Tag: #slpeeps
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Tackling Professionalism
How the term Professionalism Hinders Belonging and Wellness Culture I remember saying “I am a black woman in leadership who has a low register tone tasked to provide feedback to people whose academic programs and supervisory experiences have not provided their contact with a ‘me’ as a professional” We need objective measures in place. Between…
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Papercuts.
What Planned Ignoring Does and Why We Shouldn’t Get Comfortable With It It hurts my feelings to be ignored. She said it. In her full five year old boldness. And I understood it. I quickly got it. It gave me pause and moved me to think about how ignoring (planned or unplanned) is dismissive of…
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For The Sake of Human Dignity
Cultivating Care Within Problem Behavior While Serving People For the last few months, my family has had to make some really tough medical decisions with and for a beloved family member. Like many people, we are faced with caring for ourselves, our children, and loved ones at different points in their lives. It’s made me…
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Being the Same Will Not Do
Why Pruning Matters… My favorite flowers are Tulips. But I especially love Peonies and Hydrangeas. Fortunately, #TraderJoes keeps a nice stock of fresh flowers and I travel there almost weekly. Though I love flowers, I am a *clears throat * low activity individual when it comes for the care that fresh flowers require. On my…
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If You’re Private Pay, Rethink your Pricing Structure…NOW.
I see many colleagues in speech or even learning specialists discuss being private pay and the woes in finding clients. They also discuss the ease in documentation. While, I am in a group who thinks that documentation standards should be adhered to no matter private pay or third party reimbursement, I do believe that pricing…
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Dirty Hands Don’t Shake Hands
Why Getting in the Trenches Doesn’t Work in Leadership Picture This. I’m at Target and the lines are long. I am in self-checkout realizing that I wish I would have stood in the staffed check-out line…because who wants to work and check themselves out. Center to the self-check out line is a woman looking at…
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Women Do It Better
Top 5 Reasons Why Women Make Great Leaders I love being a woman. And I KNOW we just do it better. I am a mother. Yesterday as I swept the kitchen floor, I reminded myself repeatedly “I am a clinical leader. I am an influencer. I do more than this”. Clearly, I was having a…
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GUILT.
The Unspoken Feeling that the Forever Seeking Balance Career Focused Woman Feels I write from a personal place outing myself in the hopes that more women will begin to have real conversations about sacrifice. Our beautiful successes, desires for more in our careers and life, our journeys, the weight of the roles we carry…there exists…
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Growing Your Therapy Practice is Masterful Work
Developing and Growing a Business is an Art Form. I am a fan of good music. I love how music can grow up in an individual artist. The growing up being reflective of the artist aging and the need that the political, social, and technological climate require. Art is fluid. Business should be too. Like…
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FOCUS
Let your life get you IN FOCUS. Align YOU and REALIGN your business. Sometimes I just get tired. Not so much physically…but head filled with thoughts and things to do kind of tired. Sometimes I just want to answer a question saying “I’m tired. I have two beautiful children: infant and toddler. I own more…
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