Business lessons for podiatry life.
Podiatry Legends Podcast treats podiatry as both a clinical profession and a business craft. Tyson Franklin leads solo lessons and guest conversations on patient experience, planning, valuing skills, professional connections, career intent, and practical treatment ideas.
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Podiatry Legends Podcast frames podiatry as a profession where clinical skill, business judgment, and personal priorities constantly collide. Tyson Franklin anchors the conversations with a direct, familiar style that moves easily from clinic cash flow to movie references, professional dinners, and long-running career relationships. The show is practical first. It asks what actually happens when a clinic gets busy, when cash flow feels uncertain, or when a practitioner waits for perfect conditions before seeking business help. The answer is rarely neat. Recent solo material argues that busyness can hide weak foundations if the clinic is attracting the wrong patients or creating a life the owner did not intend to build. Guest episodes broaden that lens. Jason Cunningham brings business-advisory language around ingredients for success. Anne Melville brings a personal podiatry story with twists, departures, returns, and professional connections. Richard Chase returns as a familiar voice on planning, priorities, career ambition, staff, family, lifestyle, and the reality that people can choose anything but not everything. Jesse Cole adds an outsider case study from the Savannah Bananas, turning fan experience and market differentiation into lessons a clinic owner can apply to patients. Dr Jae Grymes brings a neighboring healthcare perspective on intention, comparison, and awareness as the first step toward change. Dr Patrick DeHeer, DPM contributes the perspective of a long podiatry career still marked by enthusiasm for the profession. James Ferrie brings technical detail on shockwave therapy, diagnostic ultrasound, tolerability, technique, and practical workshop-style learning. The show is not only about growing a practice. It is about deciding what kind of practice is worth growing. Its strongest episodes turn familiar clinic-owner excuses into sharper questions about identity, energy, patient fit, and professional courage. The result is a grounded, talkative, business-forward podcast for podiatrists who want their work to support their lives, not swallow them.
Made for: Podiatrists, clinic owners, and practice-minded clinicians who want practical business thinking alongside professional stories. It especially suits listeners weighing growth, patient experience, career direction, and work-life tradeoffs.
What sets it apart: The show treats podiatry practice as a lived business, not just a clinical specialty. It mixes podiatry-specific conversations with outside examples from business, sport, dentistry, and long professional careers.
The Podiatry Legends Podcast will change how you feel, see, and think about the Podiatry Profession. Each week, you will hear from podiatrists around the world who are doing amazing things in their careers and businesses, along with a few legends outside the profession who are ready to share their wisdom. If you enjoy what you hear, you can also watch each episode on YouTube. Just search for my channel, Tyson E Franklin.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded career conversation about building a clinic without losing sight of life outside it.
Ambition gets a reality check as Tyson Franklin and Dr. Jay Grimes look at what happens when a clinical career starts taking up too much of the life around it.
A practical podiatry discussion on difficult patients, staff safety, and practice culture.
Patient behavior becomes a question of practice culture in the second part of Tyson Franklin's group perspective on good, bad, and difficult patients.
A grounded case for taking ownership early and letting action clarify a podiatry career.
A podiatry business can influence a career before a practitioner has fully found their footing. Daniel Montiglione, owner of Proactive Health and Movement in Geelong, Victoria, traces a path from a year off and uncertainty into a more intentional look at healthcare, spending…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Tyson Franklin introduces the concept of an energy audit to help podiatry business owners reclaim time, focus, and motivation by understanding what fuels and drains them.
Daniel Monteleone explains why his clinic encourages podiatrists to work only 25 clinical hours per week.
A patient's son calls to arrange one last visit as a thank you after his mother moves into a care home.
Tyson Franklin celebrates the 400th episode and seventh anniversary of the Podiatry Legends podcast, thanking listeners and guests for their support and impact on the podiatry profession.
Tyson Franklin interviews Hayley Uden about HeyLucy, an automated online locum platform for allied health professionals.
David Allcock, a Liverpool-born podiatrist, served 11 years in the regular British Army with tours in Afghanistan and then trained as a paramedic before a friend in Cape Town applied to the University of Salford podiatry course on his behalf.
Tyson Franklin explains why waiting until your podiatry practice is busy to invest in business coaching is counterproductive.
Tyson Franklin interviews Jason Cunningham, author of Have Your Cake and Sell It Too, about seven ingredients for business success and building companies that do not depend on their owners.
Anne Melville discusses her journey in podiatry and the importance of professional connections.
Tyson Franklin and Richard Chase discuss the reality of achieving success in podiatry, emphasizing that while you can have anything you want, you can't have everything, and planning and priorities are essential.
Tyson Franklin revisits an early-2020 interview with Jesse Cole, owner of the Savannah Bananas, about turning a failing baseball operation into a fans-first entertainment business.
Tyson Franklin talks with Dr.
Michael Stevenson explains how Tomorrow's Podiatry develops podiatry students through public-speaking, teamwork, emotional-intelligence, networking, and leadership workshops.
Tyson Franklin interviews Joe Cairn of PodFit Podiatry in Adelaide about 10 lessons from Joe’s first 10 years in podiatry.
Marketing strategist Neil Ateem, founder of Multiplier, tells Podiatry Legends host Tyson Franklin that overloaded clinics have two options: hire more podiatrists or raise prices by packaging services into a defined offer.
Jonathan Shearer left the NHS after seven years and opened Footsteps Treatment Clinic in a derelict building on his hometown's medical road, after starting with a £175 Yellow Pages advert and home visits.
Alan and Sharon Cawthorne, who own Podiatry and Gate Clinic in North Yorkshire, joined Tyson Franklin after Alan emailed him following a binge of the show from episode 1 to roughly episode 160 in a couple of months.
Dr Patrick DeHeer discusses his 33-year career in podiatry, his love for the profession, and his extensive experience.
James Ferrie discusses shockwave therapy techniques and tips from a recent conference to improve patient outcomes.