🎙️ Live Well, Earn Well: Dr. Terri Levine's Heartrepreneur Journey From Speech Pathology to Coaching

In this episode, Dr. Terri Levine, founder and Chief Heart-repreneur of Heartrepreneur LLC, shares how a career that began in speech pathology led through a corporate healthcare CEO role, a devastating neurological disease diagnosis, and the sudden loss of her mother and closest friend within a week of each other, before she built a coaching empire around relationship-first selling. Terri opens up about the disease that nearly ended her life, the publisher who threw her manuscript on the floor and demanded she reinvent her business, and the reverse tithing philosophy that now shapes every financial decision she makes.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• Opened her own speech pathology clinic and discovered she loved marketing more than clinical work

• Studied under Zig Ziglar early in her career and adopted his help-first sales philosophy

• Rose to CEO of a national healthcare company before walking away within months of losing her mother and a close friend

• Was later diagnosed with RSD, a severe neurological pain disease, and spent time in a wheelchair before relearning to walk

• Signed her first five coaching clients within a week and thirty clients within thirty days of launching her practice

• Rebranded her company to Heartrepreneur after a publisher rejected her manuscript and pushed her to redefine her message

• Has written 41 books and built and sold seven companies across 19 different industries

• Built a “one community, one offer, one video” system that generates leads in as little as 20 minutes a day

• Practices reverse tithing, giving 90% of company profits to her RSD foundation for children

• Now works roughly 20 hours a month while stepping back from public speaking and moving into ghostwriting

🌟 Terri's Key Mentors:

• Zig Ziglar: Taught her a help-first sales philosophy that reshaped how she approaches every client relationship

• Her Publisher of Eleven Years: Rejected her manuscript and pushed her to create the Heartrepreneur brand and message

• A Stranger on a Plane: A chance conversation about life coaching set her entire career pivot into motion

• Her Husband: A financial advisor whose investment strategy turned her business proceeds into lasting family wealth

👉 Hear how a speech pathologist turned corporate CEO survived one of the most painful diseases known to medicine and built a coaching empire around giving first and living in the moment.

🔗 Connect with Dr. Terri Levine:

Website: heartrepreneur.com

Community: heartrepreneurs.com

Website: www.heartrepreneur.com

Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrilevine, https://www.facebook.com/MentorTerriLevine/

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https://www.threads.com/@mentorterrilevine

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_YmLGv_bCDJ45CoupRmhA

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