You have been doing this work for years.
It is time you got paid like it is yours.
You already know how to care for people. Every family you have ever worked with would have referred you without hesitation. What nobody ever gave you was the business side. Own Your Practice closes that gap. Your practice, registered, priced, and open for clients in as little as four months, with KerlHive guiding you and staying with you through the full first year.
Wale Adebayo
Founder, KerlHive
KerlHive is a business development partner built specifically for experienced nurses and caregivers building independent practices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Not a generic coaching program. Not a course you complete and move on from. A structured partnership with real systems and ongoing support built for the care market.
The same gap came up again and again across dozens of conversations with experienced care professionals: the thing holding them back was never the care work. They were exceptional at that. It was that nobody had ever shown them how to build a real business around what they already knew how to do. KerlHive exists to close that specific gap and nothing else.
Own Your Practice is built for the nurse or caregiver who has already made the decision inside herself. She wants to own something real. She is ready to build it properly, with people who know this market beside her from the first day through the end of the first full year.
You already know you want something different. Here is what different actually looks like.
This is not about becoming better at caring for people. You already are. This is about what happens to your income, your time, and your daily life when the business around your expertise is finally built the right way.
- Doing private work that is real, but with no structure holding it together
- Income that feels different every month, impossible to plan around
- Waiting on referrals, with no system bringing the right clients to you
- Quoting a rate by feel because nothing underneath it tells you what to charge
- Making every hard call alone, with no one to think it through with
- Building someone else's business, or building nothing under your own name at all
- The registered, legal owner of an independent care practice in your name
- Retainer clients who pay the same amount every month, income you can plan your life around
- A client acquisition system running in your market, finding the right clients for you
- A pricing structure you set, understand, and hold with confidence in any conversation
- Monthly reviews with a team that knows your numbers and your specific situation
- Your name on the door. Your decisions. Your business. Nobody else's rules.
Not outcomes on a list. The real moments that are different when the practice is yours.
The practice is the destination. These are the things that change in your everyday life once you are living inside it.
A family asks your rate. You say it without flinching.
You used to lower your number slightly, wondering if it was too much. Now you give it clean, because it came from a structure you built and understand. The conversation is different when confidence is real.
You book a trip without checking if you can afford it.
You know what is coming in next month because the same clients are there every month. That predictability is quiet but enormous. You stop living in monthly uncertainty and start making actual plans.
A hard decision comes up. You do not have to carry it alone.
A difficult client conversation, a slow month, a cash flow question you cannot see clearly. Every month a team that knows your numbers and your situation is reviewing it with you. You make the call. You are just not doing it in isolation.
Something goes sideways with a client. You have a process.
Contracts in place. Policies sorted. A clear intake system that handled the hard questions before they became problems. When something difficult happens, you reach for the process, not your phone at midnight to figure out what to do.
You look at your schedule and it reflects what you chose.
You are not waiting to be assigned a shift or hoping someone calls. You built a practice that brings in the clients you actually want to work with, at the hours that work for your life, at the rate that reflects what your experience is actually worth.
You stop thinking of this as the beginning and start thinking about what is next.
Once the practice is running, the path forward is visible. More clients. Contracts with companies and organizations. Eventually a team. You are not stuck in place. You are at the start of something that can grow as far as you are willing to take it.
"15 years of experience got me to the door. KerlHive helped me walk through it and own what was on the other side."
Ezinne had 15 years of nursing experience, no business background, and no idea how to find her own clients. Four months later, she was the owner of a fully live, operating independent care practice.
Where Ezinne started
Fifteen years. That is how long Ezinne had been caring for older adults and their families when she came to KerlHive. Every family she had ever worked with would have referred her to anyone without hesitation. She was exceptional at the work. What she did not have was any business background at all. She did not know how to find clients on her own, how to set her rate with confidence, or how to register herself as an actual business. She knew what she wanted to build. She had no idea how to start, or how long it would take.
What the partnership built
KerlHive started with the question most care professionals never get answered: how does Ezinne consistently get the right clients to choose her, without depending on referrals or word of mouth? That meant building a specific written picture of her ideal client, designing her service offer around the real outcome she delivers rather than a list of tasks, setting her pricing so she could hold it with confidence in any conversation, and building the full client acquisition plan for her specific market and location. Every piece was built around her actual situation, not copied from a template designed for a different field or a different city.
Where she is now
Bright Companion Care is live and operating, four months after Ezinne started with nothing but her RN license. Ezinne is actively serving premium private clients. The clients she works with are not accidents. They are the result of a system she built, that runs in her market, that she owns outright. You can see the practice she built at brightcompanioncare.com.
Your practice goes live in Phase 1. Phase 2 makes sure it stays standing.
You left a job, or you are about to, and you need income again. You do not need a year to learn to care for people; you already know how. So Phase 1 moves fast: registration, pricing, compliance, and a working client acquisition system, built and running in as little as four months. Most programs stop the moment you launch. This one does not. Phase 2 is the rest of your 12-month partnership, the months where you actually run the business and hit the moments that break new owners: the first slow month, the client conversation that goes sideways, the cash flow squeeze nobody warned you about. You move into Phase 2 the moment you complete all five Phase 1 milestones, not when a fixed amount of time has passed. Finish faster, enter Phase 2 faster.
Build and Launch
KerlHive acts as your guide. You get the complete plan, the right order of steps, and a thorough review of every piece of work at every milestone. You do the building, with your own time, your own team, or contractors you choose. KerlHive does not build it for you. KerlHive makes sure everything is built correctly, in the right order, and ready to actually work. There are five milestones. Complete all five and Phase 2 unlocks immediately.
The 5 milestones that define Phase 1 complete- Your Business Is Legally RealYou are registered. You are protected. You are legally allowed to operate.Your business structure is filed, your practice model is defined, and your pricing is built on a structure you understand and can hold with confidence. You move from doing private care informally to owning a registered care practice with your name on it.
- Your Client-Finding System Is Built and ReadyYou have the system that will bring the right clients to you, running automatically in the background.The technology and processes that take your client acquisition strategy and run it consistently, with roughly 80 percent of the daily work automated. This is built privately first, so you are not advertising an unregistered business, and it goes live the moment Milestone 1 is confirmed.
- Your Practice Is Fully Compliant and Ready to Serve ClientsYou could accept a client today without scrambling to find a contract or figure out your process.Contracts, client agreements, intake forms, required policies, insurance, and background check requirements all in place. Scheduling, invoicing, and record keeping systems built and working. Nothing is missing. Nothing needs to be improvised when a real client appears.
- Your Practice Is Publicly Open for BusinessReal people can find you, see you as a professional, and book with you.Your public professional presence is live, including your booking page or website, your business phone number, and your complete public profile. The client acquisition system is fully switched on and reaching the right people in your local market.
- Your Practice Is Actively Having Real Client ConversationsYou are not a business on paper. You are a business in operation.Real client conversations are underway. The practice is fully registered, fully compliant, and fully live. You have crossed from getting ready to actually operating. This is the milestone that unlocks Phase 2, whenever it happens, not when four months have passed.
Four months is the outer boundary, not the target
Put in consistent effort and you can complete all five milestones in 10 or 11 weeks. Phase 2 unlocks the moment you do, not when the calendar says so. You are rewarded for moving fast, not made to wait.
Operate and Stabilize
Once all five Phase 1 milestones are completed and evidenced, Phase 2 unlocks. This is not more building. This is ongoing support while you operate. KerlHive stays with you as your business faces the things you can only encounter by actually running something: the first real cash flow squeeze, the client conversation that does not go the way you expected, the month where income dips and you have to decide what to do. This is where most new practice owners lose their footing, because the support disappears the moment they launch. Ours does not.
What Phase 2 includes every monthMonthly Group Operating Review
A live group session every month looking at what is actually happening: money in, money out, inquiries, conversions. One participant's real progress is spotlighted each session so everyone learns from what is happening in a real practice.
Monthly Private 1:1 Session
One dedicated, private, one-hour session every month with the KerlHive team, for your business only. No group. Just you and your specific numbers, decisions, and direction.
Decision Support Line
A direct line to the KerlHive team between monthly calls, for the decisions that cannot wait until next month. Real support, available when you actually need it.
Owner Transition and Cash Flow Support
Support for the shift from employee to owner: holding your rate, holding your boundaries, and regular check-ins on your numbers so problems are caught early, not after they have already become a crisis.
Not a certificate. Not access to a platform. A real, operating business and the life that comes with it.
At the end of 12 months, everything you built is yours completely and permanently. Nothing is rented. Nothing is managed by KerlHive. Here is what you walk away with, and what each piece actually means for your income, your freedom, and your daily life.
A Real, Registered Practice in Your Name
Not "I do private care on the side." A legally registered, fully compliant, independently operating care practice. Your name. Your business. Your asset that belongs to nobody else.
You can present yourself with confidence, sign real contracts, and charge the rate your experience is worth, because there is something real and legal behind what you are offering.
Steady Income You Can Actually Plan Your Life Around
A pricing structure you set, understand, and hold. Retainer-based client relationships that pay the same amount every month, not hourly bookings that come and go unpredictably.
One retainer client at $3,500 to $5,000 per month. Three clients means $10,500 to $15,000 coming in every single month, reliably, so you can stop wondering if this will be a good month.
A Complete Operating System That Works Without You Firefighting
Contracts, intake processes, scheduling, invoicing, and client management all built and running. Your practice operates like a real business, not like a series of emergencies you have to solve from scratch each time.
You spend your time delivering care and growing, not figuring out what to send a client or how to invoice them at midnight before a shift.
A Client-Finding System Already Proven in Your Market
Not a strategy you still need to figure out on your own. A working system built and tested for your specific city and market, running inside your practice from the moment it goes live.
When you need a new client, you know exactly what to do and where to go. No guessing. No starting from scratch. No hoping someone refers you.
The Freedom, Control, and Quality of Life You Went Independent For
You set your own schedule. You choose which clients you work with. Your income is not decided by someone else's payroll or someone else's roster decisions. You built this.
The life you actually pictured when you first thought about going independent. Not someday. Built over 12 months with real support behind you, starting now.
Real Practice Experience, With Support Through All of It
You went through the hardest first year with a team reviewing your numbers, supporting your decisions, and catching problems before they became crises. That experience cannot be faked or skipped.
The confidence and operating competence that only comes from having actually run something and made it through the hard parts. That is worth more than anything else on this list.
You did not leave a job, or think about leaving one, just to keep doing the same amount of work for less certainty and less credit. You wanted something with your name on it. Something that earns without depending on someone else's roster decisions. Something that can grow, outlast any employer's choice, and belong to you in a way no shift ever did. That is what this builds. That is what you walk away with.
Read this before you apply. We mean it.
Own Your Practice is a serious 12-month partnership with a specific person in mind. We would rather you know exactly who that is before you invest your time and money.
This is for you if...
- You are an experienced nurse (RN, NP, LPN, LVN) or a caregiver (PSW, HHA, CNA) with real hands-on experience caring for people, at least 2 to 3 years
- You are already doing private work, or you are ready to, and you have decided you want to build a real, registered practice rather than keep doing it informally
- You are strong at the care work but have little or no experience running a business, and you know that gap is what is holding you back
- You can commit consistent time and real attention across 12 months, not just the first few weeks
- You want to build and own the operating knowledge yourself, not have someone build it for you
- You are based in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom
This is not for you if...
- You are brand new to caregiving or nursing and still building your core hands-on experience
- You want someone else to build everything for you, including the brand, technology, and client outreach work
- You are looking for a short program with a quick result and no long-term follow-through
- You cannot commit consistent time and real attention across 12 months
- You are not ready to be the person making every decision in your own business
- You are comfortable where you are and not genuinely motivated to change how you earn
Before you see the value stack, here is what one of those line items actually is.
Own Your Practice includes the Private Client Acquisition System at no extra charge. If you have not heard of it before, that line in the table will mean nothing to you. So here is what it is and why it matters, before you get to the price.
The five tools you build in the live sessionIdeal Private Client Profile
A detailed, written picture of the exact person you want to serve. Their care situation, what they are worried about, and why they would choose you over anyone else.
Private Care Service Offer
A clear description of your service built around the outcome it delivers, not a task list. Your pricing structure is built here too, so you can hold your rate with confidence.
Private Client Attraction Plan
A specific, written plan for where you show up and what you say so the right clients can find you, built around your exact client profile and your local market.
Referral Network Map
A written map of the specific people and places in your area who are already in contact with the families you want to serve, plus the introduction you use to reach each one.
Client Conversation Framework
The exact sequence for every conversation with a potential client, from first contact to a decision. What to ask, how to present your rate, and how to handle the most common pushbacks.
Inside Own Your Practice, you get the full 3-day live build session and all five tools at no extra charge. You can also attend live cohorts up to four times across your 12 months, so if anything in your practice changes and you want to rebuild a part of the system, you can. Purchased separately, it is $997. Inside this partnership, it is included.
Everything included in your 12-month partnership
One complete offer. Phase 1 setup and launch guidance. Phase 2 operating partnership. And the Private Client Acquisition System included at no extra charge.
| What is included | Value |
|---|---|
| Phase 1: Practice Setup and Launch Guidance KerlHive as your guide across all five milestones. Blueprint, sequencing, and a thorough review of every piece of work from registration to your first active client conversations. | $9,997 |
| Phase 2: Eight Months of Operating Partnership Monthly group review, monthly private 1:1, and a decision support line across the full Phase 2 period. The ongoing support that most new practice owners lose the moment they launch. | $7,997 |
| Private Client Acquisition System (Fully Included) Complete access to the 3-day live build and its five-part output. Attend live cohorts up to four times across your 12 months. Valued at $997 when purchased separately. | $997 |
| Complete Operating System Build Contracts, client agreements, intake forms, policies, scheduling, invoicing, and record keeping. Every operational tool your practice needs to serve clients without scrambling. | $4,997 |
| Owner Identity and Confidence Coaching The support for the hardest part of this transition: going from someone who always answered to someone else to being the person making every decision. Staying grounded when things get uncertain. | $8,500 |
| A Real, Operating Practice in Your Name at the End of 12 Months Not a certificate. Not a course completion. A legally registered, fully compliant, independently operating care practice with real clients, real income, real experience behind you, and the confidence that only comes from having built something through the hardest parts. Completely and permanently yours. | Priceless |
| Total quantifiable value | $32,488+ |
| Your investment | $14,997 |
Payment schedule — spread over 12 months
Starts with a short application below. If there is a fit, you will book a Clarity Call with the KerlHive team to confirm and enroll.
The numbers behind what a working practice actually produces.
A care professional charging a $4,500 per month retainer with a 3-month minimum. That one client alone returns your entire $14,997 investment before the end of the first year. This is a real number from a real KerlHive partner, not a projection.
Three clients at $4,500 per month. $13,500 per month. $162,000 per year. This is what a modest, well-structured independent practice looks like when the pricing and the client-finding system are built correctly. Five clients is $225,000 per year. This is the ceiling you are building toward.
How the investment pays for itself
- Your enrollment starts at $1,497.That is the only amount you need to commit on day one.
- Phase 1 builds your practice to fully live.The goal is to have your first real client conversations underway before Phase 2 even begins.
- One signed retainer client at $4,500 per month.Three months of that client covers the full $13,500 minimum. Your $14,997 investment is returned within the year.
- Phase 2 keeps you stable and growing.Eight months of operating partnership with team support while you bring in more clients, grow your client base, and hold your pricing.
- At the end of 12 months, you own a practice.Not access to a program. A real registered business that earns without you starting from scratch every month.
Income figures represent realistic market pricing for experienced independent practitioners based on real client data. Results depend on your effort, local market, client profile, and consistency. These figures are presented to show what is possible with a properly built practice, not to imply they are automatic or guaranteed for every participant.
Everything you need to know before you apply.
I have never heard of KerlHive before. Why should I trust you with something this significant?
That is a fair question and worth answering directly. KerlHive was built around one pattern Wale, our founder, saw across dozens of conversations with experienced care professionals: the gap holding most of them back is never about their ability to care for people. They know the work exceptionally well. Nobody ever showed them how to build a real business around it. Every system, framework, and piece of support inside this partnership was built specifically for the care market, not adapted from a generic business coaching program. The case study on this page is a real client with a real operating practice. You can visit her website. That is how we earn trust.
How quickly can I get through Phase 1? Do I have to wait the full four months?
No. The four-month window is the outer boundary, not the target. Phase 2 unlocks the moment you complete all five Phase 1 milestones and show evidence of them, regardless of how much time has passed. If you put in consistent effort, some participants finish Phase 1 in 10 to 12 weeks. Moving faster is rewarded with earlier access to Phase 2, not a longer wait. What unlocks Phase 2 is milestone completion, not the calendar.
Does the Client Acquisition System cost extra on top of this?
No. It is fully included inside Own Your Practice at no extra charge. You get complete access to the 3-day live build and its five-part output, and you can attend live cohorts up to four times across your 12 months. You do not need to purchase it separately.
What does KerlHive build versus what do I build?
KerlHive designs the plan, sets the order of steps, and reviews every piece of work at every milestone. You do the building, either yourself, with your own team, or by getting help from contractors you choose. This is intentional. By the end of 12 months, you own not just the practice but the understanding to run and grow it yourself. That is worth more than having it handed to you.
What if something unexpected delays me during Phase 1?
Delays are part of life. If something unexpected happens while you are working through Phase 1, we work through it with you. The milestone structure keeps you on track, it does not punish you for real circumstances. What it does require is that you are genuinely engaged and making real progress.
What is the payment structure?
The full price is $14,997, spread across a structured schedule: $1,497 at enrollment, $2,000 in month 2, $3,500 in month 4, and $1,000 per month for the remaining 8 months. If you prefer to pay in full, the price is $13,497, saving you $1,500. This is one 12-month partnership, not a series of separate purchases.
Is there an income guarantee?
No, and we will not pretend there is one. KerlHive commits to delivering the full Phase 1 guidance and Phase 2 operating support as described. What you earn from the practice you build depends on your effort, your local market, and how you apply what you have built. What we can say is that the system works, the structure is real, and the support is there for the full 12 months.
I am in the UK. Does this apply to me?
Yes. Own Your Practice serves care professionals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. UK-specific legal structure, NHS-adjacent private care, and Continuing Healthcare funding are all covered inside the program.
This page says "nurses and caregivers." I am a PSW / HHA / CNA. Is this actually for me?
Yes. Own Your Practice is built for both licensed nurses and experienced caregivers, including Personal Support Workers, Home Health Aides, and Certified Nursing Assistants. If you have real hands-on experience caring for people and you are ready to build a practice of your own, this is built for you.
You have already made the decision. This is where it starts.
Fill out the application below. This is not a gatekeeping process. It is a short set of questions that helps the KerlHive team understand where you are before your Clarity Call, so that conversation is as useful as possible for you. If there is a fit, the page will direct you to book your Clarity Call right away.