Veterinary Business Accelerator. Time, Profit, Freedom
“Doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate.”
— Morgan Housel
If you’re a vet practice owner, that probably hits home. So, how do you change that? What's the difference between feeling trapped by your business and leading with purpose—making the impact that inspired you to open your doors in the first place?
This podcast is for veterinary business owners who want to reclaim their time, grow their profits, and build a business that brings freedom—not just responsibility.
Hosted by vet business coach Dr Sam Bowden and Vet Vault host Dr Hugh Hiemstra
Recent Episodes
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Sept. 2, 2026
Partnerships 3: Making It Work, and Knowing When It Won't
Most people, when asked what share of the responsibility they carry for the happiness of their marriage, will say 50%. Shane Barker reckons that's the answer that ends partnerships. Because the moment you start keeping score, you're opening the door to resentment We wrap up our series on partnerships with Sam's business partner , Shane Barker, with a conversation about how to turn your business partnership into a relationship that multiplies, not just maintains: the habits that keep a partner
Aug. 23, 2026
Partnerships Part 2: How To Choose Your Ideal Business Partner
Most people choose a business partner the way they'd choose a dinner date: based on who's sitting in front of them right now. Sam's business partner Shane Barker reckons that's the trap. Use the marriage analogy again and it becomes obvious: who you dated, who you got engaged to, who you married in year one - that's not who you're living with fifteen years later. So the question isn't "are they great today?" The question is "can we evolve together?" In part two of this three-part series, Sam
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Aug. 7, 2026
Partnerships Part 1: Do You Actually Need A Business Partner?
"The only ship that never sails is a partnership." One of the many tongue-in-cheek aphorisms you'd have heard that all allude to the same thing: not many things can ruin a veterinary business as reliably as a failed business partnership. In this first episode of a three-part series, Sam brings in his own business partner, Shane Barker, who he's been in business with for the better part of fourteen years. Shane has run hundred-million-dollar companies, and before that he was a family law barris
July 23, 2026
Practice Culture, KPIs and the Exit. With Dr Michael Archinal
Why do you run your vet business? For Dr Michael Archinal, the answer was always: to sell it one day. A few years ago he did exactly that, after building and running nine practices while working roughly half a day a week. In this conversation Michael takes the long retrospective view with Sam and unpacks what it actually took to get there. He shares his supernatural method for moving on staff who aren't a fit (you'll want to hear this one). The handful of KPIs he tracked every single month, inc
July 8, 2026
Coaching Call: Growing a Mobile Vet Practice - Why Word of Mouth Isn't a Marketing Plan
Dr Melyssa Cotton runs a new-ish mobile veterinary practice, and business is steady. The problem is where that business comes from: almost every client arrives by word of mouth, which is great, until it isn't. In this episode, Sam coaches her through the unglamorous stuff that actually grows a practice from the ground up: a website that convinces strangers to book, Google reviews (they matter more than you think), a neighbourhood referral trick that costs basically nothing, and pricing set by y
June 25, 2026
Space Plus People Equals Place: 5 Common Practice Design Mistakes to Avoid. With Jerry Kennard
What if the thing holding your practice back isn't your team, your prices, or your marketing? What if it's the building? In this episode, we sit down with Jerry Kennard from Evoke Projects, someone who designs veterinary spaces for a living and has watched a lot of owners get this expensively wrong. Because a practice build always starts as a dream: the right location, the beautiful fit-out - the clinic you've always wanted. But plan it wrong, and that dream can quickly turn into a trap that st
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