Today we’d like to introduce you to Zachary Gabor.
Zachary, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
When I graduated from Physical Therapy school 3 years ago, I slowly started to see firsthand, the reality of the healthcare epidemic. Over the past few decades, the number of people in chronic pain has increased, the number of people on disability have increased, and the spending on healthcare has increased.
The crazy part…we as healthcare professionals are a large part of the problem. Things such as the negative language professional’s use, to the high demand in productivity over quality are a couple of the larger problems.
Over the past few years, I have acted with passion driven urgency to help be a part of driving positive change into healthcare through educating and mentoring healthcare professionals and students. After creating a successful educational instagram account @simplestrengthphysio as well as an unbelievable network, it led to me to the opportunity to create a legitimate business dedicated to inspiring positive change in healthcare.
The Level Up Initiative is an online mentorship platform for student and new grad Physical Therapists whose focus is in development in mindset, critical thinking, and soft skills (listening, communication, etc.) in order to create human-centric clinicians.
Has it been a smooth road?
This idea came after listening to a podcast my girlfriend and co-worker suggested. This was back in January. Here we are now in June, and it has definitely been an up and down road, but mostly up for now. I’ll attribute that to newbie growth.
However, it has been insanely humbling to feel the “downs” of this experience. Lack of organization, lack of time, critiques, hate, lack of focus. That being said, we have A TON of amazing support from an incredible network of fired up PTs and students!
It is a large mission and a big dream, but this platform is based in the fact that failure breeds growth, and no matter what, you always take action on your dreams! Including myself!
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into The Level Up Initiative story. Tell us more about the business.
The Level Up Initiative is unlike most companies in healthcare.
We are fundamentally different in that we do not focus on the “clinical side.”
We focus on human side of healthcare.
We teach students and new grads the importance of having a growth mindset, and critical thinking. In order to be future game changers of our profession that should ALWAYS be striving to grow.
We teach students how to build amazing relationships with their patients in order to foster improved healthcare outcomes both short and long term.
What makes us most proud as a company is that we are rooted in service. We are rooted in extreme desire to make a paradigm shift in healthcare.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
Change is coming. It is not an if, but a when.
Research says it takes 17 years for research to reach clinical practice. However, there is a LARGE movement of healthcare professionals even beyond this company that are hungry to drive positive change.
What we will start to see in Physical Therapy in the next 5 years is more listening, more education, less fear mongering, more exercise prescription, and less dependency on US.
Pricing:
- This is a free 4 month mentorship for students and new grads
Contact Info:
- Website: Thelevelupinitiative.com
- Email: Zacharyg@thelevelupinitiative.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelevelupinitiative/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thelevelupinitiative/?ref=bookmarks
Image Credit:
Chris Goetchius – @chrisgoetchiusprofessional
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