if I set the goal and I don't hit it, then 287 - > I'll be a failure.
288 - > And I don't want to feel that energy of being a failure. 289 - > So I'm not gonna set the$5 million. 290 - > We've done a million dollars for the last 10 years, and we're 291 - > just gonna keep it at a million dollars. 292 - > After all, the million dollars is a good amount of money, and 293 - > we just keep it moving.
294 - > So we're afraid of disappointment. 295 - > And so, because of that, even though we know what will work, 296 - > we don't do it. 297 - > We don't do it, right? 298 - > And so, you know, this comes up a lot when people think about 299 - > taking that next step.
300 - > So for us, we get to see it a lot when maybe we're talking to 301 - > doctors about the entrevine business school and all. 302 - > And we usually would meet them when they're like, okay, enough 303 - > is enough. 304 - > I'm ready to take my business to the next level. 305 - > That's usually when people reach out to us.
306 - > Whether they're like, you know, we we've we've been at 300, I 307 - > really want to take you to a million, or I've taken it to 3 308 - > million, but I don't have a life anymore. 309 - > And I want to know how to continue to grow without losing 310 - > my life in the process, or we've taken it to 2 million, but we 311 - > don't have any profits. 312 - > Clearly, I am missing something, right? 313 - > Like, so they decided I'm gonna make this big leap.
314 - > Okay. 315 - > And so then they come to us and they say, okay, this is what we 316 - > want to do. 317 - > And then, you know, and then we talk about the school, we talk 318 - > about the results we've gotten, we talk, talk, talk, talk about 319 - > our methods and all of those things. 320 - > And a lot of times they'll come back and they're like, I don't 321 - > think now is the time.
322 - > And I don't think now is the time, and I don't think I can 323 - > get a result. 324 - > Like, it's very obvious that this will work. 325 - > I've even talked to some of my, you know, like like future 326 - > classmates, my um the doctors in the entrepreneurial business 327 - > school, but I don't think it would work for me, right? 328 - > And all these things come up, and I have done this long enough 329 - > to know exactly what that is.
330 - > It's fear. 331 - > Is fear is not, will they deliver? 332 - > We've been delivering for seven years, right? 333 - > Like almost seven years at this point.
334 - > It's not that, it's not um, has this worked for people? 335 - > Like, does this work? 336 - > Oh no, no, this works, right? 337 - > And they're like, I get it, but I can't.
338 - > And a lot of times what it is is disappointment. 339 - > If I go all out for my business and say, okay, line in the sand, 340 - > we're gonna hit five million, line in the sand, we're gonna 341 - > make this profitable, line in the sand, we're gonna build a 342 - > team that allows me to get my life back. 343 - > What if I don't pull it off? 344 - > I'm gonna be disappointed, and that means I failed, and that 345 - > means I'm a failure.
346 - > And usually a lot of times, not usually, we have we have many 347 - > great doctors who are like, okay, they gulp and they're 348 - > like, I'm gonna do it. 349 - > I'm nauseous, but I'm gonna do it. 350 - > And and and sometimes they hold back, and it's fear, that's what 351 - > it is, and it's you know, protecting themselves from 352 - > disappointment. 353 - > So did they quote unquote disappoint themselves?
354 - > No, because they never went after it. 355 - > But the question then becomes, what could that have been? 356 - > Right. 357 - > Because I always, you know, would go back to look at the 358 - > doctors in on-trem business, and I'm not trying to take credit 359 - > for their results because we our process works if the doctor does 360 - > the work, right?
361 - > Like so it's a it's a two-part thing. 362 - > But I think about a lot of people, you know, we've 363 - > interviewed Dr. 364 - > Kuffman on the podcast, you know, many times. 365 - > And, you know, when we met her, she was an employed physician.
366 - > Now she's running a multi-million dollar practice 367 - > and she's building her dream business and her dream life, 368 - > right? 369 - > I think about a Dr. 370 - > Rachel Rubin. 371 - > Again, when we met, she was an employed physician.
372 - > And here she is, she's running this phenomenal cash-based 373 - > surgical practice, and she is doing all she does with 374 - > advocacy. 375 - > And she has a course that is like a wonderful course. 376 - > Everyone I've recommended it to, um, you know, because they want 377 - > to learn how to prescribe hormone therapy for women in 378 - > perimenopause and menopause. 379 - > They're like raving about it, right?
380 - > And how amazing it is, how practical it is, and all of 381 - > those things. 382 - > And she's been on some of the largest stages, Mel Robbins 383 - > podcast, diary of a CEO, all of those things. 384 - > And I think, like, but what if she didn't set herself up in 385 - > such a way that, yeah, she could have been disappointed, quote 386 - > unquote, like, or whatever. 387 - > Like, can you actually be disappointed?
388 - > You know, like you're getting the thing done, right? 389 - > Yes, she may have had some delays and denials and 390 - > frustrations and challenges and all of those things, but my 391 - > goodness, is it worth it or not? 392 - > Right. 393 - > And so when I when I look at people who said yes to 394 - > themselves and what happens on the other end, it never ceases 395 - > to amaze me when I think about what would have happened if they 396 - > didn't embrace it at all.
397 - > The thing is that all those things that then happened 398 - > wouldn't have happened and they wouldn't have known. 399 - > Like Dr. 400 - > Rachel Rubin would not have known that her message is so 401 - > powerful that these people who have these really big platforms 402 - > who want her to be on their show. 403 - > She would never have known.
404 - > She would never have known. 405 - > So when I think about the opportunity cost, it is worth 406 - > fixing this. 407 - > Okay. 408 - > So rather than setting ourselves up and protecting ourselves from 409 - > disappointment, I'm gonna invite you to stop doing that.
410 - > And instead of that, re like change your relationship with 411 - > failure, discomfort, and the unknown. 412 - > Change your relationship. 413 - > Like I have a very positive, healthy relationship with 414 - > failure. 415 - > And I don't mean I go about embracing failure, but for the 416 - > kind of life I'm trying to live and the kind of impact I'm 417 - > trying to have in the world and the type of business I'm trying 418 - > to build, failed projects, not me being a failure, I don't 419 - > fail.
420 - > Failed projects are kind of part of the game. 421 - > It's just part of it. 422 - > It's like I want to be a great basketball player, but I never 423 - > want to miss a shot. 424 - > This is not a thing.
425 - > You're going to miss a lot of shots, but you're gonna make 426 - > enough to be an NBA champion, right? 427 - > Like that's kind of the way it works. 428 - > Okay, so you want to change your relationship. 429 - > So I am not a failure for trying to move forward.
430 - > I may have failed projects that is very different. 431 - > And now, if you remember the first one, we talked about, you 432 - > know, not defining the past. 433 - > So those failed projects, they don't mean you're failure. 434 - > What they mean is you did something, and along the line, 435 - > you should you must have had some progress and you learned 436 - > lessons.
437 - > So it was great, right? 438 - > Okay, so so you you didn't hit a milestone, so what? 439 - > The higher didn't work out, so what? 440 - > What progress did you make and what progress did you make and 441 - > what lesson did you learn?
442 - > That's it, right? 443 - > Okay, so no, I am not a failure for moving forward. 444 - > I am never a failure for moving forward. 445 - > I may have a failed project, but I didn't fail.
446 - > Okay, there may be something that's uncomfortable, and it's 447 - > fine, right? 448 - > No NBA champion goes around looking for comfort, no Olympian 449 - > goes around looking for comfort, they're looking for the result. 450 - > And so we can be uncomfortable because we're stretching 451 - > ourselves and all of that stuff, and it's great, it's fine. 452 - > It's like going to the gym and you're lifting the weights, and 453 - > the weights are heavy.
454 - > Yes, they are going to be heavy, but what happens on the other 455 - > side of it is amazing. 456 - > You get to be strong, you get to keep your muscles, you get to 457 - > lift your grandbabies at 90, all of these things, right? 458 - > So discomfort is just part of it. 459 - > It's not a problem, it just is.
460 - > Okay. 461 - > And then the unknown, because it's like, well, what will 462 - > happen? 463 - > Sometimes people will tell me, well, I need a guarantee. 464 - > I'm like, there's no such thing as a guarantee, like in in that 465 - > way, but you can make a guarantee or guarantees that I'm 466 - > gonna keep at this till I win.
467 - > And if you if that's your attitude, which that's my 468 - > attitude, by the way, if that's your attitude, you are going to 469 - > win. 470 - > You are going to win, right? 471 - > And so the unknown, we don't know. 472 - > But a lot of times, if you keep putting yourself out there and 473 - > getting the work done and you keep growing and you keep 474 - > upskilling, you keep doing all of these things, keep putting in 475 - > the reps, the unknown will not be something that will make you 476 - > cry.
477 - > The unknown will be something, well, it may make you cry, but 478 - > it'll be tears of joy. 479 - > But the unknown will be something you'll be so amazed 480 - > at, you're like, oh my goodness, I never knew this could have 481 - > happened. 482 - > I never knew starting this YouTube channel will do this to 483 - > me. 484 - > I never knew chasing this goal of a million dollars in revenue 485 - > will get me here.
486 - > I never knew bringing on this team member will create all 487 - > these results. 488 - > I never knew the unknown is desirable when you decide to say 489 - > yes. 490 - > Okay. 491 - > Okay.
492 - > Third thing that stops doctors, you haven't upgraded your 493 - > identity. 494 - > And this is a huge one. 495 - > This is a huge one. 496 - > Your results will rarely sustainably be ahead, like 497 - > significantly ahead of your identity.
498 - > And so if you think I am not a business owner, chances are you 499 - > are not going to run a wildly successful, thriving business 500 - > because your identity doesn't line up with it. 501 - > If you feel like I'm not the kind of person who can work with 502 - > higher capacity team members, so I can work with MAs, front desk 503 - > people, virtual assistants, and stuff like that, but not an 504 - > office manager, not other doctors, all of that stuff, your 505 - > be your practice will just line up with that.
506 - > Your business will just line up with that, right? 507 - > And we don't upgrade our identity accidentally. 508 - > This is an intentional process. 509 - > Like, think about it you don't accidentally go uphill.
510 - > Or upstream. 511 - > Now downstream, yes, but up, no. 512 - > Right. 513 - > And so if I'm going to go from this identity, like I'm a 514 - > clinician, to the identity, identity of I'm a physician, uh, 515 - > physician entrepreneur, to the identity of I'm a person who 516 - > runs a million-dollar business, to the identity of a person who 517 - > can build a successful business and have time for the things 518 - > that matter to me.
519 - > Like these are all upgrades you're we have to constantly 520 - > make. 521 - > And if we if we don't upgrade, we start circling. 522 - > We're just going, you know, it's like being on a rocking chair, 523 - > rocking chair. 524 - > It looks like we're moving, but we're not moving at all.
525 - > Right. 526 - > And so if you want to be this person who you know what to do 527 - > and you're not stuck, you're getting it done and you're 528 - > getting the results that you need to get, you're going to be 529 - > a person who upgrades your identity. 530 - > There are many ways to do this, and we've talked about this on 531 - > the podcast. 532 - > In fact, in the on-training business school business school, 533 - > we spend an extraordinary amount of time doing this.
534 - > Why? 535 - > Because once you do this, all the strategies I've been showing 536 - > you are like, boom, let's go. 537 - > And you can rewrite the way you think about yourself, right? 538 - > One of the ways you can do it is with a vision board, like, you 539 - > know, and you paint a picture of where you're trying to go.
540 - > And then you come back and you're like, okay, who do I need 541 - > to become to pull this off? 542 - > And you start identifying as that person, right? 543 - > You start identifying as a person. 544 - > But if you don't take the time to intentionally prioritize 545 - > upgrading the internal picture you have about yourself, you 546 - > will almost always malfunction.
547 - > You will always function at the level of the internal picture 548 - > you have about yourself. 549 - > And so if you think I'm not good with money, you're not going to 550 - > be. 551 - > If you think I'm not good at leading people, you're not going 552 - > to be. 553 - > If you think I'm not the kind of person who can have team 554 - > meetings, you're not going to have them.
555 - > I'm not the kind of person who can make 5 million revenue, 556 - > you're not going to. 557 - > And it's not because of ability, it's because of identity. 558 - > Okay. 559 - > The identity changes first, which gives you what you need to 560 - > then deploy the ability so you can get the result.
561 - > Okay. 562 - > So I want you to shock your own self. 563 - > Okay. 564 - > As we go on to this next quarter and next half of the year and 565 - > all of these things.
566 - > Or whenever you're listening to this, whatever time block is in 567 - > front of you, I want you to be this person who knows what to 568 - > do, does what needs to be done, gets the result, and you're 569 - > blowing your own mind every 90 days. 570 - > I would love that for you. 571 - > This happens all the time in the on-term business school, all the 572 - > time. 573 - > And I want to see it happen for you too.
574 - > So, what do I want you to do? 575 - > Do not leave your past undefined. 576 - > Define it. 577 - > Create your own story and lessons from your past.
578 - > So when you think about your past, don't say, oh, it sucks. 579 - > I didn't do this, I didn't do that. 580 - > No, no, no, no. 581 - > You define it.
582 - > We did this, we did this, we moved forward here, we 583 - > accomplished this and we learned, we learned this, and we 584 - > learned that, and we learned we learned that. 585 - > That's what I want you to do. 586 - > That's the first thing. 587 - > The second thing is, oh my goodness, don't stop protecting 588 - > yourself from disappointment because it's not really real.
589 - > If you protect yourself from disappointment now, it means 590 - > you're setting yourself up for disappointment later. 591 - > When you're 90 years old and you're like, child, you were you 592 - > were deceiving yourself. 593 - > All those things you got, you could have actually done them, 594 - > right? 595 - > So there's gonna be regret then.
596 - > So why don't we just deploy now? 597 - > Right. 598 - > And so what do we need to do to overcome this? 599 - > Redefine your relationship with fear, with with um, with 600 - > failure.
601 - > Failure is not a problem. 602 - > I'm never a failure. 603 - > I may have failed projects, I am never a failure. 604 - > Okay.
605 - > So, and if I'm going to be great, I'm going to have a 606 - > number of failed projects along the way. 607 - > That's just the way this works. 608 - > Business is an experiment, that's the way it works. 609 - > Okay, so redefine it with, you know, with with with 610 - > disappointments, with failures, with the unknown, with problems, 611 - > just change your relationship with that and allow yourself, 612 - > embrace it as a part of life on your journey to becoming who you 613 - > need to be and building the business you need to build.
614 - > And then the third thing is take the time to upgrade your 615 - > identity. 616 - > Always question what you think about yourself, right? 617 - > Question what you think about yourself. 618 - > Look at the picture, like how do you not when you decide to think 619 - > nice about yourself, like what is your default thinking about 620 - > yourself, right?
621 - > And if you're like, if this is who I really am, what kind of 622 - > results am I gonna create? 623 - > Look at and go like, whoopsie, we don't like that. 624 - > It's time for an upgrade. 625 - > You upgrade that, okay?
626 - > And if you will, if you will do this work, okay, if you will do 627 - > this work, where you'll find yourself again in the next 90 628 - > days will absolutely shock you. 629 - > So I want to invite you to do that. 630 - > And if you have the if you're saying, yes, I'm gonna do it, 631 - > and so yes to my business, yes to this goal, yes to all of 632 - > that, and you've been thinking about the on-trained business 633 - > school, or you know that you need the support, okay, reach 634 - > out to us, on-traemd.
com forward slash call. 635 - > We would be happy to talk with you, to walk you through it, to 636 - > see if this is your best option. 637 - > We do not do any kind of high pressure sales. 638 - > We really are looking for elite physician entrepreneurs.
639 - > And when we say that, what we mean is you have a growth 640 - > mindset, you're coachable, you're open, you have a work 641 - > ethic, you're committed to your goals. 642 - > If that's you, you're an elite physician entrepreneur. 643 - > The rest of the stuff, we got you on that. 644 - > Okay.
645 - > We got you on the strategy, we got you on the mentorship, the 646 - > community, the accountability. 647 - > We we got you on all of that. 648 - > We need your coachability, your commitment, your willingness to 649 - > do what is required to pull this off, right? 650 - > And so entreamd.
com forward slash call, book a call with us. 651 - > We'll be happy to talk with you. 652 - > And I'm rooting for every single one of you. 653 - > I'm rooting for you.
654 - > You're listening to me, you're watching me, I'm rooting for 655 - > you. 656 - > Please hear me when I say this. 657 - > Please don't believe that you're stuck, you're not. 658 - > Please don't believe you're a victim, you're not.
659 - > Please don't believe that the challenges you're facing your 660 - > business right now need to be. 661 - > Don't believe that the goals that you truly want to pursue in 662 - > your business are impossible. 663 - > They're not. 664 - > But in order for you to have all of that, you are going to need 665 - > to do these three things.
666 - > Okay. 667 - > All right. 668 - > So I'm rooting for you. 669 - > Always, always, always remember we're in movement.
670 - > So share this episode with another doctor in your world. 671 - > Tell them, oh my goodness, take a listen to this. 672 - > Let us change our lives over the next 90 days. 673 - > If any part of it really resonated with you, send me a DM 674 - > or a PM on Instagram or Facebook.
675 - > Let me know, my goodness, Dr. 676 - > Una, this episode. 677 - > Yes. 678 - > Okay.
679 - > Just, you know, that just encourages me to keep going. 680 - > I will keep going regardless because I'm here for you. 681 - > But that just encourages me. 682 - > I lights up my day.
683 - > Okay. 684 - > I will see you on the next episode of the All Chandler 685 - > Podcast.
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