Culture Focused Practice

Tara Vossenkemper, PhD
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The Culture Focused Practice is where business and humanity collide. Hosted by Dr. Tara Vossenkemper (group practice owner and consultant), this podcast dives deep into how practice culture drives business success. Learn actionable strategies to shape a thriving team, implement and use the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), and tackle the tough leadership decisions that come with growing your group practice. Whether you’re scaling up or streamlining, this show offers real-world insights to help you build a people-powered practice that lasts. Join Tara for candid conversations, expert interviews, and no-fluff coaching that puts your culture first.

  1. 5H AGO

    The Owner’s Room: Processing What Became Clear After the Conference

    What if the thing slowing your business down… isn’t effort, but structure? In this Owner’s Room episode, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper reflects on the clarity that hit after the EOS conference — not because EOS was new, but because something finally clicked about why the practice has been hitting a ceiling despite using the system for years. Tara unpacks the difference between simply reporting numbers and truly owning outcomes, and how leadership accountability had slowly drifted into passive metric updates instead of active problem-solving and ownership. She also realizes the accountability chart itself has been incomplete: a full finance/admin leadership seat never actually existed, which meant too much responsibility quietly routed back to her as visionary. She explores: why the vision may not be big enoughhow rocks have been misassignedwhat happens when visionaries stay stuck in maintenance workthe discomfort of handing over financial visibilityand why stepping fully into a visionary role suddenly feels possibleBecause sometimes the problem isn’t that people aren’t working hard enough. It’s that the business has outgrown the structure holding it together. Timestamps: 00:00 Post-Conference Clarity01:39 Owner’s Room Format02:11 Relief and Impatience04:02 Accountability Finally Sharpens11:12 Bigger Vision and Real Momentum14:53 Realizing She Doesn’t Belong in Finance/Admin18:05 Resisting the Urge to Rush the Process19:50 Stepping Into the Visionary Role21:54 Closing Thoughts and Next Steps And if this episode had you realizing you’ve become the default owner of everything in your business, send it to another practice owner who might need to hear it — and subscribe for more honest conversations about leadership, ownership, EOS, and building systems that actually support growth.

    22 min

  2. APR 23

    You Don’t Have a Capacity Problem — You Have an Ownership Problem

    What if the thing that feels like a capacity problem… is actually an ownership problem? In this episode, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper is reflecting on something that became clear only after she was forced to step back a bit: parts of the business don’t clearly belong to anyone. And when that happens, growth starts to stall. Using marketing as the clearest example, Tara unpacks the difference between execution and ownership. Posting content, reporting numbers, checking boxes — that’s not the same as someone truly owning outcomes. Real ownership means having authority, visibility, accountability, and responsibility for moving the metric. She also names a dynamic many owners know intimately: when nobody clearly owns something, it quietly routes back to the owner. Loose ends, weird numbers, unclear decisions, background anxiety… all roads lead back to you. This episode explores what stepping back can reveal, why “the team owns it” usually means nobody owns it, and how clearer roles create cleaner businesses. Because often the issue isn’t that everyone needs to do more. It’s that the right things need to belong to the right people. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and Why This Matters00:18 Stepping Back Creates Clarity01:21 Capacity vs Ownership Problem02:04 Marketing Feels Like a Fog05:55 Reporting vs Real Ownership07:44 Why Shared Ownership Fails09:08 Owner Becomes Default Integrator11:52 What Feels Off in the Structure16:56 What Real Ownership Looks Like19:06 Escalation and EOS Leadership Flow20:32 Key Takeaways and Wrap22:16 Final Thoughts and Share And if this episode had you realizing you’re carrying things that don’t actually belong to you, send it to another practice owner who needs to hear it — and subscribe for more honest conversations about leadership, structure, and building a business that can actually breathe.

    23 min

  3. APR 16

    Stop Owning Marketing: Build This Role Instead

    In this episode, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper is working through something that’s very alive for her right now: What if inconsistent or unclear marketing in your practice isn’t a strategy problem… but an ownership problem? She walks through what happens when marketing is shared across roles — how responsibility fragments, results become inconsistent, and the owner becomes the default bottleneck. Even if the owner isn’t supposed to be doing the marketing, it still routes back through them — decisions, direction, and accountability — which slows everything down and turns marketing reactive. This episode blends structure with real-time reflection. Tara names what’s currently happening inside her own practice and uses that to walk through the bigger system: where marketing is still shared instead of owned,what breaks when no one owns the numbers,and why activity without accountability doesn’t actually move anything. She also unpacks what changes when a marketing strategist role is in place — not just someone executing tasks, but someone owning the client acquisition pipeline, the metrics, and the outcomes. From there, she connects it back to leadership:what it looks like for the owner to step out of being the bottleneck,and what opens up when that responsibility is fully owned by someone else. Timestamps 00:00 Marketing Ownership Problem 01:23 Shared Marketing Breakdown 03:10 Fragmented Metrics Confusion 04:52 Owner Becomes Bottleneck 08:01 Activity Without Accountability 10:01 Letting Go as Visionary 12:53 What Strategist Owns 16:36 Vendors and Leadership Rhythm 17:40 Role Changes Everything 21:19 Outcome Based Marketing Shift 23:59 Protect and Scale Growth 26:23 Recap and Next Steps You can download Tara’s Living Practice Framework here:https://www.taravossenkemper.com/living-practice-framework-overview And if you want to keep thinking about your practice this way — not just what to do, but how it’s structured and owned — subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next.

    28 min

  4. APR 9

    The Owner's Room: Is This Actually Necessary?

    In this Owner’s Room episode, Tara Vossenkemper is thinking out loud about a shift she doesn’t fully understand yet. Not burnout. Not depression.Just a different relationship to energy, work, and what feels worth doing. She names the context — perimenopause, progesterone, sobriety, coming off Adderall — and then moves through a set of real-time questions. What emerges is a clear pull toward depth, nature, and family — and a noticeable absence of work in what feels like a yes. The practice still matters. Deeply.But parts of the day-to-day — payroll, marketing, being pulled back into things that no longer belong to her — feel heavier than they used to. This episode sits in that space: when things are stable, and urgency is no longer driving you. Timestamps 00:00 Selectivity Shift02:15 Question One Yes Noise03:08 Noise at Work Boundaries05:55 Question Two Stimulation08:45 Question Three Observe12:25 Question Four No Tolerance13:28 Work Moving Forward15:53 What Matters Heavy17:51 Closing Reflections If this resonates, send it to someone navigating a similar shift.And subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next.

    19 min

  5. APR 2

    The V/I Table: An Impromptu Grapple on Delegation, Ownership, and Roles

    In this episode, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper and Taylor explore a tension many leaders face: the difference between delegation and true ownership. What begins as an impromptu conversation becomes a deeper look at what it actually takes for accountability to live within a role—and why team members often continue to escalate decisions that should sit with them. Drawing on Tara’s transition of operational ownership to Taylor, they examine how ownership develops over time through trust, communication, and comfort with ambiguity. In contrast, the clinical side of the practice is experienced as more complex and higher-stakes, where breakdowns are less visible and harder to repair. They also explore broader questions around role clarity, the limits of EOS within a relational business, and whether ownership and coachability can be developed—or need to be present from the start. Rather than offering fixed answers, this conversation reflects the ongoing process of building a practice that continues to evolve. Timestamps: 00:00 Delegation vs. Ownership01:40 How Operational Ownership Actually Shifted08:51 Ops vs. Clinical: Different Stakes14:03 Can Ownership Be Taught?19:45 Role Clarity and Org Structure22:13 Where EOS Helps—and Where It Doesn’t24:41 Coachability and Leadership Traits31:28 Right Person, Right Seat34:42 Delegation When Roles Are Unclear35:38 Growth Pressure and System Cracks38:12 The Living Practice Feedback Loop40:29 Closing Reflections If this conversation resonated, share it with a colleague or leader navigating similar questions around delegation and ownership—and subscribe for more conversations exploring the realities of building and leading a living practice.

    41 min

  6. MAR 26

    The Owner’s Room: If I Had to Do This Again

    In this Owner’s Room episode, Tara Vossenkemper asks:If I had to build this again… what would I actually choose? Not what worked. Not what looked successful.What she’d say yes to — knowing the cost. She walks through the problems she wants to solve (higher-level, conceptual stuck points) and the ones she doesn’t (ops, logistics, being needed for maintenance). She also names a real-time shift toward wanting more space to think, read, and synthesize — not just do.  From there: what she might build without the “practice owner” identity, what no longer feels meaningful, and what she’d redesign upfront — especially around ops, marketing, pay structures, and the difference between growth and actual success. Timestamps00:00 Welcome and Setup01:21 Problems Worth Solving03:45 Energy vs Toleration07:04 Beyond Owner Identity11:59 Meaning That Shifted14:19 Costs and Redesigns16:12 Growth vs Success19:06 Wrap Up If this episode hit, pass it along to another practice owner and make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next one.

    20 min

  7. MAR 19

    Designing a Hiring System (Instead of Trusting Your Gut)

    In this episode of the Culture Focus Practice podcast, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper explores why hiring is too high-impact to rely on intuition alone. She explains that your gut can absolutely be useful, but it is only one stream of data. When leaders treat intuition as the hiring strategy, they can end up mistaking familiarity, likability, or confidence for actual alignment with the role and the culture. Tara walks through the core components of a real hiring system: identifying logistical and structural fit early, using a multi-layer assessment process, evaluating skills in action instead of relying too heavily on resumes, and gathering clear team feedback that turns impressions into usable data. She also breaks down how culture is better protected when discernment is distributed across process, data, and trusted team input rather than centralized in one leader’s instinct. From leadership-excluded meet-and-greets to structured feedback and post-interview recommendation surveys, this episode offers a more intentional way to hire with less bias and less regret. Timestamps 00:00 Why Gut Isn’t Enough01:08 Gut as Data Point02:22 Familiarity vs Alignment04:57 Hiring Impacts Everyone06:53 Core Hiring System08:05 Logistics and Dealbreakers10:25 Multi Layer Assessment14:14 Skills Over Resumes18:03 Feedback Reveals Fit23:28 Quantify Team Recommendations25:11 Distributed Discernment25:47 Meet and Greet Without Leaders26:52 Skills Tests Beat Charm29:55 Systems Reduce Regret32:38 Takeaways and Closing If hiring has started to feel overly subjective, inconsistent, or like something your team just has to “hope goes well,” this episode will help you think more clearly about what a culture-protective hiring process can actually look like. To share your hiring stuck points or submit a scenario Tara can address in a future episode, go to taravossenkemper.com and use the contact form.

    35 min

  8. MAR 12

    Where Teams Get Stuck with EOS

    In this episode of the Culture Focused Practice Podcast, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper explores why EOS can start to feel frustrating, stuck, or ineffective — even when teams believe they’re implementing it correctly. She looks at three common breakdown points: accountability charts that lack clarity, IDS conversations that skip real grappling, and L10 meetings that slowly turn into status updates. When these pieces drift from their intended purpose, EOS stops creating traction and starts creating frustration. Tara explains what tends to go wrong inside each area and how leaders can recalibrate their use of the framework so it actually supports decision-making, ownership, and forward movement. Timestamps 00:00 Why EOS Feels Stuck01:12 Accountability Chart Fixes04:01 Person vs Seat Clarity07:44 Use Chart to Decide10:54 IDS Needs Grappling15:22 Dig to Root Cause17:36 Don’t Avoid Tension20:47 L10s Aren’t Status Updates23:14 Scorecard and Issues List24:21 Rocks and To-Dos Done Right28:44 Recap and Next Steps If EOS has started to feel more frustrating than helpful inside your organization, this episode will help you think about where the process may be breaking down. To get first access to Tara’s next EOS Mastermind, join the list at taravossenkemper.com/eos-mastermind.

    31 min
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The Culture Focused Practice is where business and humanity collide. Hosted by Dr. Tara Vossenkemper (group practice owner and consultant), this podcast dives deep into how practice culture drives business success. Learn actionable strategies to shape a thriving team, implement and use the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), and tackle the tough leadership decisions that come with growing your group practice. Whether you’re scaling up or streamlining, this show offers real-world insights to help you build a people-powered practice that lasts. Join Tara for candid conversations, expert interviews, and no-fluff coaching that puts your culture first.

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  • Creator
    Tara Vossenkemper, PhD
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    92
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Vossenkemper Consulting, LLC
  • Show Website
    Culture Focused Practice

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