Most heart-centered founders hit a wall around the full-roster mark. The business that felt aligned starts feeling like a ceiling. In this episode, Jordana Bergman, founder of Eden Wellness Psychotherapy and former Bay Street litigator, shares the exact shifts that took her from full solo practice to a scalable boutique group clinic without losing the integrity of the work or burning out in the process.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏻 Why "full from day one" is a credibility play, not a marketing one, and what actually builds that credibility before you ever hang the sign

👉🏻 The niching mindset that makes hiring the right clinicians obvious instead of agonizing

👉🏻 How risk-averse founders can use data to make bold moves and why spreadsheets reduce risk for every personality type

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 — Introduction

05:00 — The injury that forced the pivot

11:00 — Back to school with four kids under seven

18:00 — The 2025 decision to scale

24:00 — Hiring for lived experience

30:00 — From gut calls to data driven decisions

35:00 — The vision for a boutique group clinic

CONNECT WITH JORDANA BERGMAN

Website: https://www.edenwellness.ca/

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

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

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Susan Henriques spent 17 years in the school board system before she made her first move toward private practice. Four years later, she runs a group psychology practice with three associates and two mornings a week just for herself. This isn't a story about taking a big leap. It's about building something that lasts by moving at exactly the right pace.

In this episode of FoundHer Rising, Christine Hakkola sits down with the founder of New Horizons Child and Adolescent Psychology Services to talk about the real mechanics of going from solo practitioner to group practice, and the hard lessons about burnout, systems, trust, and knowing when enough growth is exactly enough.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏻 Why "change happens at the speed of safety" is a strategy, not an excuse, and how Susan used a four-year gradual transition to build an unshakeable private practice foundation

👉🏻 The key difference between hiring someone and actually delegating to them and why trust has to come before you let go, not after

👉🏻 How to identify your business's "set point" the size and structure where it is most profitable, most sustainable, and most aligned with why you built it

CONNECT WITH SUSAN HENRIQUES:

Website: www.newhorizonspsychology.ca

Email: info@newhorizonspsych.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-henriques-30056317a/

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months: https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide

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Two LCSWs Left the Hospital. Then They Built What the Mental Health System Was Missing. Jodi Kapes and Valerie Lighthall spent years inside hospital behavioral health. After 14+ years in the system, they walked out and built Aligned Clinical LCSW Consulting, a practice delivering clinical debriefings, mental health support, and risk management consulting directly to organizations and communities. But this episode is not just their story. It's a masterclass for any woman in business who has ever struggled to charge her worth, market her services, or reconcile building a sustainable business with wanting to genuinely help people. Christine Hakkola makes one thing very clear: you are not selling yourself. You are selling a service. And the difference between those two things is costing many women service providers their businesses.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏼 Undercharging doesn't protect the people you serve — it limits how long you can serve them

👉🏼 The clearest marketing language you'll ever write is already in how you describe your impact out loud

👉🏼 B2B consulting models let service providers create exponentially larger community impact

CONNECT WITH ALIGNED CLINICAL LCSW CONSULTING:

Website: alignedclinical.com

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

Instagram: @hakkolahorizons

If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. Free Guide: https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide

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Building a group counseling practice takes more than clinical skill. It takes systems, delegation, and the courage to market a brand instead of just yourself.

Melissa Manning, founder and clinical director of M&M Counseling, built a fully trauma-informed group practice in Ontario after nearly two decades in leadership roles across social services. In this episode of FoundHer Rising, she walks through the real decisions and lessons behind the shift from solo practice to group clinic.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏼 Systems have to exist before you need them. Daily, weekly, and monthly task mapping is the starting point for any sustainable practice.

👉🏼 Delegation is not optional for growth. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses determines what you keep and what you pass off.

👉🏼 Personal experience becomes professional authority. Melissa's trauma and narcissistic abuse specialty grew directly from her own life.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction

0:35 Melissa's background and two-decade career journey

5:56 How she knew it was time to build a group practice

7:59 What service providers need before they scale

9:48 Systems breakdown: daily, weekly, and monthly

13:20 Leadership shifts when you move from solo to team

15:40 Building a business while navigating personal adversity

19:13 How personal experience shapes professional expertise

21:16 Future vision: growth, social media, and a book

22:25 What actually works in marketing a group practice

23:52 Solo vs. group practice marketing strategy

26:44 Final advice for founders

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

Free Guide: From 10K to 40K Months If you've hit consistent revenue but working harder isn't creating more growth, this guide breaks down what actually has to change. https://go.hakkolahorizons.com/opt-in-10kto40k-months-guide

CONNECT WITH MELISSA MANNING

Website: www.mcounselling.ca

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manning-melissa

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Most business coaches will tell you to fix your funnel, adjust your offer, or refine your messaging. What they won't tell you is that none of it holds if the belief underneath is broken.

Agita Bergmane, transformation and energy leadership coach, moved from Latvia to the United States, built a career, became a stay-at-home mom, and eventually reached a point where her external life looked successful and her internal life felt completely hollow. One twelve-week coaching engagement changed everything. Now she helps women do the same kind of deep subconscious healing she experienced — and she's watched clients shift their results in a matter of weeks.

In this episode, we go straight to the conversation most business coaches avoid: the relationship between inner work, values, and sustainable business growth.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

👉🏼The specific mindset shift from "how do I make money" to "how do I help" and why it changes everything downstream in your business

👉🏼 Why selling intangible services requires a different approach, and how to make the sales process feel like service instead of a pitch

👉🏼 How inner work creates a measurable ripple effect not just in business results, but in family, relationships, and the next generation

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

01:00 Agita's Story: Latvia, ambition, and a life that looked successful from the outside

04:08 First years in business: what coaching actually taught her

05:33 The core shift: from money focus to mission focus

07:25 Values-aligned business: can profit and purpose coexist

09:06 Spiritual grounding in business: what Agita's practice looks like

13:10 One-on-one coaching vs group programs: why she went back to the deep work

16:13 The scaling conversation: what growth actually looks like when aligned

22:48 Challenges of selling intangible services

26:09 Stages of readiness: why clients come when they do

28:26 How to make selling feel like service

31:00 What excites Agita about the future: the generational ripple effect

33:20 Where to connect with Agita

CONNECT WITH AGITA BERGMANE

Website: blisswithinhealing.com

Instagram: @BlissWithinCoaching

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: hakkolahorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

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She built a 40-person digital agency, hit rock bottom at 37, lost 80 pounds, and rebuilt her entire life. Terry Tateossian joins Christine Hakkola to talk about what it actually costs to build success the wrong way and what it looks like to build it right. The business was working. The body wasn't. This conversation goes deep on burnout, misalignment, the pendulum problem in business and health, and how Terry rebuilt a company that actually fits who she is.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

👉🏻 Terry's panic attacks weren't random. They were the result of years of operating completely out of alignment with her values, her wiring, and her capacity.

👉🏻 The problem isn't your business size. It's whether you want the problems that come with it.

👉🏻 Clear roles and clear boundaries are what make a small team sustainable. Terry went from 40 employees and people-pleasing to 8 team members and non-negotiable clarity. The size changed. The intention changed everything.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:06 — Intro and guest background

01:28 — Building a digital agency from scratch

03:45 — When the business started costing her health

05:39 — Two panic attacks and a wake-up call

08:29 — The decision to change everything

10:21 — Hiring a coach and losing 80 pounds

12:44 — Mid-roll: Free connection calls with Christine

13:13 — Was it the industry or the business model?

15:59 — The hiring and delegation trap in service businesses

19:25 — Walking away and building something new

24:49 — How Thor Retreats and House of Rose began

26:24 — The difference between transactional and fulfilling work

29:36 — The team lessons that changed everything

34:51 — Stepping into digital products

35:49 — How to connect with Terry Tateossian

Connect with Terry Tateossian:

Website: https://thehouseofrose.com

Connect with Christine Hakkola:

Website: https://HakkolaHorizons.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola/

Book a free connection call: https://link.hakkolahorizons.com/widget/bookings/20-minute-meeting-with-adriana-villi

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FoundHer Rising is the podcast for women founders in wellness, coaching, and consulting who are ready to grow beyond 1:1 work and build businesses that create freedom, impact, and income — without burning out or compromising their values. Hosted by business coach Christine Hakkola, each episode explores candid conversations with women who are scaling soul-aligned, service-based businesses using strategy, integrity, and vision. Guided by the Horizons Method, these stories reveal the shifts, systems, and mindset required to lead and grow like a CEO. female founders, scaling service-based businesses, business coaching for women, wellness entrepreneurs, coaching business growth, Horizons Method, freedom-based business, soulful scaling, group programs, sustainable growth, women in leadership, holistic business strategy, integrity-driven entrepreneurship, vision-led business.

You changed jobs. You changed business models. And burnout showed up again anyway. That is not a strategy problem. That is an identity problem, and most high-achieving women never see it coming. In this episode, Christine Hakkola sits down with coherence coach and neuroscience guide Carly Craver to explore the real root of burnout, why fear and intuition are not the same thing, and why building a regulated nervous system is not a wellness practice, it is a business strategy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

👉🏻 Burnout follows identity, not workload. Until you address the inherited identity driving your decisions, a new business model will not fix the pattern.

👉🏻 Fear and intuition feel similar but signal very different things. Learning to distinguish between value misalignment and the discomfort of the unfamiliar is a skill you can build.

👉🏻 Growing faster than your nervous system can hold always self-corrects — usually in the form of burnout, sabotage, or income instability.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Introduction and Carly Craver's work

5:00 - Carly's 11-year healing journey and the Quantum Codex

10:00 - How to read your body's signals and identify aligned work

15:00 - How to tell the difference in business

20:00 - Building from a regulated nervous system

25:00 -Financial management as a nervous system challenge

CONNECT WITH CARLY CRAVER

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

Website: C2Infinity.com

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HAKKOLA

Website: https://www.hakkolahorizons.com/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola

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FoundHer Rising is the podcast for women founders in wellness, coaching, and consulting who are ready to grow beyond 1:1 work and build businesses that create freedom, impact, and income — without burning out or compromising their values. Hosted by business coach Christine Hakkola, each episode explores candid conversations with women who are scaling soul-aligned, service-based businesses using strategy, integrity, and vision. Guided by the Horizons Method, these stories reveal the shifts, systems, and mindset required to lead and grow like a CEO. female founders, scaling service-based businesses, business coaching for women, wellness entrepreneurs, coaching business growth, Horizons Method, freedom-based business, soulful scaling, group programs, sustainable growth, women in leadership, holistic business strategy, integrity-driven entrepreneurship, vision-led business

In this episode of FoundHer Rising, Christine Hakkola speaks with Christine Cunningham about her journey in building a perinatal mental health practice. They discuss the importance of finding a niche, the challenges and benefits of diversifying income streams, and the balance between passion and business growth. Christine shares her personal experiences, insights on marketing, and the significance of setting boundaries to maintain a sustainable work-life balance.

Christine Cunningham (she/her) is a Registered Social Service Worker and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional in private practice, with lived experience of postpartum depression and anxiety that led her to specialize in perinatal care and train in Internal Family Systems (IFS). She is a neurodivergent mom of three who uses IFS to support herself and her clients with curiosity and compassion, and has witnessed deep healing through parts work.

We hope you enjoyed this episode of FoundHer Rising!
– Christine and the FoundHer Rising Podcast team :)

Connect with me:
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/christine-hakkola
Website - https://www.hakkolahorizons.com/

#womenfounders #businesscoachforwomen #scalewithintegrity #wellnessentrepreneurs #freedomimpactincome #servicebasedbusiness #femaleentrepreneurs #holisticbusinessgrowth #hakkolahorizons #foundherrising FoundHer Rising is the podcast for women founders in wellness, coaching, and consulting who are ready to grow beyond 1:1 work and build businesses that create freedom, impact, and income — without burning out or compromising their values. Hosted by business coach Christine Hakkola, each episode explores candid conversations with women who are scaling soul-aligned, service-based businesses using strategy, integrity, and vision. Guided by the Horizons Method, these stories reveal the shifts, systems, and mindset required to lead and grow like a CEO. female founders, scaling service-based businesses, business coaching for women, wellness entrepreneurs, coaching business growth, Horizons Method, freedom-based business, soulful scaling, group programs, sustainable growth, women in leadership, holistic business strategy, integrity-driven entrepreneurship, vision-led business