How Having an Autistic Sibling Inspired a Neurodiversity Affirming Private Practice with Grace Hedgecock
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What inspired Grace Hedgecock to start a neurodiversity‑affirming private practice?
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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 Caster Kasbon, and I'm thrilled for you to meet today's guest, Grace Hedgecock. Grace is a speech language pathologist and the founder of Hedgehog Speech Therapy in the Bay Area of California. Her journey into this field is deeply personal and inspired by her autistic older brother and by one of his speech therapists who told her, you would make a great speech. Speech therapist Grace. In this episode, Grace shares her path from being a dedicated employee in someone else's private practice to starting her own thriving private practice.
Now, I got to know Grace during her time in the Grow Your Private Practice program, where I helped her take her existing private practice to the next level. In this episode, we talk about everything from that pivotal moment of leaping into full Time private practice where she trusted her faith without a clear safety net. We also talked about how she strategically used preschool screenings to build trust with schools and generate referrals, as well as how she was able to design her ideal schedule in order to prevent burnout and serve both early intervention clients and older autistic clients. So if you've ever felt called to build a private practice that truly reflects your values and life experience, but analysis paralysis has been holding you back.
This is a must-listen episode. Grace's story is a powerful reminder that you can start, adapt, and build something that is uniquely yours. 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. So before we get started, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yeah, so my name is Grace Hedgecock. Um the name of my practice is Hedgehog Speech Therapy, and um I'm located in Saratoga in the Bay Area in California. So
Grace, I have been wanting to get you on the show because I know that you've had a fabulous journey in private practice, but also some really unique things that brought you to private practice. Before we talk about what your private practice is like now, can you take us back to the beginning, like when you started in the field? And then at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
Yeah. So I feel like it goes back to when I was I think maybe in first or second grade. Um, I have an older brother um with autism or an autistic older brother and I saw him doing speech therapy when he was little.
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