How to Increase Your Financial Security Through Private Practice with Danni Augustine
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What are the biggest challenges SLPs face with salary and financial security?
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and want to see what the journey looks like. To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. 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.
Danny Augustine is a speech language pathologist who started her private practice and was then able to pay off $52,000 worth of student loans. Danny is a huge advocate of SLPs having more financial stability and security by earning more money and investing in their future. I first got to know Danny in the Start Your Private Practice program, where she joined and took immediate action and started her private practice off with a bang. Now she has a full time private practice serving children. She earns a great living, sets her own hours, and can choose which clients she wants to see. And she's earning enough to live comfortably while saving and investing enough to work toward the goal that she and her husband have of retiring in their 40s.
Yes, you got that right. Danny shares her financial tips and strategies on her speech goods Instagram account and on her podcast. And today you'll hear about how you can have more financial security by starting your own private practice. So stay tuned.
All right. Hello everyone. I am live with Danny Augustine of Speech Goods from Instagram. Um, Danny is a speech language pathologist who went through the Start Your Private Practice program and now has an awesome private practice. And she also knows a ton about finances and financial literacy, and she's trying to help SLPs really level up. their financial game. So when I wanted to have someone come on to talk about increasing your financial security by seeing private clients, Danny was the guest that I obviously thought of. So I just gave a little bit of background audio, but Danny, can you tell our watchers slash listeners a little bit more about yourself?
Yeah, so well first of all, thank you so much for having me on. If if none of y'all haven't kind of listened to any of Jenna and I's talks before, we can just talk on and on and on about this topic. Yes. But just as she said, I am one of her I'm one of her former students. Well, I guess current I still go in the group all the time and look at things. Um I still go in the group all the time. Um, but yes, honestly, uh my management journey started whenever I got out of grad school. I had a mountain of student loan debt. I had $52,000 worth of student loan debt. And I know there's many of you out there who may have twice that amount. Um, and the biggest thing was just I just felt so burdened by the amount of student loan debt that I had, especially in comparison to the income that I was making as an SLP.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the biggest challenges SLPs face with salary and financial security?
0:00–9:51
2
How did Danni Augustine transition from a salaried SLP to a successful private practice?
9:51–18:30
3
What strategies did Danni use to pay off $52,000 in student loans in under three years?
18:30–26:18
4
How can private practice provide freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment for SLPs?
26:18–37:32
5
What is relationship marketing and how does it help grow a boutique‑style therapy practice?
37:32–48:12
6
How did Danni scale her practice by hiring an independent contractor and what lessons can others learn?
48:12–58:31
7
Why is crunching the numbers essential for budgeting, pricing, and achieving financial goals?
58:31–1:05:16
Speakers
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