WEBVTT 00:00:00.029 --> 00:00:01.209 And you don't have to watch that. 00:00:01.429 --> 00:00:02.549 We're just going to, oh, there it is. 00:00:02.589 --> 00:00:04.251 Look at that little fly over the beach 00:00:04.351 --> 00:00:05.070 line from Anaheim. 00:00:05.131 --> 00:00:08.412 All right. 00:00:08.432 --> 00:00:09.112 I'll do the intro now. 00:00:09.151 --> 00:00:10.993 Policy doesn't feel personal until it 00:00:11.012 --> 00:00:12.273 shows up in your documentation, 00:00:13.013 --> 00:00:13.773 your reimbursement, 00:00:14.194 --> 00:00:15.654 or your ability to care for the patients 00:00:15.974 --> 00:00:16.875 the way you believe is right. 00:00:16.975 --> 00:00:17.896 I feel like reimbursement, 00:00:17.916 --> 00:00:19.135 people talk about that a lot in the 00:00:19.155 --> 00:00:19.495 hallways. 00:00:19.716 --> 00:00:20.076 Sure do. 00:00:20.135 --> 00:00:22.216 Amy Faria here, live from Anaheim. 00:00:22.477 --> 00:00:23.698 Live from Anaheim. 00:00:25.038 --> 00:00:26.419 A pitching wedge away from... 00:00:27.303 --> 00:00:28.725 mickey's house yeah i mean i knew we 00:00:28.745 --> 00:00:30.486 were close i went to see him the 00:00:30.507 --> 00:00:32.148 other day i would you would you see 00:00:32.347 --> 00:00:34.310 what would you do uh well so i'm 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:35.691 a disney world girl because i'm an east 00:00:35.731 --> 00:00:37.372 coast girl okay um so i had to 00:00:37.412 --> 00:00:40.075 do some of the classics uh like space 00:00:40.115 --> 00:00:42.637 mountain big thunder um and i had to 00:00:42.656 --> 00:00:44.338 do the matterhorn because we don't have 00:00:44.378 --> 00:00:45.640 that on the east coast so that was 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:48.241 pretty great um and we also did pirates 00:00:48.262 --> 00:00:51.524 of the caribbean got it again classic um 00:00:51.765 --> 00:00:53.085 and i had to have a dole whip 00:00:53.768 --> 00:00:54.228 A what? 00:00:54.249 --> 00:00:54.689 A Dole Whip. 00:00:54.710 --> 00:00:55.631 I don't know what that is. 00:00:55.691 --> 00:00:56.271 Oh, my goodness. 00:00:57.171 --> 00:00:58.973 You might have to go to downtown Disney 00:00:59.073 --> 00:01:00.155 just to get one. 00:01:01.396 --> 00:01:05.019 So it is dairy-free, 00:01:06.221 --> 00:01:10.564 ice cream-like consistency frozen 00:01:10.605 --> 00:01:11.105 pineapple. 00:01:12.146 --> 00:01:12.667 Oh, Dole. 00:01:12.986 --> 00:01:13.266 Yes. 00:01:13.828 --> 00:01:14.128 Cool. 00:01:14.509 --> 00:01:15.388 Dole plus Cool Whip. 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:15.730 Got it. 00:01:16.564 --> 00:01:17.525 Yes, but there's no... 00:01:20.486 --> 00:01:22.528 It's like soft serve ice cream, 00:01:23.028 --> 00:01:23.868 but there's no dairy. 00:01:24.608 --> 00:01:26.370 It's a fascinating substance, 00:01:26.530 --> 00:01:27.530 and it's also delicious. 00:01:27.709 --> 00:01:28.150 Love it. 00:01:28.171 --> 00:01:28.771 Yeah. 00:01:28.811 --> 00:01:28.990 All right, 00:01:29.010 --> 00:01:29.950 so we were supposed to talk at Graham 00:01:29.992 --> 00:01:30.292 Sessions. 00:01:30.371 --> 00:01:30.691 We were. 00:01:30.792 --> 00:01:33.632 Which is a secret meeting that we tell 00:01:33.653 --> 00:01:34.293 everybody we were at. 00:01:34.313 --> 00:01:37.275 Not really sure how that works. 00:01:37.415 --> 00:01:39.055 It's not so much secret as it's invite 00:01:39.135 --> 00:01:39.415 only. 00:01:40.016 --> 00:01:40.316 Right, 00:01:40.436 --> 00:01:41.777 and I remember I put out a video 00:01:41.796 --> 00:01:42.957 after that, and people were like... 00:01:43.658 --> 00:01:44.698 Well, then, oh, yeah? 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:46.281 What'd you guys solve? 00:01:47.102 --> 00:01:48.322 And I'm like, I don't know, man. 00:01:48.343 --> 00:01:49.103 It was a meeting. 00:01:49.263 --> 00:01:52.367 We're not launching a missile here. 00:01:52.427 --> 00:01:54.188 We're just trying to change the things 00:01:54.209 --> 00:01:54.890 that you want us to change. 00:01:54.909 --> 00:01:55.911 It's just funny when people... 00:01:57.563 --> 00:01:58.123 I get it, though. 00:01:58.203 --> 00:01:59.224 People, this is important. 00:01:59.424 --> 00:01:59.664 It is. 00:02:00.063 --> 00:02:00.983 And it's a pain in the ass. 00:02:01.203 --> 00:02:01.844 It's not right. 00:02:02.125 --> 00:02:02.864 Yep. 00:02:03.545 --> 00:02:04.965 But I've never, I said this last night, 00:02:05.126 --> 00:02:06.025 maybe after a couple of drinks, 00:02:06.066 --> 00:02:07.787 I've never heard anybody at APTA say, 00:02:08.227 --> 00:02:08.866 if you join APTA, 00:02:08.887 --> 00:02:09.668 we're just going to solve all your 00:02:09.707 --> 00:02:10.127 problems. 00:02:10.328 --> 00:02:11.367 Like, they don't say that. 00:02:11.548 --> 00:02:11.768 Correct. 00:02:11.788 --> 00:02:12.108 You say, like, 00:02:12.288 --> 00:02:13.908 we are working to solve the problems. 00:02:13.949 --> 00:02:14.588 If you join us. 00:02:14.609 --> 00:02:15.389 We'll collaborate with you. 00:02:15.430 --> 00:02:16.030 That would be great. 00:02:16.150 --> 00:02:18.211 And that would give us more people to 00:02:18.251 --> 00:02:18.931 help solve the problem. 00:02:19.091 --> 00:02:22.674 And also we depend on you sometimes to 00:02:22.713 --> 00:02:24.395 bring the problems to us. 00:02:24.855 --> 00:02:26.397 What are you seeing in clinical practice? 00:02:26.818 --> 00:02:28.539 What are you seeing in payment or lack 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:30.581 thereof? 00:02:30.622 --> 00:02:32.924 We need those boots on the ground. 00:02:33.563 --> 00:02:35.746 Not only do we need your grassroots when 00:02:35.786 --> 00:02:36.287 it matters, 00:02:36.347 --> 00:02:38.908 but also we need to know what you're 00:02:39.068 --> 00:02:39.770 experiencing. 00:02:39.930 --> 00:02:40.090 Yes. 00:02:40.931 --> 00:02:42.032 Some of us aren't in the clinic. 00:02:42.151 --> 00:02:43.252 And I never knew this enough. 00:02:44.393 --> 00:02:46.074 I've been in the profession for ten years. 00:02:46.913 --> 00:02:48.294 I never realized there was so much 00:02:48.354 --> 00:02:49.514 difference from state to state. 00:02:50.195 --> 00:02:50.656 Very much. 00:02:50.716 --> 00:02:52.537 So much different from state to state. 00:02:52.556 --> 00:02:53.377 I had no idea. 00:02:53.676 --> 00:02:55.959 So which puts back on the importance of 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:58.580 being involved in a local state chapter 00:02:58.599 --> 00:02:58.759 level. 00:02:58.800 --> 00:02:59.259 All right, 00:03:00.381 --> 00:03:01.901 what's a problem or topic that you're most 00:03:01.980 --> 00:03:02.562 excited to see? 00:03:02.581 --> 00:03:03.942 This is going back to when we were 00:03:04.002 --> 00:03:05.302 at Graham Sessions. 00:03:05.522 --> 00:03:06.403 What were the things, 00:03:06.484 --> 00:03:08.563 because now we can ask like post-post, 00:03:08.745 --> 00:03:10.664 what were you most looking forward to see? 00:03:11.045 --> 00:03:13.347 What did you see and left excited? 00:03:13.747 --> 00:03:16.027 What were you lacking? 00:03:16.048 --> 00:03:16.467 What were you like, oh, 00:03:16.487 --> 00:03:17.669 I wish there was more about that? 00:03:18.188 --> 00:03:19.969 I was super excited to see us talking 00:03:20.069 --> 00:03:21.751 about the cost of education. 00:03:22.651 --> 00:03:24.692 And I felt like in a different way 00:03:24.711 --> 00:03:25.912 than I had heard us talk about it 00:03:26.193 --> 00:03:26.492 before. 00:03:27.612 --> 00:03:28.753 It was very honest. 00:03:28.933 --> 00:03:32.456 It was very vulnerable from all sides. 00:03:32.616 --> 00:03:34.157 They brought a student who graduated 00:03:34.657 --> 00:03:35.618 twenty minutes before that, 00:03:35.899 --> 00:03:36.960 and she read her receipts. 00:03:37.020 --> 00:03:37.259 Yes, 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:38.800 we had a student with receipts from her 00:03:38.841 --> 00:03:39.241 loans. 00:03:39.322 --> 00:03:41.643 We had academic administrators. 00:03:42.003 --> 00:03:44.525 We had deans who are physical therapists. 00:03:44.745 --> 00:03:47.728 We had really the people at the heart 00:03:48.348 --> 00:03:49.788 of those decisions. 00:03:50.408 --> 00:03:52.070 Except that, we also discussed 00:03:52.631 --> 00:03:53.651 They don't really get to make those 00:03:53.692 --> 00:03:54.032 decisions. 00:03:54.211 --> 00:03:55.473 Those people, we were on a set. 00:03:55.492 --> 00:03:57.694 We were at APTA headquarters on a 00:03:57.775 --> 00:03:58.235 Saturday. 00:03:58.475 --> 00:04:00.457 People making those decisions were not 00:04:00.538 --> 00:04:00.837 there. 00:04:01.237 --> 00:04:02.079 They're in a different... 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.361 I feel like they're in darkened rooms in 00:04:05.442 --> 00:04:06.342 large leather chairs. 00:04:06.462 --> 00:04:06.622 Yeah, 00:04:07.163 --> 00:04:08.544 but what I walked away from that 00:04:08.564 --> 00:04:11.826 conversation with was hope that... 00:04:13.051 --> 00:04:14.451 that the folks that are academic 00:04:14.472 --> 00:04:16.153 administrators who are physical therapists 00:04:16.913 --> 00:04:19.074 are starting to push and are starting to 00:04:19.113 --> 00:04:20.093 have those conversations. 00:04:20.533 --> 00:04:22.035 I was really excited to hear that 00:04:22.055 --> 00:04:26.096 collaborative discussion and some kind of 00:04:26.136 --> 00:04:26.776 like, all right, 00:04:26.815 --> 00:04:28.596 we're all in this together and we're gonna 00:04:28.617 --> 00:04:30.057 work through this together, right? 00:04:30.216 --> 00:04:32.298 And that collaboration really is, I mean, 00:04:32.338 --> 00:04:33.298 you and I were saying in the beginning, 00:04:33.317 --> 00:04:33.437 right? 00:04:33.458 --> 00:04:34.639 Like that's really what we need. 00:04:35.939 --> 00:04:37.740 I see an enormous opportunity for us to 00:04:37.761 --> 00:04:40.144 band together as a profession to advocate 00:04:40.305 --> 00:04:41.586 against, um, 00:04:41.725 --> 00:04:43.809 what the department of education has, 00:04:43.949 --> 00:04:45.550 you know, put in their proposed rule. 00:04:45.690 --> 00:04:45.911 Right. 00:04:46.091 --> 00:04:47.853 And that had just come out like just 00:04:47.874 --> 00:04:49.375 before, just come out right before that. 00:04:49.475 --> 00:04:50.898 And, and you know, 00:04:52.125 --> 00:04:54.365 That's not necessarily the way to lower 00:04:54.406 --> 00:04:55.406 the cost of education. 00:04:55.886 --> 00:04:57.627 That's going to create a bottleneck, 00:04:57.687 --> 00:04:57.826 right? 00:04:57.867 --> 00:04:58.826 That's going to cut us off. 00:04:59.807 --> 00:05:01.947 So to hear folks talking about, okay, 00:05:01.968 --> 00:05:03.428 well, what are some other strategies, 00:05:03.468 --> 00:05:03.608 right? 00:05:03.649 --> 00:05:05.689 We had an administrator talking about how 00:05:07.290 --> 00:05:09.690 he actually has some control over the cost 00:05:09.891 --> 00:05:11.591 of the PT education. 00:05:12.452 --> 00:05:13.014 costs, right? 00:05:13.033 --> 00:05:14.154 The PT program costs. 00:05:14.314 --> 00:05:16.939 And can we inspire more folks to have 00:05:17.019 --> 00:05:19.422 those discussions and push back in those 00:05:19.622 --> 00:05:20.403 negotiations? 00:05:21.345 --> 00:05:22.607 What can we do to support that? 00:05:22.786 --> 00:05:24.228 That was what I walked away with is 00:05:24.269 --> 00:05:26.672 that there was some hope there. 00:05:27.713 --> 00:05:28.615 And I think we all felt it in 00:05:28.654 --> 00:05:28.935 the room. 00:05:29.755 --> 00:05:30.697 And you're right, though. 00:05:31.016 --> 00:05:33.177 We didn't say here's the one single 00:05:33.218 --> 00:05:33.678 solution. 00:05:33.699 --> 00:05:34.158 Right. 00:05:34.178 --> 00:05:35.180 That's not what that's about. 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:37.000 But it's about inspiring people to walk 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:38.923 away from that and go, OK, 00:05:38.983 --> 00:05:40.223 what can I do to contribute? 00:05:40.242 --> 00:05:41.904 What policy change needs to happen? 00:05:42.004 --> 00:05:43.826 What advocacy strategy do we need? 00:05:44.565 --> 00:05:47.528 And I see an excitement to get behind, 00:05:48.449 --> 00:05:48.649 you know, 00:05:48.848 --> 00:05:50.610 getting the DOE to change their minds on 00:05:50.630 --> 00:05:51.610 that proposed rule. 00:05:52.031 --> 00:05:53.653 And then where do we go with the 00:05:53.673 --> 00:05:54.634 momentum from that? 00:05:55.014 --> 00:05:56.555 We decide what that next step is together. 00:05:57.283 --> 00:05:58.165 It was good to see so many people 00:05:58.285 --> 00:05:59.105 angry at the same thing. 00:05:59.745 --> 00:06:00.466 Right, for once. 00:06:00.487 --> 00:06:01.387 You're going to see people angry. 00:06:01.408 --> 00:06:01.487 Yeah. 00:06:02.389 --> 00:06:05.031 It was a little known thing. 00:06:05.050 --> 00:06:08.434 When you see photos online of people going 00:06:08.454 --> 00:06:09.475 to their state chapters, 00:06:10.716 --> 00:06:13.317 I went to Hill Day in DC. 00:06:13.577 --> 00:06:15.019 What you don't see a lot of times 00:06:15.060 --> 00:06:18.021 is the day before that, APTA trains you. 00:06:18.161 --> 00:06:18.723 Absolutely. 00:06:18.742 --> 00:06:20.084 So it's like, hey, I'm here at DC. 00:06:20.103 --> 00:06:21.464 I'm going to knock on my congressman's 00:06:21.524 --> 00:06:21.725 door. 00:06:22.540 --> 00:06:23.379 What do I do? 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:24.480 They train you. 00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:25.000 Absolutely. 00:06:25.021 --> 00:06:27.201 You're empowered to go in there and 00:06:27.281 --> 00:06:29.983 advocate for specific, you know, 00:06:30.002 --> 00:06:32.264 specific policies, specific changes that, 00:06:32.384 --> 00:06:32.584 you know, 00:06:32.684 --> 00:06:35.045 APTA wants to see or that is really 00:06:35.084 --> 00:06:36.964 important to patients in your area of 00:06:37.024 --> 00:06:38.565 practice or in your state. 00:06:38.865 --> 00:06:41.687 because you're talking to them about what 00:06:41.726 --> 00:06:43.408 your patients are seeing or what you as 00:06:43.447 --> 00:06:44.468 a PT and PTA, 00:06:45.408 --> 00:06:46.209 for me in New Hampshire, 00:06:46.389 --> 00:06:47.048 what are we seeing? 00:06:47.069 --> 00:06:48.029 What are our patients seeing? 00:06:48.129 --> 00:06:49.389 That's what we go to the Hill to 00:06:49.410 --> 00:06:49.930 talk about. 00:06:50.511 --> 00:06:52.471 But APTA does empower you to how to 00:06:52.511 --> 00:06:53.432 have that conversation, 00:06:53.891 --> 00:06:54.831 how to hug a porcupine, 00:06:54.971 --> 00:06:56.793 because let's face it, it's not that easy. 00:06:57.514 --> 00:06:58.314 I like the visual. 00:06:58.696 --> 00:07:00.139 What wasn't on the docket that you were 00:07:00.158 --> 00:07:01.360 like, oh man, I mean, listen, 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:02.762 you can't put fifty things. 00:07:03.384 --> 00:07:05.468 You can put ten things, maybe. 00:07:05.829 --> 00:07:06.971 What wasn't on the list that you're like, 00:07:06.990 --> 00:07:07.833 I hope it's there next year, 00:07:07.872 --> 00:07:08.954 I hope we'll talk about it before next 00:07:08.975 --> 00:07:09.055 year? 00:07:09.365 --> 00:07:11.206 Yeah, so next year, 00:07:11.526 --> 00:07:12.887 I really think we need to talk about 00:07:13.007 --> 00:07:13.309 AI. 00:07:13.569 --> 00:07:15.250 We need to talk about technology and 00:07:15.290 --> 00:07:15.750 healthcare. 00:07:15.769 --> 00:07:17.110 Because it's listening right now. 00:07:17.130 --> 00:07:18.331 Because it's listening right now. 00:07:18.372 --> 00:07:19.151 And also, like, 00:07:19.773 --> 00:07:21.793 we're doing some incredible work at APTA. 00:07:21.814 --> 00:07:22.894 You know, our first network, 00:07:22.935 --> 00:07:24.435 we have the new AI task force. 00:07:24.995 --> 00:07:26.177 There's going to be a report back to 00:07:26.197 --> 00:07:27.158 the House of Delegates, you know, 00:07:27.177 --> 00:07:28.278 the end of this year or the beginning 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:28.819 of next year. 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:30.600 That's the perfect time. 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:31.880 Next year's Graham Sessions, 00:07:31.980 --> 00:07:33.423 perfect time to say, okay, 00:07:33.762 --> 00:07:34.923 we've got all this information. 00:07:34.944 --> 00:07:35.944 We've got all this data. 00:07:36.504 --> 00:07:37.665 What are the people in this room going 00:07:37.685 --> 00:07:38.185 to do about it? 00:07:38.245 --> 00:07:39.567 What are we going to inspire all of 00:07:39.586 --> 00:07:40.928 the people outside of this room to do 00:07:40.949 --> 00:07:41.249 about it? 00:07:41.348 --> 00:07:43.069 I really think that's the direction we 00:07:43.089 --> 00:07:43.430 should go in. 00:07:43.471 --> 00:07:45.312 It's everywhere. 00:07:45.331 --> 00:07:46.333 It's being whispered about. 00:07:46.353 --> 00:07:48.855 And people were surprised it wasn't on the 00:07:48.894 --> 00:07:49.576 list this year. 00:07:49.675 --> 00:07:51.596 Someone said, did you go a year before? 00:07:52.177 --> 00:07:53.718 Someone said it was on the list then. 00:07:54.019 --> 00:07:54.298 Yeah. 00:07:54.678 --> 00:07:55.038 Okay. 00:07:55.059 --> 00:07:57.199 Yeah, but in more of a conceptual way, 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:57.660 right? 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:59.261 And now we've got a lot more of 00:07:59.300 --> 00:08:00.461 it in practice. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.141 Oh, it's not. 00:08:01.701 --> 00:08:01.880 Yeah. 00:08:01.961 --> 00:08:02.401 It's there. 00:08:02.422 --> 00:08:03.482 Agreed, a hundred percent. 00:08:03.502 --> 00:08:04.362 What do you do when it comes? 00:08:04.382 --> 00:08:05.041 I'm like, my man, 00:08:05.122 --> 00:08:07.603 people are using it on label or off 00:08:07.642 --> 00:08:09.663 label, whether in workflows, 00:08:09.803 --> 00:08:11.064 you might as well lean into it. 00:08:11.103 --> 00:08:11.684 Absolutely. 00:08:11.925 --> 00:08:12.064 Yep. 00:08:12.504 --> 00:08:15.565 And have the right guardrails and policies 00:08:15.805 --> 00:08:18.567 and protections in place to make sure 00:08:18.586 --> 00:08:19.406 you're using it the right way. 00:08:19.666 --> 00:08:19.766 Yeah. 00:08:20.812 --> 00:08:22.535 Well, we are live at CSM. 00:08:22.975 --> 00:08:23.435 Fifteen, 00:08:23.536 --> 00:08:25.077 sixteen thousand of our colleagues here. 00:08:25.117 --> 00:08:25.838 It's fantastic. 00:08:25.858 --> 00:08:26.559 But mathematically, 00:08:26.579 --> 00:08:27.939 there's a lot more people who aren't here. 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:28.180 Yep. 00:08:28.420 --> 00:08:30.362 What would you say to someone who has 00:08:30.403 --> 00:08:32.063 never been or hasn't been in a while? 00:08:32.225 --> 00:08:33.205 And next year, you know, 00:08:33.225 --> 00:08:35.226 I don't want to end up and this 00:08:35.246 --> 00:08:35.947 CSM in Anaheim yet, 00:08:35.967 --> 00:08:37.288 but we're going back to the East Coast. 00:08:37.308 --> 00:08:38.890 We're going absolutely dilly dilly in 00:08:38.931 --> 00:08:39.871 Philly Philly next year. 00:08:40.111 --> 00:08:41.373 What would you say to someone of why 00:08:41.413 --> 00:08:43.115 they should come next year, 00:08:43.154 --> 00:08:44.535 why they should make it a point to 00:08:44.576 --> 00:08:44.996 come next year? 00:08:45.221 --> 00:08:45.422 Yeah, 00:08:46.062 --> 00:08:47.423 so all of the folks that I run 00:08:47.464 --> 00:08:49.206 into that are here for the first time 00:08:49.865 --> 00:08:51.467 are saying to me, 00:08:53.149 --> 00:08:55.932 I had no idea how awesome this is. 00:08:56.599 --> 00:08:58.740 and how much I was going to feel 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.419 like I was with my people. 00:09:01.041 --> 00:09:02.500 Because in our small clinics, 00:09:03.662 --> 00:09:05.302 for a long time in my clinical practice, 00:09:05.402 --> 00:09:06.962 I was the only PT onsite. 00:09:07.822 --> 00:09:09.663 I had to go to APTA to find 00:09:09.744 --> 00:09:11.744 my community because it wasn't coming to 00:09:11.783 --> 00:09:12.024 me. 00:09:12.544 --> 00:09:13.924 And so I think for me, 00:09:13.965 --> 00:09:15.105 that's what CSM is. 00:09:16.306 --> 00:09:17.625 this is where my people are. 00:09:18.025 --> 00:09:21.226 I feel so at home here with everyone. 00:09:21.407 --> 00:09:23.006 And so what I would love is for 00:09:23.086 --> 00:09:25.447 everybody to be able to experience that. 00:09:26.128 --> 00:09:26.967 And yeah, I mean, 00:09:27.008 --> 00:09:28.488 the beauty of CSM is that it moves 00:09:28.528 --> 00:09:28.847 around. 00:09:29.467 --> 00:09:30.207 So, you know, 00:09:30.248 --> 00:09:32.668 maybe flying six hours across the country 00:09:32.928 --> 00:09:34.448 from Boston is not your jam. 00:09:35.129 --> 00:09:35.629 But, you know, 00:09:35.869 --> 00:09:37.169 driving from Boston to Philly, 00:09:37.190 --> 00:09:39.190 like you can maybe swing that, right? 00:09:39.250 --> 00:09:40.250 And it's great. 00:09:40.330 --> 00:09:41.289 You're on the board of directors. 00:09:41.690 --> 00:09:42.431 Maybe you slip this in there. 00:09:42.671 --> 00:09:44.510 I like the, I wrote a headline recently. 00:09:44.846 --> 00:09:46.167 or a tagline for CSM, 00:09:46.547 --> 00:09:48.388 see future versions of yourself 00:09:48.868 --> 00:09:49.587 everywhere. 00:09:49.648 --> 00:09:51.249 Because that's really what, like, 00:09:51.509 --> 00:09:52.729 it really is cool watching. 00:09:53.109 --> 00:09:53.850 They don't walk alone. 00:09:53.889 --> 00:09:55.389 They walk in packs of at least five, 00:09:55.769 --> 00:09:56.950 which is students, five or more. 00:09:57.409 --> 00:10:00.191 And they are sort of like doing this. 00:10:00.250 --> 00:10:01.991 But I remember mine ten years ago here. 00:10:02.552 --> 00:10:04.432 And I described it as it's a circus 00:10:04.471 --> 00:10:05.852 with eighteen circuses in it. 00:10:06.712 --> 00:10:07.773 the expo hall is one thing, 00:10:07.793 --> 00:10:08.653 but then you're walking around the 00:10:08.714 --> 00:10:10.234 sessions and you're just like, wow, 00:10:10.653 --> 00:10:11.014 get a watch. 00:10:11.033 --> 00:10:11.714 You don't hurt your neck. 00:10:11.734 --> 00:10:12.833 Cause it just keeps spinning around. 00:10:13.375 --> 00:10:14.975 It's, it's really inspiring. 00:10:15.095 --> 00:10:18.696 And also, um, you know, for, for me, 00:10:18.816 --> 00:10:21.576 APTA service is like what makes me feel 00:10:21.615 --> 00:10:24.116 connected to the PT that I am because 00:10:24.336 --> 00:10:25.657 my job is in admin, right? 00:10:25.697 --> 00:10:28.337 It's not in direct clinical care anymore. 00:10:28.778 --> 00:10:32.698 Um, but everyone I have encountered, um, 00:10:33.099 --> 00:10:35.681 in my APTA service has either opened a 00:10:35.721 --> 00:10:38.743 door for me or showed me an opportunity. 00:10:39.062 --> 00:10:41.264 And I would not be a board member 00:10:41.684 --> 00:10:43.885 if not for all of the people that 00:10:44.846 --> 00:10:46.567 mentored me and guided me along the way. 00:10:46.847 --> 00:10:48.769 So this is also where you find those 00:10:48.808 --> 00:10:50.389 people that are going to hold your hand 00:10:50.429 --> 00:10:51.571 and say, hey, come along with me. 00:10:52.030 --> 00:10:52.850 Come to this meeting. 00:10:52.951 --> 00:10:54.572 Come to the business meeting for your 00:10:54.611 --> 00:10:54.873 section. 00:10:54.893 --> 00:10:55.812 Most of the time they're just going, 00:10:55.852 --> 00:10:56.734 they're pushing. 00:10:56.754 --> 00:10:57.413 Go, go. 00:10:57.474 --> 00:10:58.294 Well, the funny part is like, 00:10:58.894 --> 00:11:02.037 I was talking to Melanie Brennan from 00:11:02.278 --> 00:11:03.798 Minnesota, and she said, 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:05.740 I was a student usher at something in 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:07.380 Minnesota, and I was a runner. 00:11:07.861 --> 00:11:08.381 And how cool is it? 00:11:10.464 --> 00:11:11.965 she was probably shoved into that position 00:11:12.004 --> 00:11:12.585 by someone. 00:11:12.605 --> 00:11:13.966 Now she's the president of the state. 00:11:13.985 --> 00:11:16.366 That's got to feel full circle. 00:11:16.447 --> 00:11:16.927 It's amazing. 00:11:17.248 --> 00:11:17.508 Actually, 00:11:17.528 --> 00:11:19.149 I was at the student networking breakfast 00:11:19.168 --> 00:11:21.791 yesterday talking to a student who had 00:11:21.890 --> 00:11:24.951 applied to be an usher in Portland, 00:11:24.991 --> 00:11:25.753 Oregon this summer. 00:11:25.793 --> 00:11:27.714 She's still waiting to see, but she said, 00:11:28.094 --> 00:11:29.014 even if I don't get to be a 00:11:29.034 --> 00:11:29.575 student usher, 00:11:29.754 --> 00:11:30.895 I'm going to figure out how to get 00:11:30.956 --> 00:11:32.996 to Oregon and be in the gallery for 00:11:33.037 --> 00:11:35.138 House of Delegates because she's already 00:11:35.177 --> 00:11:36.918 figured out that's where I'm going to find 00:11:37.220 --> 00:11:37.820 my community. 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:39.020 She's lamenting 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:41.221 graduating right she's a third year 00:11:41.241 --> 00:11:42.602 student she's like I'm gonna be done I'm 00:11:42.623 --> 00:11:45.083 gonna this community that I've been a part 00:11:45.163 --> 00:11:47.745 of my school community I have to walk 00:11:47.785 --> 00:11:49.746 away from that and and she's like you 00:11:49.767 --> 00:11:51.067 know I'm a little nervous about it and 00:11:51.488 --> 00:11:52.707 and you know we got to talk about 00:11:52.727 --> 00:11:54.708 like all right well what's cool is that 00:11:54.729 --> 00:11:56.890 you're gonna find your next APTA community 00:11:56.990 --> 00:11:58.311 right you're gonna find that next group of 00:11:58.331 --> 00:11:59.971 people that that are gonna support you and 00:11:59.991 --> 00:12:01.653 lift you up and you know when you've 00:12:01.673 --> 00:12:02.894 had a hard day you can send someone 00:12:02.933 --> 00:12:04.414 a text and say man this was a 00:12:04.455 --> 00:12:06.076 rough one right no the same gripes 00:12:06.655 --> 00:12:08.479 and then gone through those days and like 00:12:08.938 --> 00:12:09.799 sometimes you're not looking for a 00:12:09.820 --> 00:12:11.462 solution you're looking to pitch it 00:12:11.503 --> 00:12:12.764 someone who knows what you're going 00:12:12.803 --> 00:12:14.466 through yeah and then just nod and go 00:12:14.506 --> 00:12:16.009 okay well now i'll go back to solving 00:12:16.028 --> 00:12:17.931 right we're all in this together yeah 00:12:17.971 --> 00:12:19.192 every episode we do we have a parting 00:12:19.212 --> 00:12:22.857 shot um maybe we're just watching a 00:12:22.937 --> 00:12:23.798 walking vagina walk by 00:12:24.198 --> 00:12:24.779 As one does. 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:26.620 As it happens here at CSM. 00:12:26.660 --> 00:12:26.880 Good. 00:12:27.660 --> 00:12:28.322 Your parting shot. 00:12:28.841 --> 00:12:32.083 What's one thing that you're super focused 00:12:32.144 --> 00:12:34.865 on the APTA doing or changing before 00:12:34.884 --> 00:12:36.566 you're done on the board of directors? 00:12:36.586 --> 00:12:38.006 There's something that you're like, 00:12:38.648 --> 00:12:40.328 there's my BHAG, my big, hairy, 00:12:40.369 --> 00:12:40.869 audacious goal. 00:12:41.857 --> 00:12:44.499 I am super duper excited about the 00:12:44.538 --> 00:12:48.240 strategic framework in as much as it is 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:52.240 inspiring our technological advancement. 00:12:52.260 --> 00:12:54.780 So I got to talk about remote therapeutic 00:12:54.821 --> 00:12:56.162 monitoring twice yesterday in two 00:12:56.182 --> 00:12:57.042 different sessions. 00:12:57.922 --> 00:12:59.062 I am obsessed with it. 00:12:59.241 --> 00:13:01.582 I am so excited about the opportunities 00:13:01.623 --> 00:13:06.004 that we have and knowing that APTA is 00:13:06.663 --> 00:13:08.664 embracing that opportunity along with us 00:13:08.784 --> 00:13:10.804 and supporting us in those technological 00:13:10.845 --> 00:13:13.285 advances and making it part of the 00:13:13.306 --> 00:13:14.186 strategic framework, 00:13:14.546 --> 00:13:16.006 saying the quiet part out loud, 00:13:16.067 --> 00:13:18.567 we are going to do this together. 00:13:18.748 --> 00:13:19.268 Yeah. 00:13:19.288 --> 00:13:21.609 That I'm so excited to be a part 00:13:21.849 --> 00:13:22.708 of making that happen. 00:13:22.808 --> 00:13:23.308 Love that. 00:13:23.629 --> 00:13:24.629 Amy, appreciate your time here. 00:13:24.649 --> 00:13:25.830 We're doing a little quick hits here at 00:13:25.850 --> 00:13:26.049 CSN, 00:13:26.210 --> 00:13:28.510 but you probably have forty seven things 00:13:28.530 --> 00:13:29.791 you need to do now as part of 00:13:29.811 --> 00:13:30.431 the board of directors. 00:13:30.451 --> 00:13:31.111 Appreciate your time now. 00:13:31.152 --> 00:13:31.652 Yeah, thank you.