Jan. 13, 2026
What Burnout Taught Dr. Janet Bezner About PT Leadership
Why would a respected PT leader step back from the national stage?
Dr. Janet Bezner — former CAPTE chair, academic powerhouse, and leadership voice in PT — joins Jimmy to unpack career evolution, mentorship fatigue, and how identity shifts in the next chapter.
Whether you’re a new grad, seasoned faculty, or clinic owner facing “what’s next,” Janet offers insight into navigating transitions with purpose (and pastries ????).
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You're listening to the PT Pinecast,
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where smart people in healthcare come to
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make noise.
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Here's your host, Jimmy McKay.
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This is a fun one.
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After forty five years in physical therapy
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across clinical care, national advocacy,
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education, administration,
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today's guest is not leaving.
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I like this.
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You're stepping into something different,
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going towards not away from towards
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retirement.
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And we're going to find out what is
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in there.
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I'm going to guess a little bit of
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Peloton is in there.
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That's just my guess.
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What she's really stepping into is the
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next version of herself.
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Aren't we always?
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We did that in elementary school.
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You were a third grader,
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then what'd you do?
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Became a fourth grader.
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So it's looking to step into something.
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I think this is awesome.
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Throughout those four to five years,
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she's been a champion of health promotion,
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national board certification,
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mentor to hundreds of PTs.
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And she believes great PTs aren't defined
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by tools or techniques,
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but by the version of themselves that
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they...
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Step into.
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You see what this is?
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It's a perfect setup.
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She was born in the backseat of a
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car.
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We got to get into that.
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I love the little weird side things that
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we find out about people that maybe you
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never knew.
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And she's been in motion ever since.
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See what I did there?
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Born in the back of a car.
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Been in motion.
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Got it.
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All right.
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Well, congratulations to Dr. Janet Besner.
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Uh-oh.
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Thank you.
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There.
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There we go.
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There's a great intro.
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Janet, first of all, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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This is a pretty big deal.
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I think it was on LinkedIn.
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People were announcing,
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you were announcing your retirement and
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all those different things.
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So it's hard to ask a first question
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there,
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but I thought hard about the first one.
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You've had a
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I like to ask past and present questions.
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What did you think would matter most at
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the start and what actually ended up
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mattering the most in your career?
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You know, when I started,
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I was really focused on being the best
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clinician that I could be.
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That was in nineteen eighty one back in
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the day where whatever you did,
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you got paid for.
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I have heard about those ideas like
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bedtime stories, like once upon a time.
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So, yeah,
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I think I just wanted to become the
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best PT I could.
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So that meant to me reps, learning,
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variety.
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I wasn't really sure,
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I don't think at that time,
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what I really wanted to do.
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And what I think really now looking back,
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what has mattered most, I think,
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are the relationships that I've had.
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and made and hopefully will continue to
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have.
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Yeah.
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And that's a...
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the input determines the output, right?
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So if you're aiming to be a clinician,
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then your job would be read,
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learn classes, continuing education.
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And if you do that,
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then you're gonna get this.
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But the funny part is if the thing
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that was actually most important was
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relationships,
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you approach that differently.
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At what point did you start approaching
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like, hey,
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I get more out of all of this,
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whatever this crazy thing is,
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a life or career,
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based on who I connect with and what
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I get and give to them,
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did you start then changing your inputs to
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match that output?
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And if so, how?
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I think I realized this maybe about
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fifteen years into my career when I
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realized that every job that I had had
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was because of a relationship.
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Is that crazy?
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Yeah.
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And it is still true to this day.
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Every opportunity, every job,
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every significant encounter or activity or
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something has been because of
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relationships.
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So I would say, yeah, definitely.
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I mean,
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my dad taught me never to burn bridges.
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He worked at the same employer for thirty
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five years.
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um,
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and retired and is in the hall of
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fame for his profession.
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And, um, so I knew that.
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Uh,
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but then I think when I realized how
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important relationships were to my future,
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then I really thought, okay,
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I have to nourish.
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I have to, you know,
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put into this and not, not burn bridges.
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Yeah.
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Well, there's also, there,
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there's a different mindset though.
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Like not burning a bridge is one thing,
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but understanding that the time effort,
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um,
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and energy into building a bridge is worth
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the bridge and then some yeah yeah yeah
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i think there's some overlap there the
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things that you do not to burn bridges
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are also some of the things you do
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to nurse the relationship but but yeah and
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you know pt is so wonderful because it's
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a manageable size even today i mean it
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was a lot smaller when i came in
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but you know um
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I have a lot of really close
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relationships.
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You know,
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we are paths have crossed multiple times.
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And, you know,
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when I see you and when we talk,
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it's like no time has expired.
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Right, right, right, right.
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It's so great.
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You've said leadership skills,
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not actual PT skills,
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are what let you create value and impact
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though.
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So what should PTs be doing now to
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develop these?
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And then I'll have a bonus question,
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which is good luck trying to convince a
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motivated new grad PT
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to lean on these relationship things,
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which are like so soft and subjective and
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I can't measure them.
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And I can't, how do I do like,
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so it's almost like you have to do
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some,
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you need to teach a kid to go
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to first, second, third,
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twelfth college PT school and be measured
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against these things that you learn.
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And then, Hey, you're out.
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Scrap most of that.
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You learned it.
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Good.
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Now I want you to focus on all
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this stuff that we didn't teach you.
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Like that's, there's some unlearning.
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Like you said, it took you
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How would you convince someone who's
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walking into PT school now that it's
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actually the people we met along the way?
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Well, I think people get into PT,
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a lot of them, because they love people,
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right?
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So they're already relationship-focused.
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They just don't look at PT that way.
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So I don't think it's a huge right
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turn or anything.
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I think having that conversation with PT
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students...
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which you know i do uh or did
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in in my my program but yeah i
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don't think it's a huge shift and i
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think it's just um the way that you
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think about it and and realizing that um
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relationships are going to be the key to
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your success and so you should nurture
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those skills and and they're the same
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skills that make you a good pt to
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a patient i think you know um
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Leadership is a different situation.
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I don't think PTs see themselves as
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leaders,
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maybe more now that we're at the DPT
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degree, but man, I mean,
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I'm so grateful for the opportunities I
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had to become a leader in all these
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different settings and then to realize,
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oh, there's a real set of skills here.
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And I'm working as a consultant and one
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of my clients
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um wants me to build a leadership
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curriculum for for a project they're doing
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so i'm very excited about that and it'll
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be available to pts ot speech therapists
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um i think it's going to be hard
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to convince them to pay pay to take
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it but um that's always a challenge but
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i think you know i think we have
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to figure out um how to leverage those
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skills because that's what the profession
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needs to get what we want
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Agreed.
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What, what,
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what leadership skill did you resist early
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in your career that now maybe you swear
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by?
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Was there something that you were like,
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no, no.
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Isn't that funny?
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Like the thing we've like say never winds
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up, winds up.
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Yeah.
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Always.
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I can't think of anything, you know,
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like I,
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I'm one of those people that always puts
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their foot in their mouth.
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So I have a lot of courage.
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I don't really care when I make a
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mistake, as long as I don't kill anybody.
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I just do it again or learn or
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whatever.
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So I was one of those people that
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was comfortable putting myself out there.
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And so I don't think I ever resisted.
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I mean,
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there are several things that I really,
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um,
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it took me a long time to get
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better at.
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One of those things is when,
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when somebody is not accountable.
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So if somebody is not doing their job,
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um,
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The way you approach that and the way
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you help them to see that they need
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to do it,
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it was a one eighty for me.
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The way I started,
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I would I would sort of, you know,
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throw it in their face and say,
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you know, you didn't do this.
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Come on, do it.
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And that just never works.
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And so the way I approach people really
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has has evolved.
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I would say I never really resisted it.
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My dad set the tone for me.
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My dad was a New York City fireman
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and I wasn't a fireman.
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But when I took over my first radio
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station,
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half the radio station staff was older
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than me and had been a broadcaster longer.
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And the other half,
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even if they were younger than me,
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had been at that station longer than me.
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So I was like sort of the new
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guy.
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And my dad would just say,
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he gave me like this great advice,
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which was, your job is to,
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you work for them.
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Yeah.
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And you only have to be the boss
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if they don't do what they're,
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if they know that they've been doing this
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longer.
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Your job is to allow them to do
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that.
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If they don't do that,
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then they're making you be the boss,
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the prototypical.
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And that changed everything where like
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normally I was like, well,
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you've got to be the loudest and the
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smartest and the first to whatever.
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And I'm going to bring the hammer down.
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And I was like,
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but I hated working for people who did
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that.
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And my dad was essentially telling me,
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you don't have to.
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yeah no that's great advice he's right
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yeah the job was create a really great
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environment yes yes that was another thing
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i learned later was um the importance of
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culture um and i'll have to say this
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last um i don't know uh five years
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of being at texas state i i really
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feel like i was able to build this
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culture uh where the students can can
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thrive and
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Every kind of student, you know,
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students come in,
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we have a class of forty six and
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students come in at all different places.
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Oh, yeah.
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In terms of their preparation.
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And we were able to create a culture
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where every one of those students can can
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thrive.
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And I'm so very proud of that and
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so grateful for that.
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And I, I,
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I wish I'd learned that earlier in my
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career.
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Picasso said good artists borrow,
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great artists steal.
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would you borrow or steal from other
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people?
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Were there like tools?
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I like stealing ideas from outside the
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profession.
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I forget the guy's name,
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but he was the guy who founded that
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Zappos, the online shoe.
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And he realized that he was the bottleneck
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at some point,
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that there were decisions not being made.
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So he made a rule.
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If it's going to cost you less than
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a thousand dollars to solve it,
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I trust you go solve it.
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You're going to have to explain it
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eventually, but solve it, solve it,
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solve it, solve it.
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And they saw their level of complaints go
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from like X to like almost zero.
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They were like,
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everything was less than a hundred bucks
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or like close to it.
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So is there anything that you like learned
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from maybe outside of profession that you
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like sort of stole and reeled in and
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brought it towards us?
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Well,
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I would say the whole area of health
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promotion and wellness for sure.
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Like I was one of the very first
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PTs to even dive into that.
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And
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Um,
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for me that happened in the early nineties
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when I was doing my PhD and.
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You know,
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that whole body of work opened up a
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whole area for me that I knew nothing
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about.
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And I spent the last thirty years trying
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to figure out how to get that integrated
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PT and, and then others came along and,
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and have done a lot towards that as
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well.
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But, um, yeah,
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the whole notion of prevention,
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I think PTs, we kind of knew it,
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but.
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you know, we were paid to fix,
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you know, things not to prevent them.
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So we weren't emphasizing it.
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So that that's, I think,
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a great example of that.
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But then all I mean, I'm like you,
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I read and explore lots of different
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things and different topics.
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And
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i'm sure i grab ideas from all kinds
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of other places i've done seven or eight
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different videos um about the company that
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makes the bike behind you like i look
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at peloton and people were i'm like look
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what they're doing like
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Look what they're really doing.
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Yeah.
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They made you and me pay a couple
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grand for a bike.
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That happens.
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But then a lot of times people,
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it becomes a laundry rack, right?
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Right.
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Exactly.
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They're able now through technology,
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they can track who uses it, how often,
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how long.
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If you look at the updates,
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we're recording this in early twenty
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twenty six.
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it's now you like,
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it always had really great data,
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but I gotta be honest.
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I was just like the data I would
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look at how many times in the last
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thirty days compared to the previous
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thirty days did I get on it?
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Right.
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Now it's able to crunch the data and
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be like, Hey, listen,
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your average watt per watt per ride is
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up.
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That's great.
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And I'm like, Oh,
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and then it's suggesting, you know,
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it will be great if you,
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if you threw in a couple of strings.
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I look at what they're doing is they're
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not, it's a bike company,
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but really it's a health sort of
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motivation, promotion, integration.
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They're making their, their,
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their make and gamification.
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Have you, have you tried lane break?
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Yeah,
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I have tried it a couple of times.
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It's really good.
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I like it.
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It's goofy and dumb.
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It's a video game.
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Yeah.
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But my guess is they're tracking how many
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people are using all these different
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features.
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Oh, yeah.
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And the ones that get a little pop,
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maybe they move that to the home screen.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I asked this question.
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I'm actually going to do my podcast live
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at APTA New Jersey's Student Conclave this
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weekend.
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All right.
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Sure.
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And before I start the show,
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I try to like,
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this is when you know you've made it.
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I'm my own opening act.
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I don't rank well enough to have an
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opening act.
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And the question I ask,
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because a lot of the students have no
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idea who I am.
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That's great.
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I will ask,
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how many of you are preparing to enter
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show business?
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And none of them raise their hand,
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which is on purpose.
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And then I say,
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so you're just going to tell people how
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to do exercise.
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You'll never show them.
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You'll never create a story that shows
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them what if they listen to you for
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twelve weeks, what they'll become.
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And that's when people start to get antsy
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in their seat and be like, well,
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I guess I am.
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and then that sort of goes back to
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like you're promoting health it's hard to
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track when you prevent something yes but
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that's what the smart research people are
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for that's what they're for they're saying
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hey if we do this a hundred times
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this only happens twelve not twenty nine
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right right and that that's a challenge
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right because
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the payoff for all that stuff is down
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the road way in our future where we're
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not even focused.
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And so if we could figure out how
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to,
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how to really capitalize on the day to
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day payoff, which is there,
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people underestimate it.
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That, that, that's, that,
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that would be money in our pockets.
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Well, congratulations.
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Now that you've retired,
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I would like to nominate you for being,
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you, you,
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you get to try to solve that.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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It's interesting, you know, already.
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So I retired December thirty first, but,
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the last day of work,
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official work was the twenty third.
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So I've had, you know, what,
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a week and a half or so.
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And already my mind is more open.
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It's so cool.
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Yes.
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Like I usually spend,
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I think I was spending a fair amount
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of time thinking about what's on my plate
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this week and how am I going to
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solve this problem?
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You know, my job was just
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I had the ultimate middleman job.
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So department chair,
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I was an associate Dean, you know,
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there's stuff coming from up here,
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stuff coming from down here.
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And it's like, Oh my God,
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what do I pay attention to today?
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And so I can already feel the space
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in my brain.
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And I hope that I can spend some
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time really being thoughtful.
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In fact,
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that's my word for twenty twenty six
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thoughtful about things that matter that
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need to be
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thought about.
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So I'm looking forward to that.
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I love that.
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All right.
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So you're big on the idea of showing
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up as your best self,
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but what is that?
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I've heard that phrase before.
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What does that actually look like?
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How do you develop and how do you
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know when you did,
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how do you know when you do it?
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Oh, that's such a great question.
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So I think it's very individualistic,
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obviously.
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It's figuring out
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Okay, let me say this.
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It's knowing what you're naturally very
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good at,
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which most of us can do in our
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sleep.
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And when we're at our absolute worst,
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we can do that.
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But we're not all good at everything,
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right?
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So there's a lot of the things that
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were required in my most recent job that
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I was not natural at,
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that I had to work at.
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So in order to deliver on those things,
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when I needed to,
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which most of the time was not,
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didn't warn me, hey,
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you're gonna have to do this tomorrow,
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it just showed up.
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I had to figure out what allows me
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to have the most energy around that.
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So for me, it's very simple things,
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getting a good night's sleep,
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regularly exercising,
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eating things that nourish me,
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not that drain me,
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having connection with people, having,
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you know,
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meaningful,
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intimate connection with people,
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things like that.
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Some alone time.
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I'm an extrovert,
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but I still need a little alone time.
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So things like that.
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And so I think you know it when
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you can do the things that you don't
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like and that you don't look forward to
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and you notice yourself going, oh,
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you know, I'm not so,
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I'm not so anxious about that.
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I think I got that.
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Have you ever,
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have you ever read the book or heard
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the, the, the, the paradigm,
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the six types of working genius?
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I don't know that one.
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So this one essentially breaks what you're
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saying.
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They sound similar.
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It doesn't list what tasks they are.
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It lists what types of tasks.
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Okay, got it.
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I worked for a boss years ago who
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was like, Jimmy,
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if you ever want to rise and rank
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in this company,
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we're going to need you to get better
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at spreadsheets.
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He's like, you're terrible.
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And I'm like, yep, I don't disagree.
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And then I asked a question back to
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this guy who'd been there for twenty five
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years and was sort of like the resident,
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one of the resident experts.
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And I said, hey,
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the people here at this organization who
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are good at spreadsheets,
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are you telling them to get better at
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communicating verbally?
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And he's like, no.
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And I'm like,
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then why don't I just do more of
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the thing I'm already good at?
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And then we get one of those spreadsheet
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people who could do that in their sleep
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and we have that do it.
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And here's why.
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I'm going to spend this much effort
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getting good at spreadsheets and I'm going
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to get this much better.
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Or we let me do the things you
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hired me for.
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And I know this is going to shock
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you.
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He did not like my response.
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Be well-rounded.
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I'm like, but I,
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I'm not here for spreadsheets.
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That doesn't give me energy.
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In fact, I would,
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I would see spreadsheet day on the
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calendar and I would dread it for the
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month preceding that.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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You know, and it's interesting,
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the strengths-based evidence and approach.
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Have you heard about the strengths-based
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approach?
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Maybe.
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Does that ring a bell?
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Maybe.
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A typical annual evaluation with my boss
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was, here's what you do really well.
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Here's what you don't do well.
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Let's work on that.
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You need to really focus on what you
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don't do well.
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And the strengths-based approach says,
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you know, just do what you're good at.
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Well,
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it's awesome in theory if you have the
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ability to carve out a job where you're
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only relying on your strengths.
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I have never had that job and I've
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always been in a sort of an executive
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position, a leadership role where,
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you know,
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you have to be good at everything.
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You have to be good at the spreadsheet.
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You have to be good at the people.
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You have to be good at the policies.
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You have to be good at budget.
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And so for me,
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I need to bring my best self so
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that I can do a good job.
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at those things that I'm not natural at
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or else it just sucks the life out
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of me.
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And, you know, I'm one of those people.
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I've loved every job I've had.
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I've loved every position I've been in.
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I've loved almost every day of work.
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I mean,
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work never felt like work to me because
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I love my profession.
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I love what I was doing.
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And I have some, you know,
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some desire and some motivation to do a
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good job.
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So, yeah, so for me,
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I never had the luxury of only doing
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my strengths, but some people can.
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And if you can, I support that.
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So, so working genius was less about,
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it was, it was, it was,
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it was more about the type of work
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and did it give you energy?
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Did it suck energy or was it neutral?
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So essentially,
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essentially I wasn't planning on going
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here,
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but this is what it looks like on
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the screen.
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I'm going to pop up there.
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So essentially it just says there's six
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types of,
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I see.
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Wonder.
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And of course,
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it magically spells the word widget,
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which if you're going to write a book,
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make it spell a word.
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Gotcha.
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Wonder, invention, discernment,
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galvanizing, enablement, and tenacity.
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And it goes into what those things are
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and yada, yada, yada.
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But what it says is,
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all of us of course if you're also
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if you're gonna have a paradigm make it
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work a hundred percent of the time because
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that people will buy your book it's that
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all of us have it looks like a
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stoplight green yellow red it's like all
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of us just naturally are have green as
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two of them yellow and they're all
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different and red is two and by right
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it's like you'll if you only did this
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task all day you're gonna go home feeling
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like you got hit by a truck and
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you're never you're gonna want to crawl in
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your bed and pull your blanket over your
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head
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Now you might have to do some of
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it,
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but as long as the greens outweigh the
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reds and then like me being an accountant,
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like I'd rather just cash everything in
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and just go live.
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Couldn't do it.
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I bet people who are good at accounting
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would be like,
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speak in front of people and do whatever
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on the, on the fly.
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Not a chance.
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Now I want to have that accountant,
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like let's send you to public speaking and
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let's triple down.
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You're going to lead our podcast.
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That person might hate it,
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might hate it and be bad at it.
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Or do we just let the person who's
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good at it and wants to do it?
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Now,
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if there are parts of your job that
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you need to get done,
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it's saying you can plow through one of
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those red activities,
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but it shouldn't be ninety percent of what
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you're doing or you're going to hate the
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environment.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No,
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I think that's there's a lot of wisdom
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there.
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I mean, I see people, good faculty,
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good researchers being put into
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administrative roles all the time.
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And there's no there's no they should not
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be.
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be put there um and the principle have
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you ever heard of the yeah yes yes
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yes yes for the audience it's uh you
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know you're good at yeah you're good at
00:24:07.096 --> 00:24:09.218
digging ditches and then you get promoted
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now you're in charge of everybody digging
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ditches and maybe you're okay at that and
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now you're in charge of the thing above
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that and you're not good at that
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So we don't promote you anymore,
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but we also leave you there.
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So the idea is the line that sticks
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with me is we rise to the level
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of our incompetence.
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And then you have an entire organization
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where people are actually one step above
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where they should be.
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And that is a travesty for them and
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everybody around them and the entire
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organization.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, I think it's right.
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I mean,
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we should be moving into organizations and
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positions that really fit, um,
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fit our skill set.
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And, um, that's,
00:24:50.007 --> 00:24:51.727
that's another good piece of advice for,
00:24:51.747 --> 00:24:53.387
for the young therapist, you know, um,
00:24:53.407 --> 00:24:56.488
think about that.
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Talking to the young therapist,
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you've worked with PT students for
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decades.
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What's something or some things that they
00:25:03.130 --> 00:25:06.470
wind up worrying about too much and what's
00:25:06.529 --> 00:25:08.030
something they don't worry about enough
00:25:08.111 --> 00:25:09.990
or, or, or at least think about enough?
00:25:12.031 --> 00:25:12.652
Yeah.
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Um,
00:25:15.708 --> 00:25:18.950
That's, that's, I think that's a very,
00:25:19.069 --> 00:25:21.931
my answer is very generationally
00:25:22.550 --> 00:25:23.172
influenced.
00:25:23.231 --> 00:25:24.951
Like this young, this,
00:25:25.192 --> 00:25:26.553
this generation now that's in our
00:25:26.593 --> 00:25:27.273
classrooms,
00:25:28.074 --> 00:25:29.835
they're really concerned about money,
00:25:30.134 --> 00:25:32.816
like more so than any generation I've seen
00:25:33.096 --> 00:25:33.876
since mine.
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And I, and my generation wasn't,
00:25:36.278 --> 00:25:36.597
and I don't,
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I'm not saying that disparagingly.
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Um, they, um,
00:25:42.641 --> 00:25:44.301
I think they're over-focused on money.
00:25:45.189 --> 00:25:47.230
And I don't know where that's going to
00:25:47.269 --> 00:25:47.769
lead them.
00:25:48.769 --> 00:25:49.650
I'm interested to see.
00:25:51.230 --> 00:25:52.871
I'm afraid it might lead them to too
00:25:52.911 --> 00:25:53.871
much job hopping.
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And I think they should be more focused
00:25:59.813 --> 00:26:01.913
on getting in a position where they can
00:26:01.973 --> 00:26:02.653
learn and grow,
00:26:03.233 --> 00:26:04.753
whether that's through mentoring or
00:26:04.794 --> 00:26:07.954
support or colleagues or whatever.
00:26:08.214 --> 00:26:10.476
So that's the current generation.
00:26:10.496 --> 00:26:12.215
That's the advice that I would have.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't chase the money.
00:26:15.605 --> 00:26:16.586
Chase the mentor.
00:26:17.145 --> 00:26:17.566
Yeah.
00:26:18.727 --> 00:26:19.807
That's a great way to say it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:26:22.067 --> 00:26:24.887
And also, and through mentoring,
00:26:24.907 --> 00:26:26.028
you build your skills.
00:26:26.347 --> 00:26:27.448
So think, you know,
00:26:27.468 --> 00:26:28.867
prioritize building your skills.
00:26:29.307 --> 00:26:29.528
Yeah.
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And that might mean that money has to
00:26:31.929 --> 00:26:35.209
take a second or third seat.
00:26:35.229 --> 00:26:35.730
You've heard a lot.
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I mean,
00:26:36.049 --> 00:26:37.769
I've heard a lot of people who wind
00:26:37.789 --> 00:26:39.309
up with money say,
00:26:39.390 --> 00:26:40.950
it wasn't the thing I was aiming for.
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And then magically it showed up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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If you chase this thing,
00:26:46.750 --> 00:26:48.512
it winds up being the most elusive thing.
00:26:48.553 --> 00:26:49.933
But if you chase a great story,
00:26:49.953 --> 00:26:51.734
if you chase a great meaning,
00:26:52.236 --> 00:26:53.936
magically the money shows up.
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And I know that's easy to say and
00:26:55.218 --> 00:26:55.719
hard to do.
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Yeah.
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No, I think it happens a lot.
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I mean,
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I would say it happened in my case.
00:27:03.445 --> 00:27:05.166
I'm doing a lot of money examination right
00:27:05.186 --> 00:27:06.989
now because I don't have a paycheck now.
00:27:07.948 --> 00:27:09.409
making sure I can support myself for the
00:27:09.449 --> 00:27:10.229
rest of my life.
00:27:10.368 --> 00:27:11.809
And I've done great.
00:27:11.990 --> 00:27:12.789
And, you know,
00:27:13.190 --> 00:27:16.751
I've been a PT clinician and an educator
00:27:16.872 --> 00:27:19.692
and, you know, now I don't have children.
00:27:19.792 --> 00:27:21.213
So there's not a lot of,
00:27:22.453 --> 00:27:23.634
there's not a lot of stress there,
00:27:24.115 --> 00:27:25.836
but I've done really well.
00:27:26.115 --> 00:27:27.856
And I never, never chased the money.
00:27:27.957 --> 00:27:29.577
That was never my priority.
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And, and I didn't,
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.119
I would say I didn't really worry about
00:27:36.161 --> 00:27:36.240
it.
00:27:36.300 --> 00:27:37.141
I was a good steward.
00:27:38.766 --> 00:27:42.048
I think I'm an example perhaps of that.
00:27:42.127 --> 00:27:44.250
Profession-wide, zooming out all the way,
00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:47.652
what do you hope the PT profession risks
00:27:48.011 --> 00:27:49.894
more in the next ten years?
00:27:50.374 --> 00:27:52.015
Where should we push our chips in that
00:27:52.055 --> 00:27:52.895
maybe we're not?
00:27:53.516 --> 00:27:54.616
What should we be bold on?
00:27:54.656 --> 00:27:59.099
What should we be bullish on?
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.202
Articulating our value without a doubt.
00:28:06.065 --> 00:28:07.286
Boasting about
00:28:07.688 --> 00:28:08.887
what, what,
00:28:08.928 --> 00:28:10.388
what we do and what we give people.
00:28:11.308 --> 00:28:15.049
Um, because, uh,
00:28:15.069 --> 00:28:19.371
the powers that be really don't care.
00:28:21.770 --> 00:28:23.832
Tell a story that explains shows,
00:28:23.971 --> 00:28:24.912
shows them, right?
00:28:24.991 --> 00:28:25.392
Yeah.
00:28:25.471 --> 00:28:28.073
We've got to, we've got to be more,
00:28:29.153 --> 00:28:29.492
um,
00:28:29.512 --> 00:28:31.673
we've got to have more ego or else
00:28:31.753 --> 00:28:33.334
we're going to be left, uh,
00:28:33.354 --> 00:28:34.054
on the sideline.
00:28:34.174 --> 00:28:34.494
We have,
00:28:34.575 --> 00:28:36.015
we have to put ourselves out there and,
00:28:36.481 --> 00:28:37.643
You know, I think by nature,
00:28:37.702 --> 00:28:39.505
PTs aren't comfortable doing that.
00:28:39.644 --> 00:28:41.205
And I think in part,
00:28:41.226 --> 00:28:42.527
that's why we're where we are.
00:28:42.547 --> 00:28:44.568
We got to figure out how to do
00:28:44.588 --> 00:28:45.849
that and do it in a way that
00:28:45.890 --> 00:28:47.351
feels okay to us.
00:28:47.431 --> 00:28:48.833
Okay.
00:28:49.133 --> 00:28:51.555
So let's go super zoom it into you.
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Now you're in day,
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I'm not good at math,
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we're in week two of retirement.
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What's two things?
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What's something you're proud to carry
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with you?
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And what's something you're glad to leave
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behind?
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Hmm.
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Okay.
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I'm going to do the later first.
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Glad to leave behind not waking up at
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five thirty and not driving on
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I-thirty-five.
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Okay, good.
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That's our freeway.
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Now wake up at five thirty and hit
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the Peloton right behind you.
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No, how about seven?
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There you go.
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Even better.
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So I'm really glad to leave behind the
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grind of getting up, getting to work,
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being in the office every day, um,
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That was weighing on me.
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And what I'll take with me is all
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those great relationships I built.
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Yeah.
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It's been so wonderful to hear from people
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as I've been putting out on social media
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that I'm retired.
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And I've heard some from students I
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haven't heard from in twenty years.
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So I hope just to keep connecting with
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people and I'll take that with me.
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I mean,
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the people that you wind up mentoring,
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dozens, hundreds, whatever,
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they've probably, I'm imagining,
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gotten into some really interesting,
00:30:06.846 --> 00:30:09.409
weird corners and levels.
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They've climbed ranks and gone places that
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are almost like that Dr. Seuss book,
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right?
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All the places you'll go.
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Right, exactly.
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That's got to be pretty cool if you
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look back and look at yourself as,
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I guess we're always a branch on someone
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else's tree,
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but you're also the roots of your own
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tree.
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Yeah, no,
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I love hearing their stories and learning
00:30:30.664 --> 00:30:32.726
about what they're doing and how they got
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there.
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I think that's really, really cool.
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So, yeah.
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I got to be honest,
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I'm not pitching here,
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but a great idea for a podcast would
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be one interview with someone you've met
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along the way per year you were in
00:30:47.269 --> 00:30:48.788
the profession and you got yourself
00:30:49.490 --> 00:30:50.650
something episodes, right?
00:30:50.809 --> 00:30:51.950
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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No, you're right.
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That's cool.
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I like that idea.
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All right.
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Last thing we do every episode,
00:30:56.571 --> 00:30:59.113
we call it the parting shot.
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This is the parting shot.
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One last mic drop moment.
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No pressure.
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Just your legacy on the line.
00:31:07.178 --> 00:31:07.857
All right.
00:31:07.897 --> 00:31:08.357
No pressure.
00:31:08.377 --> 00:31:08.878
As the guy said,
00:31:08.898 --> 00:31:09.898
just your legacy on the line.
00:31:09.939 --> 00:31:11.079
Now,
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:12.381
what's the thing you'd want to leave the
00:31:12.461 --> 00:31:13.882
audience as we wrap up?
00:31:13.902 --> 00:31:14.362
But by the way,
00:31:14.382 --> 00:31:15.261
just because you're retired doesn't mean
00:31:15.281 --> 00:31:16.542
you can't come back on the podcast.
00:31:16.563 --> 00:31:18.183
We don't discriminate against people.
00:31:18.203 --> 00:31:19.805
I would love to.
00:31:19.845 --> 00:31:20.825
What's the last thing you want to leave
00:31:20.845 --> 00:31:21.566
with the audience today?
00:31:23.153 --> 00:31:26.596
I would say, you know,
00:31:26.736 --> 00:31:29.659
invest in the soft skills,
00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:32.481
invest in developing your soft skills,
00:31:33.343 --> 00:31:35.845
your ability to listen,
00:31:36.365 --> 00:31:38.428
your ability to be empathic,
00:31:38.488 --> 00:31:39.949
your ability to connect with people.
00:31:41.490 --> 00:31:43.813
That really makes life rich.
00:31:44.730 --> 00:31:45.069
I've done it.
00:31:45.170 --> 00:31:47.011
I did it at a small conference and
00:31:47.051 --> 00:31:49.292
I think I talked to somebody else about
00:31:49.333 --> 00:31:50.994
doing it at CSM potentially next year.
00:31:51.255 --> 00:31:52.134
I already have the title.
00:31:52.536 --> 00:31:54.156
Why are these soft skills so damn hard?
00:31:54.752 --> 00:31:56.394
Yeah, that's great.
00:31:56.413 --> 00:31:57.614
We should teach them, number one,
00:31:57.713 --> 00:31:59.335
identify the problem and then give people
00:31:59.355 --> 00:32:00.955
a handful of skills to then go out
00:32:00.976 --> 00:32:01.395
and solve.
00:32:01.915 --> 00:32:05.657
Hey, I'd say congratulations.
00:32:06.057 --> 00:32:07.278
That feels final though,
00:32:07.337 --> 00:32:08.298
but I'd say well done.
00:32:08.338 --> 00:32:10.599
And I'm sort of excited which direction
00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:11.720
you're going to go with this next.
00:32:11.779 --> 00:32:13.881
Now that your head isn't moving linearly,
00:32:13.901 --> 00:32:15.080
you're going in all directions with your
00:32:15.102 --> 00:32:15.701
thought process.
00:32:15.721 --> 00:32:16.261
That's great.
00:32:16.781 --> 00:32:17.823
Yeah, yeah.
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One thing,
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I'm going to learn how to make pastries.
00:32:21.384 --> 00:32:24.006
like really good pastry all the pastries i
00:32:24.026 --> 00:32:25.968
want to learn all the different doughs and
00:32:26.028 --> 00:32:27.528
i want to i want to just do
00:32:27.548 --> 00:32:29.451
your basic croissant and i want to want
00:32:29.490 --> 00:32:31.872
to do like the savory pastry so i'm
00:32:31.913 --> 00:32:33.773
gonna take a class i might take a
00:32:33.814 --> 00:32:35.434
boot camp i found a boot camp in
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june one week of class boot camp and
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i'm just gonna make pastries for my
00:32:40.278 --> 00:32:42.121
friends and hopefully they'll give me
00:32:42.161 --> 00:32:43.842
feedback until i perfect it
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New podcast idea.
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In person, we record,
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and you make six different pastries,
00:32:50.597 --> 00:32:52.099
and then we try the pastry,
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and I get to ask you one question.
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Okay, deal.
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Janet Bezner, hey, congratulations,
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and thanks for sharing some wisdom.
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It's been fun, Jimmy.
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Thank you.
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That's it for this one,
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but we're just getting warmed up.
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Smash follow, send it to a friend,
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or crank up the next episode.
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Want to go deeper?
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Hit us at pgpinecast.com or find us on
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And legally, none of this was advice.
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It's for entertainment purposes only.
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Bullshit!
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See, Keith?
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We read the script.
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Happy now?
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You're listening to the PT Pinecast,
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where smart people in healthcare come to
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make noise.
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Here's your host, Jimmy McKay.
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This is a fun one.
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After forty five years in physical therapy
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across clinical care, national advocacy,
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education, administration,
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today's guest is not leaving.
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I like this.
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You're stepping into something different,
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going towards not away from towards
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retirement.
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And we're going to find out what is
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in there.
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I'm going to guess a little bit of
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Peloton is in there.
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That's just my guess.
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What she's really stepping into is the
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next version of herself.
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Aren't we always?
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We did that in elementary school.
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You were a third grader,
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then what'd you do?
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Became a fourth grader.
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So it's looking to step into something.
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I think this is awesome.
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Throughout those four to five years,
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she's been a champion of health promotion,
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national board certification,
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mentor to hundreds of PTs.
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And she believes great PTs aren't defined
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by tools or techniques,
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but by the version of themselves that
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they...
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Step into.
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You see what this is?
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It's a perfect setup.
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She was born in the backseat of a
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car.
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We got to get into that.
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I love the little weird side things that
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we find out about people that maybe you
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never knew.
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And she's been in motion ever since.
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See what I did there?
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Born in the back of a car.
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Been in motion.
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Got it.
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All right.
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Well, congratulations to Dr. Janet Besner.
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Uh-oh.
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Thank you.
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There.
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There we go.
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There's a great intro.
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Janet, first of all, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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This is a pretty big deal.
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I think it was on LinkedIn.
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People were announcing,
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you were announcing your retirement and
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all those different things.
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So it's hard to ask a first question
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there,
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but I thought hard about the first one.
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You've had a
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I like to ask past and present questions.
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What did you think would matter most at
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the start and what actually ended up
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mattering the most in your career?
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You know, when I started,
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I was really focused on being the best
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clinician that I could be.
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That was in nineteen eighty one back in
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the day where whatever you did,
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you got paid for.
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I have heard about those ideas like
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bedtime stories, like once upon a time.
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So, yeah,
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I think I just wanted to become the
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best PT I could.
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So that meant to me reps, learning,
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variety.
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I wasn't really sure,
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I don't think at that time,
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what I really wanted to do.
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And what I think really now looking back,
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what has mattered most, I think,
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are the relationships that I've had.
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and made and hopefully will continue to
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have.
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Yeah.
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And that's a...
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the input determines the output, right?
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So if you're aiming to be a clinician,
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then your job would be read,
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learn classes, continuing education.
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And if you do that,
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then you're gonna get this.
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But the funny part is if the thing
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that was actually most important was
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relationships,
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you approach that differently.
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At what point did you start approaching
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like, hey,
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I get more out of all of this,
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whatever this crazy thing is,
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a life or career,
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based on who I connect with and what
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I get and give to them,
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did you start then changing your inputs to
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match that output?
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And if so, how?
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I think I realized this maybe about
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fifteen years into my career when I
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realized that every job that I had had
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was because of a relationship.
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Is that crazy?
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Yeah.
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And it is still true to this day.
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Every opportunity, every job,
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every significant encounter or activity or
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something has been because of
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relationships.
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So I would say, yeah, definitely.
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I mean,
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my dad taught me never to burn bridges.
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He worked at the same employer for thirty
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five years.
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um,
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and retired and is in the hall of
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fame for his profession.
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And, um, so I knew that.
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Uh,
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but then I think when I realized how
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important relationships were to my future,
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then I really thought, okay,
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I have to nourish.
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I have to, you know,
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put into this and not, not burn bridges.
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Yeah.
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Well, there's also, there,
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there's a different mindset though.
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Like not burning a bridge is one thing,
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but understanding that the time effort,
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um,
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and energy into building a bridge is worth
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the bridge and then some yeah yeah yeah
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i think there's some overlap there the
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things that you do not to burn bridges
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are also some of the things you do
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to nurse the relationship but but yeah and
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you know pt is so wonderful because it's
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a manageable size even today i mean it
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was a lot smaller when i came in
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but you know um
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I have a lot of really close
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relationships.
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You know,
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we are paths have crossed multiple times.
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And, you know,
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when I see you and when we talk,
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it's like no time has expired.
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Right, right, right, right.
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It's so great.
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You've said leadership skills,
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not actual PT skills,
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are what let you create value and impact
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though.
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So what should PTs be doing now to
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develop these?
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And then I'll have a bonus question,
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which is good luck trying to convince a
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motivated new grad PT
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to lean on these relationship things,
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which are like so soft and subjective and
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I can't measure them.
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And I can't, how do I do like,
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so it's almost like you have to do
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some,
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you need to teach a kid to go
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to first, second, third,
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twelfth college PT school and be measured
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against these things that you learn.
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And then, Hey, you're out.
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Scrap most of that.
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You learned it.
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Good.
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Now I want you to focus on all
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this stuff that we didn't teach you.
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Like that's, there's some unlearning.
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Like you said, it took you
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How would you convince someone who's
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walking into PT school now that it's
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actually the people we met along the way?
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Well, I think people get into PT,
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a lot of them, because they love people,
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right?
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So they're already relationship-focused.
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They just don't look at PT that way.
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So I don't think it's a huge right
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turn or anything.
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I think having that conversation with PT
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students...
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which you know i do uh or did
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in in my my program but yeah i
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don't think it's a huge shift and i
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think it's just um the way that you
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think about it and and realizing that um
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relationships are going to be the key to
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your success and so you should nurture
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those skills and and they're the same
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skills that make you a good pt to
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a patient i think you know um
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Leadership is a different situation.
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I don't think PTs see themselves as
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leaders,
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maybe more now that we're at the DPT
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degree, but man, I mean,
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I'm so grateful for the opportunities I
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had to become a leader in all these
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different settings and then to realize,
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oh, there's a real set of skills here.
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And I'm working as a consultant and one
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of my clients
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um wants me to build a leadership
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curriculum for for a project they're doing
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so i'm very excited about that and it'll
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be available to pts ot speech therapists
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um i think it's going to be hard
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to convince them to pay pay to take
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it but um that's always a challenge but
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i think you know i think we have
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to figure out um how to leverage those
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skills because that's what the profession
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needs to get what we want
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Agreed.
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What, what,
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what leadership skill did you resist early
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in your career that now maybe you swear
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by?
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Was there something that you were like,
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no, no.
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Isn't that funny?
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Like the thing we've like say never winds
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up, winds up.
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Yeah.
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Always.
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I can't think of anything, you know,
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like I,
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I'm one of those people that always puts
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their foot in their mouth.
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So I have a lot of courage.
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I don't really care when I make a
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mistake, as long as I don't kill anybody.
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I just do it again or learn or
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whatever.
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So I was one of those people that
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was comfortable putting myself out there.
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And so I don't think I ever resisted.
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I mean,
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there are several things that I really,
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um,
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it took me a long time to get
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better at.
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One of those things is when,
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when somebody is not accountable.
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So if somebody is not doing their job,
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um,
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The way you approach that and the way
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you help them to see that they need
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to do it,
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it was a one eighty for me.
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The way I started,
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I would I would sort of, you know,
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throw it in their face and say,
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you know, you didn't do this.
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Come on, do it.
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And that just never works.
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And so the way I approach people really
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has has evolved.
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I would say I never really resisted it.
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My dad set the tone for me.
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My dad was a New York City fireman
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and I wasn't a fireman.
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But when I took over my first radio
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station,
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half the radio station staff was older
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than me and had been a broadcaster longer.
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And the other half,
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even if they were younger than me,
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had been at that station longer than me.
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So I was like sort of the new
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guy.
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And my dad would just say,
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he gave me like this great advice,
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which was, your job is to,
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you work for them.
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Yeah.
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And you only have to be the boss
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if they don't do what they're,
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if they know that they've been doing this
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longer.
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Your job is to allow them to do
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that.
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If they don't do that,
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then they're making you be the boss,
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the prototypical.
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And that changed everything where like
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normally I was like, well,
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you've got to be the loudest and the
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smartest and the first to whatever.
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And I'm going to bring the hammer down.
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And I was like,
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but I hated working for people who did
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that.
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And my dad was essentially telling me,
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you don't have to.
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yeah no that's great advice he's right
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yeah the job was create a really great
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environment yes yes that was another thing
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i learned later was um the importance of
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culture um and i'll have to say this
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last um i don't know uh five years
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of being at texas state i i really
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feel like i was able to build this
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culture uh where the students can can
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thrive and
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Every kind of student, you know,
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students come in,
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we have a class of forty six and
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students come in at all different places.
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Oh, yeah.
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In terms of their preparation.
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And we were able to create a culture
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where every one of those students can can
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thrive.
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And I'm so very proud of that and
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so grateful for that.
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And I, I,
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I wish I'd learned that earlier in my
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career.
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Picasso said good artists borrow,
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great artists steal.
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would you borrow or steal from other
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people?
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Were there like tools?
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I like stealing ideas from outside the
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profession.
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I forget the guy's name,
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but he was the guy who founded that
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Zappos, the online shoe.
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And he realized that he was the bottleneck
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at some point,
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that there were decisions not being made.
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So he made a rule.
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If it's going to cost you less than
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a thousand dollars to solve it,
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I trust you go solve it.
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You're going to have to explain it
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eventually, but solve it, solve it,
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solve it, solve it.
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And they saw their level of complaints go
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from like X to like almost zero.
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They were like,
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everything was less than a hundred bucks
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or like close to it.
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So is there anything that you like learned
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from maybe outside of profession that you
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like sort of stole and reeled in and
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brought it towards us?
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Well,
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I would say the whole area of health
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promotion and wellness for sure.
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Like I was one of the very first
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PTs to even dive into that.
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And
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Um,
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for me that happened in the early nineties
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when I was doing my PhD and.
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You know,
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that whole body of work opened up a
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whole area for me that I knew nothing
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about.
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And I spent the last thirty years trying
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to figure out how to get that integrated
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PT and, and then others came along and,
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and have done a lot towards that as
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well.
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But, um, yeah,
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the whole notion of prevention,
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I think PTs, we kind of knew it,
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but.
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you know, we were paid to fix,
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you know, things not to prevent them.
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So we weren't emphasizing it.
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So that that's, I think,
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a great example of that.
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But then all I mean, I'm like you,
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I read and explore lots of different
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things and different topics.
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And
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i'm sure i grab ideas from all kinds
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of other places i've done seven or eight
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different videos um about the company that
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makes the bike behind you like i look
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at peloton and people were i'm like look
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what they're doing like
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Look what they're really doing.
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Yeah.
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They made you and me pay a couple
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grand for a bike.
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That happens.
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But then a lot of times people,
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it becomes a laundry rack, right?
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Right.
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Exactly.
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They're able now through technology,
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they can track who uses it, how often,
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how long.
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If you look at the updates,
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we're recording this in early twenty
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twenty six.
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it's now you like,
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it always had really great data,
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but I gotta be honest.
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I was just like the data I would
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look at how many times in the last
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thirty days compared to the previous
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thirty days did I get on it?
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Right.
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Now it's able to crunch the data and
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be like, Hey, listen,
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your average watt per watt per ride is
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up.
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That's great.
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And I'm like, Oh,
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and then it's suggesting, you know,
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it will be great if you,
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if you threw in a couple of strings.
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I look at what they're doing is they're
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not, it's a bike company,
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but really it's a health sort of
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motivation, promotion, integration.
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They're making their, their,
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their make and gamification.
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Have you, have you tried lane break?
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Yeah,
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I have tried it a couple of times.
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It's really good.
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I like it.
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It's goofy and dumb.
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It's a video game.
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Yeah.
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But my guess is they're tracking how many
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people are using all these different
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features.
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Oh, yeah.
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And the ones that get a little pop,
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maybe they move that to the home screen.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I asked this question.
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I'm actually going to do my podcast live
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at APTA New Jersey's Student Conclave this
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weekend.
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All right.
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Sure.
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And before I start the show,
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I try to like,
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this is when you know you've made it.
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I'm my own opening act.
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I don't rank well enough to have an
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opening act.
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And the question I ask,
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because a lot of the students have no
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idea who I am.
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That's great.
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I will ask,
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how many of you are preparing to enter
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show business?
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And none of them raise their hand,
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which is on purpose.
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And then I say,
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so you're just going to tell people how
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to do exercise.
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You'll never show them.
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You'll never create a story that shows
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them what if they listen to you for
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twelve weeks, what they'll become.
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And that's when people start to get antsy
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in their seat and be like, well,
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I guess I am.
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and then that sort of goes back to
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like you're promoting health it's hard to
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track when you prevent something yes but
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that's what the smart research people are
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for that's what they're for they're saying
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hey if we do this a hundred times
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this only happens twelve not twenty nine
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right right and that that's a challenge
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right because
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the payoff for all that stuff is down
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the road way in our future where we're
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not even focused.
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And so if we could figure out how
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to,
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how to really capitalize on the day to
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day payoff, which is there,
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people underestimate it.
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That, that, that's, that,
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that would be money in our pockets.
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Well, congratulations.
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Now that you've retired,
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I would like to nominate you for being,
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you, you,
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you get to try to solve that.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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It's interesting, you know, already.
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So I retired December thirty first, but,
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the last day of work,
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official work was the twenty third.
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So I've had, you know, what,
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a week and a half or so.
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And already my mind is more open.
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It's so cool.
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Yes.
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Like I usually spend,
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I think I was spending a fair amount
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of time thinking about what's on my plate
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this week and how am I going to
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solve this problem?
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You know, my job was just
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I had the ultimate middleman job.
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So department chair,
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I was an associate Dean, you know,
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there's stuff coming from up here,
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stuff coming from down here.
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And it's like, Oh my God,
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what do I pay attention to today?
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And so I can already feel the space
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in my brain.
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And I hope that I can spend some
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time really being thoughtful.
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In fact,
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that's my word for twenty twenty six
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thoughtful about things that matter that
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need to be
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thought about.
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So I'm looking forward to that.
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I love that.
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All right.
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So you're big on the idea of showing
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up as your best self,
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but what is that?
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I've heard that phrase before.
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What does that actually look like?
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How do you develop and how do you
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know when you did,
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how do you know when you do it?
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Oh, that's such a great question.
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So I think it's very individualistic,
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obviously.
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It's figuring out
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Okay, let me say this.
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It's knowing what you're naturally very
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good at,
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which most of us can do in our
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sleep.
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And when we're at our absolute worst,
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we can do that.
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But we're not all good at everything,
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right?
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So there's a lot of the things that
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were required in my most recent job that
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I was not natural at,
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that I had to work at.
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So in order to deliver on those things,
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when I needed to,
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which most of the time was not,
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didn't warn me, hey,
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you're gonna have to do this tomorrow,
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it just showed up.
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I had to figure out what allows me
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to have the most energy around that.
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So for me, it's very simple things,
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getting a good night's sleep,
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regularly exercising,
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eating things that nourish me,
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not that drain me,
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having connection with people, having,
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you know,
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meaningful,
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intimate connection with people,
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things like that.
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Some alone time.
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I'm an extrovert,
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but I still need a little alone time.
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So things like that.
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And so I think you know it when
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you can do the things that you don't
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like and that you don't look forward to
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and you notice yourself going, oh,
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you know, I'm not so,
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I'm not so anxious about that.
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I think I got that.
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Have you ever,
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have you ever read the book or heard
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the, the, the, the paradigm,
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the six types of working genius?
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I don't know that one.
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So this one essentially breaks what you're
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saying.
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They sound similar.
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It doesn't list what tasks they are.
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It lists what types of tasks.
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Okay, got it.
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I worked for a boss years ago who
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was like, Jimmy,
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if you ever want to rise and rank
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in this company,
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we're going to need you to get better
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at spreadsheets.
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He's like, you're terrible.
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And I'm like, yep, I don't disagree.
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And then I asked a question back to
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this guy who'd been there for twenty five
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years and was sort of like the resident,
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one of the resident experts.
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And I said, hey,
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the people here at this organization who
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are good at spreadsheets,
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are you telling them to get better at
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communicating verbally?
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And he's like, no.
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And I'm like,
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then why don't I just do more of
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the thing I'm already good at?
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And then we get one of those spreadsheet
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people who could do that in their sleep
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and we have that do it.
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And here's why.
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I'm going to spend this much effort
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getting good at spreadsheets and I'm going
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to get this much better.
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Or we let me do the things you
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hired me for.
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And I know this is going to shock
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you.
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He did not like my response.
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Be well-rounded.
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I'm like, but I,
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I'm not here for spreadsheets.
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That doesn't give me energy.
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In fact, I would,
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I would see spreadsheet day on the
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calendar and I would dread it for the
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month preceding that.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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You know, and it's interesting,
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the strengths-based evidence and approach.
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Have you heard about the strengths-based
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approach?
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Maybe.
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Does that ring a bell?
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Maybe.
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A typical annual evaluation with my boss
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was, here's what you do really well.
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Here's what you don't do well.
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Let's work on that.
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You need to really focus on what you
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don't do well.
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And the strengths-based approach says,
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you know, just do what you're good at.
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Well,
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it's awesome in theory if you have the
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ability to carve out a job where you're
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only relying on your strengths.
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I have never had that job and I've
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always been in a sort of an executive
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position, a leadership role where,
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you know,
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you have to be good at everything.
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You have to be good at the spreadsheet.
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You have to be good at the people.
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You have to be good at the policies.
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You have to be good at budget.
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And so for me,
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I need to bring my best self so
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that I can do a good job.
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at those things that I'm not natural at
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or else it just sucks the life out
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of me.
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And, you know, I'm one of those people.
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I've loved every job I've had.
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I've loved every position I've been in.
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I've loved almost every day of work.
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I mean,
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work never felt like work to me because
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I love my profession.
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I love what I was doing.
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And I have some, you know,
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some desire and some motivation to do a
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good job.
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So, yeah, so for me,
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I never had the luxury of only doing
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my strengths, but some people can.
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And if you can, I support that.
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So, so working genius was less about,
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it was, it was, it was,
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it was more about the type of work
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and did it give you energy?
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Did it suck energy or was it neutral?
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So essentially,
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essentially I wasn't planning on going
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here,
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but this is what it looks like on
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the screen.
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I'm going to pop up there.
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So essentially it just says there's six
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types of,
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I see.
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Wonder.
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And of course,
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it magically spells the word widget,
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which if you're going to write a book,
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make it spell a word.
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Gotcha.
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Wonder, invention, discernment,
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galvanizing, enablement, and tenacity.
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And it goes into what those things are
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and yada, yada, yada.
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But what it says is,
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all of us of course if you're also
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if you're gonna have a paradigm make it
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work a hundred percent of the time because
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that people will buy your book it's that
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all of us have it looks like a
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stoplight green yellow red it's like all
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of us just naturally are have green as
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two of them yellow and they're all
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different and red is two and by right
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it's like you'll if you only did this
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task all day you're gonna go home feeling
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like you got hit by a truck and
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you're never you're gonna want to crawl in
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your bed and pull your blanket over your
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head
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Now you might have to do some of
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it,
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but as long as the greens outweigh the
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reds and then like me being an accountant,
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like I'd rather just cash everything in
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and just go live.
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Couldn't do it.
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I bet people who are good at accounting
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would be like,
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speak in front of people and do whatever
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on the, on the fly.
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Not a chance.
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Now I want to have that accountant,
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like let's send you to public speaking and
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let's triple down.
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You're going to lead our podcast.
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That person might hate it,
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might hate it and be bad at it.
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Or do we just let the person who's
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good at it and wants to do it?
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Now,
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if there are parts of your job that
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you need to get done,
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it's saying you can plow through one of
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those red activities,
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but it shouldn't be ninety percent of what
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you're doing or you're going to hate the
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environment.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No,
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I think that's there's a lot of wisdom
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there.
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I mean, I see people, good faculty,
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good researchers being put into
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administrative roles all the time.
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And there's no there's no they should not
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be.
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be put there um and the principle have
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you ever heard of the yeah yes yes
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yes yes for the audience it's uh you
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know you're good at yeah you're good at
00:24:07.096 --> 00:24:09.218
digging ditches and then you get promoted
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now you're in charge of everybody digging
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ditches and maybe you're okay at that and
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now you're in charge of the thing above
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that and you're not good at that
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So we don't promote you anymore,
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but we also leave you there.
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So the idea is the line that sticks
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with me is we rise to the level
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of our incompetence.
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And then you have an entire organization
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where people are actually one step above
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where they should be.
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And that is a travesty for them and
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everybody around them and the entire
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organization.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, I think it's right.
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I mean,
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we should be moving into organizations and
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positions that really fit, um,
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fit our skill set.
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And, um, that's,
00:24:50.007 --> 00:24:51.727
that's another good piece of advice for,
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for the young therapist, you know, um,
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think about that.
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Talking to the young therapist,
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you've worked with PT students for
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decades.
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What's something or some things that they
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wind up worrying about too much and what's
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something they don't worry about enough
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or, or, or at least think about enough?
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Yeah.
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Um,
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That's, that's, I think that's a very,
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my answer is very generationally
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influenced.
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Like this young, this,
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this generation now that's in our
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classrooms,
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they're really concerned about money,
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like more so than any generation I've seen
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since mine.
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And I, and my generation wasn't,
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and I don't,
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I'm not saying that disparagingly.
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Um, they, um,
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I think they're over-focused on money.
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And I don't know where that's going to
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lead them.
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I'm interested to see.
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I'm afraid it might lead them to too
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much job hopping.
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And I think they should be more focused
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on getting in a position where they can
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learn and grow,
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whether that's through mentoring or
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support or colleagues or whatever.
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So that's the current generation.
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That's the advice that I would have.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Don't chase the money.
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Chase the mentor.
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Yeah.
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That's a great way to say it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And also, and through mentoring,
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you build your skills.
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So think, you know,
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prioritize building your skills.
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Yeah.
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And that might mean that money has to
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take a second or third seat.
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You've heard a lot.
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I mean,
00:26:36.049 --> 00:26:37.769
I've heard a lot of people who wind
00:26:37.789 --> 00:26:39.309
up with money say,
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it wasn't the thing I was aiming for.
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And then magically it showed up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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If you chase this thing,
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it winds up being the most elusive thing.
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But if you chase a great story,
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if you chase a great meaning,
00:26:52.236 --> 00:26:53.936
magically the money shows up.
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And I know that's easy to say and
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hard to do.
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Yeah.
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No, I think it happens a lot.
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I mean,
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I would say it happened in my case.
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I'm doing a lot of money examination right
00:27:05.186 --> 00:27:06.989
now because I don't have a paycheck now.
00:27:07.948 --> 00:27:09.409
making sure I can support myself for the
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rest of my life.
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And I've done great.
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And, you know,
00:27:13.190 --> 00:27:16.751
I've been a PT clinician and an educator
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and, you know, now I don't have children.
00:27:19.792 --> 00:27:21.213
So there's not a lot of,
00:27:22.453 --> 00:27:23.634
there's not a lot of stress there,
00:27:24.115 --> 00:27:25.836
but I've done really well.
00:27:26.115 --> 00:27:27.856
And I never, never chased the money.
00:27:27.957 --> 00:27:29.577
That was never my priority.
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And, and I didn't,
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.119
I would say I didn't really worry about
00:27:36.161 --> 00:27:36.240
it.
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I was a good steward.
00:27:38.766 --> 00:27:42.048
I think I'm an example perhaps of that.
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Profession-wide, zooming out all the way,
00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:47.652
what do you hope the PT profession risks
00:27:48.011 --> 00:27:49.894
more in the next ten years?
00:27:50.374 --> 00:27:52.015
Where should we push our chips in that
00:27:52.055 --> 00:27:52.895
maybe we're not?
00:27:53.516 --> 00:27:54.616
What should we be bold on?
00:27:54.656 --> 00:27:59.099
What should we be bullish on?
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.202
Articulating our value without a doubt.
00:28:06.065 --> 00:28:07.286
Boasting about
00:28:07.688 --> 00:28:08.887
what, what,
00:28:08.928 --> 00:28:10.388
what we do and what we give people.
00:28:11.308 --> 00:28:15.049
Um, because, uh,
00:28:15.069 --> 00:28:19.371
the powers that be really don't care.
00:28:21.770 --> 00:28:23.832
Tell a story that explains shows,
00:28:23.971 --> 00:28:24.912
shows them, right?
00:28:24.991 --> 00:28:25.392
Yeah.
00:28:25.471 --> 00:28:28.073
We've got to, we've got to be more,
00:28:29.153 --> 00:28:29.492
um,
00:28:29.512 --> 00:28:31.673
we've got to have more ego or else
00:28:31.753 --> 00:28:33.334
we're going to be left, uh,
00:28:33.354 --> 00:28:34.054
on the sideline.
00:28:34.174 --> 00:28:34.494
We have,
00:28:34.575 --> 00:28:36.015
we have to put ourselves out there and,
00:28:36.481 --> 00:28:37.643
You know, I think by nature,
00:28:37.702 --> 00:28:39.505
PTs aren't comfortable doing that.
00:28:39.644 --> 00:28:41.205
And I think in part,
00:28:41.226 --> 00:28:42.527
that's why we're where we are.
00:28:42.547 --> 00:28:44.568
We got to figure out how to do
00:28:44.588 --> 00:28:45.849
that and do it in a way that
00:28:45.890 --> 00:28:47.351
feels okay to us.
00:28:47.431 --> 00:28:48.833
Okay.
00:28:49.133 --> 00:28:51.555
So let's go super zoom it into you.
00:28:52.316 --> 00:28:53.616
Now you're in day,
00:28:53.856 --> 00:28:54.637
I'm not good at math,
00:28:54.678 --> 00:28:56.960
we're in week two of retirement.
00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:59.020
What's two things?
00:28:59.162 --> 00:29:01.123
What's something you're proud to carry
00:29:01.202 --> 00:29:01.824
with you?
00:29:02.104 --> 00:29:03.724
And what's something you're glad to leave
00:29:03.766 --> 00:29:04.185
behind?
00:29:04.942 --> 00:29:06.044
Hmm.
00:29:06.124 --> 00:29:06.403
Okay.
00:29:07.125 --> 00:29:08.486
I'm going to do the later first.
00:29:08.865 --> 00:29:11.028
Glad to leave behind not waking up at
00:29:11.067 --> 00:29:13.750
five thirty and not driving on
00:29:14.050 --> 00:29:14.790
I-thirty-five.
00:29:15.071 --> 00:29:15.632
Okay, good.
00:29:15.652 --> 00:29:16.472
That's our freeway.
00:29:16.712 --> 00:29:18.934
Now wake up at five thirty and hit
00:29:18.954 --> 00:29:20.576
the Peloton right behind you.
00:29:20.836 --> 00:29:22.938
No, how about seven?
00:29:23.157 --> 00:29:23.719
There you go.
00:29:23.838 --> 00:29:24.819
Even better.
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:28.061
So I'm really glad to leave behind the
00:29:28.722 --> 00:29:31.305
grind of getting up, getting to work,
00:29:31.525 --> 00:29:33.346
being in the office every day, um,
00:29:34.270 --> 00:29:35.112
That was weighing on me.
00:29:35.751 --> 00:29:37.393
And what I'll take with me is all
00:29:37.413 --> 00:29:38.653
those great relationships I built.
00:29:39.234 --> 00:29:40.955
Yeah.
00:29:41.415 --> 00:29:43.557
It's been so wonderful to hear from people
00:29:44.157 --> 00:29:45.959
as I've been putting out on social media
00:29:45.979 --> 00:29:46.599
that I'm retired.
00:29:46.660 --> 00:29:49.662
And I've heard some from students I
00:29:50.082 --> 00:29:52.023
haven't heard from in twenty years.
00:29:53.144 --> 00:29:55.665
So I hope just to keep connecting with
00:29:55.685 --> 00:29:58.087
people and I'll take that with me.
00:29:58.501 --> 00:29:58.701
I mean,
00:29:58.741 --> 00:30:00.623
the people that you wind up mentoring,
00:30:01.223 --> 00:30:02.464
dozens, hundreds, whatever,
00:30:02.765 --> 00:30:04.625
they've probably, I'm imagining,
00:30:04.705 --> 00:30:06.727
gotten into some really interesting,
00:30:06.846 --> 00:30:09.409
weird corners and levels.
00:30:09.429 --> 00:30:11.950
They've climbed ranks and gone places that
00:30:12.171 --> 00:30:13.811
are almost like that Dr. Seuss book,
00:30:13.852 --> 00:30:13.971
right?
00:30:14.011 --> 00:30:14.811
All the places you'll go.
00:30:14.832 --> 00:30:16.053
Right, exactly.
00:30:16.073 --> 00:30:17.134
That's got to be pretty cool if you
00:30:17.153 --> 00:30:18.775
look back and look at yourself as,
00:30:19.434 --> 00:30:21.516
I guess we're always a branch on someone
00:30:21.556 --> 00:30:22.116
else's tree,
00:30:22.136 --> 00:30:25.219
but you're also the roots of your own
00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:25.538
tree.
00:30:26.163 --> 00:30:26.743
Yeah, no,
00:30:26.844 --> 00:30:30.625
I love hearing their stories and learning
00:30:30.664 --> 00:30:32.726
about what they're doing and how they got
00:30:32.746 --> 00:30:33.086
there.
00:30:33.365 --> 00:30:35.145
I think that's really, really cool.
00:30:35.846 --> 00:30:37.067
So, yeah.
00:30:37.086 --> 00:30:37.707
I got to be honest,
00:30:37.807 --> 00:30:39.027
I'm not pitching here,
00:30:39.067 --> 00:30:41.508
but a great idea for a podcast would
00:30:41.528 --> 00:30:45.709
be one interview with someone you've met
00:30:45.729 --> 00:30:47.229
along the way per year you were in
00:30:47.269 --> 00:30:48.788
the profession and you got yourself
00:30:49.490 --> 00:30:50.650
something episodes, right?
00:30:50.809 --> 00:30:51.950
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:30:52.069 --> 00:30:52.829
No, you're right.
00:30:53.070 --> 00:30:53.490
That's cool.
00:30:53.510 --> 00:30:54.730
I like that idea.
00:30:55.151 --> 00:30:55.330
All right.
00:30:55.391 --> 00:30:56.551
Last thing we do every episode,
00:30:56.571 --> 00:30:59.113
we call it the parting shot.
00:30:59.133 --> 00:31:01.173
This is the parting shot.
00:31:01.714 --> 00:31:03.134
One last mic drop moment.
00:31:03.796 --> 00:31:04.596
No pressure.
00:31:05.037 --> 00:31:07.157
Just your legacy on the line.
00:31:07.178 --> 00:31:07.857
All right.
00:31:07.897 --> 00:31:08.357
No pressure.
00:31:08.377 --> 00:31:08.878
As the guy said,
00:31:08.898 --> 00:31:09.898
just your legacy on the line.
00:31:09.939 --> 00:31:11.079
Now,
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:12.381
what's the thing you'd want to leave the
00:31:12.461 --> 00:31:13.882
audience as we wrap up?
00:31:13.902 --> 00:31:14.362
But by the way,
00:31:14.382 --> 00:31:15.261
just because you're retired doesn't mean
00:31:15.281 --> 00:31:16.542
you can't come back on the podcast.
00:31:16.563 --> 00:31:18.183
We don't discriminate against people.
00:31:18.203 --> 00:31:19.805
I would love to.
00:31:19.845 --> 00:31:20.825
What's the last thing you want to leave
00:31:20.845 --> 00:31:21.566
with the audience today?
00:31:23.153 --> 00:31:26.596
I would say, you know,
00:31:26.736 --> 00:31:29.659
invest in the soft skills,
00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:32.481
invest in developing your soft skills,
00:31:33.343 --> 00:31:35.845
your ability to listen,
00:31:36.365 --> 00:31:38.428
your ability to be empathic,
00:31:38.488 --> 00:31:39.949
your ability to connect with people.
00:31:41.490 --> 00:31:43.813
That really makes life rich.
00:31:44.730 --> 00:31:45.069
I've done it.
00:31:45.170 --> 00:31:47.011
I did it at a small conference and
00:31:47.051 --> 00:31:49.292
I think I talked to somebody else about
00:31:49.333 --> 00:31:50.994
doing it at CSM potentially next year.
00:31:51.255 --> 00:31:52.134
I already have the title.
00:31:52.536 --> 00:31:54.156
Why are these soft skills so damn hard?
00:31:54.752 --> 00:31:56.394
Yeah, that's great.
00:31:56.413 --> 00:31:57.614
We should teach them, number one,
00:31:57.713 --> 00:31:59.335
identify the problem and then give people
00:31:59.355 --> 00:32:00.955
a handful of skills to then go out
00:32:00.976 --> 00:32:01.395
and solve.
00:32:01.915 --> 00:32:05.657
Hey, I'd say congratulations.
00:32:06.057 --> 00:32:07.278
That feels final though,
00:32:07.337 --> 00:32:08.298
but I'd say well done.
00:32:08.338 --> 00:32:10.599
And I'm sort of excited which direction
00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:11.720
you're going to go with this next.
00:32:11.779 --> 00:32:13.881
Now that your head isn't moving linearly,
00:32:13.901 --> 00:32:15.080
you're going in all directions with your
00:32:15.102 --> 00:32:15.701
thought process.
00:32:15.721 --> 00:32:16.261
That's great.
00:32:16.781 --> 00:32:17.823
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:17.962 --> 00:32:18.323
One thing,
00:32:18.462 --> 00:32:20.784
I'm going to learn how to make pastries.
00:32:21.384 --> 00:32:24.006
like really good pastry all the pastries i
00:32:24.026 --> 00:32:25.968
want to learn all the different doughs and
00:32:26.028 --> 00:32:27.528
i want to i want to just do
00:32:27.548 --> 00:32:29.451
your basic croissant and i want to want
00:32:29.490 --> 00:32:31.872
to do like the savory pastry so i'm
00:32:31.913 --> 00:32:33.773
gonna take a class i might take a
00:32:33.814 --> 00:32:35.434
boot camp i found a boot camp in
00:32:35.474 --> 00:32:39.018
june one week of class boot camp and
00:32:39.057 --> 00:32:40.239
i'm just gonna make pastries for my
00:32:40.278 --> 00:32:42.121
friends and hopefully they'll give me
00:32:42.161 --> 00:32:43.842
feedback until i perfect it
00:32:44.368 --> 00:32:45.471
New podcast idea.
00:32:45.631 --> 00:32:47.012
In person, we record,
00:32:47.192 --> 00:32:50.498
and you make six different pastries,
00:32:50.597 --> 00:32:52.099
and then we try the pastry,
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.402
and I get to ask you one question.
00:32:53.422 --> 00:32:55.484
Okay, deal.
00:32:55.505 --> 00:32:56.645
Janet Bezner, hey, congratulations,
00:32:56.665 --> 00:32:57.567
and thanks for sharing some wisdom.
00:32:57.587 --> 00:32:58.087
It's been fun, Jimmy.
00:32:58.208 --> 00:32:59.770
Thank you.
00:33:01.516 --> 00:33:02.615
That's it for this one,
00:33:02.876 --> 00:33:04.477
but we're just getting warmed up.
00:33:05.017 --> 00:33:06.917
Smash follow, send it to a friend,
00:33:07.137 --> 00:33:08.818
or crank up the next episode.
00:33:09.318 --> 00:33:10.179
Want to go deeper?
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:14.721
Hit us at pgpinecast.com or find us on
00:33:14.760 --> 00:33:17.321
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00:33:17.741 --> 00:33:20.002
And legally, none of this was advice.
00:33:20.083 --> 00:33:21.703
It's for entertainment purposes only.
00:33:21.763 --> 00:33:23.184
Bullshit!
00:33:23.484 --> 00:33:24.105
See, Keith?
00:33:24.285 --> 00:33:25.345
We read the script.
00:33:25.645 --> 00:33:26.306
Happy now?