Kym Tolson
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Hi, I'm Kym Tolson, and I'm the traveling therapist. It's my passion to teach therapists how to navigate online private practices and multiple income streams so they can travel the world. I'm a digital nomad. With a virtual insurance based private therapy practice and a multi six figure coaching business. I'm obsessed with entrepreneurship and developing tools that can help therapists live an adventurous lifestyle. In this podcast, I will discuss my journey as a digital nomad. I'll chat with other traveling therapists and help you navigate the complexities of running an online insurance based practice. I'm so glad to...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kym Tolson turns therapy-practice entrepreneurship into specific choices about operations, scalable offers, personal capacity, and control over working life.
The Traveling Therapist Podcast treats a therapy practice as a business that can be redesigned around the owner's time, capacity, and ambitions.
A five-minute daily inquiry email becomes 20 hours a year; your calendar may need a word.
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A quiet reset for anyone tired of performing competence.
Perfectionism shows up here as comparison, people pleasing, and the habit of treating worth like something that has to be earned. The Bali climb gives the piece its clearest turn: the guide staying close becomes a simple nudge to stop measuring herself against others and pay…
A grounded take on the mechanics behind a travel blog that lasts.
Kim is really tracking the work that sits behind travel blogging here. The conversation moves from ideas to the practical choices that make a site usable again and again: what to post, how to test formats, and how to read the numbers once people start responding.
A sober look at the business math behind a therapy practice that needs to outgrow improvisation.
It stays focused on the hard arithmetic of running a therapy practice, where clinical intent can run up against visit frequency, pricing, and the real cost of delivering care.
A blunt, practical look at selling before building too far ahead.
The episode stays in the business end of therapy-world work: how to get people to buy what is being made, and how waiting until something feels finished can leave it sitting there.
A practical, encouraging look at how people can recover from licensure exam setbacks.
The piece keeps its focus on practical ways people can move past licensure exam setbacks without turning a failed test into a final verdict. It gives weight to accommodations, study habits, and the mindset shift that treats a miss as a gap to close, not a character flaw.
A business story about building work around the body, not against it.
The episode is at its best when it treats flexibility as a business decision, not a lifestyle perk. It moves through solo practice, group practice, and office subletting, then lands on a simple point: a common path can still be the wrong one when health, money, and travel all…
An overseas move becomes a grounded lesson in residency, schooling, and flexible work.
The episode stays strongest when it leans on the practical side of moving abroad: residency, school, and the small systems that keep work reachable across borders.
A direct case for building durable marketing skills instead of chasing quick fixes.
The speaker draws a clear line between quick fixes and work that lasts. She built a hooks mini offer, a mini course, and a hooks library because people kept asking for them, but she does not seem convinced those are the things they truly need.
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.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Kim Tolson interviews Demir Bentley, the author of Winning the Week and founder of Lifehack Method, about why productivity starts with planning before tools or AI.
Kim talks with Tiffany Castellanos about moving her family to Spain and building a life there.
A therapist talks plainly about what being sick does to a business.
Kim and Mel talk through what it looks like to help clients get honest before they sit down together.
Kim and her guest focus on the move from one-on-one work to one-to-many offers.
Brie Chrisman, founder and CEO of BossCo, says mental health practices lose time and money when their operations are not designed around the people doing the work.
Kim Tolson and a guest talk about CE courses as a business model for therapists and clinicians.
Pam Deanna Jones shares how a 1994 stolen moving truck and a chance meeting with Jay led to a three-year solo journey across South Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand starting with just $1,200.
The host and guest talk about building a therapy business that can carry more of the load without depending entirely on the owner.
Therapist burnout led to building a group practice.
COVID hit, I quit, started a practice the next day, and moved to Mexico City to work online.
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Allison Rimland says her father's death two months after a Normandy trip pushed her to question nonstop work and decide that resting and traveling now matters.
The episode talks about perfectionism as something that keeps shifting over time, not something that simply goes away.
Nicole McCance breaks down her “five-step scaling method” for therapists after saying she grew a practice to 55 therapists in three years and reached multiple seven figures in two years.
The space around healing is healing itself.
The conversation pushes back on the idea that marketing should be reduced to hooks and templates.
Sarah Waldbuesser, a trademark attorney and founder of Twist Law and Destination Legal, explains why names, podcasts, courses, and coaching offers can be protected as business assets.
Jaclyn Rubbo describes leaving community mental health and a rape crisis center, building a private practice in Montana, and then shifting into a traveling life after pregnancy and postpartum anxiety changed her routine.
Tara Wells describes a three-to-four-week trip through Bangalore, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Pattaya, and Bangkok, then says Bangkok has tied Mexico City as her top city.
Host Kym Tolson interviews Fytress Aaron, a traveling therapist who world schools her three children while running a remote therapy practice and co-working space.
Maren Landahl-Smidt says therapists need a cash flow system, not just a good intention to “make money,” and she ties that directly to being able to travel and stay sustainable.
Kim Tolson interviews John Sanders of RevKey about Google Ads for therapists, and John says the search term report is one of the most important screens in Google Ads because it shows what people actually typed before clicking.
One Moroccan woman, no English spoken, life-changing experience
Kim Tolson interviews Nicole LaLoya, practice growth expert, about the myth that a full caseload equals financial security for therapists.
Sienna Forrest describes the concrete steps she is taking to get licensed in British Columbia while keeping a U.S.
Kim talks with a travel blogger about turning content creation into a business.
Host Kym Tolson interviews Eric Sullivan about his journey from traditional therapist to traveling therapist, focusing on building a location-independent practice.
Host Kym Tolson introduces the podcast's mission to help therapists build online private practices and multiple income streams to enable a nomadic lifestyle, then begins an interview with therapist Kara Cruz about her journey.
Host Kym Tolson interviews Lucy Orton about transitioning from traditional therapy to a traveling therapist lifestyle, focusing on building an online practice and multiple income streams.
The host interviews a therapist who transitioned to a traveling therapist lifestyle, discussing how he built a location-independent practice.
The host discusses her journey as a digital nomad therapist and interviews another therapist about transitioning to a traveling therapist lifestyle.
The host introduces the podcast's mission to help therapists build online practices and multiple income streams to enable a nomadic lifestyle, then begins an interview with a returning guest.
The host introduces the podcast about helping therapists build online private practices and multiple income streams to become digital nomads, then previews an interview with a guest.