ABOUT THIS EPISODE
You did everything right. You got the degree. You passed the boards. You put in the clinical hours. And then you opened a practice — or tried to — and realized nobody had taught you a single thing about running one.
That wasn't an oversight. It was structural.
PT and medical programs are designed to train clinicians. Pricing, financial literacy, referral systems, cash-based models, practice positioning — none of it makes the curriculum. And the gap that leaves isn't small. It's the difference between a practice that scales and one that survives, between a provider who owns her schedule and one whose clinic owner still controls it.
In this episode, Kelly breaks down the exact business curriculum your DPT program skipped — and why that omission wasn't neutral. She covers the pricing conversation most pelvic PTs were never taught to have, how to build a referral system that doesn't keep you dependent on other providers, and the financial literacy basics that change how you see your practice's numbers.
This isn't about going back to school. It's about closing the gap the system left — on your terms, at your pace, with a model that actually works for your life.
By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly what was stolen from you — and where to start taking it back.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The business curriculum gap in PT education isn't an accident — it's structural, and it keeps providers dependent on systems that benefit from that dependency
- Pricing, referral systems, and financial literacy are the three skills most pelvic PTs are rebuilding from scratch after graduation
- Closing the gap doesn't require going back to school — it requires a model built around what your program left out
