Part of our service to our clients comes back to following evidence-based practices. In the era of social media, that also means we need to sift through a massive amount of inaccurate information and help our clients do the same. It’s your job as a leader to sift through all of that, design services that are in-line with best practices, and create a “master plan” that allows you to complete all the steps to make it happen. This means that you need to be continually building your critical thinking skills and honing your “BS radar” so you can identify what is and isn’t useful to your caseload. In this episode, I mentioned that I’m about to open the doors to my Clinical Leadership program. This program is designed to help pediatric therapists be better leaders, so they can make a bigger impact with their services. If you’re a therapist or an educator working with kids, and you want to think bigger about how you serve your caseload, community, and your field, then this program is for you. You can join the waiting list here to be notified when program enrollment is open. The De Facto Leaders podcast was formerly the “Are they 18 yet?®” podcast. As of November 2022, the name of the show has changed, and we’ve shifted from a focus on parenting to a focus on supporting clinicians and educators to design effective services for kids (but parents are still welcome to listen). Episodes published before November 24, 2022 will still contain some of our old branding.