Every decision you make about your practice culture, your onboarding, your expectations, your tone in a team meeting. All of it shapes how your associates experience their work. The question is not whether you are influencing your team. You are. The question is whether you are doing it intentionally.

Leadership is not about abandoning your team. It is about building capacity, clarity, and accountability. When you step in too quickly, you may unintentionally take away opportunities for others to learn, stretch, and succeed.

Starting and growing a group practice is a bold move. It’s exciting, meaningful, and filled with possibility. But it can also feel incredibly isolating. You’ve got therapists relying on you, clients to serve, admin fires to put out, and a vision to chase—if you can even remember what that vision was in the first place.

That’s exactly why I started the Empowered to Lead podcast.