Using Grants to Fund Your Private Practice with Anne Marie Flood
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What is the overall purpose of starting a private practice today?
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To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Anne-Marie Flood is a speech language pathologist who got her start in the schools. Then, she picked up a few clients for a teletherapy company before going all in on her private practice after participating in one of our private practice bootcamp events. Fast forward a bit, and she's since joined the Grow Your Private Practice program and now has a brick-and-mortar space, employees, and the flexible schedule that she needs for her family. Some cool things that we discuss in the episode include how as a homeschool
parent herself, she's been able to attract homeschoolers as clients, and how hiring a virtual assistant has been a game changer for her practice. If you've been thinking about starting and growing a private practice and want to
hear how Anne Marie did it, 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.
So before we dive in, can you please share your name, your location, and the name of your private practice? So I'm Anne Marie Flood, I am in Arnold, Maryland, and my practice is play and thrive speech therapy. So I'm so excited to be doing this today because I've gotten to know you in the Grow program and you've had some pretty cool developments lately in terms of growing your practice. But before we talk about what your private practice looks like today, can you take us back to the beginning of your career and then also kind of when did you start thinking about private practice? Well, uh, speech therapy is actually my second career. I was originally a Spanish teacher and I taught in public schools and I taught in private schools and I just I didn't love it.
And so I took some time off after having kids to really reevaluate what it was that I enjoyed about teaching and what I didn't. And I settled on speech therapy as a good way. I mean it's still, you know, explore my love of languages and working with kids in a more individualized way. And it really ended up being a great fit. And so when I graduated with two toddlers, I went into working in the schools, which after having taught and not enjoyed it, probably wasn't the best idea because I just kind of reinforced that I don't Really love that. Particular structure. I don't like some of the difficulties and dealing with just the barriers in place. And I had started looking into working for a private practice.
And I had even had a job lined up that fell apart when COVID happened. And so instead, I kept my school district job and started doing teletherapy on the side.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the overall purpose of starting a private practice today?
0:00–5:21
2
How did Anne Marie transition from teaching to speech‑language pathology?
5:21–12:23
3
What motivated her to move from teletherapy to a full‑time private practice?
12:23–29:39
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How did she discover and secure a grant to cover her clinic’s rent?
29:39–31:15
Speakers
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