Living Life by Design with Dr. Jess Jenney

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Aaron LaBauer Show. This is the number one show for passionate physical

[00:00:09] therapy and healthcare entrepreneurs looking to level up their income and impact on the

[00:00:14] world. If that's you, then you're in the right place. So sit back, chill out and let's get

[00:00:20] into the podcast. It is. And we haven't, you didn't do one in person, did we? We haven't. And, uh, if I, we haven't done one in person. Just on Zoom. Yeah. Me. Uh, and if I think back to the first podcast we did, I was so nervous. That was

[00:01:40] like the first podcast that I've ever doneboro? I was. I was on this time in Greensboro, which is, I was planning on going to PT BizCon to reignite the fire under my bum around my blog and the business that I had created. And so I was really excited when I got hit with an ad for PT BizCon

[00:03:00] because it was in Greensboro and I was supposed to't even know it was possible. And you said, yep. Did you not know it was possible for you to get six figures or for me to help you or someone to help? Oh, good question. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. Yeah. Probably both. But you were so confident in your answer that I trusted it.

[00:04:22] Because I'd had a similar conversation.

[00:04:23] Yeah.

[00:04:24] You told him about John Schumacher.

[00:04:26] Yeah. not a lot of social media following, but I did have a course that people wanted. So I did have all of those things in alignment, just no real direction on how to best go about capitalizing on it. And especially because COVID meant the end of travel PT,

[00:05:40] the end of a lot of PT jobs for a long time.

[00:05:42] Yeah, so were you selling people into travel PT at that time?

[00:05:45] No, well, I had your new focus. Yeah. So I launched a program where I helped PTs move into the online space. I said, guys, the patients are still out there. Yeah. We just have to get to them virtually now instead of in person because it's COVID. And I had, I think I've had maybe 75 or so

[00:07:00] through the program.

[00:07:01] Nice.

[00:07:02] Since then.

[00:07:02] What was the strategy that we implemented

[00:07:04] that made the biggest difference?

[00:07:05] Yeah.

[00:07:06] I remember saying to you, Erin, it couldn't happen as well. So it was my pivot during COVID. And in pivoting, it helped me to realize also that I did have a six-figure business and you helped me to see that. And it was just a matter of serving in a different way. And I still had other things to offer.

[00:08:22] That's awesome. So when did travel therapy to show up and everything's kind of automated. But if I want my business to grow,

[00:09:41] then I do have to put more time in.

[00:09:43] So I'm kind of in a space right now

[00:09:45] where I'm looking to grow and add to the team It's not work, it's helping people. And so it doesn't feel like work for us, but for majority of the nation, I think, work is associated with, you work too much. Yeah. Or they're just too much. Yeah, it's because most people don't like what they do or they like what they do or they tolerate what they do. But what was the question?

[00:11:01] How do you create boundaries?

[00:11:03] Say, hey, right now I'm not working.

[00:11:05] Is it because you have an activity for yourself

[00:11:07] or you can't work when you're driving in your van? lifestyle is a lifestyle that basically for you and other people to travel and kind of live like this, like life by design. I can get a travel assignment, do that for three months and then take a month off or use it to get more money to build the next thing. So tell me a little bit about what's your weekly schedule and then I want to know like

[00:12:20] where are you in the van and how did that come about?

[00:12:23] Yeah. And while I'm skiing here, I'll fly back to Florida and then where will we go? It's just wherever the wind takes us right now at this point. But it's also nice to be able to, like if my family needs me or my grandparents are sick or something, I can go be with them as well

[00:13:41] and help them.

[00:13:42] So to have the freedom to be there for your family

[00:13:43] when you need it, but also to have the freedom

[00:13:45] to be wherever you want to be at that moment too. Because they do make it. They do. Yeah. And I just, that's, nope, just number one. It has a cooktop, induction cooktop, refrigerator, bed. Top slide out of the vent. Does it slide out of the back or is it inside? No, it's inside. It's like countertop, cooktop, sink, 15 gallon water tank, three lithium batteries, solar.

[00:15:04] So I can be off grid for days at a time. Yeah, I remember specifically driving, I think it was in Nevada, and the gas tank was getting low and there's a point where the next gas station isn't for 80 miles and you're like, am I going to make it? And do we have cell service? That's the first thing that popped into my mind when you were like, what's the most remote

[00:16:20] place you've ever been?

[00:16:22] But recently we were in the mountains and everyone had to sit six feet apart. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. Thinking about that far. Yeah. Like, wow. And it's the funny thing is it's not been almost four years. It's hadn't been four years yet.

[00:17:40] Right.

[00:17:41] It feels like years ago.

[00:17:43] Glad that that's...

[00:17:44] Glad it's over.

[00:17:45] Yeah.

[00:17:46] That is... I would say is waiting to travel because you can make almost double basically as a traveler. Really? Yeah. Wow. And the salaries are really wages people are getting who should expect is there like range? I got a text today. I don't even know. $2,500 a week, like over $2,500 a week. It's rare. It's 10K a month.

[00:19:01] It's yeah.

[00:19:02] That's dope.

[00:19:02] Yeah. That could be taken too, like net after you pay taxes.

[00:20:05] Yeah, why didn't why do you think professors tell people they shouldn't travel as new grads? Hmm

[00:20:09] Yeah, yeah, I

[00:20:14] Sat next to a few and

[00:20:24] They they then leave the system, you know the therapists leave the system and they don't have a staff that they need in order to

[00:20:28] help 14 hours a day, like a great experience, but burnout ensued pretty quickly. And when I interviewed for a job, I said, what's your productivity? I knew the question to ask, what's your productivity? And I said, 90%. And I thought, okay, I'm doing 90% right now in the current outpatient job that I'm working in, but it was a skilled nursing facility.

[00:21:42] And 90% productivity in a skilled nursing facility is different than in an outpatient. can't find a blood pressure cuff that works and you have to walk to the bathroom and Mrs. Jones is toileting and like it's something like seven hours and I have to do the math but it's like seven hours and 36 minutes has to be doc billable time out of an eight hour day out of it. You know, it was a condition dry get billable hours for toileting because you just didn't when you left the court, you made sure you did the toileting before you left.

[00:23:02] There you go.

[00:23:03] When the time stopped.

[00:23:04] Right.

[00:23:05] Exactly.

[00:23:06] So that's the beginning lever of like, I don't need to reinvent the wheel because you've already been there and done that. So you tell me this is what you should do and this is how you should do it. So I'd say that's one of the bigger levers.

[00:24:21] In the last year, something that I'm most happen. So if you have an online business, if you're growing a brand, use social media to grab Google and you typed in how to be a travel physical therapist and my blog popped up and now people are searching on Instagram or YouTube or so.

[00:27:01] If you're online somewhere, just get good at one piece of it, whether it's YouTube or and that their beliefs around what is possible as a PT are only limited by what they've seen and what they've done so far. So expose yourself to other people doing the things or thinking outside of the box because absolutely anything is possible. And I talked anyone tell you that you can't. And if somebody does, have they been there? Have they done that? And if they haven't, then maybe just take it with a grain of salt. Because anything is possible. That's for sure. That's awesome. What was the best thing?

[00:29:40] What was the best, one more question.

[00:29:42] Best thing about skiing last week is,

[00:30:43] If you've never skied in conditions like this, then we got really lucky.

[00:30:44] It's beautiful.

[00:30:45] Yeah. That's awesome.

[00:30:46] Very cool.

[00:30:47] Okay. So where do people find you

[00:30:49] if they want to connect with you?

[00:30:50] Yes.

[00:30:51] wanderlustpts.com is my blog at wanderlustpts

[00:30:55] on Instagram, YouTube.

[00:30:59] All the places.

[00:31:00] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:31:01] Email.

[00:31:02] Email.

[00:31:02] Wanderlustpts.

[00:31:03] Info at wanderlustpts.com.

[00:31:06] But yeah, would love another, I just, people need to know she's niched into cheerleaders. She's a physical therapist who is niched into cheer leaders. And she's a new grad and like anything is possible. And if you, I think there's a marketing