Evolution of Medicine Podcast · Functional Forum

Business of Functional Medicine: Entrepreneurial Tools with Ari Meisel, Part II

February 12, 2025·33 min·1 clip

Ari’s six levels of delegation range from “just do what I say” to “just get it done.”

1. Evolution of Medicine Podcast centers this episode on the business of functional medicine and Ari Meisel’s productivity systems. 2. Ari Meisel is the guest, and he is presented as the author of a productivity book and a teacher of operational tools for entrepreneurs. 3. The episode asks how providers can run a practice with less bottlenecking, faster decisions, and clearer systems. 4. Ari says he was elected to the school board in Princeton and has been using ChatGPT to synthesize policy documents and guidelines. 5. He explains that ChatGPT can be customized into separate GPTs, and he says he has 14 discrete GPTs for different purposes. 6. His examples include a social media GPT, a GPT for all of his books and podcasts, and a GPT loaded with New Jersey state policies. 7. Ari says those GPTs can interact with one another, which lets one system apply tactics from one context to another. 8. He frames the next step for providers as creating a GPT that knows their clinical focus, their own writing, and relevant studies. 9. Ari and the host then move to his three levers of success: communications, project management, and processes. 10. On communication, he argues that asynchronous tools like email and Voxer let people respond when they are ready rather than when they are interrupted. 11. He says Voxer is the main tool he uses for family, clients, coaching, and even sales conversations. 12. He defines the six levels of delegation as different degrees of control rather than a binary choice between doing everything and handing everything off. 13. His CRM example shows level one as “just do what I say” and level six as “just get it done.” 14. Level five, which he calls his favorite, gives someone authority within limits such as spending under $500 without asking. 15. Ari says this structure empowers people because it sets clear boundaries and lets them work at their best. 16. He also says leaders who stay involved in everything create the bottleneck themselves and slow the business to their own speed. 17. The tone is practical and conversational, with the host pressing for concrete examples and Ari answering with named tools and specific workflows. 18. The format stays interview-driven, with repeated digressions into examples like Trello, Voxer, Fiverr, and GetMagic. 19. People running a medical practice or solo business will get the most value from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting clinical theory without operations advice may skip it.

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