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This is The Practice of the Practice podcast with Joe Sanok, session number 390.

I’m Joe Sanok, your host, and welcome to The Practice of the Practice podcast. If you are new, I’m so glad you’re here. We’ve had a bunch of people doing some ratings and reviews recently, we just really appreciate that on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcast. It’s one of the ways that you see that podcast you might like and you discover new podcasts, which I always love doing. The podcasts that are getting ratings and reviews, putting out regular content and having people download them on iTunes and other platforms, they really look at the reviews, the downloads, all those things to recommend this podcast to other people. And we continue to grow, we continue to expand and to me, it’s not just about expanding but expanding to the right people. We know that there are plenty of people that have private practices out there that are starting, growing and scaling that need help. And maybe that’s been helpful for you. So, thank you so much for sharing this podcast and for connecting this work with other people. We get emails a few times a week from people saying the impact of the podcast, it’s really awesome to see those.

Well, today, we have Tom Libelt who I’m going to tell you a little bit about in just a minute. But he’s been through some stuff, and he’s going to share his entrepreneurial journey. And next week, we have Megan Chapa, we have two people that are really pretty far outside of the private practice space, that have followed their passions in some really unique ways. And I specifically wanted to have these two next to each other because so often we lock ourselves in, and I was guilty of this, right after college, you work at a non-profit, then you maybe work at another non-profit, then you work as a supervisor, then you might get a job at community mental health or a community college. And then you wonder is that it? What do you do from there?
For me, I always thought that I had to have a job, that I had to have someone else saying, yeah, you can do this job and have that ‘security’. But over time, I really had to deconstruct that. And a lot of that comes from my family of origin. Both my parents worked for the schools, my dad was a school psychologist, my mom was a nurse practitioner in the school system as well. And my in-laws, they both worked for the schools. You kind of think there’s certain just things that you hold as true. And more and more, I’m realizing that the life you design is your life. You can live in your hometown as I do now, or you can pick up and buy a camper and travel the US, like my wife and I are exploring doing. We don’t know if we’re going to do that, we don’t know if we’re going to pull our kids out of school for a year. But if we do, I’ll tell you, and we’ll meet up as we travel the nation. And so, the way we make money, the way we impact the world, the way we choose to spend our time, it’s really up to us. We need things to do that, we need resources, we need guides, we need mentors, community, all these things that we hold dear with Practice of the Practice and even in the Sanok family. But you can do it. I love when we have these people that are on the surface, they don’t connect with Practice of the practice, but then when you start talking, you realize there are so many nuggets from outside of the private practice world. That’s something that if you haven’t picked up on yet, I really value getting truth wherever it is, whether that’s within our field, and most likely outside of our field, that helps us think differently. Because the way the business world thinks, the things that they have as assumptions, they are often so far down the line from where we’re at. We’re struggling with even having a good-looking website. When I look at any town in the USA and type in that town plus counseling, most of the websites are terrible, in the business world that just wouldn’t fly. But then there are areas that we are so far ahead, whether it’s listening and empathy, reflective, understanding. These things that we just take for granted that the business world has no idea how to do, even just de-escalation. You know, we know how to do that! I worked with kids that were in residential facilities, I know how to de-escalate a situation. The business world doesn’t know that second nature. And so, all of these different industries have so much to offer. And I love when we can balance outside of just our kind of typical way of thinking about things. So, without any further ado, let me give you Tom

[JOE SANOK] Today on The Practice the Practice podcast, we have Tom Libelt. He learned from a young age how to sell in negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him never to want a job and to keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists. Tom, welcome to The Practice of the Practice Podcast.

[TOM LIBELT] Yeah, thanks for having me.

[JOE SANOK] Well, I’ve got to start with top Polish hip hop artists. Have you always been into music? Did that come kind of throughout life? Let’s start there.

[TOM LIBELT] Yeah, ever since I saw the movie Disorderlies in Poland. It had the Fat Boys in it. When I saw that, it just shocked me because it was like nothing I’ve ever seen on TV out there. Because we had a lot of these things being pushed by the communist government, right. So, the music, the theatres, the movies we see on TV shows everything. They had people in the government picking and choosing what we could watch and listen to, right. And a funny story is that you know, when I went to Warsaw three, four years ago, my cleaning lady used to be one of those people. So, after the government shutdown, she had zero skills and you know, became a cleaning lady. But I was like, yeah, thanks a lot, you know, because thanks to you, I had to watch a lot of nonsense. And then you know, my dad just picked up a videotape from Germany somewhere, and it was Disorderlies, and I’d seen the Fat Boys and the love for hip hop just began. And for the next 15 years, I couldn’t get away from it.

[JOE SANOK] Wow, well I love working with people or talking with people that have experienced some difficulty in life. And not that everyone doesn’t have their own pain and nothing we need to compare pain, but I feel like when someone starts life under a communist government and sees your parents struggle, that the amount of chutzpah people then have to go after big things to say, I am not going to let life determine how I’m going to be, I’m going to go out there and get it. It just seems like oftentimes, when you’ve been through some of these things, it makes you want to push back and say I want to create the life that I want to live. And even in your bio there saying that you didn’t want a job like your parents, because they just had to barely make ends meet. What kind of things did you see as a child, but as you realized, I don’t ever want this kind of life?

[TOM LIBELT] When I was in Poland, we were doing pretty well, like you would say, upper-middle-class, right? I was pretty happy overall. But yet, you know, there were things which obviously aren’t good in those type of governments, like when I went to a toy store, they never had any toys, right? When you went to a store with real toys, you had to buy them with dollars, getting dollars was illegal in Poland at that time so you can imagine the dilemma. It was only for people from the party. When you went to the dentist, they had novocaine or anything so everything was live. Like those things, you remember really well. When we came to the States, that’s when I realized a lot of things, right? Because we lost everything, my parents had maybe 500 bucks, they started getting jobs, paying for $4.25 I think my mom said, so they were gone all day, all night just working. And they didn’t matter. You know, they really didn’t matter, people fired them on the spot. They didn’t get paid sometimes; they were treated like complete garbage when they came here. And I realized there’s no way in the world I’m going through that. Even when I started working with corporations a little bit, because I wanted to learn sales later on, I was always treated like a number because I was a number, even though they told you’re not, you really matter. But I’m like, I’m a number, I’m a number and you can replace me at any time. And a lot of sales jobs too. Because my parents when they work, you know, like they worked for one hour, they got paid for $4.25. When I was doing sales, let’s say life insurance, and I sold someone a policy for $400 a month, I would get paid for six months of that policy, but my company was paid for the next 30-40 years. And I’m like this is garbage too, doesn’t make any sense. If they just let me keep 10% of what I’m selling, and not give me anything else, after a year I will be set for life. But that’s not the way it works. So, I thought if I can do it on my own, I actually don’t need to make that many sales. And you see that in your own business, you know, with recording and with different products, if they keep selling and you just make them and make the right funnels conversations to make it happen, it’s actually pretty boring to be successful.

[JOE SANOK] When you’re a kid I don’t think you realize how much of the world you can determine what you’re going to do. But then when did you start to realize I don’t want to just have a job like my parents and started to say, I think this business direction might be the direction for my life.

[TOM LIBELT] In high school, I was selling beads and I quickly realized you can buy something for cheap and there’s demand. And there was a lot of demand for it back then, so it was my first thing. Then I put that money into a record store, when I was about 16 I couldn’t open it on my own so I found two college guys around 18-19, they opened it but I was a partner and I started making money through that. I got a job at Tommy Hilfiger I negotiated a great discount on clothes. I think the best one of them working there was like 80% off. I would buy clothes at a discount because I was working so I would know when the discounts happened. I took the best clothes, got 80% off, plus their discount, I took them to my store and sold it for like six times more. I realized being a middleman or just being able to mark things up, it doesn’t equate to how many hours you work. I could sell something in 15 minutes and be set for a whole week. Whereas in Tommy Hilfiger, even though I just worked to play the game a little bit, they only paid me for what I worked. A lot of time, I would just sit there for eight hours and be like, this is horrible. I’m not doing anything and I will tell the manager I’m not going to do anything; I don’t feel like it. But I still only got paid for eight hours, and there was no future, it’s not like I’m building anything. I just didn’t feel like that’s the way to go for me.

[JOE SANOK] Yeah, and I mean, you published around 5000 Kindle books, and you’ve done all these other things: you’re a Muay Thai Champion, owned a coffee shop, retail store… It seems like you have all these different businesses you’ve tried, and it seems like we’re around the same age. I don’t feel like I even had the confidence or the know-how to do a lot of what I’m doing till 5, maybe 10 years ago I started to be interested in it. So, you started young, which gave you such an advantage and then you kept going with it. Take us through how do you know which business ideas are good? Because I feel like a lot of times, we’re like, oh, yeah, I should write some songs and try to make a career out of that. Or I like coffee, I should open a coffee shop. I imagine it wasn’t just your interests that pushed you forward on what was a good idea. So how do you quickly know which business ideas are good or which are bad? Because you’ve just done so many, how do you sort that out?

[TOM LIBELT] There are three reasons I do something. The first one is I’m super interested in it. So that was music, it was easy for me to stay in it for a long time and it was actually one of the worst ideas ever. Like I love that because I’m happy I did it. I got to the point where I was satisfied with all my complete all my goals but made the least money. The second one is when you’re bored, right? That’s when you start filming movies and doing other things and just make things happen. And the third one is when you just see opportunities happen, right? And opportunities are something that you’re prepared for. So, with the Kindle Books, the business I had before that was an SEO business, which is still running now. But we were doing blog networks at the time, it was like maybe 7 or 8 years ago, and blog networks for pretty much blogs that people bought. And they allow you to pay them to put a post-up there with links back to your website. So, some of these companies will have 3000-4000 blogs and you could sign up like a monthly thing that’s $150 a month and publish 100 or something blog posts their network. We did that for about a year and a half, I had a good team built up. And one day, Google destroyed every single network on the planet, so all these went out of business. I had a team of 14 that worked pretty much without me just posting these things and I didn’t want to fire my team. I heard about this thing called a Kindle, and then people said you can post the books and you can sell them. I told my team, look, you’ve done blog posts so instead of that just do 20-30-page reports on different topic, create covers, figure out how to format them and put them up on Kindle. And within 3-4 months the team paid for itself and we just started publishing like crazy. So that team was publishing 100 -150 books per month. After a couple of years, the Kindle pay out changed a bit so we couldn’t make money on the rentals as well. Because in the beginning when you rented a book you got $1.50 for each rental, then they started cost-cutting, you know what Amazon always does. In the beginning, when they need you, they pay a lot and when they don’t, they start cutting costs. So, it went down and we slowly start shutting down the team.

But these things just happened organically. If you see a good moment you just got to get in. If it doesn’t make money, then kill it very quickly. But if it starts making money and gets momentum, then you come to these crossroads, you’ve got to figure out like am I ready to put 5-6 years into this? Can I make this work without me putting in a lot of time into it? Because then you’re kind of an hourly person again. There are these questions you’ve got to ask yourself, and they’ll let you know if that’s the right business for you.
But opportunities come all the time, every 2-3 years you’re going to get something. You might not get a huge win; these will maybe happen 2-3 times in your lifetime. Like Bitcoin was one, right? Some people had got in and just got rich for no reason. But yeah, there are these crossroads you’re going to get. Always think about it like stops on the bus. When you get to the next stop, you have more questions you have to ask yourself, do I continue, do I get off, do I get on a different bus. The thing I always say too is sometimes when you’re on the bus and you’re on the third or fourth stuff, you will look at a different bus and it looks much greener. And it was better, more money being made people you know, happier on that bus. But when you get off, eventually you’re going to get to that same stop again, right? Because it’s not like you’re going to continue on another bus, you start from the first stop all the time.
What I find is that often people don’t have like 20- or 30-year experience and don’t get through all these different problems, they have 10 times three-year experience. They’re stuck in the same loop and they always get off at the same time. I mean, like with your business, you’ve seen it, you know, the first 2-3 years is beautiful, but 5-6 years, now you’re starting to really get momentum, work less, make more. But there’s a lot of challenges. Every year, every stop, there’s different things, either it’s either going to make or break you.

[JOE SANOK] I like how you said when it’s not working, knowing how to get out quickly. And so, it sounds like you pivoted that team to a new product, but then when Amazon changed their algorithm, you then said this isn’t going to work anymore. You moved on to the next thing. Which is often hard to do, because internet marketers and people that we listen to on podcast so often, we hear, here’s the next thing to do. And if you’re listening to a lot of those folks, it’s hard to know even who to listen to. What would you say when it comes to the general internet marketers, what you should listen to what you should ignore, what have you seen work based on a lot of what typical internet marketers are teaching?

[TOM LIBELT] This is really, really difficult. I usually say stop listening to internet marketers. Because if you listen to enough of them all the advice will cancel itself out. One of them is going to say start a podcast, build your business, the second one’s going to say podcasts are dead, go into LinkedIn, then the third one’s going to say LinkedIn is dead – things just cancel itself out. It’s very hard to know who’s actually making money and who’s not. I find the people that make the most, speak the least. So usually, from my experience, the ones that post the most and shout the most are doing the least, trying to prove themselves or something.
Like with me, when I try to get clients, once every couple of months, we go on a little rampage, my rampage is like two posts on Facebook, and then maybe an email list blast, like, once. That’s really it. I put out content that matters, right? I know who my clients are, I know what they want to know. So, I might just go into something like ‘The five things that we do in my business when an online course is not selling’. This is exactly what we do, this is what to look for, this is why we do it. And people would be like, thank you. Because that’s usually the problem their course is not selling, but I know the problems. My last one with you having a couple of clients was like just ‘How to sell multiple online courses at the same time’. But it’s another problem that people have, they’ll have 10 and they’re sick of having launches and one’s not selling, they got to focus on the next one, this one’s losing money. So, when I just give them that piece of advice, they’ll be like, ‘Oh, my God, this is great’.

[JOE SANOK] What is the advice there, because we have lots of online courses? What’s the paragraph answer to that question?

[TOM LIBELT] The thing that works best with online courses is think of it as a school schedule, right? And your school is sort of limited because it’s only you and maybe a couple of people. So, if you think of a year, you have 12 months, and you have, let’s say six courses, and just offer one course every two months. Let people know that this course cannot be taken again until next year, that’s in January, February. And you stay in front of them for years, the email list has to keep getting emails all the time because some people will not take your course until they hear from you. Because it’s that consistency they trust. But just setting up that schedule, it fixes everything. You don’t have to do launches, you know exactly when your class is going to be, the urgency is there, you’re not lying to people. This class runs from March till April. If you don’t take it this year, well, you’ll take it next year, because it doesn’t run otherwise. And that’s so we can focus on one class at a time. And then you don’t worry about launches and all this stuff. You have a schedule, it’s like a school and people join a school, they know what’s offered, you know when it’s offered. And they realize very quickly ‘If I don’t take this now, I have to wait’. It solves a lot of these problems people are trying to solve with timers, and webinars and these other things, because it’s like, well, the trust is there, because you’re always in front of them. People have the schedule, you’re like a school, so that’s worked the best for us when we think of multiple online courses, we just put a schedule out, which is very similar to a school.

[JOE SANOK] That’s awesome! When you when you work with people or when you are speaking or on podcasts, you’ve seen a lot of people that are successful, you’ve seen a lot of people that are not successful, what are some of the things that you see that really differentiate those that have success or even massive success from those that have just kind of adequate or even failing success?

[TOM LIBELT] The one thing that I noticed and we now have a list of people we never speak to, again, is people who show up on time. The busiest people usually show up on time and they’re ready. It’s the slackers, the wannabes, they always have some problem that pops up. We both were both busy, with a lot of these podcast guys I’m definitely busier and making much more. So, if I’m on time, why aren’t you on time? It’s one of those things where I’ve just seen how you do the little things is how you do everything?

[JOE SANOK] Yeah, it’s such a good piece of advice! Even 10 minutes before this call, I looked at my calendar and we have a new assistant taking over and improving some of our systems. And I saw that it had your name, it didn’t have your bio, it didn’t have anything. And I’m like, this cannot happen. So, in the five minutes before I’m texting the assistant say, we need to improve the system because I can’t show up for a podcast and you know, not have Tom’s bio. That’s just ridiculous, you know?

[TOM LIBELT] You cared, right?

[JOE SANOK] I cared enough to do that.

[TOM LIBELT] Yeah, you didn’t show up and be like, hey, by the way, where’s your bio? Or, hey, I haven’t looked at your stuff. Let me just read it now. Like you didn’t do that.

[JOE SANOK] Yeah, I love that. Especially because it reinforces that I show up on time. So, I feel like I’m going to continue to be successful in Tom’s eyes

[TOM LIBELT] Yeah, but that’s the main thing I’ve noticed. If you want to get something done, ask the busiest person, you know, not the one that doesn’t do anything? Because there’s a reason for that.

[JOE SANOK] So when people start showing up on time, you use the term wannabes when you’re talking about content. And I see that a lot, even just since I started this podcast a number of years ago, to see how many podcasts there are now aimed at counselors in private practice. It’s just crazy. And I know a lot of these people’s numbers. And I know how bad they are, how good they are. For people that really want to grow and succeed in their business, whether that’s a private practice, or consulting or online work, what else beyond showing up on time, would you say are essential building blocks to building a successful business?

[TOM LIBELT] What I find in any business, that to get to your first five or six figures you can hustle your way to it. You just need to keep working, grinding it out. It’s at that moment where things switch. I used to be a serial entrepreneur, which is not a great thing in my opinion because if you see a serial entrepreneur on someone’s LinkedIn profile, that means one of two things. Either he/she can exit really well, or they’re just really crappy at building businesses so they’ve got to keep starting new ones over and over again. When you get to that higher point, the focus has to change because instead of grinding, and working in the business, you’ve got to grow on the business, setting up the systems. You’re going to have a lot of different problems you’ve got to handle and building systems is a big problem of its own because you’ve got to build a team, you’ve got to get managers, you have to get the processes in place. You find a lot of people who get to that point that have no processes, have no SOPS, have no idea how to offload the work. And you need to, you can’t scale past a certain point by yourself. So, everyone’s going to hit that, at some point, if they keep grinding out long enough in the right business. But then it’s going to get really hard, especially if you’re scared of delegating or if you’re scared of selling, because you know, you have to give those to someone to do and it’s really hard, right? If you think that you don’t want to be salesy then hire a salesperson.

[JOE SANOK] I think one of the things that I often say is an assistant that’s going to take your intake phone calls, check your email, do your scheduling, almost always, they are not an expense that they’re a multiplier. Especially in the world of counseling private practices. If you’re in a counseling session charging $150 per session and paying someone 15 bucks an hour to be answering your phones and checking your email, the amount of times that a call is going to come when you’re in session, and then they’re going to book another intake for you. They’re going to be a multiplier that’s going to more than pay for their own time. And I think that people often don’t even know those basic numbers of like, what’s my ROI on my time? What’s my ROI on when I put money into things. They often have that bootstrapping mentality in you’re right just to hustle your way to six figures, especially in the field of counseling or in private practices, you can do that through hustle. But to really scale and to really grow, that’s where you’ve got to start looking outside of your own time and saying is this the very best use of my time?

[TOM LIBELT] You definitely to have an hourly rate you set for yourself, and that means anything, right? I’m pretty extreme. So, even when it comes to watching a movie, that movie is costing me, right, so I make sure that fee is pretty good. The girlfriend doesn’t usually like that, I’ll be like, what do you want to watch The Bumblebee? It’s going to cost me 200 bucks. I get extreme with that. But I will not do a task which is worth less than that unless I am learning something new. But even then, I’m definitely very conscious of my time and the money spent. If I’m buying an online course, and you should think about that, too, if you or one of the listeners are selling a premium one because other people do look at it from the same way as me. If you’re selling a $500 online course, for example, the first thing I will look at is how many hours will it take for me to get from A to B, right? What’s the transformation that takes? And if it’s six hours, I’m like ‘Okay, so this is now over $2200 – $2300’. That’s the cost, that’s my cost. I will add that in, right? So sometimes if you can get me from this to that in an hour, and even hike the price up to $1000, I’ll take it, because the other course is going to cost me six or seven hours of my time. When it comes to premium stuff the time saving is a huge, huge deal because when you go on the low end with Udemy and Skillshare, those people are Walmart shoppers, right, they just want to get 30 hours’ worth of content, some toilet paper and whatever else for 10 bucks. It’s a different type of buyer. But the premium stuff, you have to think a little differently because we have hourly wages that we set for ourselves, and we look at everything through that lens.

[JOE SANOK] I know, as we’ve launched Next Level Practice, which we go beyond just the e-course model, we view it like the Netflix of private practice resources where people pay a monthly subscription. And then we’re creating ongoing new content and have live events and live support. When you think about how much time that saves people when they can show up to a Q&A and say ‘Hey, I’m stuck in this area Joe, what should I do?’ In five minutes we say you should do this. How many hours did that save you for that monthly cost? I think that often when you’re first starting a business, you underestimate just how long things are going to take when you don’t have some good coaching, you don’t have some people that can walk you through it yet.

[TOM LIBELT] And that’s the best advice, you can listen to someone that actually went through it in front of you. The problem with internet marketing is that you just don’t know. Like, for the most part, you just don’t know, because so many people are faking it till they make it and shouting things. I see so many Facebook advertisers posting on Facebook, that just makes zero sense. I’ll charge you 500 bucks and you will spend 500 bucks, and then I’ll make you money. I’m like ‘No, you won’t, there’s no way, on cold traffic, there is no way in the world you’re going to make the money, don’t get a one x return at the most on 500 so going with you just cost me 500. It doesn’t make any sense if someone said you’ve got to pay 4000 and ad spend and I charge 500. And then this is what I typically get from the cold traffic. This is what I get from the remarketing and they calculate it. I’m like, okay, but most of them don’t, they’ll just like say ‘I charge 250 or 300 and to spend is about that too’. And I just I call bullshit on it all the time, it’s not possible, you are ripping people off. Your whole business model is to just churn people in and out because everyone’s going to leave. So, it’s just I have to get 10 more customers because 10 are leaving, you know, it’s that type of model. It’s horrible. But I see so much of that. And then other people are desperate like ‘Oh my god, I need some traffic or I need to get some sales and I’ll go with these people’. And it just ruins everything, I’m like ‘Oh my god, I don’t trust anyone anymore’. It’s hard, it’s really hard to know who you should be listening to.

[JOE SANOK] I have found that a lot of people will listen to multiple podcasters, listen to multiple Facebook groups, rather than just say ‘Okay, I connect with this one person, I’m going to follow them for a while’. So, when I was working with Jaime Masters from Eventual Millionaire, I just followed her work. And I listened to what she said, and I didn’t try to fill my brain with anything else. If I’m paying this lady, thousands of dollars a month for consulting, then I need to just do what she says and make sure she’s the one that’s teaching me and that I’m not challenging that or making her justify what she said if she’s genuinely the expert that I trust, I just need to listen to her and try it out. And then if it fails, then I know that it was completely just listening to her. It wasn’t my own error that was mixed in there. I think people have a hard time doing that, to just give themselves over to someone they trust and say, just teach me what I need to do. I’m going to try it.

[TOM LIBELT] Well, it’s hard, but it’s usually the best option. And with Jaime, I met Jaime a couple of times. And the first time I was like, huh, yeah, I don’t know’. But then, my friend Natalie Sisson, and this is a friend introduced me again to Jaime because you know before it was just like ‘Hey Jaime’. Then I was like ‘Okay, well, if they hang out, and I trust Natalie because she’s successful and Jaime….’ You know it what was one of these things? And I know, that’s how people look at me too. So, a lot of it is social proof too. If you come on the website, you’ve seen I interviewed all these people, I was doing all this stuff. And I’ve been speaking and having these meetups and all this, you know, people think it kind of makes sense. But if you just go on someone’s website and only hear them screaming, and there’s no social proof, you know, it’s hard. It’s hard, it’s really hard. But it’s better to listen to one person than get like five different people giving you advice. That’s the worst.

[JOE SANOK] The last question I always ask is if every private practice owner in the world were listening right now, what would you want them to know?

[TOM LIBELT] You know, the one thing that helped me a lot is once I understood about anchors. You sort of anchor yourself to the income that you expect, right? So, for a long time, when I was first starting out, I said I just want to make like $3000 – $4000 a month. And every time I made more, it only happened for a month or two, then I went back down. Well, it kept on happening all the time, until I finally realized that like I’ve got to move my anchor first and then I’ll just keep making it. And it’s funny too because if each one of you listening, you have that anchor in the back of your head. And you will notice that whatever that is, even if you make less in a month or two, you’ll get back to it. If you make more than that, you’ll usually come back down to it. That’s what you’re comfortable with. And without moving that, you just you can’t go from 5k a month to 20k without moving that anchor, it’s going to take some struggle. Because it’s like am I worth 20k now, how do I make myself feel like I’m worth it? I deserve it. But once you move that anchor, you’ll realize ‘Hi, I’m just making 20k now.’ Right?

[JOE SANOK] Oh, that’s so good. So, Tom, if people want to connect with your work, they want to hear more I know you also have a podcast, tell them where they can connect with you more.

[TOM LIBELT] The easiest way is to come to www.smartbrandmarketing.com. Or if you have a course that’s not selling, just go to www.wemarketonlinecourses.com. I’m super easy to get hold of.

[JOE SANOKE] Awesome. Well, thank you so much for being on The Practice of the Practice Podcast.

[TOM LIBELT] Yeah, thanks for having me.

[JOE SANOK] My big takeaway from that interview was when Tom talked about anchors and that we anchor what our income should be. I think that’s such an important thing to think about. I know that for me, I thought there’s no way I can ever make more than $100,000. That’s for the President of the college or big CEOs or, you know, people that really know what they’re doing. But in reality, when I started to really get some traction with Practice of the Practice, and evaluated my systems and kept asking myself what does the audience want, it was so much easier to say ‘Well, here are things that genuinely help people, help them save time and they’re willing to pay for it’. It helped me increase my income. And that’s true in your private practice and being able to offer services beyond just your own, through extra clinicians, through e-courses, through podcasts, through keynotes, through books, through all sorts of different ways that you can increase your income streams, and help other people – they don’t stand in contrast with each other so I just love that idea. I’d love to know what you found valuable from this, whether it’s dropping me an email, tagging me on social media, writing a review, I would love to know. Also, thank you so much to Therapy Notes who is an ongoing sponsor that has committed to this podcast and has committed to helping you as therapists. Therapy Notes is the best electronic health records out there. Use promo code ‘Joe’ at checkout for two months, totally free for you to check it out, see if it’s a good fit for you. And we just so appreciate all that you’re doing for the world.

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