We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Dr. Amy Crowe a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Dr. Crowe thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear the backstory of how you established your own practice.

We had our first baby while I was in chiropractic school. I think I felt more prepared for being a mom than being a doctor! I delayed practice for a few years, adding 2 more babies to the family, and then started feeling pressure (from myself) to start earning money, thinking about all that school debt. I bought a small practice, walked into it, and then…froze. I wasn’t prepared to run a business, and I was too far out of school to feel confident as a clinician. After a year, I closed that business; I still have to deliberately choose to look back on that as an immense learning experience rather than the f-word.

After 10 years as a stay-at-home-mom, I started reaching out to the few connections I still had from chiropractic school. I learned about a program that was designed for doctors like me, women who wanted to get back into practice after a break and needed help. I attended zoom meetings for 6 months, learning about business owner mindset & the practical aspects of running a business and revisiting the knowledge & skills that a good clinician needs. I knew I wouldn’t practice full time, because by then we had five kiddos between 7 & 15 years old, and motherhood will always be my first calling. I searched for an ideal practice situation…renting a small space in some kind of wellness office not too far from home. All dead ends. One of the mentors in the program suggested a mobile practice; she called me out, saying I was using location as an excuse to avoid that first step. Yowch. “Your patients will love you and follow you if/when you find a space.” So reluctantly and completely terrified, I organized an LLC and started networking.

Then came covid and virtual school for 5 kids, lots of extra hours away from home for my husband, and ultimately homeschooling for our two youngest boys. If business and life require anything, it’s flexibility. That was almost 4 years ago, and I could not be more grateful for all those things that pushed me outside of my comfort zone and required me to grow.

There is nothing big or important that you will ever feel ready for. Do the prep work; be open to outside the box avenues; be humble and ask questions; move forward, even a little bit, every day.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Sure! As we said, my name is Amy Crowe. I’m a mobile chiropractor in the Kansas City metro area. My husband and I are nearing 26 years married, and we have 5 super cool sons, 4 of whom still live at home. I love reading science fiction and murder mysteries; I like bicycling, disc golf, hiking, and camping.

I once heard that your target market is you from 3-5 years ago, and that resonated with me in a big way. At that time in my life, I didn’t make time for self-care and often felt overwhelmed, like I was somehow behind or failing. My goal as a mobile chiropractor is to bring more than pain relief to my patients; I want you to feel seen, understood, and encouraged. I want to help you create time in your day to take care of yourself, so that all of the work you do is satisfying, not exhausting. I want you to feel good in your own body, so you can live more freely, experience more joy, and not be exhausted by how generously you give to the people you love.

This is why I schedule appointments with time to handle your child’s meltdown, answer that question from your staff, relax into a stretch, or talk about the stressful situation that’s slowing down your healing. It’s also why I have multiple treatment techniques and an ever-growing list of referral partners, so you get the care you need.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

There are lots of steps along the way that I would change, but I do love being a chiropractor. I love learning about how these human bodies work and using that knowledge to help people feel better and live more fully. The only other profession I remember considering is teaching, and I think I actually went into that, just not in the way I visualized it at the time. I love to share what I know; actually, I often think I’m talking too much! But what’s a teacher? One way I’d describe it is someone who has knowledge or experience that you don’t and wants to impart it to you and help you connect to it in a way that resonates with you and improves your life. I hope I’m doing that.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn my limits. This is a hard one; I keep typing and deleting the next line. We are all limited by what we believe we are capable of and what we deserve. But I know no matter what circumstances are or how big the obstacles seem, I can do everything I was designed and placed here, at this time in history, to do. I’m grateful for my 40’s :D and for what God has taught me.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.lifewaychiropractic.com
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Alana Belove; Jeremy Wood