Hosted by Dr. Z · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 33 episodes
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Functional Medicine 1.0 trained practitioners to memorize pathways, chase labs, and do everything themselves. Functional Medicine 2.0 replaces that model with clinical intelligence, behavior change, team-based care, and scalable systems. This podcast is for clinicians who want to know what to do on Monday morning, help patients actually change, and build practices that don’t burn them out. Smarter thinking. Better health. Bigger impact.
Dr. Z hosts Functional Medicine 2.0, a business show with 33 episodes published.
Most practitioners think if they just get better clinically, the rest will follow. It won't. Clinical care is one of five pillars that hold up a successful practice. And it's the only one most practitioners ever pay atte
Do you need an office or not? It's one of the first questions every practitioner has to answer, and most of them answer it for the wrong reasons. They think about what looks credible. What feels like a real practice. Wha
What if there was one number, not a 47-item to-do list, not a dozen KPIs, not a complicated dashboard, just one number that made it statistically impossible for your practice to fail? There is. And most practitioners are
Thinking about a $99 membership for your Functional Medicine practice? The ads make it sound easy, but the math says otherwise. Dr. Z breaks down why the low-ticket membership model is a "lie" that could actively lose yo
Why functional medicine practices fail: it's not your marketing - it's your capacity. A stay-at-home mom selling leggings does more business training than most functional medicine practitioners. Here's what has to change
Every functional medicine practitioner prepares for their consult the same way: Review the intake form. Think through protocols. Get ready to talk about labs, symptoms, and root cause. Then they wonder why that person di
Think you need to be "ready" to scale your functional medicine practice? Dr. Z shares how she closed $150k in a single webinar while literally peeing on camera—and why your "perfectionism" is actually what's holding your
I was making a binder for my daughter. Letters she could read after I was gone. Because I was that sick. And I thought, if I'm going out, I'm not going out with regrets. So I put makeup on both of us, bribed my tween wit
She was in a meeting with my staff and said, "I think we can do this without telling Dr. Z." She was gone the next day. That was the most expensive lesson I've ever learned about hiring. And I'm going to make sure it doe
Thirty years obsessing over clinical excellence. And then I built tools to replace myself on purpose. Not because the clinical work doesn't matter. It does. It's just not enough anymore. It never was the ceiling. It was
You got the license. You did the training. You hung the shingle. And nothing happened. That's not a clinical problem. That's a business problem. And Functional Medicine 1.0 never once prepared you for it. Dr. Z gets into
The ads make it sound so good. They’re lying to you. Get 200 people in at $99 a month. Build recurring revenue. Scale your practice without trading time for money. Here's what the ads don't tell you: the people selling y
Labs don't experience life. Humans do. If the numbers improve but the person in front of you doesn't… Have you actually done anything? Dr. Z and Ashley R. get into one of the most overlooked problems in both traditional
You do not have a growth problem if your business only works when you work harder. You have a model problem. Dr. Z and Jamie, BSN-RN—a former emergency travel nurse turned functional medicine practitioner, educator, and
Most protocols work… right up until the patient who exposes everything you don’t understand. In this episode, Dr. Z sits down with Dr. Kurt Woeller, DO—an integrative physician with nearly 30 years of experience and the
If your income stops the second you stop working… you don’t have a thriving practice. You have a very stressful, very expensive job. Dr. Z sits down with dietitian Ana Reisdorf, MS, RD, and Founder of GLP-1 Hub, to unpac
If your patients keep “falling off the protocol,” it may not be a willpower problem. It may be that the plan was never built for the life they’re actually living. Dr. Z sits down with Dr. Beth Westie, Functional Medicine
If you’re refusing to use AI because you think it’s “not your thing”… that’s not protecting your practice. That’s making yourself easier to outpace. Dr. Z sits down with serial entrepreneur and Author of AI Secrets for U
The lone wolf practitioner is not some magical badge of honor. It’s usually a slow-motion nervous breakdown with patient notes. In this episode, Dr. Z sits down with Marlene Jones, ND, NPT-C, Certified Brain Health, Neur
If your practice depends on you for every single thing, that’s not freedom. That’s just a prettier version of burnout. Dr. Z and Dr. Garvey, DC, FMACP unpack one of the most uncomfortable truths in functional medicine: t
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Functional Medicine 2.0 is hosted by Dr. Z. The show is categorised under business (health) and has published 33 episodes.
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