When I look back at 2023, I think one of the biggest lessons that I learned is that sometimes some of the biggest challenges bring the most unanticipated surprises and positive blessings in your life and what looked like a negative. We really were able to turn into a positive for our family, for me, and for our business. And to be sitting here right now is really quite surreal. And to be able to be talking with you guys about where we’re at now, it’s been. Several months of hard work, reflection, hard decisions. But to be here now, it just feels really good to be in our own space. I had this dream to have my own practice, um, many years ago, for so many years, really as a young clinician, and to be sitting here now in practice, almost 25 years in this space where we’re about to open up our own facility, it feels really good because. I know that we’re gonna be able to serve our clients so well and build something really awesome and amazing here for our staff and for our clients and for our community. I feel like this was meant to be, and I feel like this is. A true testament of what faith and hard work and perseverance can really bring in your life.

Welcome to the PT Rebels Podcast.

This is the place to learn how you can become a PT rebel and take charge of your own health and wellness. We will help you find answers to your questions about pain, injury, and the path towards healing in the most efficient and effective way possible.

I’m your host, Dr. Gina Fick.

Welcome to the podcast everyone. Gina Fick here, owner and physical therapist at Fit PT and Performance. It’s been an amazing year, 2023, brought a lot of challenges, but equally and more, many blessings, and so we’re so blessed to be sitting in our new facility right now. We’re going to be opening in just a few days. When I look back at 2023, I think one of the biggest lessons that I learned is that sometimes some of the biggest challenges bring the most unanticipated surprises and positive blessings in your life and what looked like negative. We really were able to turn into a positive for our family, for me, and for our business. And to be sitting here right now is really quite surreal. And to be able to be talking with you guys about where we’re at now, it’s been, um, several months of hard work, reflection, hard decisions, but to be here now, it just feels really good to be in our own space. I had this dream to have my own practice, um, many years ago, for so many years, really as a young clinician and to be sitting here now in practice, almost 25 years in this space where we’re about to open up. Our own facility. It feels really good because I know that we’re gonna be able to serve our clients so well and build something really awesome and amazing here for our staff and for our clients and for our community. I feel like this was meant to be, and I feel like this is a true testament of what faith and hard work and perseverance can really bring in your life going into 2024. One of the things I really wanted to share and reflect with you guys on is just what we’re gonna be doing in our new space, what we’re gonna be doing in the podcast as well. With our podcast, we’re gonna be going into a more structured and newer format in that we’re going to be doing interviews with clients and maybe some live interviews, which will be fun. I’ll be doing interviews with physical therapists and experts in our field. I’ll be targeting really unique stories from clients in order for you to be able to relate and understand. How you can also benefit from physical therapy and this one-on-one care that we are able to provide here at fi, physical therapy and sports performance moving forward. We’re just really excited with what the podcast can bring in terms of outreach. We just hired another physical therapist, which we’re really excited to announce here in a few weeks. That physical therapist was able to share with me that he first found out about us. Through the podcast when he told me that he had been listening to the podcast and it really resonated with him, and this is the type of practice he wanted to work in, I thought, you know what? If nothing else, this was all worth it. This year of doing the podcast and really learning and growing and learning how to do a podcast and how to talk to yourself and a WT hotel room on a computer or in this format, it was all worth it because I was able to bring in a rockstar staff member who. Understood what we were all about and the clients that we serve and the message that we are trying to reach and put out there in the community, he was able to resonate with that. And so I think that really hit home and really touched my heart that he was able to have that avenue to be able to listen. And we have that platform to be able to share what we’re doing here at Fit PTM performance. And so that’s what it’s all about. You can get a word of mouth referral, which is awesome. But some of our clients just search up where can I get dry needling? Or who’s the best physical therapist in Highlands Ranch? Or what can a sports PT offer? And when they land on our a landing page on our website, that’s all they really have. But once they’re able to connect maybe through the podcast that can really learn more about what we’re doing and what we’re all about. And that’s one of the visions for the podcast. So we’re super excited about that and to share that and to continue that moment. So moving forward in 2024 with some of the really cool and exciting ideas that we have for the podcast in terms of our clinic, the sky’s the limit. I think. Um, I’ve learned a lot in business in the last few years, and I think one of the things I learned is that you’re only as good as your staff members and your team behind you. I think. Up to this point in business, I’ve tried to do a lot myself, and I realized two years ago probably really strongly that I couldn’t do this by myself. I’ve been able to surround myself with people who are a lot smarter than I am in business and take their advice. I’ve been able to partner with some really key partners who will help support our practice and business. I’ve been able to really understand the importance of me taking a step back from doing everything in the business so that I can work on the business. And so we have Casey Miller, our operations manager. He’s playing a key and integral role in helping organize things behind the scenes for us. We have Nick Gona. He is also a client success coordinator, but he is going to be heading up our stretch program and our strength and condition services. One of the things that we want to highlight in the new year, not only our stretch program, but our active recovery athletes have been giving us some really positive feedback and coaches as well, just in that their athletes find that it’s so valuable to attend our active recovery class once a week. So we’ll be resuming that here in the next week or two for our athletes. And we also wanna add. And some recovery classes for active adults. We’ll be doing some morning and daytime classes as well. Moms, if you drop off your kids in the morning to school and go grab your Starbucks and head over and grab a few friends, I think we could have some fun and build that community that I’m talking about. And also, you would just get the benefits from having a nice light strength training and active recovery session once a week in addition to. The stretch and active recovery will offer one-on-one and group and small group training in terms of strengthening conditioning. So that will be aside from our physical therapy services that we provide as well. In the past, we’ve bundled in everything into just that one PT visit. But now if you want to continue in a wellness program where you reached your. Goals in terms of your physical therapy plan and you wanna continue training with us and you can continue training us with us right here. You don’t have to go anywhere else, which I think is a really nice benefit. We’ve had a lot of patients asking for that. We just didn’t have the space and the opportunity to do that. So moving into the new year, that’s one thing that we wanna provide as well. We are looking at some new, exciting partnerships for 2024, so stay tuned with that. We look to continue our outreach opportunities and be involved in the community as much as possible. So if you know of an event that you would like for us to be at, or if you know of an opportunity for us, please reach out. We’re always looking for new and exciting opportunities to grow and expand as well. Also, with that being said, if you have any friends or family that you know would really benefit from our services, word of mouth referral is the best way to really receive referrals in our practice. We have the best clients. We have the absolute best patients in Colorado, maybe in the country. I think that we have some of the most loyal and dedicated, active adults and individuals and athletes that I’ve ever met. So it’s an honor and a privilege to be able to continue to serve you. And if you have ideas of programming or things that you want us to add, please reach out. Shoot me an email, a text, a phone call. I’m pretty easy to get ahold of. Just let us know your thoughts, let us know your ideas, and we’ll try to provide a class or an opportunity for you. So thank you again for trusting us with your care. Um, thank you for your loyalty. Thank you for your referrals, and thank you for listening to this podcast. Um, we have just under 900 listeners so far on the podcast. And we look to double that in this next year. Share the podcast with your friends, your teammates, your coaches. I think you’ll find some valuable information on there. And if there’s someone that you want us to host on the podcast, please let us know. And if that’s yourself, please reach out to me and let’s just grow together. I can’t wait to see what we can all accomplish. Happy New Year to everyone.