Meet Shelli
Shelli is the founder of Lucas Health Solutions and a master practitioner of The Lucas Method.
I was the Director of a hand therapy clinic in Mission Valley (San Diego) for a company owned by a businessman. I had four therapists and two assistants that worked for me. An older patient, a physician, encouraged me to start my own business. Before I knew it, I was seeing patients in their home on the weekends, and had a full caseload. They pushed me to quit my position of director of "someone else's business". So, I gathered my courage and opened my own practice. Without much planning. And without a business plan.
And there begins my twenty-year saga of constantly being "behind the eight ball' with everything.
I started the business with an 'push'- without a good business plan or any idea of what I was doing.
I didn't have a name for the business or anywhere to see patients. So the doctor & her partner hired a design team to come up with a name and a logo for me. And they contacted all their friends and encouraged them to see me. But when the dust settled, I had no idea what to do or where to go. So you see, the idea to start a business, the business itself, the name of the business, and the first logo design were not mine. And for past 18+ years I have been happy with my work, but I have been struggling to call this business 'my own'. Over the past two years, I have tried to grasp what I do, and what make me tick and what is the point of my business.
I have decided that this is my time to be proud of my business and what I do. And I'm excited to be ready to get to the next chapter.