Pediatric Medical SLP to Private Practice SLP with Kyarra Bright
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What motivated Kyarra to start a private practice for infant feeding?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Kierra Upright is a speech language pathologist with a pediatric private practice in Orange County, California that specializes in infant feeding. She decided to start her own private practice after she was getting frustrated with patients being prematurely discharged and also not receiving enough continuing services, which led her to start her private practice called Little Pod Speech and Feeding Therapy. In this episode, Hiara highlights her desire to continue working at the hospital while having her private practice on the side, which allows her to maintain her passion for hospital work while providing continuity of care for her discharged patients.
Diara reflects on her journey inside of the Start Your Private Practice program and how the program helped her get set up and started, but also helped her redefine what success meant to her. If you're passionate about a certain niche in your field and you've been thinking about starting a private practice on the side, 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.
How did Kyarra’s early hospital experiences shape her niche focus?
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.
What community need did Kyarra identify that led to Little Pod Speech and Feeding Therapy?
If they can do it, you can do it too. So let's get started. Okay, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice?
Yes, so my name is Kiara Bright. I'm in Orange County, California, and the name of my practice is Little Paws Speech and Feeding Therapy.
So I am so excited to be doing this interview because I have seen you doing amazing things in the start program. And I want everyone to know what cool stuff you're doing. But before we get to that, can you please share a little bit about the beginning of your career and when did you start thinking about private practice?
Yeah, so honestly it all began when I did my last clinical rotation at Chalk Hospital, which is a pretty well known hospital in Orange County. And right off the bat I knew this was where I needed to be.
How did the Start Your Private Practice program help Kyarra launch her business?
I needed to be at a P hospital, but unfortunately they didn't have a CF position open. So I was determined to find something. And I eventually found a pediatric hospital in Loma Linda. Thank God for that. And this was a a very unique place because we had acute, we had subacute, and we had outpatients. So I kind of ditched my toes in multiple areas here. And subacute especially had my heart because the qualification to be a patient in subacute is you have to be trach and vent dependent and you have to be dependent on alternative means of nutrition.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What motivated Kyarra to start a private practice for infant feeding?
0:00–2:04
2
How did Kyarra’s early hospital experiences shape her niche focus?
2:04–2:48
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What community need did Kyarra identify that led to Little Pod Speech and Feeding Therapy?
2:48–3:38
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How did the Start Your Private Practice program help Kyarra launch her business?
3:38–4:45
5
How did Kyarra land her first client and build early referrals?
4:45–5:49
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How does Kyarra balance a hospital job with a side‑private practice?
5:49–7:04
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What new definition of success did Kyarra discover through her practice?
7:04–8:13
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What are Kyarra’s future plans for expanding impact locally and internationally?
8:13–27:59
Speakers
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