it's been. It's been a long journey to my to get involved in the 501 C through space and nonprofit space. I worked for the organization, moved together. We're based out of Atlanta. That's what we're still about home offices. But we do work all around the world in Guatemala and then projects Guatemala primarily. But we have some programs that have projects 50 to 60 countries around the world. I would say an important part for me was my faith, you know? You know the idea of service and servant leadership. Specifically, I went to a university called the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania and their Jesuit university and the Jesuits. Uh, they talked a lot about being men and women for others. And the founders of the Jesuits was a guy named ST Ignatius Loyola and he had a coat from the first time I had heard. It just blew me away and just let something within me and the quote Waas go set the world on fire goes that the world of like, You know what? I really took that to heart and starting. It's granted in Pennsylvania, started source projects and service works and formulating how I thought I might getting the space, not just while I was a university, but also as a professional. And I started asking questions about what does sustainability actually mean? What does responsibility actually mean? What does collaboration and respect actually mean? And through a through a journey is a new professional. I worked for a company in Chicago, larger outpatient practice and which I was given the directive to start International service program. You know which my colleagues from around the country will work with different nonprofit organizations with different missions of different parts around the world. And I really want the journey of, ah, really thinking and learning about how we might serve both near and far and what I would dio I would go to these projects with different nonprofit organizations, and I would spend a lot of time with the founders of the organization, you know, watching how they did what they did and think to myself. This is what I would do similar. This is what I will do differently and getting a sense of how patient the mission when drove them, you know, I Dorado. I still had questions, and the first phase of my learning was over the course of several years, the first phase of my learning. We'd go to a place in a project and will serve. And I started asking myself, How might we have an impact on some of these sort of overseas projects and service projects? You know, in a short amount of time, you know, and I had some experience that really showed me how we might have an impact in a short amount of time. There's one antidote. Specifically, I waas in Guatemala, a local rural town in Guatemala's a cop of Guatemala, and I was with some other physicians and nurses. I'm a doctor, physical therapy myself. And I think we're doing so. We're doing a set up clinic in which different people from around the town were coming in to get care and we're treating throughout the day, and I won't forget this. This one young mother, you know, walked up to my station. So this week, different health care clinicians at different stations. This one young mother walked up to my station with her young kids and I could just see this pain and anguish on her face. And she was coming right at me. I think she had heard from me from her sister or something like that. And she won't come right up to me. She uses my name at this time, forces my first name and in Spanish you communicate. See Phosa. Can you help me? You know, A couple of weeks ago I banged up my arm Ah, bid and now it's limited in 90 degrees, a range of motion. And it's affecting how I dance with my husband. How I play with my kids is affecting my capacity in my ability that we work. And I said Yes, let's take a deep breath and let's do what we could do. So her shoulder was limited and 90 degrees a range of motion And then, after 60 minutes, spending with their working on some joint mobilization soft tissue work. Nor must Gloria possible retraining show that I came to 90 degrees. A range of motion was now at 180 degrees, a range of motion and there were hugs there. There were some tears and some smiles, and in that collaboration in that space that we shared together and, uh, I spent most couples hours and days thinking about her, and I thought in that space that we were able to able to share together, What does that mean? What might that mean? And I said to myself, due to the fact that we were able to increase her range of motion, we just increase their functional capacity, you know. Now she could return to dancing with her husband's airplane, with their kids returning to work by increasing their improving her function capacity. We just improved their family dynamics for some of the reasons, I just said, by improving her family, dynamics improved their ecosystem off friends and family that better ecosystems, a better community, better communities around the world is a better world. And then the hope is that was happening many times around the world from different angles from different serving leaders and people hoping to do good. So that was that first phase of learning that even in one touch point, we can indeed through the power touching present, have changed. And the second phase I started asking myself, What does it look like to really invest and engage in time relationships, not just going and leaving, but going and leaving something behind, So I started to do something pretty interesting. I started to go back to the same place over and over, you know, in in Guatemala the same time, same talents of his nature, building relationships, treating some of the same people and lone behold. What I was finding is that when I went back to these places, the techniques that we shared with the local clinicians were still being utilized. The patients that we treated, we're still feeling better. Theo equipment that we donated were still being used. So I said to myself, Yes, we can. Indeed, we can indeed have an impact on places if we start to think about the idea relationships in the continuum and that idea, that early idea that sometimes seems far away of sustainability. So that was 52 and then Phase three. I started thinking about what does it look like to really generate and build and co developed relationships and projects and missions for certain communities from the ground up, you know, and I went through a year or two when I started working on that, I've kinda baked it down to to a few things, and next I'll explain to you more specifically about about move together, you know. But when you're thinking about building a project, whether it's overseas or whether it's around your neighborhood, there's usually five things they think about. You know, that hits many of the areas. One is about the logistics. What are you doing? How you're doing. And what's the point of what's coming to vision? Yeah, going round and things of that nature. Three or security, You know, in safety, wherever you are from, your phone for is transferred. Four is lodging and five this food, you know. So I started cultivating my paradigm, or wherever I am, whether I'm in New York and Nicaragua, what are these five categories to assess and to lean into for a project, so to speak? Okay, so that was my journey a bit, uh, in at least, uh, £10 in a £5 bag, a little a rapid exploration in my journey, and along the way, I had great mentors. You know, I'm very important mentor for me. It was Dr Chris stepped. Hey, did one of these conversations as well, you know, And I learned so much from that man and then just tell you guys about moved together. There was a few years in between some of what I just shared during the founding of Move together. I did some traveling around the world that I went to 22 countries in eight months. And the idea of that trip was to create this montage and mosaic of health, health, care, of service, of different cultures and communities around the world to get a sense of some about similarities and some about differences and the beauties that lies within them. And I learned much. Yeah, you know, I learned the power of compassion. You know, the way I've come to shape, the idea of compassion is that as this recognition that we're all in this human journey together and some might say human struggle, you know, So it becomes important. What becomes about is the sharing of each other strength and the lessening of you took this loads. And furthermore, if you break down compassion to its first word passion, you know, it's a fundamentally means to suffer. You know, they thought about that were a little bit different in the past, but passion needs to suffer. You know what you think about the things that we suffer for the things that no matter what we wanna do and the way I think about that suffering is this place of pain and possibility, and thus compassion means to suffer with, you know, together in this place of pain and possible world in in different towns and different countries around the world. I saw that beautiful things were possible when we stepped into that place. So that's one thing I learned is I tried another thing I learned with the power of touch. You know, a lot of the places I travel. I was doing service work, much of it as I traveled, I was going to places that were in need, and I was trying to humbly, to the best of my ability trying toe, fulfill a need at places that were underserved and to the best of my ability. Trying to lean into the gap provides some services that could be helpful in the moment. In the moments that come, you know, and again, I learned a lot in that process and and lastly, I'll say the power of hospitality, the magic of hospitality. You know, so many of the places I went. People were so welcoming such a beautiful way. And there's other stories from that trip. Maybe I'll share later in this and this is chap. But that brings us to move together. And there's a story about how that was founded. It was after I came back from my from that travel, you know, I came home for a little bit. Maybe I'll say I got a little bit restless. You could imagine being on the move for eight months. 22 countries e came back the U. S. I got a little bit restless. I would say Take off E took off for six months and I went to Guatemala to dio some projects with some partners, Uh, some of the relations that developed and in between that for six weeks, issues in Mexico. And then between that six weeks, I took about a week with your brick. You know, I went to one of my favorite places in the world is a place called Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. It's a beautiful large lake, surrounded by old towns with descendants from the Mayan population for many years, or their color and their culture That is so rich. Uh, in in many ways. And it was just, uh, one day during this week of in between some of service work, uh, stand in this town and in this one white decide a take a walk dinner. It's a full moon out. And I walked in the street vendor and the street vendor was overlooking the lake, and I sit down. I ordered some food. You know, maybe chicken up. This rice is that I'm sitting down my body and as I'm sitting down my eating, uh ah. Father and his daughter that we're traveling Aziz Well, but from they work from Guatemala also came up to the street Vendor way started talking, and we started having conversations, you know, a very low level Spanish, you know, his his English was a little bit light, but his daughter spoke both. She was sort of guiding and helping us with our conversation. And there was a point in the conversation when they realized that I was a rehab commission when I was a physical therapist as a health care work going on. When they realized that they just lit up when I said to myself, I wish everybody lit up like that when they when they realized as the health care clinicians, you know, it was a few moments later that I realized why it wasn't just his father and daughter traveling together. They're always so traveling with the man's wife, the girl's mom and just about a week prior. The mom sort of twisted up her name very bad. It's since then she had been in a lot of pain and she had been veteran really couldn't move around and they asked they were traveling and know where to take, you know. So they were calling me again by my name. By this first time they go F osa, Do you mind coming to our hotel room? You know, Thio to see, to see my wife, to see my mom. And of course I said, of course, a walk up Well, a hotel from where we're eating. You proceed a walk up to relative with this hotel room and I ascended the mother, you know, a range of motion where she had information where she had impatiens and things that native nature I do a little bit treatment, you know, joint mobilizations and progressive exercise. How to transfer on that because you have really bad word and pain out of loading her legs, you know, So we should start weight shifting before standing before walking. That that natural progression on, I'm hopeful. I educated in the ways of how they could be independent in the management of the information, the payments and progressions. I think that's maybe the best thing I was. I was able to do all this hopefully and then I told them to look me up. You know where I was going to be next in Guatemala. But as we departed again, again, hugs and maybe some tears there as we departed it. And it's an interesting story to account, yes, but I couldn't move on from the interest of the story, I said to myself, This woman's daughter and husband had a randomly bump into me at night time at the lake at a street food vendor to have a health care clinicians, you know, touch your hurts and ask her where does it hurt and how it went and promised her. We're gonna do our best to figure out why. And I said to myself, That's the papal. That right there is the pain point and that might be a place that I could be part of the movement to lean into it. You know that we have care that is needed, and that led to the founding of the nonprofit. Right now I know leaving the name that nonprofit, I'll scare elimination with you guys on. Then we'll continue with questions, the name that nonprofits moved together. And then we like to say once you hear that name and what what it means and why it means you never un hear, you know, for us it starts with the word move and move together. Movement, movement, the way we talk about it is one of the oldest and closest commodities in our lives. You know, really guides the way we engage with the world and how the world engaged with us from the very, very beginning. You know how we dance, how we run, how we play, how we love how we live. You know, each person has a different and unique movement, signature and movement style. So when you're able to just maximize that movement signature movement style, you're able to maximize your life in your experience, and thus that's a maximize world and that ability to maximize your movement signature movement style, we believe is an organization is a fundamental right. So that's where the word move comes from and we're together and then move together, speaks to our mindset. You know, we're in the five and one C three space. I'll share some about projects with you in a moment, but we're trying to serve and bring positive good, hopefully to him or helping them harming anywhere. Anywhere we go, we're tryingto trying to bring positive good to places, you know. But it really starts without mindset. What do I mean by that? Mindset starts with mindset to not be jingoistic. You know that concept that all that is West is best, you know, So be open minded. And when we're ever going into a project asking three questions, those three questions of thus one where we're going to community are we welcome in this community number one asked that question deeply fully and listen to whatever that answer is. Question number two to the community members in that community. What do you guys see as some of the challenges in your community? What do you guys see? If some of the opportunities in your community and then listening fully and deeply again because there was in that space there in that space to know and then third. What do you guys see? Is some of the ways to overcome the challenges? What do you guys see is some of the ways to fulfill the opportunities in your community and then listen to what it says, whether what it said and then as the organization will certainly bring ideas as well. And then hence out name will move together to effectuate positive change as a hope has a name. So that's our name. And then we have a mission in our vision and the way we think about mission. The mission is that then that we measure everything that we say in Dubai and the mission of our organization. It's an increase access to quality rehab medicine around the corner and around the world increase access to quality. We have medicine around the corner around the world, and that last piece of around the corner around the world, near and far wherever you're near far is really speaks to what I think it needs to be a global nonprofit, you know, the access is the hinge point. So when we think about the projects, is not just taking a one week trip to a town and and then taking off, you know, is the understanding that a lot of the challenge that we see are structural in nature. And if there's interest, infrastructural nature as well the same, the structural approaches so that then with access is multidimensional, and what we've seen is other place doesn't exist in the community. Whatever the resource is, you know, water or health, whatever is other place, doesn't it? Clean water doesn't exist in a community for people to go to. That's one front of access challenge or if a place exist, those people don't have the means to go to that place. That's another front oven access challenge. Or if a place exist and the people have the means, that place doesn't have what is really needed to serve the community to be what the community needs. That's another front of the active challenge. So when you could look at it thus and accepted as plus, you know, allows you to hopefully do something about it as well in a multi dimensional and multi variegated way. So that's admission. Increased access to quality. We have medicine around the corner around the world. Our vision, color, vision, right? Is that thing you're trying to see? If trying to pursue is that North Star? The way I like to talk about is that horizon, you know, vision. It is always necessarily in the distance. You're never going to touch it by definition of the horizon source feet. But it guides your pursuit on our vision is an organization is a clinic in every community rehab clinic of movement, access clinic, a clinic in every community in the sense of community. And every clinic clinic in every community speaks the horrid mentality. Brett, where we wanna go, you know, a place you want to be. Oh, it's a community in every clinic speaks to the verticality, the death of what we're hoping we do in the places that we go So you know, and a community in the sense of it. So the mission drives us is our mission drivers, I like to say and that vision is our pursuit is our vision pursuit. And then we have some pillars that guides our programs. We have one pillar that looks to increase the quality and quantity of clinic. So we have a program that is more U. S domestic base, where over the last three years when our fourth year now gonna be dispensing are $48,000 we've developed dispense $40,000 toe over 2020 pro bono projects in the U. S. Doing different and wonderful projects, and is always whenever I use the word for a bone, I'd like to remind people where the word that idea comes from. Pro bono publico for the public. Good. So not just this idea of free pro bono public for the public. Good. You know, it's over. The last several years, we've donated $40,000 over 20 projects rehab pro bono clinic for with nonprofits, free clinics all over the U. S. So that's domestic program and that pillar three other pill. The other program, the pillar increase in quality and quantity of clinics, is what we call a CDP clinic development program and which we work with municipalities outside of the US to build, developed and then operationalized for independence and sustainability. Rehab clinics that air that are run throughout the year, regardless of move together. Anybody else's there, led by municipality leaders, local physical therapist, local noses, well, good health care clinicians, students, health care students around the world that we've had to mention interesting projects here in Guatemala and some relationships and some other places as the world around the world. I'm staying here in Guatemala. I'm currently based in Guatemala, lived here. I live here now for some different projects, and then we have a second pillar and and I'll finish on this as I talk about how I got to where we are right now is a program very much early in the journey. One pillars called catalyzed servant leadership, and we have two programs there. We have a program called PT Day of Service. You can find more. PdF so calm. Overall organization together, that organ repeated that focus. That's a program which we it's about local service for global effect. There's a fun story about that that I could share later, but we've asked students and clinicians and staff of the physical around the world to do an active Lewis on the same day to share the moment out And the connections a ah hashtag p t D. O s. And it's just been amazing. You know. Year one was 2015. We have 28 countries. Participate here, too. We have 42 countries. Participate year three. We have 55 countries. Participate year five. We had a three way have 57 countries participate. And then we were back in the early mid fifties. So countries around the world with different participants, different professionals, physical therapy, students, friends and professions. Other here called healthcare commissions serving on the same day, which is usually the second week, second weekend in October in ways you need to their local community and sharing the beautiful moments that can arise on serving on social media. So it has been great. So that's the limitation of the organization for a mission to vision the pillar to program to project apartment. And we always say they're not only programming project, we do all into the mission and vision that once were really always input to be measured against the mission. Visual on. That's what I'm doing in current day

first few weeks, Those first few weeks of building anything. It's pretty exciting, you know? You know, if you have the mindset of being grounded again by mission division, I have a co founder of the organization and we would just have these long conversations, you know, shaping what we what? We knew that waas, what we thought was possible and the way I like to think about the first. For first few weeks of building a project organization, you're fertilizing the ground. You know, they key to building something. You start with a vision. You know, you start with a belief. You start with purpose. You start with your wife, Simon. Cynic talks about it and it talks about this in the golden Circle. Your Why your how the what? You don't get caught up in the money. The details of what? Too early? You know that's there. And that's gonna involved with the environment. With time, with technologies and possibilities and things, that nature you start with the grounded foundational. Why and when the first couple of weeks with my co founder on again, I had had several years of working with the organization. Before that, I mentioned before I found them together. So I had a background and experience, and we talked about what was possible, what was needed, what we could humbly participated and collaborated, you know, And in the space of of shaping the Y and shaping the purpose and brainstorming and dream storming, you know, it Z the how was presented the what was presented and I have been guided through all my years. Throughout the time I've been doing nonprofit work. If I'm a C three, work for at least much of it is utilizing a logic model you know to really focus my efforts, and it starts with what I like to call questions of explorations. Paul Breast, from Stanford University of Stanford has some great articles on this, but it starts what I like to call pulling from much of Israel. Church questions exploration. When you're building a project where you start, a lot of people come in with solution in mind, and they have this idea of the solution and trying to benefit the problems of that solution. No, it needs to be done first, you know, understand what the problem slash opportunity is. First, who's problem or opportunity is it? Who's working on it? Who are the stakeholders? Who are the beneficiaries? You know, whatever. What is the social science here? Demographic. What is the ideal world and the absence of this problem where the fulfillment of this opportunity then restate the space that you think you're going so understanding the problem of opportunity most possible. And, uh, I have been thinking about that since my University of Scranton. This, you know, And then you start to talk. Think about what a solution may be and where you may lean in and and one of the first thing you do, if you really had this ideal world the absence of the problem, absence of the problem with the film and the opportunity you start to identify next the barriers that are in the way. You know to that, you know. And then then you start dream standing design magnets, dream storming ways to transcend those barriers. And in that space is where you're gonna start seeing some different paths early steps off what to do. Toe work tours, that better world in that film and the mission in pursuit of the vision. So we spent time in that space reading a lot, talking to a lot of people, being open minded in humble, you know, and understanding that, uh, if we're just a positive ripple, which hopefully great wave and what is better access to health care care. Overall Health Care Act was certainly moved out. Access and equity. You could do that responsibly as possible if we could do it as again. How do we define this? A sustainable. It's possible, you know, we could do a while without with minimal damage. She'd also speaking, you know, and maximum maximum utilization, just people to be. So who's the Who's the early days in early weeks? Conversations like trying to take much information as we could and those continue.

when it comes to, uh when it comes to building a team, there's a few things that report is not just is not just what? Trying to find the best people for the team. A few things You have to find those who are passionate about your mission and your vision. Then you have to find those who are very talented. And then hopefully they check both of those boxes. You know, James cut Jim Collins talks about it a bit and get to great, you know, get the get the right people on the bus. Doesn't matter what seat there on yet what rules they are yet get the right people on the bus. And we were very intentional about that. Uh, somehow really, team members were those that we knew in the profession. You know, that we had a hit with what's a different project. You know, this is many years ago now, when I was a student, uh, there my grad school years. I was in what they called the National Student Assembly Board. And in that board, it Zai was a 10 person board that is representative, representative leadership for about 25,000 students and met a lot of great leaders, you know, within that board and board in past years, years after me, you know, And not on that board. The whole nine. So and then certainly in my been treating have been a commission off for for over 10 years. You know, a lot of great colleagues through the year. So we looked at our roller dex and way reacts. Then we aim for the people that we built on that team to check those boxes. So that's how we built about the team. And then it becomes about servant leadership, you know, as a leader, you know, bringing clarity and focus to your team, you know? But I haven't Clarity and focus, you know, showing your team that you care about them. How by actually caring about them, you know, so to speak on. I'm happy to say there weren't too many challenges. You know what's been so need to see you have people come and progress. Mom, what's been? So this is how we use the word family, a lot of organizations, the amazing ways that different team members have contributed how they've grown and how they've taken that Croteau other projects to other organizations, and, uh, it's more while a something that intention throughout needed certainly from the very beginning.