Work Life Balance for Speech Pathologists: Mindful Time Management Tips for Therapists, Clinicians, & Private Practice Owners

When you’re the default parent and a business owner, it can feel like there’s always something at home that needs to happen before you can get to work. The mental load is real, and it doesn’t disappear just because you’ve blocked off time for your business.

In this episode, I share how I’m thinking differently about that load and the urgency my brain adds to it. We’ll talk about how to tell what truly needs your attention, where you might need more support, and how to make room for your business without pret...

You get through the same frustrating situation again and tell yourself, “Next time, I’ll handle this differently.” Then next time arrives, and you’re right back where you started.

In this episode, I’m talking about how to change a recurring problem you’ve been putting up with for far too long. I’ll walk you through identifying what keeps making it hard and choosing one specific, supported change that can make next time noticeably easier, especially when you have ADHD.⁠
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If you’re a coach with ADHD, running a business can mean asking your brain to keep track of client work, content, follow-through, and a hundred small decisions. AI can help simplify some of those moving parts, but it can also become a time sink when it adds another tool, system, or rabbit hole to manage.

In this episode, I share how I use AI to retrieve details from past sessions, draft client check-ins, shape spoken brain dumps into content, and find information I can’t immediately locate. I also offer a simple way to tell whether a to...

If you’ve been here for the conversations about work-life balance for speech pathologists, you might be wondering what the new direction means for you. I’m shifting the focus of my podcast and Facebook community toward coaches with ADHD, but that doesn’t mean SLPs need to leave.

In this episode, I explain why this shift reflects the work I’m doing now and what you can expect moving forward. You’ll hear more examples from my coaching business, with the same focus on planning, follow-through, overwhelm, and running a business alongside a full personal life. This is a...

Planning can look productive while quietly keeping you from the work that moves your business forward. If you’re great at researching, organizing, and planning, but struggle with implementing, you’re not alone.

In this episode, I explain why planning can be especially rewarding for an ADHD brain, how to tell whether or not it’s helping, and what to do when it’s keeping you stuck. Stay till the end for three practical questions that can help you stop circling the task, clarify what matters, and take action.

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Finding a way to work with your ADHD brain can make business tasks SO much easier, but even a strategy that leverages your strengths can fall apart if it doesn’t support the executive-function challenges that come with it.

In this bonus mini-sode, I’m giving you a behind-the-scenes peek into how I created my upcoming live webinar The ADHD Business Rhythm: How to Get the Right Work Done, Sign More Clients, and Feel Less Overwhelmed using the exact methods I’m going to be teaching in the webinar itself. This episode promises to be very meta, slight...

Unexpected time away from your business can create more than a scheduling problem. When you have ADHD, stepping away can make it harder to remember your business goals, remember where you left off, figure out where to restart, and resist the urge to cram five days of work into the day and a half you actually have.

In this episode, I’m sharing the ADHD-friendly business rhythm that helped me step away without losing track of my business—or returning convinced I had to catch up on everything at once. You’ll learn how to get your priori...

If you've ever tried to push through a hard day by pretending your feelings were not there, this episode is for you. Today I’m talking about how to work with your feelings instead of ignoring them, judging them, or letting them run the whole show. You’ll learn a simple way to pause, name what is actually happening, and choose your next step from a more honest place.

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When every email, post, household detail, and business decision feels equally important, your brain spends real energy on things that may not actually matter to you. For an ADHD brain, that can mean more decisions, emotional dysregulation, and mental tabs than your day has room for.

In this episode, I break down why caring less is not the same as becoming careless and how your core values and needs can help you choose where your attention goes. You’ll leave with a practical exercise for deciding what deserves your capacity and what can be downgraded, simplified, or re...

If you have ever looked at perfectly reasonable business advice and thought, “Cool, but how exactly am I supposed to make that work in my actual life?” this episode is for you. I’m sharing why I’m talking more directly to coaches with ADHD, and why this work matters to me personally.

Before I had the language for ADHD and executive functioning, I thought my struggles were mostly about being a busy mom, running a business, managing a household, and trying to keep all the plates somewhere near the air. In this episode, I’m sharing how unders...

If you’re a business owner with ADHD and you keep thinking, “I know what I’m supposed to do, so why am I not doing it?” or “I’m following all the strategies from all the experts, but it’s just not working,” I get it. You’re the reason I recorded this episode.

I’m talking about why so much traditional business and productivity advice falls apart for ADHD brains, especially when you’re running a business, managing a home, raising a family, and trying not to lose your mind in the process. I’m sharing six questions to...

If you’ve ever tried to make a change in your personal life, your career, or your small business and felt like nothing was actually changing, this episode is for you. I’m talking about why your brain may miss the early signs that something is working, especially when the result you want has not fully shown up yet. 

A lot of us are looking for big, in-your-face proof before we trust that something is working, but the early evidence is usually much quieter than that. This episode will help you notice tiny changes that are already happe...

Your calendar might say your week is fine, but don’t trust it. Why? Because your calendar can show the appointments, sessions, practices, and school events while completely ignoring the driving time, transition time, dinner situation, decision fatigue, documentation, parent emails, and all the tiny invisible tasks required to make the week actually work.

In this bonus episode, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes calendar moment that made my head hurt and why it connects directly to Monday’s Fall Rhythm Reset workshop. If your week looks technically doable on paper but your brain and body are al...

The 92507 conversation has a lot of SLPs feeling worried, frustrated, and understandably on edge. But in this episode, I’m talking about something deeper than reimbursement cuts: the scarcity mindset, martyrdom, and anti-investment culture that have been sitting under the surface in our field for a long time.

This is not an episode telling you to stop advocating or ignore what is happening. It’s an invitation to look at how we talk about money, charging, rest, boundaries, and our own expertise. Why? Because if we keep fighting external threats while reinforcing the same old internal culture, we’r...

Sometimes the thought that keeps looping in your brain is not just annoying background noise. Sometimes it brings shame with it...the kind that makes you want to hide, avoid, procrastinate, or pretend the thing is not actually bothering you.

In this episode, I’m talking about how to recognize when a frequent flyer thought has turned into a shame spiral, why shame can keep you stuck, and what to do when avoiding the thing starts costing more than facing it.

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If you’ve been stuck thinking some version of “I’m so overwhelmed” on repeat, this episode is for you. I’m sharing a simple 6‑question framework that helps you stop arguing with the thought and start getting strategic about it. We’ll look at what the thought is costing you, what it might be doing for you (yes, really), and how to decide whether you need a circumstance change, a mindset change, or both. It’s practical, a little confronting, and surprisingly clarifying.

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• The 6 questions that break a “frequent flyer thought”...

If you have a thought that shows up in your brain over and over, day after day, this episode is for you. I’m calling these frequent flyer thoughts: recurring thought loops that steal brain space and kick off a shame spiral before you even realize what happened.

In this episode, I’ll show you how to treat these thoughts as information (not a verdict) and use one simple question to get your power back.

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If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll feel happier once things “calm down,” this episode is your gentle reality check (and relief): life doesn’t magically get less messy, but you can access joy in the middle of it. 

I’m joined by time management coach and host of The Busy Vibrant Mom, Michelle Byrd, for a grounded conversation about what joy actually is (and what it isn’t). We talk about the difference between joy and happiness, why moms unintentionally postpone joy until the to-do list is done, and how to stop treating self-care like another big pro...

Have you ever burned 25 minutes rewriting a “simple” email (rescheduling a session, for example) because you couldn’t get the tone right? If you’ve been stuck in the loop of typing, deleting, retyping, and overanalyzing every word, this episode will help you understand why it happens (and why it’s not a character flaw).

In this episode, I’m sharing the hidden cognitive load behind “sounding right” and the two biggest barriers that are keeping you stuck in analysis-paralysis. You’ll walk away with a simple structure you can default to, plus a few rules that make it easier to...

When my day gets hijacked (sick kid, surprise meeting, total schedule chaos), the hardest part isn’t “fixing the calendar.” It’s the executive-function load of holding everything in my head while I try to make decisions, communicate clearly, and not melt down. 

In this episode, I walk you through the 5 concrete ways I use AI as executive-function scaffolding on a hijacked day so I can externalize the chaos, clarify what actually matters, and sequence my next steps without getting stuck in analysis paralysis. 

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Okay, okay...maybe that title is a bit dramatic. But seriously: rescheduling your day sounds simple enough until you’re actually in it. In this episode, I'm breaking down why a “hijacked day” (sick kid, unexpected meetings, constant interruptions) doesn’t just create a scheduling problem -- it can send our executive functioning skills into overload. 

Using Dawson & Guare’s Executive Functioning Skills framework, you’ll learn what’s actually happening in your brain when plans change and why it can feel so hard, especially if you have ADHD. This isn’t about excuses. It’s about understanding the r...

Full disclosure: I recorded this episode the night before it goes live because, well, life happened. One of my kids came home sick, my focus was fried, and I had to make real-time decisions about rescheduling and protecting my boundaries. Then I found a second curveball: someone booked on a day I’m off (because I hadn’t updated my calendar). In this episode, I walk you through how I coached myself through it so you can borrow the mindset shifts and the practical strategies the next time your schedule blows up. 

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