2: Are You Ready For Speech Therapy Private Practice?

Are you really ready to start your own private practice?  Some say, “yes” and don’t fully understand what’s involved the operation of a speech therapy private practice.  In this episode, you’ll learn about our private practice and gain some insight to the daily tasks of a clinic owner.

This podcast was recorded in  beautiful San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico.  During the recording, you may hear some rain and some some wind. As a matter of fact, at the time of this recording I didn’t even realize that Tropical Depression 16E was passing right over us.  Being a South East Louisiana native, it appears that Hurricanes and severe weather tend to follow me around.  The property manager even nicknamed me, “Storm Man”.

                                   San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico

In this episode:

1:47 – Taking quality time

4:10 – A wonderful business that affords a great lifestyle

4:30 – Serving others and enjoying really good quality time together

5:21 – The many parts of a speech therapy private practice

6:13 – People dislike “flaky” people

6:42 – Three steps you must complete in order to start your speech therapy practice correctly

9:30 – Why I use the UPS Store for my mailing address

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Transcription of Episode 2:

What makes a good private practice is compassion and effective quality, valuable treatments for your patients, and you can’t be flaky.  Because when you’re flaky, people don’t want to come back to you.   Well, hello everyone! You’re listening to the speech therapy private practice start up podcast. This is episode number 2. I’m your host Kyle Meades and I am a speech and language pathologist since 1993 and in 2008, I opened up my very own speech therapy private practice. I started by myself and I started out servicing clients in the home.   We currently,  as of this recording see approximately 1200 patients per month and employ 24 part-time and full-time speech language pathologist, speech therapy assistants, occupational therapist and certified occupational therapy assistants here in the Tucson area. We do excellent work and we’re just so happy to be able to serve others and help other kids and adults to achieve their communication and find motor goals and it’s just a wonderful privilege to help others.

And all of that being said, it’s great to help others and it’s wonderful to help other families but we have to take time-I have to take time for myself. And that’s one of the reasons you’re listening to this podcast now because this is being recorded in beautiful San Carlos, Mexico. And for those people out there who aren’t really familiar with this part of the world, in the South West part of the United States, about 5 hour’s straight South of Tucson, you’re going to get to Mexico and on the Western side of Mexico, is a beautiful area on the water and it’s called San Carlos. So, that’s where we are for the last four days.

One of the reasons i’m doing this, is, number 1, I need a break. Because we have just been able to serve so many people and I’m just really tired and on top of being a full-time dad,