I launched my business imperfectly!

Did I just say it? Yes, perfectionism stole my precious time. While you try to figure out every aspect of the entrepreneurial life and strategies, time goes on and my skills are not fully utilized in systems that are running on policies and bureaucracy solely.

I launched an “imperfect” health consulting, that strives to help overmedicated patients, who have been given a menu of services from traditional health care model, that is no longer serving them.

I want to offer them new items on that “menu”, like deprescribing, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, functional medicine, centuries old breathwork, nutritional consultations, and my undivided attention. My “menu” of services is the new guy on the block and my imperfect business is not replacing my income yet. Sometime not making a living as a new business is a test, we all must pass, which measures the level of my own commitment to it. Will I carry on?  even if I have very little income and tremendous hope instead, will I change my strategies to create a profitable model for my “imperfect consulting”? Yes 100 and 1000% yes!

Since the desire to help fix the broken healthcare is bigger than my fears!

My imperfect business, where I learn as I go, has taught me 3 valuable lessons.

1.   Learn as you go and you will get better- People need me and I want to help them. I can’t wait until primary care or health systems decide to value my knowledge and expertise. All I care today, is my patients appreciate the significance of compassionate care I provide.

2.   Speak up and speak up louder! - More I voice my own experiences about barriers to patient centered care, inequalities in healthcare, more I contribute to these issues being resolved. If my patients don’t know what’s possible for them to get, how can they benefit from it?

3.   Not everyone will support me- including, friends, family, former coworkers, friends of friends. All I know, I must carry on. Inflation, burnout, quiet quitting, mental health epidemics, have put millions of patients in states of needing compassionate care desperately. It’s not who cheers on my success, but it’s who benefits from my expertise.

I could no longer be the employee who clocked in and out and got paid, but rather the rebel to tell that we all just had enough.

I know I launched my business imperfectly, cheers to trailblazers who motivated and empowered me. Will keep failing forward ...