Opening a Specialty Practice + Multiple Streams of Income with Sydney Bassard
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Sydney Bessard is a speech language pathologist who specializes in working with deaf and hard of hearing children and literacy. After gaining experience on a cochlear implant team, And by working in another private practice, she decided to start her own. Sydney is a great example of an SLP who started her private practice early in her career, as soon as she had something to bring to the table. In this episode, Sydney also talks about two other streams of income that she's pursuing and how she plans to hire an independent contractor for her private practice in the future. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who is newer to the profession but knows that they want to start a private practice, anyone who wants to specialize, and also folks who are multi-passionate and are interested in having multiple streams of income and having your private practice be just one of them.
We'll discuss all of that and more on this episode of the Private Practice Success Stories podcast, so stay tuned. I'm Jenna Castro-Casbon, 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 I'm so excited to be interviewing you today. Can you please share your name, your location,
and the name of your private practice? Yeah, thank you so much for having me on. So my name is Sydney Bessard. I own The Listening SLP LLC, and we are based out of Charlotte, North Carolina.
So Sydney, I have known who you are online for years and I've watched your Instagram account and it's so much fun to watch you shift from kind of doing what you were doing before to stepping into the role of private practitioner. So what I'd love to explore a little bit with you today is, what was your early career like as an SLP? And how did you get to this place where you decided to open your own private practice? But take us back to the beginning of your life as an SLP.
Yeah, so mine, I would say definitely started when I was in grad school. I did a track for working with children with hearing loss, really focusing on listening and spoken language techniques. And so I knew that I wanted to work on a cochlear implant team. I came out of grad school with several different offers and none of them were working on a cochlear implant team in a hospital. And so my internship that I was doing at the time had an opening and I put in and I got it and I got to work on an implant team in a hospital. And it was one of the best experiences. I did that for two years working in outpatient pediatrics and in Virginia. And I loved it. I loved my ENT that I got to work with.
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