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You’ve made the decision to leave corporate medicine and start your own practice. It’s exciting. It’s bold. It’s exactly what you’ve been working toward. And yet… you find yourself hesitating. Procrastinating. Convincing yourself you’re “not ready enough.”

These safety stop moments are completely normal. In fact, they can be a valuable part of your decision-making process—if you know how to handle them. But when they go unchecked, they often lead to endless overthinking, getting pulled off course by other people’s opinions, and staying stuck in analysis paralysis instead of building the practice you envisioned.

In this episode, I’ll walk you through a simple three-step framework to help you spot and move through these moments so you can manage overwhelm and take confident action (even if you don’t feel fully ready). Whether you’re preparing to leave corporate medicine or facing another major business decision, these tools will help you navigate doubt with clarity and momentum.

References

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[00:54] What is a Safety Stop: Why entrepreneurs naturally pause before making big decisions.

[03:00] Common Safety Stop Behaviors: The unconscious behaviors that signal you're in a safety stop moment and how they can derail your progress.

[06:37] Three Categories of Safety Concerns: Business risks, ego fears, and concerns about impact on loved ones.

[07:30] Working Through Safety Stops: A three-step framework for turning these moments into opportunities to strengthen your decision-making.

[11:37] The Advice Filter: How to determine if someone's entrepreneurial opinions are worth considering or just noise that creates paralysis.

[13:00] Confusion and Procrastination: Finding your North Star when you're unsure which direction is forward, plus strategies for taking tiny baby steps and "no regrets" moves.

[17:21] Managing Overwhelm: A simple technique for sorting through conflicting thoughts and emotions to gain clarity and move forward.

To work with Amanda Sabicer or find out more, check out her website at www.amandasabicer.com.

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Not sure if you’re building your clinic the “right” way? If you're a physician entrepreneur, chances are you've asked yourself this question more times than you'd like to admit. You're questioning every decision—wondering if your slow growth means you're failing, or if you're even focusing on the right things.

The uncertainty can be exhausting. You're juggling patient care, family responsibilities, and endless to-do lists… often without clear proof that your hard work will pay off. Add in conflicting advice from well-meaning friends and family, and it's easy to lose momentum before your business even finds its footing.

In this episode, I’m breaking down the two distinct stages of building a business—the Proof of Concept stage and the Growth stage—so you can:

• Identify which stage you’re in right now (and what to focus on next)
  
  
• The biggest pain points to expect and how to navigate them without burning out
  
  
• What to focus on so you stop second-guessing and start building a repeatable, dependable revenue stream

If you've been feeling stuck, scattered, or unsure of your next move, this episode will give you the clarity and direction to focus on what actually matters so you can grow your clinic faster.

References

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[00:50] The Two Business Stages: Amanda introduces proof of concept and growth stages to help you identify where you are and focus for faster growth.

[01:57] Proof of Concept Stage: The experimental phase focused on going from zero to repeatable revenue while discovering what energizes you.

[05:25] Work-Life Integration Challenges: How female physician entrepreneurs navigate childcare decisions and family expectations while building their practice.

[07:50] Getting Comfortable with Numbers: Amanda helps physicians who hate accounting by breaking it down with a simple Excel approach.

[09:16] Academic to Entrepreneurial Mindset: Why fancy credentials don't matter to patients and how to talk about what actually helps them.

[11:54] Managing Other People's Opinions: Why partner and family input can derail experimentation, especially from those with employee mindsets.

[16:12] Transitioning to Growth Stage: The shift from experimentation to data-driven optimization and temporarily slowing down to accelerate growth.

[18:04] Infrastructure and Staffing: How the growth stage requires upgrading systems and often replacing staff who can't adapt to changes.

[22:36] Streamlining and Strategic Focus: Making decisions about which activities to maintain versus eliminate and saying no to lower-value opportunities.

[25:26] Self-Assessment and Next Steps: Identifying your current stage and pinpointing where you need support.

To work with Amanda Sabicer or find out more, check out her website at www.amandasabicer.com.

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Feeling like you're constantly dropping balls trying to build your practice and have a life?
You're not imagining it. Most physician entrepreneurs end up stuck chasing the myth of “work-life balance”—believing if they just organized better or tried harder, they’d finally feel in control.

But then one late patient call… one rescheduled clinic… and suddenly, it all feels like it’s crashing down. Here’s the real problem: “Work-life balance” is a broken model. It sets up a false choice—life vs. work—where one side always loses. It feeds perfectionism and leaves you feeling like you’re failing at both.

In this episode, we’ll explore a better alternative: work-life integration. It’s not about keeping every plate spinning. It’s about building a flexible, values-aligned life that works with your reality, not against it.

Join me as I walk you through:

• The Wheel of Life: a tool to map and assess your whole life without guilt or all-or-nothing thinking
• The Ideal Day exercise: to help you imagine and start designing a life that fits you
• And why integration—not balance—is the secret to feeling fulfilled and focused

Stop trying to juggle. Start designing a life that doesn’t fall apart the moment things shift.

References

The Wheel of Life

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Audio Stamps

[00:50] The Physician Burnout Crisis: The universal challenge physicians face juggling priorities and explains why burnout drives them to seek independence.

[03:37] Why "Work-Life Balance" is Broken: How the work-life balance concept creates perfectionist, black-and-white thinking that leads to panic and resistance to change.

[06:03] Work-Life Integration: Amanda proposes "work-life integration" as a more resilient alternative that focuses on wholeness and creativity rather than rigid balance.

[09:24] The Life Wheel Tool: How to use the Life Wheel exercise to assess different life categories and create an integrated approach to improvement.

[12:30] The Ideal Day Exercise: Amanda shares her personal resistance to this exercise and her own journey of overcoming resistance to dream bigger about her ideal life.

[13:50] Summary: Amanda emphasizes the flexible, creative nature of work-life integration and offers resources for listeners wanting to explore these concepts further.

To work with Amanda Sabicer or find out more, check out her website at www.amandasabicer.com.