Lindsay Grobman Lombardo is a physical therapist, yoga teacher, and health coach. She works Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Her first client is at 9:30 AM. Her last client ends at 1:15 PM.
She hits $12K months.
Her daughter doesn’t even really know she works. When school ends at 2:30, Lindsay picks her up—her office is five minutes away—and shifts fully into mom mode. Work is done. Notes are documented. The day belongs to her family.
This isn’t someday. This is now. And it started with a vision she wrote in her journal years before it became reality.
The Vision That Started It All
Before Lindsay had her clinic, before she had her daughter, she knew exactly what she wanted.
“For many, many months and maybe even years I would write in my journal the days of the week that I wanted to work,” Lindsay shares. “I knew I wanted my daughter to not feel that I worked.”
So she designed the schedule first. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. School hours only. No evenings. No weekends.
Then she built the business to fit inside that container.
This is backwards from how most practitioners do it. Most build the business first—sessions stacked back to back, evenings and Saturdays, squeezing in documentation during lunch—and then try to carve out life around the edges.
Lindsay did the opposite. She decided what her life needed to look like, then created revenue within those boundaries.
Understanding how to create your ideal schedule is the first step to building a practice that actually fits your life.
The Numbers: Where She Started vs. Where She Is Now
When Lindsay started building her practice, she had almost no in-person clients. She was making maybe $2,000 a month. Her rent was $700.
“My highest point was $5,000 before we really started working together,” she says.
The last two months? $12,000 each.
That’s not a typo. She more than doubled her revenue—working three days a week, school hours only.
The math matters here. If your rent is $700 and you’re making $2,000, you’re barely covering expenses. At $12,000, you have breathing room. You have profit. You have a real business.
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Combining Multiple Modalities Into One Practice
Lindsay doesn’t just do physical therapy. She combines PT with yoga, breathwork, and health coaching—all in one integrated practice.
“I started out as a physical therapist, so for many years that was really just my focal point. Manual therapy. Orthopedic physical therapy,” she explains. “Then I evolved and got into yoga personally and then went on that journey, became a teacher, and then I really started using yoga and breathwork as a therapeutic tool to help all my physical therapy clients.”
But she knew something was still missing.
“I knew that physical therapy was missing the nutrition and lifestyle patterns and habits that contribute to pain and injury, so then I went on to become a health coach as well. Now I combine it all.”
The result? She never feels like she’s working.
“I’m so in love with all those modalities. I never feel like I’m working because I think it’s very natural for me to live, breathe, discuss, talk about all of them. And because I practice it and I’m very passionate about it, my clients feel the same way.”
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The Manifestation Practice That Actually Works
Lindsay is a big believer in manifestation and visualization—but not in a vague, wishful-thinking way. Her approach is specific and embodied.
Here’s the story that captures it perfectly:
“The town that I live in now and my house—we lived in the town next to where we live now, but I used to go to a coffee shop in the town that we live in now, and I used to sit myself across from this sign that said the town’s name. And every day I would do business work. I didn’t really have many clients at the time. I had a lot of free time, and I would just live like I was living in the town.”
She fully embodied the life she wanted before it existed.
“It’s not just a vision. It’s a feeling. So you kind of have to live your life in the way you want it to be.”
She sat in that coffee shop, looking at that town sign, and acted as if she already lived there. Now she does.
The same principle applied to her revenue goals: “I had to do a lot of scarcity and money lack energetic work. And seeing that I got to this 12K the last two months, I know that I’ve done it. I’ve really embodied having that type of revenue.”
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The Instagram Journey: From “I Wish There Was Still a Phone Book” to Signing Clients
Lindsay didn’t want to do Instagram. At all.
“When this whole movement of Instagram and marketing on Instagram started, all I kept saying was, ‘I just wish there was still a phone book.’ I just did not want to do this. Just put me in the phone book, someone find me—and that was never gonna happen anymore.”
So she had to shift.
“I post on Instagram. I have definitely gotten some clients from there. Some of my most wonderful clients are from there. And I just keep showing up.”
How did she get over the fear of putting herself on camera?
“I think just doing it. Just knowing deep down that I needed to. Knowing that I wanted to share. I have so much to share. Where is that information going? So I think it’s also a release for me too.”
She stopped waiting to feel ready. She stopped trying to make content perfect. She just showed up.
“I don’t really spend much time on my talking heads and all. I kinda just do it fly by the wayside. And if I stutter or say the wrong thing at this point, I’m like, all right, whatever. It’s okay. I’m still getting my point across. I’m human.”
And it’s working. She’s signing clients from Instagram—imperfectly.
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The 11-Year Instagram Connection
Here’s a detail that should inspire every practitioner worried about “wasting time” on social media:
Lindsay and her coach first connected on Instagram around 2015. They followed each other. Had conversations over the years. Lost touch during life transitions. Reconnected.
Eleven years later, she became a client.
“I wasn’t specifically ready to be coached at the time,” Lindsay says. “But the fact that I followed you all these years and here I am—clearly timing is everything.”
She laughs: “I will tell everybody, do not wait this long.”
But the point is powerful. You never know what’s happening with your audience. That person who’s been quietly following for years might become your best client when the timing is right.
“Just because someone might say ‘maybe’ or ‘I’ll think about it’ or ‘I can’t do this right now,’ it doesn’t mean no forever—because look at me. I came back 11 years later.”
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What Makes the Schedule Actually Work
Lindsay’s schedule isn’t an accident. Every detail was intentional:
The days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday only. Mondays and Fridays are open for whatever comes up—work or personal.
The hours: First client at 9:30 AM, last client at 1:15 PM. School hours only.
The location: Her office is five minutes from her daughter’s school. She built her practice in the same community where she lives.
The buffer: 15 minutes between clients for documentation. “Sometimes I’ll write my note then. So once I leave work, I’m gone.”
The virtual flexibility: Some virtual clients in the evening or on Monday—but only when her daughter is in an activity. “She doesn’t even know really that I work.”
This level of intentionality is what most practitioners miss. They let the business dictate the schedule instead of designing the schedule first.
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The Next Evolution: Adding a Group Program
Lindsay isn’t stopping at one-to-one clients. She’s building an online group program called The Calm Mom Reset for moms going from pain and stress to calm and strength.
“I do a lot of one-on-one work. I have taught small group classes. But I’ve never done a group program online. So it definitely feels like a growth edge. I’m a little bit nervous, scared, shaky. But I have a lot to teach and educate and share.”
The program will run on Fridays—the day she kept open in her schedule precisely because she “didn’t know what was gonna come up.”
She designed for future expansion before she knew exactly what it would look like.
And she’s approaching the tech challenges the same way she approached Instagram: just doing it.
“There’s no possible way I would be able to do this without support, because I feel I’m very tech illiterate.” But she knows she’s going to do it anyway.
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What She Would Tell Practitioners Who Feel Stuck
When asked what she’d tell practitioners starting out or feeling overwhelmed, Lindsay’s answer is clear:
“Get somebody that you connect with, because we all need support. We all need that cheerleader. We all need somebody who has gone through it already to get us through as well.”
And then: “If your heart is in it and you desire something bigger or more grand for yourself, just keep following your heart.”
On handling discomfort: “I feel it. I work with that. I sit with it. I don’t try to push it away. I might journal about it. I might talk to someone I confide in or trust. And then I do the thing that I’m scared to do.”
That last part is everything. Feel the fear. Process it. Then do the thing anyway.
The Reflection Practice That Keeps Her Grounded
One thing Lindsay does consistently: She reflects on how far she’s come.
“I do reflect on that. It’s hard sometimes too. But I am such a reflector, and I make sure that I do that because I’m big into energetics and manifestation. I talked about this schedule and this lifestyle for many years—I’ve been in PT for 22 years. It was a long time coming, but here it is.”
And the powerful reminder: “If I could do it, anyone could do it.”
She’s not a special case. She’s a practitioner who got clear on what she wanted, found support, and kept going even when it felt uncomfortable.
The schedule she journaled about years ago? She’s living it now. The revenue goals that felt impossible? She’s hitting them. The life where her daughter doesn’t even know she works? That’s reality.
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Follow Lindsay’s journey: @breathe_edenptyogaandwellness on Instagram | breatheeden.com
