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for everybody who's got a significant
other.
Plan what you're doing for your
significant other for Valentine's Day now
because CSM crosses Valentine's Day.
I say this from personal previous
experience.
You don't want to rush that.
So that's a public service announcement.
Lisa, Kristen,
welcome to my public service announcement.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
All right.
I put the word out.
If you got something going on at CSM,
I describe CSM for first timers or fifty
timers.
It is a circus with eighteen circuses
going on at the same time.
It's a big top with a bunch of
big tops all at the same time.
I do find it ironic that we call
it combined sections meeting.
We come together and then we split up.
But I digress.
But you don't have to.
So I said, if you're talking at CSM,
let's do a movie trailer.
So good on you guys.
How many times have you guys been on
the stage,
on a big stage at CSM for you
guys?
What's your CSM experience?
This will be my first time talking at
CSM.
I have talked multiple times for the Ohio
Physical Therapy Association.
But yeah,
this will be my first time for CSM.
Love it.
Good for you.
Kristen?
I have previously presented once,
but I actually have three presentations
this year.
So I'm going to be busy running around.
I don't know how many times I presented
at CSM, but I do know this statistic.
I have written zero proposals.
I'm the guy that always gets brought in.
I'm like, I will show up.
I will do my thing.
But writing the proposal like nine months
ahead of time,
Jimmy's brain don't brain like that.
So good on you guys for actually taking
the initiative and follow through.
And just really quickly for context for
the audience,
Lisa, Kristen,
what's your sort of superhero origin
stories?
What do you get to do in this
pretty cool profession of ours?
So my origin story is I've actually been
a physical therapist.
I'm not going to say how long.
But I pretty much worked in every single
setting except PEDS.
But as the OPTA,
one of the OPTA directors,
I actually –
have the SIG for peds.
So I'm learning about peds as I go
too.
So it's kind of funny how that all
works out.
I currently work as a regional director of
clinical services for common spirit
health.
It is, um, they have hospitals,
they have the skilled nursing facilities.
Um,
I'm in the home health and hospice arena.
So I help, um,
home health and hospices with their
clinical and quality.
Good for you.
Thank you for doing that work.
And Kristen, how about you?
Yeah, so I'm also in Ohio.
My story is I went through PT school,
did sports residency,
worked in athletic departments for about
ten years,
so I popped out to outpatient ortho.
Volunteer wise,
I also am a director with Lisa for
the Ohio Physical Therapy Association,
and I work with the Academy of Leadership
and Innovation.
I am their education chair and also LAMP
leadership.
And in addition to that,
I'm actually delegate for the Academy of
Sports.
So busy touching a lot of different
things.
I guess kind of the genesis of this
talk really came from a little bit of
LAMP,
but also what we experienced and what
we're really interested in exploring
within the state of Ohio is moral injury.
All right.
So this is really we understand in twenty,
thirty minutes, whatever,
how much we talk.
We can't give you all of it.
Just not possible, right?
Can't put ten pounds of awesome in a
five-pound bag.
This is meant to give people enough tease
and some tactical information to go, hey,
if I'm going to be on site, again,
eighteen circuses inside a circus,
picking what to do each sort of time
slot is simple but not easy.
And more than a few times not to
knock any speaker.
I've walked into a thing thinking
something from the description and being
like, oh, this isn't it.
where we if we can give people sort
of that uncomfortable we always love when
you're in the middle of a presentation
someone opens the door in the back and
you're like what we want to be able
to give people to be able to peek
around the corner a little bit at you
know what is this going to be how
will it make their life or education or
career better and then of course where
when they can see it so you know
this is your movie trailer what i i
think i even said in text messages like
i don't even know what moral injury is
like and then what is this so let's
start there what is it and why does
it deserve some time on the big stage
Sure.
I guess I will start with what we're
exploring is the invisible wound.
So moral injury is something that you
can't visibly see.
Right.
And it is also not a mental health
condition.
It is an ethical burden that we've
experienced.
And we're looking at it specific to health
care providers in COVID.
and how we responded and or recovered from
that.
So Lisa comes from a very ethical side.
So Lisa,
do you want to explain kind of the
difference between ethics and morals and
how this is an ethical burden in the
various realms?
Yeah.
So, you know, moral, you know, moral,
the moral part of it is actually,
you know, kind of your center, your base,
you know,
what is what is right and wrong.
And then and that can be influenced by,
you know, how you grew up.
You know,
there's many different things on what what
morality looks like.
But then you have the ethics piece where
you're looking at.
the different realms of how does it impact
a person as an individual,
how does it impact the organization,
and then society as a whole.
And, you know, we saw that with COVID.
You know, we've heard stories,
and that's one of the things that we're
going to do within CSM, too,
is to be a conversation.
And we did this at Ohio Spring Conference
last year,
And it led to some really good
conversations about how it impacted people
individually.
Also, what their organization was doing.
And I could share stories about, you know,
we had to furlough patients.
We had to furlough, you know,
employees in home health.
And what did that look like?
And then also the society implications.
You know,
there was implications related to not
having PPE and everything.
just the different laws and regulations
and the different things that came out of
it and how we had to all adapt
very quickly.
And I know Kristen and I talk,
I always say I'm a stuffer.
I don't share my emotions usually very
much.
And so a lot of people stuffed their
emotions and just moved and went through
the experience of the pandemic and never
really reflected on it and how it had
impacted them.
Just you saying PPE, I didn't really,
I mean, I remember it,
but also I was like, oh yeah,
we were like,
where do I get masks and hoarding masks?
And how do we,
what's the different grades of masks?
Everybody,
they went from being a Supreme Court
Senate expert to being a PPE expert to
being an infectious disease expert.
Everybody got,
a lot of people got PhDs in twenty
twenty.
In topics they did no education in.
Thinking back on that,
that was a wild time.
That was only six years ago.
Yeah.
And I don't think we have fully processed
what we went through as healthcare
providers.
We literally, once we got the green light,
it was focused on productivity and making
up the money the organizations lost during
that period of time.
So healthcare providers have never
really...
talked about the trauma they've gone
through or grieved the process that
they've been through.
I gave the same similar talk out in
the state of Washington in October.
And Washington was the state with the
first kind of noted person with a positive
COVID test.
And they also received all the passengers
on the cruise ship that was left out
on the coast.
So their experience was very different
than what we experienced in Ohio.
and talking about the scarcity of
resources that early and how do they
triage and figure out what's going on with
their materials, with their staff,
the fear that the staff had that they're
going to make themselves sick and bring
that home and make perhaps their children,
their family,
their older adults sick as well.
I mean,
it was just a time where healthcare
providers were kind of shoved into this
hero status and
It's just like, what just happened?
Can we really even process this and unpack
this?
Because I do think this is a part
of what this burnout,
what we're experiencing in the provider
shortage.
This is definitely a part of it that
we haven't really fully examined.
Yeah.
So you guys don't know,
there's no question list, right?
So I'm gonna go off the cuff.
I'm gonna ask you like an unfair,
unprepared question.
What if someone's like,
it sounds like you're talking about just
feelings and touchy feely things and how
this feel like you're talking about,
you know, all these things.
why does that matter hey man i'm here
to do this this feels like you're talking
about stuff that you know moral injury
like okay move on suck it up if
someone's saying that what would you say
to them how does this translate so i'll
say in a different way too my uh
professor in pt school gave me the
greatest
paradigm to think about research or
anything what so what now what right so
the what we can talk about but like
so what it sucks it's unfair but now
so how would you like push back or
say to someone who's like I'm scrolling
through I don't need this why why do
they and they might not know it or
not see it clearly
One of the big things,
we're going to talk about the history of
it.
We're going to have some of that
conversation.
But a lot of it is also going
to be interventions and what people can
do,
the post-traumatic growth and the
different strategies that there are to
help you as you work through these things.
And one of the big...
reasons that we're doing it is for
sustainability of the profession,
because I can tell you one of the
examples is we had,
I had at least two PTAs that left
home health.
One went to, she also owned a bar.
So she went to be the bartender and
just worked that.
And then we had another one that went
to be the church secretary because they
just couldn't handle the strain of it.
And that's not to say that running a
bar or running a church isn't stressful.
And I'm an amateur.
But it feels like the juice versus squeeze
ratio is...
was more clear.
May or may not be better,
but when I can clearly understand it,
if I do these five things,
I get this, versus if I do this,
I don't know what I'm getting,
or I keep doing more of this and
getting the same or less of this,
that makes me feel...
burnout cheated.
I'm not going to take it.
I'm out.
Right.
So you just get just told two examples
of like, yes, I'm a smart person.
I'm doing the math.
I keep doing this and feeling like this.
I'm going to do not this anymore.
I will do anything else,
but you'll make less money,
but it's a better juice versus squeeze
ratio.
Even if I'm getting less juice,
I'm giving less squeeze.
And the problem is the human is the
thing getting squeezed.
Exactly.
And I would think to push back to
somebody that feels this way,
this term actually has its roots in the
military.
Which term?
Moral injury?
Moral injury.
Oh, okay.
The biggest, baddest dudes on the planet,
they suffer from this, right?
So to say that people in healthcare,
I mean, more recently,
the terminology has been moved to be more
inclusive of people in public service.
but my goodness,
I would think you need a reality check
if you're pushing back that hard on it
and not willing to explore what has been
going on.
And it's, it's, it's involving.
So, you know,
you look at the works of, you know,
you had Janet Bessner on earlier and then
Nancy Kirsch.
Like we,
we talk about moral injury in terms of
productivity and what it's doing to folks
and the administrative burden and
You know, it's been all over the place.
We look at kind of even the sociopolitical
moral injury that people have been
enduring as well.
So this term, while it feels touchy,
I mean,
you really got to dig deep and get
to that root cause of maybe why you're
feeling the way you're feeling.
A lot of people can't put a term
to, like, I just feel, you know,
like there's no joy left in what it
is that I do.
And I have shame around some of the
decisions and I feel betrayed or I witness
things I'm not okay with.
that's what moral injury really is.
Now I feel like you could do something
like say, all right, well,
how does this affect the clinician?
Will they leave or they stay and they
hate it?
Yeah.
And then how does that affect them at
home?
Right.
So that's one thing they stay and they
hate it.
What does that do to everybody around
them?
What does that do to their patients?
What is their leaving due to their
patients?
What is their leaving or staying due to
the profession or the business or
What is due to patients short term,
long term?
Like this is big, tall, short,
long term all around.
So there's your now what?
What?
So what?
There's your now what?
It's not one thing.
It's not just what happened to the
clinician.
These things are not in isolation.
No, no.
And these are rare.
Like moral injury is technically a rare
event.
We just...
We got hit again and again and again
and again,
and we never recovered and stood back up
fully.
We're still half activated and going this
fight or flight.
So yeah, it's time to talk about it,
I think.
I heard someone explain this to me in
twenty twenty who was a Ph.D.
researcher and they said this so calmly
and I remember like it took me a
minute to process.
They said,
you do realize that someone will do their
entire career in research on this event
like this going forward.
They will now this is what they will
be studying their whole life.
and a small part of it likely, right?
Like this person will study this for a
long time.
And I remember being like, no,
this will be done in a few months.
And then it took me a half a
beat to be like, oh,
this will not be done in a long,
long time.
You can look at something like,
I grew up in New York.
My dad was a New York City fireman.
So,
nine-eleven is obviously different to me
than it was to my dad,
than it was to my neighbor,
than it was to someone in Texas or
Washington or Japan.
It still affects everybody,
but what are the million different ways?
It's a little more clear,
I won't say easier,
but more clear to see that and a
little less clear to see what you're
talking about there,
but it's still there when you look.
Oh, yeah.
And it hits people in a different...
Levels like those of us in the outpatient
world,
we did not have the same experience of
people in acute or in the ICU.
I mean,
we even had in our course in Ohio,
there was a girl that was like,
I can't even go buy this room anymore.
Like PTSD, I had patients dying there.
I had people who didn't have family
members and I had to be in there
with them and with masks and I'm
dehumanized.
I've, you know,
my entire identity is hidden.
and we've lost that little touch of
humanity.
I mean,
think about how that breaks the soul of
the provider.
So we actually use a lot of clips.
Lisa found these awesome clips from The
Pit, if you guys have watched that.
And it's those flashbacks that some people
have experienced in these really intense
traumatic moments.
So we will be giving some clips in
the presentation as well at CSM.
So you're going full multimedia, Lisa.
Maybe you don't have to give the clips
away,
but what about the clips made you say,
yes,
this illustrates my point really well?
So one is of Noah Wiley.
Actually,
his mentor actually died during COVID.
In the show?
You mean I haven't seen the show?
Yes, in the show.
Yes.
And so he actually has flashbacks to that.
And being in the room,
when he's with a different patient and
he's in the room and how that impacts
him and just...
watching his emotional reaction and him
having to step out and what that looks
like, it just shows,
as Kristen said earlier,
that invisible wound,
and he's still trying to hide it from
people.
And so just seeing that impact.
And then there's another clip about a
whole conversation related to masks.
you know, and wearing masks and, you know,
and how, you know, how that impacted too,
you know,
because you had a lot of variable
variation and, you know,
people that wanted to wear masks and not
wear masks and, you know,
and always thinking about how I always,
as a leader talked about,
it was called a novel coronavirus for a
reason, because it was new.
It was new to all of us.
And we were learning,
we were learning as we went.
on how to deal with it.
We're building a plane in the air.
Absolutely, yeah.
And then you have these new grads who
are coming out and they're like,
am I going to get a job?
Do I really want to do this?
Sure, which is a valid question to ask.
Yeah,
are they going to finish their clinicals
in time?
You know,
will CAPTI adjust their requirements?
You have educators who are saying...
you know,
I'm sending my students out into the
field, but I don't wanna go out there.
And then you have folks who feel that
tug of, you know, I am a PT,
I can treat,
but I'm safe at home doing Zoom classes.
And then there's just the human component,
because we're juggling more than just our
professional identity, right?
So just, I mean,
it touched everybody at a very different
level.
We have to regroup.
We have to strengthen ourselves and
recover.
And this is for people who maybe haven't
been to CSM before or maybe just didn't
understand the structure.
I mentioned being it's combined sections
meeting, right?
People just call it CSM and I call
it CSM without actually knowing what the
heck the C, the S, the M meant.
This falls under the Academy of Leadership
and Innovation, which you do work with.
Maybe give them a little nod because they
can't green light a thousand
presentations.
They have to.
hear the pitches and then select a few
just because of time and space uh so
give or not explain to people what the
academy of leadership and innovation is
the academy of orthopedics it's pretty
straightforward geriatrics pediatrics got
it got it got it ali is a
little different uh what how do you
describe it um so i mean that's a
really great question we are kind of the
group
where the topics are bigger than just PT
in general.
So we've got global health.
We've got population health.
We have PT Proud.
We have environmental catalyst groups.
We have tech SIGs.
We have leadership,
disability justice and anti-ableism,
PT and mental health,
which obviously this is a part of that
as well.
I'll throw something out.
The label might not sound good,
but we all have one and we never
ordered one.
It's the junk drawer.
Yeah.
Well, we don't want to call it that.
No, no, no.
But what I mean is it's funny we
call it that,
except that's the stuff we're like, oh,
I can't let that go.
That's valuable.
Ironically, we call it a junk drawer,
but it's a treasure chest because you
can't let it go.
But you're like,
I don't know where to put this,
so I put it in this drawer.
Yes.
yes junk drawer is not a great tag
but it's a great it's a great emotion
because it's where all it's the island of
misfit toys and that sounds bad too except
if you watch the claymation movie that's
where all the that's where all the heroes
were yeah this is where the magic happens
that's where the magic happens right it
doesn't make sense until it makes sense
yeah these are the change makers these are
the people that kind of push into
initiatives and see them through to the
end and
You know,
even this week I had someone from India
reach out and wanted to collaborate with
the environmental PT group.
So, I mean, the span is quite large,
but we're still a smaller,
lesser known academy.
But yes,
our topics are bigger than just patient
care and PT.
That's your superpower.
Lisa, what do you got?
I, just to expand on that,
I think just from, as Kristen said,
I'm into the ethics piece of it,
just from an ethics lens,
it's looking at it from a societal view.
So as opposed to just a clinician or
an organizational level,
a lot of those parts of it are
looking at society and how we can impact
society.
And I think that's a big part of,
with the moral injury we're talking about
too is,
You know,
there is we're going to talk about what
you can do as an individual,
how you can help yourself health as an
individual.
But also we're going to talk about,
you know,
moral communities and how you can develop
those.
And so you can help yourself, you know,
get an organization or a group of people
that are like minded and and share ideas
and solutions and then.
Hopefully that will translate into
communities, into society,
and being able to make bigger changes from
the physical therapy profession at large.
I'll just do some housekeeping.
This talk,
we're talking about the invisible wound,
the unspoken consequences of moral injury
on healthcare professionals following
COVID-Nineteen.
Thursday, the twelfth, eight a.m.,
coming and hopping.
If you're going east coast to west coast,
you're still sleeping in, so that's good.
I know it sounds like early,
but you're not, okay?
I have a crazy idea that was not
on the docket before we hit record.
What you got?
So let me work backwards.
Somewhere in our profession, well, sorry,
let me go bigger first.
I don't think many people now,
maybe ten years ago,
but not many people now,
disagree with that we need to learn how
to communicate better
Because communication is power.
I come to that because I have a
degree in communications,
so I have a hammer.
The world is full of nails.
I understand I have bias.
I think if someone said,
if there was going to be a special
interest group about communications,
not marketing, in my mind,
marketing fits under communications,
people would,
their gut reaction would say,
that's for PPS.
And I would say, no.
No.
Every conversation is a negotiation for
information.
That's from a great book I read.
I would say a special interest group
focused on how to make people improve
their communication skills would fit best
in the Academy of Leadership Innovation.
Probably not its own academy,
but it would definitely be a special
interest group.
And how do you define a special interest
group?
For me,
it's a bunch of people who are like,
I have this problem.
I either have the problem or the solution.
I am someone who knows how to do
this and does it a lot,
or I am the opposite of that.
And I think you do a good job.
Leadership shouldn't fit anywhere.
It should fit everywhere.
Like LAMP,
the program that Academy of Leadership and
Innovation has, is not a vertical.
It's a horizontal.
Would you be a better...
Do we need leaders in pediatrics?
Well, yeah.
Do we need leaders in aquatics?
Yes.
Do we need... Yeah.
Okay.
So that's not a vertical anymore.
It's a horizontal.
I think communications is the same thing.
How do I pitch a SIG?
I don't even know how that works.
Oh, there's a form on the...
I'm already out.
Send me a voice memo of what you
want.
I'll do it for you.
Can I make a video that's ninety seconds
or less?
Okay.
Yeah, let's try it.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wouldn't that be innovative?
communication and innovative.
No, no, no.
A video to pitch the SIG.
But yeah,
what I'll do is I'll make the video.
I'll take the transcription of the video.
I'll make AI write the form.
Yeah.
So I can do it.
Nevermind.
I can do the form.
I won't do the form.
Jarvis will do the form.
I can do the form.
Got it.
Okay.
I love that.
That was a side piece because listen,
I've said this before.
You guys are going to be on the
big stage.
Lisa's first time.
Chris is coming back.
I think being on stage at CSM is
important.
The part that breaks my heart is,
and I don't know when during the year,
I can't remember when this happens,
but when they start releasing who got a
spot at CSM and who didn't,
it's like soccer tryout day.
And if people find out who was on
the team and who didn't, I always push,
push back with a communication lens that
says,
how many people do you think we're going
to be in the room?
A hundred, five hundred.
That's a big room.
Five hundred, a thousand.
Right.
That's a bigger presentation.
I still think the most of the time
people will take to social media and say,
oh, you know, little sour.
I didn't get in or hey, I'm disappointed.
Didn't get in the thing that you're
complaining on.
you can reach more people with it than
you could have in the room with CSM.
So is it impact and reach or ego?
It's okay if it's a mix of all
of them.
Yeah.
I applied for things and not got it
and been like, ah, man.
Yeah.
I will say you could still reach more
people over longer amounts of time if you
did your presentation on YouTube.
Very true.
That's the way I look at it.
I get it.
Being in the room is fun.
I like being in the room,
but that's not the only way.
That would be my first lesson in my
special interest group in the Academy of
Leadership Innovation,
the special interest group of
communications.
I love that.
I can't wait for you to pitch it.
All right.
Give me a future state.
Someone walks out of the room at your
presentation after this.
What have they become?
What have they learned more?
What are they able to do?
I love this question.
Lisa,
do you want to talk about our current
initiatives?
I'll let you start and then I will
tag in because I know she is like
the engine for this.
So she is on it.
She just keeps us moving.
So I'll let her start and I'll add
in.
OK.
So when Lisa and I gave this talk,
this created so much buzz.
We actually created a special interest
group or a committee, actually.
It's a committee, not even a SIG.
Within the OPTA,
so it is the Wellness Committee.
And we have been working diligently.
We actually completed our IRB submission
yesterday for we're looking at provider
wellness and professional sustainability.
So we are exploring a national survey.
So look for that.
That will actually also be in our
presentation in a little QR to go and
take that.
But we're exploring this.
We're doing research.
Our group is growing.
We're going to have wellness Wednesdays.
We're going to have a wellness summit.
And I'm actually today putting together
for a catalyst group in the Academy of
Leadership and Innovation,
a provider wellness and professional
sustainability application to create a
catalyst group to keep this going
nationally so we can keep going.
We have people from all across the US
who are doing these things in silos.
and we need to bring ourselves together.
So Lisa Flexner has a company, you know,
on the west coast that works at corporate
trying to put more professional wellness
stuff into their business structure to
keep their employees happy and healthy.
You have individuals like my home who
trained,
she's doing an individual consultation for
providers who have burnout and trying to
help restore their wellness.
We have so many pockets of people across
the US
doing this,
we need to combine forces and just push.
They need to be able to connect.
Yes.
Give them a home.
They'll come.
They need to be able to communicate over
distance and time.
Lisa, what would you add?
So I think the big thing is looking
at that moral community piece and being
able to grow that and have under that,
well,
I see the wellness committee as a huge
umbrella.
And then under that,
you have all these other communities where
people that are struggling with
productivity standards within their
organizations, different organizations,
and how does that look?
People that do need to talk about burnout
or the people that want those wellness,
areas.
And so I feel like the, you know,
the wellness is going to be a huge
umbrella where we can then go down into
all the different, like, you know,
financial loans,
how that's impacting students and how do
we keep people in the profession and,
you know, looking at physical, mental,
spiritual, financial,
all those dimensions of wellness.
Yeah.
Digital rest, Demi.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah,
you got to check out of this thing
once in a while.
Yeah.
And it's just, I mean,
we have never as a profession,
all of our literature really focuses on
the patient.
Not much have we ever turned the lens
inward and focused on ourselves.
It's time.
People have been laying the groundwork for
a while,
but we really need to do it now.
Okay.
Anything I didn't ask that you wanted to
be able to talk about?
Anything I didn't open the door for you
to walk through?
We're just excited to educate people on
this.
I think it's so critical.
Agreed.
All right.
And I think, yeah,
I think that's a big thing is we
want to start the momentum that hopefully
we can get, you know, this,
cause I know like the,
from a board perspective,
only Ohio and I believe it's Illinois have
like the safe Haven program.
And so, you know,
being able to help all the other state
associations and just the APTA in general,
you know,
put a focus on this and to help
it grow.
Love it.
All right.
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Oh, so I would just say, join us.
I know it's bright and early first thing
on Thursday morning,
the first session of CSM,
but we will keep you awake.
We will have great conversations and
hopefully give you many different
interventions for yourself and your
organization to thrive in the future.
All right, Kristen, no pressure.
Okay.
I would say we really need to meet
each other on the human level and really
care for ourselves and those around us.
We get lost behind our identity as a
physical therapist or a physical therapist
assistant or a student,
but you are a person first and you
deserve to be well and show up well
to your workplace and enjoy your life.
I'll put it in the show notes as
well.
But this talk is on the twelfth at
eight a.m.
Invisible wound.
Kristen, you mentioned two other talks.
You've got that.
I cannot skip over the fact that you,
I think, nailed the name.
You're giving a presentation on Friday,
February thirteenth,
Friday the thirteenth.
Good luck with that.
Eight a.m.
What's the deal with pickleball,
the bread and butter of America's fastest
growing sport?
I hope people understand that.
Bread and butter is a type of pickle,
so it's not like you... Yeah,
that's my favorite type of pickle.
I spotted that.
And your other talk is going to be
on Thursday, the twelfth, two o'clock.
And this is LAMP Leadership TED Style TED
Talks.
Shared lessons on leading within and
leading others.
That's another event being put on by APTA,
Academy of Leadership Innovation.
That's several people speaking during that
ninety minute session.
Again, TED style talks.
And you can find this all at APTA's
app.
You can find that at their website under
programming.
You can search by academy,
you can search by speaker,
or you can just start looking for
keywords.
There's three types of people in the
world.
People who already know what they're going
to at CSM a month before,
as we're recording this in January.
People who figure it out on the plane.
Or people who are like, oh,
there's a session?
Let me walk down this hallway.
Doesn't matter who you are,
but CSM roulette,
Can't be a gamble.
Ladies, thanks for doing what you do.
We'll see you in LA.
And thanks for coming on the show.
Thank you.
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