Trust Yourself
with Bailey Payne
Behavior Bites Podcast - Ep55January 29, 2025Do you trust your gut when making decisions?
Are you afraid to put yourself out there, or do you step into your power boldly?
During today’s meal— I speak with a behavior analyst, educator, parent, and all around shiny human about best career advice, how to juggle all the tasks while honoring self care, and what it’s like creating a book.
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Amuse-Bouche
What's the best career advice you've ever received?
Appetizer
How did you get into Behavior Analysis?
What does the phrase “Behavior Breakthrough” mean to you?
Palate Cleanser
What's your favorite childhood food memory?
Entree
What’s a typical day in your life look like?
How do you practice self-care?
What made you want to write a book?
What were the biggest challenges in the process?
Dessert
What is your favorite thing about what you do?
What’s the number one thing from your book that you’d want people to walk away with?
Excerpts from the Episode
(*Paraphrased highlights)-
Trust yourself.
I've been in a lot of positions professionally, and throughout my education, and in my master's program where things weren't a great fit.
It made me think that there was something wrong with me.
If something isn't a great fit, then it's the environment, not you.
Continue searching and don't just try to make yourself a fit for what's currently surrounding you. Trust yourself more than anything with career placement, with education choices, with employment decisions, just all the things.
Just trust yourself.
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It's about achieving change and the desired change depending on the individual and what their individual needs are.
I'm passionate about not just tossing strategies to parents, teachers, other BCBAs, and RBTs that I supervise.
It's all about giving a full understanding of behavior and why behavior is happening.
Then each individual can use their environment, their own expertise, their own personalities, and the values of the environment itself to select the interventions that are the best fit based on understanding the behavior.
Behavior breakthrough is about behavior change. How that comes about is all based on the individual and the environment and how you wanna get there, solely from understanding behavior.
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Behavioral understanding.
Educators are smart. Parents are smart. People have skills.
If we can walk in with the knowledge that everybody already has the skills, what they just need is an understanding of function, that will make a humongous change.
I hope this book provides an understanding of behavior in a way that drastically changes people's lives, people's reputations, people's diagnoses, people's views of the world, people's views of themselves— purely by understanding why behavior happens.
There are some strategies in there, but more than anything, I hope that the book gives an understanding of behavior and ties it all together so that people can change how they interact.
ABOUT Bailey
Bailey Payne, BCBA
I am a behavior analyst that lives outside of Nashville, TN and serves the community of Bowling Green, KY. My passion is serving people in their most natural environments and tailoring goals and strategies to meet each individual, family, and environment’s values. I LOVE watching people smash goals!
I was born and raised in rural Kansas, like dirt roads and no stop lights. I have a passion for bringing research, services, and information to the underserved in rural areas. I love to bring information and support to those who have barriers to accessing it.
My master’s degree is in Clinical Psychology from Pittsburg State University in Kansas. My professional experience includes working as a Psychologist at a State Hospital, an Autism Specialist for the Kansas Autism Waiver, a Project Therapist with the University of Kansas Lifespan Institute, a Behavioral Specialist with The May Institute of Autism, and a Licensed Behavior Analyst serving the Bowling Green, KY community at large including a school based BCBA, private in-home therapy, KY waiver programs, and an instructor with Western Kentucky University.
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