Helping Underserved Communities Locally and Abroad: Sandy's Story
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode On this episode of the Private Practice Success Stories podcast, you will meet Sandy Dorsey. Sandy is a speech language pathologist in private practice in Manhattan, and she also has a nonprofit called Smiles for Speech. One of the cool things about Sandy is she is passionate about making a local impact and a global impact. There are actually a lot of private practitioners I talk to who are interested in starting nonprofits because they have. They have big, big dreams and they have a lot of people that they want to help and not just in their local community. So, if you're interested in learning about both private practice and starting a nonprofit, then this episode is going to be perfect for you.
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All right, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
My name is Sandy Dorsey and I am in New York City. My practice is called All About Speech. So
I am so excited to talk to you tonight, Sandy. I've been following you on Instagram for a while, and I feel like I kind of know you from Instagram, which tell everybody what your Instagram handles are real quick. So people mainly
know me for smiles for speech, but my practice is all about speech.
NYC. Perfect. And we're going to talk about both of those things during this interview. But before we can talk about Smiles of Speech, which came later, right? Right. We got to start talking about the beginning of your private practice journey, which for most people starts like at some point during their early career as an SLP. So can you tell us a little bit about how you started as an SLP and what your kind of early career was like? And then at what point did Did you start to think about private practice?
Sure. So I actually when I found out about the field, which was my freshman year orientation, I was originally a broadcast journalism major and I heard about speech pathology and how you can be independent. So I actually always saw myself as an entrepreneur and, you know, wanting to make decisions for myself and do things. My way, you know, really thinking about the way that how people were treated and wanting people to be treated, you know, like they're special. And you know, starting off in New York City, I I started off doing early intervention evals, and then I worked at a a middle school in Harlem, and I didn't feel as that supported by. The company that I was working with. And really during that early journey, I felt alone, you know, a lot of times.
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