79 I Myofunctional Therapy Training for Dental Hygienists: Why You're Already Ahead

79 I Myofunctional Therapy Training for Dental Hygienists: Why You're Already Ahead

Are you a dental hygienist who has been sitting on the idea of myofunctional therapy, telling yourself you're not ready, not clinical enough, not the right fit? Hi friend, You are not starting over. You are adding something to the toolbox, and that is a very different thing. In this episode, I am breaking down exactly why dental hygienists are in a uniquely powerful position when they add myofunctional therapy to their skill set. The anatomy knowledge you have built over years in the op? That transfers. The way you communicate with patients, build trust fast, explain complex things simply, motivate behavior change in a 45-minute window? That transfers too. Your clinical eye, your documentation instincts, your ability to walk into a room and read a face? All of it transfers.  What doesn't transfer is the belief that starting something new means starting from zero. You are not starting from zero. You are starting from years of clinical experience that most people who want to do this work spend months trying to build. The only real gap is the formal myofunctional therapy training itself, and that has a very clear, very manageable solution. I also talk about why right now is the time, not because I am trying to manufacture urgency, but because the profession is genuinely shifting. The doctors who dismissed myofunctional therapy are being replaced by airway-focused practitioners who are actively looking for trained therapists to refer to and collaborate with. The tide has turned, and the hygienists who make this move now are getting in before it gets crowded. This episode is for the burned-out, bored dental hygienist who knows she cannot do this forever and is finally ready to figure out what comes next. Grab your ☕coffee and your courage — and let's dive in! Xo, 💙 Carmen 🌐 The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com

78 I She Was Trained, Stuck, and Full of Self-Doubt — Then This Happened

What happens when a trained myofunctional therapist finally stops trying to figure it out alone? Hi friend, Brooke Wilkins knew she had strong clinical skills. She knew myofunctional therapy changed lives. What she didn't know was how to run a business — and that gap was quietly destroying her confidence, her offer, and her ability to get anyone in the door. By the time she and I started working together one-on-one, she had already told me more than once that she couldn't afford coaching and was thinking about closing her doors before she'd really even opened them. Four months later, she had a $12,000 month. That is one student's result, not a guarantee. Your results depend on your market, effort, offer, consistency, and follow-through. But the reason it happened isn't a mystery, and that's exactly what this episode is about. Brooke and I sit down and walk through the whole arc — where she was when she first came to me (defeated, squirrel-brained, shaky offer, no systems), what shifted in those first two months of coaching, and what it actually looks like when a trained therapist stops waiting to feel ready and starts doing the work in the right order. We talk about pricing, confidence, getting off the software merry-go-round, and why the clinical training you already have is not the problem.  If you're trained, you care about this work, and you still can't get traction — this episode is for you.  Grab your ☕coffee and your courage — and let's dive in! Xo, 💙 Carmen 🌐 The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com ✅ Grab the Trained to Booked Checklist https://offers.theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/trainedoptin 📅  Need help? Book a "Get Unstuck" call today [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/

77 I Best Myofunctional Therapy Courses for Dental Hygienists in 2026: How to Actually Choose

How do you pick a myofunctional therapy course when you've had a dozen tabs open for six months and still can't commit to one? Hi friend, If you've been comparing courses for weeks, or months, here's the thing nobody selling one will say out loud. The best course is not the one with the biggest name or the most modules. It's the one you'll finish, and the one that teaches you how to get clients, not just how to do the therapy. A course you never complete, or one that leaves you trained but stuck with no idea where clients come from, is the most expensive course there is. In this episode I walk you through six real criteria that separate a course that gets you working from one that leaves you stuck. We get into why the biggest name and the extra letters behind your name don't make you a good practitioner, why your goal (a side service in your office, or a real business) changes everything, and why the person you learn from should have already built the kind of business you want. I cover the unsexy business basics a real course has to teach, money and margins, offers, sales, operations, and the visibility work most courses skip completely. Then I tell you the one thing not to do when you compare your options, because you are never comparing apples to apples.  This one's for you if you're the hygienist with the tabs open, smart enough to research, stuck because researching forever feels safer than choosing.  Grab your ☕coffee and your courage — and let's dive in! Xo, 💙 Carmen 🌐 The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com ✅ Grab the Trained to Booked Checklist https://offers.theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/trainedoptin 📅  Need help? Book a "Get Unstuck" call today [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/

76 I Myofunctional Therapy Marketing: Trained But No Clients

What does the market actually see when they go looking for you?  Hi friend,  You finished your training. You set up an Instagram. You post, and you wait, and the clients don't come, and you start wondering where the heck they even are. Here's the part nobody told you. Myofunctional therapy marketing is a long game. It's bigger than any one platform, and most of the work that decides whether you ever get found is invisible. You can be trained, talented, and completely invisible at the same time. In this episode I pull back the layer underneath the posting and show you the four things I look at first when someone shows me their business: why marketing is a system and not a post, why you can't market what you haven't positioned, the invisible findability layer that decides whether Google can even see you, and why your credentials are not your marketing.  This isn't a clinical problem. It's a business structure gap nobody trained you to fill, and it's fixable. If you're trained but stuck and tired of posting into the void, this episode is for you.  Grab your ☕coffee and your courage — and let's dive in! Xo, 💙 Carmen 🌐 The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com ✅ Grab the Trained to Booked Checklist https://offers.theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/trainedoptin 📅  Need help? Book a "Get Unstuck" call today [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/

75 I She Had the Credential But Not the Business: How This Student Built Her Myofunctional TherapyPractice After Losing Everything

You can be fully trained and still not have a business. That is not a clinical problem. It is a business problem, and it is fixable. My first ever guest on the podcast is my student Crystal, and her story is one I could not stop thinking about. Crystal spent 19 years as a dental hygienist. When her own daughter's snoring sent her down the road into airway and myofunctional therapy, she got trained, and she started building. The catch is where she built it. Inside her boss's dental office. A separate provider code, Monday afternoons, in-office assessments, virtual sessions, and two coworkers who handled the admin while she did the work she loved. It was working. She was close. Then on January 1st, her boss died. Suddenly. The practice went up for sale, and everything she had built, the schedule, the support staff, the setup, was gone, because none of it was hers. What she did next is the whole episode. She did not wait to see what was left. She reached out for a step-by-step plan, came into coaching, went through LMT60 to sharpen her clinical framework, and rebuilt as her own business. A name, a website, an intake system, the works. Consults started landing on her calendar. We talk about why a real framework beats a grab bag of exercises, why imposter syndrome shows up even when you are trained, and why you build confidence by moving instead of waiting to feel ready. And we say the hard thing out loud. Do not build your business on rented land. Xo, 💙 Carmen P.S. If you are trained but stuck, that is the exact gap we work on together. Book a Get Unstuck Call and we will look at what you have tried and map your next step. 🌐 The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com ✅ Grab the Trained to Booked Checklist https://offers.theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/trainedoptin 📅  Need help? Book a "Get Unstuck" call today [https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/]  https://theprofitablemyofunctionaltherapist.com/contact/