Doctors, Dentists, Chiropractors, Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical Therapists

Includes June 8, 9, Portland, Maine,
In-Person Implementation Getaway

From the desk of Lori L Barr, MD, FACR, FAIUM
Board-Certified Radiologist | 42 Years in Practice | Founder, The Doctors Mentor, LLC

The Most Expensive Thing in Your Practice Isn't Your Overhead. It's You.

Three months. One live getaway in Portland, Maine. A structural fix for the practice that quietly runs on your back — without taking a year out of your life to do it.

Dear Fellow Practitioner,

I want to start with something most mentors, consultants, and coaches will never say out loud.

After forty-two years of practicing medicine and after scaling two radiology groups to more than a hundred partners each, I have watched hundreds of independent practice owners walk into my world believing they had a marketing problem.

Or a staffing problem.

Or a reimbursement problem.

And in nearly every case, after I sat with them long enough to see the inside of the practice clearly, the diagnosis was the same.

They didn't have a marketing problem.
They didn't have a staffing problem.
They didn't have a reimbursement problem.

They had a structural problem. The entire business was quietly dependent on one person.

You.

The ceiling nobody warns you about...

There is a particular ceiling that successful independent practitioners hit, and almost no one names it.

You build a good practice. The schedule fills up. You add staff. Maybe you add a second location. Revenue grows. From the outside, it looks like you've made it.

And then, somewhere between year five and year fifteen, something quiet begins to happen.

You start to notice that every decision still goes through you. Every fire still gets put out by you. Every weekend that is "off" still contains three text messages, two phone calls, and a billing question that no one else could answer.

You're working more hours, not fewer. The practice is larger, but your life feels smaller.

More patients. More staff. More locations. And somehow, less freedom.

This is not a personal failure. It is not laziness, or weakness, or a lack of discipline. It is a structural inevitability that affects every practice built the traditional way.

Medical school taught you clinical excellence.

It never taught you:

- How to remove yourself as the operational bottleneck
- How to build real leadership inside your practice, leadership that doesn't need you copied on every email
- How to scale revenue without scaling stress
- How to turn your practice into a true asset instead of an exceptionally well-paid job

So you reach a ceiling. And the ceiling has a name. The ceiling is you.

The Tactic Trap

The reason this ceiling is so persistent is that almost every solution being sold to practice owners is the wrong shape for the problem.

The marketing agency wants to send you more patients.
The scribe service wants to take your notes faster.
The consultant wants to redesign your fee schedule.
The course wants to sell you "seven funnels to a six-figure practice."

Each one promises to fix a piece of the surface.

None of them addresses the deeper truth:

Tactics applied to a broken structure make it run faster. It is still broken.

If the entire business is dependent on you, sending you more patients accelerates your burnout. If your team can't make decisions without you, adding more team members multiplies the bottleneck. If your workflows leak 3 hours a day, expanding the practice only widens the leak.

Most practice owners have spent the last decade buying tactics. Some of those tactics were excellent. None of them changed the underlying shape of the practice — because the underlying shape has nothing to do with tactics. It has to do with structure.

And structure does not change by accident. It changes by design.

What Structural Change Actually Requires

After 30 years of participating in and facilitating mastermind groups, I can tell you exactly what structural change requires. There are only three ingredients, and they are not negotiable.

Ingredient #1: Diagnostic frameworks that show you what you can't see from inside.

You are too close to your practice to see it clearly. That is not a flaw of intelligence; it is a feature of how the brain works under sustained operational load. Psychologists call it attentional narrowing. Under chronic stress, the brain literally filters out everything that isn't about the next hour, the next patient, the next payroll. The structural patterns become invisible, not because you're not smart enough to see them, but because you are too close.

You need a structured way to step back and view the practice as someone outside it would. That is what frameworks do.

Ingredient #2: Protected time to actually implement, not just plan.

This is where most programs fail. They give you ideas. They generate to-do lists. Then they release you back into the exact same conditions that produced the ceiling in the first place, twelve-hour clinical days, an inbox that refills itself, a calendar that punishes any attempt at deep work.

Implementation must be protected. It must happen in conditions where you are not the one being interrupted. Otherwise, it doesn't happen at all, and the program becomes another binder on the shelf. 

Ingredient #3: Peers at your level who hold the line with you.

The single most underrated variable in practice transformation is who is in the room with you.

You can have the best framework in the world and the best protected time in the world, and if you are doing the work alone, you will quietly drift back to your old patterns. We all do. It is biological. Your brain is wired to protect you and maintain the status quo.

Put four or five practitioners in a room together who are facing the same structural problems and committed to the same kind of work, and something different happens. The friction of change goes down. The standard goes up. The decisions you would otherwise postpone start getting made because you said out loud, in front of peers, that you would make them.

That is the architecture of structural change. Frameworks. Protected time. Peers.

It cannot be completed in a weekend. It cannot be done by reading a book. It cannot be done by watching a course at 1.5x speed at 11 p.m.

The Wrong-shaped Offers On Both Sides

If you've been looking at the marketplace for serious help with your practice, you have probably noticed two shapes of offer and neither one fits.

On one side, the lightweights. Hour-long webinars. Two-day workshops. Self-paced online courses you'll never finish. These are not bad products. They are just functionally incapable of producing structural change. You cannot rewire a practice's operational architecture by watching a 90-minute video and downloading a PDF.

On the other side, the heavyweights. Twelve-month or longer masterminds. Annual mentorships. $50K to $1M commitments that start in January and end in December. These programs do produce structural change. I run one, and it works. I pay to be in two, and they work.

But here is the honest problem: a twelve-month commitment is a big "yes" for a dentist who has not yet experienced what the room feels like. It is rational to hesitate.

Most practitioners I talk to are stuck in the gap between those two shapes. The weekend workshops are too small to do the job. The year-long mastermind feels too big to commit to without first knowing whether the room and the rhythm fit.

So what is the right shape?

The right shape is a focused engagement long enough to actually change structure and short enough that you can say "yes" to it without rearranging your entire calendar year.

The right shape is a summer.

Introducing The Practice Growth Summer Mastermind

The Practice Growth Summer Mastermind is the engagement I built for the doctor who is past curious. This is for the chiropractor who already knows something has to change and is not yet ready to commit to a full twelve-month program sight unseen.

It runs June 1 through August 31, 2026. Three months. One summer.

At its heart is a live, in-person, two-day Implementation Getaway in Portland, Maine on June 8 and 9, 2026, a small, hand-curated room where the structural work actually happens.

Wrapped around the Getaway is the full rhythm of the Practice Growth Mastermind, compressed into one season:

- Weekly Virtual Co-Working Sessions: protected implementation time you can't get any other way
- Monthly Virtual Mastermind Accelerators with Dr. Lori: where wins are celebrated, challenges are solved, and the group does its real work
- Full access to the Medical Mavericks Mastermind Portal: business basics, profit optimization, patient and workflow automations, visibility acceleration, team strength, mindset, communication, and feedback, all of it
- Four completed assessments: Congruence Catalyst, Practice Flow Audit, Make Up Your Mastermind advisory board, and Revenue Velocity Diagnostic — each with documented analysis and an acceleration plan customized for your practice
- Four implementation-ready tools: team training script, 30-day workflow optimization roadmap, advisory board framework, and a 90-day revenue acceleration plan — designed to deploy within days, not months
- Four clear next steps so you leave knowing exactly what to do in the next 7 days, 72 hours, and 30 days

Total stated value: $16,050.00
Your investment this summer: $3,125.00

If, by the end of the summer, you decide the full twelve-month Practice Growth Mastermind is the right next step, you'll know it from the inside, not by guessing from a sales page. And if it isn't, you will still leave with structural changes in your practice that compound for years.

This is not a sample. It is not a stripped-down version of the program. It is the full mastermind experience, run end-to-end across one summer, with a live event to kick off the season.

Why These Three Months?

Let me explain why the length of this engagement is not arbitrary.

Two weeks is long enough for a diagnostic. That's our Practice Growth Launchpad, and it is excellent at what it does, which is showing you where your practice is leaking. Yet two weeks is not long enough to install new structure. You can see the problem. You cannot yet change it.

Twelve months is long enough to install new structure, watch it stabilize, and then expand into legacy-level work. It is the full arc. Twelve months is also the wrong shape for someone who has not yet been in the room.

Three months is the smallest unit of time in which an independent practice can actually undergo structural change and feel the difference.

Why?

Because structural change has a known cadence:

- Weeks 1 to 2 (June 1–14): Diagnose. The live Portland Implementation Getaway sits inside this window (June 8–9). You arrive on Sunday, work all day Monday and Tuesday, and leave with completed assessments and a 90-day plan. By the end of week two, you know exactly what is top of your list to fix.

- Weeks 3 to 6 (mid-June through mid-July): Implement the first wave. Workflow optimizations. Team training. Pricing adjustments. Patient reactivation. The weekly co-working sessions and the first virtual Mastermind Accelerator hold the line with you.

- Weeks 7 to 10 (mid-July through mid-August): Reinforce. Bottlenecks reveal themselves when they come into contact with reality, and this is when the room earns its keep. The second virtual Mastermind Accelerator drops in the middle of this stretch.

- Weeks 11 to 13 (late August): Stabilize and decide. By the third Mastermind Accelerator, you can feel which of the structural changes have stuck and which need another quarter. This is where you make a clear-eyed decision about whether to continue into the full twelve-month program, and you make it from inside the experience, not from outside it.

Three months is enough time for you to do the work and for it to actually feel different in your practice. It is short enough that you can see the end of it on your calendar from where you stand today. It includes a live event at the front end, which, in thirty years of running these programs, I can tell you, is when the work accelerates.

What happens in Portland, Maine?

The Portland Implementation Getaway on June 8 and 9, 2026 is the structural anchor of the entire summer.

Here is what it is not.

It is not a conference. There are no breakout sessions, networking happy hours, swag bags, or panel discussions. You will not be sitting in an audience.

Here is what it is.

It is two full days, in a small room of carefully selected peers, doing the implementation work on your *own* practice, using the four proprietary frameworks of the Practice Growth Mastermind and getting up to date on factors that are changing the face of practices today, like AI.

Day 1: You complete the Practice Flow Audit™ on one specific, high-friction workflow in your practice, the workflow that has been quietly costing you the most time. Every step. Every handoff. Every place where the system workflow requires manual intervention that should be able to run on its own. By the end of the morning, you will have a thirty-day implementation roadmap. In the afternoon, you complete the Revenue Velocity Diagnostic™, a structured analysis across seven revenue levers. Most practitioners are only managing two or three of them. You leave Day 1 with a one-page Revenue Velocity Map and a 90-day revenue acceleration plan based on your real practice numbers.

Day 2: You apply the Congruence Catalyst Method™ to one real situation in your practice, typically a team friction, a patient resistance, or an internal block. You leave with a laminated reference card, your completed scenario, and a team training script ready to deliver within seven days of returning home. In the afternoon, you complete Make Up Your Mastermind™, the AI-augmented methodology for building your personal advisory board from the documented wisdom of any advisor, living or otherwise, and consulting them on real decisions you are facing right now. (This is not a chatbot trick. It is a structured methodology I have refined over years.)

You leave Portland with four completed assessments, four implementation tools, and four clear next steps — and you re-enter your practice on June 10 with a structured plan for the rest of the summer.

The remaining weeks that follow are where the work you did at the Implementation Getaway actually compounds.

What $3,125 is Really Buying

Let me be direct about the economics. As a practitioner, you can do this math as well as I can.

The stated value of the assets is $16,050. That number is real — it reflects what the Portland Implementation Getaway alone costs as a stand-alone event ($8,000), what twelve weeks of Co-Working and three Accelerators are worth ($1,800), and what the Medical Mavericks Portal alone is worth as a self-contained asset ($6,250).

But that is not the number that matters.

The number that matters is this: what if this investment of your time, money, and influence resulted in the small shift, the 2% change in the structure of your practice, you need to move from your current practice success to the next level of scaling and growing?

We find hidden revenue and uncover bloated processes. Not theoretical revenue. Not "if everything goes right" revenue. Revenue that is already there, sitting in the practice, waiting to be captured through pricing adjustments, reactivation, referral systems, and service mix optimization.

If your practice is still operating on systems and SOPs from a decade ago, the $3,125 investment is recouped roughly 15 days into implementation. The remaining three hundred and fifty days of that first year are pure return.

That is before we count the time you stop losing to broken workflows.
That is before we count the decisions you stop second-guessing because your advisory board is now active.
That is before we count the structural change in the practice itself, which compounds for as long as you own it.

The economic case for the Summer Mastermind is, frankly, hard to lose.

But the economic case is not why I built it.

I built it because I have watched too many talented, exhausted practitioners hesitate at the door of the full twelve-month program, not because they didn't need it, but because saying "yes" to a year is a big "yes" for someone who has been burned by coaching or consultants before.

The Summer Mastermind is the way in. It is the lowest-commitment version of the real thing.

Who This is For (and Who It's Not)

Before I tell you who this is for, I want to say something that most people selling mentorships and masterminds will never say.

Pushing the "Pay Now" button does not change your practice. Doing the work changes your practice.

Nothing in the Summer Mastermind is mandatory. I am not going to take attendance at the Portland Implementation Getaway. I am not going to track which weekly Co-Working or monthly Mastermind sessions you joined. I am not going to grade your completed assessments or check whether you logged into the Medical Mavericks Portal.

But I will tell you, after thirty years of running these, exactly what separates the practitioners who walk out of this summer transformed from the ones who walk out the same as they walked in.

The transformed ones do three things:

1. They come to the live Implementation Getaways. They sat in the room for 1 - 3 days and actively do the live work. The frameworks land differently in person. The peers land differently in person. Something in the body resets when you put your practice on the table in a room of equals and that reset is a catalyst for what carries you through the rest of the summer.

2. They work through the four frameworks in their real practice. Not as homework. As an actual structural change. Practice Flow Audit on a real workflow. Revenue Velocity Diagnostic on real numbers. Congruence Catalyst in a real team situation. Make Up Your Mastermind on a real decision they were facing. The frameworks cause transformation when you bring real inputs.

3. They fully used the Medical Mavericks Portal. Profit optimization. Workflow automations. Visibility acceleration. Team strength. The portal is not a bonus; it is a working asset, and practitioners who treat it as such can compound their results across all three months.

Throwing money at membership in an elite club does not change your practice. Doing the work changes your practice and your outcomes.

The Summer Mastermind is built to make doing the work as friction-free as possible, with frameworks, protected time, peers, and a live event at the front of the summer that puts wind in the sails of everything that follows. Yet, the work itself is yours.

With That Said, This is For You If...

- You are a licensed independent healthcare practice owner: physician, dentist, chiropractor, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, lactation consultant, psychologist, occupational, speech or physical therapist, and your practice is dependent on you in ways that have started to cost you something.

- You are done with the ceiling. You have read the books, attended the conferences, and hired the consultants. You don't need another tactic. You need to address the structure itself.

- You intend to use what you're paying for. Show up in Portland if you can — and if you genuinely cannot make those dates, you can still get real value from the summer by fully working the frameworks and the portal. Yet know going in: the more of the offer you use, the more your practice changes. Show up to one thing and skip the rest, and you'll get one thing back.

- You will bring real data. Your actual workflow. Your actual fee schedule. Your actual revenue numbers. Your actual team friction. The assessments work to transform your practice if the inputs are real.

- You are willing to be in a room of peers and hold the line. The mastermind works automagically if every person in it shows up that way.

- You want to test-drive the full Mastermind before committing to twelve months. That is exactly what this offer is designed for. By the end of August you will know from inside whether the full program is right for you.

The Summer Mastermind is Not For You If...

- You are looking for a guru to tell you what to do while you stay passive.
- You expect to pay $3,125, never open the portal, skip the live event, and have your practice change anyway.
- You are not willing to do real implementation work between sessions.
- You are already enrolled in the full twelve-month Practice Growth Mastermind (you don't need this — you have it).
- You are not yet ready to invest at this level. Start with Discovery Day or the Practice Growth Launchpad at $499, both excellent on-ramps, one designed to highlight the benefits of the live events and the other the virtual components of the membership.
- You are looking for a magic bullet, a "fast hack," or a done-for-you service

If any of those describe you, honestly, please don't enroll. I would rather have an empty seat than the wrong person in it.

Why Me as Your Mentor?

I want to tell you who built this, because if you are going to invest your three life currencies: time, money and influence, that matters.

I am not a business coach who took a certification course and hung a shingle. I am a board-certified pediatric radiologist with 42 years of experience and continue to practice today. I have served and continue to serve as a practice leader. I am in a practice that values academics and I maintain a Clinical Professor position so that I can spend part of my time teaching medical students who might want to follow a career path like mine. I have built and scaled two radiology practices to more than 100 partners each, including a seven-figure-per-partner private equity exit for one of them.  I am recognized as a radiologist who contributes to how AI is used in vulnerable populations, such as children.

I have been where you are. Not theoretically. Literally. I have worked the twelve-hour days. I have argued with insurance companies. I have managed the staffing fires, the overhead anxiety, the feeling of running as hard as you can and still falling behind.

I also have been on the other side of that ceiling. I know what it looks like when a practice runs on systems instead of adrenaline, when the revenue is growing because the right levers are being pulled, when the team makes decisions you used to make, and when your time is finally your own again.

I have facilitated mastermind groups for professionals inside and outside of medicine for more than thirty years. The frameworks I teach are not borrowed from textbooks. They were refined in real medical practices by a doctor still practicing and refining.

That is who built this. That is who you will be working with in Portland in June and every week of the summer that follows.

What People Who've Worked With Me Say...

Karen Gedney, MD, Internist, Author and Speaker
"Dr. Barr is a transformation catalyst — compassionate, thoughtful, and extraordinarily skilled at helping practitioners shift their perspective. The external accountability was the catalyst for breakthroughs that wouldn't have happened alone."

Cyntrell Crawford, MD, Options Psychiatry
"The direct working relationship and implementation focus were what made the difference. Getting away from daily distractions created the space to actually complete meaningful projects — not just plan them."

Sandra van Gilder, PT, DPT, FAFS, G3 Physical Therapy & Wellness
"The combination of empathy and clarity was transformative. Dr. Barr helped identify exactly where the gaps were and what specific steps were needed to close them — without judgment, without pressure, just focused guidance."

Zarinah Hud, DO, Rebound Sports and Rehab
"Working with Dr. Barr led to conceptualizing an entirely new product line during a collaborative session. The relaxed environment fostered creativity while maintaining rigorous focus on implementation."

What Is Included?

Practice Growth Summer Mastermind
June 1, 2026 through August 31, 2026

Investment: $3,125

✅ The Portland, Maine Implementation Getaway June 8 and 9, 2026 ($8,000 value)
Two days, in person, in a small room of peers, working the four proprietary frameworks of the Practice Growth Mastermind on your real practice.

✅ Three Monthly Virtual Mastermind Accelerators with Dr. Lori ($1,500 value)
The full mastermind experience, virtually, once a month, to celebrate wins, solve challenges, and use the synergistic power of the mastermind on what each of you is actually working on.

✅ Weekly Virtual Co-Working Sessions ($300 value)
Protected implementation time, every week, with immediate answers and peer learning. This is where the structural change progresses.

✅ Medical Mavericks Mastermind Portal ($6,250 value)
Full access to business basics resources, profit optimization, patient and workflow automations, visibility and reputation acceleration, team strength, mindset, communication, and feedback. All virtual sessions and live event recordings are available here.

If You Do Your Implementation Work...

✅ Four Completed Assessments
Congruence Catalyst playbook, Practice Flow Audit, Make Up Your Mastermind advisory board vision, and Revenue Velocity Diagnostic, each with documented analysis and an acceleration plan customized to your practice.

✅ Four Implementation-Ready Tools
Team training script. 30-day workflow optimization roadmap. Advisory board framework. 90-day revenue acceleration plan. All ready to deploy within days, not months.

✅ Four Digital Resources
Recorded Catalyst conversations, Practice Flow Audit methodology and SOP template, sample AI-augmented consultation recording, and an industry benchmark report with patient volume strategy guide.

✅ Four Clear Next Steps
So you leave knowing exactly what to do first — within 7 days, 72 hours, and 30 days.

Total value: $16,050
Your investment: $3,125

The Guarantee

If you invest and implement in the Summer Mastermind, including the Portland Getaway and the full summer rhythm, and you do not feel you received practice change worth multiples of your investment, you will receive a full refund. No questions. No awkwardness. You keep every completed assessment and every tool.

I can make this guarantee because when you invest in doing the work on your practice, the work works. Thirty years of mastermind leadership experience tells me what to expect, and the practitioners who do the work get the change.

A Word About Timing

The Portland Implementation Getaway is June 8 and 9, 2026. That is not a marketing deadline I invented to pressure you. It is a calendar. The room has a finite number of seats. When it is full, it will be closed.

If you are reading this letter and thinking, "this is the year I finally fix the structure of my practice", the summer is the right season to do it, and Portland is the right getaway to kick off the season. 

Until Next Time...

Let me speak directly to you for a moment.

You have been working very hard for a very long time. You built a practice that takes care of people in a way only you can take care of them. The cost of building it has been higher than anyone outside of medicine understands.

Somewhere along the way, the practice you built started to own you back. The schedule. The decisions. The weekends. The slow drift of "I'll get to that next quarter" into "I'll get to that next year." The ceiling you can feel but cannot quite name is you.

That is not a personal failing. You were trained for clinical excellence. You were handed a business with no instruction manual. And you have done an extraordinary job keeping it running for as long as you have.

Yet keeping the doors open is not the same as building a practice that reflects the full value of your expertise. It is not the same as building a practice that is scalable and sellable. You know this. That is why you are reading this letter.

The Practice Growth Summer Mastermind is the season in which you stop running the practice on yourself and start running it on structure. Three months. One live implementation getaway. Four frameworks. A mastermind group of peers who are doing the same work alongside you.

By Labor Day, you will not be the same practitioner you are right now. The practice will not be the same practice it is right now. Moreover, should you choose to continue into the full twelve-month Mastermind in September, you will make that decision from inside the experience, not from outside it.

I'm Dr. Lori Barr. I am still practicing medicine. I am still in the room with the practitioners I work with. And I built this for the practitioner who is ready to stop being the bottleneck and start being the architect.

I'll see you in Portland.

In friendship,

Dr. Lori

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