From Early Career Burnout to Private Practice Joy With Corinne Zmoos
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What early career burnout experiences led Corinne to consider private practice?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Corinne Zamoose is a speech language pathologist in the DC area who experienced early career burnout. She was tired of the expectation that she should be an expert generalist at her job in early intervention and felt trapped. Now, Corinne is very creative and musically inclined and decided to start teaching children's music classes on the side of her job. While several of those parents knew she was a speech language pathologist. And came up to her after class asking to work with her privately. I'll let her tell the full story. But needless to say, this brought up some internal doubts as to whether or not she was capable of being a private practitioner, given her having ADHD and wondering if private practice was something that she could do.
Luckily, Corinne found the systems and structure that she needed in order to be successful inside. Of both the Start and Grow Your Private Practice programs. In this episode, she talks about what it took for her to start her private practice, how she started off as a mobile therapist before transitioning to her own clinic space, what types of clients she serves and how she serves them in very creative ways, and what her plans are for the future, in terms of helping not only just clients, but clinicians too, as she's planning to hire and launch. digital products. If you're feeling burned out in your current job and are thinking about private practice, this is an amazing episode for you to listen to.
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.
Okay, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Hi, my name is Corinne Smith. I am from Baltimore, Maryland, and I am the owner of Crescendo Communication.
Brynn it has been so cool watching you start your practice and grow it. And one of the things that I really appreciate you is that you do things your own way, right? And you are the perfect person to be in private practice who is like creating your own situation for yourself and for your clients. And I can't wait for our listeners to hear how you're doing that. So before we dive into what you're doing now, can Can you take us back to the beginning of your career and like how you kind of got started as a speech pathologist? And then when did you start thinking about private practice?
Hmm, so many great questions. Well, I got my start. I had a really wonderful grad program and I also had some pretty wonderful clinical supervisors. One of them happened to be you.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What early career burnout experiences led Corinne to consider private practice?
0:00–5:34
2
How did Corinne’s side‑hustle teaching music classes spark the idea of a private practice?
5:34–9:46
3
What challenges did Corinne face when she first imagined becoming a business owner?
9:46–13:11
4
How did word‑of‑mouth referrals fuel the rapid growth of Crescendo Communication?
13:11–17:04
5
What unique services does Corinne offer, and why does she love Gestalt language processing?
17:04–20:49
6
How did the pandemic shift Corinne’s practice model and lead to the Messy Happy Music Lab?
20:49–25:24
7
What systems and structures from the Start & Grow programs helped Corinne build her practice?
25:24–29:06
8
What future projects and collaborations is Corinne planning for her multidisciplinary hub?
29:06–33:58
Speakers
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