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UNLV Physical Therapy Fil-Am Club: Embracing Heritage and Cultural Representation on Campus · PHLV Radio

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Speaker 1: It's the ultimate guide to anything, so you know in
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Las Vegas. This is the Las Vegas Filipino Resource Radio
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Show on PHL Radio.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello everyone, in a long time no see. Good afternoon,
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good evening, good morning, whatever time it is when you
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are watching this. Thank you for tuning in to another
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episode of the Las Vegas Filipino Resource Guide here at
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PHLV Radio. I am your host, Sarahl Paguinawan, and again
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thank you for joining us. As you can see on
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the title, we have some fun guests today. But before
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I get started, I just want to let you all
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podcast Apple Podcasts, Sorry, iTunes podcasting thing and also iHeartRadio. Alrighty,
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let's get stored it, shall we. I have some very
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exciting guests today from the un LV Physical Therapy of
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Phil M Club. I had a pleasure of being a
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guest speaker at their meeting. Yeah, I'm like meeting a
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couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to bring them
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on the show because I was so inspired by what
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they're doing. For the community, so give us a warm welcome. Please, Hello,
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introduce yourself one by one. We can start with you, Shay.
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Speaker 3: So, I'm Shae Shay Robles. I am a second year.
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I'm one of the co presidents for the club.
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Speaker 2: Oh and then when did I say I wanted you
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to introduce yourself? And then oh, what field? Like what
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kind of ye?
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Speaker 3: Yes, So I am interested in doing sports physical therapy.
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And then I have a huge military background. So my
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family is all military Air Force. That's how we came
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to America. So I am planning to commission and kind
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of get more into the military tactical side.
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Speaker 4: Okay, if sports doesn't work out, any specific sports or.
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Speaker 3: No, I'm a huge volleyball kind of player. Too short,
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so I can't really like really go deep into that,
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but you know I can help out that help.
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Speaker 4: And still be surrounded.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Vertically challenged, So that's my that's my my main focus.
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Speaker 4: If I were to go into sports.
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Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you.
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Speaker 6: I'm my name is Casey. I'm also vertically challenged. Also
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sing your PT. I'm really interested in ana doing pelvic health,
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which is previously known as women's health.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and then either that or pediatrics are cute.
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Speaker 2: I love.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm super excited to work with that kind of population.
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Speaker 2: Yeah you have a position in the Oh yeah, i'm
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cultural chair.
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Speaker 7: Nice.
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Speaker 4: She does all the planning, you know.
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Speaker 8: All right, Hi everyone, my name is Nolan Coverto. I
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am the other co president. Thanks to Shay, we got
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this thing started last year.
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Speaker 4: What month was that, Well, we planned this summer summer and.
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Speaker 9: Then we got we got the club started and wow,
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that's cool. It's quickly.
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Speaker 4: It was quick.
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Speaker 8: I am super interested in sports orthopedics, but as we're
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taking more courses and seeing like the different fields of PEAT,
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I think my mind is just kind of open to
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any any really.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's nice. I'm Neil.
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Speaker 10: I'm also a second year PET student and I am
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the secretary secretary and historian Secretary secretary.
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Speaker 4: He does most of the work. We need a photo
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on it.
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Speaker 9: On it.
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Speaker 10: I'm still unsure what I want to go into. At first,
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I was thinking out patient ortho back when I was
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at Tech, But now that I've learned about more things
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alongside with Nolan, I'm still just kind of trying to decide.
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Speaker 2: It always changes throughout your like your fool timeline, you
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kind of get interested in one thing and they're like never.
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Speaker 4: Mind, yeah, which is good and a bad thing. Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, thank you guys again for you know, joining us.
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I wanted to talk more about, you know, starting the club,
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like you had mentioned, what was the purpose behind starting it.
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Speaker 8: That's actually pretty funny because my faculty advisor, his name
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is doctor Merril Landers. He we had like one of
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our midterm meetings and he was basically like, hey, you're
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a Filipino, right, so, and he noticed like how many
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Bilinos are in our class and in the class above us,
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and so he was like, you guys should definitely start
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a club and I'll be interested in being like the advisory.
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Speaker 3: Advisor for so he was the one who pushed he
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isn't no heal him to do.
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Speaker 11: He's food okay, he loves what did he say?
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Speaker 3: He was like like, oh yeah and a lot of
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both food.
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Speaker 4: Okay, you knows right. We had a pollo when you
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were that's awesome. Every meeting, We're having a pollock next week.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No, he was, He was the main He was the
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one that kind of started it and really got Nolan.
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Yeah yeah, and then like really of our entire class,
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I think there's like at least a quarter.
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Speaker 4: A quarter of our class.
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Speaker 9: You say, what would you say?
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Speaker 3: I know, I asked you this earlier, Like, probably pretty
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good chunk of us are Filipino and in the third
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year class above us.
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Speaker 2: So the thing I noticed when I was there, a
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lot of the members who were joining in weren't all Filipino. Yeah,
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so it's open to pretty much anybody.
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Speaker 8: So pretty much when we wanted to start the club,
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it was of course just to get the Filipino community.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, but we also wanted to keep it as like a.
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Speaker 8: Family community, right, just kind of like our culture is
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just always including everyone everyone around us, making feel comfortable.
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So we're like, even though we're at school, you know,
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learning about pet, we still want to create like that
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family environment at school.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they also get to learn.
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Speaker 9: About about the culture.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really awesome.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 3: Especially in our program too, where it's so hectic and rigorous,
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it's like nice to have a club where it's like, Okay,
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this is our community. We're going to come in, learn
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and eat and yeah, it's like an educational and like
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community based club, but it's also like a place that
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we can feel grounded and comfortable with each other and
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and stepping away.
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Speaker 4: From that yeah, physical therapy world.
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Speaker 2: You know, and like the outside of it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, that's awesome.
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Speaker 4: Was it Is it hard to start a club?
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Speaker 6: Do you?
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Speaker 3: Like?
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Speaker 4: Okay?
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Speaker 2: So I know you guys said you started planning it
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and in the summertime, right, So you can't just like
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go up to somebody be like I want to start
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a club or is it?
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Speaker 3: Like so just like what am I allowed to say?
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Speaker 9: So I brought up and like I was basically.
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Speaker 8: I was like, he like, dofor Landers wants us to
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start a filipetal club? Wouldn't that be crazy if like
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we were presidents or like what if we like started
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it and just kept that ball rolling. So then basically
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Shane and I were were like, all right, yeah, let's uh,
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let's plan to like.
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Speaker 9: Get some people together.
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Speaker 8: So during one of our breaks, like in between class,
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we're like, let's pull all of.
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Speaker 9: Our like.
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Speaker 8: In our in our club and we're like, hey, like, Neil,
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you're gonna be this position in Casey you're gonna do this.
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Speaker 9: Bertie you can do this, and can do Roselle can
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be part of it too. Yeah, So were.
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Speaker 8: We like kind of like already pre planned everyone and
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we were like, hey, like let's get this thing going.
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Speaker 9: So then from there it just kind of going on.
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Speaker 2: Somebody where you just kind of know how to book
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the rooms and we gu meet.
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Speaker 3: We like did all the formal stuff, you know, we
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met with with doctor Landers was also our like head
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department of Physical therapy.
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Speaker 4: He was like the director. He got of moved up.
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Speaker 3: But at the time we made sure that is there
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any other steps that we need to do to build
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kind of this sort of organization professionally, so we did
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all that.
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Speaker 4: There really wasn't much at u n l V. There is.
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Speaker 3: It's like an rso, the actually registered student organizations. It's
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a little different because we're grad students, but some of
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our organizations in like the physical therapy program also our
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rso so that's our.
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Speaker 4: Next that's our next step. Yeah, next semester.
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Speaker 3: We already have some of our officers coming up, so
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they're going to start that next semester where we're going
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to be like actually registered in the un l V program,
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which is great because they have a filip you know,
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like the FOSSA.
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Speaker 2: That one's rs already right, yes, yeah, that one is,
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I hope you guys. Yeah, would and if you're looking
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for more members, this is another reason why I want
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it's bringing you guys on them out there.
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Speaker 9: Please.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, the thing is, you do have to be a
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part of the PPT program program in order to join
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the Filipino American Club with un l VPT. But if
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you're just like an undergrad student at going to UNILV,
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you can join the Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But also do there's I mean, Toro is just coming
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out with the Filipino Club as well. Really, yes, we've
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already we've been reaching out to them and like all
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the other I mean I reached out to some of
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like the.
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Speaker 4: Nursing students at you and LV like hey, like we're having.
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Speaker 3: A meeting, the meeting that we had last month, Like hey,
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we're gonna make these.
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Speaker 4: Blankets for Shade Tree to donate. You should come by.
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So it's kind of like an open invitation.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's like labeled under physical therapy, but it's like it's.
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Speaker 2: Kind of way to connect you and other groups as well. Right,
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And I also to talk about you know, the Shade
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Tree blankets. You guys are looking to do more community
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based stuff to, right, Yeah, is there a certain thing
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you're looking for or couldn't just be kind of any
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any like philanthropy.
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Speaker 9: I think, just any philanthropy service. So we did the
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Shade Tree.
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Speaker 8: I also organized like a clothing drive with the Big
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Brothers BA Sisteries Southern Nevada. So we actually just set
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up our donation bins at you know, just like in
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the building that we all kind of have our classes
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at but soon drop off stuff.
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Speaker 2: You want to kind of say where it is at.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, So it's at the BHS building. Do you guys
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remember what.
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Speaker 4: It's broad Lee Bigelow.
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Speaker 8: Science Science exactly right, Yeah, it's by Law. Oh, it's
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the giant red building. But we have one bin on
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the first floor kind of like in the community area. Yeah,
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you can just kind of drop off your clothes and
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us as a group like we're collecting the clothes.
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Speaker 9: And we'll hold this drive until like the end of March.
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Speaker 3: March twenty seventh is going to be the last one. Yeah, yeah,
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and then every day we always keep it secured in
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one of our locked rooms so nobody will like mess
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with it, just in case somebody like goes through it
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and everything. So that's until March twenty seventh, and all
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of those clothes, like no one said gets donated to
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the Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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Speaker 9: So that's us.
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Speaker 8: But I mean we're always open for other like philanthropic events.
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I know we talked about like the food drive.
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Speaker 2: Yes, food drives. I'm also that's another reason why I
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brought you guys on here. So if anybody watching out
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there would like to partner with your organizations or any
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philanthropic services, please reach out to them. Probably reach out
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to Shay or Nolan if you can.
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Speaker 4: We'll plug them at the end of the show. Yeah,
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any of those.
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Speaker 3: And then we even talked about having like a youth
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minglers thing. We even talking about that we really want
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to do that. It was a secret, no sneak, This
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is a lie, right.
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Speaker 2: Kind of Oh, Neil, can you see you have anything
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else that.
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Speaker 11: They didn't know?
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Speaker 9: Did you guys? Do you guys like feel comfortable? I
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guess like yeah.
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Speaker 7: They did, but you guys just said it was like, Hey,
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wouldn't it be cool if.
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Speaker 6: Like they were like, yeah, okay, so you can do this,
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you can do this, you can do this, But I'm like, okay,
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game the game.
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Speaker 4: That's one thing I like about us. We're always like, okay,
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you're telling.
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Speaker 10: You When it first started, I honestly thought it was
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like a joke. But I kept seeing like the ball rolling,
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and I was like, oh, we're doing it.
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Speaker 3: So many group childs like this really because.
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Speaker 10: You guys told us a story about how doctor Landers
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wanted us to do it, so that kind of seemed
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like a joke.
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Speaker 9: But then yeah, you guys went with it and here
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we are.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as how many members you guys have right now
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or are you kind of not keeping.
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Speaker 4: As many games? Journey East?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot when I was there.
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Speaker 4: I think there was a little chunk of people there.
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There's always at least twenty. Yeah, that's a good amount.
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Speaker 3: Yes, And what's great is that's how many start at
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the beginning of the meeting.
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Speaker 4: And then people walk well lest people walk past our
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room like you know.
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Speaker 3: The last Yeah, they're like, oh what's Oh what's bad?
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And we're like come, come eat, come eat, there's leftovers
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typical pot Philip, you know, thing right, and then they're like, oh,
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I didn't know, like I think two people well at
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the end of last meeting was like, hey can you
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add me on the email list?
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Speaker 4: Oh that's awesome. Yeah, It's like it's a growing thing
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and people came.
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Speaker 3: To I added them to the email list anyway, but like, yeah,
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I love well.
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Speaker 2: One thing I noticed about the potluck too, because you know,
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especially with our generation, when we say potluck.
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Speaker 4: People are like, Okay, I'm just gonna go buy food.
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Speaker 2: I noticed a lot of your members actually know how
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to cook like authentic Filipino quisine, which I thought was
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so awesome because I'm still learning, but you know, to
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keep that as a part of the culture is really
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really inspiring for our generation.
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Speaker 3: I feel like, yes, and even just sharing that the culture,
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like the food and everything too. Like you said, like
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not a lot of people in the club or who
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come to the clubs, so it's like, oh, what is this?
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It's easy, Like no, no, no, you have to eat
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with this.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, like what you know.
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Speaker 2: Nolan gave me a rump throb and then Neil was
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like did you warm it up for her?
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Speaker 4: And Noel like I was like it was cold, and
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I was like, oh, try some high. No, that was
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that was amazing. Yeah, that was I didn't bring the
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fish though.
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Speaker 7: You eat, do you really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Like the sweet.
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Speaker 7: You just sprinkle it on top, so it's like chocolate fish.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you know, the go on and the mingo. Yeah, okay,
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I wanted to ask switch gears a little bit and
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talk about physical therapy.
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Speaker 4: Why did you guys each.
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Speaker 2: Choose this route? You know, because there's so many medical
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there's so many fields out there.
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Speaker 4: Why Shay did you decide? Pete?
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Speaker 3: Well, I knew, I knew I wanted to do medical.
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I mean, ever, all like everyone in my family was medical, right,
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my mom. I want to be like my mom. My
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mom's nursing. And I was like, I don't want to
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do that. I don't want to do something more. And
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so when I went into undergrad, I think that's when
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I got more in to I did kinesiology, but I
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got more into like the coaching things Like I did
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a lot of group fitness coaching. I was like a
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cycle instructor. I did all that, and so I kind
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of yeah, that was when else fit. I sit down
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eight hours out of the guys.
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Speaker 9: All these pot looks.
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Speaker 3: But then I kind of like combined the two. I
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did a lot of the sports and then medical, and
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I was like, what can I do with this? And
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so it was it was physical therapy. So yeah, that
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was my main thing, and I like I like how
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like there's options in the field and me, it's not
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just one. Yes, you know like a lot of like
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medical nurse. I know nursing you can do it too,
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but you can like switch gears immediately, like we were
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talking about this today.
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Speaker 4: You can do.
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Speaker 3: Pediatrics for two three years and say something needs to
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change or like you need a bit a different lifestyle.
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Then you can work in the hospital for as many
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years as you want, or even per DM you can
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do thethopedics.
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Speaker 4: So it's it's the how you can just like change
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your schedule at any point.
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Speaker 2: Because you're already trained in it technically or you kind
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of just have to.
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Speaker 4: We learned.
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Speaker 3: We learn all of it during school during the three years,
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and then if we want to specialize in it, we
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can some require additional education.
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Speaker 4: But it's wow, that's really cool. Yeah, it's amazing you.
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Speaker 6: So I was a bio undergrad and I was considering
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going to med school. Yeah, I wait out the amount
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of time it would take to be in med school
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and the amount of effort and also kind of where
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I wanted to hit certain milestones in my life your life. Yeah,
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and it didn't line up right, like for example, kids, Yeah,
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like I want that before thirty.
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Speaker 3: So I'm.
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Speaker 4: It's all kind of Marco personal. Do we have a
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color that work?
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Speaker 6: But I like physical therapy because of the amount of
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interaction you have with your patient.
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Speaker 7: With your patient, yeah, you really get to know them.
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And then also all the populations you work with, even
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the old.
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Speaker 6: People, like it's very rewarding to be with them and
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to help them work to something better.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So I love it.
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Speaker 10: I love it.
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Speaker 6: I like it.
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Speaker 9: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the nursing yeah, we love we love you.
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Speaker 8: I wanted to do PET also because I wanted to
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do something in like the medical background.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. I'm pretty sure all of our moms nurses.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, in the in the medical home healthcare.
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Speaker 9: Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, like I come from a family of a
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lot of medical background.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Growing up, I was in the fitness scene as well,
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just like going to the gym things like that. And
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then when I got into college, going to fraternity and
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they were big on philanthropy, so just like providing volunteer service.
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So I went on like this eight week long trip
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across country and I was providing just like volunteer construction
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work at camps. It was called build America with the
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pie cap of Phi fraternity shout out you and r
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But yeah, so during that journey, it was just like
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me coming to like the realization that I love providing
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a service to the community at the expense of just
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my own self. So it wasn't like I was doing
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it for incentive or I mean, I guess like for
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joy and happiness, right, but yeah, just helping other people. Yeah,
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and then I started working in a physical therapy clinic
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as a tech and then that kind of drove it
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even further.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's why I'm here.
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Speaker 7: That's awesome, thank you.
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Speaker 10: I think I realized I want to go into pt
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and high school. I knew I want to go in
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the medical field because like we all said, our families
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are in medical field, so that's kind of what we knew.
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And I was in uh once in Northwest High School.
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They have a biomedical science program and they brought up
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physical therapy and I really liked how they helped patients
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get better, like without medicine or without surgery. Yeah, so
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that's really one thing that drew me to physical therapy
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because I want to help patients and if they could
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get better without doing those things, I think be.
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Speaker 9: Very good for them.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 10: What amplified it too is I started working as a
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tech with their middle years ago, and I was able
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to see like what kind of things they do and
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how they treat patients and the interaction like what Casey said,
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And that's what made me really want to become a Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think that's one thing I want everyone to know
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about physical therapy is like the more you get into it,
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the more you fall in love with it, because it's
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just the care just like it feels like a different
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type of care, you know, because you're not just there to,
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like you said, give them medicine stuff. You're there to
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see them grow physically and mentally and stuff like that.
21:20
I don't know, I just.
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Speaker 4: Physical up and down, you know.
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Speaker 3: And we see people at the end obviously, which is
21:28
like they're there, we have they're great, they're doing amazing,
21:31
But we also see them like in the beginning, Yeah,
21:34
when they're in pain.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have this like patient coming in and
21:38
you're like this is the meanest patient. Yeah. You're like, oh,
21:40
but they're in so much pain. You know, they're in pain.
21:42
Let's let's help them.
21:43
Speaker 3: And then literally after like one visit or two, they're
21:46
like a completely different person and we help them kind of.
21:48
Speaker 2: Get to and then like right when they're about to
21:49
get discharged, it's like that you've built that relationship with them.
21:53
It's just like friendship and you're like, oh, I'm gonna
21:55
miss that patient coming in stuff like that.
21:57
Speaker 3: That's like the one thing I love about P right,
22:01
my case was saying you don't get that a lot
22:02
with some other fields, Like you build that relationship.
22:05
Speaker 6: Absolutely and you don't know just them, Like you get
22:07
to learn their families, their grand Like they bring in photos,
22:11
they give you gifts like yeah, few little pins or
22:14
like crafts that they made and they thought of you,
22:16
like it's very sweet Christmas time.
22:18
Speaker 2: They bring a lot of treats.
22:20
Speaker 9: They bring a lot of crumbled.
22:28
Speaker 2: Do you guys have any advice for you know, future
22:31
whether they're in PT or not, but if you know
22:34
this is something that they may want to look into.
22:36
Do you have any advice for people maybe stepping out
22:39
of their comfort zone or trying something new.
22:42
Speaker 10: I think shadowing plays a big part in it whatever profession,
22:47
but PT it is requirement to get into PET school
22:50
and during shadowing they could actually find out it's something
22:53
they want to do.
22:54
Speaker 9: Or what types of settings they like.
22:56
Speaker 10: And I think they will motivate them when they're applying
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and in PT school as well, when they see like
23:01
what the profession actually does.
23:03
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
23:03
Speaker 2: And most you can usually reach out to any place
23:05
right then, like you know you're a student, right, Yeah, yeah.
23:09
Speaker 3: Most people want shadows to right, They're pretty open to it.
23:13
Speaker 10: Peop were more strict, like if you're working in like
23:16
the NIKU or something.
23:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true, especially post COVID.
23:20
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, a lot of outpatients will be fine.
23:24
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think majority of like outpatient is open for
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like observations and things like that. I think if you're
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going to do something like in the hospital like they
23:33
do like a background checks, well I mean it doesn't
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hurt to try, yea to kind of bounce off a
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neil too, like just starting as early as you want,
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you know, just to see if you are even interested.
23:46
Because personally, like I didn't do a lot of shadowing
23:50
like in the hospital. I like worked was it like
23:54
five six years like in the outpatient setting, and like
24:00
like two hours of observation in the hospital, and I was.
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Speaker 9: Like, man, I don't want to work in the hospital.
24:05
I don't know why my mom does it or like
24:07
you know, my dad used to work in the hospital.
24:09
Speaker 8: So but now like in our current state in PT,
24:13
we're doing like a lot of observation and skilled nursing facilities,
24:17
long term acute care, just in patient rehab things like that,
24:22
and it's like kind of opened my eyes to be like, Okay,
24:24
maybe I am really interested into.
24:27
Speaker 9: Working here, or like maybe it's not as bad as
24:29
I thought. So I think.
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Speaker 8: Starting as early as you can, like in high school,
24:35
to just kind of expose yourself to everything absolutely, just
24:40
so that way when you go into PT school or
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no matter like what medical field you go into, like
24:47
at least that way you know like, Okay, I tried this,
24:49
and I know like this is going to be like
24:52
yeah exactly.
24:54
Speaker 2: That happened to me too when I was so I
24:55
was pre nursing when I went into college, and I'll
24:58
be I shadowed like right when I was starting in college,
25:02
and then I was like, ah, this is not for me,
25:05
but I'm glad I shadowed, just like you said, because
25:07
then you could learn what you like, what you don't like.
25:10
Speaker 4: Yeah. Any other advice.
25:13
Speaker 6: Not only for PT, but for like any medical profession
25:17
as long as you have like grit and consistency. You
25:21
don't have to be a genius, Like you don't have
25:23
to compare yourself to other people who are just naturally
25:25
gifted at learning material just by reading it over once.
25:30
Like just because you're not that kind of person doesn't
25:32
mean that you're not cut out for any kind of
25:34
medical field or medical profession.
25:36
Speaker 7: I mean to say, so maybe that.
25:42
Speaker 4: Something and then it's gonna work out.
25:45
Speaker 3: I would say, like if like it's okay to change
25:48
your mind, you know, just like with the shadowing and everything, like,
25:52
don't be afraid to change what you want to do,
25:55
because I think like when I was in college, I
25:57
initially wanted to do physical therapy and I had to
25:59
take a few steps back, like something happened and I.
26:01
Speaker 4: Was like, you know, I don't Yeah, I don't want
26:03
to do physical therapy. So I stopped.
26:05
Speaker 3: And I think it was two years junior or senior year.
26:09
I did not want to do physical therapy. Yeah, I
26:11
was going for I was like going into my master's
26:14
and Rena I like got in, was like doing it
26:17
for public health. You know, I don't want I Like
26:20
I was in there and I was like I don't
26:21
want to do my masters anymore. And then I was like, oh,
26:23
maybe i'll teach started stubbing yeah, and I was like,
26:26
I don't think I want to do that. So it
26:28
took those steps for me to realize and take a
26:30
step back and be like, you know what this is
26:31
physical therapy is something I want to do. And then
26:34
because of that, I knew like, oh, you know what
26:35
this is. This is my final decision and I have
26:38
no regrets.
26:39
Speaker 2: It took a few years, right, And also I really
26:42
love that because you sometimes you need to try out
26:45
a bunch of things right to lead you to where you're.
26:47
Speaker 7: Supposed to be at.
26:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I really really liked that.
26:50
Speaker 8: I think that's what's cool about our program too, is
26:53
like it's just so diverse, like background wise, and like
26:58
age two, like age you have people who are twenty
27:00
one or twenty you know, like like yeah, I mean any.
27:08
Speaker 9: Like post post post undergrad.
27:12
Speaker 8: I guess, yeah, like you can just join if you
27:15
you know, if you decide to go back to school, right,
27:19
just surrounding yourself with people who have like common values.
27:24
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think I think she's the oldest.
27:34
Speaker 11: Time already.
27:37
Speaker 4: I'm getting bullied so.
27:40
Speaker 2: And so to kind of close it all up, I
27:43
think I wanted to ask you what the importance of
27:47
celebrating your Filipino culture is? What does it mean to you?
27:49
And how do you celebrate it? Some you haven't starting
27:54
where you're doing.
27:56
Speaker 10: Really, I think I just want people to know, like
28:01
the non Filipinos of like the type of culture we
28:03
bring in, Like Filipinos are very hospitable and treat everyone
28:08
like their family. So even just at these meetings and
28:11
these pot looks, they could see that we're very like like, oh,
28:15
come join us, like anyone can come.
28:16
Speaker 9: Like we'll have food. Yeah.
28:19
Speaker 10: I want everyone to see that, just so when they
28:22
if they come across any other Filipinos, they know like
28:24
what they'll be like, and yeah they'll feel comfortable.
28:27
Speaker 9: Yeah, love that.
28:31
Speaker 4: We have to go in question? What was the question?
28:33
Speaker 2: Just like kind of important? What's how is the like,
28:37
what is being Filipino mean to you? The importance of it?
28:40
And how do you celebrate your culture? We don't have
28:44
to go in order whoever wants to.
28:46
Speaker 9: Go on the front.
28:50
Speaker 4: It's so hard, I mean, like it's hard.
28:52
Speaker 3: Just how don't I doubt when you asked this to
28:54
at the meeting too, you know, like what does it
28:56
mean to be Filipino?
28:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think it's just.
29:03
Speaker 3: I don't like very similar to it. Neil is saying,
29:05
like just being like welcoming to everyone and caring and
29:10
and I don't know, it's just when we think of
29:12
like a Filipino community, I think of like my family.
29:15
So it's hard to like explain your family. Yeah, and
29:19
that like connection, like it's you know, we were we
29:22
were at a sniff center a couple weeks ago and
29:26
it was just a bigger and I think a couple
29:28
of the therapists were saying something into college.
29:31
Speaker 4: We were like, oh yeah, and.
29:37
Speaker 12: Then we said it and they're like, you know, everyone
29:40
was like and then from there it's like the like
29:45
rapport in that room has changed.
29:48
Speaker 4: It's just yeah, I can't I personally can't really describe it.
29:52
Speaker 11: That's that's the best way to describe it.
29:55
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think kind of going off of that, it's
30:00
just being able to bring the Filipino like family culture
30:05
to like other communities that don't really have that or
30:09
just like forming it yourself.
30:10
Speaker 9: You feel like that's part of I.
30:12
Speaker 2: Guess that's kind of like my we can like put
30:15
that in the second question like, how do you celebrate it?
30:18
Do you?
30:18
Speaker 4: Are you always like.
30:19
Speaker 11: Cooking food at home Filipino food at home?
30:21
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I mean I personally, I love I just
30:24
started doing this recently, like in PT school because now
30:27
I'm I'm like leaving back home, but like just getting
30:30
to invite family like friends over and be like, hey,
30:33
like let's all get together, let's all sing karaoke, let's
30:37
get some food, going drink, yeah, things like that. But
30:44
it's yeah, it's just that sense of bringing people together,
30:48
and I think that blends well with the workplace too. Yeah,
30:53
being being able to connect with the patients other coworkers
30:57
like that.
30:57
Speaker 2: It's nice when I feel like, especially nowadays, when people
31:00
are like you're a Filippine when they're not Filipino and
31:02
they know that we are.
31:04
Speaker 9: Really cool association.
31:08
Speaker 8: Okay, Like I kind of understand the culture absolutely.
31:12
Speaker 3: It's different though, I don't know when I was in Reno.
31:14
I love Reno, but it was just so it was
31:17
it was different. And I think when I shifted over
31:20
and went and came to you and I'll be I
31:22
remember seeing Casey and I remember seeing like all these
31:24
Filipinos and I just was not.
31:25
Speaker 4: Used to it.
31:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:26
Speaker 4: I remember walking in and being the only like tan
31:29
brown person in like the room.
31:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, any Asian anything into a room and reno and
31:33
then they like they they wouldn't understand that.
31:36
Speaker 4: I was Filipino and they'd be like, oh you Korean, and.
31:38
Speaker 9: I'm like what.
31:43
Speaker 3: But it's it's it's definitely like a cultural It's great
31:45
because in Vegas at least you would be.
31:47
Speaker 4: It's so divert it's so diverse program it's diversity.
31:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was it's weird. So it's cool to
31:53
come into a community like this that is Filipino. I
31:57
was like, oh my god, Philippine.
31:59
Speaker 4: They're not just family, and then that casey.
32:04
Speaker 6: What I love about being being Filipino. It's also how
32:08
I celebrate being Filipino. I just feel like a lot
32:11
of us just live very unapologetically and love unapologetically.
32:16
Speaker 7: And as long as I follow that, like.
32:18
Speaker 2: I feel like that's you celebrate your culture.
32:21
Speaker 6: You make as many like connections as you can with
32:24
people around you who are both inside and outside of
32:26
your culture just by sticking to that, and I think
32:29
it works really well.
32:30
Speaker 4: Like yeah, I love yeah.
32:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always like people are always telling growing up.
32:35
Speaker 11: People always be like, you're so you're too nice, You're
32:37
too nice, You're.
32:37
Speaker 4: Too nice all the time, and I'm like, I love,
32:39
it's just too loud.
32:40
Speaker 7: It's just.
32:43
Speaker 9: We are people pleasing.
32:47
Speaker 4: But yeah, we're all healthcare that's how you know. But
32:50
like the car, the effort to.
32:53
Speaker 2: Be nice is so much easier than the effort to
32:55
be me. That's why we are the way we are
32:58
because we like to see.
32:59
Speaker 4: People happy recently, it's just as simple as that. Completely agree.
33:04
Speaker 2: Well, that concludes today's interview.
33:07
Speaker 11: Do you guys have any you.
33:08
Speaker 2: Know, last words of encouragement or even if you want
33:12
to plug the PET club for upcoming members that or
33:17
maybe upcoming students that are applying into the PET program
33:20
maybe if they want to.
33:21
Speaker 3: Join, well if anyone is applying for physical therapy. You know,
33:26
v is an amazing school, right, I'm biased, but we
33:31
are huge on diversity. I mean we have this amazing
33:33
club and so many others. We have a diversity, Equity
33:36
and Inclusion Club, so we cantile.
33:42
Speaker 9: There's also other clubs.
33:43
Speaker 8: Too that like started from students as well, really Spanish club,
33:49
per club, club, Sports sports club. Yeah, it's all like
33:53
student ran. Everyone has like a faculty advisor.
33:57
Speaker 11: But we can even give out or where can they.
34:03
I know you guys have Instagram.
34:05
Speaker 4: We do have Instagram.
34:07
Speaker 10: Bring that, uh, secretary, it is a you know, VPT
34:13
phil M Club.
34:14
Speaker 11: On Instagram, and then maybe just message there.
34:18
Speaker 3: If anybody wants or is interested in applying to Physical
34:23
Therapy School, you can always contact there.
34:25
Speaker 4: And then if you need help with shadowing, networking or
34:28
anything like that.
34:30
Speaker 3: I mean there's a bunch of outpatient locations and clinics,
34:34
not just outpatient but in patient that we can probably
34:37
connect you with.
34:38
Speaker 4: Sure, we do a lot of mentorship.
34:40
Speaker 9: Remember you don't have to be Filippine.
34:42
Speaker 10: You do not have to be.
34:46
Speaker 4: Yes, I love that.
34:47
Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much again for joining us. Casey,
34:50
you have any sorry, I don't want to cut you off. Alrighty,
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that is it for today's episode. Thank you again to
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the students and the board directors of the un V
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Physical Therapy phil M Club. My name is Sarah mel.
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Thank you for joining us again. If you have any recommendations,
35:10
fellow business owners, community leaders, new businesses, restaurants, stuff like
35:14
that that you want to be featured on this show,
35:17
please reach out to me at Sarah Malfay on Instagram.
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I would love to have new guests here. Thank you
35:23
and we will see you next Thursday.
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Speaker 5: Bye.
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