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Global Top 5% Ranked Podcast | 215+ Episodes | 51 Countries

Welcome to Thriving Practice - the business podcast for independent healthcare practice owners who want to prevent burnout, grow profitable practices, and reclaim their time. If you're a physician, dentist, therapist, or healthcare entrepreneur struggling with practice management, leadership challenges, or work-life balance, this show gives you proven strategies for sustainable growth without sacrifice.

Hosted by Tracy Cherpeski, MBA, MA, CPSC - executive coach, business consultant, and CME-approved educator with 15+ years specializing in healthcare practice consulting. Tracy brings you successful practice owners, industry experts, and medical association leaders, all united in helping private practices stay private and thrive.

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By the Numbers

  • Global Top 5% ranking on Listen Notes

  • 215+ episodes featuring healthcare business experts and successful practice owners

  • 51 countries reached globally, making this one of the most internationally recognized healthcare practice management podcasts

  • 9 seasons of actionable strategies for practice growth, leadership development, and burnout prevention

  • Weekly episodes delivering fresh insights for healthcare entrepreneurs

  • Hosted by CME-approved educator Tracy Cherpeski, MBA, MA, CPSC

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You May Be the Bottleneck: What a Telehealth Entrepreneur Wants Every Practice Owner to Know Featuring Paulina Riedler, EP 253 

Are you the single point of failure in your own practice? Telehealth entrepreneur Paulina Riedler shares what med spa owners need to know.

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Special Feature: SNACK Episodes

One of the most popular features of Thriving Practice is our unscripted "SNACK episodes" - intimate, behind-the-scenes conversations where Operations Manager Miranda Dorta turns the tables and interviews Tracy without any preparation or planning.

These episodes give listeners an authentic glimpse into Tracy's coaching approach and problem-solving process in real-time. Without knowing the questions in advance, Tracy responds the same way she does with private clients - creating an honest, unfiltered experience that reveals her methodology, thinking, and personality.

Listeners consistently report that SNACK episodes feel like "being in the room" during an actual coaching session, making them some of the highest-rated content in the podcast's 9-season run. If you want to understand what working with Tracy is really like before investing in coaching, start with a SNACK episode.

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You May Be the Bottleneck: What a Telehealth Entrepreneur Wants Every Practice Owner to Know Featuring Paulina Riedler, EP 253
You May Be the Bottleneck: What a Telehealth Entrepreneur Wants Every Practice Owner to Know Featuring Paulina Riedler, EP 253

What does it cost when a skilled provider spends their afternoon doing compliance paperwork instead of treating patients? In this episode, Tracy Cherpeski sits down with Paulina Riedler — founder of SpaKinect and a registered nurse turned entrepreneur — to talk about telehealth compliance, practice efficiency, and the real cost of being the bottleneck in your own medical spa or aesthetic practice. 

The Ick Factor: Why Practice Owners Avoid Fee Conversations — And What It's Costing Them – A Special Snack Episode, EP 252
The Ick Factor: Why Practice Owners Avoid Fee Conversations — And What It's Costing Them – A Special Snack Episode, EP 252

If you've ever looked at your fee schedule and felt a knot in your stomach, you're not alone. Fee setting is one of the most avoided conversations in private practice — and it's not about not caring. It's about the discomfort that runs deep in helping professions, where talking about money can feel like it conflicts with the commitment to care. 

If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Know: A GP’s Case for Making Menopause Care a Practice Priority Featuring Dr. Danielle Hunte, EP 251
If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Know: A GP’s Case for Making Menopause Care a Practice Priority Featuring Dr. Danielle Hunte, EP 251

What if the physician best positioned to help women through perimenopause is the one they’re already seeing — their GP? In this episode, Tracy sits down with Dr. Danielle Hunte, a general practitioner from Barbados and founder of Midlife Meridian, to explore exactly that. 

18 Years in the Insurance System, Then She Built Something Better: Dr. Samantha Mekrut on DPC and Women’s Midlife Health, EP 250
18 Years in the Insurance System, Then She Built Something Better: Dr. Samantha Mekrut on DPC and Women’s Midlife Health, EP 250

After more than 18 years in insurance-based healthcare, Dr. Samantha Mekrut made a decision a lot of physicians dream about: she left to build something better. The result is Meristem Family Medicine — a direct primary care practice in Medfield, Massachusetts, where patients pay a flat monthly membership fee, appointments run 30 to 60 minutes, and the administrative machinery of insurance billing is nowhere to be found.