How Mentorship Is Failing SLPs — And What We Can Do About It

Jeanette Benigas1h 2min

Jeanette Benigas

00:00

Hey, fixers. I'm Dr Jeanette Benigas, the owner of fix SLP, a grassroots advocacy firm here to challenge the status quo in speech language pathology by driving real change from insurance regulations to removing barriers that prevent full autonomy like the CCC, this podcast is your space to learn, engage and take action in the field of speech language pathology. We don't wait for change. We make it so let's fix SLP, you

Jeanette Benigas

00:45

Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Jeanette, no Preston again today. It is into summer. We've got crazy schedules. I am literally, like less than 24 hours before it needs to post. So we're gonna pray nothing goes wrong. But I have, we've had quite a few issues already. I have Lynsie Erickson with me. She is @thespeechpack on socials, and then she also has the medical SLP mentorship program. So we're still talking about mentorship today. She and I have been on talking to each other probably for two hours at this point, so we just, we need to get moving. We're skipping reviews. Just hit subscribe five star rating and review. We're just going to skip all that. Get right into it before we move forward, though, I just want to make sure I clarify. There are a lot of mentorship programs out there. There are a lot of collectives out there, especially for medical SLPs. So I just want to make sure this is the medical SLP mentorship is for her business. So don't get that confused with other mentorship programs out there. You can research online to see who has the different ones. But thanks for coming on, Lynsie.

Lynsie Erickson

02:06

I'm so excited.

Jeanette Benigas

02:09

Lynsie is li ke an original fixer.

Lynsie Erickson

02:13

Jeanette Benigas

02:14

Yeah! We asked Lynsie to come on to continue the mentorship conversation, because she's in the medical space. If you missed last week's episode, the ladies Nikki and Hylan from The Mentorship Collective, were on. They're more school pediatric, however, that that was not just for pediatric. SLPs, we got into like so many. We went on like we ended with AI, okay, it had nothing to do with mentorship. But this podcast, we don't write a script. We know why we're asking people on but we like it to be super organic, so it just goes where it goes. So in the same spirit, if you're a pediatric SLP, stay tuned, because this is all going to apply to you too. Because another passion of Lynsie is and what she's thinking of moving towards is mentoring, the mentor. So we have a lot to talk about today. Why don't you tell us about yourself?

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