Are you looking to break free from traditional medicine and carve your own path as a medical entrepreneur?
In today’s episode of Medical Entrepreneur, we have two very special guests, Joe and Kate Sevier. They are here today to talk to us about how they got started as medical entrepreneurs, going from being overworked and underpaid to :
- Getting to do what they love
- Being their own bosses
- And getting to work with patients they love
They’re going to share with us how they did it, what they wish they knew when they started out, and what advice they have for someone looking to have the success they’ve had.
So let’s get right into it!
How Joe & Kate went from CRNA’s to starting their own anesthesia practice
It’s 2015, Joe and Kate are both CRNA’s, enjoying their careers at the hospital.
One night Kate was at home, eating dinner with her parents.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”, her dad asks her.
“What do you mean?” she responds.
“You look… angry.”
That was when Kate looked at her mom, and decided that she wanted to get Botox.
Now fast forward until just last year, Kate was getting injected by someone who knew she was a CRNA.
“Why aren’t you doing this?!” she asked Kate.
Joe looked over and shook his head, “I’ve been saying this the whole time!”, he said to her.
This conversation was all she needed to kick-start her motivation to get started with her own medical practice. She decided that she was going to take the leap of faith to get started doing what she loved
She took a business class afterwards, immediately loved it, and hasn’t looked back since!
And what she loves most about it is the freedom it gives her…
Being Your Own Boss
One of the things that Joe tells us is that he loved working in a hospital. He loved being a CRNA.
If you’re listening and you’re someone who loves working in a hospital but isn’t sure about whether or not you enjoy the prospect of being your own boss, Katie tells us that there are some reasons why she loves it more than working in the hospital.
When you are in mainstream medicine and you work in a hospital, it’s not uncommon to be asked to spend an extra 35, 40 or 60 minutes to finish a case with a patient.
And in these kinds of situations, it’s very difficult to say no to this.
But now, when someone texts Kate at 4.30pm asking if she is available at 5pm, her response is:
“No, I’m having dinner with my family – we’re closed”.
Having this kind of control in your schedule and freedom over your working hours is the exact reason why so many healthcare professionals have the dream of carving their own path as an entrepreneur.
But what makes the journey 100x easier, is having a true passion for what you do…
The importance of passion
What has made the journey so much easier for Kate and Joe is the fact that they are passionate about what they do.
They are passionate about being their own boss – but also about the patients they get to work with.
Perhaps one of the most rewarding parts of being a medical entrepreneur is the fact that you can get to choose the patients you work with.
Like they mentioned in the episode, the issue about being in a hospital is that very rarely does the patient actually want to be there.
This makes your job as a worker more difficult, and can cause unnecessary stress, and can hurt your motivation and drive.
Like Katie says, when you work in aesthetics, you aren’t just making something look different, you can be ridding someone of the insecurities that have weighed them down their entire life.
Katie even says that sometimes she has had patients walk out of her practice in tears of joy, because they feel like they’re free again. Even a small treatment can have a massive effect on their confidence.
This could be a patient who had a stroke, and now her brows are evened out again… it can be someone who has acne scarring all over their face, now they don’t have to wear foundation anymore.
These are all real-life examples that Katie has dealt with in her practice, and she even says that this is one of the most rewarding parts of her career now.
What to do when you’re starting out
Katie and Joe have some advice for newbies who are starting out with their own practice.
Katie says that setting monetary goals isn’t the best way to move forward, claiming that focusing on the money often makes people go crazy.
When starting out, Katie wanted to focus on helping people, so she set the goal of helping 10 clients. Before she knew it, she had 20, which became 23 not long after.
Focusing on building relationships with a practice is key, that is what has helped Katie and Joe multiply their salary by starting their own practice in recent years.
Additional Resources:
– Join my challenge here!
– Check out my website here!
– Sign up for our Aesthetics training here!
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