Better Skills. Better Doctors.

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160

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Jun 2026

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About the show

Join Rebecca Ong from TCM Hub as she goes beyond the nuts and bolts of clinical practice to navigate some of the more challenging aspects of being a self-employed physician. This podcast introduces the necessary concepts and perspectives that you need to step into the next level of your entrepreneurial journey and achieve holistic success. Leave behind the unsustainable business-building methods that now have you trapped as an employee in your own business and transform into a Free + Easy Doctor™.

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June 16, 2026Episode 15911 min

EP159 Confidence Is Not a Prerequisite

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about confidence: specifically, where it actually comes from and why waiting to feel ready before you act is the thing working against you.It starts with a story about the first offer I ever built, a program I sold while feeling like a fraud the entire time, and what that cost me. The real confidence gap, it turns out, has very little to do with your clinical skills.If this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

June 9, 2026Episode 15811 min

EP158 Blocking People Is Blocking Growth

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about a reflex that's showing up everywhere right now, and what it's actually costing you.It starts with Reddit, blocking people the second something feels uncomfortable, but the real conversation is about what that reflex looks like in your practice, your relationships, and your business, and why eliminating triggers is not the same thing as building peace.If this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

June 2, 2026Episode 15710 min

EP157 The Question Standing Between You and the Practice You Want

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the "what if" question: what it actually is, why it feels like diligence but functions like fear, and how to stop letting it kill your ideas before they make it off the page.I introduce a tool I've been using on coaching calls called Disney Mode, a specific way to build a new offer or idea without your survival brain editing it into nothing before it even has a shape.If this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

May 26, 2026Episode 15611 min

EP156 You Have to Be a Little Delusional

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what it actually takes to step into the future version of yourself, and why most practitioners refuse to do it.It starts with a story about a kid in a backyard who told me he was going to be an actor with zero doubt and no plan B. That kid is now Captain America, and the lesson has stayed with me ever since.Download Outgrown: https://tcm-hub.com/outgrownIf this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

May 19, 2026Episode 15515 min

EP155 Scale Down to Scale Up: There Is Another Way to Build Your Practice

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm making the case that high volume is not the only legitimate shape of a successful practice, and that the framing saying otherwise is doing real damage to this profession.I introduce the concept I've been calling "scale down to scale up": narrowing your focus, building specialized programs around specific outcomes, and growing your revenue without growing your patient load. I also use Tara Tonini's story as a real-world example of what this actually looks like in practice.Download Outgrown: https://www.tcm-hub.com/outgrownSix Figures in Seven Months w/Tara ToniniIf this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

May 12, 2026Episode 15414 min

EP154 I'm Not Special. Here's What's Actually Going On.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm getting personal about who I used to be before any of this, and why that matters for you.I make the case that what looks like natural confidence or business ability is almost never that, and why the real reason most practitioners stay stuck is that they keep skipping the one category of work that actually moves the needle: managing their mind.Download Outgrown: www.tcm-hub.com/outgrownIf this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

May 5, 2026Episode 15312 min

EP153 How to Stop Losing Patients on Your Worst Day

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about what actually happens to your practice when your day goes sideways, and why most practitioners have no plan for it.Using a real coaching call as the starting point, I get into why building your practice for the perfect day is a liability, what elite performers do differently, and how to create a simple if-then plan that keeps you from losing revenue, focus, and patients on the days you can least afford to.Download my new book Outgrown for free: tcm-hub.com/outgrownIf this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

April 28, 2026Episode 15213 min

EP152 Get Rejected on Purpose

Send us Fan MailEntrepreneurship brings up all your shit, and sometimes what's stopping you is harder to spot than you'd think. In this episode, I name the fear underneath every stuck place in your Chinese medicine practice: fear of rejection.Using a recent coaching call, I break down why your survival brain treats a cold pitch to a referral partner like a real threat, and how that instinct keeps experienced acupuncturists frozen in a practice they've already outgrown. I walk through how it shows up day to day, from underpricing your work to softening your point of view so nobody can object to you.Rejection is your currency to get to the next level. Being disliked by some people is the price of stepping into a new identity.Apply to work with me at tcm-hub.com/fed. Grab my book Outgrown at tcm-hub.com/outgrown.If this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

April 21, 2026Episode 15123 min

EP151 Real Coaching Call: When to Let a Patient Go and How to Say It

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm sharing a real coaching call where we work through three of the most uncomfortable patient situations practitioners face: the patient who won't follow your protocol, the new patient who's already a bad fit before she walks in the door, and the one whose payment situation is raising red flags.We cover how to have these conversations from a place of clarity rather than frustration, how to catch a mismatch early enough to course correct, and how to hold a boundary that comes from love instead of resentment.Download my free book Outgrown: tcm-hub.com/outgrownIf this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"

April 14, 2026Episode 1507 min

EP150 Your Best Qualities Are Being Used Against Your Business

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Better Skills. Better Doctors. I'm talking about the trap that's built into the structure of Chinese medicine private practice, and why the qualities that make you an excellent clinician are often the exact ones working against your business.I get into why staying stuck has nothing to do with your strategy, your niche, or your marketing, and everything to do with identity: specifically, the difference between running your practice from your survival brain versus your CEO brain.Links mentioned: tcm-hub.com/outgrownIf this content and material resonates with you and you would like to pursue coaching with Rebecca, please visit:tcm-hub.com/fed and click "Let's Work Together"