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Every therapist wants to know:
"Okay, but how long will it actually take for me to get to a Life First Fee?"

You want to know how long until you can stop drowning in insurance, stop resenting your caseload, stop working like hell for bread-crumb money…
and finally have a practice where you work your ideal number of weekly clients — while earning the income you actually need to live.

And Tiffany's answer is the one therapists don't want to hear — but need to:
There is no timeline. And also… the timeline doesn't matter.

In this episode, Tiffany dismantles the fantasy that someone else can predict your speed. She walks you through why some therapists hit their Life First Fee in 30 days, while others take 4 months, 9 months, or 4 years — and why every version is worth it.

She also uses a powerful cave metaphor to illustrate exactly why the journey is different for every therapist — and why what happens inside the cave is actually what transforms you.

In this episode, Tiffany reveals:

• Why the question "How long will it take?" is rooted in scarcity, fear, and disbelief;
  
  

• What hundreds of LIM data points show about how long it takes to book a Life First Fee client;
  
  

• Why therapists like Sarah doubled their revenue and bought a house in four months — and why that's not the point;
  
  

• How your "lion," your "tin foil," and your "pitfall" shape your exact timeline;
  
  

• Why the journey itself is what creates the confidence, self-trust, and skill set you use for the rest of your career;
  
  

• Why 2 years of transformation is a blink compared to spending 20 more years undercharging and burning out.
  
  

This episode will snap you out of your timeline obsession and into the truth: the work is worth it, no matter how long it takes.

If you're ready to walk into the cave — even if you're scared — email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the word "Cave."
She'll take the first step with you.

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In this episode, Tiffany talks with Sara Rader, LPCC, a maternal mental health and trauma specialist who transformed her practice — and her entire life — in just four months inside LIMB Academy.

Sara didn't hustle.
She didn't add more clients.
She didn't work more hours.

Instead, she got brutally honest about her money stories, her faith conditioning, her sliding scale patterns, and the quiet anxiety that had been running her practice behind the scenes.

The result?

She nearly doubled her private practice income while seeing the same number of clients — AND bought her family's first home.

This episode is packed with grounded wisdom, spiritual depth, and a level of honesty most therapists never say out loud… but every therapist needs to hear.

• Why she always felt anxious about money despite "looking successful" on paper

• How she realized her entire practice was a sliding scale — even though she thought she had a "full fee"

• The moment she decided to stop spiritualizing self-sacrifice and start honoring her worth

• What it was like raising her fee with all her existing clients

• The faith-based fears she had to confront about being seen as greedy or judged by her community

• How charging $200/session changed her parenting, her presence, and her clinical work

• Why her nervous system finally calmed once she committed to her life-first fee

• And how she hit a massive financial milestone without burnout, panic, or hustle
  
  

• LIMB Academy

• Fun With Fees Calculator

• Sara`s Website
  
  

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If your marketing stopped working…
If your phone stopped ringing…
If you're on insurance panels and still can't fill your practice…

You are not imagining it.
And you are not doing anything wrong.

The ground has shifted under our industry — and almost no one is telling therapists the truth about what's actually happening.

In this episode, Tiffany names the uncomfortable reality: what worked in 2019–2022 will not save your practice in 2026. And if you keep playing by the old rules, you are actively positioning yourself to be replaced by big tech and AI.

This is not fear-mongering.
This is a wake-up call.

In this episode, Tiffany breaks down:

• Why SEO, Psychology Today, and "just niche down" stopped working — and why that's not your fault
  
  

• How the pandemic cracked the industry wide open and invited big tech to scale therapy at your expense
  
  

• Why undercharging and insurance dependency are not just personal problems — they are industry-level threats
  
  

• How therapists unknowingly trained tech companies to replace them by agreeing to speed, volume, and one-size-fits-all care
  
  

• Why worksheet therapy and checkbox models are the exact conditions AI needs to take over
  
  

• What AI cannot replace — and what you must do to protect your authority, your income, and your impact
  
  

• Why charging your Life First Fee is no longer optional if you want therapy to survive as a profession
  
  

This episode is not about panic.
It's about choice.

As we move into 2026, therapists will go one of two ways:

• Invisible, interchangeable, and replaced
  
  

• Or visible, authoritative, and shaping the future of mental health
  
  

There is no middle ground anymore.

If you are ready to step into authority, protect the future of therapy, and get paid for the impact you make, email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the subject line "I'm Ready."

Because AI can't replace real therapy.
But it will replace therapists who refuse to value themselves.

And 2026 belongs to the ones who step the fuck up.

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When Emma Summer realized the system was never going to reward her for overgiving, she stopped waiting for permission and built a premium-fee, cash-pay practice on her own terms.

Emma shares what it took to confront the fears around leaving agency work, raise her fees, and redefine what "helping people" actually means.

In this episode, Emma shares:

• How she went from burnout to balance by charging her true worth
  
  

• The moment she decided she was done trading exhaustion for empathy
  
  

• The myths she had to release about accessibility and guilt
  
  

• The impact of premium fees on her quality of care and quality of life
  
  

• What happens when you stop waiting for the system's approval and choose yourself
  
  

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy
  
  

• Fun With Fees Calculator
  
  

• Emma`s Instagram

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You've seen the posts.
Therapists charging $300, $350, $400 per session—booked out, spacious schedules, fully off insurance—and you're wondering:

"What the hell are they doing that I'm not?"

It feels like there's a secret marketing cabal that no one told you about—some hidden door that only the elite therapists get to walk through.

In this episode, Tiffany is pulling back the curtain. She exposes the myth of the "black box" and shows you exactly why your marketing feels like a mystery—and how to finally access the system that keeps other therapists winning.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why you're not locked out of success—you're just missing a few key resources;
  
  

• The five resources every therapist must leverage to attract premium-fee, cash-pay clients;
  
  

• Why following another cookie-cutter marketing program isn't the answer (and what actually works instead);
  
  

• The emotional and psychological bandwidth problem that silently kills therapist businesses;
  
  

• How to get access to the community, systems, and mentorship that will finally unlock your practice income.
  
  

There's no secret cabal. There's just structure, strategy, and support.
And once you see how it works—you can't unsee it.

Email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the subject line: "Action."

She'll walk you through the first steps to finally building your premium-fee, cash-pay practice—with clarity, confidence, and community.

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In this episode, Tiffany sits down with Amanda Starfield, a Massachusetts-based therapist and former clinical director who walked away from 15 years in agency leadership to build a sustainable, premium-fee private practice.

Amanda gets real about the internal war between wanting to serve others and realizing she couldn't keep doing it from a system built on exploitation. When she left her "secure" job, she didn't take insurance — she set her fee at $200 and later raised it to $320, discovering that charging her worth actually made her a better therapist and mentor.

If you've ever told yourself you "can't" charge more because you care too much, Amanda's story will lovingly destroy that illusion.

In this episode, Amanda shares:

• How she went from running a statewide adolescent program to walking away cold turkey during the pandemic
  
  

• Why she refused to take insurance and how that decision saved her clinical integrity
  
  

• What it really looks like to hold social justice and sustainability together
  
  

• How raising her fees to $320 per session deepened her clinical work
  
  

• Why connection, community, and liberation—not burnout—are her new metrics for success
  
  

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy
  
  

• Fun With Fees Calculator
  
  

• Amanda`s Instagram

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You've seen the posts. The ads. The "six-figure coach" promises.

And you're thinking:

"Is this legit… or am I about to get scammed?"

You're not alone. Every week, Tiffany talks to therapists who are terrified of wasting money on a business program that doesn't deliver. But here's the truth: you're asking the wrong question.

In this episode, Tiffany flips the script on how to evaluate whether a business program is worth your investment—and she calls out the therapist tendency to hide behind "skepticism" when what's really happening is fear.

If you've ever wondered, "Will this actually work for me?"—this episode will change how you think about investing, success, and what it means to bet on yourself.

In this episode, Tiffany reveals:

• The three green flags that prove a business program is legitimate;
  
  

• Why asking about "success rates" keeps you small (and broke);
  
  

• The mindset shift that separates thriving entrepreneurs from overworked therapists;
  
  

• How to vet a program like a CEO instead of a scared consumer;
  
  

• Why averages don't matter—and how to become one of the extraordinary few who make it.
  
  

This isn't about avoiding risk. It's about learning how to take powerful, informed, self-led risks that lead to real transformation.

If you've been hovering on the edge—too skeptical to leap, too tired to stay stuck—this episode will wake you up.

Email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the subject line: "I'm In."

It's time to stop waiting for proof—and start becoming the proof.

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From seeing 24 clients a week on Medi-Cal to working 12-14 hours at $250 per session — Sara Champie's story is the revolution therapists need to hear.

As a primary breadwinner, Sara used to believe she had to grind herself to dust to prove she cared. But when resentment, exhaustion, and rage began to spill into her marriage and motherhood, she realized: staying small wasn't noble — it was self-betrayal.

Through her LIMB journey, Sara broke free from the "helper martyr" trap, raised her fees, and reclaimed her family's future.

In this episode, Sara shares:

• How she traded burnout for balance and doubled her income
  
  

• The real cost of low fees on her marriage and her children
  
  

• What she discovered about justice and privilege after raising her rates
  
  

• How her somatic, trauma-focused work deepened once she stopped hustling
  
  

• The breakthrough that helped her set a $350 goal and mean it
  
  

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy
  
  

• Fun With Fees Calculator
  
  

• Sara`s Website