Establishing your own firm or practice is an incredibly daunting task. From myriad of legal and regulatory hurdles to the financial and career related risks, professionals who choose to start their own firm have to overcome so much and so we wanted to reach out to those who’ve done it successfully for advice, insight and stories.
Kathlena Luft

I was previously practicing as an Occupational Therapist, when I experienced QNRT(Quantum Neuro Reset Therapy) as a client. It made such a positive impact in my life and my son’s life, that I decided to train with Dr. John Turner in Atlanta to become certified as a practitioner. Initially, I began practicing QNRT out of my home in Spring Hill, while continuing to work part time as an Occupational Therapist. Read more>>
Doni Wilson

I started my own practice almost immediately after graduating from Bastyr University and finishing my residency. I moved to New York right after 9/11 and was working in Chelsea inside a chiropractor’s office but running my own practice. I had also started working in the office of another naturopathic doctor in Connecticut because I wanted to get even more experience in practice, and ended up doing that for almost five years. Read more>>
Chelsea Mtchell

I remeber as if it all happened yesterday. I was just a cosmetologist with a dream. I had met many successful stylist who grew up in an urban environment, yet still hit the 6 figure mark in just a few years of working. I always said, “Why not me?” I am confident, gifted and talented and young. What do I really have to lose. I didnt realize that one day i would have to eat those words. Right before my career hit off, i began to go throw a personal detox. Read more>>
Olive Panes-Gindelberger

Before entering the health and wellness world, I was in the corporate industry of workers’ compensation for 11.5 years. That line of work allowed me to meet wonderful people and female thought leaders who helped inspire me to be the entrepreneur I am today. As change was the only constant in life, I yearned for a career where I could care for others directly. I didn’t know what that looked like until I started my healing journey, which led me to massage/bodywork. Read more>>
Zen Miller

I remember the exact date that I decided I would never work for anyone else again. I had just graduated massage school and was at my 1st job, a chiropractor’s office. The year was 1996 and I was making $20 an hour. Excellent pay back then. I happen to be standing at the front desk one day and noticed the billing rate was $120. The office was making $100 I was doing all the work. It was at that moment I decided to become an entrepreneur. I have never looked back. Read more>>
Cristian Plascencia

I was a fitness trainer at a local private ATX gym when my current fiancé (then girlfriend) mentioned how important it is for our current clients to be optimizing their health and lifestyle habits outside of the gym. She emphasized that most clients believe achieving true health and fitness is all about the 1-hour inside the gym for your workout when in reality, it is the other 23 hours that matter the most! Most specifically, Read more>>
Jess Bluth

Starting and establishing your own chiropractic practice is not for the faint of heart. I was lucky enough to have the groundwork laid out for me while establishing my practice in South Jordan, Utah, quickly being trained to take over a small sole practitionership and then allowed to spread my wings into the healthcare field. It was not easy building a hands on healthcare practice during my first year of licensure and in the middle of a global pandemic. Those were some of the major challenges early on in practice, but we’ve only seen slow, steady growth since. Read more>>
Yusuf (JP) Saleeby

Started my medical career back in 1992 as an Emergency Room doctor in what we call Mainstream Medicine. In 1998 I realized there was more to medicine then I was taught in school & residency. I embarked on a curriculum I developed and learned over 20-years the ”right way” to deliver healthcare. Over two-decades I morphed a system into what I call reformed-Functional Medicine (rFxMed). We are in dire need of a healthcare fix for our broken down sick-care system. Read more>>