She Tripled Her Income, Built the Brand… Then Life Hit Back
1h 2m | Jul 10, 2026🎙️ Sponsor the Brand Builders Podcast: https://www.howdy-media.com/brand-builders-podcast
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She tripled her salary in 2 months after quitting an in-network physical therapy job — then COVID hit two weeks after she opened her own practice. This is how BodyWorx Abilene got built anyway.
In this episode of the Brand Builders Podcast, Jodi (owner of BodyWorx Abilene) breaks down why insurance companies decide when your recovery is "done" regardless of your actual results, why one Texas law (Direct Access, 2019) is the only reason cash-pay physical therapy exists, and why scaling from a solo practice to 14 employees and 2,000 patients cut her profit margin from 85% down to 15%.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Losing control (and learning to let go of it)
01:18 – How Scout Guide and word-of-mouth built her first clients
02:06 – Her first client came from ChatGPT, not Google
06:02 – The windstorm that blew her sign off (and why it didn't matter)
07:02 – Graduating PT school in 2013 and 6 years of burnout in-network
10:04 – The Texas law that made her own practice possible
12:35 – Tripling her salary in the first 2 months
14:03 – Why growth cut her profit margin from 85% to 15%
14:36 – Hiring a business coach and becoming one herself
23:39 – The hardest lesson: you can't force people to care like you do
25:21 – What she'd tell herself on day one
59:09 – Why every business is really the same skill set
1:00:05 – Her dream to open a trade company next
1:01:16 – Where to find BodyWorx Abilene
ABOUT THE GUEST
Jodi is the owner of BodyWorx Abilene, a cash-pay physical therapy practice and gym in Abilene, Texas. Follow her at: instagram.com/bodyworks_abilene
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