Building a Private Practice for Flexibility (Including Time for Tennis) with Tracy Droege OTR, MS
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Tracy Draege is an occupational therapist and certified ADHD provider in Temple, Texas. She started her OT private practice in order to have more flexibility as she cared for a sick family member. Although the Rise Center was born out of a sad situation, she has been able to turn it into a happy one by caring for children and families who benefit from her services. I've gotten to know Tracy during her time in the Grow Your Private Practice program as she is looking to expand her OT private practice by hiring her first SLP. In this episode, she talks about her goals with hiring, how she's marketed her practice and
how she's starting to integrate systems as she grows, and how she's truly becoming the CEO of her business and her life. She also shares an interesting aspect of her life, which is that she's a competitive tennis player, and she's built her private practice schedule in a way to accommodate her tennis schedule, which I absolutely love. If you have a private practice that you're looking to grow, especially if you want to have a multidisciplinary practice, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Casbon, 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?
I'm Tracy Draghi, and I own Rye Center located in Temple, Texas. I am so excited
to have you on because I've really gotten to know you in the Grow Your Private Practice program, where we really help people with things like hiring and systems and marketing and really becoming the CEO of your business and your life. And Tracy, you've been a great example of someone who's been able to do that and is really on the right path to being able to do that. But before we talk about how you've grown your private practice, can you take us back to the beginning and tell us a little bit about how you got started?
Well, so I've been in practice for 20 plus years and I kind of always had a little dream in the back of my head of what it would look like if I could create my own space kind of thing. But I really wasn't driven to do it until actually my mom was sick. And I was taken care of her. And so I needed a lot of flexibility to take care of them. And so I gradually pulled in some private pay clients and everything. And so we did that. And eventually it became something to look forward to. And so literally my credentialing was done at an MD Anderson waiting room. You know, you name it. And so at the end of the day,
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