From Business Major to Speech Therapist: How One SLP Built Her Dream Practice Early in Her Career with Abigail Meza
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What inspired Abigail to transition from a business degree to speech‑language pathology?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Welcome back to another episode of the Private Practice Success Stories Podcast. I'm your host, Jenna Caster Kasbon, and today I'm so excited for you to meet our guest, Abigail Mesa, the owner and founder of Shout It Out Speech Therapy in Chino Hills, California. Abigail is a 27-year-old speech language pathologist who took a unique path into the profession, starting with a business degree before discovering her passion for speech therapy during the Despite being a business major, Abigail knew that private practice was not covered in undergrad or grad school, so she joined the Start Your Private Practice program to learn how to get legally set up, how to market, and bill for her own private clients.
This is what gave her the courage and clarity to start her own private practice just two years post graduation, all while still working full time in the schools. In this episode, Abby shares how she discovered speech. therapy and fell in love with it, how she used her business background to help her with some of the aspects of running her practice, how she started seeing private clients on the side of her job while still actually really liking her job, and how her vision for her future family and flexibility Have inspired her to build something now that will support the life that she wants to have later. So if you've ever wondered whether you can really build a private practice on the side while working full time, or if you've ever thought, I'm too early in my career to start, then this episode will completely change your mind.
Abigail's story is such a wonderful reminder that you don't have to wait for the perfect time to start. You just have to start. So stay tuned. 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. So before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yeah, my name is Abigail Mesa. I am in Chino Hills, California, and my private practice's name is Shout About Speech Therapy.
Abigail, I'm so excited to be doing this with you today. Thank you for coming in and for, you know, telling our listeners about your private practice and how you got started and all those kind of things. But before we get to how your practice is now, can you please take us back to the beginning and how did you get started in the profession? And at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
Yeah, that's a great question. So, me coming into the profession, I have to backtrack because um I didn't come into the profession in the most conventional way.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Abigail to transition from a business degree to speech‑language pathology?
0:00–5:04
2
How did Abigail discover speech therapy during the pandemic and decide to pursue it?
5:04–8:12
3
What role did the Start Your Private Practice program play in launching her practice?
8:12–11:26
4
How did Abigail balance a full‑time school job while taking on private pediatric clients?
11:26–14:10
5
What marketing tactics does she use to attract new families to her practice?
14:10–17:43
6
How is Abigail planning to scale back her school position and grow her private practice?
17:43–21:24
7
What advice does she give to SLPs who are nervous about starting a private practice?
21:24–24:59
8
Where can listeners connect with Abigail and learn more about Shout It Out Speech Therapy?
24:59–29:04
Speakers
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