Meet Dr. Sarah Cash Crawford, PT, DPT, COMT, CMTPT,

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dr. Sarah Cash Crawford, PT, DPT, COMT, CMTPT,. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dr. Sarah Cash Crawford, below.

Hi Dr. Sarah Cash Crawford, , thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?

This is an easy one to answer: my parents. My dad is “uneducated” in the sense that he never went to college. He worked as a door-to-door salesman selling printers and as a maintenance man at an apartment building. He happened to knock on the door of a water purification business (he had mechanical aptitude and plumbing knowledge) and turned that one open door into his own company, starting out of his garage with me as his accounts payable/receivable clerk. My mom was a teacher with a relentless passion for growth. She taught during the day and would drive an hour away to go to school at night to further her education. She held leadership positions everywhere she went. So growing up with two hard-working people who never told me no when an opportunity arose for me, they just figured it out, is directly correlated with my “stick-to-it-ness.”

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I feel like my life’s purpose is to help push boundaries, but not a contrarian. The Anchor Wellness Center came from a desire to gather with other exceptional providers to push the boundaries of how health care is delivered. This place was primarily intended to help make care effective and efficient. But it’s morphed into wanting to do the same for professionals, giving them an opportunity to blossom in a non-typical way–as entrepreneurs. I believe our message is clear: you can always get better. Healthcare and entrepreneurship can be a doozy, but they don’t have to be. We aim to support consumers and founders the same way: with them in the middle, taking a collaborative approach. When you are in the middle of your care with specialized and highly collaborative people around you, the opportunities are endless.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Resilience: entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. Absolutely knowing your “why,” which for me is showing my two girls that women can be soft and strong, powerful and compassionate with both intention and attention. When you come back to your why, the challenges are repositioned as opportunities.

Coachability. I’m grateful that I have the ability to identify the things I do not know. I can say with 100% certainty that my success is directly correlated to coaching and the awareness I’ve gained from self-work.

Support. Entrepreneurship is lonely. Without friends/colleagues/family in your corner, it can feel very isolating. I’m fortunate to have a tribe that understands this, specifically my husband, who, without his deep passion for seeing me succeed, this would not be possible. Whether it’s people who act as a sounding board or lighten the burden at home, it’s a difficult road if there aren’t others to lean on.

What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Hire a coach or a therapist, even when it feels expensive. The greatest reframe is to look at it as an investment in self. It is really difficult to have influence on others via business when there are pieces of yourself that are unknown because they create ceilings we didn’t even know existed.

What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?

Founders are just people with passion and skill. We usually start businesses because we think there’s an opportunity, whether it’s a product that doesn’t exist or a way of doing something differently. What we don’t often have is leadership. Starting a business isn’t hard, but scaling one definitely is. To grow means you have to learn how to fire yourself from positions and thus hire, train, and nurture someone else to fill your shoes. Personally, I’ve seen my own limitations as a leader hold my company back, so I’ve committed to continued learning in this area.

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