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May 14, 2025 • 30 mins

Curious how a busy mom with a full speech therapy caseload successfully transitioned from speech therapist to coach? In today's episode, I’m chatting with my client Tala Hershey, who's built an impressive coaching business helping parents of toddlers with speech delays in less than a year. She's juggling two little ones at home, running a private practice with six clinicians, AND creating this new business from scratch.

You'll hear exactly how she went from having no business license to securing paying clients within her first month of mentorship. Tala will share the real behind-the-scenes look at building her new program - from the tech learning curves to finding time to create content while juggling family.

If you've been thinking about adding coaching to your therapy practice but aren't sure where to start, this conversation shows you what's actually possible when you commit to the process. Tune in if you want to hear the truth about what it really takes to build a coaching business alongside your clinical work and how you can do it too!

More about Tala Hershey:

Tala Hershey is a speech-language pathologist and owner of Hershey Therapy Practice, a pediatric private practice serving New York and Connecticut as well as CEO of Hershey Speech & Language Coaching, teaching parents worldwide the strategies they need to teach their toddlers to talk.

Tala specializes in toddler language development and coaching for parents to learn research-based strategies to boost their toddlers' language for toddlers who present with expressive language difficulties. But, her favorite role of all is being the mother of two wild and loveable boys, ages 3 and 1. She lives in New York with her husband and kids and in her spare time you can find her chasing after her toddlers or baking up cookies and cakes.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • What makes parent coaching more effective than traditional speech therapy for toddlers?
  • How soon Tala got her first paying coaching client.
  • Should you start with a high-ticket offer or a low-priced product?
  • Can you really build a coaching business while working full-time and raising small children?
  • What Tala's current team structure looks like after 9 months in business.
  • The biggest mindset shift needed when transitioning from speech therapist to coach.

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"I love working on my coaching business because there's always something to learn. There's always something new. There's always ways to scale in ways that you can't scale in private practice and you can reach so many more people." - Tala Hershey

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