Spencer Potesta

Psychotherapist, Company Builder, Author | Founder of Potesta Holdings Corporation & Social Capital Foundation

My background is in clinical and organizational psychology, dedicating time to psychotherapy for patients with severe anxiety and trauma disorders, while building and partnering with organizations in organizational psychology. The tools I use in therapy mirror those that help executives and organizations excel.

In psychotherapy, I run a private practice as a double-board certified psychotherapist in Illinois, offering specialized, evidence-based care for severe anxiety (like OCD) and trauma disorders (including dissociation). I dedicate a select few days per week to this transformative, client-centered work.

As CEO of Midsommer.org, I address clinical pain points—like limited access, high costs, and fragmentation—leading a pioneering mental health organization. We build a clinician-led holistic care model, revolutionizing psychotherapy with self-managing teams, comprehensive services, and ethical, insurance-based practices for affordability across states and specialties. We empower ethical clinicians to own teams as directors and co-owners (typically 10-12 grouped by region/specialty), creating sustainable foundations, better business outcomes, higher clinician satisfaction through collaboration, and dedicated client care. Achieved via aligned incentives and lock-step partnerships—not franchising—this forms a constellation of high-powered, human-centered teams. This bridges my passions of organizational psychology & psychotherapy, empowering resilience and impact for clinicians and clients.

In organizational psychology, I operate Social Capital Holdings, consulting Fortune 500/1000 firms on efficiency and performance. Now, I focus on engaged partnerships in businesses like Midsommer and others, strengthening systems, leadership, and operations.

While devoting time to psychotherapy a few days weekly and advancing ventures, my deepest passion is Social Capital Foundation. As President of this 501(c)(3) healthcare endowment, I tackle generational health needs, leveraging my success to innovate solutions benefiting practitioners and clients. We streamline operations to keep 100% of donations intact, supporting healthcare individuals and organizations.

Founder & Principal

Focused on scaling and rebuilding organizations

Service Lines:
-Organizational Consulting (Organizational Effectiveness & Development)
-Advising for startup organizations
-Turning around failing or distressed businesses
-Support Midsized to Largesized organizations becoming more effective and performative 
-Executive Coaching

*Coming 2023 the PPC Leader Academy focusing on providing straightforward ways for high performing leaders to increase performance and effectiveness. Academy is based on Psychotherapy & Organizational Psychology principles to help leaders break through internal and external barriers of success.

Spencer R. Potesta

Proud of you Carly and very excited for the journey!

I’m excited to share a meaningful milestone in my work. ✨

After two and a half years of running my solo private practice, I’m expanding into a group practice (name still in processing) dedicated to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care for OCD & anxiety across the Capital Region and greater Upstate New York.

I’m profoundly grateful for the opportunity to support this community — to offer resources, education, and specialized treatment in an area that has long been under-resourced for OCD and anxiety care. 🌿 

This next chapter is about deepening that mission: expanding access, building a strong clinical community, and bringing even more hope and expertise to those who need it most.

And with that, we’re hiring! 
 If you’re passionate about evidence-based treatment, collaborative clinical culture, and helping individuals reclaim their lives from OCD and anxiety, I’d love to connect. 

All key details are in the graphic, please reach out with any questions or interest! 

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Freelance

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Virtual Administrative Assistant

World Literacy Foundation

- Diligently monitor and systematically respond to all incoming communications, including comments, inbox messages, and direct messages, received.

- Contribute to the strategic planning of upcoming social media activities to optimize engagement metrics.

- Actively participate in a shared digital document environment, contributing to the organization and tracking of social media activities and communications.

- Ensure timely, accurate, and brand-aligned responses, maintaining a positive and informative online presence.

Community Engagement Manager

United Nations Volunteers

Volunteer

KEDI HEALTHCARE

- customer education/relationship building
-Product awareness and team management 
-Facebook ad management

Customer Service Representative

Virtual Assistant to business owners | Admin task, Social media support, repetitive task, off your hands.

Hello, there. 
Nice to meet you, I am Daniel.


I believe you started your business because you wanted freedom.
Freedom to work on your time, do what you love, and actually enjoy some rest.

But Now ?
You're carrying the whole load.
You're working harder and longer, yet it still feels like there's no end in sight.
And honestly? 
That's exhausting.

But doing everything doesn't mean you're winning.
Sometimes, it just means you're stressed.

When you try to handle everything:

- You lose time for the things (and people) that matter most.
- You feel stuck, even while working nonstop.
- You burn out before you even reach your goals.

There's another way.

Here's what I learned:
Growing a business isn't about doing everything.
It's about focusing on the "important" tasks and letting go of the rest.

Think about this:

- What's really helping my business grow?
- What's taking my time but giving me nothing back?

And I've walked this same path.
After burning out completely in my own business, I now help 6 figure business owners build Virtual Admin systems that boost productivity by 30% and save 25+ hours weekly.

And here's the thing?
You don't just change your business.

You also save yourself.

Ready to stop managing every detail and start leading your vision ?

Send a DM now and Fix it.

Sanutu Daniel

Do you link delegation to hitting revenue targets?

"I'll get help when I reach $251k." 
Then $401k. 
Then $500k. 
Then 1 million.

The goalpost keeps moving because revenue feels easier to track than your actual capacity.

I saw this repeatedly in parts of the nonprofit sector.Each success added layers of coordination, reporting, and tracking. The same few people handled it all.

The mission was always clear. 
The structure supporting it rarely was.
Programs grew faster than the systems behind them. 

The cost wasn't just exhaustion. 
It was losing momentum.
Progress looked strong from the outside. Inside, the capacity to sustain it was disappearing.

When growth compounds, complexity does too:
- More impact needs more coordination.
- More coordination creates more tasks.
- More tasks pull you deeper into maintenance instead of leadership.

The organizations that kept expanding built leverage early. 
- Through documentation. 
- Delegated ownership. 
- Systems that let impact grow without constant hands-on management.
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Let's build stronger operations:
Operations System Design: smooth backend systems that keep your business healthy.

Executive Virtual Support: clear your focus for strategy, clients, and building.

Scale Without Burnout: get back 23+ hours weekly and grow.

You close deals. I close the rest | Virtual assistant for founders ready to delegate operations to focus on deals.

Sanutu Daniel talks about Delegating to a VA and it's benefits to soloprenuers, coaches and founders.
"I'll delegate when I hit $200k ."Then it's $350k.Then $500k.Then a million.

The goalpost keeps moving because you are using revenue as an excuse.

Here is what actually happens at every milestone:
- More revenue means more complexity.
- More complexity means more tasks.
- More tasks means you are even more buried than before.

Your competitors aren't waiting for bigger numbers:
They delegated at $100k and scaled faster because of it
They are building million dollar businesses with your revenue using half your hours.

The milestone logic is backwards:
Delegation doesn't come after growth,
delegation creates the growth.

You are blocking your own scale by waiting

Here's the actual cost right now:
Every week you wait is another week of stunted revenue.
Every task you hold is another strategic opportunity you miss.
Every hour doing grunt work is another hour your competition pulls ahead

“I’ll delegate when things slow down.”


 “I don’t have time to explain how to do things.”

That’s not capacity talking, that’s busyness acting as a shield.

The busy trap works perfectly:
 - Too busy to delegate.
 - Not delegating keeps you busy.
 - Being busy justifies not delegating.
  Repeat until burnout.

When I worked on operational design for a fitness industry project, I saw this pattern everywhere.
- Founders doing admin at midnight.
- Trainers handling logistics between sessions.
 Everyone waiting for “when it gets calm.”
But it never did.

The ones who created breathing room didn’t wait.

They delegated the repetitive work early,
documented simple processes, and bought back their focus.

They didn’t just grow faster, they sustained it.

Here is the real paradox:
1. Busyness doesn’t delay delegation; it demands it.
 2. Training once beats doing it forever.
 3. The return shows in weeks, not years.

And the cost of staying busy?
 - Health, because your pace is unsustainable
- Relationships, because you never clock out
- Growth, because you have hit capacity

Stop waiting for slow.
Pick your most repeated task and hand them off.
Start there.



image source - London School of management education 

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Happy new month. Four weeks left in 2025.

Are still doing work you should've delegated six months ago?. 
That's the actual Problem.

Send me a Dm before January let's build stronger operations:

smooth backend systems that keep your business healthy.

clear your focus for strategy, clients, and building.

get back 23+ hours weekly and grow.

London School of management discus delegating.

The Concept of Delegation
Delegation involves entrusting work, responsibility and authority by a leader or a head of a team to a subordinate in the bid to hold the accountability of the outcome of the performance. This implies assigning a level of decision making autonomy and encourages performance of a given task to achieve a desirable outcome. Delegation is also an important function in every organization and in the educational setting. Delegation enables management to make the best use of their time and skills as well as ensuring that staff and subordinates are assisted in their growth and development whilst building trust and confidence as well as increasing the amount of expected work to be completed 

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