How to Put Yourself Out There with Amanda Modrowski
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What motivated Amanda to start her own private practice despite a busy life?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice dot com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Amanda Mandrowski is a private practitioner in Toledo, Ohio, who started her private practice at what most people would think was a bad time. She already had a full-time job, a toddler, was pregnant, house hunting, and had a needy dog too. But rather than let those things stop her, she joined the Start Your Private Practice program and started building a private practice so that she could spend more time with her family. A mentor of mine once said, you can either let your kids be the excuse or the reason. And Amanda is a great example of someone who started her private practice, put herself out there, and is now on my mentor team helping other students just like you get started.
One of Amanda's favorite things to help our students with is marketing, which she shares some pretty incredible marketing strategies on the episode that you're about to listen to. So if putting yourself out there is something that you're worried about, make sure that you listen to the whole episode for some great tips and strategies. If you have a lot of things going on in your life and you need to hear that it is possible to start a private practice even with a lot of distractions, this episode is for you. 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?
Yeah, my name is Amanda Mandrowski. I'm a speech language pathologist and I am a private practice owner in Toledo, Ohio, called Enhancing Communication.
And Amanda is first of all, Amanda and I have gotten to know each other over the years. First, she was a member of my Start Your Private Practice program. And then she was, you know, so eager and did such good work. And also then started helping some of our other members that she then became a mentor for the program because she was, you know, so, you know, giving to those who were coming up behind her. And she even does the welcome calls for. Our brand new students. So as you're listening to Amanda's interview, know that if you end up joining the program, you'll also get to know Amanda as one of the mentors. So before we kind of learn more about your practice and where you are now, can we go back to the your early days as a speech pathologist and maybe what kind of, you know, either settings or jobs or whatever?
And at what point did you start thinking about private practice? Practice.
Yeah, um I've kind of been everywhere. I started out the gate at a skilled nursing facility and then I switched to a nonprofit, which was kind of like an outpatient, and we had some charter school contracts.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What motivated Amanda to start her own private practice despite a busy life?
0:00–6:02
2
How did Amanda transition from full‑time school work to full‑time private practice?
6:02–10:44
3
What early career experiences led Amanda to consider private practice?
10:44–15:06
4
How did Amanda overcome fear and build confidence to launch her practice?
15:06–19:30
5
What creative marketing tactics does Amanda use to attract clients?
19:30–24:10
6
How can private‑pay families afford services using scholarships and payment hacks?
24:10–29:34
7
Why is specialization (e.g., oral‑facial myofunctional therapy) important for growth?
29:34–34:14
8
What practical advice does Amanda give to busy clinicians starting out?
34:14–38:59
Speakers
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