The P.t. Entrepreneur Podcast

This week, I finally got to sit down with my buddy Doug Kechijian. You might remember him from some heated Twitter debates back in the day, but today we dive deep into his awesome story. Doug's a cofounder of Resilient Performance Physical Therapy up in New York City, but he's currently riding out the pandemic storm in Massachusetts. We get into his unique background going from pre med to joining the Air Force as a Pararescueman (PJ), which is some seriously intense special operations stuff focused on medical and rescue. Doug shares how that experience, dealing with high stress situations and learning diverse skills under pressure, shaped his path to PT school and eventually starting his own cash based practice. We talk about the lessons learned from the military like the value of practical application, standard operating procedures, controlling the controllables, and the importance of having solid partners. Plus, Doug gives his take on the current state of PT education and ConEd, and what Resilient Performan