I made a hiring framework mistake that almost cost me my practice. 😬 My first APP candidate countered the offer with 14 changes — written by an attorney, framed as "legal compliance." Half of them were legit. The other half were designed to gut the protections I'd built into the contract. I didn't know how to tell the difference at the time. That's the moment I realized: most DPC owners are walking into their first APP hire without the framework to negotiate confidently. We're great clinicians. We're not contract attorneys. So I built one. In this 13-minute walkthrough, I show you the 7 decisions that determine whether your first APP hire becomes your biggest growth lever — or your nearest competitor. What you'll see: 🔸 NP vs PA — the $30K/year decision most owners don't realize they're making 🔸 Compensation structure that protects your margin without demotivating your provider 🔸 The non-compete clause structure that actually survives in court 🔸 The dual-role ramp language that converts overhead into operational value 🔸 Why generic templates from the internet leave you completely unprotected The full framework — including the editable offer letter template, the Employment Agreement, the compensation calculator, the worked example, and the complete guide — is inside Module 3. Watch the preview. If anything in the video gives you an AH-ha moment... the complete module is built to take you the rest of the way and help you prevent the mistakes I almost made. 👇 Comments are open — if you've already made an APP hire and you're not sure whether your contract holds up, ask me. I'll tell you straight and then help you revise to bring to your lawyer for further clarification.

I just did an amazing Demo with Decodahealth. Probably the most progressive AI EMR. Personal Bias.. I am switching EMR from Optimanta. This is the cash pay model with integrated EMR for aesthetics an wellness. Who would be interested in a demo open to all levels hosted on the Tuesday night MasterMind. I can arrange and set a date.

This is our patient journal! We provide this to our patients in their initial weight loss consultation. This helps them organize their eating habits and helps put them on the track with measurable steps. Feel free to use as a frame to brand for your own clinic!

DPC colleagues — sharing something from our own clinic that I hope saves you some time. 🌲 When I launched VitaLife, one of the things I underestimated was how much a good onboarding packet would matter. In direct primary care, the patient experience IS the product — and the very first impression sets the tone for everything that follows. A patient who feels informed, oriented, and genuinely welcomed behaves completely differently than one who’s handed a clipboard and left to guess. So I built a complete New Patient Onboarding Packet, and I’m attaching it here as an example you’re welcome to use as a template for your own practice. Here’s what we put in ours and why: • How to reach us + portal setup — sets expectations early and cuts down on “how do I…” calls • Membership, billing, auto-renewal & cancellation — spelled out plainly, so there are no surprises and no awkward conversations later • An honest FAQ — refills, telehealth, seeing another provider, insurance/superbills, what happens if they cancel • Real patient education — nutrition basics, a meal tracker, a 1,200-cal high-protein sample day, hormone symptom charts, and cycle/lifetime hormone graphs • A medication dosing schematic — the mg vs. units conversion that prevents compounded-med and peptide dosing errors • Our community + coming-soon services The whole thing is built to do one job: make the patient feel that this experience is going to be different. Informed, unhurried, and on their side. A few notes if you adapt it: 🔹 Make it provider-neutral if you’re a team — ours references “your provider/care team,” not one clinician, so any of us can hand it out. 🔹 Localize the clinical pieces — our dosing example uses tirzepatide 17 mg/mL; swap in whatever matches your formulary, and have your own compliance eyes review anything clinical before it goes to patients. 🔹 Mind your disclaimers — we label all education as educational, not individual medical advice. 🔹 We built it as a 20-page saddle-stitch booklet (multiple of 4 pages) for print — easy to run through VistaPrint.

Don't miss tonight's weekly group mastermind! This is our hour to work shoulder-to-shoulder with colleagues, brainstorm real cases, and build the kind of provider community that makes running a DPC practice feel a whole lot less lonely. Two ways to get in: 1️⃣ Purchase any course or content in the Classroom → unlocks automatic, lifetime access to the mastermind group. 2️⃣ Upgrade to Premium → the community itself stays free, but Premium gets you into the weekly group mastermind PLUS every downloadable worksheet we build together each session. At less than $4 a meeting, here's what Premium unlocks: ✅ Weekly live group mastermind ✅ Every session worksheet — these are the actual deliverables we work through live: CEO worksheets, patient journals, dosing protocols, and provider education ✅ A room full of colleagues to brainstorm and grow with The worksheets aren't bonus PDFs sitting in a folder — they're the working tools we walk through together each session and you take home to use in your practice. 📲 How to upgrade to Premium (about 30 seconds): 1. Open the community and tap your profile picture (top right). 2. Go to Settings → Membership (or open the About tab on the community page). 3. Tap "Upgrade" / "Join Premium." 4. Enter payment details and confirm — you're in! 🎉 Worksheets and the mastermind link unlock automatically once you upgrade. 🗓️ JUNE MASTERMIND CALENDAR (alternating business + functional medicine — one focused hour each) 📌 Week 1 — Business: The CEO Hour — building your DPC financial dashboard & the CEO worksheet that runs your practice 📌 Week 2 — Functional: GLP-1 in Practice — titration, side-effect management & monitoring protocols (our most-requested topic) 📌 Week 3 — Business: Patient Journey & Retention — the patient journal tool & systems that keep members engaged 📌 Week 4 — Functional: Hormone Optimization — male & female protocols, lab targets & confident prescribing Weight loss and hormones are back by popular demand — come with your cases and questions.