Have you witnessed a time when you industry reversed course on something important?  We’d love to hear about it, because when these U-Turns are covered up we lose out on our ability to better evaluate the current direction of our industries.

Dr. Nicole Thomas

As a registered nurse for over 17 years, trust that I have seen my fair share of “U-Turns” as the healthcare industry has evolved and actually, not all of the “U-Turns” have been negative. As a matter of fact I find that many of them have allowed for evolution within the industry. But the one that comes to mind is the COVID19 pandemic. Listen, let me be clear in that the healthcare industry as a whole is built on a infrastructure that embraces pivoting at any given time. But with COVID19, this is one time where I can honestly say that some of our best practices experienced a wide U-Turn. Read more>>

Ashley Robertson Bedard

Globalization and an increase in readily available information has vastly changed the dynamics of the real estate industry. In a matter of seconds, a consumer can obtain a list of available homes for sale, approximate valuation, and direct contact information for the listing agent. In one aspect, educated and knowledgeable consumers are a benefit to a transaction, but, as we all know, the internet and media outlets are often not accurate. I recall a seminar I attended when Spencer Rascoff. Read more>>

Cari Miles

COVID-19 – I know that most industries were strongly affected by COVID-19. The travel industry faced a major U-Turn starting in March of 2019. When COVID-19 hit the US, it really affected and changed the travel industry. I will never forget it. Starting around Spring Break 2020 is when people really started to get concerned about travel and the trip cancellations started. My initial thought was this will affect us for a few months and then life will proceed as normal. Boy was I wrong. For those that are not in our industry, one thing you may not know is that if people do not travel, we do not get paid. When we book a vacation package, we are banking on those people traveling and no payment is received until post travel. Read more>>

Kathleen Vigo

I worked at a hospital-based outpatient clinic for over a decade. The women knew how helpful and life-changing the therapy was, but there were so many barriers to consistent, expert care. First, the patients had to drive themselves to the clinic at a time that I had available, then sit in a waiting room for 30 minutes just to be brought back to a room with me for 45 minutes. This short time only allowed me to perform a quick assessment and hand them a paper with some exercises on it. Then we were limited by using their insurance directly, which meant that their insurance company was telling me how many visits I could do, as well as what treatment interventions I could perform. Read more>>

Sarah Baum

This is a story about two U turns that ended me back, full circle, to exactly where I wanted to be. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I got my degree in Clinical Psychology and always wanted to work within the field of mental health to directly help others. My dream was to be in private practice, but they don’t teach you how to start a business in graduate school, and honestly starting a business at 23 is really scary. So, I had been working in community mental health for some time when an upward career move for my husband uprooted our family to Northern California from Southern. Read more>>

Breana Prince

I had been working for years in the typical outpatient sports physical therapy setting. I was seeing twenty to thirty patients a day, which meant most treatment time per patient was 10-20 mins each. Due to insurance regulations, many of those visits were filling out paperwork together limiting our actual usable treatment time. The time between provider and patient is the treatment, and I was seeing that active dose steadily decline. I was getting frustrated and I could tell that my patients were too. I was witnessing patients needing to come 3 times a week, for weeks on end, in order to see a change, due to minimal time spent with their PT. Read more>>

Purvi Desai

I have experienced this twice in my career. First, when I was offered to either take the job which was moving to another state or take the severance pay. After working in the Finance field for 10 years, all of a sudden I was out of work and not able to find the job which could pay the same level salary. During my search for the job, I pursued something I was really passionate about which was wellness lifestyle. I started my own small business while still looking for desired position in the field of finance. I was learning from scratch how to make products, package, sell, market & much more. Read more>>

Dr. Ken Buckle

The field of Psychology was making a U-Turn when I was finishing graduate school in the 1980s. The changes had actually started earlier, but I wasn’t aware of them until I was more involved in the field. Psychology is a science that seeks to discover truth about human behavior, cognition, and emotion through rigorous research, and then provide interventions to the public for improved mental health. In order to discover truth, scientific research must be unbiased. It is actually more harmful to the science and to the public when research is biased and then the truth becomes elusive. Read more>>