The Family Practice Podcast

Dr. Tony Ebel hosts The Family Practice Podcast and argues chiropractors burn out not from patient care but from doing non-doctor tasks they should delegate. He teaches a hiring framework aimed at maximizing growth while protecting profitability: fully staff four CA roles before hiring an associate, targeting roughly a 4:1 CA-to-solo-doc ratio. The roles are (1) front desk CA for scheduling, payments, office flow, tours, and patient connection; (2) office coordinator/integrator to run operations, SOPs, team meetings, billing, intake calls, and financial report findings; (3) tech CA to handle scans and/or X-rays around 100–200 visits/week, with scheduling tips to concentrate scanning shifts; and (4) marketing/social media CA (often cross-trained) plus tech tools like PX Marketing Engine. He shares how early hiring helped build a million-dollar practice in 3.5 years and enabled him to focus on adjusting, communicating, and marketing.
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The Proven Path to a Thriving Family Practice
How Data-Driven Chiros Are Dominating with Today's Parents
The NeuroAGE of Perinatal Chiropractic is Here
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Attend a Neuro-Tonal Certification & Adjusting Seminar (20 CEs!)
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Key Moments: 
01:23 Hiring Too Late
03:39 Framework Four CAs
05:14 Front Desk CA Role
07:55 Julie Ash Story
13:48 Things Docs Should Not Do
15:38 Office Coordinator Integrator
18:55 Finances Are Not A Doctor’s Job
20:59 New Patient Calls Handoff
23:20 Spreadsheet Team Member Traits
23:57 Offload Admin Tasks
25:26 Doctor Role Essentials
29:07 Hire Three Tech CA
33:51 Scheduling Scan Tech Shifts
35:40 Social Media Marketing CA
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Dr. Matt Hill interviews Dr. Christie Hafer on The Family Practice Podcast about shifting from a traditional pain-based chiropractic model to neurologically focused pediatric and family care after her son Landon’s early childhood challenges, including meltdowns, speech and vision issues, poor sleep with night terrors, motor tics, and school concerns. After learning Dr. Tony Ebel’s “Perfect Storm” approach and implementing scans and care plans, she saw major improvements, including Landon succeeding in kindergarten and later thriving in high school athletics and academics. The episode covers her decision to become insurance-free by 2018, the difficult patient and team transitions, and how workshops, community relationships, and referrals from other providers helped grow the practice. They discuss increasingly complex cases, COVID-era developmental impacts, balancing family life with practice, and internship/associate opportunities at Purpose Driven Chiropractic in Eagle, Idaho.
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Links & Resources: 
FREE PX Trainings
The Proven Path to a Thriving Family Practice
How Data-Driven Chiros Are Dominating with Today's Parents
The NeuroAGE of Perinatal Chiropractic is Here
Pain to Peds Playbook + Course
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Attend a Neuro-Tonal Certification & Adjusting Seminar (20 CEs!)
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Key Moments:
01:34 Meet Dr Christie Hafer
03:58 A Mom in Crisis
05:31 Searching for Answers
07:48 Discovering Perfect Storm
10:59 First Care Plan Wins
22:12 From Pain to Peds
24:50 Hard Conversations and Rebuild
26:11 Letting Go of Maintenance
28:58 Harder Neuro Cases Today
32:08 COVID + Perfect Storm Kids
34:41 Joy and Hard Conversations
37:31 Hope Dealing and Trust
40:54 Workshops and Referrals
44:06 Partnering With Therapists
46:31 Balancing Family Practice
51:55 Practice Info and Interns
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In this episode, Dr. Tony Ebel shares his personal coaching journey—from early business-systems coaching to principled practice mentorship and later guidance to move into an all-cash family model. He explains how mismatched coaching led him “sideways,” including building an insurance-dependent million-dollar practice that felt stressful and unfulfilling, and why he sometimes sought coaching outside chiropractic. He presents a four-point checklist for choosing a chiropractic business coach: core values must align, the coach should still be in practice, the coach’s practice model must match yours (e.g., cash vs insurance; family vs musculoskeletal/modalities), and you shouldn’t outgrow the coach. 
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Links & Resources: 
FREE PX Trainings
The Proven Path to a Thriving Family Practice
How Data-Driven Chiros Are Dominating with Today's Parents
The NeuroAGE of Perinatal Chiropractic is Here
Join 1,000+ Docs in the PX Membership 
Attend a Neuro-Tonal Certification & Adjusting Seminar (20 CEs!)
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Key Moments: 
01:09 Four Point Coach Test
02:14 Early Coaching Lessons
06:25 Shifting Practice Models
14:36 Outgrowing Chiropractic Coaching
23:12 Money Versus Mission
24:21 Philosophy Success
25:41 Vet Coaches Values
31:35 Modern Proof And Trends
34:25 Model Match Matters
39:05 When You Outgrow Coach
42:16 PX Mastermind And C Suite
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In this episode, Dr. Allie Wright interviews Dr. Ashley Bersani of Living Water Chiropractic about transitioning from being a practice owner and high-volume clinician to pregnancy and new motherhood. Dr. Ashley shares how she and her husband, Dr. Rudy built their practice over five years, expanded from two to five doctors, and used a team-based model to cover patient care when she physically had to stop adjusting about two months before birth. She explains logistical planning for maternity leave without paid time off, including over-hiring, budgeting, onboarding, transferring patient trust, and creating contingency plans around an unknown delivery date. Ashley discusses shifting into backend work, empathy changes as a mom, challenges with productivity, mom/doctor guilt, jealousy and loneliness, financial sacrifices, and her goal of a future hybrid schedule that supports both family and the practice team.
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Links & Resources: 
FREE PX Trainings
The Proven Path to a Thriving Family Practice
How Data-Driven Chiros Are Dominating with Today's Parents
The NeuroAGE of Perinatal Chiropractic is Here
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Attend a Neuro-Tonal Certification & Adjusting Seminar (20 CEs!)
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Key Moments: 
01:09 Meet Dr Ashley Burani
02:32 Living Water Origin Story
03:43 Deciding To Have Kids
05:04 Hiring Parents As Associates
07:25 Pregnancy Tap Out Timing
09:05 Ergonomics Adjusting Tips
11:04 Maternity Leave Logistics
13:26 Time Off Return Plan
16:41 New Mom Doctor Empathy
20:18 Slowing Down From Hustle
21:39 Mom Guilt Balance Seasons
24:37 Sacrifices, Money, & Loneliness
28:41 Ideal Hybrid Schedule
30:00 Advice For Doc Moms
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Dr. Matt Hill hosts The Family Practice Podcast and argues that scanning technology is a major retention tool when used consistently beyond initial care, citing PWC’s retention and PVA increase after improving scan frequency in wellness. He explains using Insight scans to objectively measure nervous system function and the three progressive stages of subluxation—sympathetic dominance, neurological dysregulation, and neurological exhaustion—then reviews what thermal (NCM and DTG), EMG (total energy, pattern, symmetry), and HRV scans measure and how they relate to these stages. He outlines common scan communication mistakes (overwhelming detail, relying on colors alone, not leading expectations, scanning only early, expecting linear improvement) and a retention framework emphasizing day-two foundations, teaching changeability, predicting healing phases, consistent progress exams, and using stability milestones to set new goals.
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Links & Resources: 
FREE PX Trainings
The Proven Path to a Thriving Family Practice
How Data-Driven Chiros Are Dominating with Today's Parents
The NeuroAGE of Perinatal Chiropractic is Here
Join 1,000+ Docs in the PX Membership 
Attend a Neuro-Tonal Certification & Adjusting Seminar (20 CEs!)
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Key Moments: 
01:18 Scans Drive Retention
05:31 Bridge Beyond Symptoms
08:46 Stages of Subluxation
13:24 Why Stages Matter
15:16 Three Scan Overview
16:08 Thermal Scan Basics
17:43 DTG Chronicity Clues
20:57 EMG Neuro Lens
25:03 EMG Diaschisis Explained
27:07 HRV Explained Simply
28:16 HRV Zones and Stress Types
29:46 Kids and Susceptibility
30:19 Using HRV in Care Plans
31:53 Five Scan Communication Mistakes
36:57 Scan in Wellness Too
40:16 Retention Framework Five Phases
41:00 Teach Changeability Not Perfection
42:05 Predict the Healing Journey
44:15 Progress Exams That Retain
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