For our 200th episode of Money Skills for Therapists, I invited my business besties, Tiffany McLain and Maegan Megginson, to join me for a conversation that was more honest than polished. Together, we unpacked the real seasons of entrepreneurship — the times when you feel energized, expanding, and deeply aligned… and the times when you feel tired, restless, like you’re questioning everything, or quietly pulling back. If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s normal to feel both love and resentment toward your business at different points, this conversation is for you.

Navigating the Seasons of Business

Running a therapy-focused business isn’t a constant upward climb. It has seasons of expansion, contraction, clarity, confusion. In this conversation, we let ourselves name that truth.

We talked about what it feels like when you’re all in — launching, creating, hiring, dreaming bigger. And we also opened up about the quieter seasons: reducing your client load, winding down programs, letting team members go, or wondering if you even want to keep doing this work in the same way.

There’s so much pressure in entrepreneurship to always be scaling. But sometimes wisdom looks like pulling back. Sometimes contraction isn’t failure — it’s integration.

At the same time, building work you genuinely enjoy doesn’t happen by accident. It requires noticing your energy, building systems that support you instead of draining you, and being honest about what you’re doing because you want to rather than because you think you “should.”

We also talked about money — because underneath many expansion or contraction decisions is a financial story. Cultural conditioning around money. Fear of losing relevance. Fantasies about quitting. Fantasies about scaling. And how helpful it is to have friends who understand the nuance of all of it.

Listening to Your Season Instead of Forcing Growth

Entrepreneurship isn’t just strategy — it’s discernment. It’s noticing whether you’re in a building season or a gathering season. Whether something needs to grow… or gently end.

00:04:02 Life and Business Have Seasons

00:12:52 Shifting Beliefs in Business

00:14:25 Creative Business as Living Practice

00:24:06 Embracing Healthy Contraction

00:25:14 Winding Down with Care

00:32:46 Embracing Flexibility and Growth

00:38:21 Slow Down, Take a Breath

00:39:15 Discernment Before Building Something New

00:44:36 Value of Business Besties

00:46:02 Mastering Money for Therapists

Letting Your Business Evolve with You

One thing we kept circling back to is this: your business is allowed to change as you change.

There are seasons where you build aggressively, seasons where you stabilize, seasons where you question everything, and seasons where you rediscover joy.

You don’t have to cling to an old identity just because it once worked. You don’t have to keep scaling just because you can. And you don’t have to quit just because you’re tired.

Sometimes the most mature move is slowing down long enough to ask, “What season am I actually in?”

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About Tiffany McLain:

Tiffany McLain, LMFT is a clinical fee strategist for therapists in private practice. Her mantra is, “Full fees are the new black.” Via her program, The Lean In. MAKE BANK. Academy, she helps therapists ethically earn significantly more per month while seeing fewer clients and doing BETTER clinical work.

The Lean In. MAKE BANK. Academy is a program that addresses the underlying money mindset stories that keep therapists broke so they can become THAT therapist who charges premium fees, cash pay. With the LIMB 4-step framework to make BANK, regular coaching calls to help you go to the next level, a phenomenal community of funny and intelligent therapists, be ready to get real raw and real rich.

Connect with Tiffany McLain:

Website: https://leaninmakebank.com/

Email: hey@leaninmakebank.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leaninmakebank/

About Maegan Megginson:

Maegan Megginson is a spiritual advisor and sabbatical coach who supports leaders and small business owners at pivotal crossroads in life and work. As a former psychotherapist and founder of a seven-figure mental health agency, her approach blends therapeutic insight, grounded spiritual guidance, and practical business wisdom to help people recover from burnout, reconnect with their intuition, and clarify what’s next for their work. She believes tending to your inner world isn’t a detour from success—it’s the foundation for sustainable growth and meaningful impact.

Connect with Maegan Megginson:

Website: https://deeplyrested.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maegan-megginson/

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