The Healthcare Side Hustle: Recent Episodes
Fiona Sweny
Hosted by Fiona Sweny, who is on a mission to help doctors, allied health professionals and clinicians, to successfully plan, launch and grow impactful and scalable businesses.
The Healthcare Side Hustle creates a community of likeminded clinicians who want to create successful businesses. There are interviews with members of our own community who have already launched their own businesses, from starting their own clinics, to healthtech, even to sustainable products – you’ll hear it all here. Fiona also interviews industry experts to give you insights into different areas of business and also gives some top tips and actionable takeaways from her own experiences..
Fiona is a healthtech entrepreneur with an MBA and a background in health strategy as well as spending 10 years as a practicing physiotherapist.
In this episode of the HSH, I caught up with Haider Al-Delfi who is transforming the way in which we undertake clinical audit. He gives us an honest account of the realities of startup life and how his MVP gained traction.
https://www.bermani.co.uk
In this episode, I am joined by John Lodge who is Head of Quality and Improvement for London at NHS England. John is also co-founder and director of the award-winning healthcare skill exchange platform called Hexitime. Hexitime enables its members to exchange skills and ideas for health and care improvement and in this episode, John shares with us some of the insights from his start up journey with Hexitime from managing finding the right co-founder to being accepted onto the NHS’s prestigious clinical entrepreneurs programme.
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To know more about Hexitime visit their website https:// https://hexitime.com
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In this episode Fiona is joined by David Barrow, the co-founder of Rehab Guru. David gives a candid account about his journey with a tech start up and how they have managed to grow and scale a successful business without seeking any investment.
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To know more about Rehab Guru please visit www.rehabguru.com
Connect with David on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-barrow-795b0769/
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If you are thinking about starting a new business or expanding your current one, this brief coffee break episode introduces you to to the concept of competitor analysis: what is it and why is it important to you.
In this episode, Emma Brockwell a UK based pelvic health physiotherapists talks about her journey to becoming a published author of the best selling book 'Why Did No One Tell me?'
From working with editors, a publishing house, the pros and cons of an agent, to the time it actually all took, and balancing all of that in a lockdown, Emma gives us a very honest account of what it takes.
Emmas Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Did-One-Tell-motherhood/dp/1785043366
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Are you considering selling a low priced online course to create a passive income stream? Well if so, in this coffee break episode I give you three key considerations to think through before you put pen to paper and plan your course.
We talk through:
What to do if you dont have an audience to sell to
The number of people you need to reach to achieve your targeted course profit
The alternatives to a low priced course
The primary pitfall of selling a low priced course.
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In this episode I am joined by Allyson Ballard, an occupational therapist, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder and director at Remedy Healthcare UK, which is the only rehabilitation service in the UK that offers individuals a full rehab programme following MSK trauma taking them from ward to work
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To know more about Remedy Healthcare, head to their website: https://www.remedyhealthcare.co.uk
To contact Allyson, find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allysonballard/
To hear more from Fiona follow her on Instagram: @fiona_sweny
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In this episode, we take a deep dive into branding with Carys Appleby, a branding expert.
Carys covers: what a brand really is, what makes a successful brand and so much more. So whatever stage of your business you are at, this episode is packed full of helpful take aways.
Carys has over 20 years of experience successfully leading international branding projects for many global businesses across a wide range of sectors including the pharmaceutical sector, and consumer healthcare brands.
Carys is now Brand and Strategy Director at the Brand new start agency and she specialises in strategic positioning, identity development and implementation. If you’re not sure what all that means and why its relevant to you then this is the episode for you!
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To know more about The Brand New Start visit their website https://www.thebrandnewstart.com
To hear more from Fiona follow her on Instagram: @fiona_sweny
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In this episode, Fiona interviews Dr Bella Smith who is the co-founder of The Well Hq which is described as a ‘Life Force’ for women. Bella is also known as the Digital GP, she is a GP partner in a busy practice in Suffolk.
In this interview Bella takes us through the whole process from meeting her co-founders through to the business planning process, investment and launch. She gives us insights into what it’s like to be a GP partner, mum of two AND business owner. For anyone who is considering bringing their business idea to life, particularly Doctors and Clinicians, this episode really is a must to listen to.
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To know more about The Well Hq please visit https://www.thewell-hq.com
Follow The Well Hq on Instagram: @thewell_hq
Learn more about the Propel accelerator https://www.linkedin.com/company/propelteams/
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Today’s coffee break episode is all about niching: What is it and why is it important for you and your business.
I give you the four top reasons why you should niche and I address the most concerns that I hear when I discuss niching with my clients.
This episode is a must listen episode for doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists, OTs and any other clinician who is thinking about starting their own business, or who already has.
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This is the first solo episode of the HSH podcast! In this episode I let you into a little secret that I have discovered: Through my interviews with clinicians who have started and scaled their own businesses, I have found a common theme. If you would like to find out what their secret is, listen to this short episode.
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In this episode I am joined by a GP and a GP trainee, who saw a gap in the market for sustainable dog poo bags and this episode is all about the process that they went through to bring a product to market. It is a great story of two people driven by a mission to reduce single use plastic and who weren’t hampered down by worries around cash flow forecasts and shipping costs etc; they just focussed on their mission and are now selling their products across Europe. These two also demonstrate the power of building a community surrounding their product.
So if you have got an idea for a product, or you want to know how organically building a community on social media can help grow your business, then this is the episode for you.
In this episode, Dr Kiki Lam and Dr Alex Gan give you practical insights on how to get from idea to through product development, to market.
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To know more about Fetch It visit their website https://www.fetchitbags.co.uk
Follow Fetch It on Instagram: @fetchitbags
To hear more from Fiona follow her on Instagram: @fiona_sweny
Or connect with her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionasweny/