Starting a Therapist Podcast

An interview with Joe Sanok, host of the Practice of the Practice podcast, on why, how, and when to start a podcast. Curt and Katie talk with Joe about what to consider when you’re a therapist with a bigger message. We get into some practical steps for podcasting. We also look at how you can create space for creativity, making a bigger impact, and slowing down.

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

Interview with Joe Sanok

Joe Sanok is a thought leader, productivity researcher, and speaker. As a TEDx speaker, HarperCollin author, business consultant, and podcaster Joe helps people to slow down to spark more innovation. Joe has the #1 podcast for counselors, The Practice of the Practice Podcast. With interviews with Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, and Jaime Masters, Joe is a rising star in the speaking world!

Joe is a writer for PsychCentral, has been featured on the Huffington Post, Forbes, GOOD Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Entrepreneur on Fire, and Yahoo News. He is author of five books and has been named the Therapist Resource top podcast, consultant, and blogger.

In this episode we talk about:

The mistakes that Joe made that informs his work
The need to listen to their audience prior to launching products
How to listen to your audience
“Fall in love with the pain and the people before you ever pitch a product.”
Identifying pain points and the transformation
Applying the therapeutic process to content creation
Building your audience to the point that you can ask what the pain points are
Why it would be a good idea to start a podcast
Pod-fading – most podcasts stop releasing episodes within 12 episodes
How to choose your topic
The importance of being yourself
Understanding the goals of your podcast
The surprising things that happen when you have a podcast
Visibility and connection that comes from podcasting
Figuring out your next step and jumping before you’re ready
The importance of setting limits around your time – how that impacts your performance
The problem with over-thinking
The benefit of delegating tasks and dramatically decreasing your time at work
The process of refining your business to better support you and the problem of perfectionism

Resources mentioned:

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Joe Sanok’s Practice of the Practice Podcast

Special offer from Joe: Free e-course podcastlaunchschool.com

practiceofthepractice.com

Apply to work with Joe (link expired)

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Curt Widhalm is in private practice in the Los Angeles area. He is the cofounder of the Therapy Reimagined conference, the CFO of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, a former Subject Matter Expert for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, and a loving husband and father. He is 1/2 great person, 1/2 provocateur, and 1/2 geek, in that order. He dabbles in the dark art of making “dad jokes” and usually has a half-empty cup of coffee somewhere nearby. Learn more at: http://www.curtwidhalm.com

Katie Vernoy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, coach, and consultant supporting leaders, visionaries, executives, and helping professionals to create sustainable careers. Katie, with Curt, has developed workshops and a conference, Therapy Reimagined, to support therapists navigating through the modern challenges of this profession. Katie is also Past President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. In her spare time, Katie is secretly siphoning off Curt’s youthful energy, so that she can take over the world. Learn more at: http://www.katievernoy.com

A Quick Note:

Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves – except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it.

Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.