From Overwhelmed Owner to Strategic CEO: Growing a Successful Therapy Practice with Christina Galeano
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What inspired Christina Galeano to start Kidspeak Speech‑Language Therapy Services?
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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 Castor Kasbon, and today I'm so excited for you to meet our guest, Christina Galliano. Christina is a speech language pathologist and the founder of Kids Speak Speech Language Therapy Services, a thriving multi-location private practice serving Southern California. She's also a mom of three who navigated a major career. Pivot and build a business through a global pandemic and personal upheaval. I got to know Christina during both my Money Metrics workshop and the Grow Your Private Practice program.
When we first met, Christina was completely overwhelmed and in the messy middle. By getting the business training that she needed during her time in the Grow program, she completely turned her private practice around. and went from being a burnt out owner to a private practice CEO Who was fully able to support her team across multiple locations and finally have the flexibility she needed to be present for her family. In this episode, we talk about everything from the pivotal moment that she realized that she needed to build a business that was bigger than herself. We also talk about some hard business lessons, from uncashed claims to lawsuits that shaped her growth, and how implementing simple money making
Metrics transformed her practice from surviving to strategically thriving. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the business side of private practice or wondered how to scale beyond a solo operation, this is just what you need. Christina's transparency, resilience, and heart will inspire you to keep moving forward, 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 begin, can you please share your
name, your location, and the name of your private practice? I am Christina Galeano and I'm with Kids Speak Speech Language Therapy Services Inc. And we are in Southern California. Right now we are in Brea, Irvine, Gardingford, Chino and Corona.
Okay. So, Christina, I am so looking forward to having our listeners hear your story. I've gotten to know you through our programs, but I really want other people to know what it is really like to grow a private practice and what does that look like in real life? So before we get to that stage though, please take us back to the beginning. Tell us how did you get interested in the field and what did the early days of your professional? what professional life look like and when did you start thinking about private practice?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Christina Galeano to start Kidspeak Speech‑Language Therapy Services?
0:00–6:37
2
How did the pandemic and personal life changes force Christina to pivot and build a bigger business?
6:37–12:06
3
What were the biggest hiring and billing challenges she faced while scaling?
12:06–17:23
4
How did implementing simple money‑metrics transform the practice from surviving to thriving?
17:23–22:23
5
What legal and financial setbacks (un‑cashed claims, lawsuits, insurance leaks) taught her about risk management?
22:23–27:42
6
How did Christina expand to multiple locations while keeping the team culture strong?
27:42–32:45
7
What are Christina’s goals for the future of her practice and her role as CEO?
32:45–38:50
8
What final advice and resources does she share for clinicians wanting to start or grow a private practice?
38:50–44:40
Speakers
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