Blending Music, Theater, and Speech Therapy with Christina Noon
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What is the focus of today’s episode and who is the guest?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Christina Noon is a speech language pathologist based in East Aurora, New York, and the owner of Noon Speech Therapy, her private practice, as well as Happy Talk, a music and language enrichment program for babies and toddlers. She shares a super unique journey from a career in musical theater, including a touring role as Emily Elizabeth in Clifford the Big Bread Dog Live, to becoming a speech language pathologist. And private practice owner. In this episode, Christina discusses how her background in performing arts shaped her love for communication and language, which ultimately led her to pivot into speech therapy.
After struggling to fit into traditional job roles, she decided to build a fulfilling career by blending therapy with her passion for music. She also talks about the challenges of starting a Private practice, including navigating New York's complex PLLC requirements, and how joining the Start Your Private Practice program gave her the guidance and confidence to finally launch her business successfully. If you've been thinking about transitioning into private practice and you want to create a career that aligns with your passion and lifestyle, then this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. Two. 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.
All right, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yes, my name is Christina Noon, and I am located just outside of Buffalo, New York, in a little town called East Aurora. And my private practice is Noon Speech Therapy. Awesome. And you have another business as well. What's your other business called? Yes, my other business is Happy Talk Song and Sign. And those are music and language enrichment classes for babies and toddlers and their grown-ups. And I teach them across the city of Buffalo. And I'm starting to have other SLPs join me in that as well. I
love it. I love it. So before we kind of get to where your practice and also your business and everything is now, let's go back to the beginning of your career and tell everyone how did you get started and then at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
So my first degree is in music theater. So I did that and I was honestly just looking for a pivot. I had been working professionally for a while. I met my husband while I was touring around the United States as Emily Elizabeth and Clipper and the big red dog lie. So that was a very interesting way to meet my future husband, but he was out in Montana.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the focus of today’s episode and who is the guest?
0:00–5:28
2
How did Christina’s musical‑theatre background lead her to speech‑language pathology?
5:28–17:19
3
Why did Christina struggle with traditional jobs and decide to start her own practice?
17:19–22:04
4
How did the Start Your Private Practice program help her navigate New York PLLC requirements?
22:04–32:03
Speakers
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