How This SLP Built a Practice That Let Her Travel to Australia for a Month (while her practice runs without her!) with Britt Meropoulis
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What is Britt Meropoulis’s background and why did she leave school‑based SLP work?
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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 to today's episode of the Private Practice Success Stories Podcast. Today I'm so excited to introduce you to our guest, Britt Maropoulos, a speech language pathologist and founder of Dream Pediatric Services in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Britt has an incredible journey in the field of speech language pathology. From the very beginning of her career, she knew that she wanted to carve out her own path in the field. And so after working in the schools and feeling like the traditional system was not the right fit for her, she decided exploring private practice and started taking on clients, which ultimately led to her having a thriving and in demand private practice.
Okay, get this part. She has grown her private practice to the point where it will continue to run and flourish while she and her family are about to embark on a one-month vacation to Australia. That's what can happen when you grow your private practice the right way. Another cool thing about Brit is that she has continued to innovate and expand her impact beyond traditional therapy. One of her most unique initiatives is called Dream Dough, a play-based sensory-friendly dough. What started off as just a creative tool for her own sessions has actually blossomed into a second business, one that supports kids, families, and therapists. If you're multipassionate and would love to be able to grow your practice to the point that you could take an entire month off while your business is self sustaining,
then this is a fantastic episode for you to listen to, 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 dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yes, I'm Britt Miropolis. I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. And my business is called Dream Pediatric Services.
So Britt, it has been so much fun to get to know you in the Grow Your Private Practice program. So I've really gotten to see some of your growth over the last year. But before we talk about that, can you please take us back to the beginning of your career and kind of share a little bit about that? And then also when did you start thinking about private practice?
I would say I was always thinking about private practice. From the moment I knew I wanted to be an SLP, it was on my mind. Probably one of the reasons I chose this career path. So I graduated and started working in 2015. And I worked in schools full-time and that's kind of the path that most of us take here based on our education system.
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Chapters
3 chapters
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What is Britt Meropoulis’s background and why did she leave school‑based SLP work?
0:00–14:36
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How did Britt shift her mindset to start taking private‑practice clients while still working in schools?
14:36–35:29
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What strategies did Britt use to grow her caseload and transition to full‑time private practice?
35:29–39:42
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