Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast

Welcome PrivateSLP listeners to Episode 54! Today we are talking with Leanne Sherred, CCC SLP, founder and speech pathologist from expressable.io.   In today’s interview, We will find out exactly why Leanne Started her own business as we talk about the following: * Venturing out and starting expressable.io, * The rewards and challenges of starting a private practice from scratch, * Things expressable.io has forced Leanne to tackle head on like billing, to scheduling, to taxes, to practice management, * Why Leanne decided to be a cash-only practice, and how this can be extremely liberating for other speech therapists, * How expressable.io supports entrepreneurial therapists with our self-referral model, * Tips for therapists thinking about making the entrepreneurial plunge.   In this Episode: 01:23 – Over 68,912 listeners to this show 02:28 – Going to talk to Leanne Sherred, founder of expressable.io 04:11 – Introducing Expressable, a Teletherapy provider 07:10 – Trying to match families or individual with Therapist 08:38 – Not dealing with insurance 09:52 – Our billing works like a subscription 22:56 – Therapists find it a really enjoyable experience as well 25:34 – Consultation is important 26:36 – Don’t have to wait for all that approval DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION I coach a lot of SLPs and OTs for that matter in our all access community at privateslp.com. And we’re always talking about marketing and how to drive business and traffic to our websites and to our practices, into our clinics. And, that’s one thing that I always talk about to our members is, this stuff does take time. It’s not happening overnight and not everyone can do this. Not everybody is cut out to start and grow and scale their own businesses because I think it takes a special person to make things happen. [Commercial] Well, hello everyone. You’re listening to the speech therapy, private practice startup podcast. This is episode number 54. My name is Kyle Medes 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. Thanks again for all the emails and questions. And as of today, today’s Thursday, June 11th 2020. We have well over 68,912 listeners to this show. And I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good, valuable information. And if you wouldn’t mind, please go to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some good five star feedback that way other people just like you can get the same valuable information. And if this is your first episode, welcome to the show. You can gladly start out at episode number one and work your way through all the episodes. And hopefully here you’ll find all the tips and tricks you need to start, grow and scale your own Speech therapy private practice. But if you need some more help, I’m here to help you. I have a group of people that I help online, and that is at privateslp.com/coaching. And there’s two selections there. You can simply access the All Access Community and work with me hand in hand in our online platform. And you can also have weekly coaching calls with me as the Perfect student. So those choices are right there for you there. So if you need my help, I’m there to help you. Now, today, I’m going to talk to Leanne Sherred. She is a speech and language pathologist and the founder of expressable.io, and she is going to be interviewed today and talk to us and our listening community about the rewards and challenges of starting and growing and scaling her own Speech Therapy Private Practice. Let’s listen. Kyle: Hey today, we’ve got Leanne Sherred. She’s on the line today and she’s going to talk about her business. Hey Leanne, how are you? Leanne: I’m good, Kyle. Thank you. How are you today? Kyle: I’m doing well. It’s early this morning. I had to wake up and have a couple cups of coffee. What about you? Are you a morning person? Leanne: I am not. If I don’t have the coffee, I don’t know. Don’t come near me. No, I’m good. I get up and go when I need to, but if I’m given the choice, I’ll go slow in the mornings. Kyle: No, that’s awesome. I’m just the opposite. I think I was up at like 3:30, 4 O’clock getting ready for everything. And right now we have a fire on the mountain here in Tucson. So I was reading the news reports and I just got a pilot’s license. So I was looking there’s a temporary flight restriction right over our house. Some guy was flying a couple of drones, yesterday and grounded the whole rescue crew where they spray water on the fire. So that was kind of discouraging, but we’re trying to get through this, so, Leanne: Oh my goodness. Kyle: Oh, it’s always something. Leanne: Yeah. W

Welcome back PrivateSLP listeners, I would like to introduce The Perfect Student, Kyle White. Kyle is a super-motivated individual that is out to help as many kiddos in his community by providing some of the best pediatric therapy in the Philadelphia area. In this episode, you will hear how this United States Marine and MBA worked with his wife, Ashley White, CCC-SLP to create a multidisciplinary clinic with over 60+ patients in 10 short months. Together, they have watched Milestone Therapy Group grow from an concept and idea into a reality . In this Episode: 02:28 – Introducing Perfect Student Mr Kyle White 04:57 – Getting into Speech Therapy 07:18 – Google source and podcast information 09:25 – Having Entrepreneurial Spirit 12:45 – Leverage knowledge and be multi-disciplinary 17:51 – Getting foundation built 21:02 – Now is the time you want to be an entrepreneur or start your practice 23:28 – Getting help with credentialing DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Episode 53 is all about celebrating success, and in this episode, Kyle explains how he found PrivateSLP, asked for help, became credentialed with insurance plans and worked with me one on one on a weekly basis to become the Perfect Student!   Introduction “We started from basically nothing to now multi-disciplinary, several different therapists on board and 60 plus kids a week”.   PrivateSLP Intro Solid, sustaining and successful. You’re listening to this Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast with your host Kyle Meades, speech and language pathologist. Listen, learn and prosper as we share our experience and knowledge so that you can improve your business and your life, one podcast at a time.   Kyle Meades Well, hello, everyone, you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast. This is episode number 53. My name is Kyle Medes 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. Thanks again for all the e-mails and all the questions. And as of today, today is Thursday, April the 2nd 2020. We have well over 65399 listeners to the show. And I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good valuable information. And you know me, I say it every single podcast, value is what you get in the absence of money. And these podcasts are absolutely free for you. So if you wouldn’t mind, just please head on over to the Android or the Apple iTunes platform of your choice and leave some good 5-Star feedback that way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you are receiving right now. And I also wanted to let you guys know that we have a space available for The Perfect Student, and that is when you get to come to Tucson and work with me hand in hand. You also get weekly coaching calls for me. There’s also some billing and credentialing services in there, too. And so you can find out more information about that at PrivateSLP.com/coaching. What many people choose to do is to work with me online and that’s where you get access to me via the private coaching thread and also access to others in the community. And you can also find that PrivateSLP.com/coaching. Now, today, I’m really excited. This is a great episode because you guys know me and you know me well. I’m always talking about The Perfect Student. And finally, you get to meet a Perfect Student. And this is going to be Mr. Kyle White and his wife, Ashley White. And they are clinic owners in Pennsylvania. And I had the great opportunity to talk to Kyle today and ask him and pick his brain about all kinds of things, about starting and growing and scaling his own speech therapy private practice. And the funny thing is, Kyle is not even an SLP. He is a United States Marine, he’s also got a Masters of Business Administration (MBA). And he’s also just transitioned out of his full time job in the Internet cyber security space, working for a large educational firm. Now he’s working for himself. And all of that happened right here in the last 10 months. And also the bottom fell out with the whole coronavirus thing. And so he’s navigating that and he is learning how to increase his patient load from 0 to over 60+ people per week in. He’s got now many employees, speech therapy, occupational therapists and some other therapists included. So I just want you to kick back and listen to the show today and learn about The Perfect Student.   Kyle Meades Hey, today we’re talking with Kyle White – Kyle White is the owner of Milestone Therapy Group. And you guys who listen to the show regularly, you know that I’m always talking about The Perfect Student and we were taken applications for The Perfect Student and I finally had this bright idea, hey one day you probably would want

With the onset of COVID-19, I talk about making changes in your your Speech Therapy Private Practice. With sudden change comes anxiety, but in this episode, I look back at other events in my life that gave me the abilities to make good solid changes in our business so that patients can get their treatments and employees can receive a paycheck during these difficult times. Resources for Small Businesses: The Small Business Owner’s Guide to the CARES Act In this episode: 02:15 – Space for Perfect Student 02:45 – Change happens 05:30 – Adapt and Change 08:30 – Teletherapy 09:48 – Shutting doors to take care of family and staff 11:10 – Change comes with opportunity DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION I remember I was on a business trip in Vegas about four weeks ago, and we were talking amongst ourselves, some other big clinic owners and we were talking about the same thing, we’re hearing on the news about this Coronavirus. And I said, I started thinking about that Teletherapy thing and I said, we got to get ready for this. We need to go to our pandemic plans and get this thing moving. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 52. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. And as of today. Today’s Friday, March 27th, 2020. We have well over 64,836 listeners to the show. And I’m super glad you guys are out there and getting good, valuable information. You know me, I said every single podcast value is what you get in the absence of money and these podcasts are free for you. So if you wouldn’t mind, just please go to your Android or iTunes platform of your choice and leave some good 5-Star feedback. That way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you are receiving right here today. And I’d like to welcome those around the world who are listening to the podcast. We’ve got Australia, Japan, India, Canada, the U.K., Germany, South Africa and the Republic of South Korea just to name a few countries. So those are popping up on the list right now. So it’s just really nice to have you guys out there. And if you have any questions, you can also just reach out to me at privateslp.com. I wanted to let you guys know that we still have space for the perfect student. And if you want some one on one coaching with me, you can also get that head privateslp.com/coaching. And for those of you who are starting out and you are working with insurance companies, if you need some help with your billing or credentialing, you can always just go to privateslp.com/billing and I can help you there. Well, today is one of those topics that we all need to talk about. It’s really the 800 pound gorilla in the room, right? It’s called change. And change is something that happens whether we like it or not. And, with this whole coronavirus thing, I mean, I was forced to change, 47 employees, 48 employees, and we had to move thousands of patients over to a new platform and we had to do it quickly. And so I wanted to talk to you about that today. I just got off of a live webinar with our all access community members. And we were speaking about the same thing that I’m talking to you about here right now. And that’s just really how to adapt to an online platform so we can continue to help those that we serve, with speech or occupational or physical therapy or even a B.A. therapy. So, I get many calls from around the United States, e-mails, communications about people starting, different kinds of clinics. And so, we just have to get used to that change. And it’s just really a crazy time in the world right now. And it’s everybody. But it really got me thinking about when I was a kid. I remember I was in a Middle-Class home. And my mom and my dad were hardworking people. And my dad was a plumber. This was back in the 80s. For those of you who are old enough to remember the savings and loan bust back in the 80s. And that’s when pretty much interest rates went sky high. And values of properties went low. And my dad was a plumber. And I remember at that time, he had about 100 employees and he was worried. And I just remember I didn’t know what was going on, but I know that it wasn’t good. I remember my dad. He had some land down the way and he built a couple of duplexes. And I remember he couldn’t sell our house. I just remember that Century 21 real estate sign was just in our yard for the longest time. I remember asking my mom, why isn’t the house selling? And she gave me some answer, but I really didn’t understand it. But I remember my mom and my dad. And now we moved out of that house and we moved down to one of ou

2019 has been a great year for PrivateSLP, the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast and Kyle’s clinics, Therapy Group of Tucson! When starting, growing or scaling a real speech therapy private practice, one of the benefits of learning from an active clinic owner with multiple disciplines and locations is gaining real-life experience and expertise so that you can avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that Kyle has made already. If you’re going to learn, then learn from someone who is actively managing thousands of visits and multiple locations. In this episode, I review 2019 and list our highlights and celebrate our overall growth while giving you an idea of what to expect if you start and grow your own clinic. Also, the time to join my PrivateSLP All Access Community is right now before the price increases on January 1, 2020. In this episode: 01:12 – 59769 + listeners 01:48 – Welcome to Julie Griffith, SLP to the AAC 05:38 – Making Changes 06:30 – Insanity defined 07:05 – Second location 07:35 – Speech Therapy numbers 07:48 – Employees and benefits DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION If you sit around and talk about it on Facebook or sit there and watching YouTube videos and kind of dreaming about it, you’re going to get what you’ve always got. Nothing, no change, whatsoever, you can sit there and absorb information till the cows come home. But if you don’t get off of it and change and do something get into action nothing’s going to change. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 51. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions, and as of today, today’s Friday December 27th 2019, we have well over 59769 listeners to the show and I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good valuable information because you know me I’m going to say it every single episode, value is what you get in the absence of money. And these podcasts are absolutely free for you, so if you don’t mind, please go to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some good five star feedback that way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving right now. And also I wanted to have a shout out and welcome to Julie Griffith. She’s a speech pathologist. She joined the All Access Community here in early December someone to welcome her to the community. And in our community right now we just launched an iOS and Android application so the community is actually easily accessible more so than ever before. And we’ve got monthly trainings we’ve got weekly coaching calls also wanted to recognize one of our perfect students who’s doing a splendid job. Their company now they contacted me in June of this past year and this is just amazing. I was in Hawaii vacationing with my family and I get this email about the All Access Community and some questions. I pick up the phone and I speak to these two individuals and I start interviewing them for a possible membership in the community but more specifically I just knew that this person was the Perfect student. And since we’ve started working together this past June their business now has over 20 visits per week in less than six months they’ve actually got their own office now. We helped their company complete their credentialing and contracting. I helped these two individuals negotiate their service contracts and helping them with their employees. It just gets better and better and you’re going to be hearing from this company very soon I’m going to do some interviews with these guys. They’re just killing it and it’s just this is what I do this and it’s just wonderful to see what happens when people just ordinary people who have a dream, who have a skill set, who have that degree. Well it’s funny because the person that I’m helping doesn’t even have a degree in Speech and Hearing or communication disorders or Speech therapy services. This person is a husband of a person and it’s just really cool to help people grow and improve their life and sit there and have these conversations knowing that 2020 is going to be even better than 2019. I mean what a great feeling it is. I remember before Hurricane Katrina I used to take these walks around Audubon Park in New Orleans, just complain and edges ticked off and hateful. I was so angry inside because I hated to go to work. I hated the kind of hours I was pulling at this local hospital. And my boss was doing the best she could and the people I work with, they were doing the best they could. But this big organization was just sucking the life out of me. we used to

Welcome to Episode 50 of the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast! This episode is all about doing things differently to achieve maximum results in business and your personal life. To celebrate my 50th birthday this Christmas Eve, I decided to accomplish another one of my life goals – That is to earn a private pilot’s license In this podcast, I talk about something that I realized while I was soloing a 172 Cessna in the pattern at KTUS (Tucson International Airport), speech therapy private practice just is like flying a private plane – when all else fails, use your checklists, get the right training, get over the fear and don’t give up! In this episode: 02:09 – Taking some time off 05:12 – Taking up flying 06:52 – Learning how to fly a Cessna 172 08:49 – If you don’t change, nothing is going to change 10:08 – Take your checklist, follow your checklist 10:45 – Remember the checklist 14:58 – It’s kind of like in traffic 16:15 – Learning how to start, grow and scale own Private practice 17:01 – Big FIVE O thing DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION We have a checklist in the All access community, PrivateSLP. There’s a checklist for referrals. There’s a checklist on how to get paid. There’s all kinds of checklists that I’ve documented along the way. When it comes to staying airborne, I was thinking I’m freaking out. I’m sure you guys freak out too when it comes to your business. I mean I’m sure some you do but I know a lot of the people I work with on a daily basis they’re always up to something and there’s always something to learn. So my instructor gets out of a plane and he says remember the checklist. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 50. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. As of today, today is Friday, November 8, 2019. We have well over 57,000 listeners to the show and I’m super glad you guys are out there, getting good valuable information because you know me. I say it every single time, value is what you get in the absence of money, and these podcasts who absolutely free for you. So if you wouldn’t mind please do your part and go to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some five star feedback. That way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you guys are getting. I hope you guys are doing well, and I’ve had some listeners reach out to me recently and they’re saying things like, “Hey Kyle, where you been? or are you alive or hey, when’s the next podcast coming out?” All right I got you. So I have been taking some time off to myself. When I first started the Speech Therapy Private Practice starter podcast, I always said I was going to do these at least once a month. Sometimes try to do two a month but life is life, and unlike other podcasters that I know I’m actually running a full time clinic. We have two locations in Tucson. We just opened our second location. We offer speech and occupational and physical therapy services to many people here in our community. And we just do a lot of great work. On top of opening our second location and purchasing a new commercial building, it’s a little over 7800 square feet. We’re using all of that space too for Speech and OT, and one of the locations we’ve got PT. On top of that, we just had our Annual Trunk or Treat where we had a ton of kids come out we gave them tons of candy with a cakewalk and we got a D.J. and face painting. And if you think I’m doing all this there’s no way, I mean I am not that smart. We’ve got some really great people who work here for our practice and our clinic and they come up with all these ideas. I just pay for these things and just supply the canvas and let them do the painting. So that’s what we’ve been doing. We also did our annual Halloween employee night out. We went over to Old Tucson studios. If you Google that, it’s an old movie set out here in the mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona. I mean back in the day I was way out but because of our population growth here in Tucson it’s not too far out now. But John Wayne filmed a lot of movies out there and like the Three Amigos with Steve Martin was filmed out there. And for those of you who are a little bit dated if you remember the episodes and show Little House On The Prairie was filmed out there, parts of it. That’s where I took all the employees. They turned that whole movie set into a haunted house. So that’s my favorite time of the year. My son and his friends they like to do all that, and I get tickets for everybody, and t

In this episode I talk about the idea and mindset of being fully committed and “All In” in your own speech therapy private practice. So many times people start their own business and simply give up. They quit because they can’t seem to cut away from their job, or they just don’t have enough patients coming into their practice. Most often, they quit before miracle. Also in this episode I take time to recognize a very busy and motivated speech therapist Grace Tan Cheng Man, a speech therapist based in Malaysia who has an online magazine! In this episode: 01:08 – Value, Value, Value, 03:37 – Gr​ace Tan Cheng Man, Malaysia Speech Therapist 06:07 – Becoming an Independent Speech and Language Pathologist 07:34 – Required Mindset for Private Practice 09:40 – Establishing a solid foundation for Speech Therapy Private Practice 11:51 – Motive for startup 18:45 – All In 20:10 – Self Honesty 20:51 – Worried? 22:52 – Getting Paid DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 49. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. As of today, today is June 26, 2019 we have well over 51,979 listeners to the show and I’m super fired up. You guys are out there getting good valuable information and it’s free for you. And you know me I say it every single podcast. It wouldn’t be my podcast if I didn’t say it, “Value is what you get in the absence of money” and these podcasts are free for you so what I would like you to do is, just simply go to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and just leave some five star feedback that way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving right now because it’s important to give back. And when I started this podcast over three years ago I wanted to give out as much free information as possible and to do that I want to be able to drive traffic to our website and we’re doing great. When you Google “Startup Speech Therapy Private Practice”, we’re right there on top. I mean we’re helping a lot of people, I get a lot of questions during the week and I’m doing conference calls and coaching calls with people in the All access community. And they’re always wanting to know how do you do it all. Well that’s because I have a team I don’t rely as a podcaster and as a business person, I don’t rely on other clinics to show my subscribers and members of my community how to do things. We do it all here in-house so if I want to teach one of the access community members about billing we can get on the phone to have a coaching call with our billing department. We have a referral department, we have a scheduling department, we have a team of therapists multidisciplinary team of people and locations where we can help as many people as possible. That’s from patients all the way to all access community members so if you want to learn how to start your own practice, you’re in the right place. And again if this is your first podcast, welcome, start at the beginning and work your way through all 49 episodes along the way. If there’s anything you need from me, all you have to do is reach out to me at privateSLP.com/contact and I’ll help you. I get people all the time that say, I can’t believe you’re just picking up the phone and calling. Well absolutely, I’m picking up the phone and calling because I don’t like typing emails. It’s just too much work so I’d just rather get on the phone, talk to you, see what’s going on in your business and see how I can help you. Because there is a solution, if you need help with your billing or credentialing. Let me know we can help you. If you want to start your private practice let me know we can help. If you want to grow it and scale, we can help you with that too. Because with all the experience that I’ve had doing this there’s always an answer, so I’ll be more than happy to help you in anyway that I can. OK. Today I’d like to answer some questions from Gr​ace Tan Cheng Man she’s a certified Speech therapist and she’s a member of the Malaysian Association of Speech-Language and hearing. She’s a candidate member of the Malaysian Writers Society. She’s also certified in Hanen. She also is certified in Picture Exchange Communication System and Vital stem. She also has expertise in Parental training on Hanen. She also does talks on breastfeeding, feeding disorders and feeding therapy talk tools and also written communication therapies and her website is Gracetanchengman.com and I’ll leave this

A speech therapy private practice is not always easy or fun and games. Many people suffer from the illusion that business owners are sitting around at the beach on their laptops getting rich while paying employees to do all of the grunt work. This is far from the truth. To be successful in speech therapy private practice, one has to be dedicated, motivated and have serious discipline. Starting, growing and scaling a speech therapy private practice requires hard work, money, elbow grease and late hours but the payoff can be rewarding. In this episode, I discuss the discipline required to make a speech therapy private practice work and discuss some of the challenges along the way! In this episode: 02:22 – Question from SpeakPipe 03:31 – The Perfect Student 05:05 – Our Second Location 09:50 – Topic = Discipline 11:38 – Retraining your Brain 12:47 – Positive Association 13:50 – Starting TODAY 14:30 – Consistency is the Key DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION So at an early age I learned the value of a dollar and how to work. And so I really believe those experiences as a child I carried it over into my business life. So these days what it looks like I’m always up at 4:30 I don’t need an alarm. For the last three or four days, I’ve been really excited to get to work I’ve been getting up on my own at about 2:33 a.m. And got there and sit on my hot tub and I do my morning meditation. I drink my carrot juice, beet juice, I do my juicing and then I go to work. Sometimes I’m at this new office getting it ready but I got to do it. If I don’t do it nobody’s going to do it. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 48. 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. Thanks again for all the emails, all the questions and all the SpeakPipes. As of today, we have well over 48,432 listeners to the show and I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good valuable information and you know me, I say it every single time, “Value is what you get in the absence of money” and these podcasts are free for you. So if you wouldn’t mind just go to the Android or iOS platform of your choice and leave some good five star feedback that way other people like you can get the same value that you’re receiving right now. Now if this is your first episode, welcome and you can just easily go back through all the podcasts and start at episode one and you can hear all the great topics that we have all the way from Accounts Receivable, billing, referrals, there is other information on there about mindset. I mean it’s all on there and if you have any questions at all, all you have to do is just reach out to me at privateSLP.com/contact and I’ll do my best to help you. I also received a recent question from SpeakPipe and it was from a gentleman. His name is Michael and he wanted to know about getting contracts and he’s got a business in another state and he’s got some home health going but he also wanted to add another discipline besides speech therapy. He wanted to recently add occupational therapy as well to the mix and he didn’t want to do that in the home and community you wanted to do that more of an outpatient clinical setting. Now again I’m not a lawyer but I did speak to him and I thought the best way to go about this would be maybe just to start another entity another private practice name and get your contracts through a clinic based entity and just start from scratch so that way you can keep your home visits home and then you can run that separate business out of the clinic and just make that a separate tax I.D. and NPI and you can just run everything through that through your contracts and so that was one of my suggestions and again I’m not a lawyer you definitely want to talk to your attorney and make sure these things are working for you in your state in your own unique situation. So that was the advice that I gave. I also wanted to let you know we have a space for the perfect student and that’s when you fly into Tucson work with me hand in hand and I’ll be more than happy to help you work and set your clinic up and also under unique circumstances I can fly out to your area and help you pick a location for your clinic and all you have to do is just reach out to me and I’ll help you as much as I can. We are accepting new students right now in the All Access Community and you can find that at privateSLP.com/coaching and I just wanted to say hi to Darla. She is a new member in the All access community and I heard from her in the forum a couple of days ago and she was just working through all the trainings. We just recently had a training yesterday about how to maximize what you curren

Today’s episode is all about practice management software with Beata Klarowska, M.S. CCC-SLP. Beata is a speech and language pathologist who started working on practice management software and apps after listening to a professor speak about telehelth services in graduate school. Today, TheraPlatform has grown into a robust practice management and EMR software for SLPs, OTs, PTs and mental health providers. Its features include: scheduling, documenting, billing, secure video conferencing, teaching tools, reports and homework. In this episode: 02:32 – Building a Speech Therapy Empire 03:05 – All-in-one practice management software platform 06:50 – Your own Business and Flexibility 09:40 – Telepractice software 10:59 – Specific Features 13:06 – Multi Modality Learning Approach 14:35 – Open Ended Built-in Tools 20:23 – Practice Management Features 22:15 – Additional Option 30:29 – Special Promo Code for PrivateSLP Listeners DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION It kind of all started for me when I was in grad school, so we had to take a technology class and this class mainly focused on AEC devices. It also covered all over button of practice management and therapy software. And at some point and during this class our professor briefly mentioned that ASHA approved Tele practice and that one day we’ll be just doing therapy online. And so he really kind of planted this little seed in my brain and since that point I was doing a lot of research. I was taking CEO classes about a Telepractice. I did a lot of market research and I finally decided to build a Telepractice software. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 47. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions and as of today, today is Sunday February 17th 2019. We have well over 45691 listeners to the show and I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good valuable information, and I said every single episode, “value is what you get in the absence of money”. And these podcasts are free for you so if you wouldn’t mind can you please go over to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some good five star feedback. That way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving. Also if you are interested in joining in all access community where you can learn how to grow scale your Speech therapy Private Practice, look no further if you go to privateslp.com/coaching you’ll see some options there. I’m not really talking about working from home or just working on the side, I’m talking about a speech therapy empire. I’m talking about having employees, paying taxes and being independent. I’m not really talking and really trying to help people just have a few clients on the side or something like that. I’m talking about the real deal so if you want help you’ve come to the right place privateslp.com/coaching. Now today we are talking to Beata Klarowska and she is a Speech and Language Pathologist and the Owner of TheraPlatform, and what she has done is created an all-in-one practice management software platform. Now TheraPlatform.com is a practice management EMR software for Speech Therapist, OTs, PTs and Mental health providers. Its features include scheduling, documenting, billing, secure video conferencing, teaching tools, reports, homework and more. So let’s take a listen to today’s interview. And today we’re talking with Beata Klarowska and she is one of the co-founders of TheraPlatform and the Virtual speech center. Kyle: Hey Beata, How are you today? Beata: I’m good. How are you? Kyle: Oh, I’m doing great. We’re in Tucson and we’re just enjoying the 65 degree weather. I think it’s a lot different from our listeners up in the Michigan area. I was speaking to a gentleman recently from the state of New York and he said it was freezing cold. Do you guys have the same problem there and on the west coast? Beata: Not freezing cold. I’m in Los Angeles in Burbank area, so February was very nice for us. We got a lot of rain which we highly appreciate given that we had a really bad two years of dry season and the fires, which really appreciate the rain here in February and it looks nice. I enjoy it and I miss the Four Seasons so I’m definitely enjoying the rainy weather today and planning to have a pizza party with my boys. We have tent put out in our living room and after this podcast we will make our own Pizza and have Pizza party. So it’s been nice. Kyle: Oh that’s great. I remember my son used to like to make tents out of the

In a busy, growing speech therapy private practice, there simply isn’t enough time to make everything happen: Referrals, Faxing, Billing, Payments, Accounts Receivable, Follow Up, Service Delivery, Cleaning, Payroll, etc. That’s why the goal of every private practice owner should be redundancy. The question for every owner should be not HOW to do something, but WHO is going to take the task. In Episode 46, I answer three listener questions and then dive right into the steps to become redundant in speech therapy private practice! In this episode: 02:10 – Helping Others Through Speech Therapy Services 03:08 – Join the All Access Community 04:10 – Welcome Three New members 05:55 – Private practice flyer 07:20 – Private practice startup budget 09:50 – Deduction of fee for every Session 13:29 – What is redundancy 16:00 – Hiring and Training Staff 19:26 – You’re not responsible for everything DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION And then all of a sudden, you’re farming out your payroll and you’re marketing to other companies or people in your business so you don’t have to do it all. I mean over time I found that the biggest question of, how am I going to get this done turn into this? Who’s going to do it? [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 46. 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 January 26, 2019 and we have well over 44,503 listeners to the show. And I’m super glad you guys are all out there getting good valuable free information and you know me I’m going to say it every single episode, “Value is what you get in the absence of money”. And these podcasts are absolutely 100 percent free for you. So, if you wouldn’t mind just go to the iOS or Android platform or Spotify platform of your choice and leave some good five-star feedback, that way other people just like you in the same boat can get the good same valuable information that you’re getting. I would appreciate if you do that. And I would also like to welcome the new listeners to the show if this is your first episode. Welcome, if you wouldn’t mind to just start at the beginning and work your way up through all these episodes and you’ll see what we’re all talking about. We’re all talking about how to improve our lives, the quality of our lives so we can spend more time with our families and friends. And at the same time help other people get the services that they need through our clinics and our Speech therapy services. So that’s what this show is about, it’s to help you grow and scale or start your own Speech therapy private practice. And if you would like some help doing that, I have a ton of experience I’ve been doing Speech pathology work now for 26 years. And if you want to get some access to me it’s very simple. You can always just go to privateslp.com/membership, there you’ll see two ways to work with me hand in hand. You can do the Perfect student, that’s where you come into Tucson and you can just immerse yourself in our clinic and work with me one on one. Now that’s kind of difficult for a lot of people because they just can’t leave their job and take three or four weeks to get over to Tucson. But if you would like to work with me online that seems to be the easier option for most people and that’s where you can join the online All access community and you can work with me one on one. There’s a private coaching section in there. We just recently had our first online Zoom conference there where we had members from the All Access Community and we were talking about credentialing, contracting, billing in, pay rates and reimbursement. It was just a really good quality membership meeting. And so, we just finished that and we’ve got something planned for February and that happens once every month in the All Access Community we always get together and we’ll have a live webinar. There’re also private coaching sections, there’s forums in there, there’s forums and systems everything that we use to run our Speech therapy private practice in Tucson is in there. So, if you’d like to have access to that just go to privateslp.com/membership. Also, if you would like you can always ask me a question and I’ll be more than happy to answer your questions for you. Also, I’d like to welcome three new members to our All access community. That would be Kimberly, she’s an Occupational therapist and she joined the Speech therapy private practice – All access community, Welcome Kimberly. And also, I’d like to welcome Dana and Kristin who are both Speech pathologi

In today’s episode, I have a great conversation about online and telepractice therapy services with the founder and CEO of BlinkSession.com, Eric DeGrove. Eric and his wife, Rikki DeGrove, CCC-SLP started a new outpatient clinic about 2 1/2 years ago, Sprout Therapy Services in Colorado Springs, CO but suddenly realized many of their patients were coming from far away. Since Eric’s background is in programming, he jumped onto the opportunity and that’s how BlinkSession was born! In today’s episode, we discuss why Eric built Blink Session, Opportunities to Offer Services Online, The Biggest Challenges to Offering Services Online, and then Eric offers online-based Private-Practice Startup Advice for people wanting to enter the space. In this episode: 01:45 – Value, Value + Value !! 02:58 – Home Based Treatment 05:50 – Telepractice and Billing 06:15 – Today’s topic – TeleTherapy 08:28 – About BlinkSession 13:31 – Online Speech Therapy 17:02 – Easy Solution for Teletherapy 18:38 – HIPPA Compliance and Teletherapy 20:18 – Setup, Programming and Teletherapy 25:10 – Recording Teletherapy Sessions 30:21 – Speech Therapy is improvement for Your Patients 31:00 – Added Value for Patients DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Now a lot of it goes back to what I said earlier about focusing on the results. The result of Speech Therapy is improvement, improvement of your patients life of whatever their therapy goals are. The goal is not just to do therapy. The goal is to see their lives improved and so this online tele therapy option offers that a different way to achieve the same goals. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 45. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions and as of today, today is Sunday November 25th 2018. We have well over forty one thousand seven hundred and sixty six listeners to the show and I’m super delighted you guys are out there. And if this is your first episode Welcome to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast, and I hope you find everything that you need to grow, scale, start your own Speech Therapy Private Practice. I know you’re in the right place, lots of people get value here every single month and if you don’t mind you hear me say it time and time again, Value is what you get in the absence of money. These podcasts are absolutely free for you, so if you wouldn’t mind just go to the Android or iOS platform of your choice and leave some good five star feedback so that other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving now, they can find it much simpler if you would just do your part and leave some feedback. Also we have a space available for the perfect student that’s when you fly into Tucson and work with me hand in hand and we’ll show you how to get credentialed, how to bill and how to grow, scale, work on your referrals, all the things that you need to know. It’s a supercharged system to get you ready to go in Speech Therapy Private Practice. But a lot of people just can’t leave their job and if that’s where you are right now we have another option where you can get training from me and I’m there to help you. It’s the Private SLP All Access Community and you can find these options at privateslp.com/coaching. Now I wanted to jump in today and answer a question. We had a listener and her name is Stacy and she was wanting to know if we are able to treat individuals in their home that have been discharged from home care or maybe they’ve maxed out their Medicare benefits. She goes on to say that she works with adults and the geriatric population, strokes and traumatic brain injuries. She’s got referrals to see these families in their home and she knows that these folks they can’t get to the outpatient clinic. But she’s more than willing to go and see these people in the home setting. And so she wanted to know if they can pay cash and she wants to see those patients and so that’s what she wanted to know. And my big disclaimer here I’m not a lawyer. I don’t want to be a lawyer but I will say this. You want to double check and make sure that you don’t have a contract with Medicare. I mean you may want to have a contract with Medicare but I guess the main issue here is you can take someone’s cash if you’re not in network with that person’s insurance plan and you just might find out if you work for long term care centers. You may already have a Medicare contract attached to your NPI number, so you definitely want

Converting new referrals into weekly patients can be very exciting in your speech therapy private practice, but if done incorrectly, it can cost you big time in the form of lost revenue, unnecessary wasted time and most importantly poor patient satisfaction. In this episode, I answer some recent listener questions about non-therapist clinic ownership and then dive right into the correct way to bring new patients into your private practice. I also highlight very important steps so that the whole process of patient onboarding is accurate and smooth. In this episode: 01:04 – Over 39,959 listeners to the show 02:18 – Welcome Dana, PrivateSLP All Access Community 03:35 – PrivateSLP Blueprint 05:45 – Private Practice ownership, 06:40 – Partnerships 08:14 – Onboarding your first patient 09:25 – Demographics 09:47 – Insurance Information 12:55 – Privacy policies 13:48 – Consent release and assignment DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Before you go out and spend a ton of money on getting a lease, a building and turning on electricity, phone systems, computers and all that jazz, make sure you have a healthy positive relationship with a therapist who can help you in your private practice. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 44. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. As of today, today is Tuesday, October 23rd 2018. We have well over 39,959 listeners to the show and I’m super grateful and delighted you guys are out there getting good valuable free information. Because let’s face it. Value is what you get in the absence of money and these podcasts are free for you. So if you wouldn’t mind just please go to your iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some good 5 Star feedback out there, that way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving right now. And also I wanted to let you know we have a space available for the Perfect Student, that’s where you fly into Tucson, Arizona; work with me hand in hand and we’ll hope you get credentialed and set up your billing, you learn how to manage your referrals & patients, and how to bill and how to collect them, all those fancy things like that but you do have to fly into Tucson to work with me and that takes time. But if you can’t do that the next best thing is to work with me in the PrivateSLP All access community, that’s where you can find me every single day I’m logged in and it’s just a great place to work with other people. I would like to welcome one of our newest member. Her name is Dana and she is working on her Private practice and I know she’s getting good value already and she is asking many questions and I’m just so glad that she’s here. There’s over right now just 101 threads to choose from. With over 437 messages we have just different sections of the community. There’s a results section, discussion section, a place where you can meet other members in your community, trainings, there’s live trainings, we’ve got live trainings on employees & payment and things to consider when you’re moving from paper charts to electronic charts and how to double your practice in ten months even if you’re not ready. There’s things about copays, deductibles, co-insurance, how to make your Website and how to make sure you’re getting good patient satisfaction and getting good feedback. There’s also trainings on key performance indicators, mindset goal achievements, speech therapy codes, accounts receivable. There’s something what I teach called the BTS principle, that’s behind the scenes. There is just a ton of information and that’s just the live training. If you keep looking in the community you’re going to see things about marketing insurance, what I call the PrivateSLP blueprint. Also the referral roadmap how to just supercharge your private practice and get those referrals coming in. Also new patient intake courses and MPI trainings, even how to set up your phone systems, computers and all that stuff. This forms and their media releases on financial hardships, contracts that I use on a daily basis for my own business. There’s a place in a section in there called for the chart, their super bills, daily note forms, case history forms, home programs, time spreadsheets, visit payment authorization, tracking sheets and visit logs. All that’s in the PrivateSLP All Access Community, and all you have to do is sign up and you’ve got immediate access to all these things plus me and I’m here to help

Many people do quite well as a single provider in their speech therapy private practice. However, you’ll soon realize that there are only so many hours in a day, and that you can only see only so many patients during the week. With all of the other duties involved in a private practice, it can be very difficult to do everything yourself. If this sounds familiar, it may be the right time to scale your speech therapy private practice and grow a team, but this can be tricky, and if done incorrectly, it can be devastating. If it’s done right, it can be one of the biggest rewards in your career, resulting in patients getting valuable assistance while providing jobs for others! In this episode, I discuss the 4 key components in scaling your speech therapy business and discuss other aspects to consider when scaling and growing a team. In this episode: 01:04 – Over 37,718 listeners to the show 02:03 – Space available for the Perfect student 03:26 – How to build, scale and grow Speech therapy private practice 04:35 – How do you get paid for your services 05:14 – Standard Operating Procedures 06:02 – Invest profits back into your business in the form of a team 06:53 – Don’t scale when you don’t have core set in stone 09:12 – Infrastructure is very important when you’re scaling DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION When we look at its basic form we’ve got to have what’s called an offer that converts if we don’t have an offer that converts into a patient or a customer we really don’t have a business. [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 43. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. And as of today, today is Sunday September 16, 2018. We have well over 37,718 listeners to the show and I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good free valuable information. And if this is your first episode to the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup podcast, Welcome, I hope you get everything that you’re looking for in these podcasts. Also, head on over to your iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some good 5-star feedback. And that’s going to help not only us as a whole but it’s going to help other people just like you get the same valuable information like you’re getting right now. So, go ahead and do that that will help us a lot here at the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast. Also, I also wanted to tell you we do have a space available for the Perfect student. If you go to privateslp.com/coaching, you’ll find two options there one is where you can fly in to Tucson. And it’s kind of like getting pushed into a big deep end of a swimming pool 12 feet, 15 feet, 20 feet whatever. You got the idea. Once you’re thrown into it, you’re going to learn superfast. You’re going to see how we bill it, collect it, document, schedule, handle referrals. We’re going to help you get credentialed. All that stuffs included, but it does take time and that means you’ve got to physically get on a plane, get in a car, get to sign work with those hand in hand and we’ll show you. But it does take commitment and it’s not free. If it’s something that interest you though please reach out. Also, if that doesn’t work for you what most people find more helpful is learning online. That’s the All Access Community at www.privateslp.com, just wanted to say hi to Christy who just recently joined. She’s a clinic owner in Texas and she’s got a thriving business over there and she’s scaling at this moment. She’s bringing a lot to the community and we’re also helping each other out. So, it’s nice to have not only people who are just starting out but people who have a thriving business who want to learn about scaling and growth. So, which brings me to today’s topic and that’s how to build a team and also scaling grow a Speech therapy private practice. Now when we look at its basic form we’ve got to have what’s called an offer that converts if we don’t have an offer that converts into a patient or a customer we really don’t have a business. So, at its simplest purest form you’ve got to have an offer that converts. Now what is the offer? For a Speech pathologist that could be maybe someone who deals with fluency issues or maybe a Voice Speech Pathologist who specializes in voice or dysphagia swallowing disorders or you might be one of those gurus who work on AAC devices or maybe someone who specializes in autism and social groups or you might be a pediatric facility who works w

In Episode 42, I speak with Roy Harmon over at Fusion Web Clinic and discuss the ins and outs of a speech therapy private practice. There many advantages to owning your own private practice, but there are some negatives, too. All of these aspects are discussed in this interview. Fusion Web Clinic also has a pediatric therapy giveaway for the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast Listeners and you can register for that right here. In this episode: 01:18 – If you do it right, it’s something that can change your life 02:05 – Name that can showcase services in community and that will grow with business 06:58 – You don’t have to have an LLC if you want to see some people on the side 09:25 – Main thing is to create relationships 10:15 – The best person to introduce yourself to any doctor’s or physician’s office is Referrals Clerk 11:45 – When you meet people don’t try to sell it, be yourself 14:58 – Nobody’s going to audit you because you’re not billing out insurance companies 19:46 – I don’t like working for anybody else but myself 24:46 – It’s my responsibility to make sure this thing rolls 27:35 – If you’re not responsible, you’ll be down for the count in a matter of no time DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Roy: So, thanks a lot for talking to me I really appreciate it. What I’m really interested in is, we are a Pediatric therapy EMR. So, the people that we serve are Pediatric therapists, whether they’re OTs, SLPs, PTs and we really try to provide them with valuable information that they can use, just really in every aspect of Pediatric therapy. And one of the things that a lot of therapies in general whether they’re pediatric therapies or not is eventually I think a lot of people start thinking maybe I should go out on my own, maybe I’ll start my own clinic. And you are the expert on this so I’m really looking forward to hearing some of the things that you think people need to think about before they get started. And I know that you’ve kind of talked about some things that people need to do before they open the doors. So, to speak could you go into that a little bit? Kyle: Yeah, Nice to talk to you finally Roy. I know we bounced some emails back and forth and just finally nice to get some time where we both can talk about this stuff. This is I think important information for therapists who really want to start their own Private practice because if you do it and you do it right, it’s something that can change your life and really put you at that next level. But on the other side, if you don’t do it correctly it can destroy your finances. And again, I’m not a doom and gloom, but if you don’t do it right you can wipe you out. I’ve seen people shut their clinics cause health problems. I know of one lady she got really sick and I know a gentleman who just financially bankrupt from it. But starting out, it’s something that you got a plan and you’ve got a plan to do it right. So, I do have some thoughts on that. Yeah. Roy: Awesome, I guess really the simplest thing is if you’re going to have a business you got to have a name for it, right? Kyle: Yeah absolutely. And I’ve always said this is just personal preference. I like a name that can showcase my services in my community something that will grow with the business because I think what sets me apart from other people who were in this space. I teach people how to start a real business something that will take care of me, take care of employees, give the government their cut every month and give the state their cut every month. Everybody has something and I teach people how to start real life clinics not part time on the side, but real-life businesses. I guess people would say “headache”, that’s what a real business is. It’s not all peachy keen just roses. It’s very difficult at times and I think for me I remember, I went and got some magazines and I was thinking what can I name my business and what can I name my Website. Because I didn’t want anything cheesy. I wanted to serve kids and adults, so I wanted a name that was kind of neutral and I found that name. And I remember looking at buzz words and magazines and this was a while back. So, when you could actually go to a convenience store and pick out a magazine. So, I picked out some of these magazines and look for these buzz words like support, prosper, things like that and I finally came up with Supportvoice.com. And that was for our clinic Therapy group of Tucson. I remember this gentleman telling me, “No, you can’t do that. Your Website’s got to match your name because how are you going to rank on Google.” “Oh my god, I don’t know how to do that stuff. I never did SEO and I couldn’t do that.” This was 15 years ago and he said you just can’t do that. Well we did. Your nam

Not everyone needs to be incorporated to have a business. There are advantages and disadvantages of both situations and in Episode 41, I address these questions and give some examples why each situation may work better for some.   Want to build a high converting website? We are loving Thrive Themes! In this episode: 01:42 – Thank you for the good feedback and emails, 02:25 – Home Health and Clinic Based Businesses, 04:27 – All Access Membership community, 05:12 – Thrive Themes for building websites, 05:55 – the Perfect Student 06:10 – Sole Proprietorship vs. an LLC or a Corporation 10:02 – Personal Tax Return vs Business Tax Returns 11:31 – Tax I.D. number 12:37 – Clarity DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Not everybody needs to have or incorporate, because let’s face it if you want to just take cash for a visit and someone’s home or if you have a little office on the site or a place outside attached to your home or in the back there you have a special room for your sessions. I mean you are in business essentially. [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 41. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions and as today, today is Sunday July 8th 2018. We have well over 35,253 listeners to the show and I’m super delighted that you guys are out there listening and getting good valuable information and I’m going to say it as always, Value is what you get in the absence of money. And these podcasts are very free for you so if you wouldn’t mind please go to the Android or iOS platform of your choice and please leave me some good 5 star feedback. I recently got some good feedback from a listener and it was just really nice to see that she’s getting the help that she’s needed to start her own Speech therapy private practice since she’s been at it over a year now and she says she goes back and listens to the podcast, and you get that motivation and information. So it’s just really nice to have you on board. And also if you’re new to the show welcome and I hope you find everything you’re looking for here at the Speech therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. Now what makes this a little bit different is we are managing and running and owning clinics here in Tucson, Arizona. We’ve got two businesses an Outpatient speech therapy and Occupational therapy business; soon to be physical therapy here in Tucson, Arizona. We also have a Home and Community based like a home health type business that we run. And so between both of those businesses we actively employ over 35 full-time, part-time therapists and we see many kids and help adults every single month, so we’re really making a difference. When I first started the podcast I wanted to get this information out to you guys because what I wanted to start my own business I really couldn’t find anything on the internet about starting or growing your own Speech therapy private practice. I’ve found some PDFs and things like that but it just really didn’t make sense to me so this is my way of giving back to my listener base and just letting you guys know that I appreciate you being out there, listening and supporting me. So I try to give you guys that value that you’re looking for. And not only am I trying to help you guys I’m trying to set and lead by example by actively running multiple businesses here. So that way you can see that I’m not work in other places, I’m work in on the side at a school or a nursing home. I’m running this machine and that’s what I’ve been to for the last 11 years of my life. So I dedicated myself to this. I saved up about eight thousand bucks I think, and I jetted left those nursing homes and said, “Never again”. So this is what I’m doing full-time and I hope you guys learn what you need to learn from me. And if you want more access, if you want a little bit more guidance and you want behind the scenes in monthly webinars and if you even want a phone call with me on a weekly basis, that’s available. It’s called the Speech therapy all access community and if you’re a privateslp.com/coaching you’ll see the sign up form there. If you don’t see a sign-up form immediately you might see and apply now button. Certain times of the year I have the community open for new members but I really try these days to hand select people that I know will be a good fit. We just did our last webinar while I was traveling and I couldn’t get to my monthly live webinar with others so what I did was I was showing the members how to make a very good High Converting Website for their speech therapy Private Practice business

When we have our own speech therapy private practice, we work for our patients. In order to stay in business, we must receive patient co-pays, deductibles and co-insurances as payment at the time of service. If claims are to be billed out to TPL, Medicaid or Medicare, these claims must be timely and clean in order to adjudicate appropriately. However, in this podcast you will discover that in spite of doing things correctly, insurance companies continue to be notorious for denying and delaying claims, and generally use tactics so that your business won’t get reimbursed for services that you provide. In this episode, I expose some of the reasons why insurance companies delay or deny claims and offer suggestions on how to mitigate these delays. In this episode: 02:00 – Shout out to the California listeners! 02:25 – The Perfect Student 02:45 – All Access Membership community, 03:35 – Insurance Payment times differ from Payday time, 03:47 – Hurricane Katrina and insurance nightmares, 06:22 – Cash and the lean machine, 07:15 – Decreasing debt, expenses 08:02 – HCFA 1500 forms DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION In order to stay afloat and to stay profitable, you must run a lean business and stay out of debt and make your expenses on a monthly basis. What are those expenses? Electricity rent if you have insurance, Professional general liability those are expenses and whatever you have left over is a profit. [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 40. 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. Thanks again for all the emails, all the questions and as of today, Today is Saturday June 16 2018. We have well over 34,178 listeners to the show. And I’m super delighted you guys are out there getting good free valuable information and I’m going to say it every single podcast. Value is what you get in the absence of money and these podcasts are free for you so if you wouldn’t mind please go to the IOS or the Android platform of your choice and leave some good 5 Star feedback that way other people can get the same valuable information. Now when you go to the demographics and look at the world view most of our listeners a majority of our listeners are coming in from the United States. Then secondly we have Japan, Australia, India, the UK, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Korea. And then lastly is South Africa. And when you break the demographics of the United States as a whole you’ll see that California topping the charts. Then we’ve got Texas, Florida, New York, Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia and then Pennsylvania. If this is your first podcast welcome to the show, if there’s anything that you would like to talked about on the Speech Therapy Private Practice startup Podcast, shoot me an email [email protected]. Also want to tell you guys I have a space available for the Perfect student. That’s when you can fly in and work with me hand in hand and we will get you credentialed, ready to Bill and help you set up. You’ll have coaching calls with me, work with me here live in Tucson, Arizona. We will help you grow your own Speech Therapy Private Practice. But a lot of people reach out to me and they say they just simply don’t have the time. So I do have an all access membership community and that’s where you can log on and you have direct access to me. There’s a private coaching section in there, there’s tons of threads on billing, collections, How to Start grow scale your own Speech therapy private practice. We have monthly trainings, webinars, those are transcribed into PDF format. They have audio formats for you to listen to, video formats or you can watch those. So there’s a lot of information in there and that’s available at www.privateslp.com/coaching. Now when you go to forward slash coaching you might see an “Apply” button there or the membership may be open or close but you can go ahead and click that button and leave me your name & details and I’ll review your application. So today I wanted to speak to you guys about Insurance time. Now what is insurance time? I can guarantee you that your Insurance time is different than your Paycheck time. Now what do I mean by that? Insurances have their own set of rules. They have their own time that they pay you on. So here’s an example I remember after Hurricane Katrina. We had some leaks in our roof and we just didn’t have time to sit down and call the Insurance company. The insurance companies were inundated with phone calls. I remember the guy who came out to adjust our home and look at our home for our insurance company. He was called out of retirement. He was retired Airline pilot and he was also an Insurance adj

Let’s face it, many SLP’s worry about perfection. They want everything to be just right, families to like them all of the time, kids to come into the treatment all happy and leave excited, etc. Well, being perfect doesn’t exists – But being GOOD does! When starting out in this journey of speech therapy private practice, many people worry about getting things perfect, all of the time – “How does my logo look”, “How does this letterhead look when compared to the envelopes”, “What about my colors in the office, I hope they match”. Stop! Press GO and be consistently good and watch your business take off and flourish. In this episode: 01:21 – Thanks again for emails and questions 02:11 – Building business that will afford you ability to have more time 03:02 – We spend time every year at same place in Hawaii 05:10 – Money is not always the most important factor in any decision 06:00 – Being consistent DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION A lot of SLPs are Type A, we know we want and it’s got to be this certain way. But with Private practice it can never be perfect. There’s no way that our treatments can ever be perfect. I mean think about it there’s too many variables. You’ve got different types of families, you’ve got different types of diagnosis, you’ve got different types of children, you’ve got different age groups, it can never be perfect. But something that I always tell my employees at our clinic is, “Don’t worry about being perfect. It just has to be consistently good.” [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 39. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. Today is June 2nd, it’s a Saturday 2018 and the listener base keeps growing and I know you guys are out there because you’re emailing me questions and reaching out to me. And I see the statistics on our blog, video, views and the audio listens, and so it’s just really nice to have you guys on-board and you’ll hear me say this time and time again values what you get in the absence of money. These podcasts are free for you so if you wouldn’t mind just simply go to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and leave some 5 Star feedback that way other people just like you can learn how to grow and scale your own Speech therapy private practice. And I’m not talking about working from home or working on the side, seeing patients after your job. I’m talking about building a business that will afford you the ability to have more time and stop trading time for money so if that’s something that interest you and you would like more help go to privateslp.com/coaching. We also have a service where we can help you with your billing and contracting and credentialing. Just go to privateslp.com/billing and I’ll help you and I want to see you succeed. Now for those of you who listen regularly to the show you’ll notice that the audio for this episode is different from all others. That’s because we are recording this live in North Shore Hawaii. We’re here every single year same time same place. You know me I’m consistent, I do the same thing over and over and over. When something works, I just keep doing it. Well that’s what we’re doing. This is our family time where we spend time together and we spend it every year same time same place in Hawaii. We’re up in the North Shore Oahu, way up and this small town called Sunset Point. And it’s right around some of the biggest waves in the world normally in the fall there’s this beautiful area called pipeline and that’s the area where we’re staying right now. So I know for those of you who listen regularly you’ll notice that I was talking about Scuba diving in Maui a few months back. We’ve been working on our certification process and this time we were able to dive in a beautiful area called Shark’s Cove and what I’ll do for this episode I’ll leave some beautiful pictures of that dive. I’m always taking my GoPro with me so I can document these dives and so I will leave pictures on this post so you can see those beautiful fish and those beautiful reefs. It was just really nice to have that special time with my son. He’s 12 and he’s got his buddy Luke with him and they are often riding the bikes, having fun playing basketball and throwing football. That’s what life’s about. It’s not all about internet and YouTube it’s about getting outside sweating a little bit getting dirty throwing the ball around and just having a good time. That’s wh

In this episode, I discuss the speech therapy private practice mindset and how it’s important for private practice success. I also list strategies that help you acquire and maintain this mindset so that you can start, grow or scale your business. In this episode: 01:59 – One space available for the Perfect Student 02:51 – Need billing and credentialing help? 03:12 – Private Practice Mindset 04:46 – Pushing Boundaries 06:36 – Risk versus Benefit 07:56 – Learning from your mistakes 08:56 – Curiosity and a hunger for more 09:47 – Recognizing others and helping others 11:00 – Staying Positive 12:15 – Physical health DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Again you’ve got to be prepared and have funds for a rainy day so to speak. So again taking healthy risks, pushing the envelope and making things happen. [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 38. 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. Thanks again for all the emails, questions and comments. And as of today, today is Saturday, May 12 2018. We have well over 32,674 listeners to the show. And I’m super glad you guys are out there getting good valuable information and you know me every single episode, I say value is what you get in the absence of money and these podcasts are free for you so I would appreciate if you just go to the iOS or Android platform of your choice and please leave some good 5 Star feedback. That way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving. And if this is your first episode welcome to the podcast and I hope you find everything that you’re looking for here and if there’s something that you are looking for and you’re not finding it. All you have to do, the solution is simple, shoot me an email and I’ll help you. I mean it can’t get any easier than that but you have to do one thing and that is get into action and send me that email. Also too, I wanted to say we have one space available for the perfect student and I get a lot of requests for the perfect student. You can find that at privateslp.com/coaching and you’ll find two different types of coaching that I offer at the moment. One is the all access community that’s where you can have access to me online and we have monthly webinars, we have an online community of people that we help each other out, we answer questions, there’s forums systems, training, everything is on that platform. If you’re looking for something more in-depth and something a little bit quicker pace, then you can fly into Tucson and work with me hand in hand. That’s called the perfect student. I have one space available. And again you can find this information at privateslp.com/coaching. Also too, if you are looking for help with your billing or you need some help with credentialing, for instance taking Insurance’s. If you’re just starting out and you need help. All you have to do is reach out to me. Or just go to privateslp.com/billing and there’s help there as well. Now today I wanted to talk to you about the Private Practice Mindset. What is the Private Practice Mindset? So when you start a Private practice or grow or scale your own Speech Therapy Private Practice, there is a certain mindset that one has to have in order to achieve certain goals and it’s not the same type of mindset. Like an employee, I remember when I worked at the nursing home I had to be there pretty early so we could work with the dysphagia patients at 06:30-07:00 in the morning. We had to do our breakfast and get all that stuff taken care of and we had to be there early and I have to clock him. Got to see all my patients, figure out how many patients I had for the day. Trying to roll that documentation time in so we could meet our Rug levels and get off the clock. So you don’t want your productivity drops because you didn’t want to get in trouble by the manager. I mean that was my mindset when I was working for the nursing home. And I’m sure a lot of you guys out there what I just said you totally get. That is a different mindset compared to Private practice where when you have your own Private Practice you see what you want to accomplish and you can project it out into the universe and not get on hippie here. I’m just saying you have to be able to visualize this stuff and so when you can see your building or your employees are helping patients I mean that’s when you get into this mindset. And I’ve kind of broken this thing down into seven parts so you have to have a mind set for growth. Number one – you’ve got to be able to push boundaries and you’ve got to dream larger than large and you’ve got

It may seem counter intuitive, but I believe that some people may be more afraid of being successful than failing. When you look the flow charts of failure and success, failure is easy. A successful flow chart is more complex, however. In this episode, I address common fears of success and provide some action steps and tips to overcome the fear of success and self sabotage.   In this episode: 01:32 – 31,182 listeners to show 03:21 – Fear of Succeeding 03:55 – Flowchart for success 07:18 – Grow your reputation in the community 07:38 – Improve your savings account 08:18 – Increase your Patient flow 08:38 – Take care of yourself, physically or mentally and emotionally 10:45 – How to deal with negative feedback 12:29 – Fear of becoming Business Owner DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION I always wanted to start my own Speech Therapy Private Practice and it took Hurricane Katrina to throw me out of my comfort zone to push me into this realm of starting and growing and scaling a Private Practice, so again it’s for a specific type of person. And I’ve also talked to people who say you, I want to do this, I want to open my own Speech Therapy Private Practice and then they join the community or they start getting coaching and then after a couple of months they get a little complacent. They don’t interact with the group. They start doing other things or not being as accountable to their own actions. They’re not being honest with themselves and they kind of just fizzle out and it’s just the same idea over and over. [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 37. 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. Thanks again for all the emails, questions and all the feedback. And as of today, today is Sunday April 8th 2018. We have well over 31,182 listeners to the show and I’m super happy you guys are out there getting good valuable free information and I say it every single episode, “Value is what you get in the absence of money”. These podcasts are absolutely free for you so if you wouldn’t mind please go to your Android platform or your iOS platform of choice and leave some good 5 Star feedback that way other people just like you can get the same valuable information that you’re receiving. And I would really appreciate that that way other people can get the same help and assistance that you’re getting off of these podcasts. Again when I first started out I just didn’t see or hear or find anything on the web except for some PDF and things like that, so I wanted to change that. And as I slowly grew and improve my own business I wanted to just go ahead and share that information. So that’s what I’m doing on these podcasts. And we have listeners now from all over the world. It’s really cool to see who’s out there. United States is topping the charts, but lately the Japanese are coming up there and we’ve got Australia on the top the list. We have India, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Africa and The Republic of Korea. And when you break it down in the United States from the state standpoint, we’ve got California topping the charts, then Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Georgia. So again I’m happy you guys are out there if you have any questions or if you want to know more about Speech Therapy Private Practice just simply go to privateslp.com/contact. You can reach me there and I’m willing to help you. So I wanted to talk to you today about the ‘Fear of Succeeding’. Now that might sound a little bit counter-intuitive because a lot of people are just scared to fail. But when you start your own Speech Therapy Private Practice or when you’re growing it and scaling it, there’s a lot of fear because when you do something one time you need to do it over and over and over. So the stakes just get higher and higher and higher. And if you look at success, success is actually more complex than failing. The flowchart for failure is simply you try something you fail and you’re done. But the flowchart for success can be really complex. For example, you start your own Private Practice, you see some patients in the home or the home of community setting or your office and then you might lease a space and then you start to make a small profit. You save that money so you can hire other employees and then you hire an employee and then you save more money and you grow it. That’s success, that’s when you just opened yourself to a new set of growth opportunities. And those growth opportunities, for me those things are very scary. They makes a person sort of fearful. You’ve got employees and you’ve

Big moves in your therapy practice come in many shapes and sizes: New hires, a new lease, expanding additional clinics, paying taxes, the list goes on and on. In this episode, I discuss some things to consider before making these big moves.   DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION In this episode: 00:38 – Cash Flow – The Heartbeat of Your Clinic 01:58 – Health Insurance Deductibles 03:01 – Healthcare Landscape in 2018 03:15 – Increased Co Pays and Planning Hey this is Kyle with PrivateSLP.com. I wanted to give you some information today that you probably won’t read in any book or find online or find on a PDF somewhere or you probably won’t hear this from many gurus or on a podcast. But I wanted to give this information to you when you are dealing with Insurances and you’re dealing with third party payers like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tri Care, Humana, Aetna all those big insurance payers. Now it’s important to remember the cash flow of a clinic. In one of our private SFP All Access Community trainings recently I was talking about K.P.Is or Key Performance Indicators. And I was mentioning this exact thing on that training so I’m going to share that with you today in the listening community there on the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast. So don’t forget when you’re dealing with insurances and you’re dealing with a big move in your clinic, for example, you’re opening up a second location or you’re just starting to lease a new location or you’re adding one or two more employees. Those are big jumps those are big leaps. That’s going to cost you money. So when you are doing something like that of course you’re going to need as much cash flow in savings as humanly possible. So what you want to do is make sure that you take that leap maybe wait until May or June or July sometime after April. Why is that so? Because let’s think about this, most insurance plans have some sort of deductible. Now a deductible can be a calendar year or it can be a benefit year. Now a calendar year is simply January through December of that given year. Now a deductible year would be maybe from June 2018 through May, 2019. So that’s the deductible year that the Insurance company is going to make up. But for this discussion most of the deductibles that we see in our clinic and probably you as well in your clinic, you’re probably dealing with a calendar year deductible January through December. Now most patients don’t meet their deductible until May late April or May of any calendar year. So let’s think about that when it comes to cash flow in your Speech Therapy Private Practice. You want to be mindful of that. You want to make sure that you have cash flow when you make your move. Also too don’t forget in the healthcare landscape in 2018, if you’re watching this in 2018 in 2019 you know what I’m talking about, the healthcare landscape is very crazy right now. So we’re finding in our business that Patient copays are going up from 13 dollars for some payers all the way up to 30 dollars. Now if if some of those families have one-two-three kids or loved ones in therapy you know that for three children that can be 150 a week for therapy services. So you may find some of these patients may drop off of your schedule in January, February and March until they meet their deductible. So again think about this when you’re making big moves hiring employees or signing a new lease. And when you take insurance plans as forms of payment for your Speech Therapy Services. Keep this in mind and I hope this has been helpful. If you have any questions reach out to me and thank you for listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast. The post 36. Do This FIRST Before Making a Big Move appeared first on PrivateSLP.

Recently, a listener named Darlene emailed me about starting her own speech therapy private practice. The more I read, the more I could see that she was unsure and scared about the process of getting started. She wanted to know the most common mistakes that people make when starting their own therapy practice. Back in August 2017, I made a video post about the most common mistakes that people were making at that time. Whenever I have monthly coaching and strategy calls with other business owners, I always take notes. So in this post, I go through all of my notes and update my listeners on additional mistakes that you should avoid when starting your own speech therapy private practice. In this episode: 01:20 – + 29,930 listeners to the show 02:10 – Answering listener question 02:55 – Too much, too fast 06:11 – Relying on others 07:23 – Obtaining good advice 08:21 – Investing in yourself/knowledge 09:03 – Don’t Waste Your Time with insurance contracts, credentialing and billing – Let us Help You! DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION We’ve all seen those YouTube videos with cats and dogs who jump on a fast moving treadmill or those joggers when they jump on a treadmill. It’s going way too fast and they fall flat on their face and they get kicked off the treadmill. Now think about Private practice being that treadmill and if you jump on to a fast moving treadmill you’re going to fall flat on your face and not only that you’re going to get kicked out of the treadmill space. [Commercial] Hello everyone you’re listening to the Speech Therapy Private Practice StartUp Podcast. This is episode number 35. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions and as of today, today is March the 10th 2018. It’s a Saturday and as of today we have well over 29,930 listeners to the show. And I’m glad that each and everyone of you guys are out there and if this is your first podcast welcome to the show. I hope that you will find everything that you’re looking for when you start your own Speech Therapy Private Practice. And don’t forget the reason that I did this was because when I first started out there wasn’t anything out there like this so this is a way for me to give back and I hope you guys get the same valuable information that others do and for other people to find the podcast easily. If you wouldn’t mind just please go to the iTunes or Android platform of your choice and just leave some 5 star feedback. That way other people can find the podcast easily. Now I wanted to go ahead and jump into today’s topic and it is from a listener. Her name is Darlene. She is from Pennsylvania and she emailed me a question recently and she says, “Hi Kyle, what are some of the biggest mistakes that you see when dealing with new therapy business startups?” Now I take notes when I speak to other private practice owners on the phone. And I do speak to private practice owners a lot and I take notes on every single phone call and I put it on my life sheet and that’s an Excel spreadsheet that I keep in my google drive and so I went back through that google drive and I searched my drive and I found these important points and I wanted to share that with you guys today. Now one of the biggest mistakes with new Speech therapy business owners is starting out way too fast and just taking too large of a first step. Now let me give you an example. I spoke to someone recently who was just head over heels ready to get going. And I had to remind that person I said you want to take small steps and here’s the example think of a treadmill. We’ve all seen those YouTube videos with cats and dogs who jump on a fast moving treadmill or those joggers when they jump on a treadmill. It’s going way too fast and they fall flat on their face and they get kicked off the treadmill. Now think about Private practice being that treadmill and if you jump onto a fast moving treadmill you’re going to fall flat on your face and not only that you’re going to get kicked out of the treadmill space. So you have to be very careful because we’re all human we all see other people who are successful who have their practices, who are making it and making a good living and having a great life. And of course we want that too. I mean I saw that, that was one of the things that made me want to do that first step and start my own Speech therapy private practice. I remember after Hurricane Katrina I was out of work for a long period of time and I had a lot of time to sit and reflect and I just remember thinking about some of those private practice owners in New Orleans and seeing those lifestyles that people were living and I wanted that too. And so I got on the intern

When you work with insurances in speech therapy private practice, you will have claim denials. In this episode, I discuss common causes of claim denials as well as speak about patterns and trends to watch out for when dealing with insurances so that you can get paid. In this episode: 01:28 – Happy Mardi Gras 2018! 04:40 – Claim denials in Speech Therapy Private Practice 05:10 – Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) 05:44 – Benefit Checks 06:35 – Documentation and Proof of Insurance Verification 07:05 – Noting Plan Customer Service Representative details 08:16 – Timely Filing rules in Speech Therapy Private Practice 09:16 – Patterns and Trends to note when looking at reimbursements DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Also when you look at claim denials for Speech therapy, was it a data entry problem? Did you put their correct data service? What about the patient’s date of birth? Was that correct? Or the subscriber number, was that entered correctly? Every card when you look at the front and back of the insurance card, you’ll see a subscriber number. Also was there an authorization number that should have been put on there? And you want to make sure that there’s no data entry problems on the claim. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 34. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech and language 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 February 11, 2018 and as of today we have well over twenty eight thousand seven hundred and twenty five listeners to the show. Some of which I know for a fact from the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Southeast Louisiana area and Happy Mardi Gras to you guys down in Southeast Louisiana. Hope you guys are having a good time because every time, this time of the year rolls around I get real homesick. Here in the Tucson, Arizona sunny dry and a missing night gumbo, fried shrimp, oysters, red beans, rice and sausage. It’s crazy. The other day, yesterday at the office she says, “Hey Kyle, what’s a king cake?” I say, “Well that’s something we eat in New Orleans around this time every year in New Orleans. It’s a pastry is kind of like a bagel cinnamon roll and it’s in a circle form and it’s got sugar on top of it. The sugars colored green and gold and purple those Mardi Gras colors and there’s a little plastic baby in there and everybody gets slice and whoever gets the plastic baby has to buy the next King cake for the next party. Now everybody is like well, “Don’t swallow the baby, you can’t. No, you don’t swallow the baby. You spit it out and show it to your friends and say I got the baby I gotta get the next King cake.” And where do you get a King cake?” I say, “the best place to get a King cake is either Gambino’s bakery or Haydel’s bakery on the West Bank. They got the moist King cake. You want it to dry has got to be moist. Anyway this is some second line music from the city of New Orleans and if you hear this. Anywhere in the area of New Orleans southeast Louisiana it means you’re close to the Mardi Gras parade route. So this is it. I used to live on 716 Dauphine, New Orleans in the French Quarter and my balcony wrapped around and looked down Dauphine street down towards Downtown. And then you kind of wrapped around Orleans and you look towards Bourbon Street and the sights that you used to see from that balcony I could write a book. Good clean family fun from that balcony I tell you what. Have you guys ever been in New Orleans? That’s a fun place glad to live in Tucson right specially my late 40s. I’m just turned 48 this past Christmas Eve and starting to fill it in my hips and my knees. So not like I used to be but anyway Happy Mardi Gras all you guys. When you look at the statistics over on the podcast you’ll see around the world. You’ll see that obviously the United States is topping the charts but you got Japan and Australia, the UK, Canada; we’ve got listeners in India, Germany, South Africa and also the Republic of Korea. That’s interesting. And also when you look at the United States as a whole, we’ve got California still topping the charts. It’s always back and forth between California and Texas. Then we’ve got New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. So again wherever you are but especially this week Happy Mardi Gras to you guys out there in New Orleans in the Southeast Louisiana region and for all you Speech pathologist out there listening “Y’All is singular and all Y’All is plural” so all y’all have a real good Mardi Gras and I’m glad you’re tuned into the show. Please if you wouldn’t mind go to the platform of your choice. The Android platform or the iTunes platform and leave some

Responsibility in your speech therapy private practice can come in many forms. The most obvious is being responsible to your patients, showing up and delivering good quality treatments and working on your offer that converts. There is also financial responsibility, social responsibility, responsibility to your team and most importantly being responsible and honest with yourself. In this episode, I address responsibility and also challenge my listeners to look deep inside and find what is coming between you and your desire to start (or expand) your own speech therapy private. In this episode: 03:12 – Welcome New All Access Community members 03:40 – Podcast Review: 2017 06:38 – Responsibility 06:50 – Financial Responsibility & Social Responsibility 08:28 – Start your own Speech Therapy Private practice 09:52 – You’ve got to have an offer that converts DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION But there’s so many moving parts to this and it commands responsibility. So think about this you need to first be responsible to yourself. Now you’ve got to start that Private practice if you’re listening to this podcast I know you want to start your own Speech Therapy Private practice. You’re here for a reason. And every day that you delay is going to be profits down the road that you will not have because you started later and got on the Facebook and the Twitter and watching YouTube cat videos, and you just got distracted. Again you’ve got to start. How much of your future are you really losing by not starting right now. Don’t forget this. There’s always a price for getting what you want but there’s also a cost by not getting it. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 33. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech and language 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. I really appreciate it. Happy New Year and I hope 2018 is just as good or even better as 2017, and as of today, today is Sunday January 7th 2018. We have well over 27,168 listeners to the show. And when you break that down across the world we’ve got United States at the top, then Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Germany, South Africa and Singapore. Now when you break it down in the United States alone and look at just the states here in the U.S., California’s topping the charts with the most listeners, then it’s Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and then Maryland. So I hope you guys are getting valuable information out of these podcasts. These are free for you. So if you wouldn’t mind just please go to iTunes and leave five star feedback so that way other people can get the same good information that you’re getting. Also if you’re on the Google platform, the Android system, if you wouldn’t mind just going to your podcast program of choice and leave in some good Five Star feedback there. That would really help me and help others find the show easier so I would really appreciate that. Also too I wanted to give a shout out to Pamela and Elena. Those are two new Private SLP All Access Forum Community members. Welcome to our community and I hope you guys are learning heaps. I know we have an upcoming training in January on ‘Goal setting’, so that’s going to be coming up and we’re looking forward to that. So I also wanted to kind of go through what we’ve done here in 2017 as a podcasting provider to all the listeners out there. So I was just kind of going back through the podcast that we’ve created here in 2017 and we started out the new year in January of 2017. We were talking about taxes so I gave the listeners out there some information about getting your taxes done and getting those taxes done appropriately. Then we went into hiring employees what you need to know. Then we had a podcast on Cash flow basics for Speech therapy Private Practice. And then in April, I spoke about Attention to detail in speech therapy Private Practice and essentially that was setting the standard and being consistent, having timelines and keeping your business as a priority. And then also if you keep going back through there we had a video on the common mistakes that people make when starting a Private practice. We went into the Private practice travel test that’s basically how you are able to leave your practice for a period of time and still pay your employees help your patients. Again if you don’t have a team in place you own your own job. If you really want to be successful you have to have a team. So we talk about that in the travel test episode. Then we went into encouragement the fuel for Speech Therapy Private practice and then we went into revenue

Going through an audit in speech therapy private practice can be frustrating, time consuming and scary (but it doesn’t have to be). In this episode, I reveal a few items that a financial auditor will require from you as a provider plus give you important insight to required documentation that will prove the speech therapy visit actually occurred. I first learned about this piece of documentation (called a signed visit log) from my good friend, Bob Herrmann who owns a very successful clinic in Surprise, AZ called Team4Kids. Have you ever been audited? Please comment below and share your thoughts on audits in speech therapy private practice. In this episode: 01:40 – Listener Statistics 02:15 – Top states listening to the podcast 03:55 – Billing or credentialing services 04:08 – Financial audits 05:58 – Honesty and Integrity 08:04 – Visit documentation DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION You want to make sure you’re doing things appropriately. So again honesty and integrity those are the two main factors when you have your own Speech therapy private practice and so when you do get audited and it will happen eventually you’re ready for it. So I want to give you some insight to a financial audit. Sometimes they’re caught a post payment auditor or a post payment review. And you’re going to see when the auditor does contact you. You want to be respectful, you want to be kind because again that person is doing their job. They have a boss and they’re just trying to get information to give to their higher ups so you can get through the process. So again you want to stay calm, do the right thing, be respectful, be concerned, be honest and be forthcoming. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 32. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. And as of today, today is Saturday December 2nd 2017. We have well over twenty six thousand four listeners to the show. And I’m really happy you guys are out there getting valuable information. You’ve heard me say it time and time again value is what you get in the absence of money. These podcasts are free for you and if you are enjoying them would you please help others find the podcast easier and just go to iTunes or on the Android platform. The Google platform and leave 5 stars so others can find the podcast easier and get the same benefit. Now we have many listeners from around the world. Currently the United States tops the list and we’ve got Japan then Australia, United Kingdom, Canada India, Germany, South Africa and then Singapore. Now when you look at the listener base just in the United States it looks like the West Coast California topping the charts. Then we’ve got Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland and then New Jersey. So those are the top states listening to the podcast and again I’m glad you are here and there’s something that you want to discuss with me just reach out and shoot me an email and you can find me at privateslp.com/contact. Also too if you need help scaling or growing your own speech therapy private practice go to privateslp.com/coaching there you’ll find many different ways to get help. There’s an online platform called the All Access Community that’s where you have access to me online and we have live webinars and I will help you as much as humanly possibly can. The current members they hear from me and we have phone calls and webinars and we discuss current issues in their private practice. So don’t reinvent the wheel if you need help with your private practice privateslp.com/coaching. There is another option available for coaching and that’s where you’re flying to Tucson. That’s called The Perfect student. Again all this can be found on the privateslp.com/coaching website there so just go ahead and have a look. Also too if you need assistance with your billing or collection. We also have another service available if you need help with your billing or credentialing services just reach out to me [email protected] put billing in the subject line and I’ll get back to you. We can discuss that.                         So today I wanted to talk about financial audits. Now you want a bullet proof and audit proof your business because you never know when you get that phone call or that letter in the mail that says you’re under a financial audit. So again a lot of people out there they’re scared to start their own Speech therapy private practice for this reason alone. People are scared of big government agencies like the IRS or Medicare or Med

In speech therapy private practice, there are two things that really matter if you want to stay profitable (and open for business). In this episode, I discuss revenue and expenses and the importance of managing the flow of money coming into and out of the practice. In this episode: 02:00 – Listener Statistics 02:40 – Staying Connected 03:45 – Revenue & Expenses 04:18 – Profit & Loss 05:50 – CPT 92507 Untimed Code 08:20 – Managing Expenses 10:40 – All Access Community DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Now with insurance remember in speech therapy we bill the code 92507 that’s what you bill. But don’t forget this goal now 92507 is an untimed code, it’s non-time, it’s not time. So in other words you don’t bill 92507 by the unit, you bill one visit 92507 and that’s it. Unless you have a contract that clearly states that your 92507 is per unit. And I’ve only seen that one time. So again 92507 is a non-time code when you bill that out and you look at your EOB’s when they come back you want to see what your reimbursement rate is and then you want to see how long you’re seeing that patient for because again if you are giving away more time than what you’re bringing in you’re losing money you’re giving away revenue and that’s going to put you in the negative. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 31. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and all the questions. And as of today today is Sunday October the 29th 2017. We have well over 24,122 listeners to the show and when you break that down all over the world you’re going to find the United States tops the map and then we’ve got Japan and then Australia, the U.K., Canada, Germany, India, South Africa and Singapore. And then when you look at the United States as a whole the top state that listens in the most right now is California, then Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and then Maryland. So that’s the distribution of our listeners out there and again if you’re brand new to the podcast. Welcome aboard and I hope you find some good valuable information, if you want to start and grow or scale your own Speech therapy private practice. And if you go to the front page privateslp.com that main index landing page you’ll see a place there that says “Stay connected”. Go and put your email address in there and I’ll send you some information on Speech therapy private practice events and that may be in your area in the near future. I really don’t send a lot of emails, for those of you who’ve been around since day one and it’s been about three years now so it’s really nice to have you guys still out there listening. But you know I’m not a spammer. I don’t have a lot of corporate sponsorship. I’ve had a few people lately who want to put some advertisements on the Web site. I just decline it. I just don’t want that and I want to keep this free of charge. And for you guys we don’t need a lot of advertisements at the moment so I declined those and so again if you want to stay up to date with Speech therapy private practice and also too there’s going to be a PrivateSLP live event coming up pretty soon so you may want to go ahead and put your name on that list, again privateslp.com. Now I wanted to talk to you today about a very basic model that something I follow on a monthly basis. It’s called Revenue and Expenses. I’m going to take a shot of this white board that I have right in front of me right now for this podcast it’s my notes but I think it’s important for you guys to follow this model. If you want to stay profitable because if you’re not profitable you are no good to yourself or to the patients that you serve.                         If you can’t stay profitable you can’t stay in operation. If you can’t stay in operation you’re not going to be in business. So what I wanted to do I wanted to do a podcast on Revenue and Expenses. Now this is something that my CPA we meet once a month and I get what’s called a P&L statement, Profit and loss statements what money comes in and what money goes out. I do this every single month with my CPA and she is really smart and she’s always talking about these things that I’m going to share with you today so free of charge here we go. Now when it comes to revenue you’ve got a graph, we’ve got revenue on the left and expenses on the right. Now what are some forms of revenue for your own S

  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 DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION 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. [Commercial] 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 so I can help other people. And so I just received an e-mail today this morning as a matter of fact. This is from a speech pathologist. Her name is Jenna. She says, “Hi there Kyle, I’m writing with the hopes you’ll be able to offer your expertise and some professional advice. I currently work three days a week at a private school or have two kids of my own at home a two year old and a five month old. I just wanted to say congratulations Jenna. That sounds like a wonderful age. I remember my son he’s behind this wall here so he hears him screaming he’s actually playing on line with some of his buddies at school. I miss those and I cherish those years. The two year olds and the babies and the infants it’s just congratulations. She says I have been wanting for some time now to find one or two private clients just to see on a consistent basis on the side and leave my current place of employment. This would allow me to have more time at home and bring in some extra cash. I’m not looking to start a private practice or anything like that but I want to know how to go about billing for these private practice services. I’m not going to take insurances I don’t even have an LLC. So if it would be private pay only do you know how I would file this on my taxes and or I’d have to do from a legal standpoint in that.” She signs her name Jenna. So that’s a great question and I’m going to give you some points t

  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 DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION 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. [Commercial] 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. Welcome back to the show everyone. Thanks again for all the email and questions, and as of today, today’s Friday, August 25th 2017, we have well over 19,614 listeners to the show and it’s just really nice to have you guys on board. Now when you look at that number around the world you’ll see most of those listeners are coming in from the United States. But we have about fifteen hundred listeners in Japan, about eight hundred ninety five in Australia. Got some in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, India and South Africa. And there’s also some in the Bahamas so it’s just really nice to see you guys out there getting this valuable information. Now when you look at the geography more specifically the United States right now topping the list is California, then we have Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. So I know that you guys are getting good value out there and values what you get in the absence of money and these podcasts are free for you so if you don’t mind can you help me help other people by just going simply to iTunes and leaving some good Five-Star feedback on iTunes that way other people can find the podcast easier. 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 information regarding my state laws about licensure, any sort of insurance, that kind of information legal stuff? Where can I find the rates for Medicaid reimbursement? Thank you so much for your time.“ Okay, Thanks for the question Nancy. I’ve got a bunch of answers for you and I really thought the listeners to the show would get some good information from this as well. And if you go back to other episodes www.privateslp.com and you click on the Podcasting tab there you’ll see a list of all the previous podcasts and early on we were talking about starting up and you know if you’re ready for Speech therapy private practice that was episode number two, number three – how to transition in this Speech therapy private practice, number five – your first Speech therapy office, number six – six principles for business growth. Each one of those podcast address some of your questions and so I’m going to break it down a little bit further for you. But when it comes to your State law you definitely want to get licensed in the state that you’re going to be practicing so you want to get your state licensure and also you want to get your ASHA certification and go ahead and through the ASHA website you can be included in their pro search so that will help you with your marketing because there’s really no certain law there’s no law you ne

In Episode 28, I talk about the cost of doing business. When I was very young, my dad (who was a hard-working plumber with an 8th grade education – he had over 100 employees in his plumbing contracting company) made me work hard. I hated all of the physical labor at that time, but reflecting back now, I see how it was a very important time for me. As a private practice and real estate owner, I still use these lessons today. It’s important to remember that I can’t keep all of the profits. In speech therapy private practice, the owner will have expenses, but these are necessary for everyone involved to succeed and get what they need: 1. The patient gets the treatment, 2. The employees get the job and benefits of employment, 3. The IRS gets their tax payments and 4. The landlord gets the rent payment. Everyone involved is a winner when this simple rule is followed: 10% of something is better than 100% of nothing. In this episode: 01:00 – Seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty eight listeners 02:02 – Value of money 03:38 – Something that ties in the Private practice 03:50 – In business there are expenses 05:11 – There is always a cost of doing business 06:40 – Ten percent of something is better than a hundred percent of nothing 08:10 – You’ve got to suit up, show up and not be flaky and get that job done DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION This is something that ties in the Private practice as well. You’ve to understand its not what you get paid that makes you successful. Its what you retain and what you keep and what you save. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 28. 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 July 22nd it’s a Saturday and its raining here in Tucson which is a very rare event. As of today we have well over Seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty eight listeners to the show and I am so grateful to have you guys on the program. Welcome back to all you listeners out there, if you are new to the podcast welcome aboard. I was going back through some of the old podcast episodes one, two, three, four, it was just amazing how things have changed, how the formats changed and how the quality has changed but you know the content is still there so I hope you guys are getting that good valuable information. You know me I got to say it at every single podcast, “Value is what you get in the absence of money”. So these podcasts are free for you so if you wouldn’t mind go ahead and go to the iTunes store and leave some five star feedbacks. That way other people can get the same valuable information that you’re getting. I just wanted to say again welcome aboard and thanks for being a listener to the show. And if there is anything or any need just reach out to me at the website www.privateslp.com/contact.                       Today I want to talk about the Value of money. My son recently got a new game station. He got a play station 4, so obviously we have to get rid of the Xbox one. And he came up to me the other day and he says, Dad we can just go right down the street and get rid of that Xbox one, and GameStop will give us eighty bucks. And am thinking that thing doesn’t cost eight bucks, that thing cost a lot of money. And I said, “Goggies your camera son. I am going to give you little lesson and value.” So what we did, I’ve got a great feedback on ebay. So I said lets put this thing on ebay. And he has never done an auction or anything like that. He is eleven. So I said, “watch this, take some pictures”. So he took the pictures. I said lets load that thing upon a listing and we are going to put it there for a dollar reserve. He says “Wow wow, Dad we can’t give it away. They are going to give us eighty bucks at GameStop.” I said, “No, watch this, we are going to hit the Greet button. We are going to put a nice Xbox one with a external two terabyte hard drive, two headsets, eleven games and all the bells and whistles, camouflage controller and black controller, all these extras.” And I said, “We are going to put Free shipping and we are going to do this. We are going to put it on there for a dollar reserve on a five-day auction.” And he was kind of freaking out and he said, “No, you’ll see by the morning time.” This was 10 at night and I said, “By the morning we are going to have at least 50 or 60 bucks on this auction”. He says, “Okay Dad”. So we went to the bed and woke up the next morning. He was so fired up. Anyway make a long story short. We got Three hundred twenty five dollars for the game system. So I wanted to show him a lesson but this is something that ties in the Private practice as well. You’ve to understand its not what yo

Bright shiny objects (BSOs) are what destroy our motivation, desire and drive to start our speech therapy private practice. It’s seems like wherever we turn, BSOs are distracting us from our ultimate goal: Start, grow and scale our very own speech therapy private practice. Some of the more common BSOs are Facebook, email, Twitter and surfing the web. In this episode, I talk about BSOs and ways to keep it simple so that we can create an offer that converts. Without an offer that converts, you’re not in business. In this episode: 01:38 – Thank you for the feedback 01:58 – Recording this episode in Hawaii (from the front porch) 04:36 – SOPs 05:48 – BSO – Be Careful 08:01 – The Basics: We need an offer that converts 08:48 – Accept Insurance 09:50 – Be Available 10:22 – Be Affordable 11:07 – Be Consistent 11:35 – The only solution to real growth is a team DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION We’ve got to keep it very simple, I’ve got to keep it simple and at its simplest form we need an offer that converts never forget that. An offer that converts, once you have an offer that converts that means you’ve got a customer and when you’ve got a customer you rants and repeat, you keep doing that over and over and over and at its simplest form we need an offer that converts. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 27. 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. Thanks again for reaching out to me via email and sending me all those questions. I hope you guys are getting valuable information. I say it at every single episode “Value is what you get in the absence of money”. And these podcasts are absolutely free for you and I hope that you guys are enjoying them. And if you’re getting that value please go to iTunes store and give me some feedback. I really appreciate all those five star feedbacks that are coming in. I know we have as of this episode we have 11 five star feedbacks and I really appreciate it. Skater check left one recently now. It was really nice. I appreciate that, and yeah it’s nice to have you guys out there and listening, and for those of you who are regular listeners, you’ll know that the audio quality is just a little bit different on this recording vs. the other recordings because all of the other recordings I think with the exception of one last year when I was in Australia, that quality was awful a little bit because I recorded that one in my hotel room there in Manly Beach Australia just right there north of Sydney. This Podcast is being recorded in beautiful Oahu North Shore Hawaii and we come here every single year to the same exact place at the same exact time and we stay at this beautiful home that we rent in the same location every single year. It’s just a beautiful place here in Sunset Beach and it’s right there on the point and it’s just a wonderful family that we rent this house from. We started out renting this little batch on the back and it was about a six hundred square foot little batch, it used to be a tools shed and it was converted into a small apartment and they have this beautiful antique, stoves, appliances and like an old A.M radio. I don’t know if any of you out there kind of audio junkies like I’m, but I love tuning in to A.M 940 listening to that Hawaii local radio station while I’m here on the islands and just eating fruits and pineapple and making smoothies. I love it I just get a kick out of it. My son he kind of makes fun of me now because he’s eleven, he thinks I’m just old you know I’m going to be forty eight this year but he just thinks I’m old as dirt. Anyway he is always laughing at this A.M radio thing and I don’t know but he’s here with his buddy they’re eleven, they’re off doing what they do now so tweeting, texting, Internet, phone, YouTube that’s it YouTube-YouTube-YouTube. But anyway, now that my son’s a little older he brings a friend with him and Stephanie and I we now rent this little larger house from the same family, it’s a house adjacent to the small little batch and so it’s quaint, it’s nice, it’s a loft where the kids can sleep and it’s just a great time. This past week we’ve gone on helicopter ride, we went and saw some beautiful waterfalls via helicopter and did a bunch of swimming and doing some wave surfing and it’s just been great riding bikes and playing hide and go seek. Its good to reset and spend time with family, friends and it’s nice to get away from the business and that’s why I take these trips. Its nice to have systems in place for those of you who listen regularly, a few episodes a

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and the NOAH Principal are very important to remember as you start and grow your speech therapy private practice. In this episode, I discuss keeping notes and logging every aspect of your business on paper. You will quickly find that when you are just starting out, you are actually developing SOPs for your business. These SOPs then need to be refined over time and then cross-trained to others in your business (the NOAH Principal). NOAH is important for your business to run smoothly, because if an employee is out for any reason, then your business will run efficiently and smoothly. In this episode: 02:11 – + 13,766 listeners 03:06 – Clinic Expansion: Additional Disciplines 03:53 – Last Month’s Webinar 05:52 – Noah Principle and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) 06:41 – Tracking Your Moves to Develop SOPs 08:22 – NOAH Principal: Train in Pairs DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Another principle I wanted to talk to you about today is the Noah Principle. And when you think about Noah, you think about Noah’s Arc, and when Noah was loading all those animals on to the arc in pairs, two animals. So, you want to make sure that two people in your office are trained on every single procedure. That way, if somebody is out on vacation, or unfortunately, if someone is sick, the other person can take over that task. It’s very important. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 26. 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. Thanks again for all the emails and questions. I really appreciate you guys being out there and as always I hope you’re getting valuable information from these podcasts. I going to say it value is what you get in the absence of money. And these podcasts are 100% absolutely free for you all. If you wouldn’t mind just please simply go to the iTunes platform of podcast, and leave some good 5 star feedback for the show. I really appreciate in the last month a couple people have left some good 5 star feedback. And that way other speech pathologist like yourself can find this information more easily and it’s readily available for everyone out there. So I just want everybody who is looking for this information I want them to be able to find it pretty quickly. Also, today is May the 1st, 2017. As of today, we have over 13,766 listeners to this show, and man, that is so neat! I remember, we had two listeners, and it’s just really growing. Keep the questions coming in! And if you need to ask me a question, go to www.privateslp.com/contact it’s on the webpage there. Also too, I have one space available for the Perfect student. That’s when you can fly in to Tucson and work with me one-on-one, and I’ll show you all the details and innermost workings of a Speech therapy private practice, where you can start your own private clinic, or if you’re interested in a home health agency, I can show you that, too. We have two businesses here in Tucson, and combined we see well over, I would say it’s about close to 1700 people every month; we see, we provide speech and occupational therapy.                             We’re actually moving into a new office. This is going to be our third move in the past five years. Our first office was on Pima & Beverely, then we moved to Farness, and then from Farness we moved to Rosemont and Grant, and then from Rosemont, we’re acquiring the next-door space, which is an additional 2,500 square feet for Pediatric physical therapy, as well. So by the end of the year, we are going to be providing Speech therapy, Occupational therapy and Physical therapy as well. Its really exciting times! And there are some people in the private community as well, and they’re getting all that valuable information as well; now, that’s not free, but I’ll tell you what. You’re going to get some really good information in that community. Last month, we had a webinar on Database, CAQH database, and contracting, and credentialing. We had a special guest, and all the listeners on the call were able to get as much information as possible about getting their practices ready to accept insurances. I’ve got the team who worked on that whole webinar, transcribe and put it into a PDF format. Also you can listen to those pre-recorded calls in a MP3 format, or you can just simply watch the video. And for those members in the PrivateSLP community, if you can’t make the scheduled call, it’s always going to be loaded back into the community within a matter of 24 hours, so you’re always going to get that training and valuable informat

Attention to detail is very important in speech therapy private practice. In this podcast, I will discuss those “little things” that we as business owners do on a daily basis to set the standard of care in our speech therapy private practice. If these tasks are neglected, people will notice, and often the result is a complaint. As I work with other private practice owners around the United States, I hear similar feedback, and these similarities are addressed in today’s episode. In this episode: 01:14 – + 13,211 listeners 01:50 – The Perfect Student 03:07 – PrivateSLP Membership Community: Now Open 04:38 – Attention to Detail 05:56 – Setting the Standard 06:08 – Cleanliness 06:53 – Consistent Treatments 08:18 – Timeliness 08:57 – Business as a Priority DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Also you want to keep the business as a priority instead of losing your professionalism and having confrontations with clients or employees. There are times when we as owners, will be tempted to let that standard of quality go down but we can’t. Even if we’re a Sole-practitioner we’ve got to understand that we have to set the standard. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 25. 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. Thanks again for all the emails, questions and mentions on Twitter. I really appreciate it, and as of today we have over 13,211 listeners to the show and I am really excited you guys are out there. I hope you are getting value and I always say value is what you get in the absence of money. These podcasts are free for you, so if you wouldn’t mind please go to iTunes and leave some good five star feedbacks, so the other people can gain these valuable information to start their own Speech therapy private practice. Also I want to say thanks for the other people out there who have left that feedback and its just nice to know you guys are getting that valuable information. And also I want to tell you I have once space available for the Perfect Student. If that interests you please contact me, you can go to www.privateslp.com/coaching and you’ll have a choice their to apply for the Perfect Student. The Perfect Student is where you come in into Tucson, you work with me hand-in-hand and I will show you the innermost workings of a Speech therapy private practice outpatient facility or a Home Health agency or both. You’ll get all access to my forms, systems and trainings. I will show you how to bill it, how to collect it, how to get credentialed. I will show you all that, I will take you by the hand and just walk you through the steps. So it that interests you, go to www.privateslp.com/coaching there is a form you can fill out. There is an “Apply Now” button and once you hit that “Apply Now” button you’ll get taken to a Google form. And on that Google form its going to ask you for some specifics like your Email address, Name, Phone number, where you live, some questions about employees and insurances, about how many people you treat per month, how many patients you have, if you have a website, if you’re marketing. I wanted to know all about that so I could help you better. And that’s it www.privateslp.com/coaching. Also I wanted to announce I have launched the membership community at PrivateSLP and we have some members in there. And last week we actually had a webinar and we spoke about credentialing, contracting and the CAQH database that’s been posted into the private membership form their and its actually being transcribed by the team. I have some members in there and they’re getting good valuable information and have access to me pretty much 24X7. There are three ladies in there right now and I know they’re getting good information. We’re talking about many topics from the things that you need to start up, CAQH database, contracting, credentialing, insurances, marketing; all that’s being discussed in the form. So if you’re interested in that there is also a button to join the community. Once you click that button you’ll be taken to a sales page where it kind of describes what’s going on and there’s a video there and then there’s a thrive card there at the bottom. So if that interests you, if you can’t make it to Tucson, if you can’t take off work and fly out to Tucson and work with me hand in hand, you also have the ability now to work with me via the private form setting and you have direct access to me via the form. You’ll still get all of our trainings and training videos, forms and all the things that we use in our clinic. And again if there’s something in that form that you don’t see, all you

When you have a speech therapy private practice, you’ve got to have cash in the bank to operate appropriately. Keep in mind, if you don’t have enough money to cover your expenses, then you’re really working for someone else, and that someone else is the bank. In this episode, I discuss the basics of cash flow, AR and billing for speech therapy private practice. In this episode: 01:02 – + 11,866 listeners 02:58 – Importance of asking questions 04:31 – The Perfect Student 05:05 – Cash Flow: Billing and AR 07:28 – Closed internet communities 10:36 – Cash flow is money movement 13:25 – Importance of cash in the bank for operations 13:50 – More about 1099s + taxes DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Anybody can bill, billing is the easiest thing in the world but it’s how you get that money it’s called AR. That’s when you get the money and follow up after you bill. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 24. 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 Tuesday morning, March 21st 2017 and as of today we have over 11,866 listeners to the show and its really nice to have you guys on-board and if you are new to the show Welcome. And thanks again for all the questions and comments. Keep them coming in. And I really appreciate it. Right now when you’re looking at the demographics of the show lets say from the worldview, you have the United States listening, UK, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, Israel and the Philippines. Now when you breakdown the United States some of the Top states that are listening in is California, Texas, Arizona, New York and Florida. Then we’ve got Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia and Massachusetts. So it’s really cool to have you guys listening, and again if you are new Welcome to the show.             As always if you need some questions answered about your Private practice or if there is something you just want to talk to me about, go to www.privateslp.com/contact and there is a link to send an email to me. Also at the bottom of the page there is a little SpeakPipe application where you can send a voice message directly to me, nobody else would hear that. And right now its setup for it will come right to my Inbox. So if you want to ask a lengthy question and you just don’t want to type that out because I hate emails and I hate typing. A lot of time I just like to speak and let things get transcribed. So if that something you would like to do just go to the bottom of the Contact me page, there is a SpeakPipe application and you just hit Start recording, and you just say what you want to say or ask me your question. I’ll take that question out and answer for you. I wanted to remind you guys this is a really need thing where you can ask questions and get the feedback that you are looking for when it comes to starting a Private practice, because when I was starting out my own business there wasn’t much out there we have some PDF files we had a few things on the internet about Speech therapy Private practice, but it was very rare. There were a lot of things like on Chiropractic and physical therapy, a couple of things on occupational therapy there were a few older books out there on Private practice, Speech pathologist and things like that. If I would have the ability to work with another Speech pathologist hand in hand I would have paid a lot of money to do that. I would have gotten on a plane and travel just to see how a clinic runs, how the billing aspect works (that’s the most important thing) or how you bill it, how do you collect it, how do you get all of that money so you can afford to stay in business. I learned the hard way I had to make some mistakes along the way. I lost multiple thousands of dollars doing it my way. And the first time I did this I mean it was really hard it’s not like you open up your own Private practice Office and you just have this big pot full of money. No for me I had to make mistakes, I had to bill, I had to see people and sometimes I just didn’t get paid. I had to eat it and it didn’t taste so good at that time. And I remember like I how am I ever going to get this done, how am I going to crack this code, how can I survive on my own. So with that said, I do have one space available for the Perfect Student. That is where you can come out to Tucson and you can work with me hand in hand and I will work with you and I will show you how to set it up a Private practice, how to grow it, how to scale it, whatever you need to know I will show you all the billing secrets, all the things that we do in our Clinic to get paid. Anybody can bill, billing is the easi

Hiring your first (or 35th) employee is a big deal, and doing things the correctly is important. In this episode, I run through some of the most important things to consider when hiring your employees. I recently went through a audit at the State level for all of our employees, so I thought you might enjoy some of this information. Video In this episode: 01:29 – + 10289 listeners 02:21 – Only one opportunity available for the “Perfect Student” 03:23 – Work with me 05:30 – More freedom 06:41 – Hard work and dedication 07:41 – Items for employee chart 08:10 – Witholding information 08:38 – A4 and State Taxes 09:38 – CV and Resume 09:43 – Letters of recommendation 11:06 – CPR card First Aid card 11:55 – Medicaid billing number 14:41 – Interested in a private membership community? DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION I went to visit my boss and she was saying “Hey remember when your last week here and you were just really nervous about breaking away from your job and going into Private Practice, and I told you could always have this job if you wanted” and I said “Yeah, I remember that, now we have 37 employees between 2 businesses, we see over 1600 patients per month and I don’t need that job anymore”. And it felt really good to say that because I think sometimes she would hint at me and said “You know you can always come back” and I would like “Nope I will never come back here again”. Not that it wasn’t a bad facility or anything, it’s just you know, when you make your mind up to do what you got to do. DOWNLOAD THE CHECKLIST Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 23. 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 Sunday February 12th 2017 and as of today we have over 10289 listeners to the show and I’m really blessed to have you guys on-board. Very grateful for all the questions and comments I get. And I am just so happy to know that you guys are out there getting valuable information and you’ve heard me say it before. Now say it again, value is what you get in the absence of money and these podcasts are free for you guys so if wouldn’t mind please do your part and go to iTunes and leave some good five star feedback so other like yourself can find the podcast easier. Again I would really appreciate if you go to iTunes, take some time and leave five star feedbacks for me. And that way that will allow other people to find the podcast easier and get the same valuable information that you’re getting. Also I wanted to take this opportunity and let you know I still have one opportunity available for the Perfect student. Now the perfect student is where you pay a monthly subscription fee and have direct access to me for a minimum of six months. And that’s where you can come in and fly in and visit me at the clinic and spend at least four or five days hand in hand. It will go through all of the nuts and bolts of either outpatient clinic or a home health agency or both. And I will show you how we obtain our referrals, how we schedule the referrals, how the workflow in the clinic runs, how we do our billing, how we do our collections and our AR. I will show how to setup your phone system, your fax systems, how to increase or improve your referral base, how to bring on new employees, how to get all that paper work done, all the forms, all the systems that we have in place in our Outpatient clinic and in our home health agency. I will show you how to do that. Now you can come in and work with me hand in hand four or five days but what you also get in the perfect student direct access to me via the online community or via telephone or we can have a GoToMeeting. You will have a weekly call with me and also you’re just going to learn so much. If you want to just really supercharge your learning curve I challenge you to go ahead and contact me [email protected] put The Perfect Student in the subject line there and send that email to me, let me know where you are in your Private practice journey. Are you just starting our; do you have employees; about how many patients do you see per month. Give me all that detail information so I can help you better. Because I want this to be a good fit, as all relationship requires got to be a good fit, because if its not I don’t want to take your money or waste your time. I am looking for people who are just really ready to just supercharge their learning experience and just learn how to do this. Again I will show you everything that I know about Private practice startup, growth and scaling. I am going to show you everything. You’re not going to learn this in a book or an eBook or online. This is

Welcome to the first episode of 2017! When a new year starts, the subject of taxes usually comes up. When you own a speech therapy private practice, you are responsible for making timely income tax and employee withholding payments to Federal and State governments. In this episode, I discuss 1099s, employee withholding, quarterly filings, quarterly payments, account reconciliation, profit-loss statements, and a simple solution that can make make the whole process easier for you. In this episode: 01:12 – Over 9447 listeners 02:08 – Only one space available for the Perfect Student 03:20 – Tax Time 03:48 – Xpense Tracker 05:22 – The 1099 shuffle 07:04 – Certified Tax Preparer 08:01 – Monthly meetings with a Tax Preparer 08:14 – Quarterly Payments to the IRS and State 08:34 – More about filing withholdings DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION Don’t forget when you have a Speech Therapy Private practice and you take insurances or access plans or Medicare, when you get payment from those insurance companies, you’re going to get a 1099 in the mail at the end of the year. And it’s your job to make sure that the IRS knows how much money that you have coming in. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 22. 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, Happy New Year. As of today, today is January 8th 2017 we have over 9447 listeners to the show. I really appreciated it because when we first started a little over a year ago we only have two listeners. And you two listeners know who you are. And I appreciate you guys hanging in there and telling your friends and colleagues because we have listeners all over the world now, from the United states, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Philippines, South Africa and Turkey. Now when it comes to the United States breakdown. The biggest and highly listened states are California, Texas, Arizona, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and it goes on and on. I am grateful that you guys are out there and I appreciate the opportunity to help you and give you that valuable information so you can grow, scale and develop your own Speech therapy private practice. Also I wanted to tell you I do have one space available for the Perfect student and the Perfect student is where you can come in to Tucson, you can fly in at your own expense and learn from me and work side by side with me. I’ll show you everything you need to now about an Outpatient clinic or a Home health agency or both. And that’s where you have direct access to me. We can work weekly via Skype or GotoMeeting and have calls. I can show you all the things you need to know to grow, scale or even start your own Speech therapy private practice. But its got to be a good fit because I get a lot of emails from people who want to start their own Speech therapy private practice but they’re just not ready yet. So when you do contact me please go to privateslp.com/contact there you can reach me and I wanted you to give me as much information as possible about you and where you are in your Speech therapy private practice journey. Are you just starting out? Do you have employees? About how many patients do you see per month? Do you take insurances? Give me all that information so I can help you better. Now today I wanted to talk about something that’s probably on you guys mind, it’s about Taxes. I look at taxes as a privilege; I like paying my taxes because if I didn’t have taxes to pay, I wouldn’t be doing well. So I wanted to talk to you about how it used to be with filing taxes and kind of how it is now. So I’ll give you a little bit story, when I was just starting out I used to keep all of my expenses on this app called Xpense Tracker, and if you go back to earlier episodes you’ll see I have a whole podcast about that app and how you can set it up. And basically run your Speech therapy private practice clinic on your smartphone as far as your expenses. That’s a really good podcast to listen to. Go back and check that out. But I used to run everything through my Xpense Tracker application, so when I would go to Costco and get paper and pens for the clinic, I would take a picture of that receipt and loaded into the application there, and then at the end of the year I would take all of my expenses and email it to myself and the application would generate a PDF report. And I would give that information to my CPA and with a big manual folder full of receipts and then she would do my taxes. Now what I used to do when I was on the farnes clinic, for example I’ll tell you a little story about that, I used to go in on a Sunday when it was very quiet, there was no one

As you start, grow or scale your speech therapy private practice, you must have systems in place. Systems are a set of rules or procedures that others can learn to accomplish a larger outcome. As an owner, these systems will allow others to help and assist so that the owner can accomplish tasks. In this podcast, I will identify some of the most important systems that every speech therapy private practice should have. In this episode: 01:12 – Over 8600 listeners on the Podcast 02:04 – Private Practice Seminar in Hawaii 02:57 – Family Time is Good Time 03:12 – The Perfect Student – One Space Available 04:21 – Systems are Important to Your Business 05:38 – A Busy Clinic Needs Systems 06:54 – Goals Are Great But systems Are Better DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION That is something I wanted to stress with you guys, if you’re just starting out you want to make sure that your systems that you’re creating in your own private practice can be duplicated. That way you’re not running around just nonstop fifty, sixty, seventy hours a week. You’ve got to have help and so you want to make sure when you start you want to have the end in mind. So you want to make sure that everything that you do, you want to document it, write it down so it can be reproduced. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 21. 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, thanks again for all the emails, comments, tweets and mentions. I really appreciated it. As of today, today is December the 14th twenty sixteen. We have over eight thousand six hundred listeners to the show. And it’s really a blessing to have you guys listening, I really appreciate it, because when we started we had two. I still have a screenshot on my MacBook when I uploaded the podcast for the first time months ago. And it’s just so nice to have all you guys sending me questions, feedback. And it’s really a blessing, I am truly grateful to have you guys onboard and I appreciate it. Beautiful Patagonia Lake State Park I wanted to say thank you for listening to the podcast. I did an extra few episodes in late October so you guys could get through the month of November. November was very busy for me. I went for a week to Hawaii with my other half, Stephanie and also my office manager, Esther and her husband, Carlos, we went to a Private practice seminar in Hawaii. So I was gone for a week there and then soon after that I went on a camping trip with my son. We went down south of Tucson to an area called Nogales / Rio Rico area. There’s a beautiful lake called Lake Patagonia right there and I took my son. There was a boat only campsite so you had to get a boat, get in there, load the boat and bring everything across the lake and unload it and put up the tent and sleeping bags and food and fun and we were playing hide and go seek with another couple up there, it was just really fun. We, and the kids, we fished and didn’t catch a thing, but it’s all about the: “Uh, dad I got a bite right?” That’s a bite son, put another worm on there, let’s do it again. We did a lot of fishing and hiking and camping. It’s just been a great month of November. It was Thanksgiving but I wanted to make sure you guys had plenty of content to listen to so I threw out three more episodes at the end of October. I wanted to let you know I have one space available for The Perfect Student. The Perfect student is someone who wants to grow, scale or start a Private practice but it’s got to be the right fit. I want you guys if you need to get in contact with me, go to privateslp.com/contact/, and then you can get a hold of me there, and let me know where you are in your private practice journey. Are you just starting out? Are you scaling, are you growing and how many patients are you seeing? Do you take insurances? Let me know as much about you as possible because that will help me determine if we can work together because again it’s got to be the right fit. I’m looking for motivated individuals who want to change their life and you’ve got to put work into this, you’ve got to actually get on a plane come in Tucson and work with me one on one. But for the right person you’ll know what I’m talking about. This is an opportunity of a lifetime so it’s not free and it’s not too terribly expensive. Reach out to me if you’re interested and make sure when you contact me put the perfect student in the subject line, and you can reach me at [email protected] or just go to privateslp.com/contact. Also too, I want to talk today about Systems. When I get e-mails from people they’re always talking about “I’ve got this

When you are starting, growing and scaling a speech therapy private practice, you have to pace and take care of yourself. This can be difficult, especially in the early years of your private practice, because often you are taking care of all aspects of the business: Scheduling, referrals, accounting, cleaning, compliance, marketing, supplies, etc. In this episode, I discuss actions that we can all take to avoid burnout so that we can continue to help our clients and employees. In this episode: 01:30 – Over seven thousand listeners 02:36 – Space available for THE PERFECT STUDENT 05:59 – How to combat burnout as a Speech Pathologist 06:19 – Daily exercise can help 07:15 – Diet is important 08:48 – Acupuncture can assist with stress and other ailments 10:02 – Always have reservations 10:55 – Delegating task to others 13:10 – Avoid toxic people 13:42 – Have a spiritual connection with a higher power 14:08 – Spend more time with animals 14:58 – Have a schedule and stick to it DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION As the owner of two Speech therapy businesses here in Tucson, Arizona; I do have that experience and it’s nice to share that information with others, because when I started you’ve heard it time and time again on these podcasts I looked and searched for things to do, things to read, people to talk to, everybody that I wanted to speak to who had this big successful clinics, they wouldn’t talk, they wouldn’t share that information. I want to do that, I want to share this information with you so you guys can improve your business and improve your life. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 20. 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 thanks again for all the listeners out there who were giving me comments, tweets and e-mails, I really appreciated it. As of today, today is 18th October twenty sixteen. We have over seven thousand listeners to the show and for those of you who have been there since the beginning, it’s a big deal we started out with two or three people. It’s just growing every week and it’s nice to see when I log on to the show data and look at the statistics, I look at it on a monthly trend and it’s just growing and growing and growing. It’s so nice to help other people like yourself to build, start, grow and scale a Speech therapy private practice. As the owner of two Speech therapy businesses here in Tucson, Arizona; I do have that experience and it’s nice to share that information with others, because when I started you’ve heard it time and time again on these podcast I looked and searched for things to do, things to read, people to talk to, everybody that I wanted to speak to who had this big successful clinics, they wouldn’t talk, they wouldn’t share that information. I want to do that, I want to share this information with you so you guys can improve your business and improve your life. Also on that note I have another space available for THE PERFECT STUDENT, now the perfect student is where you’re going to be able to come in to Tucson, Arizona at your own expense. You have to spent some money, get on a plane, fly in to Tucson and you’re going to work with me hand in hand and we can work together I’ll show you all the primary aspects of a Outpatient speech therapy clinic, I will also show you how to run a Home health practice if you wish. And I will show you how we do our referrals, how we schedule our referrals, how we build the referral base, how we collect it. I’ll show you all the aspects of a thriving Private practice. I was just doing payroll the other day and I noticed we have over thirty people on our payroll between two businesses, and we see well over fifteen hundred patients per month so we have the experience to help you grow your practice. Now this is for someone who wants to supercharge their growth, this is not for someone who wants to think about starting a private practice, this is for that person who wants to really just dive in and cut to the chase and get it done. Because if you are looking to grow and scale a business this is the way to do it so if you are interested in becoming a perfect student, email me [email protected] and subject line put THE PERFECT STUDENT. And again tell me about yourself, tell me about what you are up to, give me some information, are just starting your private practice, are you just growing it, do you have employees, how many patients do you see per week, do you accept insurances, are you credential with all the carriers in your area. So let me know that information so I can help you better and I might just pick up the phone and call you, so leave a number on there too, that’s not a guarantee but I want to ask you questions, I am def

If you have employees, check out Intuit Payroll. I have used this payroll service for years. I know there are other services out there; However, with 35 employees on the books, I like to look at all of the numbers, reports and keep a close eye on what goes out of the businesses twice monthly. In this episode, I talk about running payroll, taxes, and other aspects of paying employees in a timely manner. In this episode: 01:20 – 6700 listeners 03:21 – At the base of the Catalina Mountains 04:10 – THE PERFECT STUDENT 05:45 – You will get good information 06:21 – With my payroll system I can run payroll anywhere in the world 07:37 – It gives me reminders for when I have to send tax payments 07:54 – Responsible for paying unemployment insurance 09:09 – You can send the employee an e-mail and it has their pay stub 12:57 – You’re going to have Workman’s comp insurance when you have employees DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION   If you have employees and want to simplify your Payroll process and want to automate it, definitely go check out intuit online payroll. It said payroll.intuit.com; they also have an app for your smartphone where you can do a lot of this on your phone as well. It’s not as detailed as the desktop version but the desktop version is definitely doable. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 19. 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. As always thanks again for all the emails, tweets, the mentions and the comments. I really appreciate it, because it lets me help you guys better. And as of today’s recording this is October 12, 2016 we have over 6700 listeners to the show and for those of you who have been here since day one, you know that’s a big deal, we started out with 3. And it’s really amazing to see this thing grow. It’s such a blessing and pleasure to be able to serve you guys, to help you guys grow and scale your Speech therapy private practice; and its just fun to grow. Anyway, if you hear some barking in the background we’ve got kind of a zoo at this house. We’ve kind of turned into this animal shelter kind of a thing here. My other half is involved in rescuing animals and I’ve never been a cat guy but now I’m the owner of four cats, we’ve got Mabel, cinder Kitty, Boudreaux and we’ve also got Bill and then we’ve also got two wiener dogs, one is a small miniature Wiener dog, her name is Daisy. You’ll hear her in the background now stirring up trouble. The other dog we just got last night, his name is Captain Nemo and we are Captain Nemo’s third home. His original owner passed away, then he went to a foster home and then from the foster home he was adopted by an elderly lady who actually just went into a nursing home yesterday. So we just inherited Captain Nemo and he’s a standard wiener dog he’s a black wiener dog and he’s funny; he’s whining and whimpering outside my office door now so if you hear any noise that’s Captain Nemo and when you hear barking in the background that’s Daisy. Daisy stirs it up, she’s nuts. But anyway if you hear background noise that’s our zoo and that’s what we do here, so it’s kind of crazy. I just open the front door because the weather’s nice and cool this morning, they’re probably saying good morning to all the dogs walking by in the neighbourhood where we live. We’re in kind of the north central area of Tucson Arizona. We are at the base of the Catalina Mountains so it’s a nice beautiful hilly area with lots of trees and cacti and people are always walking out here walking their dogs, so I think everybody saying good morning to everybody. Good morning to you guys too or wherever you are in the United States and the world for that matter. What’s interesting about all the listeners again we have over 6700 listeners and it is kind of neat it’s not only from the United States and Canada, it’s Australia, the U.K, India, Israel, Ghana, Philippines, I mean it’s all over, it’s really nice to have this listener base. Also I wanted to remind you guys if you are interested in being mentored by me, if you wouldn’t contact me about THE PERFECT STUDENT. Tell me what you want to accomplish in your speech therapy private practice, are you just building your speech therapy private practice or starting out or you scaling it and growing it. Do you have employees, how many patients in treatments are you seeing every week? I mean give me some background information because that’s going to help me help you better. And again like everything a relationship has to be a good fit between both parties, so once yo

It’s going to happen to us all, no matter how hard you try, no matter how many Starbucks cards you give away in your clinic for positive feedback, no matter how many families that you ask to leave positive reviews online. The day will come, I promise. And when it does, embrace it and learn from it. If there is something that you need to change within your business, then do that. In this episode, I give some insight to negative reviews and how they can make you better and more genuine. In this episode: 01:15 – Appreciate you guys reaching out to me and all the thoughtful e-mails and comments 02:33 – Another space available for the Perfect student 03:57 – We see about fifteen hundred patients per month between both businesses 04:50 – Negative feedback 06:52 – You have to be clear upfront when you talk to your patients 08:31 – We work for the public 10:12 – I’m proud of my one star feedback review 10:35 – Listening to my consumers and my family members and learn from that feedback   DOWNLOAD PDF TRANSCRIPTION You have to be clear upfront when you talk to your patients about money and fees. There can’t be any financial ambiguity it’s got to be all clear upfront because people love you until they get the bill. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 18. 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. I just wanted to say thank you for all the listeners out there who emailed me over the past few weeks checking on my family. If you’ve listened to episode number 17, you realize that where I’m from the area the area of South-east Louisiana, they had a really bad flood and my parents got affected, my brother and his wife and daughter got affected and I just appreciate you guys reaching out to me and all the thoughtful e-mails and comments. It just really meant a lot to me and the title of that episode 17 was about relationships and I do feel connected to my listener audience because its just some of the things that were said and it just felt really good. So I’m hoping you guys are getting valuable information out of these podcast and again thanks for all the e-mails, tweets and all the comments and I just really appreciate it and thanks again for all those who are leaving some five star feedback on iTunes for the Speech therapy private practice start-up podcast. I really appreciate it because when you do your part and leave some feedback on iTunes, other people will find this information too. And again I do this all for free because you’ve heard me say it time and time again, Value is what you get in the absence of money, and these podcast are free for you and they’re designed to help you improve that business and improve your life. So if there’s anything I can ever do to help you, if you have any questions about a specific topic related to growing or scaling your speech therapy private practice shoot me an email. I answer all my emails personally and pretty quickly. Also I wanted to say I have another space available for the Perfect student and the Perfect student is where you can come in to Tucson to work with me one on one if you’re wanting to start your own Speech therapy private practice or if you want to grow your own Speech therapy private practice, you can simply email me and the subject line there put The Perfect student, send me an email, give me some background about you and what you’re up to, if you’re just starting out or if you’re growing and scaling your own business, if you’re taking insurances, if you have employees or how many patients you’re seeing a week. Give me some background information because to have a good solid foundation you have to have a good relationship. So I want to find people who will work well with me; and that way I can show you how to run, grow and scale your own Speech therapy private practice. Now this service is not free but it is affordable so if you’re interested email me and you will be able to come in to Tucson. You can fly in, come to work with me in the outpatient clinic I’ll also show you how to run a Home health private practice as well. I’ll show you how we bill it, how we collect it, how we do our account receivables, all of that information you can learn from a successful brick and mortar outpatient clinic. And again we see about as of this recording and this is October 2016. We see about fifteen hundred patients per month between both businesses and we also have twenty eight part and full time speech pathologist, speech therapist assistance, occupational therapist, certified occupational therapist assistance. We have a full billing staff and also front office admin as well and we d

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you want to have a successful speech therapy private practice, then work on your relationships with your clients, referral sources and employees. In our profession, we really get to know others. That’s what happens when you work with a family or co worker weekly for over a year. In this episode, I talk about relationships as the foundation for a successful speech therapy private practice.                             Driving Across Texas In this episode: 01:04 – Thank you for for all the emails, tweets and questions on the show 02:12 – The Perfect Student 04:05 – Southeast Louisiana 05:01 – Livingston Parish, Louisiana flooding – Walker and Denham Springs, LA 70726 07:01 – Over sixty thousand homes affected by flooding 07:15 – Hurricanes and flooding 08:35 – Dealing with mold 09:45 – Volunteer fire department from Alabama – Cooking GREAT FOOD 10:30 – Making relationships is the key to successful business growth 13:26 – Relationships – Clients, referral sources, physicians, etc Download PDF Transcription What really matters when it comes to speech therapy private practice, it’s about relationships. And relationships are the foundation of what we do. Relationships are what help us grow not only our business but our client-base, employee-base, it grows everything. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 17. 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, Thanks again for all the emails, all the tweets, all questions are really appreciated. I got a question on Friday from someone who just said that they were happy with the Podcast; they were interested in being THE PERFECT STUDENT, and I emailed that person back and gave them some more information. So if you are interested in becoming THE PERFECT STUDENT as well send me an email [email protected] and I will get back to you. When you send me an email let me know some specifics. Where are you in your private practice journey? Are you just starting out or are you growing your private practice? Do you have employees? How many patients do you see a month? Give me some information so I can help you better. This service is not free but it is very affordable and I will personally help you one-on-one, it’s like a team. I’ll be your mentor where you can ask me all the questions, you can get my feedback, and you can just have direct access to me for at least a minimum of six months where I can help you grow your business. I would be more than happy to work with you but it has to be a good fit because relationships have to be a two-way street. So if you are interested in becoming THE PERFECT STUDENT email me [email protected] I’ve got one space available right now. The other space has been taken and I’m starting with that person. I’m not going to mention her name but you’ll hear about this person and their growth, their business soon. I guarantee that because this person is highly motivated. This person is ready to go and we’re going to start September 1st and I’m going to help her grow her business just like we’ve done here in Tucson. She’s looking at plane tickets coming down to work with me in Tucson. I’m going to show her how to run not only a clinic-based business but a home health private practice as well. So it’s going to be really a lot of information, but she’s going to love coming down here to Tucson. She’s going to have a great time and I’m looking forward to work with her on an Individual basis. I can’t wait to share this information with her. I did have a couple of PERFECT STUDENTS lined-up but at the very last minute I think it was too much information and it’s got to be the right person. I know this lady that’s going to be starting September 1st will do well. I know it and we’re going to make it happen. I wanted to take some time and talk about in this episode what really matters when it comes to private practice, it’s about relationships. And relationships are the foundation of what we do. Relationships are what help us grow not only our business but are client-base, employee-base; it grows everything and the reason I’m talking about this because I’ve had a rough eight to ten days. I’m going to be very honest. I am going to be little vulnerable right now. I will tell you guys a story and I love telling my stories because you can interpret what you want out of my story. And the whole story deals with where I’m from, where I grew up and my history comes from Southeast Louisiana. I grew up in a very small town called Walker, Louisiana and it’s a Parish called Livingston Parish. Now a Parish for you out ther

Many people contact me and ask this question, “How do I start a speech therapy private practice and just take cash and not deal with insurances and minimize headaches”? There isn’t an easy answer to this question, because with the increase of consumers forced to have insurance coverage, people want value. Patients want to use their insurances to cover medical services, and that includes therapy services. I truly believe as clinicians and business owners, we owe it to our patients to accommodate everyone. That is why I choose to take cash, insurances, Medicare and Medicaid as forms of payment in our clinic In this episode, I talk about this and other aspects of the cash-versus-insurance topic.   Television Advertising Still Works Today     In this episode: 01:08 – Over 4817 listeners from various parts of the world 01:52 – The Perfect Student 02:35 – Question from Andrew 04:32 – Survey in your area for Pricing 06:33 – Multiple payer source 07:22 – Insurance is not always a headache 08:54 – Old school tactics 10:16 – Biggest marketing secret 11:49 – Membership section of privateslp.com Download PDF Transcription You just turned an Insurance client into a cash pay patient, so that’s another way to think about it. Why settle for only forty-five dollars a visit when you might get a higher rate of reimbursement. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 16. 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 and I want to say Thank you for listening. Thanks for all your emails, thanks for the feedback on iTunes I really appreciate it. And as of today, August the 6th 2016, we have over 4817 listeners from various parts of the world, like United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Israel, Philippines, Turkey, Singapore, we have people listening from all over the World. Its really nice to have all you guys listening and if you wouldn’t mind, jump in and chime in, go to Privateslp.com and at the bottom of each podcast post you’ll see a place for comments. I really appreciate you guys leaving comments and if you don’t mind leave some comments down there. Chime in, start telling me what you’re thinking so I can drive and steer this podcast to what you want to hear. And also too if you’re interested in working with me, please send me an email [email protected]. Please put THE PERFECT STUDENT in the Subject line and tell me a little bit about yourself. Go in the detail and let me if you’re just starting out or if you’ve been working on your private practice for sometime, if you’re so practitioner, if you have employees, let me know some information about you so that I can help you better. Right now I do have a waiting list but I am accepting people. Just again, please give me as much information as possible and make sure you put a valid email address in there because likely I do email people back and their email are bounced for whatever reason and I just can’t get in touch with you. I just want to make sure I can help you so give me as much information as possible. I want to start today’s show with a question and this question comes from a person named Andrew and it says, “Hi Kyle, my wife wanted to start a private speech therapy practice in our area. She’s been working for a local school for the past 10 years and she’d an itch for a long time to go out on her own. She is almost to the point of launching her own business. She loves Speech but dislikes the business and technology part of it and that’s where I come in. I created a website, I setup her phone system, I registered her EIN, I took an old MacBook upgraded from 4 GB to 16 GB of Ram. And I’ll be doing the marketing and of course listening to your Podcast. We’ve learned a lot along the way and there are two things we’re worried about and hopefully you can help me with that. Number 1 Pricing. How much should be charge for services? What if our local Speech therapy practices in our area charges fifty-five bucks for half hour and three hundred for the evau. My wife wanted to charge forty-five dollars for half hour and two hundred for the evau. I thought it might be too low. She wants to do private pay and I have to deal with the Insurance companies. Number 2, How to get clients. This is one of my wife’s biggest fears. What if we put all this work in starting get out and we just don’t get in the clients. I assured her that her field as you know is a very in-demand field. She’s going to work part-time for the school while she gets it up and running. What type of marketing have you found that works. Thanks for all you do, your podcast is great. Andrew.” Well Andrew, I wanted to say thank you for that email. Those ar

I always take the side streets and back roads. The other day I was thinking after I made it to the office, Speech Therapy private practice is comparable to the side streets in that it’s not always fast, you must plan, and you have many starts and stops along the way. In episode 15, I talk about the similarities. In this episode: 01:04 – Over 4300 + listeners to the program 01:32 – PERFECT STUDENT is full for the summer 02:07 – General information on private practice 03:16 – Taking the side street a private practice is kind of a road less travel 04:59 – Let go and let other people do what they do best 04:59 – Patience, tolerance, understanding of others, that’s what it takes to have a good private practice Download PDF Transcription I have to let go and let other people do what they do best. Lets face it, I can’t do everything myself. I have to put the control out of the picture I have to let people that work with me do their job. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 15. 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. Well as always I want to say Thanks to all the listeners out there and this recording as of July 13th, we have over 4300 listeners to the show and I want to say Thank you to everyone listening. I hope you’re getting good valuable information. Its free for you and if you don’t mind go to iTunes and leave some good 5 star feedback so that others just like you get the valuable information they need to start their own Speech therapy Private practice Startup. Also I wanted to say Thank you for all the emails, tweets and mentions. It’s really need to get these questions and I also want to let you know that right now the PERFECT STUDENT is full for the summer. We may have one come open in about one or two months, so if you want to get mentored by me or you can fly in to Tucson, come work with me in my clinic and I will show you all the things that I know and all the things that I do. You can send me an email [email protected], I will be more than happy to put you on the waiting list. Also give me some information, give some specifics about what you’re working on, what you want to learn, what you want to know. Because I can help you better if I know what you’re upto, what you want to know. I got an email recently someone wanted some general information on private practice. I want more information, Hey Kyle, I am personally seeing 10 people a week. I want to scale it upto about 50 people a month, I want to start taking insurances. That’s a kind of stuff I want to know. What kind of revenue you’re getting, what are your goals, what are your dreams, what are your desires? Tell me that in an email. Let me know more so I can help you better. Again [email protected], shoot me an email. Also if you have a question for the podcast, you can send me an email or you can simply go to the website www.privateslp.com, the bottom right hand side you’ll see a speak pipe application. Right there you can click it, make sure your microphones are on. Leave me a voice mail, it will come right to my inbox and I’ll answer your question on the podcast, its not a problem. I want to help you, I want to help you succeed, I want to help you grow. Today’s podcast is kind of a different topic, I was driving down to the backstreet here in Tucson. I always go the back way, I don’t like big roads, I don’t like traffic and I was thinking when I got to the Office, I took out my trusty pen, my Journaling note book and I started making some notes. And I said this is really just like a private practice startup. Its called taking the side street in a private practice is kind of a road less travel. Its like a private practice because it’s a slower pace than the big road. When you are on the highways going Tucson to Phoenix, you truck along 75 miles an hour but when you are on these back streets, its stop and go, its 25 – 30 miles an hour max. You’re going to have more starts, you’re going to have more stops, and you are not going to have all of amenities that you find on a big highway. That’s just like Private practice. Not everybody is doing it. So you are doing to be the one that’s going to take the slower pace. Just like a backstreet you are going to have a slower pace; you’re going to have more tolerance of others because again you are starting, you are stopping, you’re going to have more understanding about the people in front of you and behind you. You’re going to learn more about financial health because again when you are on this backstreets you’ve got a plan, when you’ve got a quart of tank of gas left in your car. You may not see a gas station like you were on the big highways. So you have to fill-up ahead of time. Just like t

When you start, manage and grow your own speech therapy private practice, time is always limited. Let’s face it, there are only so many hours a day, right? Making a commitment to start a speech therapy private practice is important step in your financial future. Sunset Beach, North Shore, O’ahu   In this episode: 01:37 – Over 3800 + listeners to the program 02:01 – FULL (new waiting list for THE PERFECT STUDENT) 02:53 – Knowledge base from outpatient and home health SLP Private Practice 03:58 – Either you are consuming or you are producing 05:34 – Guard your inbox with care because it’s your “to-do” list 06:09 – Everybody is fighting for our attention 06:49 – Unsubscribe 07:50 – Journal daily 08:04 – Start taking a pen to the paper 08:43 – Mind your schedule and others who want to “pick your brain” or ask a “quick question” 09:41 – Ask for help Download PDF Transcription Transcription of Episode Fourteen: When you are starting your own private practice, when you are managing your own private practice, when you are growing your own private practice, you can’t really focus on consumption you’ve got to PRODUCE. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 14. 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.   North Shore, O’ahu As always I wanted to start this show out and say thank you for all the emails and all the tweets and mentions. It really cool to have so many people listening to this show and I hope you guys are getting valuable information from the Podcast. And again value is what you get in the absence of money. These Podcasts are free and all that I ask you to do please go to iTunes and leave some five star feedback so other listeners can learn where to get this valuable information. So please go to iTunes and login with your account and leave five stars. I would really appreciate that. And I know you guys are listening because as of today this is June 16 2016, we have over 3800 listeners to the program. And I am so delighted to get all the emails, tweets and mentions. It’s just really cool and I hope you guys are really learning something from this. So I also want to give you an update, I don’t have any room available right now for the Perfect Student. But if you would like to get on the waiting list, if you shoot me an email and please put THE PERFECT STUDENT in the subject line and send me an email. Let me know where you are in the process. Are you just starting your private practice, are you thinking about a private practice, or do you have something going already or you actively seeing patients so just let me know, give me some details so that I can help you better. Also I have to remind you I have turned down few people here and there because it got to be a perfect fit. These podcasts are designed to help and give you valuable information but when you work with me one-on-one you’re going to be have ability to come in and to Tucson and you can work with me in the clinic. You can work with me side by side to see how I run the Outpatient Speech therapy clinic and also we have a Home health agency as well. So you are going to get that knowledge base from both Outpatient and Home health Company. You can see how we set it up, how we bill it, how we collect it, forms that we use and everything that we do, you have access so you are going to get thrown into this.   This is the best way to learn. And I will tell you if I have this kind of information available to me when I was just starting out, I would have paid a lot of money. I am not even going to charge a lot of money for this monthly service. It’s a minimum of a six months commitment. The price is very affordable and when we talk I’ll give you the price. It may seem like a lot of money to some people but the valuable information that you will receive from these interactions is priceless. You will be pleasantly surprised and all you have to do is reach out right now. I don’t have that availability but I do have a waiting list so if you are interested email me !! Another thing I wanted to talk about today this is something that I been really wanting to share: Either consumer or producer – that’s today’s topic. Let me go into detail what I am talking about,because when you start your own Private practice, when you are managing your own private practice, when you are growing your own private practice, you can’t really focus on consumption you’ve got to PRODUCE.   North Shore, O’ahu   And what are the things that will just kill a business idea or kill that desire or kill that dream? That is just too much consumption. When I say consumption it can be Facebook, it can b

We really aren’t trained in graduate school to create boundaries for ourselves and say “no” sometimes. When scheduling clients, we need to be clear and have expectations for clients and families so that we can do the best job possible. Treatment is a 2-way street. We have to value client’s time and they must value ours. In this episode, I discuss scheduling strategies that I feel are helpful in a speech therapy private practice. Whether you are just starting a speech therapy private practice or have an ongoing operation, there is something to learn in from recording.   In this episode: 01:26 – Beautiful Tucson, what A beautiful place to live 01:41 – What are you doing to better yourself – Are you in action? 02:45 – What would you like to hear on the podcast 03:18 – 1 Summer position left – The Perfect Student 04:30 – Email me if you want to be mentored 05:03 – Thank you Christina for the email 06:49 – Thoughts on obtaining your own contract 08:01 – Get incorporated, UPS Store, EIN, NPI, GL and PL 09:41 – Scheduling – have boundaries – 11:31 – Hard conversations 12:28 – Scheduling and calendars Download PDF Transcription Transcription of Episode Thirteen: So those are kind of conversations we don’t like to have with people, but its necessary because you don’t want to sit around and wait on people. You don’t wanted be taking advantage of. We have a service and we have to provide that service. We can’t provide that service unless the family works in conjunction with us. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 13. 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. I want to always start out and say Thank you for all the follows on Twitter, emails and Tweets. It’s just really cool I have this kind of feedback because when I am sitting here behind this microphone, I am kind of staring at this wall. I got a whiteboard here. I am in my office at home. I am kind of here on edge of the mountain here in North Tucson. Its really beautiful area and I got a shadow in here; sun coming through and birds are outside. It’s a gorgeous day and I am talking into this microphone.     I always wonder are you guys doing anything with this information? Are you following these instructions and are you taking action? I am kind of curious because I get this emails, “Hey, I want to be mentored by you”. Sometimes people just don’t get back at me; some people say “Thanks” but I never hear back. It’s nice to know here you guys doing anything with this information. I really think its valuable information. This is the kind of stuff that I wanted when I started my own Private practice. I couldn’t find it anywhere. I downloaded some PDF and I went on some websites but I couldn’t find the good solid information like checklist, do this, do this and do this and then you can have this. I just didn’t find that so that’s why I am throwing this out there for you guys for free and I just wanted to know, Hey leave some comments for me at the bottom. If you go to PrivateSLP.com you’ll see this blog post and at the bottom they’ve got a place for comments. Shoot me some comments, let me know what you guys are finding valuable so I can kind of steer this Podcast which now as like over 3300 listeners (Its really cool) from all over the world. I can steer this thing the way you guys wanted to go because I got the microphone right here. I also wanted to tell you I have one space left for the “Perfect Student”. I have one time slot this summer to work one person in. So the Perfect Student is going to work with me weekly it’s a minimum of a 6-month commitment (and its not free but it is affordable) and I really think that the person who gets this spot is going to learn so much information. You’re not only going to get the ability to fly in to Tucson and work with me for a week for seven straight days. You’re going to see the clinic; you’re going to see the home health agency that we have. You’re going to see how we bill it, how we collect it, how we schedule it, how we get the referrals, how we fax it, how we answer our calls, our systems, everything that we do, you are going to get that information too. I will personally work with you one-on-one to make sure that you get the best information. You’re just going to be blown away if you can do it. I got a lot of emails from people, “Hey I want to do this.” And I throw right back catch you and no body does anything with it. I don’t hear anything from people any longer, once a while I get a Thank you and I appreciate response. This stuff is kind of hard and this is not easy stuff. This is a long game and on the last podcast I talked a lot about that. This is a l

When I am working with others, I always stress the importance of dedication and persistence. You have to remember that success in anything that we do happens over time. So many people think that making a few changes in their life will automatically lead to a successful outcome. In business, we must be cautious and take appropriate steps over time so that we can become successful. We shouldn’t act in haste. It’s also important to seek help from others. Let’s be honest, we cannot do this alone. We have to learn how to trust and delegate so that we can continue to grow and improve. In this episode, I share some insights on speech therapy private practice and how a successful business is built on long-term commitments, financial honesty and integrity. In this episode: 01:32 – Home health avenue for Perfect student 02:50 – THANK YOU for the emails, tweets and feedback 03:32 – Success 04:03 – Mines on Pontatoc ridge 05:20 – Establishing relationship with your patients 06:31 – Supportive and Sustaining 06:45 – desire to work and to do everything yourself 08:25 – You can’t quit before the miracle 08:46 – You can’t keep co-payments 09:51 – This is a long game and you can’t cut corners Download PDF Transcription Transcription of Episode Twelve: Someone was asking me the other day about being successful. And they asked me “What’s the most important thing about being successful” and I really thought about that question because the answer is really simple – You got to be in this for the long call. [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 12. 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. Hey, thanks again for all the tweets, emails and also wanted to thank those who are emailing me about the Perfect Student. I still am looking for two students to mentor. And you are able to fly in to Tucson and come spend a week with me in Tucson. You are also going to have access to me on weekly calls and those can be either Skype or telephone. And you’ll have access to me via my personal email. You can come and learn the way we do our business here in Tucson, Arizona. Also it is not just a brick and mortar outpatient clinic that we have, we also have a Home health agency. So you can come and learn both aspects of that too. That always sparks some interesting people who want to try the Home health avenue as well. Its got to be a perfect fit, so I want to make sure when you do email me please tell me a little bit about yourself and let me know what you’re up to, what you want to accomplish, if you are just starting out or you’ve been into the game about 2, 3 or 4 years. Let me know some background because I do email people back and I never hear back from them. So I just want those people to know this is not a free service but it is valuable information and again it is something that will change your life but its got to be the right fit. Just like gaining relationship you want to have a successful two-way relationship so that’s why am asking all these questions back and forth when people do email me. So let me know what you’re up to so we can work it out and make it happen for you because I would love to help you get your practice up and going. Even if its just starting out and getting you setup this is totally doable. And again for the right people its great value. Hey, and also thank you for the emails, tweets and feedback on iTunes. It’s really nice to have good 5 star feedback on iTunes because just like you out there listening when other people want to find is, you find the feedback and you find us easily on iTunes. Please do your part and help us, help others by leaving some good quality feedback on iTunes so people know that we are real. I do this for free and all the blog post that I put out its no cost and I want to help as many people as I can. I really truly like doing that. Today I want to speak about Success. This is a long game, this is not something that you just start out doing and you strike it rich kind of back in days, digging for gold, mining for gold. As a matter of fact where I live here in Tucson, I live in North of Tucson. It’s a place called Swan Road, and if you take Swan Road all the way to the top, where dead ends into the Mountains there, there’s a ridge called Pontatoc ridge, and if you go up in that ridge area there are mines back from the 1800’s. Am actually got online and look at these maps, and there are really cool mines, where they use to mine for minerals, coppers and all up in this neighborhood ride live here this old mine places where they were digging. My Property is actually is next to an old mine area. Its actually 14 acres you can’t build on it. And we have an acre land that borders that 14 so my son used to play on this land and its really fun out there.

I was thinking the other day after speaking to this gentleman about his private practice. With all of the technology at our finger tips, there is no substitute for old-school drive, desire, motivation and “elbow grease”. He wanted to know what app that I used to organize “this” and complete “that”. He kept asking what programs would sort out “this problem” and offer solution for “that” scenario. At the end of the conversation, I encouraged him to not over-think speech therapy private practice startup and suffer from “analysis paralysis”. I then encouraged him to get into action. Because action and only action causes change. In this episode, I discuss the original solution to getting things done: Do it! Here is a link to the Univision segment that was filmed at Therapy Group of Tucson, PLLC in Tucson, Arizona. In this episode: 01:01 – THANK YOU for the emails, tweets and feedback 01:40 – Having a good mix 02:00 – Keeping people happy and mixing it up 02:31 – Featured last week on Univision. 03:45 – Therapy Group of Tucson Univision segment on Twitter 04:28 – Working in piles 05:06 – One speed: GO! 05:50 – Saguaro Lake 06:24 – No special app for this 06:40 – Desire, motivation and success 07:15 – Email me to be The Perfect Student 07:53 – Leave us some good feedback on iTunes. Download PDF Transcription Transcription of Episode Eleven: I was talking to this guy the other day, and he was like “What do you do to get your things done, to make things work and how do you remember payroll, how do you do your referrals, how do you return your phone calls, you have a certain time of a day?” he was picking up my brain about all this things and I said, “No, its really old school, you just do it.” [Commercial] Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 11. 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. I am so thankful you guys are listening and its just really need to get the questions, feedback, tweets and emails. I actually get couple of phone calls and just want to say please don’t because am busy in the clinic and I would be more than happy to talk to you via email so shoot me an email! Now we just stand really busy at the clinic. We just had a couple of new hires. We are seeing more kids and adults than ever before. I just little find a new contract here in town to see more adults. I was actually talking to couple of therapists and they really enjoy treating the adults. And that’s one thing I want to talk to you about today is having a good mix in your job. If you do one thing all the time you may get bored with it. Its just a fact of life, its just something that happens to all of us. But it’s nice to have a healthy balance and a healthy mix. So what I have done to keep people happy in the clinic is bringing in more adults so we can treat the adult population as well. And I’ve always done that ever since day one when I started the clinic. I have always focused on not just kids but adults as well because we deal with traumatic brain injury strokes, despeja voice fluency, all those things that you would see in children but adults as well. It’s nice to have that balance so we’re bringing in some more adults here in the clinic. Its always nice to serve both population’s pediatrics injuriatrics. Also we were featured last week on Univision. If you go to the Univision website, you could probably Google or something like “Therapy group of Tucson” and you’ll see one of our Speech Pathologist who works in our clinic, her name is Sayleen, she is a Speech Pathologist. She is a very talented person and she was featured on Univision. We have the autism walk this past weekend and Univision came to our clinic and interviewed Sayleen and filmed a little bit of her session with this little guy he came into the clinic. She works with him on a weekly basis, so its really need to see Sayleen do her thing on television because she is really good and obviously the kid and the family enjoy the service. Its nice to get that recognition once a while because as a Speech pathologist we do this all day long. We are really good at what we do. We help so many people but we don’t get a lot of recognition so its nice to have that recognition at the Univision station here in Tucson came out. If you want to Google that you’ll probably find it somewhere. I think it’s on the Twitter account. You can look and there is a link to it. If you check out our website supportvoice.com that’s our clinic website, you’ll see there’s a link to one of our twitter account that shows that video. Kudos to Sayleen for doing such a great job! I want to talk about the system of just getting things done. Its pretty much just do your work. I was talking to a gentleman the other d

Sharon, a SLP from Washington State emailed me recently (actually while I was in the hospital passing a kidney stone — there’s a first time for everything, right?!) regarding out-of-network benefits (OON). In this podcast, I discuss a checklist that you can use in your business to process referrals that are out of network in your clinic. In this episode: 01:01 – Many THANKS for the emails, tweets and feedback 03:04 – Esther is taking the wheel 04:14 – Hanging out of the car and sick as a dog 04:40 – Checklists, checklists, checklists 05:10 – The left-handed nurse 05:45 – Physicians, nurses and hospitals follow a checklist – we should too 06:50 – 2 mm kidney stone and the email from Sharon the SLP 07:35 – Out of network benefits and a checklist for action 08:13 – The referral 08:40 – Payer source 08:43 – Eligibility at the time of the referral 09:09 – The need to decrease financial ambiguity 10:01 – The out-of-network benefits (OON) for speech therapy services 10:35 – Cost of Care / Cost of Evaluation 10:56 – Pricing and Out of Network Benefits (OON) 11:30 – In-network (IN) and Out-of-network (OON), two different sets of rules = play fair, play well Download PDF Transcription Transcription of Episode Ten: There’re going to all these checklist as they’re bringing me back to the backroom and it was highly standardized and the treatment was really good. Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 10. My name is Kyle Meades and I’m a speech and language pathologist since 1993 and these podcasts are designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast at a time. I want to start out like I do all my podcast and say thank you for listening to the podcast, thank you for sending me those questions via email, thank you for sending me those tweets and to let me know that you guys are listening out there. Its because of you guys out there we now have over 2000 listeners to the show from all part to the world and every state in united states. It’s because of you guys leaving good solid feedback on iTunes that other people can find the podcast easily. I want to give you guys value and I know I sound like a broken record but values is what you get in the absence of money. Listening is free for you guys and I want you to get the latest best information out there to help you either start or grow or improve your speech therapy private practice. And I just again want to say thank you, I really appreciate it and I want to start out this podcast with a Story. So yesterday I am on the way taking my son to school about 07:30 and the way we go to school we go right past the speech therapy clinic. And my son always like, “Dad, there’s the speech therapy clinic.” And I said, “Yes sir, there it is”. New office, new place and this time he points to it and I see Esther, she is our Office manager. She is always back into her parking spot right there. But this time I had to turn in and he said, “Dad, where you’re going?”. I said, “Son, dad didn’t feel great and must meet attorney. I couldn’t even finish driving my son to school. I had the most excruciating pain the night before. I tried to take hot bath, I tried to get rid of it. I thought it will pass, I didn’t know what was going on. I am sucking it up to get my son to school on time and I just cant even drive the car so I pulled into the clinic and I banged on the door. Esther comes out and she says, “Hey”, and I am like all my interior. I said, “Esther, can you please take my boy to school? He tell you how to get there. He knows how to do this.” She said, “Whats wrong?”. I said, “I am in such bad pain. I cant even drive.” She gets the keys and she gets behind the wheel and all she goes to take my son to school. And then I just kind of curl up in the fetal position in my office and couple of people they hear me. And they want to say, “Hi Good morning Kyle, how are you?”. You know how Speech pathologists are, they always want to figure out whats wrong and treat the problem. That’s how speech therapists are, we’re neurologists, psychologists and educational specialists. We’re all that stuff combine into one little package. So Christine comes in and she says “Oh my god, whats wrong with you?” And I’m like, “Awwwwww…” anyway she says I was stuttering, my pain was so bad. Esther comes back after taking my son to school. She come in and says “Kyle, we cant have you here like this. You need to go to emergency room right now.” I said, “You know what I hate the hospital but I’ll do it.” We lease from Tucson Medical Center so we’re right across the street from the hospital. So she puts me in the car and drives me across the street and as soon as we get across the street, I am opening the door, I start vomiting I know it sounds gross but the pain was so bad. I just started throwing up in the parking lot while we were moving and I am just like get us to the hosp

Distractions are everywhere. In today’s world, companies left and right are competing for just 2 seconds of our time in order to sell us something or capture our details. As a business owner, we have to remember that staying focused is very important to business growth and development. In this episode, I will share some strategies that will benefit you so that you can keep your eye on the prize, which is speech therapy private practice start up and growth. In this episode: 01:05 – Listener gratitude 01:22 – Emails, comments and Tweets 01:45 – On Location in Manly, Australia 02:07 – Thanks to SuperFastBusiness 03:38 – Wasting time and not following through 04:23 – Devices can distract us too much 04:37 – Take time for ourselves to journal and reflect 05:21 – Clean out the inbox – UNSUBSCRIBE 06:03 – Disable push notifications on devices 07:17 – We are checking and rechecking our devices 150-250 daily 08:02 – Stay focused and not wasting time 08:33 – Take 2-3 hours for yourself (remember that person?) 09:10 – Please leave some feedback on iTunes so that others will benefit 09:29 – Need help? Still looking for 2 students – email me with “The Perfect Student” in subject line Download PDF Transcription Transcription of Episode Nine: Everybody is fighting for our attention but the reality of this is we need to stay focused, work on ourselves and try not to be so distracted. Because distractions I believe are what can really kill the desire to start your own business. Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 9. My name is Kyle Meades and am a speech and language pathologist since 1993 and these podcasts are designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast at a time. Hey I want to say Thank you for listening to this Podcast, its been really need to have you guy listen and without you I wouldn’t been around and I just want to say Thank you for allowing me to communicate monthly with you because it absolute pleasure to get the emails, comments, tweets and all that stuff. Its really nice to have you guys out there and I really want to help you to start your own Speech therapy Private practice and so I am trying to always improve my vibe as well get valuable information so I can pass it on you. Right now I am recording this podcast Episode in Manly Australia. Now you might say “Hey Kyle why are you in Manly Australia?” Well its an easy answer, I am a member of SuperFastBusiness.com it’s an online community of Top Internet Marketers and Business Owners. There is an annual live event every year in Manly Beach. Manly beach is a little bit North of Sydney so you simply up on a Plane, you fly to Sydney, you get on a train, you go to the fairy, right there is a upper house, you take a 30 minute ride to Manly and boom you’re right here in the heart of Manly beach. It’s just a beautiful place. People are so wonderful here in this part of the world and it’s such an honor to be around of this Top Notch Marketers and Business owners. People of like-kind mind and just sitting there swiping ideas and information, its just a privilege. So you guys are going to getting good value out of that too because I am going to implementing some of the things I’ve learn this week here at SuperFastBusiness live event. This was the eleventh event so I just want to give James Schramko shot out for hosting a wonderful annual event. It’s just privilege and honor to be associated with James and his community. Also I want to say Thank you for listening and all the wonderful feedback we’ve received on the Podcast and because of the feedback that we’re getting it’s allowing other people on iTunes to find the podcast easier so if you wouldn’t mind to, please give us some feedback on Apple iTunes so we can help other people to find the podcast. I want to get that out of the way and I want to talk today about – Wasting time, and its something that I think since the invention of Smartphone, I think its something that getting more and more difficult to stay present. I just want to talk about this today on this Podcast because something that is close to my heart and something we had some speakers here at the SuperFastBusiness live event talk about. So I just want to bring that to light and share with you. With our Smartphones and Apple devices and Android devices we have this things on us all the time. We bring them into our bedroom and you sitting there next to the one you Love. They are on their Smartphone and you’re on your Smartphone. Sometime we don’t even hug and kiss to the one we love good night. We’re sitting there to closing out email and shooting off texts. These Tablets and Smartphones are just such an integral part of us that we are going to forget that there is a real world out there that is not electronic. That is one of the thing that I am going to talk about today i.e. How to not waste ti

Managing your expenses is a key part in having a successful private practice. One way to do this is by using an Apple or Android device and certain applications. In this episode, I will share my experience with one application called XpenseTracker. I have used this application to manage multiple properties, business mileage and business expenses. It’s worked well for me and I think it will do the same for you. In this episode: 00:54 – Listener email: How to manage expenses 01:20 – Track your expenses effectively 02:03 – XpenseTracker Application 02:20 – Value information 03:28 – Good app for managing mileage, business expenses and property/real estate 04:09 – Costco TP! Take a pic of that receipt 04:37 – Features of the app 04:58 – Works with Dropbox 05:21 – Ready for a mentor? I am still looking for 2 students – email me with “The Perfect Student” in Subject Line 06:20 – Please leave some feedback on iTunes so that others will benefit 07:07 – Membership section coming soon Download PDF Transcription   Transcription of Episode Eight: I am a firm believer of giving you guys’ value. And value is what you get in the absence of money. Well, Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast; this is episode number 8. My name is Kyle Meades and am a speech pathologist since 1993 and these podcasts are designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast at a time. Now, I’m getting a lot of listener feedback and emails and I wanted to go quickly into this episode’s topic and it is ‘How to manage your expenses?’ this question came from a Speech Pathologist – her name is Monique, she wanted to know how I managed my expenses, how I tracked my expenses for the clinic. So I wanted to answer that question now. And I want to say this, when I started my own business, I really obsessed on tracking efficiently and effectively. You guys probably did the same thing. I downloaded a bunch of trial software off of the internet. For instance I tried FreshBooks, I tried QuickBooks which is an Intuit-based platform. I did all those trials and I really had good intentions of sitting down and putting all that information at the end of the day into that program or those programs and trying to keep it organized and keep it tracked and it never worked. And so around 2010, 2011, 2012 I started really utilizing this application on my smartphone and that app is called XpenseTracker with an X. And it’s made by a company called silverwaresoftware.com and I’ll provide the links to this Application on the Show Notes when I’m done with the podcast. And again, these people don’t know who I am; I just know this stuff works. And I am a firm believer of giving you guys’ value. And value is what you get in the absence of money. You hear me say it over and over and over and over again. Value, Valuable information and this is something that will help you track your expenses. I don’t get any kind of commissions or affiliate or anything by throwing this out there. I just know this program is awesome. And I used it up until 2015 when I had to switch. Our clinic got so busy and our expenses grew to a level where I had to hire a CPA two month ago to go into our checking account and credit card statements and itemize every single thing because it just took too much time. But this is the application that I used to manage my apartments. I’ve got 2 triplexes on a half an acre of land here in Tucson and I’ve got 6 units. I used to live in one of those units when I was starting my business. I lived very frugally. If you go to episode 1 and 2, you’ll hear me talk about those days when I lived in that two-bedroom apartment when I raised my son there. But this application not only will it reconcile and track your business expenses but it can do property. It can also do mileage so when I got in the car and I went from one patient to the next, I was able to enter the mileage and it just figured it out. And it was so easy. Or when I went to Casco and got clinic toilet paper and the cleaning supplies, all I would do is take a picture of the receipt and it filed it and I just tapped a few buttons and it filed it in the right folder for me. So I just wanted to throw that out there that XpenseTracker is a wonderful tool to use for making sure you can track your expenses and get the most benefit from your business expenses and deductions. It’ll sort your expenses by day, you can see running total in the currency of your choice, depending on what country you’re in. You can email your expenses, you can export them directly on your Mac or PC or you can PDF at the end of the year and give it to your CPA. It’s got a built-in backup feature. What I did was I paid and got an add-on for like a couple of bucks but it synced with Dropbox so everything that I did on my phone would back up just seamlessly to Dropbox. So we use a lot of Dr

Cognitive distortions are ways that our mind convinces us of something that simply isn’t true. These irrational thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions, such as telling ourselves things that sound rational and accurate, but really only serve to keep us feeling bad about ourselves. Generally, these distortions are at the subliminal level, but with awareness they are easily identified. Is this podcast, I discuss the 10 most common cognitive distortions and relate them to our world of speech therapy private practice. In this episode: 01:01 – Wow, it’s a new year 01:06 – Seahawks VS Cardinals, lessons learned 02:15 – Family time is very important – with corn hole 03:07 – Cognitive distortions 03:30 – Common misconceptions of speech therapy private practice 04:20 – Costco, Organic Mighty Green Juice and exercise 05:15 – Backward masking and the Reverse Speech App 06:05 – All-or-Nothing Thinking 06:26 – Overgeneralizing 07:00 – Mental Filter 07:15 – Discounting the positives 07:26 – Jumping to conclusions – A. Mind Reading or B: Fortune Telling 08:30 – Magnification or minimizing 08:42 – Emotional Reasoning 09:01 – “Should” Statements 09:03 – Labeling 09:12 – Personalization or blame 09:17 – Business can be stressful – but don’t fall into the cognitive distortion trap 09:51 – Ready for a mentor? I am taking 2 students – email me with “The Perfect Student” in Subject Line Download PDF Transcription   Transcription of Episode Seven: You’ve got to take care of your mind as a business owner, as clinic owner, you’ve got to take care of yourself, especially your mind. You are your most important asset to your business. Well, hello everyone, you’re listening to this Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast, this is episode number 7. My name is Kyle Meades and am a speech pathologist since 1993 and this podcast is designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast, at a time. Well everyone it’s 2016. This is the first episode of 2016. Today is Monday January 4th, I’m really thrilled to be on the podcast today to share with you some things that I’ve been thinking about already this year. We had a wonderful New Year’s Eve I took my family up to Phoenix for the weekend. We went up and shared some time with a very good friend of mine. He’s a clinic owner up in Phoenix. We also went to a NFL football game. I took my son to his first NFL football game. It was the Seahawks versus the Cardinals. Now we live in Arizona, but my son, he loves the Seahawks he loves the Seahawks. So he had his number three Seahawks jersey and I’ll tell you what, the Cardinals got shut down and my friend that I was with in Phoenix he told my son, he said you know you’re going to be crying by the half-time. Because the Seahawks are going to lose and every time the Seahawks scored or made some great play, he turned around and looked at my friend and he gives him that little grin you know that little, I can’t repeat it but that little grin just shuts everybody down. But anyway, the Seahawks won. It was very fun. We had a great family time; we stayed at the Hyatt out in Scottsdale, beautiful resort, beautiful place to stay, the team for West Virginia who played Arizona State. They were staying at the Hyatt. My son was playing corn hole. I think that’s a game that was invented in Cleveland, Ohio if I know my history right, Cornole. Leave a comment if you know where cornole that game where you throw the beanbag up in the air and to the other side, it hits the little board and goes through the hole. Leave me a comment. Seriously, leave me a comment and tell me where cornhole was invented. I think it was Cleveland Ohio because my other half, she’s from Chardon, Ohio, which a suburb or a place out in the country kind of around Cleveland. She says it was Cleveland, but I’m not too sure about that. So let me knew where corn hole was invented. Cardinals Got Killed by the Seahawks Anyway, we hung out at the Hyatt and play corn hole with West Virginia football team who also beat Arizona State. It’s a really fun weekend and I was reading some books and reading some material and I got to reflect on what’s called cognitive distortions and I’m not trying to go all hippie on you, but this stuff is real. This stuff can stop you dead in your tracks, because your mind. You’ve got to take care of your mind as a business owner, as a clinic owner, you’ve got to take care of yourself especially your mind. You are your most important asset to your business. A lot of people think once you start that private practice, you can jet on out to the beach and just, you know, get rich on the beach and live that dream. But you know what, that’s not how businesses is, you’ve got to take care your business, you’ve got a take care y

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 Download PDF Transcription 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, I’ll get your email that way or you can leave a comment on privateslp or simply give me some feedback on iTunes. I really would appreciate a five star rating from you, because when you give me good ratings on iTunes that’s going to allow other people like yourself realized that these podcasts are valuable. And it really means a lot to me and it’s going to mean a lot to other people. Also want to tell you guys that we are now approved through the Google platform for their podcasting service that hasn’t come out yet but it actually set to release very soon. I don’t know the actual date on that, if you guys know when that’s going to happen please put that in the comment section below. But you are more than welcome to listen to us on iTunes, google platform or you can just simply go to privateslp.com, all my episodes are uploaded there where you can leave your comments. But I wanted to read a recent comment that I received earlier in the month, her name is Camille and it says…”Hi Kyle, I’ve been thinking about private practice for a while. I’ve been a therapist for 7 years in a variety of settings for children, children Hospital, schools, agencies…” and she says… “I am currently in the school since I have young children of my own. I would like more freedom in the de

  Your first office doesn’t have to be perfect. As a matter of fact, easing into your new space and growing slowly over time is a smart way to manage cash flow while growing your referral base. In this episode, you’ll hear how we moved from community visits to our first office, then adding 2 additional offices in that suite before settling into our first free standing clinic. In this episode: 01:48 – A growing, functional speech therapy practice 03:25 – Choosing an area of town 04:30 – Accessibility for all 05:34 – Multiple etiologies 05:58 – Office suite number one 07:26 – Big ole’ lawyer desk 07:37 – The basic setup: A blueprint to follow 08:48 – Big, bigger ideas 09:46 – Computer programmers, attorneys, acupuncturists and a speech clinic 10:52 – One big square + 2 little squares 11:10 – School House Rock 11:39 – Lessons Learned: Speech Clinic + Acupuncture & Massage = #$%^& 12:00 – The truth about clinic bathrooms 12:40 – How to exit correctly 13:00 – Free standing clinic number one 13:14 – Waiting room 13:35 – Dermatology office turned speech clinic 13:50 – Free standing clinic number two 14:56 – When you need to do what you need to do, you just do it 15:10 – It doesn’t have to be perfect 15:30 – When is too much too much 16:00 – Patients can move with you, too 17:04 – Do you need help and assistance for your own private practice? Download PDF Transcription Office Suite Number One   Office Suite Number One Waiting Area   Transcription of Episode Five: Well, hello everyone! You’re listening to the speech therapy private practice start up podcast. This is episode number 5. My name is Kyle Meades and I’ll be your host for today’s show and I’m a speech and language pathologist since 1993. And after a hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans, you know, I’ve moved to sunny, dry Tucson Arizona and I was just really bummed out. I was really sad about the whole hurricane and I had to pick up and start all over from scratch. So I decided to start my own speech therapy private practice and at that time when I did start it, I looked online and I remember searching for just anything (and if you listened to my other podcast, you’ll hear the same story where I searched for a mentors, I searched for help from the small business association, I searched and searched and searched and I just couldn’t find any information design for a speech therapists and speech language pathologist out there who wanted to start their own private practice). So that’s what I’m doing in this private practice start up podcast – showing other speech pathologist how to do this correctly. And when I say how to start a private practice, I’m not really talking about just working on the side and seeing one or two patients and making a few bucks here or there. I’m talking about a business that will support you and your family for years to come. I’m talking about employees, paying taxes, paying rent, all those things that a normal brick and mortar business would do. So that’s what this podcast is designed to do and in today’s episode, I wanted to share with you the way I started my own brick and mortar business and how I transitioned from seeing people in the community to seeing people in my first office. So, that’s what I wanna to talk about in today’s podcast – how to get that first office. It’s just a really kinda of a humorous story; For those of you who know me about my first office, it’s pretty funny. So, I just wanted to share this whole scenario with you guys and this is my story, so, it will kind of give you a little bit of an idea on how to ease into that brick and mortar thing. When I first started, again, if you to my other podcast, podcast 1 and 2, you’ll hear about how I started seeing people in the community. There was a time when I just couldn’t physically drive to all the consumers homes. So, I really got tired of doing that and gas was expensive at that time and I just didn’t have all of that time available. So, what I did was I got online, I think it was craigslist.org and I searched office buildings. There was a picture of this pretty pretty building, and a picture of that pretty pretty building, and a picture of this not so pretty building and a picture of that not so pretty building. I was thinking, what part of the town could I start in? You know, I wanted to be, professional and have a nice comfortable office so when people would bring their kids or their mom after their stroke or whomever. When they come to the office, I wanted them to be comfortable and have a nice professional experience. So, you know in Tucson, we’ve got this nice part of a town called the Foothills and in the Central part of town we’ve got the University and the Medical Center and then you’ve got the south part of the town going towards in Green Valley. I wanted to stick close to where I was living b