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After helping build a 12-clinician nonprofit from the ground up, Angelina Miceli, LCSW, realized she'd built everything — except her own joy.

She was burnt out, resentful, and quietly crumbling. In 2024, she joined LIMB, left her director role, and went all in on private practice. Today, she's charging $275 per session and $300 per intake — and loving every minute of it.

If you're scared to leave your "secure" job, Angelina's story is your permission slip.

In this episode, Angelina shares:

• What it felt like to walk away from a leadership role she built from scratch
  
  

• Why her "pretend fee" of $150 wasn't serving her or her clients
  
  

• How she faced fear, shame, and scarcity to step into premium fees
  
  

• The transformation she's experienced after aligning her business with her values
  
  

• What it means to create a life that actually feels like your own
  
  

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy
  
  

• Fun With Fees Calculator
  
  

• Angelina`s Instagram
  
  

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Therapists love to tell themselves: "I'll figure it out in January."
Raise my fees in January.
Do my marketing in January.
Finally get serious about my business in January.

Here's the truth: by January, it's already too late.

In this urgent episode, Tiffany dismantles the myth of the "new year reset" and shows you why the moves you make this fall will determine your income, stability, and freedom in 2026.

If you're waiting until the calendar flips, you're not planning—you're playing catch-up. And it's costing you everything.

In this episode, Tiffany shares:

• The therapist revenue cycle no one talks about—and why fall is the most important season for your business;
  
  

• Dylan's story of turning $3K months into $11K months—and why the turnaround started months before the results showed up;
  
  

• The hidden cost of waiting until "things calm down" to raise your fees or get off panels;
  
  

• Why later is not safe—later is theft;
  
  

• The exact fall steps you need to take to enter 2026 with clarity, ease, and cash flow.
  
  

If you're serious about building a premium-fee, cash-pay practice that actually sustains you, the work starts now.

Email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the subject line: "Ready."
Because your 2026 income is being decided today—whether you act or not.

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In this episode, we're speaking with Katie Gilbertson, a Washington-based therapist who was working three days a week—but still couldn't take a vacation or contribute to retirement.

She thought she had created a dream schedule.

What she hadn't created was financial freedom.

Katie walks us through what it took to finally stop tweaking her website at 10PM and start building a premium-fee practice rooted in clarity, ownership, and ease.

In this episode, Katie shares:

How charging $150–$160—with half her caseload on sliding scale—left her spinning and anxious;

Why "having time" didn't mean having freedom;

The guilt and fear she carried about raising fees on long-term clients;

The moment she stopped waiting for a second job and invested in her own business;

What changed when she stopped managing clients' finances—and started managing her own.

Resources mentioned:

LIMB Academy

FWF Calculator

Katie's Website

Katie's TikTok

More about Katie:

Katie Gilbertson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State. She helps anxious women who people-please & over accommodate, heal attachment wounds, set guilt-free boundaries, and prioritize their needs.