Leaving the SNF Life Behind: Finding Purpose Again in Private Practice with Meghan Powers
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How did Meghan Powers decide to leave the SNF world and start her own 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 Castor Kasbon, and I'm so excited for you to meet today's guest, Megan Powers. Megan is a speech language pathologist and the founder of Gateway to the Rockies Speech Therapy in Aurora, Colorado. After years of working in skilled nursing facilities and navigating things like productivity pressures and watching corporate policies get in the way of real patient care. Megan decided that she had had enough. She knew there had to be a better way, one where she could truly focus on her clients, honor her values, and still make time for what matters most, her family.
In this episode, Megan shares how she went from completely being burned out in the sniff world to building a thriving private practice that gives her freedom, fulfillment, and flexibility. In this episode, we talk about everything. Everything from making the leap from employee to business owner without overthinking it, building a strong referral relationship network with genuine connection, balancing parenthood, life, and business with intention, and why she believes that more of us should be in private practice. If you've ever thought, could I really do this? Then Megan's story will remind you that yes, you absolutely can. Megan is proof that Trusting your skills, your values, and your instincts can lead to a private practice and a life that actually fits.
So let's dive in. 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, so I'm Megan Powers. I live in Aurora, Colorado, and my private practice name is Gateway to the Rocky Speech Therapy. Which I
I love your name by the way. I think it's a fantastic name. I love that it's got like the local flavor and everything else. So, you know, I've gotten to know you, Megan, in the start program and you've done a fantastic job in there getting your practice up and running. But what I would love to start with is cause you can you take our listeners back to kind of how you got started in the profession and then at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
Sure. Mine actually starts when I was just about going to go to college. I was kind of wondering what I would do, nursing, teaching, and I graduated from high school a semester early. I would go over and babysit my cousin, who had a speech therapist coming to the house.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Meghan Powers decide to leave the SNF world and start her own private practice?
0:00–9:56
2
What early experiences sparked Meghan’s interest in speech‑language pathology?
9:56–17:34
3
Why did Meghan feel the need to quit her SNF job and become an independent clinician?
17:34–27:03
4
How did Meghan transition from full‑time SNF work to part‑time assisted‑living and then full‑time private practice?
27:03–36:12
5
What client populations does Gateway to the Rockies focus on and why?
36:12–44:40
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