{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Build Your Own Boat","title":"Leaving Chiropractic for Health Coaching in Midlife: Dr. Sam Graber on Rebuilding Your Identity and Your Business","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2261,"description":"Episode SummaryDr. Sam Graber spent decades as a practicing chiropractor before walking away from disease-focused medicine to build a health and life coaching business from scratch. In this episode of Build Your Own Boat, she explains how burnout, an undiagnosed perimenopause transition, and a growing frustration with insurance-driven \"disease management\" pushed her to close her practice and start over — without a business plan, a mentor, or a clear name for what she was building. Sam shares the real, unpolished mechanics of that first year: undercharging for her services, encountering predatory business coaches, and slowly discovering that self-knowledge — not a perfect strategy — is the real foundation of a sustainable second-act business. She also unpacks why she now treats the body itself as business infrastructure, explaining how sleep, nutrition, and hormone health directly determine an entrepreneur's capacity to build and sustain a new venture.\nAbout the Guest: Dr. Sam GraberDr. Sam Graber spent decades practicing as a chiropractor before leaving the field to build a career in holistic health and life coaching. Frustrated by a conventional medical model built around diagnosis codes and disease management rather than prevention, she closed her brick-and-mortar practice and reinvented herself as a health strategist — helping clients bridge the gap between their doctors and their own bodies. Today, through her \"Strong Over Skinny\" philosophy, Dr. Sam works primarily with women navigating perimenopause and menopause, coaching them toward stronger bodies, sharper minds, and metabolically sound lifestyles instead of restriction-based diet culture. She offers one-on-one coaching and a membership community, writes regularly on Substack, and also serves as Board Chair of The Starr Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to youth development.\nKey TakeawaysCareer transitions in midlife are identity transitions, not just business decisions. Leaving a licensed, credentialed...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bQsbNia0IsmMmK-_EAZWTPLH0_5ooXLhZABkhXi9Cis/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMjY3/NTllZmQ4ZTljNzVj/NTZmNzZiZTMzMmIy/ODBlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}