2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Shares How She Did It
January 18, 2018
Natasha Wilch went from starting a physiotherapy company from her car in 2015 to winning the 2017 Entrepreneur of the year. Have a look at her background story and then read her interview below, where she talks social media tips, achieving success, and how she was able to scale up her business ov...
Five Lessons I've Learned Building, Managing and Growing a PT Tech Startup
July 21, 2016
I am a physiotherapist and the co-founder of healthSwapp, which is like YouTube for home exercise prescription. Outside of my clinical work and my company, I’m a swimmer, rock climber and backcountry camper.
Over the past year and a half of building my company, I‘ve come to realize that many of ...
She Started with a Car and a Vision: Introducing the 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year
January 2, 2018
In 2015 when Natasha Wilch’s husband was transferred to Nanaimo, BC, she needed a job. In a town where she knew nobody, the physiotherapist made the decision to start Symphony Rehabilitation. “It [started out as] just me, my massage table and my car.”
A car and a vision
Even though she start...
The entrepreneurial wheel: tips for operating a well-rounded physiotherapy business
September 28, 2017
In the five years of operating a physiotherapy business, I have learned that there are seven important segments to running a smooth-operating company. I like to use the metaphor of a wheel, because if any one of these segments is not well developed or properly inflated, your wheel will lurch alon...
REP 6 - Into the prevention sphere
March 6, 2017
Being out of school for just over three years, I consider myself to be a young physiotherapist. To this day, I still remember how excited I was to talk about prevention during our community health unit at McMaster University. I should have recognized right then that it was going to become a passi...