Growing Her Practice with Innovative Social Communication Groups with Mary Hadley
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Why did Mary decide to leave school‑based SLP work and start her own 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! Welcome to another episode of the Private Practice Success Stories Podcast. I'm your host, Jenna Castor-Kazvon, and today we have an incredible guest, Mary Hadley. Mary is a speech language pathologist with a private practice in Austin, Texas, who took the leap into private practice after facing a pivotal moment in her career. Now, she's offering a very innovative therapy model for kids and teens who need help with social communication. Mary is a former teacher who transitioned into the field of speech language pathology. She worked in the schools for several years until the pandemic hit.
And then, after a disappointing experience with her job, she joined the Start Your Private Practice program to learn how to get set up, started, and seeing private clients. Then she transitioned into the Grow Your Private Practice program to learn how to grow her impact and her income. Mary's focus is on kids and teens who need help with social communication. And get this, she's offering therapy and even created her own curriculum, which she delivers to her clients during the day at their schools and also in their after-school programs. In this episode, Mary also discusses how being in private practices helped her career fulfillment, flexibility for her family, and also her financial. Financial success as she's earning significantly more than when she was a school-based SLP.
Y'all, Mary was considering leaving the profession altogether, but starting a private practice helped her turn everything around. If you have found yourself at a crossroads in your career and are looking for more fulfillment, more flexibility, and increased finances, and or if you're curious about her innovative approach to helping kids with social communication issues, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned. 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.
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So before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private
practice? Sure. My name is Mary Hadley. My practice is sign, post, speech, and language therapy, and I'm in Austin, Texas.
So I am so excited to do this interview with you today. And I can't wait to hear about like how your practice is like now and have you share that with all of our listeners. But before we get to that, can you please share a little bit about how you got started in the field and when did you start thinking about Pratopractice?
So it was interesting. In high school, we had to do one of those, you know, what do you want to be when you grow up?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Mary decide to leave school‑based SLP work and start her own private practice?
0:00–5:52
2
How did Mary discover the need for social‑communication groups for kids and teens?
5:52–9:17
3
What financial and lifestyle benefits has Mary experienced since launching her practice?
9:17–13:28
4
How does Mary structure her therapy model to fit school days, after‑school programs, and family time?
13:28–17:35
5
What strategies did Mary use to overcome imposter syndrome and build confidence as a private practitioner?
17:35–22:29
6
How is Mary growing her practice—hiring staff, expanding to new schools, and diversifying income?
22:29–25:38
7
Why does Mary believe a website is enough and social media isn’t necessary for her business?
25:38–29:18
8
What advice does Mary give to SLPs/OTs who want to start or scale a private practice?
29:18–32:46
Speakers
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