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Don’t be a Planet Fitness DC

What’s a Planet Fitness DC? You saunter through the imposing doors of your local Planet Fitness. Now that it’s almost February, most of the New Years Resolutioners have quit coming, so it’s the perfect time to make good on that soon to expire coupon you got for Christmas. You like your current gym, but hey,…

Does insurance cover that?

You’re in your car, rocking out to your Beyoncé Spotify playlist on the snowy streets of Boston, when all of the sudden your bliss is interrupted by a screeching tire. You barely have time to brace yourself before you hear the inevitable thump followed by broken metal and glass. You’ve become a victim of the…

Why DCs are in conflict with money

How’s your give and take? After meeting so many great young DCs over the holidays, one thing was for sure: MONEY was on their minds. Some of them were newlyweds, others were single looking forward to their careers and having a family. Now mind you, none of them were on unemployment or taking meals at…

The Cause of Chiropractic

I was going back in time re-reading my first Renaissance seminar notebook; you know, the kind with a single silver ring holding it together. It was written by my mentor, Dr. Joe Flesia, and he was talking about putting the “C” (cause) back in Chiropractic. His words burned deep in my soul and are as…

Owning a practice doesn’t make you an owner

There you sit in the chair of your high school drama class with nervous anticipation. Your stomach is doing somersaults and your hands are clammy. Your teacher has just passed out the script for the lead character and auditions are in two weeks. You go home and pace around your room with the script, trying…

Being successful: like contouring, but easier

The average DC is heavily in debt, out of fair exchange, has more than their fair share of crappy patients, and owns a practice that is definitely not worth all the blood, sweat and tears it took to become a DC. The above average DC is always paying down debt in accelerated fashion, consistently gets…