Part-Time Hours, Full-Time Pay and Fridays Off with Marissa Joy
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Marissa Joy is a speech language pathologist with a private practice in eastern Pennsylvania. Her private practice, Ripple Speech Services, focuses on speech, myofunctional, and feeding therapy, and she's also offered lactation consulting. In this episode, Marissa discusses her decision to open her private practice due to personal experiences with her son's feeding issues and a desire to help other parents avoid the struggles that she faced. She shares that she joined the Start Your Private Practice program because she wanted guidance and structure to launch her business. And boy has she.
In addition to seeing her private clients, Marissa has also secured a small school contract, which has provided some extra financial stability while maintaining the flexibility to focus on her private practice and her family. This arrangement has allowed her to balance her personal and professional life, including spending more time with her children. The cool thing is that she just celebrated her two-year private practice anniversary this week. And this week alone, she made $2,000 through her private practice in one week. Oh, and she doesn't work on Fridays during the summer. How cool is that? So if you've been thinking about working part-time in private practice so that you can have more flexibility for your family and you have specific populations that you want to work with, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned.
I'm Jenna Castro-Kazvan, CEO of the Independent Clinician and founder of Private Practice School. First, I started my own private practice. And then, over the past 15 years, I've worked with over 10,000 SLPs and OTs to start and grow their successful private practices so they can have more freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and finances. I created the Private Practice Success Stories podcast. to share what's possible for you, your family, your clients, and your community when you choose private practice. We'll share everything from small private practice side hustles to flexible lifestyle private practices to traditional brick and mortar practices, and everything in between. You'll meet regular clinicians, just like you, who followed our steps and are now living their private practice dreams.
If they can do it, you can do it too. So let's get started. Hey Marza, how's it going? Hi, good over here. Oh my gosh. I'm so fantastic. Happy Thursday. Air into that. We've made it through the week and I saw something really cool on your stories earlier, which I want to get to that in a little bit. Yes. Um but before we do that, can you please just kind of introduce yourself and share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
My name is Marissa Joy. I am located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, just between Allentown and Reading, and my private practice is named Ripple Speech Services. Which
I totally love and I'm also I'd also be curious to hear like how you came up with the name of your practice because I always just love to hear that. Yeah. But also before we get to that, can you just share with people like how did you get involved in the profession? How did you pick this career? And then at what point did you start thinking about private practice?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main focus of this episode and who is the guest?
0:00–5:39
2
How did Marissa Joy’s personal experience with her son’s feeding issues inspire her to start a private practice?
5:39–9:40
3
What steps did Marissa take to launch Ripple Speech Services, including joining the Start Your Private Practice program?
9:40–14:30
4
How did Marissa land her first client and grow her client base in a rural area?
14:30–23:52
5
What role did the school contract play in providing financial stability while maintaining flexibility?
23:52–34:27
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