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| 158. OTs - You Don't Need Permission to Lead | 09 oct. 2026 | 00:28:30 | |
Are you waiting for permission or another qualification before calling yourself a leader? Many Occupational Therapists spend years justifying their value and explaining what they do, conditioning themselves to shrink instead of claiming their space. Meanwhile, creators with zero clinical background are stepping onto digital platforms, influencing your target audience, and building massive reach. In this episode, Beki Eakins breaks down why OTs hold back from Occupational Therapy business leadership and how modern "social leadership" has completely replaced old institutional authority. Whether you are a confident practitioner scaling globally or catching yourself saying you are just a "jack of all trades," growing a freedom-based OT business requires stepping up online. Beki challenges the habit of hiding behind extra credentials and shows why taking action comes long before feeling ready. In this episode, you'll discover: • How workplace conditioning trains OTs to shrink rather than lead • Why modern social leadership allows anyone to build trust and influence online • The hidden cost to the profession when qualified OTs stay silent • Why readiness only shows up after you take imperfect action • How human design, performance coaching, and voice alchemy build business confidence Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 157. Something a Bit Leftfield Is the Whole Point: Why the Spiritual OTs Are Winning | 02 oct. 2026 | 00:35:56 | |
What if the part of your work that feels a little too different is actually the thing that could make your OT business stand out? In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins explores spirituality, holistic practice and why so many occupational therapists keep parts of themselves hidden from their professional lives. From breathwork, meditation and yoga to human design, somatic practices, poetry and other less traditional approaches, Beki discusses what happens when OTs begin creating businesses that reflect more of who they actually are. She also explores the fear of peer judgement, the pressure to fit inside a traditional version of occupational therapy, and why an OT’s first business idea is not always their bravest one. This episode also looks at the importance of staying within appropriate professional, ethical and regulatory boundaries while finding a business model, voice and offer that genuinely feel aligned. If you are an OT who has ever wondered whether your interests are “too leftfield” for your professional life, this conversation is for you. Listen to Episode 157 now. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 156. Why Your OT Content Is Boring (And How to Fix It) | 25 sept. 2026 | 00:30:49 | |
OTs, your content might be professional, accurate and completely forgettable. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins explores why so much occupational therapy marketing sounds the same and why words such as “holistic”, “evidence-based”, “person-centred” and “bespoke” are not enough to make an OT business stand out. Beki looks at how clinical training can influence the way occupational therapists communicate online, why your audience cares more about solving their problem than the PDF or programme you created, and how storytelling, stronger copywriting and a recognisable brand voice can make your marketing more human. She also discusses what happens when OT business owners delegate social media or rely on AI before developing their own voice, and why written communication and confident selling are two skills every OT entrepreneur needs to develop. If you are an occupational therapist building an online business, private practice or personal brand and your content is not creating conversations, enquiries or sales, this episode will help you see why. Listen to Episode 156 now. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 155. The Deep Breath Moment: The Point Right Before a Client Makes It | 18 sept. 2026 | 00:34:50 | |
What happens immediately before an OT business finally starts to move? Beki Eakins has seen the same pattern again and again with occupational therapists inside the OT Freedom Collective. A client can spend weeks or months overthinking, perfecting, changing direction and feeling as though nothing is working. Then something shifts. There is a decision, often accompanied by a very noticeable deep breath, and suddenly their visibility, confidence, action and sales momentum begin to change. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki explores what she calls the deep breath moment, the point where an OT stops hiding, decides to back themselves and starts taking the actions they had previously been avoiding. Beki talks about the difference between genuine business-building and “busy work”, why visibility can feel threatening, how self-belief affects sales, and why breakthroughs are often followed by a wobble of self-doubt. She also explores the psychology and physiology behind the moment, including breathwork, nervous system regulation, decision-making and the space between what happens to us and how we choose to respond. If you’re an occupational therapist building a private practice, online OT business, programme or high-ticket offer and you feel as though you’ve been working constantly without really moving forward, this episode will give you something important to think about. Because sometimes the next level of your OT business doesn’t need another website, funnel or strategy. It needs you to stop hiding and make the decision. Listen to Episode 155 of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast now. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out.
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| 154. The Trust Gap: A Lack of Self-Trust Is Destroying OT Dreams | 11 sept. 2026 | 00:29:10 | |
How can an occupational therapist have 20 or 30 years of experience and still not trust themselves enough to pursue the business idea they really want? Beki sees this constantly. Brilliant, experienced OTs with ideas that could genuinely change lives, but they are still researching, overthinking, looking for permission or convincing themselves they need another qualification before they can begin. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki explores the self-trust problem hiding underneath perfectionism, procrastination and imposter syndrome. She looks at why occupational therapy training can make us brilliant clinicians while also teaching us to seek evidence, validation and permission before acting. You’ll hear why waiting until you feel confident has things the wrong way round, how small actions build self-trust, and why your next step might not require more research at all. If you’re an OT with a business idea, a bigger vision or a change you’ve been putting off for far too long, this episode might make you uncomfortable. And that might be exactly why you need to hear it. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out.
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| 153. Successful OT Practices Are One Funding Letter Away From Broke | 04 sept. 2026 | 00:26:13 | |
You can have a full caseload, a waiting list and a successful OT private practice, and still be one funding change away from a serious problem. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins talks about something she is seeing again and again with Occupational Therapy business owners across Australia, the UK and the US. NDIS changes. Frozen therapy rates. Insurance restrictions. Commissioning changes. Rising costs. More paperwork. Smaller margins. The problem is not that these OTs are bad at business. Many of them are incredibly successful. The problem is that too much of their income is controlled by somebody else. Beki explores why being fully booked does not automatically mean your OT business is secure, what concentration risk looks like in an Occupational Therapy private practice, and why every OT business owner should be thinking about creating at least one income stream that a funder cannot control. She also shares practical ways to start thinking differently about your existing OT skills, including private-pay services, high-ticket offers and opportunities that sit outside the traditional funding model. In this episode, Beki talks about:
If you run an OT private practice, clinic or independent Occupational Therapy business, this episode will help you look at your business differently and ask a very important question: How much of my income do I actually control? Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 152. Can You Start an OT Business Straight Out of University? With Rebecca Haythorne | 28 août 2026 | 00:46:26 | |
Every newly qualified OT hears some version of the same advice. Get a few years under your belt. Build your clinical experience. Wait until you know what you are doing. But wait for what, exactly? And who decided? In this episode Beki Eakins is joined by Rebecca Haythorne, Senior Lecturer and Practice Placement Tutor on the MSc and BSc Occupational Therapy pre-registration programmes at Leeds Beckett University. Rebecca moved into academia from clinical practice, having qualified as a mature student after a first degree in psychology and criminology and a spell working as an OT assistant. She is also currently working towards a PhD at the University of York. Which makes her a useful person to ask, because she is the one preparing students for practice and watching where they actually end up. The conversation covers what has changed in OT education, why placements now put students into settings that barely existed a decade ago, and what that means for the shape of a career. It also covers the part nobody puts in a prospectus: how much of the "wait your turn" message is genuine professional caution and how much is institutional habit that nobody has revisited. Beki is honest about her own route. She qualified, went into the system, stayed thirteen years and left after burning out. Whether she would do it differently now is a question she answers directly. In this episode:
This one is for OT students, newly qualified OTs, and anyone further along who has quietly wondered whether they waited longer than they needed to. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/JfKQUgoHVwsRF5gqBs4W About the guest Rebecca Haythorne is a Senior Lecturer and Practice Placement Tutor in the School of Health at Leeds Beckett University, teaching on the pre-registration MSc and BSc Occupational Therapy programmes. She qualified in 2016 and spent several years in clinical practice with an NHS trust, working across care homes, eating disorders and community learning disabilities, before moving into academia. She is currently completing a PhD in Health Sciences at the University of York and has published widely in OT practice journals. About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 151. The 12 Hour Working Week, A Manifesto for OTs Who Keep Getting Told to Do More | 21 août 2026 | 00:54:31 | |
Beki Eakins works about 12 hours a week. And she still feels guilty about it. Not because the business is struggling. It's growing, her clients are getting results, and she's built the life she wanted. But she'll open her diary, see the gaps, and hear the voice saying you should be doing more. This episode started as therapy for herself. It turned into an argument. Because the standard advice for growing a business is always the same: double the output, double the hours. Beki has tried it, repeatedly, and every time she burnt out and achieved nothing extra. She traces where the work harder belief came from, a father treated as a superhero for working himself into the ground, and what shifted it, from Tim Ferriss to the world schooling families she met travelling, including one father supporting his family on four hours a week. Then the honest breakdown. Her 12 hours, line by line. Client support, group calls, sales, team, admin. And the weeks it all falls apart, like the fortnight with a hospital appointment, a graduation, seventy Vikings at the house and about five hours of work done. That happens at least once a month, and building it into the average instead of feeling shame was the real breakthrough. You will hear:
If your business is quietly becoming a second job with worse pay and no annual leave, that's not commitment. It's a design flaw. And design flaws can be fixed. One note: this is not a prescription. There are seasons where pushing hard is right. The argument is against doing it permanently by default, without ever choosing it. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out.
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| 150. The Basket Weavers Who Forgot to Weave, Why OTs Burn Out and What Actually Fixes It | 14 août 2026 | 00:36:57 | |
Occupational Therapists are the profession built on one idea. Meaningful occupation is medicine. We prescribe it every day. We know the theory works. So why are we burning out faster than almost anyone? In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins goes after the question most of us avoid. What happens when the profession of meaningful occupation stops doing anything meaningful for itself? It starts at a leaving do. Another OT walking out of the NHS, this one to open a bakery, icing the cakes for her own goodbye party. That moment is where this entire brand began. Because Beki noticed something. OTs are the profession most likely to OT themselves right out of the door. And the woman leaving to bake was not failing. She was finally applying the model to her own life. The question is why she had to leave to do it.
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If you are an Occupational Therapist heading towards burnout, thinking about leaving clinical practice, or building a business that is quietly turning into a second job with worse pay and no annual leave, this one is for you. We are the profession of meaningful occupation. It is time we stopped prescribing it and started living it. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 149. Sales for Occupational Therapists, Why OTs Fear Selling and How to Fix It (with Rob Higton) | 07 août 2026 | 00:39:00 | |
Selling makes most Occupational Therapists deeply uncomfortable. Not because they lack expertise, but because they fear sounding pushy, dread talking about money, and worry about being judged for charging properly for their skills. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins is joined by sales coach Rob Higton to unpack why so many OTs hold themselves back from building profitable online businesses, and how a shift in mindset around sales changes everything. Rob shares his route from traditional face to face selling into high ticket online sales, and the principles behind it. Build trust. Create a genuine connection. Enrol the right clients without pressure, scripts or manipulation. Ethical selling is not about convincing anyone of anything. It is about helping the right people solve a problem they are already trying to solve. Beki and Rob get into something that catches a lot of OTs off guard. We are trained communicators. We are exceptional at rapport, listening and clinical reasoning. So why does a discovery call still feel so awkward? The answer sits somewhere between imposter syndrome, professional conditioning and a quiet belief that our expertise is not worth paying for. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ Meet Rob Rob is a business coach and mentor who helps entrepreneurs simplify sales, grow with confidence, and build businesses that create more freedom. His practical approach to selling, mindset and business growth has helped countless business owners move from feeling stuck to creating consistent results. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robhigton/ About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 148 What Makes an OT Brand Stand Out in a Crowded Market | 31 juil. 2026 | 00:43:04 | |
Think the occupational therapy market is too crowded? Think again. In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki Eakins unpicks why so many occupational therapists believe their niche is saturated, and why that belief is usually a trick of the algorithm rather than a fact about the market. If you are an OT building a private practice, launching a coaching programme, or trying to work out how to market your services without sounding like everyone else, this one is for you. We cover: Why your social media feed is a filter bubble, not a census, and how it distorts your view of competition in the OT business space. Beki draws on Eli Pariser's work on filter bubbles to explain why "everyone is already doing this" is almost always your own algorithm reflecting your interests back at you. The story of the ninety-year-old woman in Austria, and what it taught Beki about clinical bias, warped sampling, and the assumptions quietly running your business decisions. Ninety-six per cent of older people in the UK live in their own communities, not in care homes, yet hospital-based OTs almost never see them. How to define your uniqueness properly. Not a new logo, not a colour palette, but the deep alignment work that makes an OT brand magnetic. Purpose, childhood patterns, money stories, and Human Design, and how those threads get woven into your offer creation and marketing. Why professional-sounding copy repels clients, and how to write like a human being while staying compliant as a registered OT. Real before and after examples of occupational therapy marketing copy, plus a book recommendation from copywriter Mish Slade. Why tying your business to a deeper mission changes everything, and why occupational therapists are, at heart, hope givers. Featuring the neuroscience of emotional decision-making from Antonio Damasio and Gerald Zaltman, and Charles Snyder's hope theory. If you have been holding back because the market feels full, this episode will show you the gap you are standing in without realising it. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ Timestamps
Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 147. Starting Your Online OT Business, Featuring Beki Eakins (Repost from The OT Lifestyle Movement) | 24 juil. 2026 | 01:16:50 | |
What does it really take to build an online Occupational Therapy business? In this special repost from The OT Lifestyle Movement Podcast, host Rhiannon Crispe interviews Beki Eakins about the journey from NHS Occupational Therapist to building a successful freedom-based online business that now supports OTs around the world. This isn't just another conversation about starting a business. It's the honest story behind burnout, rebuilding confidence, taking risks, and discovering that Occupational Therapists already have everything they need to create transformational online offers. Beki shares how she left a career she once loved, navigated one of the hardest periods of her life, and eventually created a six-figure online business working around 12 hours per week. Whether you're an OT feeling burnt out, considering private practice, or wondering if your expertise could become an online programme, coaching business or digital offer, this episode provides practical insights alongside the mindset shifts required to build something that truly aligns with your life. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 146. Why Your Life Story Is the Foundation of Your OT Online Business | 17 juil. 2026 | 00:43:27 | |
What if the thing you've been trying to hide is actually the reason people will choose to work with you? In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki Eakins explores why your personal story is one of the most valuable assets you'll ever have when building an online Occupational Therapy business. Many Occupational Therapists believe they need another qualification, a better business idea or years more experience before they're ready to build an online brand. In reality, the people who create the deepest trust and strongest businesses are often those who are willing to share their journey honestly. Whether you've experienced burnout, changed career direction, overcome personal challenges or discovered a new way of practising Occupational Therapy, your lived experience shapes the value you bring to the people you serve. In this episode, Beki explains why your story creates connection, builds credibility and becomes the foundation of a business that nobody else can replicate. In this episode, you'll discover:
If you're an Occupational Therapist who wants to build an online business, attract the right clients and create content that genuinely connects, this episode will help you see your own journey in a completely different light. Your qualifications may open the door. But your story is what people remember. Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom for weekly episodes helping Occupational Therapists build profitable online businesses, create more freedom, and make a bigger impact using the expertise they already have. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 145. Why the OTs Who Make It Big Are the Ones Who Refused to Wait | 10 juil. 2026 | 00:41:47 | |
Why do some Occupational Therapists build successful businesses while others give up before they ever gain momentum? In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki Eakins explores one of the biggest misconceptions about building an online Occupational Therapy business. It's not a lack of talent, qualifications or even money that stops most OTs. It's underestimating the energy required to create something completely new. If you've ever wondered why starting a business feels overwhelming, why your confidence disappears the moment you step outside clinical work, or why so many Occupational Therapists quit before seeing results, this episode is for you. Beki shares her own journey of building an online business from scratch, including the creative ways she funded her first coaching investment when she didn't have the money sitting in her bank account. Rather than waiting for the perfect circumstances, she chose resourcefulness over excuses, a decision that completely changed the trajectory of her life and career. This episode is a reminder that every successful entrepreneur started as a beginner. Building an online Occupational Therapy business isn't difficult because you're incapable. It's difficult because you're learning an entirely new profession alongside the one you've already mastered. If you're an Occupational Therapist feeling burnt out by clinical work, dreaming of creating more freedom, or wanting to build a business around your expertise, this conversation will help you reframe the challenges of the start-up phase and understand why discomfort is often a sign that you're growing. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 144. How I Scaled My OT Business by Letting Go of Control | 03 juil. 2026 | 00:35:31 | |
What if the very thing making you a brilliant occupational therapist is also stopping your business from growing? In this episode, I explore one of the hardest lessons I've had to learn as an OT entrepreneur: letting go of control. Many occupational therapists build businesses that depend entirely on them. Every client, every decision and every problem sits on their shoulders. The result is more pressure, more clinical hours and, ultimately, another version of burnout. But scaling an occupational therapy business requires a different skill set. It requires trust. It requires systems. And it requires the willingness to stop being the bottleneck. In this episode, I share the mindset shifts that helped me move from doing everything myself to building a business that creates freedom, impact and sustainability. In this episode, you'll learn:
If you're an occupational therapist feeling overwhelmed by the demands of private practice, online business or leadership, this conversation is for you. Because true freedom isn't built by holding everything together. It's built by creating something that can thrive without you being at the centre of every decision. Listen now and discover what becomes possible when you stop trying to control everything. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out.
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| 143. The Cycle That's Keeping You Broke, Burnt Out and Buried in Clinical Hours | 25 juin 2026 | 00:30:27 | |
Are you an occupational therapist whose diary is packed, yet you still feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and financially stuck? In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki Eakins explores one of the most common patterns she sees among occupational therapists, particularly OT business owners and private practice clinicians. Many OTs believe their biggest challenge is time management, marketing, or finding more clients. But what if the real issue is something deeper? Beki unpacks the hidden cycle that keeps occupational therapists trapped in endless clinical hours, overdelivering, undercharging, and constantly saying yes to work that no longer aligns with their goals. You'll discover why boundaries, self-worth, scarcity thinking and people-pleasing often sit at the heart of burnout, and how these patterns prevent OTs from creating the freedom, income and impact they truly want. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out.
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| 142. A Disruptive Approach to OT. | 19 juin 2026 | 00:40:34 | |
What if the future of occupational therapy doesn't belong to the people who play it safe? In this thought-provoking episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki explores why occupational therapists are uniquely positioned to create change, challenge outdated systems, and build innovative careers that align with their values. Across the UK, Australia, Canada, the USA and beyond, OTs are facing increasing pressure from healthcare systems that often undervalue their expertise. Yet at the same time, there has never been a greater opportunity for occupational therapists to create impact, build online businesses, develop innovative services, and reach the people who need them most. This episode is a call for OTs to stop waiting for permission and start embracing the ideas, passions and frustrations that could become the catalyst for meaningful change. If you've ever felt like there's more you could do with your occupational therapy skills, this conversation will challenge the way you think about your future. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 141. Do It Messy: Mel Homan on OT Burnout Recovery, Premium Sensory, and Playing a Bigger Game | 12 juin 2026 | 00:37:26 | |
What happens when Occupational Therapy no longer feels aligned with the life you want to live? In this inspiring episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins sits down with Occupational Therapist and entrepreneur Mel Homan, founder of Premium Sensory, to discuss her journey from OT burnout to building a thriving business that creates meaningful impact for children and families. Like many Occupational Therapists, Mel entered the profession wanting to help people. Over time, however, the reality of heavy caseloads, system pressures, and constant demands left her questioning whether the traditional path was the right one. Instead of walking away from Occupational Therapy, Mel chose to reimagine it. Through courage, creativity, and a willingness to take imperfect action, she built Premium Sensory, a business that allows her to support families while creating greater flexibility, freedom, and fulfilment in her own life. This episode is a powerful reminder that Occupational Therapists do not need to wait until everything is perfect before making a change. Growth often starts with messy action. Whether you're an Occupational Therapist experiencing burnout, considering private practice, exploring entrepreneurship, or simply wondering what else is possible for your career, this conversation will leave you inspired to think bigger. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Download here: https://www.bekieakins.com/overnight-subscribe The OT Freedom Formula was a powerful session created to help OTs build more freedom, income and balance - without burnout. Watch it here: https://www.bekieakins.com/Formula-event-Recording-lp Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership : https://www.bekieakins.com/membership Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call : https://otfreedom.bekieakins.com/widget/booking/bqsc3yEhKnzDh3cPz0PZ About Mel HomanMel Homan is an Occupational Therapist, entrepreneur, and founder of Premium Sensory. Passionate about supporting children and families, Mel has built a business that combines clinical excellence with innovation, creativity, and genuine impact. Her journey reflects what is possible when Occupational Therapists step outside conventional career paths and create businesses aligned with their values and vision. Connect with Mel Instagram: Tap here Facebook: Tap here Website for Coaching: Tap here The bamboo compression wrap the Cocooner: Tap here Link to become a founding clinical partner for OTs: Tap here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 140. The Scam Story That's Keeping OTs Broke | 05 juin 2026 | 00:33:46 | |
Are Occupational Therapists being protected by their communities, or are they being held back by them? In this thought-provoking episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki explores a controversial topic that many Occupational Therapists experience but few openly discuss: the culture of fear surrounding business, money, entrepreneurship, coaching programmes, and alternative career paths within the OT profession. If you've ever considered starting an online business, launching a private practice, creating a course, offering coaching, or building additional income streams as an Occupational Therapist, you've probably heard the warnings: "Be careful." "Sounds like a scam." "Don't trust anyone selling a dream." But where do these beliefs come from, and are they actually helping Occupational Therapists create better lives? In this episode, Beki unpacks the psychological, cultural, and societal forces that shape how OTs think about risk, money, success, and professional growth. Drawing on research from Daniel Kahneman, Brené Brown, Seth Godin, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert Cialdini, and Lynne Twist, she explores why fear often masquerades as wisdom and how inherited beliefs can quietly keep Occupational Therapists stuck in careers they desperately want to change. Whether you're an Occupational Therapist experiencing burnout, exploring private practice, considering online business opportunities, or simply questioning what's possible for your future, this episode will challenge the assumptions that may be limiting your growth. Key TakeawayFear is not the same as wisdom. The loudest voices in a community are not always the most informed voices. Occupational Therapists are trained to see possibility and potential in others every day. This episode invites you to apply that same belief to yourself and question whether the stories you've inherited about money, business, success, and risk are actually serving you. The question is not whether opportunities exist. The question is whether you're willing to evaluate them for yourself. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 139. Why OTs Are Perfectly Positioned to Lead the Somatic Nervous System Revolution with Sarita | 29 mai 2026 | 00:35:44 | |
Occupational Therapy is changing. More Occupational Therapists are questioning burnout, stress, and the sustainability of traditional practice models, and exploring new ways of working that support both client outcomes and practitioner wellbeing. In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, we explore how somatic practices and nervous system regulation are transforming the way OTs work, think, and support their clients. This conversation goes beyond theory and into real clinical application, looking at how Occupational Therapists can integrate body-based approaches safely, ethically, and within scope of practice. We discuss OT burnout, trauma-informed care, emotional regulation, and why so many practitioners are feeling disconnected from the profession they once loved. This episode also highlights how understanding your own nervous system can directly impact your clinical presence, confidence, and long-term career sustainability. Whether you are an early career OT, an experienced clinician, or someone exploring a more aligned and holistic approach to practice, this episode will challenge how you think about Occupational Therapy today. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About today’s guest: Sarita Sloane Sarita Sloane is a somatic integrative Occupational Therapist, yoga practitioner, and founder of Sunshine OT and Yoga. She works at the intersection of Occupational Therapy, somatic therapy, and nervous system regulation, supporting both clients and health professionals to reconnect with the wisdom of the body. Sarita has developed The Embodied OT Program, an immersive training designed to help Occupational Therapists integrate somatic practices into clinical work in a safe, trauma-informed, and practical way. Her work focuses on bridging the gap between traditional OT practice and emerging body-based approaches, helping practitioners move from theory into lived, embodied experience. Learn more about Sarita’s work: Resources mentioned in this episode: Free somatic reset course: Free masterclass replay: Work with Sarita: Book a connection call here: | |||
| 138. Life Beyond OT Burnout: Are You Hungry Enough For Change? | 22 mai 2026 | 00:32:57 | |
Are you an Occupational Therapist feeling burnt out, emotionally exhausted, underpaid, or stuck in a career that no longer feels aligned, but still unable to walk away? In this powerful episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki Eakins explores the hidden danger of the “so-so” life many Occupational Therapists find themselves trapped in. Not miserable enough to leave, but not fulfilled enough to truly feel alive. This episode is for OTs who keep thinking: Whether you work in the NHS, private practice, community OT, paediatrics, mental health, NDIS, hospital settings, or rehabilitation, this conversation dives deep into OT burnout, career dissatisfaction, nervous system exhaustion, and the growing desire many Occupational Therapists have to create more freedom, flexibility, impact, and income outside traditional healthcare systems. Beki shares her own story of Occupational Therapy burnout, leaving the NHS, building an online business, and why waiting for the “perfect time” may be costing you more than you realise. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out.
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| 137. The Role of Ego in an OT Online Business - Is It Damaging Yours? | 18 mai 2026 | 00:30:05 | |
What if the thing holding your OT business back isn’t strategy… but ego? Not the loud, arrogant kind. In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins explores the hidden ways ego keeps occupational therapists stuck, invisible, and afraid to fully show up online. This is an honest conversation about visibility, nervous system regulation, fear of judgement, procrastination, and why so many highly skilled OTs struggle to market themselves despite having life-changing expertise. In this episode, you’ll learn:
Staying invisible is not humility when people genuinely need what you know. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 136. OT Pay in 2026: Why Occupational Therapists Are Still Underpaid and the One Shift That Changes Everything | 08 mai 2026 | 00:31:01 | |
You studied for years. So why does your pay as an occupational therapist still feel… limited? In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki dives into the reality of OT salaries in 2026, and why so many occupational therapists feel financially capped despite their skills and experience. This is an honest conversation about money in healthcare, the trade-off between income and fulfilment, and the one shift that can change how you earn completely. In this episode, you’ll learn:Why occupational therapists are still underpaid in 2026 • The real reason OT income has a ceiling in traditional roles • Why moving up bands or into management doesn’t always solve it • The hidden cost of trading time for money in healthcare • What “security” in an OT job really means • The shift from selling time to selling transformation • How private pay and online business models change your earning potential Who this is for:This episode is for occupational therapists who: Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 135. OT Imposter Syndrome Is Killing Your Business: How High-Achieving Occupational Therapists Get Unstuck | 01 mai 2026 | 00:36:22 | |
You have the degree. The experience. The qualifications. So why do you still feel like a fraud? In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins breaks down why imposter syndrome is one of the biggest reasons occupational therapists stay stuck when building an online business. This is a direct, honest conversation about what is actually holding you back, and why “waiting until you’re ready” is keeping you exactly where you are. In this episode, you’ll learn:
If you’re an occupational therapist wanting to start or grow an online business, this episode will challenge how you think about readiness, confidence, and action. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 134. Energy Is Everything: The One Business Asset Occupational Therapists Keep Neglecting | 24 avr. 2026 | 00:26:52 | |
In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki explores one of the most overlooked yet critical factors behind sustainable business success… energy. Not strategy. But the actual physical, mental, and emotional energy required to keep showing up long after the initial excitement fades. After working with hundreds of occupational therapists and entrepreneurs, Beki shares a powerful insight… most businesses do not fail because of bad ideas. They fail because the person behind them runs out of energy. This episode challenges the traditional focus on productivity and discipline, and instead invites you to look deeper at how your body, your habits, and your natural rhythms are shaping your ability to build and sustain a business. If you have ever felt inconsistent, burnt out, or stuck in cycles of starting and stopping, this episode will help you reframe what is really going on and give you a new lens for creating long-term success. 🕒 Key Timestamps 0:00 – Why most businesses don’t actually fail Key Takeaways
Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 133. From Blood Pressure Meds to Closing His Clinic: How OT Ivan Hardcastle Built a Freedom Business in 2 Years | 17 avr. 2026 | 01:10:51 | |
Are you an Occupational Therapist feeling burnt out… stuck in back-to-back sessions… and wondering if there’s another way to use your OT skills? In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki speaks with former client, and Occupational Therapist Ivan Hardcastle, who is closing his paediatric clinic to move fully online as an ADHD parent coach. After being told by his doctor he was “killing himself” due to dangerously high blood pressure, Ivan knew something had to change. What followed was a complete shift from clinician to OT entrepreneur, building a high-ticket parent coaching business supporting families raising children with ADHD. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. In This Episode, You’ll Learn
This episode is for Occupational Therapists exploring online business, OT coaching, ADHD parent coaching, and freedom-based careers beyond the clinic.
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Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Meet IvanIvan Hardcastle is a 19-year Occupational Therapist based in Idaho, USA. After selling his clinic shares, he opened a small paediatric practice before transitioning into an online occupational therapy coaching model. He made his first $2,000 online coaching sale within two months, later tripled his pricing, and is now closing his clinic on 29 May 2026 to run his 8-week ADHD parent coaching programme fully online. Today, he helps overwhelmed parents move from chaos to calm — starting with the parent’s mindset before transforming their approach to supporting their child. Facebook: Tap here Instagram: Tap here Tiktok: Tap here YouTube:: Tap here Website: Tap here Join our newsletter: Tap here To book a 10-15 min chat with Ivan: Tap here | |||
| 132. Why OT Business Owners Avoid Their Numbers, and What To Do Instead, with Accountant Fiona Jansen | 10 avr. 2026 | 00:50:28 | |
Most OT business owners avoid their numbers. And when you don’t understand your numbers, growth feels stressful. Decisions feel risky. Scaling feels uncertain. In this episode, Beki Eakins sits down with accountant Fiona Jansen to talk about why business owners ignore their finances, and what to do instead. This conversation breaks down money, mindset, and the practical steps to finally feel calm and confident in your business. In this episode, we cover: Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Meet Fiona Jansen Connect with Fiona: Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 131. OT Burnout or Loss of Control? Why Busy OTs Stay Stuck (And How to Break Free) | 03 avr. 2026 | 00:30:28 | |
You’re not overwhelmed. You’re out of control. That’s not harsh, it’s accurate. Because if you look closely… Your calendar is full That’s not because you’re doing too much. It’s because there’s no clear control over:
Most people stay stuck here because “overwhelm” sounds temporary. But this episode breaks that completely. It gets into:
This isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing cleaner. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 130. What a 12-Hour Work Week Looks Like: How I Designed My Freedom Life as a Former OT | 27 mars 2026 | 00:30:43 | |
What If Your Business Was Built Around Your Life… Not The Other Way Round?
Today’s episode is a little different. No strategy breakdown. Instead, I’m taking you inside something much simpler… A completely normal Wednesday. Not a highlight reel. Not a “perfect day”. Because when people hear I work around twelve hours a week, they usually assume one of two things: Either I’m exaggerating… But the truth is far less complicated. This lifestyle didn’t happen by accident. And then I designed my business to support that. What You’ll Learn In This Episode
3:00 – The power of slow, calm mornings 6:30 – Health, discipline and protecting your energy 1:00 – Family time, presence and seasons of life 15:30 – Structuring work around life, not the other way round 20:00 – The truth about working 12 hours a week 25:00 – Lifestyle design and breaking out of default living Key Takeaways Your life doesn’t need to feel rushed to be successful. Your business should support your life, not consume it. Energy is one of your greatest assets. Simplicity creates freedom. You are allowed to design your life differently. Success isn’t just about income. It’s about: And building something that supports all of that. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the HostBeki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 129. Why Your OT Business Is Draining You — and How to Flip the Model for More Freedom | 20 mars 2026 | 00:41:02 | |
You built a successful business. Clients are coming in, the calendar is full, the team is growing, and from the outside everything looks brilliant. So why does it still feel exhausting? In this episode, Beki Eakins speaks directly to occupational therapists who already run a successful business but feel stretched, boxed in, or quietly wondering if there is a better way to work. Many OT entrepreneurs build a thriving clinic or service, only to discover their income is tied to referrals, insurance systems, or long working hours. The business works, but the freedom they originally hoped for never quite arrives. This episode explores how to flip or evolve your business model so that success does not come at the cost of your energy, time, or lifestyle. In This Episode We Explore
Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 128. Finding Your OT Niche: What Do You Want to Be Known For as an Occupational Therapist? | 13 mars 2026 | 00:28:29 | |
What do you actually want to be known for as an occupational therapist? It is a question that most OTs rarely stop to ask themselves. Between paperwork, caseloads, targets and the daily pressure of clinical work, many therapists end up simply trying to get through the week. But according to Beki Eakins, most OTs did not spend years training just to become average clinicians quietly blending into the system. In this episode, Beki invites you to pause and think bigger. Not about your band, job title or professional credentials, but about your identity as an occupational therapist. When someone says your name in a room and you are not there, what do you want people to say about you? And perhaps the deeper question is this. Are you actually living that identity right now? This conversation explores the hidden potential many occupational therapists overlook and why the thing that quietly frustrates you might actually be the work you are meant to lead. In This Episode We Explore
The Three Clues to Your Unique OT Identity Beki shares a powerful framework that often reveals what an OT could become known for. Your unique direction often sits at the intersection of three things: 1. Your clinical strengths 2. Your personal story 3. What quietly frustrates you Where these three areas meet is often where powerful ideas, services or businesses are born. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 127. OT Online Business: How to Keep Selling After a Launch That Didn't Go to Plan | 06 mars 2026 | 00:32:23 | |
When a Launch Doesn’t Go the Way You Expected
You put yourself out there. People showed interest… and then everything went quiet. If you’ve ever experienced that strange moment after launching something where you start questioning everything, this episode is for you. In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, Beki talks about what she calls the post-launch wobble — the emotional drop that many entrepreneurs experience after showing up, being visible, and not seeing immediate results. Most people interpret this moment as failure. But the truth is very different. This episode explains why silence after a launch does not mean your business failed, and how many successful entrepreneurs build momentum by understanding what is really happening behind the scenes. If you have ever wondered whether your launch “worked” or felt tempted to give up after putting yourself out there, this conversation will help you reframe the entire experience. What You’ll Learn In This Episode • Why the post-launch wobble happens to almost every entrepreneur Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 126. How to Start an OT Business: What Every Occupational Therapist Needs to Know First | 27 févr. 2026 | 00:31:13 | |
You do not need more qualifications, more time, or more confidence to start a business. You need to start. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins breaks down what actually matters when starting a business, and why so many capable people stay stuck in planning mode. If you have been thinking about starting for months (or years), this will challenge you to stop waiting and take action. What You’ll Learn
Starting a business is not about having everything mapped out. It is about taking the right actions in the right order. In this episode, Beki walks you through the real blockers that stop people from starting — from fear of judgement to waiting for confidence — and shows you how to move forward even when things feel uncertain. You will learn how to create a clear, focused offer, speak to real people, and build momentum without overcomplicating the process. Because clarity and confidence are built through action - not before it. If You Are Thinking About Starting A Business…This episode is your starting point. Not when you feel ready. Now. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 125. Trapped in Your OT Business? How Occupational Therapists Accidentally Lose Their Freedom | 20 févr. 2026 | 00:33:45 | |
Did you leave employment for freedom… only to feel more trapped than ever? In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki explores why so many occupational therapists unintentionally build businesses that mirror the very jobs they wanted to escape. If your diary is full, your business looks successful on paper, but you feel exhausted, stretched, and constantly “on” - this episode is for you. Beki breaks down the hidden flaws in traditional OT business models, including unpaid work, client dependency, and systems that quietly drain your time, energy, and income. In this episode, you’ll discover:
This is a powerful conversation about stepping back, questioning your current model, and creating a business that truly aligns with your values, energy, and life. If you’ve ever thought “there must be more than this”, you’re not alone, and there is another way. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 124. OT Abroad: How One Occupational Therapist Built an Online Business While Living Overseas | 14 févr. 2026 | 00:44:09 | |
What happens when your OT career is suddenly put on pause because life takes you abroad? In this inspiring episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, host Beki Eakins sits down with occupational therapist and entrepreneur Rachel Dexter to explore her journey from NHS clinician to business owner, after relocating overseas and being unable to practise as an OT. Rachel shares how moving to Denmark forced her to think differently about her career, how she turned her occupational therapy skills into an online business, and how she now balances NHS work with entrepreneurship to create a lifestyle that truly works for her and her family. If you are an occupational therapist dreaming of more flexibility, considering living abroad, or curious about starting a business alongside clinical work, this episode will open your eyes to what is possible. What You’ll Learn in This Episode In this honest conversation, Rachel and Beki explore:
Rachel’s story is a powerful reminder that you already have everything you need. Your communication skills, creativity, problem solving, and ability to build relationships are not “just common sense”. They are highly valuable and deeply transferable. You do not need endless extra qualifications to create something meaningful. You need belief, support, and the courage to step outside your comfort zone. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Meet Rachel Rachel is an experienced Occupational Therapist who has successfully transferred her OT skills into building and running her own business. Having lived and worked abroad, she brings a broad perspective on identity, work, and what it means to design a life that fits — not just survive one that doesn’t. She founded Healthy English in 2019, a training and coaching business that works with both individuals and NHS trusts. Healthy English supports international professionals to bridge the gap between their clinical knowledge and skills, and their ability to apply them effectively within a different cultural and communication context. Through resources, teaching, workshops, and courses, the work focuses on confidence, professional and social relationships, and navigating the unspoken expectations of UK healthcare. She combines running her business with ongoing part-time work as an Occupational Therapist, using the same core skills across both roles.
Email: rachel.dexter@healthyenglish.org Website www.healthyenglish.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/racheldexter/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthyenglishgroup
About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 123. Why Good OTs Leave: The Hidden Cost of Compromised Values | 06 févr. 2026 | 00:18:38 | |
Have you ever wondered why so many passionate occupational therapists quietly walk away from the profession, even when they still care deeply about their clients? In this powerful episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins explores the real reason behind OT burnout. It is not just workload, staffing shortages, or long days. It is compromised values. If you are an occupational therapist feeling emotionally drained, disconnected from your work, or silently questioning whether you can keep going, this episode will help you understand what is really happening beneath the surface, and what your body has been trying to tell you all along. What You’ll Learn in This Episode In this conversation, Beki dives deep into:
This episode is especially relevant if you have been searching for answers around:
You did not train to become an OT to stare at screens, rush human connection, or work against your clinical judgement. You trained because you care. And when your ability to practise with integrity, presence, and purpose is stripped away, your nervous system responds. Often through heaviness, resistance, fatigue, or disengagement. As Beki explains, this is not a mindset problem. It is a values violation. A Question to Reflect On If you are currently feeling controlled, resentful, or trapped in your OT role, Beki invites you to ask: Which value on your ladder is being sacrificed right now, and who benefits from that sacrifice? Then ask your body: How long am I willing to pay this price? Considering a Different Way Forward? Beki also shares how occupational therapists can reclaim autonomy by creating aligned, freedom-based online businesses, where you:
If you have:
Both are designed to help OTs build meaningful income without sacrificing their health, family, or values. Links to Beki’s free mindset meditation and programme details can be found in the episode resources. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Host Beki Eakins is a business mindset and lifestyle coach for occupational therapists. After leaving traditional OT practice, she has helped hundreds of OTs worldwide design aligned online businesses that support freedom, income, and purpose, without burning out. | |||
| 122. Starting an OT Business Feels Messy — Here's Why That's Normal and What to Do Next | 30 janv. 2026 | 00:32:45 | |
Starting a business rarely looks like the polished launches you see online. Instead, it’s confusing, overwhelming, lonely, and often deeply uncomfortable. In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom podcast, Beki Eakins speaks honestly about the messy beginning of entrepreneurship. The fear, the self-doubt, the lack of structure, and the emotional rollercoaster that comes with building something from scratch. If you’re questioning whether you’re doing it right, wondering if you’ve got what it takes, or feeling stretched in every direction, this episode will help you understand that nothing has gone wrong. This is the process. Beki shares why chaos is normal at the start, how freedom can feel frightening before it feels empowering, and what really helps you move through this stage faster and with less emotional strain. In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
Keep a running list of tasks that drain you. Anything repetitive or unenjoyable becomes a future delegation or automation task. This simple habit protects your energy and helps your business grow sustainably. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love.
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| 121. OT Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Why Occupational Therapists Keep Burning Out and How to Stop | 23 janv. 2026 | 00:31:22 | |
In this powerful and thought-provoking episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom podcast, Beki Eakins challenges one of the most deeply ingrained beliefs in caring professions and entrepreneurship, that burnout is inevitable and even admirable. Burnout is not proof that you care more. This episode is an honest invitation to stop normalising exhaustion, martyrdom, and over-giving, particularly within occupational therapy, healthcare, and purpose-driven businesses, and to start taking ownership of the small, daily choices that quietly lead to burnout. If you are already feeling tired, bracing yourself for the year ahead, or telling yourself “this is just part of the job”, this conversation is for you. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 120. How This OT Built a Business on Maternity Leave, with Helen Buteux | 16 janv. 2026 | 00:56:17 | |
What really happens when you become a mum, and why does no one talk about the emotional shift? In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, host Beki Eakins is joined by her client Helen Buteux, an occupational therapist who supports mums through the transition into motherhood using both her professional OT training and her lived experience as a mum of two. This honest and grounding conversation explores the emotional impact of becoming a parent, the loss of confidence many mums experience, and how occupational therapy skills are uniquely placed to support mental wellbeing in early motherhood. Helen also shares how she built a freedom-based online business as an occupational therapist while on maternity leave, navigating broken sleep, identity shifts, and the realities of caring for young children. This episode is a must-listen for occupational therapists who feel called to create work that aligns with their values, lifestyle, and lived experience. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About HelenHelen Buteux is a highly specialist paediatric occupational therapist with over a decade of experience supporting babies, young children, and their families in the early years. Her work combines strong clinical foundations with a compassionate understanding of motherhood. Helen supports new and expecting mums to feel calm, confident, and connected during early motherhood by caring for both the baby and the mother. Her work is rooted in three core pillars: Your Body, Your Baby, and Your Bond, recognising that when a baby is born, a mother is born too. Using an evidence-based yet gentle approach, Helen helps mums understand infant brain development, sensory play, motor milestones, emotional regulation, and matrescence, the identity shift into motherhood. Alongside this, she supports mums to protect their own wellbeing, confidence, and sense of self. As a mum herself, Helen understands first-hand how overwhelming early motherhood can feel, particularly when expectations do not match reality. Her work blends clinical expertise with lived experience to create a judgement-free space where mums can stop comparing, start trusting themselves, and feel empowered in their parenting choices. Helen is the creator of The EmpowerMum Method, a preventative and nurturing approach to early years development and maternal wellbeing, designed to help families thrive rather than just cope. You can find Helen on Instagram at @becoming_a_mummy, where she shares honest conversations about motherhood, baby development, and rebuilding confidence in the early years. Email: Email : helenbuteuxot@gmail.com Facebook : Helen Buteaux About the PodcastOT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 119. Every OT Who Sends Paper Handouts Needs This Episode with Laura Simmons | 09 janv. 2026 | 00:44:12 | |
If you're an OT (or allied health professional) still sending paper handouts, long follow-up emails, or stick-figure drawings, this episode will completely shift how you think about home programs. In this powerful and practical conversation, Beki Eakins is joined by Laura Simmons, an Australian occupational therapist turned digital health innovator and founder of Theratrak. Laura shares how she went from paediatric OT to accidental tech founder, building a platform now used by clinics across Australia and internationally to help therapists bridge the gap between therapy sessions and real life, without burning out on admin. In This Episode, You’ll Learn:- Why paper handouts fail (and what works better) Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Guest: Laura Simmons Laura Simmons is an Australian occupational therapist, digital health innovator, and founder of Theratrak, a platform transforming how therapists deliver home programs and engage with clients. With more than a decade of experience across paediatric, school-based, community, and clinic settings, Laura has built her career around solving practical challenges faced by OTs, families, and disability service providers. Inspired by the creativity and problem-solving at the heart of OT, Laura developed a passion for paediatrics early in her career. Her clinical work highlighted how much time therapists spent on documentation, follow-ups, and coordinating with families, sparking the idea for Theratrak. Today, Theratrak is used by clinics across Australia and internationally to create programs in minutes, support multi-carer collaboration, enable real-time client updates, and streamline waitlist management. Laura is recognised as a leader in digital transformation, advocating for practical, accessible technology that enhances practice and empowers therapists to deliver more personalised, impactful care. Want a 20% discount? Just mention the OT Yourself to Freedom podcast in the "where did you hear about us?" section, then you will receive a unique 20% discount code. Connect with Laura:Website: https://www.theratrak.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theratrak Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theratrak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theratrak/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-simmons-a0447a95/ About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 118. 2025: Leaving the NHS as an OT: 6 Years On — What Happened When I Outgrew the System | 02 janv. 2026 | 00:46:12 | |
In this deeply personal episode of the OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins shares a truthful reflection on 2025, six years after leaving the NHS as a Band 6 occupational therapist. This is not a training episode. There is no strategy or framework to follow. Instead, this episode offers an honest look at what it really means to build freedom as an occupational therapist, financially, emotionally and energetically. Beki reflects on walking away from traditional OT work in the UK, the frustration of rigid systems, paperwork and hierarchy, and the deep inner knowing that she was finished with employed OT work for good. She shares how freedom has evolved over six years, from a risky leap into the unknown to a sustainable, values-led business that supports family life and personal wellbeing. The episode also explores parts of business ownership that are rarely spoken about. The mental load, the responsibility, the fear during quieter months, and the reality that freedom does not mean less responsibility. It means choosing the responsibility you are willing to carry. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 117. OT Success Stories: Real Occupational Therapists Share How They Beat Burnout and Built Freedom Businesses (Special Episode) | 26 déc. 2025 | 01:10:15 | |
What’s possible for occupational therapists beyond burnout, rigid systems and traditional career paths? In this special compilation episode, host Beki Eakins brings together powerful conversations from across 2025, featuring occupational therapists from the UK, Australia, Canada and beyond who have created businesses, roles and lifestyles aligned with their values. You’ll hear honest stories about leaving the NHS, navigating burnout, overcoming imposter syndrome, building online and private practice businesses, and redefining what success looks like as an OT. From paediatrics and dementia care to leadership, embodiment, social media and ethical business growth, these conversations highlight the depth, creativity and impact of occupational therapy worldwide. This episode is designed to inspire occupational therapists heading into 2026, whether you’re curious about business, craving more flexibility, or simply wanting to reconnect with why you chose OT in the first place. In This Episode, You’ll Hear About:• Creating freedom-based OT businesses Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 116. OT Hyperfocus and Drive: Why Your Obsession Is the Key to Building an Online Business That Works | 19 déc. 2025 | 00:28:57 | |
Is obsession a flaw or a superpower? In this episode, Beki Eakins explores why hyperfocus, intensity, and drive are essential for Occupational Therapists building an online business and creating freedom. You’ll Learn:Why obsession is a strength, not a flaw The mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur Why visibility and consistency matter for OTs online How hyperfocus helps build expertise and momentum Why freedom comes after intensity, not before
Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here 00:55 – Why obsession and hyperfocus are misunderstood traits for Occupational Therapists About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love.
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| 115. Healthcare Benefits That Box You In: Why Your “Security” Is Costing You Wealth | 12 déc. 2025 | 00:32:51 | |
A practical guide for OTs ready to build an online business safely while earning alongside their current role. In this empowering episode, Beki Eakins explains how occupational therapists can start a profitable online business without taking big financial risks. Learn the mindset, strategy and practical steps to build freedom while still working your day job. So many occupational therapists dream of creating more freedom, increasing their income and enjoying their work again, but fear of financial risk often stops them from getting started. In this episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, Beki Eakins answers one of the most common questions OTs ask: “How can I start a business without risking everything?” Beki breaks down why traditional brick-and-mortar business models are outdated for modern OTs and explains how you can build an online, freedom-based business using your existing OT skills, free tools and just 10–12 hours per week, all while keeping the safety of your current role. From global client success stories to practical guidance on offers, mindset shifts, and income planning, this episode gives you a realistic and empowering roadmap to start earning online as an occupational therapist. Whether you’re a solo parent, the main earner or simply craving more flexibility, Beki shows how you can grow your business gradually, sustainably and confidently. You’ll also learn why there’s never a “perfect” time to start, how to navigate the temporary “sacrifice season”, and what to do to protect your financial stability while building your business on the side. If you’ve been waiting for permission to pursue the life you want, this is it. This episode is perfect for OTs wanting:
Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love.
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| 114. The OT Path to Freedom: Burnout Recovery, Alignment & Farm OT with Alex Viera | 05 déc. 2025 | 00:37:25 | |
In this inspiring episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, host Beki Eakins reconnects with former client and paediatric Occupational Therapist Alex Viera - now known for her transformational work with mothers through The Regulated Mama and for her bold move into creating a freedom-style OT business. This episode is essential listening for Occupational Therapists who are burnt out, craving autonomy, or curious about building a flexible, values-aligned OT business. Alex shares how she moved from clinical exhaustion into a life and business led by intuition, nervous system regulation and authenticity. In this conversation, Beki and Alex dive into:- burnout among paediatric OTs This episode is perfect for Occupational Therapists wanting more control, flexibility, emotional wellbeing, and purpose-driven business growth. Connect with BekiAre you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki: Website: www.bekieakins.com Instagram: OT Yourself to Freedom Facebook Group: OT Freedom Community LinkedIn: Beki Eakins Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Connect with Alex VieraAlex Viera is a paediatric OT and the creator of The Regulated Mama, where she helps overwhelmed mothers and neurodivergent women find calm through nervous system regulation. After leaving the traditional OT world behind, Alex now blends her clinical skills with intuitive, heart-led coaching—and is stepping into nature-led practice with her new Farm OT project. Instagram: @the.confident.parent The Regulated Mama App: community, coaching & tools https://linktr.ee/the.confident.parent
00:00 – Welcome & Introduction 03:20 – Taking the Leap of Faith into OT Entrepreneurship 06:15 – Quitting the 9–5 OT Job & Building an Online Community 10:10 – Human Design, Projector Energy & Making Business Work for You 14:05 – Healing, Fear of Judgement & Posting Authentic Content 17:30 – Ego, Nervous System Patterns & Emotional Safety in Business 21:22 – The Birth of The Confident Parent & The Regulated Mama App About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 113. Ageing as an Occupational Transition: Why OTs Are the Ones to Lead | 28 nov. 2025 | 00:25:56 | |
In today’s powerful episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, host Beki Eakins explores a conversation that most occupational therapists rarely hear inside traditional services — yet it’s one of the biggest opportunities for our profession: Ageing is not decline. This episode challenges the fear-based, symptom-obsessed messaging dominating social media and shines a light on what ageing really is: a series of evolving roles, routines, identities and occupations that require skilled, holistic support. If you’re an Occupational Therapist interested in expanding beyond the paediatric world, building a freedom-based online business, or stepping into a niche with enormous demand, this episode is essential listening. What This Episode Covers How social media algorithms distort our perception of ageing Why OTs’ views on ageing are often unintentionally skewed The neuroscience behind midlife brain changes Historical perspectives: When ageing was honoured, not feared
Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 112. How This OT Built a Sensory Parenting Business Online — Anna Willis on Turning OT Skills into Income | 21 nov. 2025 | 00:46:05 | |
If you’re an Occupational Therapist feeling stretched by long waiting lists, high demand, or the emotional weight of supporting neurodivergent families, this episode may be exactly what you need. In Episode 111, host Beki Eakins speaks with Anna Willis, a highly specialised Paediatric Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner, about how she transitioned from a traditional, high-pressure clinical service into creating Calm Club - a parent-led online programme that is transforming home life for families. This conversation explores what happens when we stop focusing solely on “fixing the child” and instead support parents to understand sensory needs and develop their own self-regulation. By shifting the model, outcomes improve, families feel more empowered, and practitioners reduce burnout while reclaiming their time and energy. What You’ll Learn in This Episode - Why traditional one-to-one OT services often lead to exhaustion and waiting lists If you’re considering evolving your practice, offering support online, or simply want deeper insight into sensory regulation within families, this episode will be valuable, grounding and inspiring. Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Meet Anna Anna loves being creative and playful, and following this passion to support neurodiverse families is creating a growing platform to support parents to tap into this for themselves. Calm Club pulls on sensory integration theory, emotional regulation techniques and play - for all ages. Anna is passionate about combining her ‘bricks and mortar’ and online worlds together to create a truly excellent service for families to feel supported, whilst allowing Anna the time to spend with her own family.
01:25 – Starting Active Play Therapies 04:53 – The Waiting List Problem 06:17 – The Birth of Calm Club 10:38 – Supporting the Family System, Not Just the Child 31:52 – Money Mindset & Sustainable Practice About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 111. Your Hormones Aren’t the Problem. Your Business Model Is - with Renae Fieck | 14 nov. 2025 | 00:52:56 | |
If you have ever felt exhausted, overwhelmed, or like you are constantly pushing yourself to keep up in your business or workplace, this episode will feel like a powerful exhale. In this conversation, Beki sits down with Renae Fieck, Occupational Therapist, cycle alignment mentor and author of Cycle Sync Your Business. Together, they explore why so many women in business (especially OTs transitioning online) struggle with burnout, lack of consistency, emotional highs and lows, and ongoing fatigue. The truth is this: Most productivity systems, business strategies, and workplace structures were designed for male hormonal patterns (a consistent 24-hour cycle). Women’s bodies function on a 28-day cycle with phases that shift energy, focus, emotional capacity, and creativity. When you learn to work with your cycle instead of against it, your business becomes easier, more spacious, more aligned, and more successful. This episode is perfect for:
Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here About Renae FieckRenae Fieck is an Occupational Therapist, cycle alignment specialist, podcast host and author of Cycle Sync Your Business. She supports women to grow their income and impact by aligning their work with their menstrual cycle, nervous system and natural energy patterns. Her work blends neurophysiology, hormonal awareness and feminine leadership to help women build sustainable, fulfilling businesses without burnout. Instagram: @renaefieck Link to order: Cycle Sync Your Business by Renae Fieck Order here: Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:02 How Beki discovered Renae’s book 2:18 Renae’s background as an Occupational Therapist 3:00 The personal experience that shifted her entire approach to work and life 5:30 The problem with “hustle culture” and constant output 7:15 Why women burnout more in business and healthcare roles 9:26 How cycle syncing improves productivity and energy 12:01 What happens when women push through instead of resting 14:30 Understanding the four phases of the menstrual cycle 18:12 How to structure work tasks around your natural rhythm
About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 110. How to Build an Online OT Practice Using Somatic and Yoga Therapy — Sarita Sloane's $21k Launch Story | 07 nov. 2025 | 00:38:00 | |
In this episode of OT Yourself to Freedom, host Beki Eakins ( Business Mindset Coach, and Lifestyle Mentor for OTs) speaks with Sarita Sloane, Occupational Therapist, Yoga Therapist, and founder of Sunshine OT & Yoga. Sarita is also the creator of The Embodied OT Program - a transformational training that weaves somatic awareness, yoga philosophy, and nervous-system science into the core of occupational therapy practice. Sarita invites OTs to return to their bodies, reclaim presence as their most powerful therapeutic tool, and build practices that are grounded, sustainable, and aligned. Her work directly addresses the burnout so many OTs experience, offering pathways back to nourishment, ease, and meaningful impact. Together, Beki and Sarita explore how OTs can transition from traditional service delivery into freedom-based, online practice models that allow more spaciousness, creativity, and autonomy. They discuss human design, somatic attunement, the emotional realities of business-building, and the importance of creating work that feels good for both therapist and client. This episode is for any Occupational Therapist seeking more flexibility, deeper fulfilment, and a practice rooted in authenticity rather than overwork. In this Conversation: Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Meet Sarita Sarita Sloane is an Occupational Therapist, yoga therapist, and founder of Sunshine OT & Yoga. She is the creator of The Embodied OT Program—a transformational training that weaves somatic awareness, yoga wisdom, and nervous-system science into the heart of occupational therapy. Her work invites OTs to return home to their bodies, reclaim presence as their most powerful therapeutic tool, and lead from inner alignment rather than exhaustion. Blending evidence-based practice with embodied wisdom, Sarita guides therapists to move beyond burnout and into grounded, authentic service - where their work becomes not just sustainable, but deeply nourishing and impactful for themselves and their clients Key Timestamps About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||
| 109. OT Supervision as a Business: How Lynsay McFarlane-Shaw Built a Scalable Wellbeing Service for Occupational Therapists | 31 oct. 2025 | 01:00:51 | |
In this empowering episode of the OT Yourself to Freedom Podcast, host Beki Eakins talks with Lynsay McFarlane-Shaw, a pioneering Occupational Therapist and supervision specialist who’s redefining what true professional support looks like. Lynsay shares how she rebuilt her career after burnout, creating an Occupational Therapy supervision model that prioritises well-being, reflection, and growth rather than endless workload demands. Together, Beki and Lynsay explore how OTs can thrive in practice, strengthen their boundaries, and lead change across the profession. If you’re an Occupational Therapist in the UK looking for ways to prevent burnout, deliver better supervision, or build a values-led OT business, this episode is a must-listen. What You’ll Learn- How to transform supervision into a driver of well-being and retention Connect with Beki Are you ready to leave the whinger mindset behind and embrace your inner go-getter? Beki helps OTs worldwide design, launch, and scale their online business Free Resource: Download Beki’s free overnight mindset meditation for free to help you build confidence, overcome money mindset challenges, and develop self-belief. Join OT Yourself To Freedom Membership: Discover the only membership designed specifically for OTs to create freedom-based businesses by leveraging the skills you already have. Learn to design and sell offers, market effectively, and align your work with your purpose. nesses. Learn how to tap into your purpose and create an offer that sells with ease.. Follow Beki:
Book an Inspiration Call: Click here Meet Lynsay: With 30 years of experience as an Occupational Therapist, Lynsay McFarlane-Shaw is widely regarded in her field. After dedicating 20 years to the NHS, Lynsay transitioned into independent practice, founding her own OT business to support children, young people, and families in school and community settings. Lynsay’s passion for Occupational Therapy extends to professional occupational therapy supervision, where she has become a key figure supporting therapists inside and outside statutory healthcare roles. Recognising the critical role of supervision in job satisfaction, retention, and well-being, she provides tailored supervision that meets the unique needs of therapists in diverse practice settings, including sole practitioners, emerging roles, and occupational therapy business leaders. In 2024, Lynsay presented her innovative Long Arm Occupational Therapy Supervision Model at the Royal College of Occupational Therapy’s Children, Young People, and Families conference, sparking widespread interest. In November 2025, she will present at the OT Show, highlighting the role of OT supervision in wellbeing and burnout prevention. She continues to advocate for the importance of supervision through podcasts, social media, and efforts to publish her model. Lynsay’s reputation as a sought-after OT supervisor is built on her dedication to empowering therapists through accessible, high-quality supervision. With the imminent launch of supervision skills training for healthcare professionals, she is advancing her mission to elevate professional standards and support the well-being of therapists across the UK and beyond. From Basics to Brilliance Supervision Skills Training, join the waiting list and get 25% off the first cohort of the training in 2025. www.otsupervisor.com/ot-supervisors-toolkit Contact Lynsay across social media: www.instagram.com/lynsayotsupervisor www.facebook.com/Lynsay.McFarlaneShaw www.linkedin.com/in/lynsay-mcfarlaneshaw Email: Lynsay@OTsupervisor.com Website: www.OTsupervisor.com Key Timestamps[02:15] — Lynsay’s turning point: from surgery and burnout to founding her supervision practice. About the Podcast OT Yourself To Freedom Podcast helps occupational therapists create a life and business they love. Host Beki Eakins shares practical tips, strategies, and real-world stories to inspire your journey to freedom Love this episode? Subscribe to OT Yourself to Freedom and leave a review! Your feedback helps more OTs break free from burnout and build a business they love. | |||