Betting On Yourself with Daj Mitchell
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How can clinicians start a private practice quickly and affordably?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode I'm Jenna Castro-Kasbon, speech language pathologist, business coach, and creator of the Start Your Private Practice System. And I'm on a mission to turn stuck SLPs into successful private practitioners. If you're tired of dealing with high productivity requirements, high caseload sizes, and low pay, it's time to take control of your professional, personal, and financial life and finally get the freedom, flexibility, and financial abundance that you deserve by working with private clients in your own practice. Join me here each week as I share tips, best practices, and inspirational interviews on the Private Practice Success Stories podcast.
If you're a private practitioner or one in the making, you're in the right place, so let's get started. Hey Date, I'm so excited to really talk to you tonight and to have you kind of share with our audience all things about private practice, but also about technology and all that kind of stuff. So in case anyone does not know who you are, can you please share your name, your location, and a little bit about your private practice and business?
My name is Dej Mitchell. I am a speech therapist and I have a private practice and I also have a business called Co Tree Corner. I am in Illinois. I'm in a tiny little town next to Springfield. I grew up in Chicago, though. So all of my Midwest people, I want to talk to you. So send me a DM. I am also in the schools here in Illinois, but I have a private practice as well, and I do some online business. business things like presentations all about time saving tools, website design, you name it, I'm probably got my toe in it.
I love that so much. You know, one of the things I think is really cool about SLPs these days, which is super different than when I was first getting started, is that we have more options than people realize. I think that like back in the day, again, when I was first getting started with my private practice, so many people kind of thought that like you were either a school SLP and that's all you did, or you were hospital private practice, whatever. But I love that you said that you're dipping your toes in a whole bunch of different things. So I want to know more about that. Tell everybody about how you got started as an SLP. And then at what point did you start to think about all this business stuff?
For sure. So early on in undergrad, you know, you have that intro to communication sciences and disorders class. And so they just completely glazed over private practice. And me being me, my mom always says, you tell Dejes to go left, she's gonna go right. And I'm like, I wanna know more about that. And so I started researching, following some people like you on social media, and I'm like, I wanna do that. So I knew going into graduate school. That was always kind of the goal. But you know, we have to kind of play by the rules in graduate school. And so I did my medical placement, I did my school placement, and I loved both of them a lot. And you know, I had to do a clinical fellowship. And so again, people said you'll never get a PRM position as a clinical fellow.
And I said, watch me. And I got a level one trauma center clinical fellowship PRN.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How can clinicians start a private practice quickly and affordably?
0:00–5:02
2
Who is Daj Mitchell and what is her professional background?
5:02–8:38
3
What motivated Daj to launch her private practice and coaching business?
8:38–11:34
4
What advice does Daj give to SLPs who keep postponing private‑practice launch?
11:34–14:35
5
How does evolving your role help prevent burnout for clinicians?
14:35–18:45
6
Which technology tools (AI, ChatGPT, Magic School AI) does Daj recommend for SLPs?
18:45–22:31
7
What does a typical week look like for Daj balancing school work and private clients?
22:31–25:34
8
What are Daj’s goals for the next year and how can listeners connect with her?
25:34–29:11
Speakers
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