From “Never” to Now: Building a Thriving Private Practice in a Small Town with Kansas Staffy
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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 Kastrikasbahn, and I'm so excited for you to meet today's guest, Kansas Staffi. Kansas is a speech language pathologist and the founder of Talk and Taste Pediatric Therapy in a rural area of Colorado, just outside of Grand Junction. Kansas specializes in both AAC and feeding. What's really incredible about her is that she Build a thriving private practice after moving to a new state. She had no connections in Colorado, and also swearing that she would never own a business.
In this episode, Kansas shares how she went from saying, I never want to be a business owner, to joining the Start Your Private Practice program and building up to a full caseload and becoming a trusted local resource for families who previously. Had no access to specialized care. In this episode, we talk about everything from what helped her make that powerful mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur, how she built a client base in a small rural community, the ways that she connected with other professionals and programs to grow her private practice, and how she built her schedule and systems around her health, her values, and her life. So if you've ever wondered if it's really possible to start a private practice in a small town, or if you've ever been on the fence about whether you can even do this at all, Kansas's story will show you what's possible when you get resourceful, persistent, trust yourself, and know exactly what to do.
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. 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? So my name's Kansas Staffy. I'm based in Delta and Montrose, Colorado. That's outside of Grand Junction, Colorado. It's about forty five minutes to an hour outside of there. Um and the name of my private practice is Talk and Taste Pediatric Therapy.
Kansas, I'm so excited to be doing this with you because I have gotten to know you a little bit in the start program. And I just want to, you know, use this as an opportunity for you to show people what is possible when you start your private practice. So before we talk about what your practice is like now, can we go back to kind of like your early career and share people kind of like how you got started in the field? And then at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
Yeah, so I started out in graduate school training and working under a really great mentor who taught me everything I know in AAC.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:31
2
How did Kansas’s mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur happen?
4:31–6:57
3
What health challenges and workplace audit triggered the move to private practice?
6:57–9:30
4
How did Kansas choose a rural Colorado location and define her practice focus?
9:30–12:14
5
What strategies did she use to build a client base in a small town?
12:14–14:47
6
How did partnerships with local OT, BCBA, and business incubator boost growth?
14:47–18:04
7
How did she design her schedule and systems around health, values, and life?
18:04–20:35
8
What are Kansas’s short‑term plans for hiring and expanding services?
20:35–28:30
Speakers
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