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In this episode, Kelly discusses the critical business education gaps in pelvic PT training and how to address them.

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…

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