From Contractor to Confident Owner: Designing a Practice on Your Terms with Rebecca Wellons
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What inspired Rebecca to transition from hospital work to pediatric speech therapy?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Private Practice Success Stories Podcast. I'm your host, Jenna Castrak-Kasbon, and I'm so excited for you to meet today's guest, Rebecca Wellens. Rebecca is a speech language pathologist and the founder of Little Seed Speech Therapy in Durham, North Carolina. When she entered the field in 2020, she was hoping to work with adults in medical settings. Instead, she found herself stepping into pediatric home health and early intervention. During one of the most uncertain times of our profession. What started as a detour turned into clarity.
Because in this episode, Rebecca shares how working as a contractor gave her her first taste of autonomy. She realized that she could cap her caseload, shape her schedule, and create space for herself. That experience planted the seed for private practice. Now, I got to know Rebecca inside of the Start Your Private Practice program. Which is what she used to go from zero private practice experience and background to having a fully fledged private practice. One of the cool things that happens in this interview is she opens up about discovering that she's neurodivergent and how that realization changed everything. So instead of forcing herself into rigid systems, she began designing a private practice that works for her.
If you've ever wondered whether private practice could give you more control over your time, Time, your clinical focus, or your energy, then this conversation is exactly what you need to hear. Rebecca's story is thoughtful, steady, and grounded, and she shows you that you don't have to rush into private practice. You can start small, you can move slowly, and you can build something aligned with exactly how you work best. So let's dive in. 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.
How did working as a contractor give Rebecca her first taste of autonomy?
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?
I'm Rebecca Wellins. I am a speech therapist in Durham, North Carolina, and my practice is called little seed speech therapy.
Rebecca, I'm so happy to have you on and for you to share with our listeners kind of what your journey to private practice has been like and really how, you know, some early beginnings have shaped, you know, the way that you're running your practice now. So before we talk about what that is, can you please take us back to the beginning of your career and, you know, tell me what kind of settings you worked in or all that kind of stuff?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Rebecca to transition from hospital work to pediatric speech therapy?
0:00–3:08
2
How did working as a contractor give Rebecca her first taste of autonomy?
3:08–6:19
3
Why did Rebecca decide to cap her caseload and design her own schedule?
6:19–10:12
4
How did discovering her neurodivergence change the way she builds her practice?
10:12–15:07
5
What steps did Rebecca take to set up her private practice legally and financially?
15:07–19:39
6
Which clinical specialties (late talkers, apraxia, myofunctional therapy) shape her practice model?
19:39–23:28
7
How does Rebecca balance her work schedule, midday breaks, and personal life?
23:28–25:39
8
What advice does Rebecca give to clinicians who are hesitant to start a private practice?
25:39–26:04
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