But more importantly my net profits has gone from some months being in the red to now consistently being 15 to 20% more. And I have gone from working four days a week painfully to working three and a half days a week with an associate and more time off.

I spend a lot more time with my nephews. Weekends are open. I go to the office three days a week and the rest the team takes care of.

I’ve gone from practicing four to five days a week to not practicing at all for the past year. The biggest win has been the connections; having peers I can text anytime who understand the same challenges. That support helped us grow, realize we’re not alone, and build the confidence to keep expanding.

We decreased doctor days and we are on track to do $5.5 million at that one location. We started a de novo in March of 2024 — within the first year we did $1.2 million and this year we are on track to do over $2 million.

Today we have seven locations across two states doing about $15 million in revenue. When I started DEO I was in the chair five or six days a week. Now my role is purely CEO.

We scaled up to 17 and then became hyper focused — offloaded the ones that were not the best fit, built a stronger platform and system, and our revenue actually went up more. Sometimes scaling back is the smartest growth move you can make.

I take a month off every year — this last year went to Portugal and Iceland. When I joined DEO in 2018 I was practicing five days a week with a two hour commute and two kids under five. The difference is hard to overstate.

We will do $14 million this year. But at this point in my career it is way more about marginal gains — small tweaks that have great impact. DEO has helped me learn how to make those tweaks at the executive level.

We are now at seven locations and $16 million. Every single one of these events I pull so many great things away from — I cannot put a tangible number on how much of that growth is attributed to DEO but certainly a chunk of it very much is.

Today we have 45 locations generating $125 million in revenue. DEO accelerated my learning curve and helped me avoid making even more mistakes than I was already making.

I went from five days clinical to about half that, and I see my four-year-old daughter more now than I did before.