# “I Don’t Want to Burden Them”: The Real Reason Practice Owners Go It Alone – A Special SNACK Episode, EP 265 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340/i-don-t-want-to-burden-them-the-real-reason-practice-owners-go-it-alone-a-special-snack-episode-ep-265 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340/i-don-t-want-to-burden-them-the-real-reason-practice-owners-go-it-alone-a-special-snack-episode-ep-265.md Podcast: [Thriving Practice with Tracy Cherpeski](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340) Published: 2026-06-26T19:04:00+00:00 Episode link: https://tracycherpeski.podbean.com/e/i-don-t-want-to-burden-them-the-real-reason-practice-owners-go-it-alone-%e2%80%93-a-special-snack-episode-ep-265/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7xbha7kyjzjctrqg/EP_265_SNACK_COMPLETE7crdc.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340/episodes/i-don-t-want-to-burden-them-the-real-reason-practice-owners-go-it-alone-a-special-snack-episode-ep-265 Duration seconds: 752 ## Resource Many practice owners don’t recognize their own isolation until someone names it, and it’s rarely about lacking support at home — it’s reluctance to burden people who already have full plates. This episode also gets into why generic networking falls flat compared to peer-specific community, and why ”I don’t have time” is often about more than the calendar. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340/episodes/i-don-t-want-to-burden-them-the-real-reason-practice-owners-go-it-alone-a-special-snack-episode-ep-265/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/thriving-practice-with-tracy-cherpeski-3530340/i-don-t-want-to-burden-them-the-real-reason-practice-owners-go-it-alone-a-special-snack-episode-ep-265.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.