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PelviCon: Disrupting the Field of Pelvic Health · Pelvic PT Rising

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  Speaker 1: In the last 10 years, our field has gone from an unknown specialty to a household name.
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  Speaker 1: This brings unprecedented opportunities, but we need to rise up to meet them and give our patients the care that they deserve.
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  Speaker 1: In order to help others get better, we need to be better.
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  Speaker 1: This podcast will help you to become more confident with your patients, more successful in your practice or business and a leader in pelvic health, and we're going to have some fun along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Join us as we rise together.
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  Speaker 1: We're Jesse and Nicole Cozine, founders of Pelvic Sanity Physical Therapy and the creators of the Pelvic PT Huddle, and this is Pelvic PT Rising.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Pelvic PT Rising podcast with Jesse and Nicole Cozine.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, nicole, hello, so excited to have Jessica and Andrea out on the podcast today, our partners in Pelvicon crime Guys.
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: It is Labor Day.
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  Speaker 2: We are a couple of days away from Pelvicon 2023, when this drops.
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  Speaker 2: I could not be more excited and I'm really glad to have you guys on Want to just talk a little bit about Pelvicon, what it's going to be like, why we're doing it.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: So let me start with that.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole, jess, why Pelvicon?
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Gosh, pelvicon is, I think, truly something that is so incredibly special to all of us, but to Nicole and I especially, because it is such a deep passion project for us.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Both of us feel so deeply that there were key things that were really missing in our field and in our specialty, that we were looking around us and seeing this amazing growth in Pelvic Rehab.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Yet, despite all of that growth, it felt like everyone was kind of siloed out, people weren't coming together, and I think that that is one of the really beautiful things about Pelvicon is that it is bringing people together.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: It is building community.
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  Speaker 1: I remember last year we had feedback from people that this was their first time ever being in a room with another Pelvic Rehab provider and I mean that is it was one of those that gave me goosebumps because, gosh, it is so hard to grow as a clinician when you don't have other clinicians around you who are challenging your thinking, who we learn from.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I go out to dinner with another Pelvic Rehab provider and I leave with a different treatment tool, and so I think there's so much power for that and I feel like it really filled a need to be that community, to challenge practice and really help people grow.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: What do you think, nicole?
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head when you talked about we are in this major growth phase and we're still in some ways a little bit past the infancy phase.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're in like the tweens, teeny-bopper kind of place of Pelvic Health and then that's growing.
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  Speaker 1: And then we kind of hit a roadblock with COVID with really fracturing like how people were getting educated, how people were getting into Pelvic Health.
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  Speaker 1: That was a time of a huge healthcare burnout overall.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: Much less, you know, not even to mention the stuff.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: That burnout happens in our field quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: And so I just feel like that COVID was a roadblock for a little bit of growth.
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  Speaker 1: And now PelvicCon is so special because it was one of the first in-person things back after that and I think that now we can use that momentum that we had last year to just make it so special for all Pelvic Health providers and to be just being in the room with people.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: You know we forgot kind of how amazing that was, and now we had a taste of it last year and now it's like, oh, it's freaking on, like let's roll with this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: You know it reminds me too of how you guys create things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the conference that you guys wish had existed, because you guys had been to other.
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  Speaker 2: You know I tagged along with Nicole to IPPS and I know you guys have been to CSM and some of these other things.
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  Speaker 2: And there is something unique about PelvicCon because it is both buy-and-for PelvicRehab the first conference that's ever done that because it's not someone who is a physician presenting research on a surgical technique and I know you know you guys, as PelvicRehab providers, like to nerd out.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: And when I went to IPPS, nicole would still come back to the hotel room afterwards and be breathlessly reporting to me the results of this like vestibulodinia surgery technique, and I was like how is that going to change anything though, tomorrow?
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: And she's like I don't know, but it's so cool.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: Like, but everyone who's coming and everyone who teaches here is a clinician has a practice.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: Like it's intensely practical and by design.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Andrew, I feel like you probably had that similar experience.
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  Speaker 1: You know when could you've been to CSM, but someone outside of the field?
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: Did you have that same experience as Jesse, or do you feel like there's something different?
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  Speaker 3: 100%.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we've been to CSM the past couple of years and you know you sit in these seminars and stuff and it's All these ideas and stuff but it's not practical stuff, right, like you, you go back to your clinic, wherever you're treating patients, and Nine times out of ten the stuff that you learn there any you can't implement starting on monday, right, but a pelbican I think the biggest feedback we get and we got from this past year of all of our participants they took away functional, actual pieces of knowledge that they can implement.
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: When they left on saturday or on sunday from pelbican boom monday morning there in the office, there in their clinic, treating patients, changing lives by the techniques and the protocols and all the new stuff that we showed them and taught them how to do and how to implement in their practices.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I will say this one thing we are gonna be just can.
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  Speaker 1: I are speaking of csm next February, and it will be practical as well World class but you know, I think that it's one of those things to that it is very intentional that pelbican is that way.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: You know it's not we have amazing speakers, but it's something we really encourage and push the speakers towards it making sure that participants can leave their talks with really key Take a ways, key action items so that they actually have these next steps for what they're gonna do when they get back to the clinic.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: Because we didn't want participants to have the experience of a I go to this incredible event but then I get home and nothing really changes in my clinical practice.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: What I think you are such a good word with that to just cuz.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things that we actually do really really well as a and kind of goes into the level of detail that it takes to put on an event like this.
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  Speaker 2: But If there is something, we're gonna kind of pull back the curtain a little bit, let you guys know a little bit more about some of the planning stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But Every little detail has to be so intentional.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we talk about the importance of community and getting to know each other.
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  Speaker 2: Well, everyone says that.
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  Speaker 2: But then we said, well, if we're gonna run pelbican and that's something that's a core value, that's really important.
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  Speaker 2: We can't just end the conference and have a bunch of great information that everybody disperses to their hotel rooms, like we have to create opportunity for people to connect.
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  Speaker 2: There's three different happy hours, there's two breakfast, there's Different lunch options for people to have.
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  Speaker 2: That's all by design because it's if we really believe the community aspect is so important.
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  Speaker 2: You know we can't leave that chance and just hope people happen to run into each other at the hotel bar later that night.
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  Speaker 1: I completely read.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: This year we are using this awesome app For pelbican attendees and it's really cool to even see it now, as people are getting ready to come to the event, how these connections are already happening, that people are Building plans for dinner together, even sharing rise the airport, and it just makes my heart so happy to see them already seeking these opportunities to connect and I think it's going to, with all those events you mentioned, jesse is art.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: These other pieces to are just gonna continue to build these deeper relationships, help them find that community and ultimately lead to better clinicians and better practices and better all of us and better patients, better patient care absolutely, and so you know, I think, about some of the other things that we were really intentional about.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: I thought this was a really funny one because, as being somebody who's An outsider to the field, you know, andrew and I are both in that that kind of category, although we're pretty deeply in meshed in public sanity and southern public health Respectively.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: But I did not realize how important having a full color printed manual would be to all of you public rehab nerds.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because here's the thing it's kind of bullshit sometimes when, when you have to download that stuff and that's not how I learned like I learned by writing in a piece of paper and I don't know about any of you and like the we're having the slides there that I can see that it's exactly what it was up there on on the big monitor, and like I need to like have that physical copy.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm a little old school that way.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: I see some of my staff members don't have that big of a Problem sometimes, but I love that and I that is one of the biggest pieces of feedback that we got last year.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: That's like where did we go so wrong?
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Where having a printed manual now is like so crazy.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: Someone, like people were already in our app about oh my gosh, I can't believe it's printed and it's in color.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Wow, it's like, yeah, that's how it used to be.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: Can you still look through those?
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: I still look back through all of my stuff like that.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: That's supposed to be a reference point, it's supposed to be as important as a textbook, as a reference in your clinic.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Like I'm sorry, but it downloadable pdf version of that doesn't work.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: 100% agree.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: I mean I have horses from years ago that I will go back and find and look back through my notes that I took.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is I have done the PDF thing and tried to take notes online and it is so much harder for me to go back and look through and find what I was looking for and all that.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: So I'm the same as you.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm one of those people that when I get the PDF I end up having to connect with somewhere local to print it and print it and bind it myself, which just increases my work and my time and my cost and everything like that.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: So I love our manual so much.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: So the next thing I wanted to just bring up and I want to talk to you guys about the speakers, because I mean, talk about the highlights of Pelvicon, like that it's getting the leaders, the people in Pelvicol, people who are doing it, who are out there teaching, who have amazing courses.
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: But I know just you and Nicole are so deliberate about who you invite to speak at Pelvicon.
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  Speaker 2: I mean this is not like a casting call where submit your resumes.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: I mean this is so deliberately chosen and I know it's not just about the speaker and their ability and, honestly, if you've never spoken in front of 600 people, that's a whole different beast.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: Like that'll get your knees knocking.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly does mine.
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  Speaker 2: But not only that, but you guys are.
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  Speaker 2: So again I go back to that word intentional about making sure that you're bringing in speakers who can speak to such a broad area of Pelvic health, people who are trailblazers, who have pushed the field forward.
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: Can you guys talk a little bit about that, because there's something for everybody and I feel like Pelvicon.
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  Speaker 2: One of the amazing things, whether you're in person or you have the recording, is that it showcases the true breadth of this specialty, which is so much more than it was 30 years ago helping people recover and not be incontinent after childbirth.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, jessica and I spend hours talking hours, just literal hours, talking about not only the topics that we want to cover, but who is the best to speak at that?
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: Who can we call on?
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  Speaker 1: Who can make the trip?
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: All of that stuff is something that we plan out at Nauseam, I mean.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: We were just so many late nights of thinking about especially this year was like, well, we had this topic last year.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: How do we have a similar topic but not the same?
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: And who do we pick for that and all that stuff?
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  Speaker 1: And then it's like a big gamble when you call and make your ask that they even say yes sometimes it's back to the drawing board if a schedule conflicts or something like that.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: So I just feel like Jessica and I are just so intentional about the curating, the experience from a clinical aspect for you all that are going to be at Pelvicon and also viewing the recording, I think that it's just something that we're really passionate about.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that we wished we would have had when we were first starting out and stuff like that.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's just like a really intentional piece that we've that we take really really, really seriously 100%, and I think that we strive so much to make sure that what we're the content that we are bringing, the people that we are bringing truly do represent the breadth of what we do as a field, the breadth of who we are as pelvic rehab providers and the patients that we serve, and it's something we're constantly reevaluating.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, even Nicole and I were meeting today or a few days ago talking about something else related to this year, and it led to opening a document and making some notes about some stuff for next year and about what we're thinking with certain speakers and different things, and so it really is a very, very intentional and thought out process that we are constantly striving to improve on and do better and to really bring a unique experience to the attendees at Pelican, and keeping our finger on the pulse of what's happening in the field too, because I think that some of the reasons why we're having someone like Manera come and talk about diastasis and abdominal plastic, like that's something that I feel like we're very much in this transition phase of what we used to think about that when are we kind of now?
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: People are confused.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what we're saying to patients.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: We don't know what the research says.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: There's emerging research every day that's different and then who are we going to pick that understands where we were, understands where we currently are, understands where we need to go for that one topic and Michelle Lyons is in that same category Sarah Reardon, all of the people that we have chosen for this year really understand past, present and future of the topics that they're speaking about and that, I think, is what makes Pelican so so special for that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Well, and it sounds like Jessica just dropped a little bit of news on the podcast.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: We love breaking news here.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: It does sound like there will be a Pelican 2024.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's out of the bag.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Anybody that listens to this podcast you better freaking know that we wouldn't just do 2022, 2023.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: We have to do 2024.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did the Lakers win two championships in a row and then just quit?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: No all back for the three-peat.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: So there will be some news about that coming out.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: But I wanted to kind of use this podcast as well to peel back a little bit of the curtain and reveal all of the different things there as much as we can in this short time, all of the things that go on behind the scenes to make this event run.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: And I was just absolutely shocked when we did this the first time of just how many decisions, how many things have to be done.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: So I kind of wanted to go around for everybody on the call.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And Andrew, you are our event guru.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You've done this professionally before coming to Pelican.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: You keep us all organized, you keep us all accountable.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: But I mean it might start with you.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Just what's something that would surprise people if they knew about the behind the scenes aspect of running Pelican, if they could see all the stuff that we're doing?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: What do you think would surprise our attendees?
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Man, so many things, Jesse, so many things, I would say.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Probably the first thing I think that sticks out to me is just our liability with the contracts that we legally sign with vendors, with hotels, with food and beverage, with all the other vendors that we purchase things from.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: We are bound by these contracts that whether we have one person or 625 people coming, we have to pay that money.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: And so a great example is when we sign our hotel contract we're on the hook for a high six-figure number, whether one person comes or 625.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: And that's a huge risk to all four of us.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: We take that calculated risk on because we are committed to putting on the best pelvic health conference in the country and that's what's near and dear to our heart.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of folks obviously come to Pelican and they see it finished, right, they see the finished product and the manuals and the swag bags and all the glitz and glamour.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: What they don't see is all the contracts and all the stuff behind the scenes and making the swag bags and all the things.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing folks don't realize, especially with hotels and our other contracts, is that these are big commitments that we are kind of jumping off the deep end to make.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: So that's probably the biggest thing that sticks out to me.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a huge conversation with Nicole and I before we decided to kind of do Pelican.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: The first year was do?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: We feel like this project is important enough that we would do it if we weren't gonna make a dime on it, because that's the level of commitment we had to have and the risk that we take on with doing it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And then the other thing, andrew, that you said that I just want to follow up on, I mean the swag bags, like we I think we, the royal, we, andrew, you and Jess the real household becomes.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I mean it's a warehouse.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: It's literally a warehouse, andrew, for like If you guys have ever.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's still on TV, but they used to have a show, I think, on TLC it's called hoarders right, our house.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Like we could be on that show and it's fine, it's not complaining, especially this year.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: We love it, wouldn't have it any other damn way.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: We love what we're doing, all four of us.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, we are garage.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: We haven't.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: We haven't parked in our garage for about four months.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Tv room, then living room, it's all packed with boxes and it's awesome because we love doing this like this is what we do.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: This is exciting to us.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: This is not a burden to us.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: We do this because we know the smiles on the faces are coming and they're coming with six hundred and twenty five of their friends next Thursday, friday, saturday and Sunday and it's all going to be worth it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: It's definitely exciting.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: But yes, there are boxes, hundreds of thousands of boxes, just endless boxes everywhere.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: But it's all good and it's great.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Some stuff even came on a freaking palette this year.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: For the first time there's no way man, there was definitely a threshold between like four hundred, which we had last year, and this like six twenty five is like yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: It's like a lot more, lot more folks that are here.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: It's a game changer and I would say you know you've made it.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: When FedEx calls you on your cell phone yes, this, andrew Riel.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who is this?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is FedEx freight.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Are you gonna be home next week?
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I've got a pallet, two pallets of boxes.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I'm dropping off your house and I need you to sign for him.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, pallets of boxes.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: It's exciting.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Even just a funny story that illustrates that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: You know, last year we brought some snacks in for the attendees and you guys just ran down To Costco your local Costco and picked them up.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: And you know, this year you guys called us.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: We're like are you guys OK, if we just have those shipped to the house, it's going to be twenty six boxes.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Of snacks and it would take us like four trips in both of our SUVs to pick them up.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: And we're like whoa, that escalated quickly.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was twenty six boxes of one of the snacks.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Right, it was a total of, I think, fifty boxes that are coming, that are arriving tomorrow to a salty goodness.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: It's crazy, crazy Good.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So what about?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: There's, what's something that you think that our attendees would just be a little bit shocked to know if we pull back the curtain for them.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for me is just the level of detail and the level of thought that goes into making Pelvicon the seamless experience that we really want for everyone who is attending.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: If you saw our shared Google Drive, like the twenty twenty three folder has, or the twenty yeah, has well over twenty five folders in it that are full of like countless documents and spreadsheets and All sorts of different things, and I think those are the different pieces there's.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: There's just so much that has to be thought out and the details that go into it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, we have a big script that kind of covers every little second of the weekend and it's all very, very thought out in again, a super intentional way to to make sure that the experience for all the clinicians coming is seamless, is positive, where they don't notice all the little details.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: They just noticed that they're having a great time.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm going to say one thing that most people would be surprised to know too is that I get really nervous, like I.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's six hundred twenty five people when you're standing on that stage.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: That is a lot of people, and there are thousands of people that listen to this podcast, but I can't see all of you, it's like nice.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at Jessica and Andrew, that's it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: But, man, when you're up there, six hundred and twenty five people that are carrying what you have to say is a big freaking deal, and so I think people would be surprised to know that that doesn't come just because we're used to doing.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily come super easy for us, at least for me.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I'll speak for myself.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, ann, no.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Can you get that too, jess?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean Nicole and I were talking just the other day and I was like have you actually spoken to a group of 625 pelvic rehab providers in the past?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And then both of us were like I don't think so.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I mean it's a big number.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I mean it's definitely up there, and I think that it's something where I think both of us feel the responsibility of it primarily just because we just want it to be so awesome for you all.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: We totally care.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I mean we really care deeply about wanting it to be like a great experience and seamless and nothing goes wrong and everybody picks up what we're putting down and we're talking, and everyone loves the speakers and we just really care.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: So I hope, for myself, anyways, that I go back to my basketball days where I was always so nervous right before if I was the one the center referee throwing up the ball that I got so nervous until that the toss was up and I was like, all right, now it's on, and so I hope that I get that same level of that same rush of adrenaline that's like, okay, here we go, pelvicons rolling.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: In those games, though, people boo you all the time, right.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people do so.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: If you guys have a bad experience and you want to boo me, I'm not going to care.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I'm trained for that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, I might care, don't boo us.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Please don't.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: But yes, and so I hope this has been helpful for you guys.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I think one of the things that I think will also be surprising is just how many of our team members kind of chip in to make this happen on the day of.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: You know it's mostly the four of us through the course of the year.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: But, man, our whole staff for both Pelvic Sandy flies out from California, southern Pelvic Health comes in and are going to be there to help run registration, to help make things run smoothly, to make just everything, all the details on the day of happen, and that's in conjunction with the four of us.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: That's in conjunction with there's a whole audio visual team that we bring in so that everybody can make sure to be able to see the speakers.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: We have the big cameras and the big projectors on the side and that the music runs smoothly.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: All of that's different stuff, the hotel staff stepping in to help with that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a team production on the day of, and I think people would be a little bit surprised to see all of us scurrying around at six in the morning before the doors open to be able to get all that ready to go.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll just even say one so another shout out to Southern Pelvic Health and Pelvic Sanity team members for helping us out, but also to our patients, because our clothes are closed on one of those days too, which is a big impact to them and their care.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: But I don't know about you, jess, but you know we usually we talk to all of our patients about that and stuff, and we've heard some feedback that we're like oh, they're so glad that we're running this stuff to educate so many other Pelvic Health rehab providers because it's such an underserved area still.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: And I feel like that's another thing that just we're really proud of and that we're really thankful for our teams for helping us out with this stuff, 100%.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're grateful too for our team and our patients for understanding and being excited.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, since it's in Atlanta, we've had some patients that are like, do you think that we can sneak in and see what's going on in the back?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, you're not, but it is cool.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I think they're excited because so many of them have had to advocate for themselves so much and it's nice to feel like the field is moving forward and so many of them are grateful that that all it means is better care for more patients, and that's our ultimate mission.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's no better way to wrap it up than that, Jess, because this is obviously having that impact that you and Nicole imagined.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: You know, 625 folks are going to be there in person, Almost another 400 are going to be listening by a recording which you guys can find on the Pelvic on website, but man, a thousand.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: We're going to be reaching at least 1000 people this year and I am so excited about that and I don't think we had any idea that this was going to be this kind of thing when we were sitting around several years ago thinking of what this could be.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just so proud of what we've done.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I'm so proud of this partnership, so proud of Andrew, jessica, all the stuff that you guys have done to make this just as successful it is.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: And I know you guys bear the lion's share of stuff as we get close to the event and, andrew, you're basically living at that hotel for a couple of months beforehand, back and forth with the U-Hauls and all this stuff.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: So we just appreciate it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: But it's all good man, and it is all worth it, and we just can't wait to see everybody next week.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: It's going to be awesome.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's going to be great.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So if you are coming, make sure this is going to be the last podcast beforehand.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: We are going to take a break on Thursday because we are going to be at this time doing a happy hour, probably early registration, happy hour, all that stuff.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: But if you are coming, make sure that you are ready to bring the energy, to bring the noise, to make connections, to make friends, to just make this event as great as it can be.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: And that comes down to us and our planning, but that also comes down to you and just being an incredible audience and bringing all of that energy, making sure that we make this event absolutely incredible.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: We want this to be a point of inflection in each of your careers.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: So, guys, thank you so much for being on with us.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: If you're going to meet us in Povicon, we're excited to see you all there.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: As always, we want to keep this conversation going and let's continue to rise.