#219: How Starting a Business Can Give You Freedom and Purpose with Escape the Clinic's Katie Bean
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Katie Bean is a PA who's passionate about helping other clinicians escape the clinic (or add in a side hustle). She worked in ER, and in academia before getting her doctorate. After reaching her professional peak, she realized she'd hit a ceiling and missed out on everything meaningful while she was busy hustling. A tragic loss awakened her to her life's purpose. She now helps other clinicians start businesses and has her own podcast, Escape the Clinic.)

Show notes:

- Consider starting a business, it can give you massive freedom and allow you to have a bigger impact and serve others in a new way.  

- Burnout can cause you to miss out on your life and the people in it if you’re focused on the hustle and grind.    

- Before you’re driven to an identity crisis, start exploring who you are outside your role as a PA.  What gives you worth besides your job title?

- It’s only a myth that you need time and experience to start a business.  Plenty of business models don’t require burning the candle at both ends.

- By empathizing with those around you, you can help identify and solve their problem; voila, that’s a business.  

- Starting a business allows you to use a different part of your brain, and that excitement over a new pursuit will often shift your feelings of burnout.  

- Do life on your terms now; don’t wait until you retire.

- You’re allowed to try something and pivot; you’re allowed to do it messy; the point is to take action and see what aligns

- Obstacles teach you to ask different questions and think outside the box

- Get crystal clear on what you want from your life.  What’s not aligned? Where are you unhappy and discontent?  Imagine you had a blank canvas for your life  That provides the vision and the direction.  Then, just take one brave step a day.

Katie's IG), LinkedIn), podcast) and website )(and 101 ideas to start a business)

Other resources mentioned: Cathy Heller, Amy Porterfield and books by Napolean Hill

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