Episode #2 - Tracy Jones from Inspire to Outstand: Do I really need CQC and where do I start? (Expert)
Release Date: 09/09/2024
Episide #16 - Kate Toon - Navigating The Path To Success With Your Online Business (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Kate Toon is honest, funny, straight talking and just the energy you need as you get started and moving in business. In this episode we talk about all things online business. Starting, scaling, funnels, social media, building an audience, offers, books, passive income and building the thingies. It’s brilliant. More about Kate: Kate Toon is a British born business mentor and award-winning digital marketing coach who now lives in Australia with her partner and teenage son. She is a brilliant online entrepreneur success story and has been a huge inspiration to me. Straight-talking, copywriting...
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Episode #15 - Dr Annie Padget - A Living Example Of Working For It All, And Having It All (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Annie Padgett joins me this week on the Podcast. She is someone I have never spoken to before but we met last week on social media and we set up a call to chat. We decided to hit record. She is quite literally wonder woman. Annie has 4 businesses and is a GP Partner plus she is mum to 5 children under the age of 10. We connected on social media, sent some voice notes to each other and then jumped on this call. Let’s see what came up in our conversation. Some GREAT take homes here. To find out and connect with Jo: From ‘Stethoscope to Start up’ free PDF giving you the blueprint...
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Episode #14 - Emma Presern: The Return! (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Dr Emma Presern is back for a second episode! We first spoke in Episode 9 of the first series which was recorded in March 2023. This was before Emma launched her first cohort of Rebellious Medics. Now she has navigated a successful launch and is about to go for the second cohort. Emma is a GP who has had a real journey. She has suffered with burnout and is now supporting others who feel the same. She has taken time out of programme and she has completely changed her life and lives in the hills in North Wales. She is an incredible role model to so many now and has so much to give other...
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Episode #13 - Dr Aileen Alexander - Lifestyle Medicine leading to sustainable weight loss (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Aileen Alexander is a medic who has done what so many medics hope to do. She’s now running an incredibly successful online lifestyle medicine business with clients across the globe. In this episode we talk about how she started off on this path as a bit of an accident but has had the same struggles and hurdles as us all along the way. Pricing, imposter syndrome, failed launches… Her story will inspire you to keep moving forward one step at a time. Dr Aileen Alexander is a former NHS GP who left in 2019 to pursue a career in Lifestyle Medicine specialising in sustainable weight loss and...
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Episode #12 - Dr Sui Wong - Finding your inspiration in the creative process (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
I can think of no better way to wrap up the first series of the podcast than with a case study episode from one of my founding members. Dr Sui Wong is an expert in her field. Working within the NHS and private sector splitting her time along with her research post and running a business… and writing books! She’s amazing. In this episode Sui shares, warts and all, her journey into business. The highs, the lows, the struggles and the things she’d do differently now. Some incredible advice to her early entrepreneurial self Find what inspires you and enjoy the creative process and the...
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Episode #11 - Jo Randall - Setting up a website that suits you (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Jo Randall is a website designer who create stunning and strategic Squarespace websites for savvy female service-providers who are ready to make an impact. She started out in design many years ago, but of a different kind (interiors), veered wildly off-path into the corporate world and recently returned to design, this time focused on websites, which feels like coming home for her. Jo spends most of her time most days on Squarespace but, when she’s not doing that, she loves hiking and camping with her dog, and also has a side-hustle creating mosaics and running mosaic workshops. She has...
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Episode #10 - Shannee Baker - Get some legal back up and getting the basics in place (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Something a little bit different today as we chat with a lawyer who lives and breathes the issues around Medics and GP’s. As Medics we tend to avoid lawyers like the plague. Shanee Baker is a strong corporate commercial lawyer, having qualified at the Bar of England and Wales. She has held a number of senior roles in large corporations including Capita PLC and the British Medical Association as Senior Counsel to the General Practitioners Committee. She is the founder and creator of LMC Law and has grown, what started as a small consultancy, into a business that covers...
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Episode #9 - Emma Presern: A Journey from burnout to Role model (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
My guest today is Emma Today I am sharing something a bit different. People have been telling me to do a Podcast for a little while and I when we were in Canada during the winter I decided to just get on and DO it. So, I asked one of my clients, Emma Presern to be my first guest. She said yes and we hit record while I was in my Zoom office which is a switched off sauna while we are in Canada during the winters. This was very unplanned. I had a vague idea of hanging the interview off some pillars but it was really just a good chat. Emma is a GP who has had a real journey.She has suffered...
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Episode #8 - Rosie Khan: Going with your gut, and being consistent (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Chatting to Dr Rosie Khan is always a pleasure. She is a calm, knowledgable and inspirational GP who has followed her gut and her own path out of full time GP and into a world that has given her skills such as coaching, NLP, hypnosis and lifestyle medicine. Rosie gives an honest account of what it takes to move into the entrepreneurial space and shares her reflections. We discuss the use of AI and showing up on social media. Rosie talks about the importance of taking the right advice at the right time from others. Rosie;s advice to her early entrepreneurial self was very...
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Episode #7 - Tanya Lynch: The Power of journalling (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Tanya Lynch is a therapeutic journalling coach and expert retreat facilitator. Her company Ease Retreats specialises in collaborating with all sorts of authors, both well known and first timers on her writing retreats. She is most alive when supporting people in their journaling and making real life experiences rich and rewarding for others. Tanya and I connected via Twitter over 9 years ago, we met, had a coffee and have remained firm friends ever since. Tanya is a cheerleader and genuine positive energy on the end of an email, a substack post or instagram and her personality is...
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It is a minefield, a hot potato, a can of worms and every other possible analogy.
Tracey Jones from Inspire to Outstand helps us understand a little more about the process and may well have the answer to any questions you have.
Tracey has been on both sides of the CQC as she has her own aesthetics clinic and works now with a previous CQC inspector to get businesses approved.
You will learn about the process, the pitfalls and the costs that are involved but also the reasons why this is so important as a medic venturing into the world of operating as a business.
I will also be interviewing Kate, Richard and Vian from Hexagon Health on the Podcast soon but if you are considering whether or not either of these organisations can help you I would suggest just picking up the phone to talk to them.
Inspire to Outstand
Tracey Jones (CQC - Inspire to Outstand)
https://www.inspiretooutstand.co.uk/
Hexagon Health Alliance - Kate, Vian and Richard have put together a great option for those that are looking for a different way of getting around the inevitably of needing CQC as a doctor. Please reach out and talk to them about whether they have an option that can help you.
https://www.hexagon.health/alliance
CQC Website
To find out more information about Jo and her work - https://www.jowatkins.com/
From ‘Stethoscope to Start up’ free PDF giving you the blueprint for getting started as a Medic becoming an entrepreneur. How to find the time, money, people and resources that you need. This will also give you access to a weekly newsletter, offers and inspiration.
https://drjowatkins.mykajabi.com/freestarterkit