Meet Stephanie Saulsbury

We were lucky to catch up with Stephanie Saulsbury recently and have shared our conversation below.

Stephanie, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
I get my resilience from my mom and female friends. They are single moms and wives who have been through so many trials and tribulations, and they encourage me to be strong and push through.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Hello all, I am a behavior specialist who provides health and well-being coaching, behavior support services, and career and business coaching to children, teens and adults. I specialize in behavior support services to people with and without developmental disabilities and mental health diagnosis.

My services are provided in the community, at our office or through Telehealth. I provide talk therapy with behavior analytic strategies to reduce maladaptive behaviors, and replace them with functionally appropriate behaviors.
I fell in-love with behavioral health after graduation college with my bachelors degree in criminal justice, and I began working in a group home with adults with disabilities and mental health diagnosis. Through there, I began to work my way around in the behavioral health field as a staff in a group home, a staff in a day center, a supervisor of a day center, an ABA therapist, and now a behavior support specialist with my own business. I love educating people about behavioral health, because behavioral health is so broad you can use behavioral health in professional settings, factories, the school system, restaurants, and all over. You can even use behavioral health in your relationships and parenting.
I’ve worked with police officers, teaching them about behavioral health companies in their area. Group homes in their area, and providing example of what some behaviors look like, how to appropriately approach someone who is in behavior, and how to respond to the behavior. I am currently working on getting contracts to provide life coaching services to children who have behavioral issues, with and without disabilities going through the juvenile system. So I am going to expand my business these next couple of months. I am so excited about it.
My overall goal is to have a thriving behavioral health company, where I provide a variety of services all over the Metro Atlanta area to children, teens, and adults. I am also going to start a nonprofit organization and open up a children and adult enrichment facility. I am so excited, so hopefully in the next couple of months when you all follow up with me, I will be in the process of starting that business, or have already started the business..

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Looking back, I think, quality, skills, or area of knowledge that impacted my journey was to just trust the process to be humble, and to most importantly, be patient with myself. A lot of times as a business owner you expect instant gratification, and I had to understand that success does not come overnight, a lot of times people think just because they have the degrees, the training, or the skills, that it just automatically qualifies them to have this thriving business, and it doesn’t work like that. You most certainly have to be patient and consistent with yourself and always be open to learning.

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?
When I feel overwhelmed, I would most certainly say to tackle things little by little . Just because you have a lot of things on your plate doesn’t mean that you necessarily have to do them all at one time. Definitely break goals down into objectives, and break objectives down into task. Take breaks in between your day, and when I say, take breaks, put the phone down turn the TV off, and just sit in silence and process everything. Hear your thoughts, breathe, inhale exhale, and just try to block out all distractions during your break. After your break tackle a task, take another break if you have to, just remember that your time to yourself is important..

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