How An Unconventional Career Path Led to SLP and Private Practice with Jaimie Gant
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Starting a private practice isn't what it used to be. Today's clinicians are starting private practices much quicker, easier, and cheaper than before. And they aren't guessing their way through it or getting stuck in analysis paralysis, they're following a tried-and-trude roadmap in order to save time, money, and frustration. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel or struggle to figure out how to start a private practice on your own. We've helped thousands of SLPs and OTs through this process and now we want to help you too. For a limited time, I'm offering a free copy of our private practice roadmap, specifically for SLPs and OTs who are curious about private practice and want to see what the journey looks like.
To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Jamie Gant is a speech language pathologist with a private practice in Tampa, Florida. Her previous career in law enforcement led her to discover the field of the speech language pathology, and she was driven to open her own private practice by the desire to be her own boss. I've gotten to know Jamie during her time in the Start Your Private Practice program, and it has been so fun to watch her navigate this journey. Then I got to meet her in real life at the Asha Convention, and y'all, Jamie is awesome. In this episode, she talks about her unconventional path to becoming an SLP, how networking helped her find more clients, and why she recommends a five-year plan for clinicians to determine if private practice is right for them.
If you also have a unique path to being an SLP or an OT and you want to know how to integrate that into your private practice, this is a must-listen episode, 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.
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 Jamie Gantt. My practice is Avec Therapy Services and it is located in the Seminole Heights area of Tampa, Florida. So,
Jamie, I'm so excited to dive into this with you because I've known you as a student in the START program and I've watched you, you know, on Instagram and everything else. But before we talk about what your private practice is like now, can you take us back to the beginning of your career as an SLP and also share when did you start thinking about private practice?
Yeah, so I definitely did not have a traditional path to becoming an SLP. And it's a little chaotic, but to go all the way back, I really started working in healthcare in my teens. I really thought I was gonna be a doctor someday. So that's what I went for in college. And I really quickly learned that math and science were like not for me. Bad choice. And so I ended up switching around and I went for criminology. And that led me into a few different types of careers in law enforcement. So I worked in a county jail. I worked in a state prison. I did a lot of medical things in both of those arenas. And then my most settled job, I was a medical malpractice investigator for the Florida Department of Health.
And I really liked the job. It was great. But if anyone knows that has worked for state government, it did not pay super well. But while I was there, I had a case where a person unfortunately died in the hospital.
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