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

Theresa Harp
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A podcast about coaching strategies and time management tips for busy SLPs, PTs, OTs, therapists, and private practice owners who want to feel successful in their personal and professional life at the same time. Let's take back control of your time! 

  1. 3d ago

    168. Not Everything Deserves Your Executive Function: An ADHD-Friendly Filter for What Matters

    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 removed from the list entirely. What You'll Learn: Why every worry, decision, and invisible standard has an executive-function costThe question to ask when something is taking up more brain space than it deservesHow your values and needs can help you separate what matters from what merely affects how you think you’re being perceivedA simple way to create your own “not everything deserves my executive function” listWhat to do when your ADHD brain treats every task like a five-alarm fireIf you want help deciding what deserves your capacity and creating systems that work with your brain, business, and real life, book a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu Resources Mentioned How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD — free training: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s_ov8LNsQm-n8V6WmoCjXg The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  2. Sep 9

    BONUS: Why I’m Bringing ADHD Support to Coaches

    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 understanding executive functioning changed the way I saw my own business, why the usual strategies can stop working when life gets more complex, and why coaches need support that is built for how their brains actually work. If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss my upcoming free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  What You'll Learn in Today's Episode: Why traditional business and productivity advice can be hard to apply when ADHD is part of the pictureHow coping strategies can work for a while, until life and business add more complexityThe difference between blaming yourself and understanding the executive functioning breakdownWhy understanding ADHD can help you solve the right problem instead of trying to force the wrong systemWhy this conversation is especially important for coaches who are building businesses while managing their own brains, clients, households, and actual human lives 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  3. Sep 8

    167. When Business Advice Doesn’t Work With Your ADHD Brain

    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 help you figure out where the strategy is breaking down and how to make it smaller, more visible, and more realistic for your actual life and your actual brain. What You'll Learn: Why knowing what to do and consistently doing it are not the same thingHow generic advice like “batch your content” or “just time block” can create more shame than follow-throughWhat questions to ask when a strategy keeps not workingHow to lower the decision load so tasks feel easier to startWhy planning for transitions matters just as much as planning the task itself🗓️ If you want help building business strategies that work with your ADHD brain, your real schedule, and the life you actually have (not the neurotypical, Pinterest-esque life you see while scrolling the socials), schedule a free consult here: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu ‼️ Want to join my upcoming webinar, Build a Coaching Business That Works With Your ADHD Brain on Tuesday, September 15th at 2 PM ET? Add your name to the list and I'll send you the details! Mentioned in This Episode:  Snipd - The Podcast App for Knowledge Seekers 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  4. Sep 1

    166. Before You Decide It’s Not Working

    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 happening before you decide it’s not working, start over, or quit altogether.  What You'll Learn: Why “nothing is working” can feel like a fact when it is actually a thoughtHow ADHD and executive functioning challenges can make small changes harder to noticeWhat to ask yourself before you quit, restart, or decide you are bad at consistencyHow to look for evidence that something is beginning to workA simple way to notice small shifts without turning it into a whole new project 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  5. Aug 28

    BONUS: Your Calendar Is Lying To You

    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 already bracing for impact, this episode will help you see what your schedule is really carrying, and why one small rhythm shift may be more useful than trying to become a whole new person by Tuesday. What You'll Learn: Why your calendar does not always tell the whole storyWhat invisible work may be making your week feel heavier than it looksHow to tell the difference between a time management problem and a capacity problemWhy “technically it fits” is not the same thing as “this is sustainable”A simple way to start looking for one realistic rhythm shift instead of overhauling your entire lifeIf your fall schedule already feels packed, or if your calendar looks doable but your nervous system is giving it a hard no, join me for The Fall Rhythm Reset. It’s a free live workshop for SLP private practice owners who want a calmer weekly rhythm that supports their business, their family life, and their actual capacity. Bring the real week, not the cute pretend one. Sign up now: https://theresaharp.myflodesk.com/fallworkshop 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  6. Aug 25

    165. 92507 Is Revealing a Bigger Problem for SLPs

    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’re going to keep recreating the same problems with different packaging.  What You’ll Learn: Why the 92507 chaos is revealing a deeper issue in the SLP fieldThe contradiction between wanting SLPs to be paid more and criticizing colleagues who charge for their expertiseHow scarcity thinking shows up in money, time, rest, boundaries, and business decisionsQuestions to ask yourself if you want to lead differently instead of waiting for the field to change first If you’re feeling called out and you’re ready to stop running your private practice from scarcity, resentment, or “I’ll just figure it out myself” mode, book a free consult: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu. We’ll look at what’s actually happening in your schedule, business, boundaries, and mindset so you can grow without sacrificing your time, energy, and sanity. Resources Mentioned: Fix SLP — https://fixslp.com/ 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  7. Aug 18

    164. When Shame is the Signal You Need to Pay Attention

    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. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Why shame often makes you want to hide instead of take actionThe difference between guilt and shame, and why that difference mattersHow a repeated thought can affect your confidence, relationships, business, and executive functioningWhat to do when a thought gives you that pit-in-your-stomach feelingA simple first step for taking the power out of shameIf shame has been running the show around money, boundaries, capacity, follow-through, or the parts of your business you would rather not look directly in the eye, you do not have to figure it out alone. Book a free consult, and we can talk through what’s going on and how coaching can help you build a practical plan that actually fits your brain, your business, and your real life: https://cutt.ly/5tSeJKmu 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

  8. Aug 11

    163. Feeling Overwhelmed? The 6 Questions That Help You Break the Thought Loop

    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. What You’ll Learn:  • The 6 questions that break a “frequent flyer thought” loop • How to spot the hidden payoff that keeps a thought pattern alive • Cost/benefit of the thought vs. cost/benefit of the situation (and why both matter) • The difference between changing your schedule and changing your thinking • How to use “cost of change vs. cost of staying the same” to create momentum If you liked this episode, be sure to check out:  🎙️ Ep. 153: The Thought Loop That’s Running Your Life (and you don’t even notice it)  🎙️ Ep. 162: How to Stop Recurring Negative Thoughts From Running Your Life 💥 Coming Soon! Topic-based episode guide (episodes organized by topic) 📣 JOIN ME on Tuesday 9/15/2026 @ 2 pm ET for my free training: How to Run Your Coaching Business With Ease When You Have ADHD.  If you want help running your coaching business with systems that fit your brain, your real life, and the business you’re trying to grow, you don't want to miss it. To find out how I can help you improve your work-life balance, click here. Come join Work-Life Balance for Speech Pathologists on Facebook for more tips and tricks! Learn more about Theresa Harp Coaching here.

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