30: Encouragement – The Fuel for Speech Therapy Private Practice Growth

When starting a speech therapy private practice, we need to have lots of hope to start (and grow) the business. Alfred Adler said, “Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.” In this 30th episode, I start out by answering two questions from the listening community and then continue the podcast by encouraging the listening audience to remain persistent and driven and never give up! We all have a choice: We can either choose to make the speech therapy private happen, or choose to give up.

In this episode:

01:35 – Over 22,019 listeners

03:05 – Answering a listener Email

05:06 – Keeping a separate accounting log for the business

05:35 – Tracking expenses

09:29 – Legal standpoints for speech therapy private practice

12:48 – Employees: It’s about relationships

14:18 – Old Tucson Studios

21:28 – The right way to start a speech therapy business

You know I come from the point of view that when I hire a therapist when I hire somebody to work with me not for me. Yes I own the company, we have many people who work together and we serve our patients. But I’m not just looking for someone to come into the clinic and just bill and see patients. I’m looking for relationships and I talked about that in a previous episode. It’s all about relationships. And when I make sure that I’m providing the best possible treatments speech and occupational therapy treatments for these families that come to our clinic I know I’m going to attract very good solid people because when I do the right thing good things are going to happen.

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Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 30. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech pathologist since 1993 and these podcasts are designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast at a time.

Welcome back to the show everyone. Today is Thursday September 28 2017. And as of today we have over 22,019 listeners to the show and I’m glad you’re out there and I really hope that you’re getting good valuable free information from these podcasts because again if you’re just starting out and you just happen to find us, welcome and I hope you have a good solid pleasant private practice journey. And I’m here to help you along the way.

When I started out there wasn’t much out there on Private practice and Speech therapy private practice so I started to do a podcast and to make a lot of information available through blog posts and audio so I hope you find this information valuable. And if you do if you’re getting value out of this please go to the iTunes store or the Google Play platform and leave some five-Star feedback that way other people will find us easier and I know you guys are out there listening. As of today when I look at the geography of all of our listeners around the world for that matter the United States is at the top, then there’s Japan then Australia, the U.K, Canada, Germany, India, South Africa, Singapore; now when you break it down into states on the U.S. side we’ve got California topping then Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. So I hope you guys are enjoying the podcast and thanks for being. Thanks for being out there and ask me these good questions s...