Better Skills. Better Doctors.
Join Rebecca Ong from TCM Hub as she goes beyond the nuts and bolts of clinical practice to navigate some of the more challenging aspects of being a self-employed physician.
This podcast introduces the necessary concepts and perspectives that you need to step into the next level of your entrepreneurial journey and achieve holistic success. Leave behind the unsustainable business-building methods that now have you trapped as an employee in your own business and transform into a Free + Easy Doctor™.
Episodes
166 episodes
EP165 Are You a Hunter or a Farmer?
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the motivation dip that shows up for a lot of practitioners at certain points in the year, and why it's almost never the personal failing they think it is.I walk through...
EP164 You Decided. Now What?
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what actually happens right after you commit to a direction in your business, and why the thing that feels like a sign you got it wrong is very often the opposite....
EP163 Are You Proud of What You're Leaving Behind?
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about legacy, and I'm taking it somewhere you might not expect: your practice.It starts with a woman on Instagram facing the end of her life, and what she said about ...
EP162 You Keep No-Showing Your Most Important Client
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that most practitioners are only doing half their job, and the half they're skipping is the one their business actually depends on.If all you're doing is trea...
EP161 The Marketing Built for Introverts
In this special episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking to the practitioners who decided somewhere along the way that they're just bad at marketing, and I want to make the case that they're wrong.Most marketing adv...
EP160 Planning Is Not a Cage. It's How You Become Free.
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that planning is not the opposite of freedom, it's the thing that creates it.Using my own story of paying off $142,000 in debt, I get into why most people res...
EP159 Confidence Is Not a Prerequisite
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about confidence: specifically, where it actually comes from and why waiting to feel ready before you act is the thing working against you.It starts with a story abou...
EP158 Blocking People Is Blocking Growth
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about a reflex that's showing up everywhere right now, and what it's actually costing you.It starts with Reddit, blocking people the second something feels uncomforta...
EP157 The Question Standing Between You and the Practice You Want
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the "what if" question: what it actually is, why it feels like diligence but functions like fear, and how to stop letting it kill your ideas before they make it off the page.
EP156 You Have to Be a Little Delusional
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what it actually takes to step into the future version of yourself, and why most practitioners refuse to do it.It starts with a story about a kid in a backyard ...
EP155 Scale Down to Scale Up: There Is Another Way to Build Your Practice
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that high volume is not the only legitimate shape of a successful practice, and that the framing saying otherwise is doing real damage to this profession.I in...
EP154 I'm Not Special. Here's What's Actually Going On.
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm getting personal about who I used to be before any of this, and why that matters for you.I make the case that what looks like natural confidence or business ability is almost...
EP153 How to Stop Losing Patients on Your Worst Day
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what actually happens to your practice when your day goes sideways, and why most practitioners have no plan for it.Using a real coaching call as the starting point, I ge...
EP152 Get Rejected on Purpose
Entrepreneurship brings up all your shit, and sometimes what's stopping you is harder to spot than you'd think. In this episode, I name the fear underneath every stuck place in your Chinese medicine practice: fear of rejection.Using a re...
EP151 Real Coaching Call: When to Let a Patient Go and How to Say It
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm sharing a real coaching call where we work through three of the most uncomfortable patient situations practitioners face: the patient who won't follow your protocol, the new patient who's al...
EP150 Your Best Qualities Are Being Used Against Your Business
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the trap that's built into the structure of Chinese medicine private practice, and why the qualities that make you an excellent clinician are often the exact ones working again...
EP149 What a Bad Mexican Restaurant Can Teach You About Your Practice
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that trying to be everything to everyone is one of the most common and costly mistakes practitioners make in their businesses.Using a very real lunch experience at an ...
EP148 Stop Calling It Luck: On Accountability, Circumstance, and Success
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm coming off knee surgery and keeping it short, but I had something on my mind worth saying.After a week of WAY too much scrolling, I kept running into the same pattern: people...
EP147 The High-Volume Trap: Why a Full Schedule Might Be Holding You Back
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that a packed schedule and a waiting list are not a mark of success: they're a sign you're undercharging.I walk through why the high-volume clinic became the ...
EP146 A Call Out: Why Women in Chinese Medicine Need to Step the F*ck Up
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I make the case that the Chinese medicine profession doesn't have an external problem, it has a business problem.I break down why 60 to 70% of licensed acupuncturists leave the f...
EP145 Six Figures in Seven Months Without a High-Volume Clinic
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I sat down with Tara Tonini who specializes in women's health and postpartum care. Tara built a high-touch, in-home postpartum offering that blends TCM clinical care, h...
EP144 Most People Quit Here
In this episode, I share what happened when I injured my knee right as my powerlifting training was peaking and how fast I spiraled into frustration, self-pity, and a full-on slump. But this isn’t really about my knee. It’s about wh...
EP143 Your Money Shame Is Showing
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors., I unpack why so many Chinese medicine practitioners struggle to say how much money they actually want to make, and why that hesitation is not a math problem but an identity problem.&nb...
EP142 Why Keeping Your Options Open Is Slowing You Down
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors., I share a story from early in my career when I sublet out of two clinics and thought I was being smart by “hedging my bets.” What actually happened was predictable: split focus, slow g...
EP141 Let Them Be Mad: The Price of Clinical Integrity
In this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors., I talk about the outsized power the one-star review holds in Chinese medicine and why fear of being disliked is quietly undermining clinical authority, boundaries, and self-respect.&nb...