It looks legit.
It looks catchy.
Graphic designer on the side.
It's Canva, man.
I mean,
it even makes me look like a genius.
He's David Fath-Lacani.
I'm Jimmy McKay.
And we are talking about an idea that
I know is going to shock many people,
many fans of the show or the stream.
Made it up as I was going along,
and all of a sudden it was an
idea.
And that's where the best ideas come from.
So real quick,
because you've been on the show a few
times, but people don't know,
you are our chief business correspondent.
Is that what we gave you, the title?
I think I'll take that.
PT podcast chief business correspondent.
Our our relationship started twenty
thirteen when you were eleven years old or
something.
I don't know.
Maybe you're a little younger than me.
When I started my journey as a second
career PT and PT school,
this was your first career.
You were a normal you were a normal
age.
You were still twenty one then.
Were you twenty one?
No, you were.
I wasn't doing well.
I was thirty one.
You're still twenty one.
I'm still twenty one.
Yeah, I'm Peter Pan.
But given the background, man,
you're a second gen PT family business,
but you have a twist with a different
degree and you're a PT,
but you're also weird in a good way.
How do you how do you explain?
I'll take weird in a good way.
Yeah, I mean,
I got stuck living with you for three
years during school,
so that was a good start.
Yeah, I mean, I came into PT.
Both my parents were PTs,
so kind of grew up with it around
the kitchen table.
Dad was in private practice for twenty
plus years with a variety of ortho clinics
in the North Virginia area.
And yeah, I mean,
kind of got into it and, you know,
fortunate to pick Marymount,
fortunate to have you as a roommate.
And, you know,
it was it was a good experience.
I came out,
started the ortho sports space.
I was athlete in college and I was
like, OK, yeah,
ortho everything all day long,
every every day.
And I really enjoyed the sports side of
things.
That was my first foray into private
practice was in the sports performance
realm on the PT sports performance cash
base clinic and kind of scaled that out
into a training facility in Colorado after
I graduated and moved out here.
So.
And then I ended up doing that for
a few years and then pivoted into another
opportunity that was a total one eighty,
which was in the senior living side of
things,
which was just an opportunity that I saw.
And I saw an opportunity that the market
needed to become more efficient and how
how care was being delivered.
And that was largely because of COVID.
And yeah,
that kind of sprung up my next business,
ended up scaling that out to a handful
of sites across Northern Colorado,
Boulder County area,
partnerships with Senior Living and just
kind of did the full spectrum of geriatric
care.
um you know and had you know very
fortunate to have a great team of people
to work with did that for a few
years and then ended up uh selling and
exiting that business um and then most
recently i kind of dipped my toe into
the health tech side of things doing some
work there and kind of getting into this
kind of consulting space now with my
passion being primarily
How do we improve our operations?
How do we improve business?
I just,
I've always loved the opportunity to like,
here's a hole in the market.
How do we make things better?
How do we make things run easier for
our teams?
And I think that's just such a important
piece of, you know,
what we need to get better at,
you know, as a profession is like,
how do we get better as a whole
at saying what's going on around us and
then having the skills and resources to go
to do a good job and put ourselves
out there.
You skipped two things that I think are
of importance.
While you were doing your DPT,
you were doing a different degree,
which is which is, by the way,
on the weekends, casual weekend trips.
One does.
You were flying back and forth from
Virginia where we were in school.
to the Ohio State University.
Thank you for using the correct.
Am I like a Buckeye fan?
You're an honorary.
Honorary Buckeye.
Because I live with people enough.
And I was like,
this is who we cheer for now.
And so you were doing what degree?
at the same time?
I did a master's in public health
concurrently with my DPT.
I started at MPH when I was playing
baseball at Ohio State,
finished my undergrad degree,
had another year to play after I
redshirted, and just was like, well,
I don't want to do another bachelor's
degree,
so let's try this public health thing.
And honestly, it was great.
It helped my vision of healthcare.
get a little bit of a reframe before
I even got into it.
Like,
how do you look at healthcare economics?
How do you look at population-based care?
I think that's a big thing.
I'll take that.
All is right in the world this week
after writing that.
I mean, I'm in New York,
you're in Colorado.
Sometimes when I do have the screen on
in the back and there's an Ohio State
game, I can almost hear you.
Yeah.
I'm still yelling at Coach Day.
Yeah.
Like, why are we running football?
The second thing I think you skipped over
is what'd you do after you exited your
home health company?
I took some time off and I went
to Nepal.
I was fortunate to make two trips there.
And on my second trip, I climbed Everest.
Which is,
I'm Googling and understand it's some sort
of like a hill or a mountain.
It's a pointy, cold, snowy peak.
And that's a different episode that we'll
get into.
But I wanted, I mean, I don't know,
dude, if I climbed Everest,
I might have tattooed that on my forehead.
Ask me about how I climbed Everest just
to make sure I could naturally bring that
up in a conversation.
It was an awesome experience.
It had to be.
It was cool.
You know what I was thinking about this
too is,
to to do that like you spend a
lot of time out there you get and
there's not a lot to do there's a
lot of down time and some of the
people you interact with it's amazing like
in base camp the twenty five hundred
people that call this like one you know
one kilometer by one kilometer chunk of
ice home for for six weeks and uh
six weeks dude it's like a little village
that's built on a glacier at the base
of the highest peak in the world and
it is amazing logistically what's been
done there
amazing credit to the Nepali people for
what they've done.
But it's also really cool that you're
sitting in a tent and you're talking to
a dude who's a CEO of a major
company or major organizations, attorneys,
like high achieving people who also wanna
go do this.
And then you're also talking to like a
local villager who is helping support you
get there and you got to do it
together.
And I just the whole thing again,
like you said,
different conversation for the time,
but like,
it's just a really cool experience,
both from like a social interaction,
but obviously the, you know,
the pursuit of something bigger was pretty
awesome.
Well, to go with your connection piece,
you're sitting there on the mountain and
you're talking to different people and
conversations spur ideas.
The first tagline for my podcast was the
best conversations happen at happy hour.
Welcome to ours.
Like, that's how I wanted it to feel.
It's not necessarily about the beer,
even though the logo is damn beer,
you know, with my eyeballs on it.
So in the spirit of connection and the
reason for this live stream and the reason
the idea that came about it is for
the sixty millionth time I was on LinkedIn
and the platform doesn't matter.
And I heard someone say there needs to
be more business education in school.
We have friends that are academics.
academics typically don't disagree but
then they're like where are we gonna put
it right and then we just go around
and round and round in circles and then
we we just get tired to the point
when i literally just said okay chat gpt
design me a syllabus for the mba for
the dpt knowing that i don't have an
mba
you don't have an MBA MPH, right?
Similar, but not the same, but Hey,
we all think we need this.
So I just said, could we crowdsource this?
Turns out you can't put up the syllabus.
And I just said,
who wants to teach what,
who wants and the,
the power of connection at the, you know,
Base camp or on LinkedIn is there are
enough people who are willing to give
their time and their expertise without
asking for anything in return and just
said, yeah, I'll throw.
And that's the thing,
especially when you're in PT is like,
they're pretty nice.
I don't want to cliche PTs,
but they're pretty nice and giving if you
ask.
So we just started saying who would teach
what?
And we filled up most of the syllabus
pretty quick.
And then we had other people like, well,
you know what's missing?
And I go, no, I don't.
Please tell me what's missing.
And that, and I said, congratulations,
you just volunteered to teach that class.
So I'm going to put your name on
there.
And we wound up with,
I don't even know, thirty classes,
thirty little episodes,
thirty lessons in the syllabus.
And I don't even think we're done because,
of course,
people are going to come in there and
yes and and
I just talked to someone about revenue
cycle management.
I'm like,
does that need to be on there?
And she gave me a whooping behind the
wood.
Does it need to be on there?
You need it.
I was like, never mind.
You have me greed.
But these are the kinds of things we
want to do.
You saw it.
were your initial thoughts here's jimmy
again putting weird stuff on linkedin no i
mean it's the same way the the pinecast
started right like you came in and and
i remember we were like at a happy
hour and like dude i learned so much
in going to these happy hours just talking
to clinicians who know more than me and
you're like how do we get it out
of the bar right that's where we learn
all that and that's how your your first
idea came to be and i was like
i don't know man this was what twelve
you know ten years ago eleven years ago
i was like
I don't know,
the first thing about podcasting,
you do you.
I hear you.
And kudos for seeing that and making it
a thing.
So the same thing with this is now
we've always sat there and complained
about how we don't really know what we're
doing from a business perspective.
We don't come out of PT school with
this savvy business background.
We got one course that was one hour
a week, PT as a manager.
And not to knock the programs,
because I get it.
It's not necessarily part of the board
exam.
Right.
It's not their skill set.
The structure of our classroom education
is to get us ready to become entry-level
clinicians.
Well,
part of what we're seeing now is a
lot of clinicians who want to come out
and say, hey,
I have this doctorate degree.
I have these skills.
I have this passion.
Let me go serve my community.
And I don't necessarily fit into the
conventional outpatient environment.
So how do I do that?
I want to start my own business.
Great.
You have a great idea.
How do you do it?
I don't know.
And I think this this kind of is
a couple of years in the making.
Right.
Like, I mean,
two and twenty four at CSM.
Right.
Like we got the fortunate opportunity to
speak and we literally were we were dumb
and dumber.
Right.
It was me, Mike and Megan.
And we just got to talk about all
of the mistakes that we did in our
own private practice.
in our journeys through that.
And it's like, okay,
here's all the dumb stuff we did.
Don't do that.
Right.
Learn from our mistakes.
Well,
here's another opportunity where we can
now bring in some sharp minds,
some people who have been there,
done that, learned all the things,
give these educational lessons in a
applied format where it's like, Hey,
you can take this, listen to this,
thirty minutes,
listen to those forty five minutes,
pick one or two things and take it
back to you.
And even if it's not applicable today,
right now,
you're
You're a staff clinician,
but somewhere in the back of your head,
you have this idea of pinging around and
like, Hey,
I want to go do something like, well,
the biggest thing that I've learned over
the last two years and working with people
in these different,
in these different positions I've been in
and, and, and worked with,
there's a lot of great people,
a lot of great ideas.
But they don't know where to start.
And when you don't know where to start,
that is uncertainty.
That's fear.
And fear is the biggest barrier to entry
for us.
So hopefully through some education over
this next year, these different topics,
everything from foundational knowledge on
what we need to understand
when we open our doors or before we
even open our doors to how to scale,
how to grow, how to exit,
all of these things in between,
hopefully over this next year,
we can give some people some good things
to hear and give some things to think
about and not make the same mistakes that
we've made.
My co-host from the PT Breakfast Club,
Dave,
is about to say something that I did.
Just watch that mic.
It's rubbing a little bit.
I think it's rubbing on your shirt.
But that means people are listening,
David.
That's a good thing.
All right.
So this is where we team up well.
You're very much a how guy, right?
And it's like, I can't do anyhow,
but I'm a little bit of a wow
guy, right?
I'm like, Hey everybody,
let's go this way and do our own
MBA.
And then we get there and they're like,
what are we doing next?
And I'm like, I don't know.
My job was to get everybody over here.
Here we are.
What do we do next?
I don't know.
So that's where we got the wow guy
who are the how guy who comes in
and that's you.
So we've already started recording this,
right?
So again, we have a post on LinkedIn.
I will share it in the comments across
this platform.
Take a look.
Um,
we started recording lessons from the
people who were nice enough to, uh,
to volunteer so you can peruse the
syllabus.
You and I sort of looked at it
and also decided like,
we want to make sure
that just like an actual good academic
that if we're teaching this class,
you can do thirty things,
but you got to make sure you hit
these five things.
So if you're taking whatever,
make sure you have to hit these five
things.
But then we can go on tangents and
have fun and do whatever.
So we're sort of trying to bake that
into the cake.
So the lessons are going to be there.
by the instructor's choice,
I can just give them an intro and
then I can dip out and just sit
there and eat popcorn and listen.
Or I've like I've offered to like be
their T.A.
for lack of a better term,
which is like,
I sort of know what your outline is
because you shared it with me.
I'll now just ask you those things as
prompts and then shut up.
And then when I think you're done with
that thing,
I will then transition to the next,
like an interview or a radio show.
So we're doing those things.
So you were the how guy and you
took the syllabus that I created and you
sort of like,
I don't know, judged it up.
You judged it.
It's been judged.
How many classes do you think we're
actually going to wind up with or modules
or whatever?
Because we want to kick this off on
one one.
That's the goal is start twenty twenty
six.
Yeah, I mean,
I think as we've sat down and kind
of put this together,
the flow is going to be very much
mirrored after what, you know,
that's what I did.
I took some time.
I looked at ten,
fifteen different curriculums that are
widely available on an applied MBA program
or an executive level MBA program that are
out there.
OK, go through their syllabus,
go through their curriculum.
What's in it?
okay well there's a lot of stuff that
might not totally be applicable to to us
as pts so like how do we take
those things and then apply them into what
is actually useful on our day in and
day out so then we basically took that
compiled all of that synthesized it and
said okay here's what it's going to look
like and the general flow that we've kind
of landed on is every month we're going
to have a new course essentially like you
know foundations one oh one yeah new like
heading or whatever
Yeah.
So, you know,
we're going to start in January with,
with the foundations of healthcare
business and strategy.
So looking at everything from like,
how does money flow in healthcare?
Like what,
what are we in this giant cog when
we say healthcare?
It's rubbing on your beard, David.
See, I have no facial hair.
Okay.
Well, there it is.
Keep going.
All right.
I got you.
So that's echoed in my head though.
All right.
So yes.
All right.
Go back.
I didn't mean to throw you off.
You're good.
No, the idea is like,
how do we flow through things, right?
So then if we can flow through a
normal curriculum where it's like,
we're going to create some foundational
knowledge of basic healthcare economics,
what is this?
Where are we in this giant game of
healthcare?
How does the money flow?
Is that going to be the most scintillating
topic in the world?
Probably not.
But you've got to know the basics of
where you fit into this and how are
all of these things going on around you
and how does this impact you?
listen to that on two X speed, right?
Blow through that.
That's what we would have done in PT
school, right?
Like blow through that,
but probably don't.
The funny,
the fun part is the people who know
the basics,
they know how to make it sort of
fun.
Like we're not, you know, we're, we're,
we're, we're not taking, you know,
people who can't judge it up a little
bit, you know,
but we'll get through that stuff.
Right?
So the idea is one to two episodes
a week, right?
One to two courses a week.
Um,
and we're going to just roll three to
six minutes.
I'm thinking,
Yeah, exactly.
We're going to work through it.
And very quickly in month one,
we're going to start talking about
strategy basics.
We're going to talk about operational
basics.
What do you need to know?
Whether you have an idea and you haven't
started yet, or you're about to start,
or you've already started and you want to
scale and grow.
but you don't want to make mistakes as
you scale and grow or you're afraid you're
like hey i've got this good thing i'm
really busy my schedule's full now what
now right like that's the biggest thing
i've seen over the last couple years is
we have some incredibly talented
clinicians but the thought of scaling and
growing their business to bring on
employees bring on help bring on a staff
is like whoa where do i go with
that um so the hope is like through
some of these foundational episodes in
this first few months we'll take some of
that fear away and make it a little
bit easier
to get people in uh you know in
with it and get going so um yeah
right now it's structured as as every
month will be a new course um like
i said january is gonna be foundation's
healthcare business strategy what's
february we're gonna look at accounting
finance for clinicians um so basics right
like yeah i know all the things but
hey you know what money does pay the
bills and if you know money
It helps out in life.
Money is not the cure-all, but it's sure,
you know, being sad with money.
I've tried being sad with money and being
sad without money.
It turns out being sad with a little
bit of money is better.
It's a nice thing.
So, you know,
being able to talk through what does that
look like?
Okay.
How do you get your business valued?
What do you do to take on capital?
What does that look like?
You know, how do you read a P&L?
Like what's important?
What do you what are what matters is
a KPI?
Like, what the hell is a KPI?
Like,
those are the things that we're going to
be able to talk about and apply to
those settings.
And again, like,
it's not going to be perfectly applicable
to everybody.
But the hope is they're going to be
broad enough where if you listen,
you can think about how does this apply
to my setting?
How does this apply to my business and
then help you?
plug that in.
So if you're a manager and you're like,
hey, you know what?
One day I want to get out of
this and I want to do my own
thing.
Or, hey,
I'm a multi-site and I want to go
to regional.
Well,
it's important if you want to be a
regional director,
you understand what the C-suite is looking
at.
You want to understand what is driving
this machine that pays your salary.
You got to be good at that.
And then also,
how do you relay that back down?
So those are going to be some of
the foundational things from accounting,
finance, stuff like that.
And I think it's also important to make
sure that
we're not going to just have PTs talking.
We're going to have people from all
different walks of healthcare and finance
and business,
some actual MBA trained people.
People have been there and done that in
the entrepreneurial world to help you feel
comfortable,
you as the listener feel comfortable with
saying, okay, I have this idea,
how do I launch it?
Well, now I'm a solopreneur,
how do I turn into an entrepreneur?
I have these ideas,
how do I scale this?
How do I make it a thing?
And again, like, you know,
give some skills and resources to make
that feel a little less scary to take
that jump.
What are some of the other like
big subheadings that we're doing?
Basics, finance, what else is on?
I don't even know.
Yeah.
Operations, so systems, designs,
how do you design workflows?
How do you hire?
How do you fire?
What does HR look like?
I think one of the ones that I'm
fired up for is coming this spring when
we talk about leadership and
organizational behavior.
So how do you create culture in your
organization?
That word is thrown around a lot.
Oh, culture this, culture that.
Great.
What is it?
It's way more than the occasional
know after work you know happy hour it's
way more than the pizza party buying the
pizza at lunch once a quarter because we
got bad news to drop on the company
right more and like how do we actually
develop that from a large-scale system and
we can look at that from hospital-based
systems and i know you've had some of
those uh you know some great guests in
the past who have spoken to some of
those those topics but it's like now how
do we apply them to the scaling and
growing business
uh, clinician.
I think that's going to be a fun
one to, to dive into.
Um, I mean, I, we haven't,
we even had a healthcare lawyer that I've
connected to on LinkedIn only.
I've never met the guy.
And next thing I know,
we got like four courses in law for
the healthcare provider and healthcare
owner, which is great.
Uh, just off the top of my head,
I didn't reach out with him, uh,
but I know a healthcare real estate agent.
It's all he does.
He's licensed in fifty states and all he
does is,
here are the eleven things you can't screw
up in a lease or a buy.
I mean,
he told like crazy stories in an episode
how he's like,
you watch these super smart people in
healthcare completely get the,
like just completely rugged in a lease or
a sale of a building.
And then they're working for their
landlord.
Like they're doing these surgeries in the
center, but they're, Oh, so much.
It's like,
you can make bad decisions real,
real easy,
especially when you're trying to move
quickly.
So I ha that's not even,
I'm a syllabus,
but real estate definitely needs to be a
lesson.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean,
We'll dive into that in terms of law,
policy, things like that.
How do you mitigate your risk when you're
building something?
How do you factor those things and who
do you go to?
What kind of attorneys do you need to
have relationships with?
It was one of those things, again,
I can share some personal experience.
I was like, wait,
an attorney wants how much per hour?
Yeah, we'll figure it out.
No, it's worth it.
What would it cost you to undo what
you did if you hired a lawyer in
the first place sometimes?
It's worth the cost.
Create a good relationship with somebody
before you jump in there.
So those kind of topics will be good.
And then as we kind of work through
the year, I mean,
being able to look through some of the
innovative topics that are going to come
up.
And what I think excites me about this
is, as we've talked about, it's like,
yeah, we've got the syllabus, but let's...
have people who are listening help us,
right?
Like, Hey, I really want this topic.
I really am struggling with this.
Are we going to talk about this?
Blah.
You know, we can post, you know,
you know,
we'll kind of post our overview of what
the next year is going to look like.
And if there's stuff that's missing,
let's, let's add it in.
Let's talk about it.
If ten people ask for it,
we're not idiots.
I would probably jump on that.
I mean, that's listening to your audience.
Yeah.
i think you know one of the other
things that we've discussed that really
gets me fired up is the idea of
like how do we then put all of
these put common thinkers in the same room
right like creating some degree of a
mastermind series i think that's going to
be a huge thing as we go through
is let's really start working on creating
community of similar-minded driven people
who want to get themselves out there
kind of challenge where they're at and
grow something for themselves.
But how do you actually get there?
And let's put some similar minds in the
same room,
same across the country and help people
get there.
I'm putting up the current syllabus on all
the channels.
That's why it looks like I'm not able
to think and talk because I'm not able
to think and talk.
Agreed.
Current syllabus is there.
We're leaving out a gigantic part of this
whole thing.
David,
will you tell everybody what it will cost
to take this course?
Well, you know,
you're going to buckle up for that one
because it's going to be free.
Now,
it should be the average cost for an
actual in-person MBA is two,
according to the Google box,
two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in
two years of your life.
Yep.
This so I wouldn't say this will be
of two hundred and twenty thousand dollars
value.
In fact,
it could be more because you're getting
multiple perspective.
But let's just say it's going to be
valuable.
It should be a couple grand zero dollars.
How are we able to do that?
We just asked a bunch of nice people.
Now, we're doing a little bit of legwork,
but you know we're going to release this
thing,
and it's going to bring us attention,
and we're an attention economy.
But the rising tide, man,
it lifts all ships.
So it should be pretty good.
So zero doll hairs.
It's all hairs.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean,
I think that that's one of the –
when you look at what's out there right
now, right?
Like you can go to some of the
paywall based things, right?
And say, okay,
I'm going to take this course.
I'm going to go to this thing.
I mean, absolutely.
Don't get me wrong.
Like going to private practice meeting,
you know, big time and great, great thing,
right?
It's worth the dollars.
It's worth getting into peer to peer.
It's worth doing those things that are
organizationally available to us,
but there's nothing where you're going to
be able to learn something driving to work
or driving home in that thirty minute
commute.
where you're gonna be like, oh wow,
that actually works.
And then you encounter that that same day
and you apply it,
that's exactly what we're gonna be trying
to do throughout this next year.
Um, anything,
sometimes it's harder to like,
to make sure we didn't miss anything
because you and I are like neck deep
in it.
So I'm trying to think if there's anything
that we didn't.
So we laid out what it is,
who it is.
I mean, I'll read some of the names,
like, you know,
not that I want to brag or anything,
but brag away, man.
Um,
so let's read some of the names that
are involved.
I just talked to Chad Madden.
Halfway through that episode recording for
marketing,
I needed to remind myself that I was
actually his TA and supposed to ask a
question because I was just like, mm-hmm,
mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
A little bit of fanboying him there.
Money Literacy with Will Boyd and Alex
Angar.
David's coming in talking business models.
Mick Gagliani is jumping on there doing
sales psychology and a few others.
I just recorded with Lucas Van Etten on
hiring and culture.
Again, and one of the questions was,
How do you define culture?
Because it gets thrown around stuff.
Sturdy McKee,
who just DM me a second ago,
must be must be watching this financial
ops and dashboards.
And he literally shared a spreadsheet that
he's like,
happy to share a blank version of this
if you want it.
But he's like, these are the KPIs.
And I'm like, KPIs?
That's a buzzword that I never really knew
about before graduating from PT school.
And he's like, yeah,
you can get forty nine KPIs.
But what are you going to do with
all that information?
So my question was, which KPIs are K?
Like, which are key?
Like, which are the key KPIs?
Yeah.
and a lot more.
So I just, you know, Amit, Sturdy,
Lisa Flexner,
Steve Cohen talking about negotiation.
I'm sure he'll drop some RTM information.
Student loan management.
We've got a certified loan professional
coming on.
I mentioned Joe Rivett, Esquire.
That means he's a lawyer.
When billing becomes liability,
foundational reimbursement principles.
Like literally he was like, hey,
healthcare lawyer here.
I should,
you should probably have some law.
And I was like,
What should we have?
And he's like, these four.
And I was like,
I'm not going to disagree with the lawyer.
So he's going to come in and do
this as well.
Yeah.
I mean,
I think that's the goal is it's flexible,
right?
Like the difference between the MBA
program that you pay two hundred grand for
and listening to this day in and day
out,
week in and week out is if you
need something,
if you're looking to learn something,
just hit us up.
Let us know.
Right.
And we'll figure out how to work that
into the content.
we want it to be very much applied
to the day in and day out operations,
strategy,
growth side of things in PT practice.
And again,
I say PT practice because we're PTs,
but the lessons are not just PT only,
right?
Like if you're anybody in healthcare,
allied health,
you want to grow your own practice in
some sort of healthcare private practice
spectrum,
you're going to learn something from this
because these people that we're putting
together, they're so much brighter.
Like they've been there,
they've done that,
they've done some really cool things.
And I think
This is what the whole goal is from
day one of Pinecast, right?
It's like,
let's put some of the best minds behind
the mic,
let them have a platform to talk about
what they know.
Give them a couple drinks first.
Then hand them the microphone and then ask
a question and be smart enough to shut
up.
And I think like that's where we would
love to do with this too, right?
Like create a community of people and
create resources for other people because
like we want the profession to get
elevated, right?
That's the whole goal with all of this
is we all agree based upon the news
that came out last week, right?
We're all pissed, right?
What are we gonna do about it?
Yeah, exactly.
What are we gonna do about it?
Okay, great.
So here's a way to level up and
let's get ourselves better.
Let's prove ourselves some value
And the way to do that is to
have the education and the empowerment of
like, hey, I know what I'm doing here.
I'm going to take the chance.
I have some resources and some, you know,
kind of bumper guards around me that I'm
going to be fine and go for it.
And that's where good things happen.
That's where innovation happens.
That's where we advance our practice as a
professional.
And yeah,
I'm just stoked to be a part of
it.
To make sure you don't miss this,
the simplest thing,
a couple different ways.
One, subscribe to the podcast.
Uh,
subscribe to the YouTube channel because
we're releasing subsequent video as well.
I've been telling a lot of this, uh,
the instructors, if you want slides,
great.
If you feel like you need them.
And a lot of them are like,
I don't sturdy had a dashboard that was
pretty visual.
I was like,
then we will share the screen if you
need it.
Can you list,
can you learn from sturdy and KPIs without
it?
And just the podcast?
Sure.
But we're also going to have the video
as well.
So ptpinecast.com subscribe, Spotify, uh,
you know, apple podcasts,
all of the Pandora.
People still listen to Pandora.
I'm surprised.
YouTube as well.
And at ptpinecast.com,
there'll be a little pop-up that says
subscribe to the newsletter.
That way you'll get like an update,
like here's what we released this week.
And I think the beauty for me,
people like me in a podcast is if
you miss some stuff or I went on
vacation for a week, awesome, do that.
you can always catch up.
So download them, binge them later.
So that's how you get it.
So ptpinecast.com.
That's what all the YouTubers are supposed
to say.
Subscribe.
Make sure you smash that subscribe button.
Make sure you smash that live button.
All right, man, do that.
That's my best image.
That's what you do well.
That's what you're supposed to do.
I'm excited.
It's always cool when you see an idea
come to fruition.
So I'm excited and definitely want to hear
more feedback from people.
And we'll obviously be releasing clips of
the episodes
Um,
what I've also thought we might be able
to do is take the transcript,
run it through the old AI box and
make like a PDF one pager for each
episode or something.
So I don't want you to have to,
I never hate,
I've hated taking notes in PT school
because I couldn't take notes and listen.
So if I was taking notes,
I wasn't really learning,
but then I'd get home and be like,
what the hell did I listen to?
But I'm also not going to listen to
the episode again.
But that's why I had smart people that
I studied with who took notes.
And then I got to look at their
notes.
So I was like, oh, yeah,
I forgot about that.
So I was thinking about that.
So I'm trying to make the solutions for
people like me who maybe need a little
visual reference after the spark notes on
what was covered in class.
All right.
Is there anything else to do before we
give our official sign off from this
little live stream here?
No, man, I'm pumped.
I'm pumped to be a part of it.
I think it'll be fun to bring some
good minds together and see where things
go.
I mean, I think
from everything from you know the the
couple episodes a week to to starting to
put some in-person events together you
know to run some stuff together put some
mastermind things together i think it'll
be really fun to see where this goes
and what we can do to help push
people you know get over that fear right
like here's the education the only way to
get over that fear is to have the
knowledge
that's the power, right?
So like,
this is what we're trying to do is
empower, you know, our profession,
our peers go out and do it because,
uh, it's risky,
but the risk is worth the reward.
So we're going to give you the,
we're going to give you,
it's bowling with the little bumpers.
Yeah.
That's the only way I can bowl.
That's the only way I can bowl too.
Uh, David Fathikani, the PT podcast,
chief business correspondent.
We'll talk to you soon.
Thanks for helping us with this MBA for
the DPT live kickoff stream.
Thanks David.