6: Six Principals For Business Growth

If starting and running a speech therapy private practice were easy, everybody would be doing it. Winston Churchill was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He acknowledges six important principals that are important for success, and I relate these principals to speech therapy private practice.

In this episode:

01:20 – Value is what you get in the absence of money

03:06 – Feedback helps everyone

03:21 – Approved for the Google platform

03:46 – Recent comment and question answered on the podcast

05:33 – Freedom with your speech therapy private practice

06:30 – Drive and enthusiasm is what it takes to succeed

06:50 – Membership site for speech therapy private practice

07:45 – Analysis paralysis – Do the opposite —> Take Action

10:06 – Crack heads and rocks through windows

11:01 – Failures lead to success

12:18 – Honesty and hard work

12:46 – When your green, you grow; When you’re ripe, you rot

13:30 – Focus on what’s in front of you

14:50 – Be concerned about action; Take small steps

14:36 – Keep it real and lighten up

14:40 – Stay optimistic

14:50 – Be positive

15:15 – Persistence

14:56 – Don’t lose your enthusiasm

15:50 – Most things that we worry about never happen

Transcription of Episode Six:

If this were very easy everybody and their mom would be doing it.

Well hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech Therapy private practice Startup podcast this is episode number 6. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech and language pathologist since 1993 and this podcast – The Speech Therapy private practice Startup podcast is designed for all you speech pathologist out there who want to start your very own speech therapy private practice.

Now, I remember starting my own business a few years back and I looked online and all I could find was a PDF download here or a little web page here and some general information. But I want this to be valuable for you all. And number one I want to say thank you for allowing me to talk to you today. I appreciate your time and because of that I want to give you valuable information.

Valuable information in the absence of money is where you get your value, and this podcast is absolutely free for you and I’m going to share with you all these things that go on in the day to day workings of a speech therapy clinic.

Now we have an outpatient clinic here in Tucson Arizona. We also have a home health company in Tucson. And, between those two businesses we have approximately 1200 patients per month and 23 to 24 full and part time employees who help out. So between all of those people and all those patients we’re getting good at what we do and I want to give you valuable information, so that’s what I’m doing with this podcast today.

I want you to hear a comment I received on privateslp.com that’s the website where you can reach me, it’s kind of my portal. You can go there to the Contact Me section and you can go to the very bottom of that privateslp.com website. You can use speak type application. It’s at the bottom you can click it and record from your own laptop or computer there and I’ll get the message instantly to my email address and I will read your question online here on the podcast so other listeners out there can gain more insightful information too.

So if you want to contact me that way you can just again go to the contact section of privateslp.com, at the very bottom there’s a speak type application. You can also email me directly [email protected], I’ll get your email that way or you can leave a comment on privateslp or simpl...