Transitioning From the Schools to Private Practice with Kim Jenkins
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Kevin Jenkins is a pediatric speech language pathologist with a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She started her private practice in 2018 after feeling inspired to become her own boss. In this episode, she talks about how she started her private practice journey by seeing clients on the side while working full-time in the schools, and how she now loves the freedom, flexibility, and control over her schedule that she gets from owning her own private practice. If you're interested in learning more about how to transition from the schools to private practice and you're excited to be your own boss too, this is a must-listen episode, so stay tuned.
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.
All right, so before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location,
and the name of your private practice? My name is Kim Jenkins, and my practice is empowering speech services, and we are located in Noton, Georgia.
So I'm so excited to be doing this interview with you. I feel like we've kind of known each other from private practice world, but I would love to hear like how you got started in private practice. So can you please share with our listeners like a little bit about what you were doing before and then what made you start thinking about private practice?
Well, that's a great question. So I actually have been a pediatric speech language pathologist for about twenty-five years, twenty-six years maybe. And I was working in the school system. My at husband at the time, I'm divorced now, but we moved to the Atlanta, Georgia area. And so I was working part-time in the schools. And then when I got divorced in twenty eighteen, I started working full time in the schools, but that wasn't enough income to be able to take care of my bills and to live comfortably on my own. So I started seeing kids on the side privately through another speech pathologist. And that's kind of how I got started in the private practice world. I love that. And I
love that you like recognize that you had a need, right? That you're like, okay, I'm this salary is not going up, right? I got to do something about this. And then you start seeing private clients. Like I love it when people do it that way.
At the time it was just overwhelming to think about doing that. I really had zero desire. But it wasn't until I actually had to consider doing something extra in order to supplement my income that I realized how much I actually enjoyed. the autonomy of working well at the time I was working for someone else as a in private practice, but that helped to plant a seed to make me consider going out on my own, just like your podcast did.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–11:24
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What motivated Kim Jenkins to transition from school‑based SLP work to private practice?
11:24–13:17
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How did Kim start seeing her first private‑practice clients while still working full‑time in schools?
13:17–27:39
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Why is setting a concrete start‑date important for launching a private practice?
27:39–30:32
Speakers
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