Inspired by Derek Sivers, here’s what I’m doing now…
Updated September 27, 2024.
I now live in Portland, Maine.
After living in the Pacific Northwest nearly all of my life, my family recently moved to Portland, Maine (in late June 2024). My incredible wife was placed here for medical residency, so we’re here for 5 years. Maybe longer? We’d like to go back to the PNW, but you never know. I like the idea of having a couple different landing spots.
Remote CEO Duties…
…with Assurance Healthcare & Counseling Center. I helped start Assurance Healthcare back in 2013, and have been acting CEO ever since. We’re a small, direct primary care practice, so being a remote CEO is a little different, but I think it works because of our great team. I get to do bigger picture work, marketing, some customer service, compliance stuff, tech things, and a bunch of other small random tasks that a small business needs to run.
Consulting Services for Direct Care Practices
Through Relic Health (my consulting side-business), I help physicians and other health care practitioners transition away from insurance-based practices into direct pay models. I currently can only take on 2 jobs at a time, so I’m maxed out at the moment.
Right now I’m helping a physician in Bellingham, WA start her Direct Primary Care practice (the first in the area), and a Functional Medicine Physician convert to a membership-based model in Yakima, WA.
Saxophone
I studied saxophone in college (I have a degree in music business and a minor in jazz studies from Washington State University), but have basically taken a 20-year break from playing. Now I’m part of an adult ensemble with the Portland Conservatory of Music. Our ensemble is giving a concert in January 2025.
I recently discovered that I’m less interested in becoming a musician that impresses other musicians, and more just creating music that makes people feel something. Whether that’s a smile, a warm embrace, or helps them process their inner feelings.
Racquetball
My sport and exercise of choice right now is racquetball, and I love it. I currently play about 2 times per week, sometimes more.
Direct Primary Care Resources: A book? A Course?
Very slowly, I’m putting together some resources to help a larger number of physicians make the transition from traditional insurance-based primary care to direct primary care (membership-based).
I’m not sure what’s going to come first – a book, a course, or something in between those two. But, I know that I want to share a lot of information and put it into some kind of product to help primary care providers make the leap.