Ep #125: Life Beyond the OR - What the Best Practice Transitions Have in Common

The happiest surgeons two years after a practice transition aren't the ones who got the highest multiple, and they aren't the ones who negotiated the most aggressive earn-out. They're the ones who knew what they were transitioning to.

In this episode, Jared walks through the question that almost never shows up in transition planning: who are you when you're not a surgeon? He lays out what happens when that question goes unanswered, using a scenario where a surgeon nets $2.9 million from a practice sale, has no next-chapter plan, and watches the balance fall to $1.7 million within three years through a series of individually reasonable, collectively costly decisions. Then he runs the same $2.9 million exit with a plan in place: a structured budget, a waiting period on large purchases, and identity work done before the sale closed. Same starting number, $1.5 million apart three years later.

Jared closes with the three elements that make the difference: identity work, purpose architecture, and financial guardrails, and why they matter as much at a $2 million exit as a $10 million one.

Capably Yours, Jared

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