This Profession Belongs to All of Us

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Come on, there we go.

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Doing another live broadcast here from

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APTA CSM in Anaheim, California.

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The CEO of World Physiotherapy.

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And we've got his entourage,

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his bodyguards.

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They're lurking around,

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making sure everything's taken care of.

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Representing the profession across more

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than a hundred and twenty countries and

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helping shape the future of physiotherapy

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worldwide.

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Joining us to share what's next for the

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profession on a global scale.

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Please welcome City J to the live stream.

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City, welcome to the show.

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Thank you very much, Jimmy.

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Appreciate you having here.

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Have you come to CSM before?

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Is this your first?

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Funny enough, this is my first CSM.

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I explained it when I came to my

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first and went home.

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I explained it to my classmates because I

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was still a PT student.

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And I said it was like a circus

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with like eighteen different circuses in

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it.

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Are you getting that same vibe?

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And this is day one, but.

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Definitely.

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Yeah, definitely I am.

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And it's so impressive.

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It's unbelievable.

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Yeah.

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Even though I'm quite used to

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international congresses.

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But this is mind-blowing.

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Yeah, it's a lot.

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We tell people to pace themselves.

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It's a marathon, not a sprint.

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So how do we set up?

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Let's start with what is World Physio?

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What is that?

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I mean,

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I saw the name while I was a

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PT student,

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but I didn't understand it until I was

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exposed to people who had been to a

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congress,

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and then they explained everything.

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To me,

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it felt like the UN of PT.

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It is indeed.

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Yeah.

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I like that one,

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but World Physiotherapy is,

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as the name says,

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is the World Confederation for Physical

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Therapy.

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World Physio is our brand name,

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but we are legally the World Confederation

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for Physical Therapy.

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And that's the global body that represents

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the profession.

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We are a confederation of hundred and

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twenty nine countries,

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member organization,

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and we represent over six hundred thousand

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physiotherapists around the world.

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Wow.

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and uh city's now going to give us

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all hundred and twenty nine countries in

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alphabetical order whenever you're ready

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just go we're not gonna do that um

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so now we understand sort of what what

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things are on the radar what it would

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i mean you just have to pay attention

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to the entire world uh that can't be

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easy uh what are what are the things

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that are on your radar looking at the

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scope as wide as it goes the world

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well um

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I will respond in kind of two different

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aspects.

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The first one is for World Physiotherapy

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as an institution.

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As you know,

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I've been appointed as the CEO

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last April.

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So it's less than a year,

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even though I've been working for World

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Physio for the past ten years.

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So we're going through lots of changes as

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an institution because we are putting back

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our membership at the heart of World

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Physio.

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And that means a lot.

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It's about integrating

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our membership's priorities, their vision,

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their aspiration across the globe.

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And as you know,

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it's not a one-size-fits-all.

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Yeah, it can't be.

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The reality in the United States is very

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much different from what we have,

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let's say,

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in Sudan or what we have in Senegal.

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But yet,

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we are all part of the same global

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community.

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with a responsibility for World Physio to

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cater for every one of our members' needs.

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So for that,

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we need to be able to go through

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some strategic changes,

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redefining our global priorities.

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And it's good that we are about to

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embark again on another three-year cycle

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where we define our strategic objectives.

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And it's quite challenging because the

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world is changing.

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AI is knocking at the door,

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being perceived by some as a replacement

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for this profession, which it's not.

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but also it's something that we need to

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embrace and make sure we customize it,

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we tailor it to our need,

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making sure that it is a supplement rather

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than a replacement.

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So also globally,

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the world is changing and other

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professions that work across the medical

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field

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We need to make sure that we are

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fit for purpose,

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we are trained for purpose,

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our competencies are well-defined,

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our scope of practice well-defined,

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and this across the globe.

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There are countries where it's far more

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advanced than what we're working on

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because they've been developing this

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profession over the past seventy-five

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years of World Physio's existence,

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where direct access is a reality.

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where the title is protected,

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where there is a career development plan.

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You can enter as a clinician and end

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up being a seasoned academic or an

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advanced practitioner.

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But when you look across the globe,

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it's not the same reality.

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There are countries where you enter as a

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clinician, you retire as a clinician.

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There are countries where you have over

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ten million population,

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with one trained physio.

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So the dynamics are very different from

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one point to another.

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But yet, as a global community,

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everything we need is from within.

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We don't have to reinvent everything.

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Whatever Senegal will be going through in

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the next fifty years,

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APTA or APA in Australia have gone through

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the same process.

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Years ago.

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And that level of expertise and knowledge

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is here.

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We just need to leverage it.

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We need to enhance the collaboration

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within World Physios member.

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act as the global community that we should

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be and if we do that we will

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look at the same direction together and be

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able to progress together and turn this

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institution is what those the founding

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members who sat together in that vision

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they have will be able to make it

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real i'm ready to go you got me

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hyped up that's the hype real that's what

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i need to hear

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You mentioned AI,

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workforce shortages as well,

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and changes in healthcare delivery.

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What should clinicians focus on to stay

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relevant in the next five to ten years?

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And you mentioned there a second ago in

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terms of AI is,

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well first understand what it is,

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what it can do, what it can't do,

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and then where you fit, I imagine.

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And I think the starting point is,

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the education,

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because to be a physio with or without

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AI, you need to be properly trained.

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You need to get the set of competence

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that a professional needs to have to be

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a physio.

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AI is a tool.

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It's something that invited itself in our

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world and you got to deal with it.

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it can make our life much easier.

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Access to information,

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processing huge amount of data,

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doing some of the critical kind of

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thinking piece on

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not the actual skills that we have,

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but in the management of the system in

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itself.

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So it has to be contained,

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it has to be controlled.

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The problem is not AI in my view,

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is the use we as human and professional

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rule have of AI.

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I don't see a world where AI will

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replace

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the physician or the clinician.

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I would see a world where the clinician

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is able to pull out from AI,

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utilize AI as the fundamental tool to be

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able to deliver the services he was

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trained to do.

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Because at the end of the day,

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our primary role is to deliver those

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services.

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Any tools now we can use to improve

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that service delivery

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is welcome yeah we just need to regulate

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it understand it turn it into something

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that is trustworthy because nature by

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night uh is doesn't entertain vacuum right

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In the absence of regulation,

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it will self-regulate itself at your

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disadvantage.

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In the absence of proactive decisions,

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you will have later on when you realize

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that you missed that opportunity to deal

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with what it has created and turn it

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into what it should have been.

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And we should not make that mistake.

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Now we have the opportunity to put the

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legal framework that comes with it,

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to redefine our use,

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to make it trustworthy and usable across

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the board.

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That's where our challenge is.

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We should not be led into thinking that

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AI is a competitor.

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No, it's not.

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It's definitely not.

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Now,

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what will make it good or bad is

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the user will have it,

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and that lies in our hands.

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I got to ask you this,

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a hundred and twenty-nine member

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organizations,

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When you're gonna go in and do work,

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imagine you've gotta understand culture

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and language and history long before the

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first meeting.

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And that's simple, but that can't be easy.

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Well,

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that's the challenge we have as global

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leaders.

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Yeah.

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Because today,

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It's about togetherness.

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It's about being together because we are

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the architects in some way of our own

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challenges and our own failures.

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Quite often,

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instead of understanding what we're

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dealing with and address it head on,

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We prefer to create parallel alternative,

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not knowing that in doing that,

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we're not negating or eliminating this.

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We only turning it into a threat we'll

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have to deal with in the future.

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Because today, if you look at each other,

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We're different.

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We're different from a cultural point of

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view.

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We're different from many angles or many

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ways we as humans have adapted in how

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we differentiate each other.

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But we're here sharing one passion,

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one profession, one vision.

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And we can choose to focus on what

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we have in common.

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or what we have in difference.

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And we should not make that because that

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difference,

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we should embrace it and turn it into

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a positive stimulator for what we have in

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common, which is this profession.

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The strength,

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you'd turn it into a strength.

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Turn it into a strength because if today

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you have a Ghanaian physio,

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a Brazilian physio,

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An American physio,

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as long as they stay within the sphere

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of physiotherapy,

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they speak the same language,

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have the same issue, the same aspiration,

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and that's what brings us together.

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Now,

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our ability as a global organization is

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how we can transcend those differences

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that we're focusing on,

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turn them into strength.

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Because there is a saying somewhere around

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the world where they say three heads are

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better than one.

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And we have hundred and twenty nine.

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Yes.

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Challenge is different.

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But hundred and twenty nine countries that

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share the same passion, the same share,

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the same profession and everything we need

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across the board is already is already

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within our own membership.

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It's about now adopting

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some principles around diversity,

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inclusion,

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recognizing the impact culture and

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background can have in the way in which

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we deliver those services.

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But the services will still be the same

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across the board.

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An American patient doesn't have more need

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than the Brazilian one.

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A stroke patient is a stroke patient.

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And he doesn't make a difference between,

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you know.

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There's no border.

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No, not at all.

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And that is actually our strength as a

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global organization.

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Yeah, you said it.

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It is a daunting task at World Physio

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to try to understand what direct access

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could mean

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for an American physio and what it could

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mean for a South African physio.

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Because the context is different,

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the realities are different,

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and the way in which it's going to

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be implemented also is different.

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And there is a learning for us to

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see how complex needs

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can be translated into something simple,

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understandable across the board.

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Yeah.

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I'm not going to put you on the

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spot.

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You travel around the world.

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Maybe just some favorite cultures that

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maybe you weren't exposed to before your

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work started a decade ago with World

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Physio.

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Where are some places that you've been

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that you've seen and just loved it?

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Some highlights.

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Well, I will mention Tajikistan or

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Vietnam because we were invited by WHO to

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come and do a gap analysis in a

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country where with close to ten million

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population you have only one trained

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physio was trained in India at the

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bachelor degree level so and me when I

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got there I

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As an African,

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it was a cultural shock in a sense

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that for a week I was there,

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I was the only black guy walking around,

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which was quite funny because everyone was

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friendly, amazed in some way.

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But when you get into a meeting,

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you're introduced as senior staff from a

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major organization,

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then immediately you got people's

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attention and you start talking about

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complex

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health policies how this if you compare it

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to the United Kingdom where we base how

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everything was shocking you know yeah we

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have direct access yeah yeah it's about

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explaining to somebody from the Ministry

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of Health what a scope of practice is

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for the physiotherapist but

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If I look back seven years after,

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I'm just so grateful for being part of

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that change because today,

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not only we have,

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we introduced the first entry-level

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program in that country,

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we've kind of moved people from the

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Ministry of Health to our different

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congresses,

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exposed them to the reality of the

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profession, the scope of practice,

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the level of education across the globe,

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and today,

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Those individuals are our champions in the

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system, making everything they want,

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everything they can to help advance the

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agenda of that profession.

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And as a global organization,

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if you look back,

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knowing that Tadjiki Sen is not even yet

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a member of World Physio,

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But because of the work we're doing,

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we have introduced that profession in that

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country with a contemporary understanding

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of what the profession is.

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That's what we call making an impact and

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changing the future of the profession.

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Every few years,

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you have an event that brings together

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physios from member organizations from

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around the globe.

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One is coming up.

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It's not that far from where we are

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now.

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Looks like we're going to head to Mexico.

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Let's talk about that.

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Well,

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twenty twenty seven World Physio Congress

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will be in Guadalajara.

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And as you rightly say, this next door.

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Yeah.

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And which gave me the opportunity to call

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on all American physios to

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prepare to attend that Congress because

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beyond what it offers from a scientific

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point of view or education point of view,

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but it's also about celebrating a

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profession.

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It's also about sharing.

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It's also about belonging to a global

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community.

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Because one thing about physio across the

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board is

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I've never seen people who love sharing,

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cherish sharing more than the physios.

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Because like I said to you earlier,

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before being the CEO of World Physio,

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I was the head of development with World

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Physio.

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gave me the opportunity to go to Vietnam,

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work on upgrading the entry level program

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to West Africa, to Central Asia,

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to other South East Asian country.

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So that gives you like a global kind

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of view of what's happening in the

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profession.

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But everywhere we go,

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when other profession they will have to

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mobilize a lot of resources to develop

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teaching materials to to kind of assert

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something for us it always started at the

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voluntary level every time we needed

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something it's from within

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we will find individuals that will be

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ready to jump on the next flight to

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go and support the development of their

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profession in another country.

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And that's remarkable.

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That's fabulous.

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And that's what characterizes physios

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across the board.

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Now, obviously,

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the state of the profession in Mexico or

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in South America is very different from

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what we have in the United States.

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But as a global profession,

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how good are we?

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if everything works in one country and in

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the neighboring country we still have a

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lot to do and that's the message that

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i'm carrying it's not about yes going to

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a scientific event where you can network

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it's about

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support.

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It's about togetherness.

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And it's about building on the future of

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our profession, which is our future.

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You've got something a little different.

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I'll explain what I know and you correct

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me.

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But if someone's going to present on a

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topic at World Physio,

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they have to have somebody from other

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member organizations.

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They have to have people from other

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countries with them.

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So it can't just be a presentation of

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all Americans or people from France.

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Is that close and why?

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Not exactly, because for Focus Symposia,

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for example,

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it's a partnership you can have.

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Jimmy from the United States,

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somebody else from another country,

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they come together around specific topics.

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Now,

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when it comes to abstracts and other

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sessions, you can, you as an American,

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come in and present your own abstracts.

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Somebody else can do that.

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But we...

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We at World Physio,

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we try to make sure that in the

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program, in the making of program,

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we enabling connections.

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We encouraging people to come together

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from different horizon to come and work

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together.

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And that's why a Congress program

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committee has been put together.

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It is led by Dr. Judy Dutch,

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who is American.

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But in that committee,

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we have representatives from all the five

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regions of world physio,

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from highly developed countries,

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from low- and middle-income countries.

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We've got academic clinicians.

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We've got seasoned practitioners and early

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career physios.

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We're trying to bring everyone together to

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get that global perspective.

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And that's the same method that is being

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used for each one of these sessions.

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Yeah.

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So in one topic,

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you're going to have multicultural views

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in one presentation.

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So one won't dominate.

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So I love how you bake that into

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the programming to make sure that's never

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separated out in that event.

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Yeah, because it's about collaboration.

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Sure.

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it's about sharing knowledge it's about

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also being together it's about breaking

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those fictive barriers that we have we're

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coming together as a global community

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we're coming together demonstrating what

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diversity and inclusion means for world

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physio in in

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living example.

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Exactly.

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And the simple fact that we are moving

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from one continent to another,

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from one country to another every two

00:22:09.097 --> 00:22:13.301
years tells you about how important that

00:22:13.362 --> 00:22:14.903
togetherness is for us.

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And if you look at World Physio as

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a global body,

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We scattered around the world,

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and it's United States,

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I live in South of France,

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some are in Germany,

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some others are in Kuala Lumpur,

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because that's the global community we are

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together.

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And today,

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technology has allowed us to do a lot

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more than we could have done probably a

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few years back.

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It's wild.

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All right.

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Last thing we do is on the it's

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called the parting shot.

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So what's a what's a sentiment, a thought,

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a quote,

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something you would want to leave the

00:22:46.050 --> 00:22:48.771
global audience of physio to think about?

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Well, before that, if you allow me,

00:22:51.492 --> 00:22:52.933
I would like to just to say a

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few words about one major activities we

00:22:55.855 --> 00:22:56.654
have in this year,

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which is the celebration of our seventy

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fifth anniversary.

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Seventy five years anniversary.

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It's not a small feat.

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And today we have this open a call

00:23:06.538 --> 00:23:08.939
for nomination for our member organization

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and they will be responsible for

00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:13.560
nominating seventy five physiotherapists

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that have marked

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their time from nineteen fifty one to

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today we call them the seventy five not

00:23:20.606 --> 00:23:24.150
worthy physios so we will this year

00:23:24.730 --> 00:23:27.932
celebrate those who have contributed in

00:23:27.972 --> 00:23:30.715
this fantastic journey of world

00:23:30.736 --> 00:23:32.657
physiotherapy that started in nineteen

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fifty one to today now to come back

00:23:37.501 --> 00:23:38.522
to uh

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to your saying.

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It's just like as an African,

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if you're asking me to tell you about

00:23:47.791 --> 00:23:49.633
what I'm saying, I'm like,

00:23:49.752 --> 00:23:52.256
one is just a bit too small.

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I mean,

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if you ask me to give you twenty,

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I would be very happy.

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But what I would say is just this

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belongs to us.

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World Physio is not my property,

00:24:04.263 --> 00:24:07.644
it's for all of us Physios around the

00:24:07.683 --> 00:24:07.963
world.

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And when you're managing something that

00:24:10.805 --> 00:24:13.565
belongs to everyone, there is a saying,

00:24:13.605 --> 00:24:15.425
they say, do not do it alone,

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do not understand it alone,

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and do not make it alone.

00:24:22.047 --> 00:24:23.407
No, sorry, do not do it alone,

00:24:24.048 --> 00:24:25.448
do not own it alone.

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And why is that important?

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Because

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If we share that together and everything I

00:24:36.134 --> 00:24:39.455
do on the name of the institution is

00:24:39.496 --> 00:24:41.778
something that I talk to you about,

00:24:42.458 --> 00:24:44.880
we discuss it, we do it together.

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So it's stopping one person's business and

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become our business.

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And in being our business,

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because of the contributions of the three

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heads is smarter than one head.

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We will do it smartly.

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We will own it.

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And once we own it,

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we will sustain it.

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Because if today I want to remove your

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beautiful bow tie,

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you will do everything in your power to

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keep it on your neck because it belongs

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to you.

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Let's make sure that World Physio is not

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our own property.

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It belongs to all of us.

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And if it belongs to all of us,

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We will all contribute and work towards

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sustaining it.

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And the best way to sustaining it is

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to make it fit for purpose so that

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our members will always cherish it,

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will always feel like this is something

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they need and this is something worth

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protecting.

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Love it.

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We'll share the link in the notes that

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go along with this episode for the

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Seventy-Five as well as the Congress

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coming up in Guadalajara next year.

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Appreciate the time.

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Thank you for coming here and being part

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of this with us.

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Much appreciated.

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Thank you for having me, Jimmy.

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It was a pleasure.

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Thank you.