Doctor, You Are a Business: Master the Art of Professional Autonomy and Build Your Micro-Corporation

MODULE 1

Welcome & Course Outline

Laying the Groundwork for Your Transformation from Doctor to Business.

Module 1 isn't just a welcome—it was a declaration.
It signals your decision to break free from the traditional mold of physician employment and embrace a new, empowering identity: a physician who owns and operates a professional micro-business.
This opening module introduces you to the foundational elements of the Doctor, You Are A Business course and set the tone for your journey. It lays out what you can expect from the curriculum, how to engage with the PEA-SimpliMD ecosystem, and the big-picture shifts this program will help you achieve.
More importantly, it helps you locate yourself on the map—from a physician working inside someone else’s system… to a strategic business entity entering the marketplace on your own terms.

🧠 What You Will Gain From Module 1

• A clear understanding of what this course is designed to help you achieve
• Insight into your instructor’s journey—a real physician who’s built autonomy through micro-business ownership
• A breakdown of what’s included in your course package and how to access your full suite of learning tools, coaching, and community
• A reframing of your physician identity—not just as a healthcare provider, but as a professional service business
• An overview of the PEA-SimpliMD support network including coaching, downloadable tools, private community access, and lifetime learning resources
• Encouragement to approach this course at your own pace, while keeping implementation as your north star

🔨 Actionables Introduced in This Module
You were invited to:

• Orient yourself to the structure of the 7 core modules and 57 video/audio lessons
• Log in to Kajabi and begin navigating course materials with confidence
  Download your first resources, including eBooks and worksheets
• Join the PEA-SimpliMD Facebook community for peer support and case discussion
• Review the PEA product ecosystem and consider next steps like coaching or affiliate opportunities
• Complete your first mindset shift: “I am not just a doctor. I am a business.”

🩺 Case Study Thread: Dr. Patel’s First Step
In this module, we introduced Dr. Patel—a seasoned internal medicine physician burned out from years in traditional employment. By simply reframing her identity, joining this course, and beginning to treat herself like a business, she opened the door to new opportunities. Her transformation didn’t start with forming a company—it started with this mindset shift.
Like you, she began with Module 1. And like you, she realized:

“The only person who can protect my professional autonomy… is me.”

🧭 Where You Go From Here

• Module 2 will take the next bold step: helping you formalize your identity as a professional micro-business through structure, tax classification, mindset deprogramming, and business formation.
• Before moving on, be sure to:
  Schedule your quarterly orientation call
• Explore your Explorer Membership tools
• Book a strategy coaching session if you need clarity on how to apply the material
• Complete any Module 1 worksheets or checklists

✅ Your Core Takeaway:
You are not just a clinician—you are a business.
This course isn’t about more information. It’s about a new identity, supported by community, systems, and strategy.
And now that the groundwork is laid, it’s time to build something extraordinary—your business.

MODULE 2

You Are a Micro-Business

Shifting from Worker to Owner—Reclaiming Your Identity as a Physician Business

Module 2 marks the true inflection point in this course. It’s where you moved beyond mere discontent with traditional employment and began to understand the source of your frustration—and, more importantly, the solution.
This module is about rediscovering something that was always yours:
Your identity as a professional micro-business.

Not as a “provider,” not as an employee, not as a practice manager—but as a modern, agile, physician-owned entity that serves with autonomy and earns with strategy.

🧠 Key Shifts You Will Make in This Module

• You will deconstruct the myth that doctors must choose between W-2 employment and private practice
• You will discover the long, historical precedent of physicians operating as small businesses
• You will learn that your professional services are monetized, and you deserve to define your value—not outsource it to third-party payers or employer HR teams
• You will examine how your training conditioned you to be an employee, not an owner
• You will reframe that conditioning through the lens of business literacy, autonomy, and financial competency

You will be introduced to the concept of a professional micro-corporation: a legal, strategic, and psychological shift that repositions you in the healthcare economy

🔨 Key Actionables From Module 2
You will have the opportunity to:

• Learn the legal and financial steps to form a PLLC, PC, or S-Corp
  Evaluate which business structure fits your goals and income
• Understand how a micro-corporation differs from private practice
  Create systems for recordkeeping, payroll, and quarterly taxes
• Leverage accountable plans, spouse hiring, and retirement vehicles
• Explore the role of a micro-business in wealth building and life design
• Develop a personalized plan for launching and sustaining your corporation

Most importantly, you’ve taken the first critical step in transitioning from “just a doctor” to Doctor Incorporated—a professional entity with agency, strategy, and leverage.

🩺 Case Study Threads You Follow
Throughout Module 2, you will learn from physicians just like you:

• Dr. Singh, who converted his job into a 1099 PSA through his S-Corp
• Dr. Patel, who replaced her W-2 employment with a flexible micro-corp stack
• Dr. Thomas, who simplified bookkeeping and found freedom through structure
• Dr. Grant, who negotiated a better life through Employment Lite
• Dr. Olivia, who overcame fear and mastered quarterly tax systems

These stories aren’t just inspiring—they are blueprints.

🧭 Moving Forward From Here

• You don’t have to master everything right now.
You just have to commit to the process.
• Here’s how to move forward:
• Keep referring back to the downloadable templates and checklists
• Schedule your first (or next) coaching call to clarify your plan
• Join the next quarterly orientation Zoom to stay aligned and encouraged
• Begin applying your business model to real-world contracts and job structures

Module 3 will show you how to take this identity and engage the market with confidence.

✅ Your Core Takeaway:
You are not a hired hand. You are a business.
And this business can give you the freedom, flexibility, and financial strength that traditional employment never will.

You’re not behind. You’re not unqualified.
You are on the path—and now, it’s time to step into the marketplace.

MODULE 3

Using Your Professional Micro-Business in the Marketplace

Turning Identity Into Impact—How to Thrive as a Business in the Business of Medicine

In Module 3 of Doctor, You Are a Business— theory becomes traction, and mindset meets the marketplace.

🩺 The Goal of Module 3: Operate as a Strategic, Empowered, Market-Savvy Physician Business

This module helps you answer questions like:

• Where can my professional services be best utilized?
• How do I choose between W-2, 1099, or hybrid income models?
• How do I price, pitch, and position myself in the marketplace?
• What job structures align with my personal and professional goals?
• How can I build a career that's sustainable, flexible, and lucrative?
• You’ll begin to see contracts, job opportunities, and compensation offers differently. 

You’ll realize that you’re not selling your time—you’re offering solutions through a business platform that is designed to preserve your autonomy and optimize your worth.

🧭 What You’ll Learn in This Module
Module 3 includes 16 lessons that guide you through:

• Understanding how physicians engage with the healthcare marketplace
• Identifying and mapping your value to market demand
• Recognizing the spectrum of work models (W-2, Employment Lite, 1099, DPC, telehealth, consulting)
• Assessing the trade-offs between security and freedom in job structure
• Strategizing multiple income streams through job stacking
• Learning how to negotiate from a position of strength as a business entity

Building a flexible professional life that aligns with your family, finances, and calling

💥 Why This Module Is a Game-Changer
Too many physicians see themselves only as clinical workers within a larger machine. But this module teaches you how to engage the system as a partner, not a pawn.
You’ll be empowered to:

• Identify niches where your services are valued (and under-supplied)
• Design a career that works around your life—not the other way around
• Use your micro-business to access jobs that others don’t even know exist
• Maximize income without increasing your hours
• Negotiate contracts with the confidence of a business, not the vulnerability of an individual

This is not about becoming a private practice owner with 10 employees. It’s about becoming a flexible, future-proofed, location-independent physician entrepreneur—with the clarity and structure to support it.

📦 What You’ll Leave With
By the end of Module 3, you’ll have:

• A working knowledge of how the physician marketplace operates
• A toolkit to evaluate job offers and income streams through a business lens
• A custom mix of income opportunities that align with your autonomy, schedule, and life design
• A clear strategy for negotiating value and protecting your freedom
• A launch point for integrating multiple roles into one unified, tax-efficient business
• You’ll stop wondering, “What job should I take?”
And you’ll start asking, “How can I structure my business to support my ideal work life?”

MODULE 4

Autonomy & The Micro-Business Owner

Reclaiming the Control That Was Always Yours

This module is about what every physician craves—but few know how to protect: autonomy.
Autonomy isn’t just about calling your own shots. It’s about being the architect of your career, the steward of your time, and the keeper of your values. When you own a micro-business, you don't just have a new legal structure—you have leverage. And leverage is what allows you to live and practice on your terms.
In Module 4, you’ll take the mindset and tools from earlier modules and begin designing your life around flexibility, customization, and intentional control. You’ll move from reactive to proactive. From boxed-in to boundary-setting. From clock-puncher to career owner.

🧠 What You’ll Learn in This Module:

• How autonomy directly improves your clinical performance, emotional health, and income growth
• How to design your own benefits, time-off policies, and retirement plans
• Why owning your schedule and workload is the ultimate form of professional self-respect
• How to avoid burnout-by-design by building margin and flexibility into your week
• The systems you need to build a location-independent business that follows you, not the other way around
• How to create a micro-business support team (accountants, lawyers, coaches, tech, billing) without being overwhelmed as a business owner
• Why outsourcing and automation are not luxuries—but necessities for long-term sustainability

How to ensure that your micro-business remains agile and aligned as you grow personally and professionally

🩺 Who This Module Is For:

• Physicians feeling trapped by traditional roles but unsure how to regain control
• Doctors who’ve formed their micro-corp but aren’t fully leveraging its powers
• Self-employed clinicians still living on someone else’s schedule
• Vision-driven entrepreneurs looking to build a life-first, medicine-second model

Burned out professionals ready to trade rigidity for intentionality

🔧 What You’ll Be Able to Do After This Module:

• Redesign your professional life for freedom and resilience
• Say “no” with confidence and “yes” with clarity
• Protect your energy and maximize your impact
• Build a custom business that reflects your identity—not someone else’s organizational chart
• Construct a long-term career you don’t need a vacation from

MODULE 5

Retaining Income Through Your Professional Micro-Business

Build Your Net Worth By Controlling How Money Flows Through Your Micro-Corporation

In Module 5, you’ll learn how to protect the money you earn—and how to intentionally structure your business and household finances in a way that minimizes taxes, increases retained income, and accelerates your path to financial independence.
As physicians, we often focus on increasing our income through effort. But the most overlooked wealth lever is retained income—the money that stays with you, gets reinvested, and funds your long-term goals. It’s not what you make—it’s what you keep.

This module introduces the concept of the third income stream—retained income—and shows you how your micro-business can become a high-efficiency system for preserving your earnings. You’ll understand how tax planning, business structuring, and expense strategies can significantly increase your net worth—without seeing more patients or picking up more shifts.

Throughout these 20 lessons, you’ll:

• Learn the cash flow patterns of a healthy micro-business
• Discover how to classify expenses for maximum deduction
• Understand the difference between income and wealth
• Build retention systems for taxes, benefits, and reinvestment
• Review common physician tax errors and how to fix them
• The goal? To help you shift from just “earning more” to retaining more—so your business doesn’t just support your lifestyle today, but funds your dreams for tomorrow.

“Don’t just work harder. Work smarter through strategic income retention.”

MODULE 6

Building Your Enterprise Through Your Micro-Business

From Self-Employed Clinician to Enterprise-Physician: Multiplying Income, Impact, and Independence

Module 6 represents a pivotal transformation in your journey as a physician entrepreneur. 

It’s where you stop thinking of yourself as merely self-employed—and start thinking of yourself as a scalable enterprise. This module shifts your mindset from working in your business to building an engine that works for you.

You’ll learn how to reframe your clinical income as the foundation of an enterprise, not the ceiling. With a physician-owned micro-business at the center, you’ll explore how to layer income streams, build wealth systems, and scale meaningfully without compromising your purpose or identity.

This is where physician freedom is multiplied.

🧠 Key Shifts You’ll Make in This Module

• You'll shift from a self-employed mindset to the entrepreneur-physician mindset
• You'll learn to design a scalable enterprise architecture around your unique clinical and non-clinical skills
• You'll explore how to leverage people, platforms, and systems to create durable, location-independent income
• You’ll discover how your business can accelerate your path to financial independence and early retirement (FIRE)

You'll see how your enterprise can lead to greater purpose, impact, and legacy creation

🔨 Key Actionables You’ll Work Through in This Module
By the time you complete Module 6, you’ll be able to:

• Design a multi-stream income plan that aligns with your personal strengths and values
• Launch a minimum viable offer (MVO) using a stepwise, low-risk method
• Apply the FIRE framework to accelerate financial freedom
• Use your micro-business to diversify income into active and passive channels (medical, digital, real estate, consulting, etc.)
• Identify which leverage tools (people, platforms, systems) will help you scale without burning out
• Strategically decide when to grow, delegate, automate, or productize your services

Create impact-aligned opportunities—from volunteer service to writing to advocacy

🩺 Case Studies You’ll Follow in This Module

• Dr. Sarah – A primary care physician who began with a micro-business offering menopause coaching, launched a digital course, and reached financial independence while writing and volunteering full time.
• Dr. Michael – A surgeon who expanded his practice into a surgical technique training business, partnered with a medical device company, and built a branded training academy to scale his influence and income.
• These real-life examples will show how physicians with different backgrounds and specialties scaled their micro-business into meaningful, financially sound enterprises—without losing their “why.”
  
  

MODULE 7

From Learning to Launch

The Path From Knowledge to Transformation

By this point. you’ve done the work. You’ve wrestled with your mindset, reimagined your identity, built a business framework, and discovered how to retain and multiply your income. But knowledge without execution is just potential energy. In this final module, you’ll begin your next chapter—not as a passive learner, but as a fully empowered physician entrepreneur.

Module 7 is your launchpad. It’s where you stop consuming and start building. 

You’ll discover the simple, structured next steps to translate your new business knowledge into tangible action—and most importantly, how to sustain your momentum with the support of the PEA-SimpliMD ecosystem.

You are not alone. You're part of a growing community of doctors who have chosen to reclaim their autonomy, leverage their expertise, and build a business that honors their purpose.

🔑 In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Activate your micro-corporation using tools, guides, and vetted referrals
• Utilize your PEA-SimpliMD membership to access discounts, digital assets, legal templates, and calculators
• Schedule your first 1:1 coaching session to receive personalized support
• Join our affiliate program to share what you’ve learned and earn passive income while helping others start their journey
• Grow your network by engaging with our vibrant community of entrepreneurial physicians

Position yourself as a leader, mentor, or content creator within the movement

🧠 Mindset Shift:

In this final stretch, you’ll cement the transformation that started with the first module:

• From employed physician to business-minded entrepreneur
• From passive recipient of systems to creator of systems
• From feeling isolated in burnout to belonging to a thriving peer community

From “What’s next?” to “Here’s what I’m building now.”

📌 “Doctor, You Are a Business” was never just a title—it’s your new operating identity. Your micro-business isn’t the finish line—it’s the foundation for freedom, purpose, and impact.