Eric Levenhagen - ProWise Financial Coaching

Name: Eric Levenhagen - ProWise Financial Coaching
Address: 5900 Balcones Drive Suite 8948, Austin, TX, 78731, US
Telephone: +16414243990
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Eric Levenhagen - ProWise Financial Coaching

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🔥 Attention: Optometrists and Doctors in Private Practice…

If your schedule is full of patients every month, but you never seem to be able to reach all your financial goals and you want to learn how to keep more money in your pocket (instead of sending it to the government or having it disappear into a black hole), 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩! Here is an entire course as my gift to you that I provide as a Financi

al Consultant. https://www.OptometristFinancialFreedom.com

My name is Eric Levenhagen and I've coached dozens of clients to transform their business and allow them to improve their LIFESTYLE, have more IMPACT in the world, and live their LEGACY.

𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮…?

👉 Is your practice flowing with regular patients but there never seems to be enough cash in the bank?

👉 Are you consistently growing your practice but at risk of burnout? Seeing more and more patients but not seeing the financial results you expect?

👉 Do you often lie awake and wonder how all the money coming into your practice seems to disappear?

👉 Do you know there must be a better way to earning the income you want, but can’t seem to get the right answers or advice from your current financial team?

👉 Do you secretly resent your practice for taking all your time and energy but not having enough results to show for it?

👉 Do you feel like as soon as you start getting ahead financially, something else always comes up and pushes you three steps backward? (Increased wages, higher expenses, TAXES?)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦…? You haven't discovered how to create true Financial Harmony in your life - where all of these issues dissappear. Check out my latest training below where I show you how to transform your practice into a hyper-profitable, wealth-generating machine.

✅ https://www.OptometristFinancialFreedom.com

08/28/2026

A quick reframe that saves practice owners a lot of stress every April.
When a tax bill blindsides you, it's easy to blame the bill. Too high. Unfair. But the tax was going to be whatever it was going to be. What hurt was finding out too late to change it.

By the time your return is done in the spring, the year is closed. Your entity, your retirement contributions, how you paid your family, when you bought equipment, all of those levers are already behind you. Catch your number back in the summer, and they're still live. That's the whole game.

A shocking tax bill isn't a tax problem. It's a timing problem. This week's post shows you how to fix the timing: https://prowisefinancial.com/post/how-to-avoid-a-shocking-tax-bill-before-its-too-late

Want to know your number while you can still act on it? Click here to book a 30-minute Financial Clarity Call: https://prowisefinancial.com/claritycall

08/21/2026

Last summer, a practice owner took her first two-week vacation in nine years, and didn't check the bank account once. (She's a composite of the owners I work with, but the story is real.)

A year earlier it would have been impossible. She worked five clinical days a week and felt every day off in the deposits. The practice didn't run. She did.

What changed wasn't working harder. She built a few simple money systems: the cash learned to sort itself, her own pay went on autopilot, and someone besides her could see the numbers and handle the routine calls. She also got a clean enough look at the books to see that her associate was profitable, so she wasn't the only one carrying the load.
She cut a clinical day, took the trip, and the practice paid her the whole time she was gone.

This week's post tells the whole story: https://prowisefinancial.com/post/she-took-a-2-week-vacation-the-practice-ran-fine

Want that for yourself? Click here to book a 30-minute Financial Clarity Call: https://prowisefinancial.com/claritycall

08/14/2026

Here's a question that tells you a lot about your practice: could you take a real week off without your phone blowing up?

For most owners, the honest answer is no. And it usually isn't the team's fault. It's the money. Every dollar still runs through you, so the day you leave, the place stalls.

This week's post is about the three systems that change that. The cash learns to sort itself. Your own pay runs on autopilot. And someone besides you can see the numbers and handle the routine calls. Put those in place and stepping back stops being wishful thinking.

Read it here: https://prowisefinancial.com/post/you-cant-step-back-until-the-money-can-run-without-you

Want help building them? Click here to book a 30-minute Financial Clarity Call: https://prowisefinancial.com/claritycall

06/05/2026

Be honest. Which stage are you in right now?

There’s a predictable pattern to how practice owners respond to financial pressure. Stage one is shock, where you freeze. Stage two is desperation, where you overreact and cut or spend wildly. Stage three is evaluation, where you finally pause and look at the numbers. Stage four is deliberate action, calm and strategic. Stage five is surge, where you come out stronger than you went in.

The expensive decisions get made in stage two. The wealth-building decisions get made in stage four. Most of the work isn’t avoiding pressure. It’s shortening the time between desperation and deliberate action.

Part 4 of the cash flow visibility series is the closer. It brings the whole system together and gives you a three-question filter for any big decision.

https://prowisefinancial.com/post/make-decisions-on-purpose-a-calm-framework-for-cutting-holding-and-investing

05/29/2026

For every independent practice owner who has quietly skipped their own paycheck to make the numbers work this month:

When margins tighten, most owners cut things in this order. Their own pay first. Then profit. Then tax savings. And only as a last resort, operating expenses.

The person carrying all the risk gets paid last. The vendor contracts and software subscriptions get cut last, if at all.

Cutting your own draw feels responsible. It feels like leadership. So owners absorb the shortfall month after month and call it sacrifice. But it isn’t sacrifice. It’s a slow erosion of the one person the practice can’t replace. And it’s one of the most common reasons private practice owners burn out.

Part 3 of my cash flow visibility series is about flipping that order, and what it really means when a practice can’t pay its owner a fair wage.

https://prowisefinancial.com/post/specialty-optometrist-practice-9402-3749-8839

05/20/2026

A conversation I’ve been having a lot lately with independent optometry owners:

Patients are still showing up. Exam volume is mostly holding. But the optical side feels softer. People are choosing single vision over progressives. They’re saying “I’ll wait” on the second pair. Frame costs are creeping up. And somehow, even with the schedule full, the bank account isn’t reflecting the work.

If any of that sounds familiar, here’s the reframe.

Lower revenue isn’t the real problem. The deeper issue is that when collections were growing, cash flow leaks got covered up by the next deposit. Nobody noticed. When collections flatten or dip, those same leaks show up immediately in the bank balance.

Good news: leaks can be found. And once you can see them, you can stop guessing and start making real decisions.

Just published Part 1 of a 4-part series on cash flow visibility. Two diagnostic moves to surface where your cash is actually going. Worth ten minutes if your numbers haven’t been telling you a clear story.

https://prowisefinancial.com/post/specialty-optometrist-practice-9402

05/08/2026

Most optometrists I talk to already have the numbers.

Profit and loss statements.
Reports from their system.
Data from every direction.

But when it comes time to make a decision… they still hesitate.
Should I hire an associate?
Is now the right time to invest in new equipment?
Can I afford to work fewer days?

The problem isn’t a lack of information.
It’s that the numbers aren’t giving you clear direction.

I wrote a short piece on why this is happening and what to do about it.

👉 https://prowisefinancial.com/post/specialty-optometrist-practice-9402-8944

If your practice feels “fine” but not fully under control, this will hit close to home.

05/01/2026

If tax day knocked the wind out of you this year, read this.

Most independent optometrists I talk to aren’t bad with money.

They’re just operating on one painful belief that creates chaos every April:

“The money in my account is mine until the government takes it.”

That single belief is why tax day feels like a surprise attack.

The fix isn’t a better spreadsheet or a smarter deduction.
It’s a simple system of financial habits that most of my successful clients are already running.

I broke it down in a new blog post, including the 3 moves that turn April 15th from a panic day into a quiet formality.

👉 Read it here: https://prowisefinancial.com/post/specialty-optometrist-practice

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Austin, TX
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