Alex is a new grad PT who turned his online side hustle into a full-time career less than a year out of school. He helps ambitious PT's and clinic owners understand how to attract new patients through digital marketing and create additional income streams by leveraging their existing expertise online.
Andrew Tran is a Physical Therapist who has worked in a variety of settings as a new grad. From travel PT, to SNF, outpatient ortho, and starting his own practice all in 2 years. He is the founder of Physio Memes, LLC with the goals of connecting Physios globally via humor and merchandise to proudly represent our profession. Also, owner of Transcend Health, LLC which is an outpatient private practice with the vision to create a healthy and educated community to build a life of resilience.
Andrew Kneeburg is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who graduated from Tennessee State University in 2016. Andrew works for a private practice in Atlanta, GA. He specializes in outpatient orthopedics and is certified in Dry needling. Andrew is the co-host of the Fresh PT Podcast, which helps new physical therapists and DPT student bridge the gap between entry level and next level. Andrew is passionate about mentoring other PT students and young physical therapists.
Dr. Angelica Napolitano is a Jupiter, Florida native who earned her Bachelors of Science in Exercise Physiology from Florida State University, and then went on to further her education by receiving her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Florida International University in 2016. Although, Angelica devotes most of her time to serving others, she believes a balanced life is a happy life. Through the help of Greg Todd and the SSPT Nation, she was able to finally and successfully create this balanced lifestyle as a thriving young business owner. Continue reading to hear Angelica’s story and how her life drastically changed for the better through Smart Success Physical Therapy.
Matthew is currently a second year DPT student at Touro University Nevada. He was born and raised in Alameda, CA (East part of the San Francisco Bay Area). The first time I moved away from home was when I went to college at University of California, Irvine. Go Anteaters! His biggest drive to join the SSPT family was to learn more from Greg Todd.
While searching for advice to succeed on YouTube, he was perplexed when he discovered a PT talking without discussing a specific technique or school-related advice. He was looking into ways to do well in his coursework and on the NPTE (the board exam for PTs). Once he found Greg’s YouTube channel, he kept searching for more because he nailed one thing… motivate him.
Alex is a senior at the University of Missouri and will be applying to physical therapy school in the fall of 2017. He was struggling in school and found Greg through his YouTube channel. Alex subscribed to Greg’s channel after watching his informative videos and later joined his Mentoring with Greg email list.
Alex was 15 years old when he was first exposed to physical therapy as a patient and immediately fell in love with the profession. Although he has always known he wanted to be a PT, he was somewhat hesitant at first to commit the time, schooling, and financial investment to become a DPT. It was through Greg’s content and videos that ultimately helped Alex break through barriers of personal stagnation and apply to physical therapy school.
Casey Coleman is from Chicago Illinois and currently a DPT student at Andrews University in Berrien Springs MI. He admires the ability of the body to heal itself, with an interest in human biomechanics that respects human anatomy. Casey is also the Co-Founder of Pre-PT Grind LLC and Social Media Director at Newgradphysicaltherapy. Outside of PT, Casey enjoys learning, laughing,music and sports. Casey can be found at preptgrind.com & caseycolemanpt.wordpress.com
Danelle Dickson, a graduate of University of Delaware, has over 11 years of clinical, research, and administrative experience in physical therapy sports and orthopedic fields. She has worked in a variety of fields (hospital, outpatient, private practice), and started Performance Plus Physical Therapy in 2015 with the goal of providing a more personalized rehabilitation experience for patients.
If anyone can appreciate the hard work and dedication that it takes to not only
become a physical therapist, but also to simply gain acceptance into PT school, it is I.
It took me three years of applying to schools before I was finally given an
opportunity at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. And that chance was all I
needed. I have always centered my business success on developing relationships. It
is my opinion that the keys to success are: Belief, Passion, Grit, and Patience.
Developing relationships within these factors will greatly enhance your position for
reaching your business goals.
Dr F Scott Feil is one of Physical Therapy’s first Polymaths. What is a polymath? I am glad you asked! In Greek it means “one who has learned much”, in Latin it means “universal man”, and in English, a polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas—such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
Born and raised in Brazil, Francisco moved to the United States in 2005. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Exercise Science from Indiana University in 2009, and with his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from The University of Pittsburgh in 2012. He first worked in orthopedics and sports medicine rehabilitation, but then decided to combine his knowledge in Physical Therapy with his passion for animals, and in 2014 completed his training at the Canine Rehabilitation Institute to become a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist. He has been working in this field since 2015 and in 2017 opened his own mobile canine rehabilitation business, TheK9PT, covering Chicago and nearby suburbs.
Javier has been passionate about fitness and wellness since the age of 15.
Javier did his undergraduate studies at Florida International University, where he received his bachelors in biological sciences. While in school, Javier explored many options for furthering his academic career. After much thought, his love for motivating and inspiring people to live happier, healthier lives led him to his decision to become a physical therapist. Javier is now one year away from graduating as a Doctor of Physical Therapy from FIU, he is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Bethany is a physical therapist who graduated from George Fox University's DPT program. She is currently working on starting her own business resulting from the steadfast knowledge and support that she received through Greg and the SSPT course. Her first job as a new grad in a private outpatient practice led her to burn out only two months in.
She was desperate to search for more than just the same monotonous clinic that paid you X amount because of X amount of experience. Amongst many other reasons, she knew that there had to be more to the physical therapy career field. So she researched and eventually found Greg through his YouTube videos. Only four months after encountering Greg and taking his SSPT course, she boldly took the initiative to start her new journey with her own mobile OON practice. None of this would've been possible without the immense amount of real life applications that were taught in SSPT that helped her to leverage her skill set and capability to step out and become an anomaly.
Joses Ngugi, an SSPT Season 3 Alumn, is the Co-Owner of Pre-PT Grind LLC and the Founder of the Pre-PT Success Program. It is no secret that Joses has a deep passion to help guide Pre-Physical Therapy students along the journey towards their dream of not only becoming DPT students, but absolutely phenomenal future clinicians! Pre-PT Grind LLC is a platform designed to help Pre-PT’s in the United States and globally get into Physical Therapy School without wasting time or money.
Originally from the beautiful island nation of Barbados, I moved to the US for college via a volleyball scholarship. At the time I also had the honor of representing the Barbados Senior National Volleyball team having competed at the junior level. I earned a Bachelors degree in Biology in 2004 from the University of Montevallo with minors in Psychology and Kinesiology as I knew I wanted to pursue a career in therapy and wellness, due in part to my own personal experience as an athlete. As a student and athlete, I also had the privilege of working under the head athletic trainer, expanding my knowledge base regarding return to sport and injury prevention. I continued to do so as a graduate assistant while in PT school and in 2007, earned a Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) from New York Institute of Technology.
Originally from the beautiful island nation of Barbados, I moved to the US for college via a volleyball scholarship. At the time I also had the honor of representing the Barbados Senior National Volleyball team having competed at the junior level. I earned a Bachelors degree in Biology in 2004 from the University of Montevallo with minors in Psychology and Kinesiology as I knew I wanted to pursue a career in therapy and wellness, due in part to my own personal experience as an athlete. As a student and athlete, I also had the privilege of working under the head athletic trainer, expanding my knowledge base regarding return to sport and injury prevention. I continued to do so as a graduate assistant while in PT school and in 2007, earned a Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) from New York Institute of Technology.
Dr. Kaylee Garrett Simmerman grew up the youngest of five in a small town that no one ever left. She has always wanted to be a Physical Therapist and had to move from Tennessee to Florida in order to make her dreams come true. She did not get accepted the first or the second time she applied, but once accepted (the 3rd try) had one month to get to Florida to begin her journey, leaving her entire family and everything she knew in Tennessee as well as the beginning of a “maybe I can’t do this,” mindset. She has always known she was different because she never wanted to be the “norm” and never wanted to “do what everyone else was doing.” She is highly motivated, and driven to be more, be better, be the one people go to, and wants to be a great clinician and person, not just a good one but also has desires to travel and spend time with family as well as become financially free.
Dr. Kaylee Garrett Simmerman grew up the youngest of five in a small town that no one ever left. She has always wanted to be a Physical Therapist and had to move from Tennessee to Florida in order to make her dreams come true. She did not get accepted the first or the second time she applied, but once accepted (the 3rd try) had one month to get to Florida to begin her journey, leaving her entire family and everything she knew in Tennessee as well as the beginning of a “maybe I can’t do this,” mindset. She has always known she was different because she never wanted to be the “norm” and never wanted to “do what everyone else was doing.” She is highly motivated, and driven to be more, be better, be the one people go to, and wants to be a great clinician and person, not just a good one but also has desires to travel and spend time with family as well as become financially free.
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