You're Not Too Young or Too Old: How to Start a Private Practice at Any Age
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Why do clinicians think they’re too young or too old to start a private practice?
Starting a private practice isn't what it used to be. Today's clinicians are starting private practices much quicker, easier, and cheaper than before. And they aren't guessing their way through it or getting stuck in analysis paralysis, they're following a tried-and-trude roadmap in order to save time, money, and frustration. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel or struggle to figure out how to start a private practice on your own. We've helped thousands of SLPs and OTs through this process and now we want to help you too. For a limited time, I'm offering a free copy of our private practice roadmap, specifically for SLPs and OTs who are curious about private practice and want to see what the journey looks like.
To download your free copy, please visit startyourprivatepractice.com backslash roadmap to sign up. Now on to the episode. Worried that you're too young or too new to the profession to start a private practice? Or worried that you're too old and that you've missed the boat? Today's episode is going to feature an excerpt from my new book, The Path to Private Practice, where I will share the reality behind when you should start your private practice and what the current trend data shows. So if your age or experience has kept you from starting your private practice, this is a must-listen episode. 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.
One of the things that I hear all of the time from SLPs and OTs who are interested in starting private practices are fears of being either too young or too old. So when I was writing my book, The Path to Private Practice, I knew that I had to address this topic and give examples of people of all ages and stages who have gone into private practice despite their hesitations. When I first created the Start Your Private Practice program, the median age of people joining was 35. Now it's 30. This is because younger SLPs notes are taking control of their professional, personal, and financial lives in starting private practices much sooner than people used to. Now that's not to say that we don't have people enrolling in the Start Your Private Practice program who aren't in their 50s and 60s.
We absolutely do. And you're going to hear about one of them in a second, but the trend data is skewing younger and younger. But let's talk about why. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this excerpt from The Path to Private Practice called How to Start a Private Practice at Any Age. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese proverb. I started my private practice decades before I planned to. There are a lot of myths about private practice. One big myth is that you have to wait until the end of your career to start a private practice. I think this is based on the image that people have when they think of Predra practitioners. They usually think of people who are in their late 40s or 50s because that's how old the guest speaker was in graduate school.
When younger private practitioners start to think about private practice, they start comparing themselves to older people, which makes them second-guess their ability to start a business and sparks insecurities about being taken seriously. There are also older clinicians who have treated thousands of clients but didn't start private practices.
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