You

can pay yourself a certain amount, and Julie's going to help you figure out how much you should be paying yourself.

But it's probably not going to be a fortune for most therapy practice owners.

And so when your business grows large enough, and we can get into what that is in detail if you wish, You may have an opportunity to work with certain types of investors, not all, who will buy a majority of your business and want to keep you as the operator.

And when we say taking chips off the table, we mean an investor will buy a chunk of your practice and there will be a multiple.

So you want to look at your profit and then you want to multiply that by a certain number.

The investor will do this and you'll go back and forth and talk about what is a fair valuation.

So when you think of it like a typical deal, how much money should the seller expect to get up front versus earnouts or money over time? Like what's a reasonable expectation?