There was a certain level of pride in what got me to where I am.
Patients happy to see me & being helped.
Feeling like I was making a real contribution.
That identity carried me.
When I hired team, I thought:
This is it.
Things will finally come off my plate.
But hiring didn’t immediately remove responsibility.
It increased it.
I thought delegating would take things off my plate, but got frustrated when things weren’t done to my standards.
Come to realize that I actually needed to train them.
So I trained them & guided them to standards that were important to me:
How I wanted things handled.
How I wanted communication to come across.
How I wanted situations resolved.
And when things didn’t get done the way I wanted it to, I gave feedback.
But then the team would constantly rely on me for feedback.
One day, I got sick of it.
But I didn’t know what to do to dig myself out of this.
I realized that they weren’t building confidence.
They were building dependence.
Every decision came back to me (or at least it felt that way).
Every gray area needed my input.
I had unknowingly trained my team to rely on me.
One day, I felt the weight, the subtle resentment.
The thought I didn’t want to admit:
”Why does everything still need to go through me?”
But here’s the part no one talks about -
I created it.
First I tried the delegation thing.
Then I tried the training thing.
Then more feedback.
But I had trained them to expect my constant calibration.
So when I decided I didn’t want to operate that way anymore…
When I stopped giving feedback on every small thing…
When I expected ownership instead of approval-seeking…
Balls started to get dropped and I found myself rescuing the situation.
It was frustrating because I was trying to get out of the cycle…while still reinforcing it.
The problem was that I was asking them to operate differently
without first recalibrating how I was leading.
This is the part they don’t teach you in school.
They teach you how to be a great clinician.
They don’t teach you how to shift from:
High-performing holistic practitioner
to leader who is not the bottleneck.
Hiring doesn’t create freedom.
It magnifies your leadership patterns.
If you over-function, you scale dependence.
If you over-correct, you scale hesitation.
If you avoid discomfort, you scale fragility.
If you are too involved, you stay exhausted.
The shift wasn’t about better staff or systems.
It was about recalibrating me.
The version of me that built the practice
was not the version who could sustainably lead it at the next level.
I had to evolve how I showed up.
How I led.
That’s why I created the Leadership Recalibration Experience.
Not because people need more strategy.
But because there’s a stage in growth where the business will only expand as far as your leadership capacity.
Leadership capacity is not only about showing up differently & communicating differently - it’s also about the energetics.
And if you’d love the staff to become self-managing while upholding your high standards,
You don’t need just better systems or getting staff to work together better.
You need a recalibration.
Join us for The Leadership Recalibration Experience.
It’s a focused recalibration experience for practitioners who are:
• Feeling the weight of expansion
• Ready to lead at a higher standard
• Ready to take home more
Inside, we address:
• Team dependency detox
• Leading & getting more follow through from the team without repeating yourself
• Practitioner->CEO (which is often easier said than done)
• Recalibrating culture (so team is performing to highest standards)
• You experiencing embodied identity shifts that are required for sustainable scale
A guided asynchronous experience (April 27-May 13 via Telegram).
Receive direct guidance, make tweaks, receive feedback, and see changes happening in real time in your practice!
BONUS live sessions on:
The Leadership & Energetics Upgrade: From Operator to Owner
Leading without Over-Carrying: Embodied Shifts Essential to a Self-Managing Team
Building Leverage Instead of Complexity: Holding More Revenue, Responsibility, and Impact without Leaking Energy
4/27 @ 4pm PT
5/6 & 5/13 @ 9am PT
Lifetime access to replays.
This will be a $1500 container.
Right now, you can join at the biggest savings and receive the bonuses.
If you recalibrate first, hiring becomes leverage faster.
If you recalibrate first, growth feels lighter.
Because the next level of revenue doesn’t require more hustle.
It requires a different level of leadership.
Look forward to helping you get to the next level!
Chen Yen, 6 & 7-Figure Practice Makeover Mentor
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