301 – Navigating the Challenges of a Mobile FEES With Your Business (and Life) Partner: Athanasia and Leon’s Journey.

Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

While the early 2000s hailed power couples like Brangelina and Bennifer, I’m WAY more excited to shine the spotlight on the dynamic duo on today’s podcast episode 🤩

Leon Daley M.A., CCC-SLP and Athanasia Svenning M.A., CCC-SLP are SLPs who specialize in dysphagia and operate a mobile FEES business together called Daley Dysphagia Diagnostics (while currently planning their wedding on top of it all!)

Together we discuss their journey in starting their mobile fees business and the challenges they face in introducing fees as an alternative to video studies in hospitals. We get granular and discuss the challenges of navigating the business and insurance side of their practice, marketing as SLPs, and the need for continuous learning and collaboration in our field.

Tune in to get inspired!

Get the show notes at: https://syppodcast.com/301

Starting the business and the challenges [00:03:09]
Experience with fees and becoming advocates [00:06:19]
Educating providers about fees [00:09:18]
Challenges in getting contracts with doctors [00:11:19]
Exclusive contracts as a roadblock [00:17:07]
Navigating additional speech pathology services [00:20:44]
The need for expanding services and reaching more patients [00:21:21]
Collaboration and referral in private practice [00:23:29]
The importance of food and community in dysphagia treatment [00:33:17]
Presenting on burnout at ASHA conference [00:35:40]

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0:00.0	On this episode of this fallier Pride podcast we have a wonderful married
0:04.4	SLP couple Leon and Athanasia who goes by Anna daily or Leon daily and
0:10.8	Athanasia spinning. Leon is an Econosia spinning.
0:13.0	Leon is an SLP certified by the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
0:17.0	He received his master's degree from the University of Central Florida
0:20.0	where he participated in research validating outcome measures for patients with dysphagia.
0:24.8	The majority of Leon's experience is in acute care providing skilled evaluation management of
0:29.1	swallowing disorders. He has worked with a variety of populations at nationally ranked hospitals across the country, including the Cleveland Clinic and Cedars Medical Center.
0:38.0	He has a special interest in Parkinson's Disease Acid Reflux, Presbyphasia, and strokes.
0:43.0	And his wonderful wife,
0:44.8	the Phonacea, is an SLP certified by Asha as well.
0:47.7	She received her master's degree from Central Florida,
0:50.3	University of Central Florida,
0:51.5	where she conducted research focusing on familial inclusion in speech therapy management.
0:56.0	The majority of Anna's experience is in acute care providing skilled evaluation and management of
1:00.8	swallowing disorders. She's worked with a variety of populations
1:03.7	at nationally ranked hospitals across the country,
1:06.3	including Cleveland Clinic, UCSF Medical Center,
1:09.5	New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University
1:11.9	Irving Medical Center.
1:13.6	Anna has taken special interest in dementia, strokes,
1:16.6	reflux, Parkinson's disease, and patients
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