29: Your Private Practice & the Travel Test

Let’s face it, we all want (and need) to get away from time to time so that we can relax and spend time with our family. But when you’re in business, you may not get paid if you’re not seeing patients. In this episode, I discuss the travel test and why it is important that you pass this important milestone in speech therapy private practice.

In this episode:

02:40 – Answering Nancy’s Question on the Podcast

05:35 – All Access Community

08:15 – The Travel test and Why is it Important?

11:25 – Staying Profitable

12:04 – Avoiding This Big Mistake: Owning Your Own Job

13:40 – The Difference Between a Job and Business

14:50 – Being Proactive

Now when I say just open up a business and leave, I think some people may get the wrong idea. This is not like just get rich quick and hire a bunch of people and just hope it works. No we’re talking about providing good solid treatments for the patients, having a wonderful place to work with the employees, offering those employees wonderful health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401k with a match paid time off paid vacations. I mean the employees are very important you have to take care when you have your own business and employees you’ve got to take care of people.

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Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 29. 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.

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Now I wanted to jump in on this episode and answer a question there’s a listener. Her name is Nancy. She sent me an email. More specifically speak pipe through the contact web page www.privateslp.com. You’re able to send me a voicemail so she had some questions and let’s listen to that now. “Hi Kyle, My name is Nancy. I’m currently I’m a full time bilingual SLP. So I just I’m really wanting to do my own thing. I think I would love it. I think I’d be great at it. I have a good feeling that this is what I want to do in the next few years so specifically with the next six months I want to get something go and pick up my first client. So I just have a few questions – Where do I find informa...