How to Start Your Own OT/OTA Business With Michelle Eliason, OTR, CDS

<p><strong>How to Start Your Own OT/OTA Business with Michelle Eliason, OTR, CDS</strong></p> <p>Are you still doubting yourself that you can leverage your practice into becoming your own business?</p> <p>Michelle Eliason shares her journey on how she leveraged her Occupational Therapist practice into her own business – OTPreneur.</p> <p><em><strong>In this episode:</strong></em><em><br> </em>01:30 – Food for thought: Whenever you feel like giving up, think of all the people that would love to see you fail.<br> 05:50 – Introduction of Michelle Eliason.<br> 10:00 – Now is the time to get out of your comfort zone.<br> 12:45 – How to leverage your OT scope of practice in entrepreneurship.<br> 14:20 – Elephant in the room: OT vs. OTA<br> 16:00 – Whether you are an OT or OTA – you can be a business owner.<br> 17:10 – Can you do your business without a professional license?<br> 18:45 – Entrepreneurial Frame of Reference (Vision, Strategy, Execute, Success)<br> 23:35 – Seek a mentor.<br> 29:30 – Find a vision and go confidently after that.<br> 30:05 – What can you do if you learn how to leverage the OT profession?<br> 30:20 – Buffalo Occupational Therapy.<br> 32:35 – Start with the Free Stuff First.<br> 39:32 – What is the First Tier?<br> 49:50 – Stop analyzing and start taking action. – Dr. Mike<br> 52:30 – What is in the Second Tier?<br> 54:40 – What does the Third Tier offer?<br> 55:50 – What is in the Fourth Tier?<br> 57:30 – Leverage your skills set and partner it with strategy. – Michelle<br> 58:50 – What Michelle wished she knew before starting?<br> 1:00:00 – OTPreneur Course has a special offer until October 31.<br> 1:05:00 – Re-evaluate your profession to leverage it.<br> 1:09:40 – Always remember the word <em>FAST</em>.</p> <p>You can reach Michelle through her business page @BuffaloOT or on Instagram at @GeriatricOT</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/althealthcareers/message