Sustainable Business Coaching for Holistic Healthcare Practitioners:

Acupuncturists, Naturopaths, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, bodyworkers, Functional Medicine Practitioners, Integrative Medicine Doctors, healers

I help people and their businesses grow.

Authentically. Ethically. Sustainably.

 
 

Julie Bear Don’t Walk is a human, a healer, a mother, a partner, and a regenerative business coach.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Consulting Services

I offer regenerative business coaching. What does this mean? It means that we work together to establish practices and systems to ensure that your growth nourishes YOU as much as it serves to help your clients and patients. I do coaching in small groups, as well as one on one coaching. The foundation of all the work I do with clients is to expand internal capacity, by incorporating a very specific set of skills that help with navigating growth, change, and being present in our shared humanity. With those resources, growth becomes both ease-ful and inevitable. With expanded internal capacity, growing your practice becomes a joy, not a slog. I’m not a coach that is all about the hustle, the power move, or the full throttle. I’m about cultivating deep knowing, wisdom and growth that will serve you and your practice for the long term. This approach blends micro-mindfulness practices with very practical rhythms, systems and strategies to yield an abundant practice with a feeling of spaciousness and ease in daily life. Here are some of the topics we focus on in our work together:

 
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Marketing

  • Instagram training 

  • Facebook ads training

  • Newsletter templates

  • Models for reaching out to local healthcare practitioners for referrals

  • Branding clarity

 

Systems Work

  • Patient retention and referral strategies that feel authentic and organic

  • Personalized clinic management recommendations to help prevent overwhelm and promote a sense of organization, calm and flow

  • Guidance for streamlining office and patient systems for more flow 

  • Simple, doable self care routines that help all aspects of your life to flourish, especially your business and clinical results

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Vision

  • Analytic tools for determining when and how to grow in your physical space, in staff, and in diversity

  • Methods for filling your practice with the ideal patients for YOU and your practice. Patients you are excited to treat, who resonate with you and your approach, and who are on board with their healing

  • Help for keeping clear during the natural discomfort of growing beyond the familiar

  • Community of likeminded practitioners who share a vision of authentic, sustainable, powerful growth, rooted in integrity

 

Flow

  • Frameworks for establishing flow between your roles as a practitioner / person / parent / partner

  • Recommendations for feeling energized rather than drained by the responsibilities of growth and patient care

  • Organizational support for finding the perfect daily rhythm for you

  • Strategic planning and goal setting to systematically make your vision a reality, with ease and flow

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About Julie

I am about healing. At the deepest levels, so that our own flourishing can help others shine bright.

 

I’ve grown my practice from a one-person show seeing 35 patients a week to a staff of eight helping over 150 patients a week, all while growing in my marriage, as a parent, and as a human being. I’m not perfect. I’ve had some really great teachers and mentors, and I’m deeply committed to authentic, genuine growth at the deepest level. To me, that means waking up each day inspired and invigorated to help people heal, and to help others help people heal. 

Healing is my thing. I grew up in a household where suffering was the dominant state of being. My mother grew up with trauma — alcoholism, sexual abuse, being poor, untreated family depression. So naturally, she suffered. She suffered physical pain, mental pain, and tremendous shame. She dealt with it by self medicating with whatever she could get her hands on: drugs, alcohol, sex, and food. I’m the oldest of six children and I stood in for her when her suffering overwhelmed her ability to be a present parent (her intentions were always good, but untreated trauma has a way of taking the driver’s seat). As a kid, I just wanted to help. I understand that as an adult, my capacity to help when I was a child was pretty limited, but my desire to help others was born of witnessing this kind of overwhelming suffering. 

I believe that we have the power to heal, at every level. I believe that we are amazingly capable of shifting things. I believe that we can transcend familiar patterns and realize our dreams. This is my life’s work. And I want to help you shine more brightly in your life. By helping you to help others. By helping you to own your power, do the work you came here to do. By helping you to live deeply, fully and present-ly. 

This is my greatest passion. To help. To heal. To make it real. To facilitate transformation on multiple levels.

I offer experience. As a busy clinician, with a multi-faceted practice, employees, as a committed mother, a present partner and healer that still works on healing her own stuff. I know that sometimes you can see the path forward, but not exactly how to get there. I offer guidance along your path, based upon my training and real-life experience. 

 
 
 

who do I help?

I help people who are committing to growing sustainably, authentically and powerfully.
People who:

  • Have a vision for where they want to go but are unsure of exactly how to to get there

  • Feel stuck, burned out and want to re-connect with the joy of helping people

  • Are ready to grow, but overwhelmed with all of the details that might entail

  • Are really struggling with work / life balance and feeling squeezed between the roles of parent / partner / practitioner / person

  • Feel like “if I grow, it might negatively impact my family or marriage or my own nervous system”

  • Want to grow but not sure they are up for the task, emotionally, physically, or energetically — it all feels so draining 

  • Have some things figured out but feel maxed out with taking it further

  • Don’t have the time to sift through a bunch of self-paced material — they need the Cliff’s Notes version for growing fast

  • Are going through a major life transition: pregnancy, marriage, divorce, moving locations, empty-nesters, changing business focus

  • Are ready to hire additional staff, grow into a bigger space, streamline into more efficient systems so that their time is used more efficiently

  • Shift from employee to starting their own practice

  • Want to improve their relationships with their family while growing as a practitioner

  • Want to heal themselves, and view being a healer as a deeply holistic endeavor 

 

When is a good time for coaching? 

  • You want to grow but feel stuck and unsure as to which strategies are best for you and your business

  • You are going through a major life transition and want to recalibrate to be more in sync with your authentic vision

  • You want to move locations, add staff, shift focus

  • You are maxed out, and need solutions for balancing all of your different roles: parent / practitioner / partner / person

  • When you need immediate, 1:1 support for growth to get to the next level. 

  • When you are ready to start your own practice and want to do it right from the get-go

  • You are ready for change

 

HOW DO WE DO IT?

Coaching is done via Zoom, with some Voxer support, at a pace determined by your unique needs. Typically, it is done weekly or biweekly, and includes:

  • Small group or 1:1 coaching calls, over the course of six months.

  • Facebook group for members of Lifeflow Consulting, with ongoing community engagement

  • Skills labs for helping to hone internal capacity, in clinic and in life

  • Administrative Office Hours to ask your administrative or systems-related questions

  • Templates and scripts for patient on-boarding, scheduling out, hiring staff, marketing  / media plans, and newsletter templates

  • Self-care plans

  • Visioning exercises

  • Systems and organizational help

  • A community of likeminded, growth-focused healers!

 
 
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Work With Julie


1.5 hour 1:1 strategy call

I help you come up with creative solutions to up to two-three issues you have going on with your business during our 1:1 strategy session. Includes a list of actionable items for you to take at the end of our time together. Your fill out a detailed intake form, we get right to work, and we follow up with a 15 minute meeting a month after our session together.


small group open the flow coaching

A six month program of small group coaching, meeting 3x / month. This small group program is focused on GROWING your clinic and patient numbers, while establishing good systems and rhythms to support sustainable growth. Foundational practices of expanding internal capacity are taught at each session, while also emphasizing marketing, patient retention, clinic systems, financial sustainability, visioning and setting goals. Ideal for solo practitioners and those seeing less than 30 patients a week without any in-house staff support.


Small group leadership coaching

A six month program of small group coaching, meeting 3x /month. This small group program is focused on growing your team to help support you and serve your community. We dive into how to cultivate intentional, healthy team dynamics before you even put a job description out. We also explore and discuss nuts and bolts of numbers, logistics, and flow with a bigger team. Contracts, compensation, mission and vision, clinic directorship, and ease-ful leadership. Especially important during this time is an emphasis on expanding internal capacity so that leadership and practice growth feel organic and in the flow. Burnout prevention and recovery are also addressed. Ideal for practitioners who are seeing 30+ patients / clients a week, who intend to hire, or who already have a team in place and need help with team dynamics and leadership.

Twelve, 1:1 strategy conversations

A series of ten conversations to help build sustainable growth for the long term. Perfect for those who are exploring new business models, who are at a crossroads in their profession, who are pivoting or who have been in practice for years and need a re-boot. This is an opportunity to explore “what next” and come up with a creative plan together for making your mark in the world with your skill set. We continue to emphasize expanding internal capacity so that clarity around future steps is organic and directional, without being forced.

Ongoing 1:1 strategy conversations

For clients that have already completed small group coaching or 1:1 coaching, to be booked on an as-needed basis.  

 

For additional information, please inquire below.

 
 
 

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