03/22/2026
Chapter 40 🥳🍾
My 30th birthday was one of the worst days of my life. If I could write a letter to my younger self it would be to let him know that it’s all going to be ok. The hard work you put in for all the previous years are going to pay off and all your goals, hopes, and dreams are going to come true. It’s not going to be easy. It’s not going to be linear in fashion. In fact there’s going to be lots of ups and downs, long droughts between wins , but with each failure you will be one step closer to what we set out to do.
I feel very proud of the accomplishments I have achieved, I finished my doctorate and received an award at graduation, I accomplished my goals at EXOS, even though they didn’t fully play out the way I would have liked. I opened my own practice that went from a 1 room office inside a CrossFit, to large facility in a different CrossFit that ultimately failed, to a tiny room in an old gym. To those who became patients during those times and stuck with me, thank you for trusting me even though my treatment room barely fit a desk and a table. I then placed the ultimate bet on myself deciding to put all my chips on the table everything I owned and expanded creating a stand alone clinic where I would no longer be tied to anyone else, but any failures would be completely on me with no one else to blame.
We have now expanded twice, hitting revenue goals we didn’t think possible, we didn’t get many days off in our 20s, in fact we only took one whole weeks off total after finishing undergrad. We don’t have any student loans, in fact we don’t have any loans- except a mortgage we just took out last year, better late than never. For the kid who sat in the back row of the class throughout grad school, often taking naps because we slept 4-5 hours a night for 3 plus years you go back to Palmer to teach. Starting with lecturing one class in your first quarter, to being asked to do multiple labs and ultimately taking on the entire physical therapy department and helping to lead the school to a nation high pass rate on the physiotherapy board exam 99% pass rate.
But, the journey isn’t over, the hard work continues, and never stop learning and growing.
