Episode #2 - Tracy Jones from Inspire to Outstand: Do I really need CQC and where do I start? (Expert)
Release Date: 09/09/2024
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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Episode #6 - Dr Rebecca Ryell: Building a travel business while being a GP Partner and having three busy boys (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Dr Rebecca Ryell, Bex, is one of my clients yes, but more importantly, we go back a long way, she is a great friend and inspiration to me and my family. Becs helped give us the push we needed to decide to take a year out and travel with the kids back in 2017 which led to me wanting to work more remotely to fit it around more travel in our lives. Now, 7 years later she’s on her own journey doing just that alongside a medical career that she also loves. Bex is a GP partner, a trainer and a medical educator at Swansea University. Recently, Bex and Pete and...
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Episode #5 - Rachel Harington: How to start and scale an online business (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
I first connected with Rachel back in January 2018 when I went to a networking event at Allbrights in London. She was offering an online training programme to get people doing their first 10km run at the time and we connected as I was asking her about software. She jumped on a call with me in August 2019 with me when I was weighing up my options and introduced me to Kajabi the software I continue to use today. At the time we were operating a local business with no online element but it was on the to do list. In Dec 2019 we invested in 3 months of coaching with Rachel to...
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Episode #4 - Nerys Frater: How to take a group NHS programme that you are passionate about into the online space and the mindset shifts this takes (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Nerys has a story that every GP who wants to embark on an innovative service within their own practice, GP cluster or in a private capacity needs to hear. In this discussion Nerys talks us through her own journey from securing some funding for a group NHS project through to running a successful online business for patients with pre diabetes and diabetes. Nerys didn’t wake up one morning wanting to be a business woman but she found a problem when trying to help her patients and was passionate enough about a solution to put the work into make something happen. That led her to...
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Episode #1 - Dr Sara Lou Wylie: Starting up a coaching business as a doctor (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Well this is EXCITING! I figured that my first ever Podcast should be with one of my first ever members. Dr Sara Lou Wylie is a powerhouse of a Mum, GP and now an Overwhelm Coach to women up and down the country. When we connected she was just embarking on her journey and had started the Transformational Life Coaching Diploma with Tom Dillon. She jumped into The Start Up Support Programme and The DIgital Doctor Membership with both feet and has taken small, imperfect, forward moving action every step of the way. This is a lively and honest chat about the ups and the downs of entrepreneurship....
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Episode #2 - Tracy Jones from Inspire to Outstand: Do I really need CQC and where do I start? (Expert)
The Start Up Support Surgery
This is a question I get asked over and over again. 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...
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Episode #3 - Portia Gibson, the Post Op Nurse: From nearly giving up on business altogether to a sell out workshop (Case Study)
The Start Up Support Surgery
Portia is innovative, relentlessly passionate about helping others and a pleasure to work with. Portia has been a part of The Start Up Support Programme and The Digital Doctor Membership for 9 months and has been on every twist and turn along the way. This interview tells us more about this and the mindset it took to keep going. Portia shares her sound advice and top tips and is always looking for ways to learn, develop and grow personally and professionally. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did! You will find Portia at Website Social Media @postopnurse.portia Email: ...
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Coming Soon - The Start Up Surgery
The Start Up Support Surgery
The Start Up Support Surgery is a podcast to inspire medics and healthcare professionals who want to take their medical skills, passions or interests and start a business or side hustle alongside their busy day job and family life which creates flexibility and freedom along with a completely different way of helping people outside of the limitations we are all facing in the NHS today. Getting started in business is not easy. It is a huge learning curve and offers a rollercoaster of emotions along the way. As a doctor who has been learning about business over the last 20 years alongside my...
info_outlineThis is a question I get asked over and over again.
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