March 7, 2025 • 36 mins
On the latest episode of the PHLV Radio Podcast Series, the Las Vegas Filipino Resource Guide sat down with the founding officers of the University of Nevada Physical Therapy Filipino American Club.
Hosted by Cirimille Paglinawan, the conversation spotlighted how these remarkable Fil-Am students proudly celebrate their heritage, embrace their cultural roots, and aspire to give back to the community through their future work in healthcare.
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Hosted by Cirimille Paglinawan, the conversation spotlighted how these remarkable Fil-Am students proudly celebrate their heritage, embrace their cultural roots, and aspire to give back to the community through their future work in healthcare.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream your favorite shows. #PHLVRadioPodcast #FilAmPride #FutureLeaders #UNLVPhysicalTherapy
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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Show on PHL Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello, Hello everyone, in a long time no see. Good afternoon,
good evening, good morning, whatever time it is when you
are watching this. Thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the Las Vegas Filipino Resource Guide here at
PHLV Radio. I am your host, Sarahl Paguinawan, and again
thank you for joining us. As you can see on
(00:53):
the title, we have some fun guests today. But before
I get started, I just want to let you all
know that we are live every Thursday at six pm
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(01:18):
let's get stored it, shall we. I have some very
exciting guests today from the un LV Physical Therapy of
Phil M Club. I had a pleasure of being a
guest speaker at their meeting. Yeah, I'm like meeting a
couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to bring them
(01:39):
on the show because I was so inspired by what
they're doing. For the community, so give us a warm welcome. Please, Hello,
introduce yourself one by one. We can start with you, Shay.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So, I'm Shae Shay Robles. I am a second year.
I'm one of the co presidents for the club.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh and then when did I say I wanted you
to introduce yourself? And then oh, what field? Like what
kind of ye?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, So I am interested in doing sports physical therapy.
And then I have a huge military background. So my
family is all military Air Force. That's how we came
to America. So I am planning to commission and kind
of get more into the military tactical side.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay, if sports doesn't work out, any specific sports or.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, I'm a huge volleyball kind of player. Too short,
so I can't really like really go deep into that,
but you know I can help out that help.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And still be surrounded.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Vertically challenged, So that's my that's my my main focus.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
If I were to go into sports.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I'm my name is Casey. I'm also vertically challenged. Also
sing your PT. I'm really interested in ana doing pelvic health,
which is previously known as women's health.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Yeah, and then either that or pediatrics are cute.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I love.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Yeah, I'm super excited to work with that kind of population.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah you have a position in the Oh yeah, i'm
cultural chair.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
She does all the planning, you know.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
All right, Hi everyone, my name is Nolan Coverto. I
am the other co president. Thanks to Shay, we got
this thing started last year.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
What month was that, Well, we planned this summer summer and.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Then we got we got the club started and wow,
that's cool. It's quickly.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It was quick.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
I am super interested in sports orthopedics, but as we're
taking more courses and seeing like the different fields of PEAT,
I think my mind is just kind of open to
any any really.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
Yeah, that's nice. I'm Neil.
Speaker 10 (04:04):
I'm also a second year PET student and I am
the secretary secretary and historian Secretary secretary.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
He does most of the work. We need a photo
on it.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
On it.
Speaker 10 (04:24):
I'm still unsure what I want to go into. At first,
I was thinking out patient ortho back when I was
at Tech, But now that I've learned about more things
alongside with Nolan, I'm still just kind of trying to decide.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It always changes throughout your like your fool timeline, you
kind of get interested in one thing and they're like never.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Mind, yeah, which is good and a bad thing. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah. Also, thank you guys again for you know, joining us.
I wanted to talk more about, you know, starting the club,
like you had mentioned, what was the purpose behind starting it.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
That's actually pretty funny because my faculty advisor, his name
is doctor Merril Landers. He we had like one of
our midterm meetings and he was basically like, hey, you're
a Filipino, right, so, and he noticed like how many
Bilinos are in our class and in the class above us,
and so he was like, you guys should definitely start
(05:22):
a club and I'll be interested in being like the advisory.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Advisor for so he was the one who pushed he
isn't no heal him to do.
Speaker 11 (05:33):
He's food okay, he loves what did he say?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
He was like like, oh yeah and a lot of
both food.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Okay, you knows right. We had a pollo when you
were that's awesome. Every meeting, We're having a pollock next week.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, he was, He was the main He was the
one that kind of started it and really got Nolan.
Yeah yeah, and then like really of our entire class,
I think there's like at least a quarter.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
A quarter of our class.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
You say, what would you say?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I know, I asked you this earlier, Like, probably pretty
good chunk of us are Filipino and in the third
year class above us.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So the thing I noticed when I was there, a
lot of the members who were joining in weren't all Filipino. Yeah,
so it's open to pretty much anybody.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
So pretty much when we wanted to start the club,
it was of course just to get the Filipino community.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Yeah, but we also wanted to keep it as like a.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Family community, right, just kind of like our culture is
just always including everyone everyone around us, making feel comfortable.
So we're like, even though we're at school, you know,
learning about pet, we still want to create like that
family environment at school.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, and then they also get to learn.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
About about the culture.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, that's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Especially in our program too, where it's so hectic and rigorous,
it's like nice to have a club where it's like, Okay,
this is our community. We're going to come in, learn
and eat and yeah, it's like an educational and like
community based club, but it's also like a place that
we can feel grounded and comfortable with each other and
and stepping away.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
From that yeah, physical therapy world.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, and like the outside of it.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Yeah, exactly, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Was it Is it hard to start a club?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Like?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I know you guys said you started planning it
and in the summertime, right, So you can't just like
go up to somebody be like I want to start
a club or is it?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Like so just like what am I allowed to say?
Speaker 9 (07:33):
So I brought up and like I was basically.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I was like, he like, dofor Landers wants us to
start a filipetal club? Wouldn't that be crazy if like
we were presidents or like what if we like started
it and just kept that ball rolling. So then basically
Shane and I were were like, all right, yeah, let's uh,
let's plan to like.
Speaker 9 (07:57):
Get some people together.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
So during one of our breaks, like in between class,
we're like, let's pull all of.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Our like.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
In our in our club and we're like, hey, like, Neil,
you're gonna be this position in Casey you're gonna do this.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Bertie you can do this, and can do Roselle can
be part of it too. Yeah, So were.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
We like kind of like already pre planned everyone and
we were like, hey, like let's get this thing going.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
So then from there it just kind of going on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Somebody where you just kind of know how to book
the rooms and we gu meet.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
We like did all the formal stuff, you know, we
met with with doctor Landers was also our like head
department of Physical therapy.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
He was like the director. He got of moved up.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But at the time we made sure that is there
any other steps that we need to do to build
kind of this sort of organization professionally, so we did
all that.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
There really wasn't much at u n l V. There is.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's like an rso, the actually registered student organizations. It's
a little different because we're grad students, but some of
our organizations in like the physical therapy program also our
rso so that's our.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Next that's our next step. Yeah, next semester.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We already have some of our officers coming up, so
they're going to start that next semester where we're going
to be like actually registered in the un l V program,
which is great because they have a filip you know,
like the FOSSA.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That one's rs already right, yes, yeah, that one is,
I hope you guys. Yeah, would and if you're looking
for more members, this is another reason why I want
it's bringing you guys on them out there.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Please.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Yeah, the thing is, you do have to be a
part of the PPT program program in order to join
the Filipino American Club with un l VPT. But if
you're just like an undergrad student at going to UNILV,
you can join the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
But also do there's I mean, Toro is just coming
out with the Filipino Club as well. Really, yes, we've
already we've been reaching out to them and like all
the other I mean I reached out to some of
like the.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Nursing students at you and LV like hey, like we're having.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
A meeting, the meeting that we had last month, Like hey,
we're gonna make these.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Blankets for Shade Tree to donate. You should come by.
So it's kind of like an open invitation.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes, it's like labeled under physical therapy, but it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Kind of way to connect you and other groups as well. Right,
And I also to talk about you know, the Shade
Tree blankets. You guys are looking to do more community
based stuff to, right, Yeah, is there a certain thing
you're looking for or couldn't just be kind of any
any like philanthropy.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I think, just any philanthropy service. So we did the
Shade Tree.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
I also organized like a clothing drive with the Big
Brothers BA Sisteries Southern Nevada. So we actually just set
up our donation bins at you know, just like in
the building that we all kind of have our classes
at but soon drop off stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You want to kind of say where it is at.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Yeah, So it's at the BHS building. Do you guys
remember what.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It's broad Lee Bigelow.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Science Science exactly right, Yeah, it's by Law. Oh, it's
the giant red building. But we have one bin on
the first floor kind of like in the community area. Yeah,
you can just kind of drop off your clothes and
us as a group like we're collecting the clothes.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
And we'll hold this drive until like the end of March.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
March twenty seventh is going to be the last one. Yeah, yeah,
and then every day we always keep it secured in
one of our locked rooms so nobody will like mess
with it, just in case somebody like goes through it
and everything. So that's until March twenty seventh, and all
of those clothes, like no one said gets donated to
the Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
So that's us.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
But I mean we're always open for other like philanthropic events.
I know we talked about like the food drive.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes, food drives. I'm also that's another reason why I
brought you guys on here. So if anybody watching out
there would like to partner with your organizations or any
philanthropic services, please reach out to them. Probably reach out
to Shay or Nolan if you can.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
We'll plug them at the end of the show. Yeah,
any of those.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And then we even talked about having like a youth
minglers thing. We even talking about that we really want
to do that. It was a secret, no sneak, This
is a lie, right.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Kind of Oh, Neil, can you see you have anything
else that.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
They didn't know?
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Did you guys? Do you guys like feel comfortable? I
guess like yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
They did, but you guys just said it was like, Hey,
wouldn't it be cool if.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Like they were like, yeah, okay, so you can do this,
you can do this, you can do this, But I'm like, okay,
game the game.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That's one thing I like about us. We're always like, okay,
you're telling.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
You When it first started, I honestly thought it was
like a joke. But I kept seeing like the ball rolling,
and I was like, oh, we're doing it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So many group childs like this really because.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
You guys told us a story about how doctor Landers
wanted us to do it, so that kind of seemed
like a joke.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
But then yeah, you guys went with it and here
we are.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, as how many members you guys have right now
or are you kind of not keeping.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
As many games? Journey East?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, there was a lot when I was there.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I think there was a little chunk of people there.
There's always at least twenty. Yeah, that's a good amount.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yes, And what's great is that's how many start at
the beginning of the meeting.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And then people walk well lest people walk past our
room like you know.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The last Yeah, they're like, oh what's Oh what's bad?
And we're like come, come eat, come eat, there's leftovers
typical pot Philip, you know, thing right, and then they're like, oh,
I didn't know, like I think two people well at
the end of last meeting was like, hey can you
add me on the email list?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, It's like it's a growing thing
and people came.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
To I added them to the email list anyway, but like, yeah,
I love well.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
One thing I noticed about the potluck too, because you know,
especially with our generation, when we say potluck.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
People are like, Okay, I'm just gonna go buy food.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I noticed a lot of your members actually know how
to cook like authentic Filipino quisine, which I thought was
so awesome because I'm still learning, but you know, to
keep that as a part of the culture is really
really inspiring for our generation.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I feel like, yes, and even just sharing that the culture,
like the food and everything too. Like you said, like
not a lot of people in the club or who
come to the clubs, so it's like, oh, what is this?
It's easy, Like no, no, no, you have to eat
with this.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Yeah, like what you know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Nolan gave me a rump throb and then Neil was
like did you warm it up for her?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
And Noel like I was like it was cold, and
I was like, oh, try some high. No, that was
that was amazing. Yeah, that was I didn't bring the
fish though.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
You eat, do you really?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Like the sweet.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
You just sprinkle it on top, so it's like chocolate fish.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, it's like you know, the go on and the mingo. Yeah, okay,
I wanted to ask switch gears a little bit and
talk about physical therapy.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Why did you guys each.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Choose this route? You know, because there's so many medical
there's so many fields out there.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Why Shay did you decide? Pete?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well, I knew, I knew I wanted to do medical.
I mean, ever, all like everyone in my family was medical, right,
my mom. I want to be like my mom. My
mom's nursing. And I was like, I don't want to
do that. I don't want to do something more. And
so when I went into undergrad, I think that's when
I got more in to I did kinesiology, but I
got more into like the coaching things Like I did
a lot of group fitness coaching. I was like a
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cycle instructor. I did all that, and so I kind
of yeah, that was when else fit. I sit down
eight hours out of the guys.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
All these pot looks.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But then I kind of like combined the two. I
did a lot of the sports and then medical, and
I was like, what can I do with this? And
so it was it was physical therapy. So yeah, that
was my main thing, and I like I like how
like there's options in the field and me, it's not
just one. Yes, you know like a lot of like
medical nurse. I know nursing you can do it too,
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but you can like switch gears immediately, like we were
talking about this today.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You can do.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Pediatrics for two three years and say something needs to
change or like you need a bit a different lifestyle.
Then you can work in the hospital for as many
years as you want, or even per DM you can
do thethopedics.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So it's it's the how you can just like change
your schedule at any point.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Because you're already trained in it technically or you kind
of just have to.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
We learned.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We learn all of it during school during the three years,
and then if we want to specialize in it, we
can some require additional education.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But it's wow, that's really cool. Yeah, it's amazing you.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
So I was a bio undergrad and I was considering
going to med school. Yeah, I wait out the amount
of time it would take to be in med school
and the amount of effort and also kind of where
I wanted to hit certain milestones in my life your life. Yeah,
and it didn't line up right, like for example, kids, Yeah,
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like I want that before thirty.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
It's all kind of Marco personal. Do we have a
color that work?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
But I like physical therapy because of the amount of
interaction you have with your patient.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
With your patient, yeah, you really get to know them.
And then also all the populations you work with, even
the old.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
People, like it's very rewarding to be with them and
to help them work to something better.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Right.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Yeah, So I love it.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I like it.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah, the nursing yeah, we love we love you.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
I wanted to do PET also because I wanted to
do something in like the medical background.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Yeah. I'm pretty sure all of our moms nurses.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Yeah, in the in the medical home healthcare.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
But yeah, like I come from a family of a
lot of medical background.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Growing up, I was in the fitness scene as well,
just like going to the gym things like that. And
then when I got into college, going to fraternity and
they were big on philanthropy, so just like providing volunteer service.
So I went on like this eight week long trip
across country and I was providing just like volunteer construction
(19:20):
work at camps. It was called build America with the
pie cap of Phi fraternity shout out you and r
But yeah, so during that journey, it was just like
me coming to like the realization that I love providing
(19:43):
a service to the community at the expense of just
my own self. So it wasn't like I was doing
it for incentive or I mean, I guess like for
joy and happiness, right, but yeah, just helping other people. Yeah,
and then I started working in a physical therapy clinic
as a tech and then that kind of drove it
(20:05):
even further.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, and that's why I'm here.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
That's awesome, thank you.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
I think I realized I want to go into pt
and high school. I knew I want to go in
the medical field because like we all said, our families
are in medical field, so that's kind of what we knew.
And I was in uh once in Northwest High School.
They have a biomedical science program and they brought up
physical therapy and I really liked how they helped patients
get better, like without medicine or without surgery. Yeah, so
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that's really one thing that drew me to physical therapy
because I want to help patients and if they could
get better without doing those things, I think be.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Very good for them.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
What amplified it too is I started working as a
tech with their middle years ago, and I was able
to see like what kind of things they do and
how they treat patients and the interaction like what Casey said,
And that's what made me really want to become a Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think that's one thing I want everyone to know
about physical therapy is like the more you get into it,
the more you fall in love with it, because it's
just the care just like it feels like a different
type of care, you know, because you're not just there to,
like you said, give them medicine stuff. You're there to
see them grow physically and mentally and stuff like that.
I don't know, I just.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Physical up and down, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And we see people at the end obviously, which is
like they're there, we have they're great, they're doing amazing,
But we also see them like in the beginning, Yeah,
when they're in pain.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, and you have this like patient coming in and
you're like this is the meanest patient. Yeah. You're like, oh,
but they're in so much pain. You know, they're in pain.
Let's let's help them.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And then literally after like one visit or two, they're
like a completely different person and we help them kind of.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Get to and then like right when they're about to
get discharged, it's like that you've built that relationship with them.
It's just like friendship and you're like, oh, I'm gonna
miss that patient coming in stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That's like the one thing I love about P right,
my case was saying you don't get that a lot
with some other fields, Like you build that relationship.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Absolutely and you don't know just them, Like you get
to learn their families, their grand Like they bring in photos,
they give you gifts like yeah, few little pins or
like crafts that they made and they thought of you,
like it's very sweet Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They bring a lot of treats.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
They bring a lot of crumbled.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Do you guys have any advice for you know, future
whether they're in PT or not, but if you know
this is something that they may want to look into.
Do you have any advice for people maybe stepping out
of their comfort zone or trying something new.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
I think shadowing plays a big part in it whatever profession,
but PT it is requirement to get into PET school
and during shadowing they could actually find out it's something
they want to do.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Or what types of settings they like.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
And I think they will motivate them when they're applying
and in PT school as well, when they see like
what the profession actually does.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And most you can usually reach out to any place
right then, like you know you're a student, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Most people want shadows to right, They're pretty open to it.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Peop were more strict, like if you're working in like
the NIKU or something.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah, that's true, especially post COVID.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah. Yeah, a lot of outpatients will be fine.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yeah, I think majority of like outpatient is open for
like observations and things like that. I think if you're
going to do something like in the hospital like they
do like a background checks, well I mean it doesn't
hurt to try, yea to kind of bounce off a
neil too, like just starting as early as you want,
you know, just to see if you are even interested.
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Because personally, like I didn't do a lot of shadowing
like in the hospital. I like worked was it like
five six years like in the outpatient setting, and like
like two hours of observation in the hospital, and I was.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Like, man, I don't want to work in the hospital.
I don't know why my mom does it or like
you know, my dad used to work in the hospital.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
So but now like in our current state in PT,
we're doing like a lot of observation and skilled nursing facilities,
long term acute care, just in patient rehab things like that,
and it's like kind of opened my eyes to be like, Okay,
maybe I am really interested into.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Working here, or like maybe it's not as bad as
I thought. So I think.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Starting as early as you can, like in high school,
to just kind of expose yourself to everything absolutely, just
so that way when you go into PT school or
no matter like what medical field you go into, like
at least that way you know like, Okay, I tried this,
and I know like this is going to be like
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yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That happened to me too when I was so I
was pre nursing when I went into college, and I'll
be I shadowed like right when I was starting in college,
and then I was like, ah, this is not for me,
but I'm glad I shadowed, just like you said, because
then you could learn what you like, what you don't like.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah. Any other advice.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Not only for PT, but for like any medical profession
as long as you have like grit and consistency. You
don't have to be a genius, Like you don't have
to compare yourself to other people who are just naturally
gifted at learning material just by reading it over once.
Like just because you're not that kind of person doesn't
mean that you're not cut out for any kind of
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medical field or medical profession.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
I mean to say, so maybe that.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Something and then it's gonna work out.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I would say, like if like it's okay to change
your mind, you know, just like with the shadowing and everything, like,
don't be afraid to change what you want to do,
because I think like when I was in college, I
initially wanted to do physical therapy and I had to
take a few steps back, like something happened and I.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Was like, you know, I don't Yeah, I don't want
to do physical therapy. So I stopped.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And I think it was two years junior or senior year.
I did not want to do physical therapy. Yeah, I
was going for I was like going into my master's
and Rena I like got in, was like doing it
for public health. You know, I don't want I Like
I was in there and I was like I don't
want to do my masters anymore. And then I was like, oh,
maybe i'll teach started stubbing yeah, and I was like,
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I don't think I want to do that. So it
took those steps for me to realize and take a
step back and be like, you know what this is
physical therapy is something I want to do. And then
because of that, I knew like, oh, you know what
this is. This is my final decision and I have
no regrets.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
It took a few years, right, And also I really
love that because you sometimes you need to try out
a bunch of things right to lead you to where you're.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Supposed to be at.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, So I really really liked that.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
I think that's what's cool about our program too, is
like it's just so diverse, like background wise, and like
age two, like age you have people who are twenty
one or twenty you know, like like yeah, I mean any.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Like post post post undergrad.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I guess, yeah, like you can just join if you
you know, if you decide to go back to school, right,
just surrounding yourself with people who have like common values.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think I think she's the oldest.
Speaker 11 (27:34):
Time already.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I'm getting bullied so.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And so to kind of close it all up, I
think I wanted to ask you what the importance of
celebrating your Filipino culture is? What does it mean to you?
And how do you celebrate it? Some you haven't starting
where you're doing.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Really, I think I just want people to know, like
the non Filipinos of like the type of culture we
bring in, Like Filipinos are very hospitable and treat everyone
like their family. So even just at these meetings and
these pot looks, they could see that we're very like like, oh,
come join us, like anyone can come.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Like we'll have food. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
I want everyone to see that, just so when they
if they come across any other Filipinos, they know like
what they'll be like, and yeah they'll feel comfortable.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Yeah, love that.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
We have to go in question? What was the question?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Just like kind of important? What's how is the like,
what is being Filipino mean to you? The importance of it?
And how do you celebrate your culture? We don't have
to go in order whoever wants to.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Go on the front.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's so hard, I mean, like it's hard.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Just how don't I doubt when you asked this to
at the meeting too, you know, like what does it
mean to be Filipino?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Yeah, it's I think it's just.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't like very similar to it. Neil is saying,
like just being like welcoming to everyone and caring and
and I don't know, it's just when we think of
like a Filipino community, I think of like my family.
So it's hard to like explain your family. Yeah, and
that like connection, like it's you know, we were we
were at a sniff center a couple weeks ago and
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it was just a bigger and I think a couple
of the therapists were saying something into college.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
We were like, oh yeah, and.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
Then we said it and they're like, you know, everyone
was like and then from there it's like the like
rapport in that room has changed.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
It's just yeah, I can't I personally can't really describe it.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
That's that's the best way to describe it.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Yeah, I think kind of going off of that, it's
just being able to bring the Filipino like family culture
to like other communities that don't really have that or
just like forming it yourself.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
You feel like that's part of I.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Guess that's kind of like my we can like put
that in the second question like, how do you celebrate it?
Do you?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Are you always like.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
Cooking food at home Filipino food at home?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Oh yeah, I mean I personally, I love I just
started doing this recently, like in PT school because now
I'm I'm like leaving back home, but like just getting
to invite family like friends over and be like, hey,
like let's all get together, let's all sing karaoke, let's
get some food, going drink, yeah, things like that. But
(30:44):
it's yeah, it's just that sense of bringing people together,
and I think that blends well with the workplace too. Yeah,
being being able to connect with the patients other coworkers
like that.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's nice when I feel like, especially nowadays, when people
are like you're a Filippine when they're not Filipino and
they know that we are.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Really cool association.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Okay, Like I kind of understand the culture absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's different though, I don't know when I was in Reno.
I love Reno, but it was just so it was
it was different. And I think when I shifted over
and went and came to you and I'll be I
remember seeing Casey and I remember seeing like all these
Filipinos and I just was not.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Used to it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I remember walking in and being the only like tan
brown person in like the room.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, any Asian anything into a room and reno and
then they like they they wouldn't understand that.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I was Filipino and they'd be like, oh you Korean, and.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I'm like what.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But it's it's it's definitely like a cultural It's great
because in Vegas at least you would be.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
It's so divert it's so diverse program it's diversity.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, and it was it's weird. So it's cool to
come into a community like this that is Filipino. I
was like, oh my god, Philippine.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
They're not just family, and then that casey.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
What I love about being being Filipino. It's also how
I celebrate being Filipino. I just feel like a lot
of us just live very unapologetically and love unapologetically.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
And as long as I follow that, like.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I feel like that's you celebrate your culture.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
You make as many like connections as you can with
people around you who are both inside and outside of
your culture just by sticking to that, and I think
it works really well.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Like yeah, I love yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, it's always like people are always telling growing up.
Speaker 11 (32:35):
People always be like, you're so you're too nice, You're
too nice, You're.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Too nice all the time, and I'm like, I love,
it's just too loud.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
It's just.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
We are people pleasing.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
But yeah, we're all healthcare that's how you know. But
like the car, the effort to.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Be nice is so much easier than the effort to
be me. That's why we are the way we are
because we like to see.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
People happy recently, it's just as simple as that. Completely agree.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Well, that concludes today's interview.
Speaker 11 (33:07):
Do you guys have any you.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Know, last words of encouragement or even if you want
to plug the PET club for upcoming members that or
maybe upcoming students that are applying into the PET program
maybe if they want to.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Join, well if anyone is applying for physical therapy. You know,
v is an amazing school, right, I'm biased, but we
are huge on diversity. I mean we have this amazing
club and so many others. We have a diversity, Equity
and Inclusion Club, so we cantile.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
There's also other clubs.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Too that like started from students as well, really Spanish club,
per club, club, Sports sports club. Yeah, it's all like
student ran. Everyone has like a faculty advisor.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
But we can even give out or where can they.
I know you guys have Instagram.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
We do have Instagram.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
Bring that, uh, secretary, it is a you know, VPT
phil M Club.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
On Instagram, and then maybe just message there.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
If anybody wants or is interested in applying to Physical
Therapy School, you can always contact there.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
And then if you need help with shadowing, networking or
anything like that.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I mean there's a bunch of outpatient locations and clinics,
not just outpatient but in patient that we can probably
connect you with.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Sure, we do a lot of mentorship.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
Remember you don't have to be Filippine.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
You do not have to be.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Thank you guys so much again for joining us. Casey,
you have any sorry, I don't want to cut you off. Alrighty,
that is it for today's episode. Thank you again to
the students and the board directors of the un V
Physical Therapy phil M Club. My name is Sarah mel.
Thank you for joining us again. If you have any recommendations,
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fellow business owners, community leaders, new businesses, restaurants, stuff like
that that you want to be featured on this show,
please reach out to me at Sarah Malfay on Instagram.
I would love to have new guests here. Thank you
and we will see you next Thursday.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hello, Hello everyone, in a long time no see. Good afternoon,
good evening, good morning, whatever time it is when you
are watching this. Thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the Las Vegas Filipino Resource Guide here at
PHLV Radio. I am your host, Sarahl Paguinawan, and again
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let's get stored it, shall we. I have some very
exciting guests today from the un LV Physical Therapy of
Phil M Club. I had a pleasure of being a
guest speaker at their meeting. Yeah, I'm like meeting a
couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to bring them
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on the show because I was so inspired by what
they're doing. For the community, so give us a warm welcome. Please, Hello,
introduce yourself one by one. We can start with you, Shay.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So, I'm Shae Shay Robles. I am a second year.
I'm one of the co presidents for the club.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh and then when did I say I wanted you
to introduce yourself? And then oh, what field? Like what
kind of ye?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, So I am interested in doing sports physical therapy.
And then I have a huge military background. So my
family is all military Air Force. That's how we came
to America. So I am planning to commission and kind
of get more into the military tactical side.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Okay, if sports doesn't work out, any specific sports or.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, I'm a huge volleyball kind of player. Too short,
so I can't really like really go deep into that,
but you know I can help out that help.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And still be surrounded.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Vertically challenged, So that's my that's my my main focus.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
If I were to go into sports.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I'm my name is Casey. I'm also vertically challenged. Also
sing your PT. I'm really interested in ana doing pelvic health,
which is previously known as women's health.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Yeah, and then either that or pediatrics are cute.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I love.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Yeah, I'm super excited to work with that kind of population.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah you have a position in the Oh yeah, i'm
cultural chair.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
She does all the planning, you know.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
All right, Hi everyone, my name is Nolan Coverto. I
am the other co president. Thanks to Shay, we got
this thing started last year.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
What month was that, Well, we planned this summer summer and.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Then we got we got the club started and wow,
that's cool. It's quickly.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It was quick.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
I am super interested in sports orthopedics, but as we're
taking more courses and seeing like the different fields of PEAT,
I think my mind is just kind of open to
any any really.
Speaker 9 (04:00):
Yeah, that's nice. I'm Neil.
Speaker 10 (04:04):
I'm also a second year PET student and I am
the secretary secretary and historian Secretary secretary.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
He does most of the work. We need a photo
on it.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
On it.
Speaker 10 (04:24):
I'm still unsure what I want to go into. At first,
I was thinking out patient ortho back when I was
at Tech, But now that I've learned about more things
alongside with Nolan, I'm still just kind of trying to decide.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It always changes throughout your like your fool timeline, you
kind of get interested in one thing and they're like never.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Mind, yeah, which is good and a bad thing. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah. Also, thank you guys again for you know, joining us.
I wanted to talk more about, you know, starting the club,
like you had mentioned, what was the purpose behind starting it.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
That's actually pretty funny because my faculty advisor, his name
is doctor Merril Landers. He we had like one of
our midterm meetings and he was basically like, hey, you're
a Filipino, right, so, and he noticed like how many
Bilinos are in our class and in the class above us,
and so he was like, you guys should definitely start
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a club and I'll be interested in being like the advisory.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Advisor for so he was the one who pushed he
isn't no heal him to do.
Speaker 11 (05:33):
He's food okay, he loves what did he say?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
He was like like, oh yeah and a lot of
both food.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Okay, you knows right. We had a pollo when you
were that's awesome. Every meeting, We're having a pollock next week.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
No, he was, He was the main He was the
one that kind of started it and really got Nolan.
Yeah yeah, and then like really of our entire class,
I think there's like at least a quarter.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
A quarter of our class.
Speaker 9 (06:04):
You say, what would you say?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I know, I asked you this earlier, Like, probably pretty
good chunk of us are Filipino and in the third
year class above us.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So the thing I noticed when I was there, a
lot of the members who were joining in weren't all Filipino. Yeah,
so it's open to pretty much anybody.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
So pretty much when we wanted to start the club,
it was of course just to get the Filipino community.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
Yeah, but we also wanted to keep it as like a.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Family community, right, just kind of like our culture is
just always including everyone everyone around us, making feel comfortable.
So we're like, even though we're at school, you know,
learning about pet, we still want to create like that
family environment at school.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, and then they also get to learn.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
About about the culture.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, that's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Especially in our program too, where it's so hectic and rigorous,
it's like nice to have a club where it's like, Okay,
this is our community. We're going to come in, learn
and eat and yeah, it's like an educational and like
community based club, but it's also like a place that
we can feel grounded and comfortable with each other and
and stepping away.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
From that yeah, physical therapy world.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know, and like the outside of it.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Yeah, exactly, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Was it Is it hard to start a club?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Like?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I know you guys said you started planning it
and in the summertime, right, So you can't just like
go up to somebody be like I want to start
a club or is it?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Like so just like what am I allowed to say?
Speaker 9 (07:33):
So I brought up and like I was basically.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I was like, he like, dofor Landers wants us to
start a filipetal club? Wouldn't that be crazy if like
we were presidents or like what if we like started
it and just kept that ball rolling. So then basically
Shane and I were were like, all right, yeah, let's uh,
let's plan to like.
Speaker 9 (07:57):
Get some people together.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
So during one of our breaks, like in between class,
we're like, let's pull all of.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Our like.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
In our in our club and we're like, hey, like, Neil,
you're gonna be this position in Casey you're gonna do this.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Bertie you can do this, and can do Roselle can
be part of it too. Yeah, So were.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
We like kind of like already pre planned everyone and
we were like, hey, like let's get this thing going.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
So then from there it just kind of going on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Somebody where you just kind of know how to book
the rooms and we gu meet.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
We like did all the formal stuff, you know, we
met with with doctor Landers was also our like head
department of Physical therapy.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
He was like the director. He got of moved up.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But at the time we made sure that is there
any other steps that we need to do to build
kind of this sort of organization professionally, so we did
all that.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
There really wasn't much at u n l V. There is.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's like an rso, the actually registered student organizations. It's
a little different because we're grad students, but some of
our organizations in like the physical therapy program also our
rso so that's our.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Next that's our next step. Yeah, next semester.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We already have some of our officers coming up, so
they're going to start that next semester where we're going
to be like actually registered in the un l V program,
which is great because they have a filip you know,
like the FOSSA.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That one's rs already right, yes, yeah, that one is,
I hope you guys. Yeah, would and if you're looking
for more members, this is another reason why I want
it's bringing you guys on them out there.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Please.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Yeah, the thing is, you do have to be a
part of the PPT program program in order to join
the Filipino American Club with un l VPT. But if
you're just like an undergrad student at going to UNILV,
you can join the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
But also do there's I mean, Toro is just coming
out with the Filipino Club as well. Really, yes, we've
already we've been reaching out to them and like all
the other I mean I reached out to some of
like the.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Nursing students at you and LV like hey, like we're having.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
A meeting, the meeting that we had last month, Like hey,
we're gonna make these.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Blankets for Shade Tree to donate. You should come by.
So it's kind of like an open invitation.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes, it's like labeled under physical therapy, but it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Kind of way to connect you and other groups as well. Right,
And I also to talk about you know, the Shade
Tree blankets. You guys are looking to do more community
based stuff to, right, Yeah, is there a certain thing
you're looking for or couldn't just be kind of any
any like philanthropy.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I think, just any philanthropy service. So we did the
Shade Tree.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
I also organized like a clothing drive with the Big
Brothers BA Sisteries Southern Nevada. So we actually just set
up our donation bins at you know, just like in
the building that we all kind of have our classes
at but soon drop off stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You want to kind of say where it is at.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Yeah, So it's at the BHS building. Do you guys
remember what.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It's broad Lee Bigelow.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Science Science exactly right, Yeah, it's by Law. Oh, it's
the giant red building. But we have one bin on
the first floor kind of like in the community area. Yeah,
you can just kind of drop off your clothes and
us as a group like we're collecting the clothes.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
And we'll hold this drive until like the end of March.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
March twenty seventh is going to be the last one. Yeah, yeah,
and then every day we always keep it secured in
one of our locked rooms so nobody will like mess
with it, just in case somebody like goes through it
and everything. So that's until March twenty seventh, and all
of those clothes, like no one said gets donated to
the Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
So that's us.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
But I mean we're always open for other like philanthropic events.
I know we talked about like the food drive.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes, food drives. I'm also that's another reason why I
brought you guys on here. So if anybody watching out
there would like to partner with your organizations or any
philanthropic services, please reach out to them. Probably reach out
to Shay or Nolan if you can.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
We'll plug them at the end of the show. Yeah,
any of those.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And then we even talked about having like a youth
minglers thing. We even talking about that we really want
to do that. It was a secret, no sneak, This
is a lie, right.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Kind of Oh, Neil, can you see you have anything
else that.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
They didn't know?
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Did you guys? Do you guys like feel comfortable? I
guess like yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
They did, but you guys just said it was like, Hey,
wouldn't it be cool if.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Like they were like, yeah, okay, so you can do this,
you can do this, you can do this, But I'm like, okay,
game the game.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
That's one thing I like about us. We're always like, okay,
you're telling.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
You When it first started, I honestly thought it was
like a joke. But I kept seeing like the ball rolling,
and I was like, oh, we're doing it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So many group childs like this really because.
Speaker 10 (13:15):
You guys told us a story about how doctor Landers
wanted us to do it, so that kind of seemed
like a joke.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
But then yeah, you guys went with it and here
we are.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, as how many members you guys have right now
or are you kind of not keeping.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
As many games? Journey East?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, there was a lot when I was there.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I think there was a little chunk of people there.
There's always at least twenty. Yeah, that's a good amount.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yes, And what's great is that's how many start at
the beginning of the meeting.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And then people walk well lest people walk past our
room like you know.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The last Yeah, they're like, oh what's Oh what's bad?
And we're like come, come eat, come eat, there's leftovers
typical pot Philip, you know, thing right, and then they're like, oh,
I didn't know, like I think two people well at
the end of last meeting was like, hey can you
add me on the email list?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, It's like it's a growing thing
and people came.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
To I added them to the email list anyway, but like, yeah,
I love well.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
One thing I noticed about the potluck too, because you know,
especially with our generation, when we say potluck.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
People are like, Okay, I'm just gonna go buy food.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I noticed a lot of your members actually know how
to cook like authentic Filipino quisine, which I thought was
so awesome because I'm still learning, but you know, to
keep that as a part of the culture is really
really inspiring for our generation.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I feel like, yes, and even just sharing that the culture,
like the food and everything too. Like you said, like
not a lot of people in the club or who
come to the clubs, so it's like, oh, what is this?
It's easy, Like no, no, no, you have to eat
with this.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Yeah, like what you know.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Nolan gave me a rump throb and then Neil was
like did you warm it up for her?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
And Noel like I was like it was cold, and
I was like, oh, try some high. No, that was
that was amazing. Yeah, that was I didn't bring the
fish though.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
You eat, do you really?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Like the sweet.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
You just sprinkle it on top, so it's like chocolate fish.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, it's like you know, the go on and the mingo. Yeah, okay,
I wanted to ask switch gears a little bit and
talk about physical therapy.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Why did you guys each.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Choose this route? You know, because there's so many medical
there's so many fields out there.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Why Shay did you decide? Pete?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well, I knew, I knew I wanted to do medical.
I mean, ever, all like everyone in my family was medical, right,
my mom. I want to be like my mom. My
mom's nursing. And I was like, I don't want to
do that. I don't want to do something more. And
so when I went into undergrad, I think that's when
I got more in to I did kinesiology, but I
got more into like the coaching things Like I did
a lot of group fitness coaching. I was like a
(16:06):
cycle instructor. I did all that, and so I kind
of yeah, that was when else fit. I sit down
eight hours out of the guys.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
All these pot looks.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
But then I kind of like combined the two. I
did a lot of the sports and then medical, and
I was like, what can I do with this? And
so it was it was physical therapy. So yeah, that
was my main thing, and I like I like how
like there's options in the field and me, it's not
just one. Yes, you know like a lot of like
medical nurse. I know nursing you can do it too,
(16:40):
but you can like switch gears immediately, like we were
talking about this today.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You can do.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Pediatrics for two three years and say something needs to
change or like you need a bit a different lifestyle.
Then you can work in the hospital for as many
years as you want, or even per DM you can
do thethopedics.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So it's it's the how you can just like change
your schedule at any point.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Because you're already trained in it technically or you kind
of just have to.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
We learned.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We learn all of it during school during the three years,
and then if we want to specialize in it, we
can some require additional education.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But it's wow, that's really cool. Yeah, it's amazing you.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
So I was a bio undergrad and I was considering
going to med school. Yeah, I wait out the amount
of time it would take to be in med school
and the amount of effort and also kind of where
I wanted to hit certain milestones in my life your life. Yeah,
and it didn't line up right, like for example, kids, Yeah,
(17:42):
like I want that before thirty.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
It's all kind of Marco personal. Do we have a
color that work?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
But I like physical therapy because of the amount of
interaction you have with your patient.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
With your patient, yeah, you really get to know them.
And then also all the populations you work with, even
the old.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
People, like it's very rewarding to be with them and
to help them work to something better.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Right.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Yeah, So I love it.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I like it.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Yeah, the nursing yeah, we love we love you.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
I wanted to do PET also because I wanted to
do something in like the medical background.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Yeah. I'm pretty sure all of our moms nurses.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Yeah, in the in the medical home healthcare.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
But yeah, like I come from a family of a
lot of medical background.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Growing up, I was in the fitness scene as well,
just like going to the gym things like that. And
then when I got into college, going to fraternity and
they were big on philanthropy, so just like providing volunteer service.
So I went on like this eight week long trip
across country and I was providing just like volunteer construction
(19:20):
work at camps. It was called build America with the
pie cap of Phi fraternity shout out you and r
But yeah, so during that journey, it was just like
me coming to like the realization that I love providing
(19:43):
a service to the community at the expense of just
my own self. So it wasn't like I was doing
it for incentive or I mean, I guess like for
joy and happiness, right, but yeah, just helping other people. Yeah,
and then I started working in a physical therapy clinic
as a tech and then that kind of drove it
(20:05):
even further.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, and that's why I'm here.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
That's awesome, thank you.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
I think I realized I want to go into pt
and high school. I knew I want to go in
the medical field because like we all said, our families
are in medical field, so that's kind of what we knew.
And I was in uh once in Northwest High School.
They have a biomedical science program and they brought up
physical therapy and I really liked how they helped patients
get better, like without medicine or without surgery. Yeah, so
(20:35):
that's really one thing that drew me to physical therapy
because I want to help patients and if they could
get better without doing those things, I think be.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Very good for them.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
What amplified it too is I started working as a
tech with their middle years ago, and I was able
to see like what kind of things they do and
how they treat patients and the interaction like what Casey said,
And that's what made me really want to become a Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think that's one thing I want everyone to know
about physical therapy is like the more you get into it,
the more you fall in love with it, because it's
just the care just like it feels like a different
type of care, you know, because you're not just there to,
like you said, give them medicine stuff. You're there to
see them grow physically and mentally and stuff like that.
I don't know, I just.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Physical up and down, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And we see people at the end obviously, which is
like they're there, we have they're great, they're doing amazing,
But we also see them like in the beginning, Yeah,
when they're in pain.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, and you have this like patient coming in and
you're like this is the meanest patient. Yeah. You're like, oh,
but they're in so much pain. You know, they're in pain.
Let's let's help them.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And then literally after like one visit or two, they're
like a completely different person and we help them kind of.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Get to and then like right when they're about to
get discharged, it's like that you've built that relationship with them.
It's just like friendship and you're like, oh, I'm gonna
miss that patient coming in stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That's like the one thing I love about P right,
my case was saying you don't get that a lot
with some other fields, Like you build that relationship.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Absolutely and you don't know just them, Like you get
to learn their families, their grand Like they bring in photos,
they give you gifts like yeah, few little pins or
like crafts that they made and they thought of you,
like it's very sweet Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They bring a lot of treats.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
They bring a lot of crumbled.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Do you guys have any advice for you know, future
whether they're in PT or not, but if you know
this is something that they may want to look into.
Do you have any advice for people maybe stepping out
of their comfort zone or trying something new.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
I think shadowing plays a big part in it whatever profession,
but PT it is requirement to get into PET school
and during shadowing they could actually find out it's something
they want to do.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Or what types of settings they like.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
And I think they will motivate them when they're applying
and in PT school as well, when they see like
what the profession actually does.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And most you can usually reach out to any place
right then, like you know you're a student, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Most people want shadows to right, They're pretty open to it.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Peop were more strict, like if you're working in like
the NIKU or something.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah, that's true, especially post COVID.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah. Yeah, a lot of outpatients will be fine.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yeah, I think majority of like outpatient is open for
like observations and things like that. I think if you're
going to do something like in the hospital like they
do like a background checks, well I mean it doesn't
hurt to try, yea to kind of bounce off a
neil too, like just starting as early as you want,
you know, just to see if you are even interested.
(23:46):
Because personally, like I didn't do a lot of shadowing
like in the hospital. I like worked was it like
five six years like in the outpatient setting, and like
like two hours of observation in the hospital, and I was.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Like, man, I don't want to work in the hospital.
I don't know why my mom does it or like
you know, my dad used to work in the hospital.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
So but now like in our current state in PT,
we're doing like a lot of observation and skilled nursing facilities,
long term acute care, just in patient rehab things like that,
and it's like kind of opened my eyes to be like, Okay,
maybe I am really interested into.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Working here, or like maybe it's not as bad as
I thought. So I think.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Starting as early as you can, like in high school,
to just kind of expose yourself to everything absolutely, just
so that way when you go into PT school or
no matter like what medical field you go into, like
at least that way you know like, Okay, I tried this,
and I know like this is going to be like
(24:52):
yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That happened to me too when I was so I
was pre nursing when I went into college, and I'll
be I shadowed like right when I was starting in college,
and then I was like, ah, this is not for me,
but I'm glad I shadowed, just like you said, because
then you could learn what you like, what you don't like.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah. Any other advice.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Not only for PT, but for like any medical profession
as long as you have like grit and consistency. You
don't have to be a genius, Like you don't have
to compare yourself to other people who are just naturally
gifted at learning material just by reading it over once.
Like just because you're not that kind of person doesn't
mean that you're not cut out for any kind of
(25:34):
medical field or medical profession.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
I mean to say, so maybe that.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Something and then it's gonna work out.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I would say, like if like it's okay to change
your mind, you know, just like with the shadowing and everything, like,
don't be afraid to change what you want to do,
because I think like when I was in college, I
initially wanted to do physical therapy and I had to
take a few steps back, like something happened and I.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Was like, you know, I don't Yeah, I don't want
to do physical therapy. So I stopped.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And I think it was two years junior or senior year.
I did not want to do physical therapy. Yeah, I
was going for I was like going into my master's
and Rena I like got in, was like doing it
for public health. You know, I don't want I Like
I was in there and I was like I don't
want to do my masters anymore. And then I was like, oh,
maybe i'll teach started stubbing yeah, and I was like,
(26:26):
I don't think I want to do that. So it
took those steps for me to realize and take a
step back and be like, you know what this is
physical therapy is something I want to do. And then
because of that, I knew like, oh, you know what
this is. This is my final decision and I have
no regrets.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
It took a few years, right, And also I really
love that because you sometimes you need to try out
a bunch of things right to lead you to where you're.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Supposed to be at.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, So I really really liked that.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
I think that's what's cool about our program too, is
like it's just so diverse, like background wise, and like
age two, like age you have people who are twenty
one or twenty you know, like like yeah, I mean any.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Like post post post undergrad.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I guess, yeah, like you can just join if you
you know, if you decide to go back to school, right,
just surrounding yourself with people who have like common values.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think I think she's the oldest.
Speaker 11 (27:34):
Time already.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I'm getting bullied so.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And so to kind of close it all up, I
think I wanted to ask you what the importance of
celebrating your Filipino culture is? What does it mean to you?
And how do you celebrate it? Some you haven't starting
where you're doing.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Really, I think I just want people to know, like
the non Filipinos of like the type of culture we
bring in, Like Filipinos are very hospitable and treat everyone
like their family. So even just at these meetings and
these pot looks, they could see that we're very like like, oh,
come join us, like anyone can come.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Like we'll have food. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
I want everyone to see that, just so when they
if they come across any other Filipinos, they know like
what they'll be like, and yeah they'll feel comfortable.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Yeah, love that.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
We have to go in question? What was the question?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Just like kind of important? What's how is the like,
what is being Filipino mean to you? The importance of it?
And how do you celebrate your culture? We don't have
to go in order whoever wants to.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Go on the front.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's so hard, I mean, like it's hard.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Just how don't I doubt when you asked this to
at the meeting too, you know, like what does it
mean to be Filipino?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Yeah, it's I think it's just.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't like very similar to it. Neil is saying,
like just being like welcoming to everyone and caring and
and I don't know, it's just when we think of
like a Filipino community, I think of like my family.
So it's hard to like explain your family. Yeah, and
that like connection, like it's you know, we were we
were at a sniff center a couple weeks ago and
(29:26):
it was just a bigger and I think a couple
of the therapists were saying something into college.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
We were like, oh yeah, and.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
Then we said it and they're like, you know, everyone
was like and then from there it's like the like
rapport in that room has changed.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
It's just yeah, I can't I personally can't really describe it.
Speaker 11 (29:52):
That's that's the best way to describe it.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
Yeah, I think kind of going off of that, it's
just being able to bring the Filipino like family culture
to like other communities that don't really have that or
just like forming it yourself.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
You feel like that's part of I.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Guess that's kind of like my we can like put
that in the second question like, how do you celebrate it?
Do you?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Are you always like.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
Cooking food at home Filipino food at home?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Oh yeah, I mean I personally, I love I just
started doing this recently, like in PT school because now
I'm I'm like leaving back home, but like just getting
to invite family like friends over and be like, hey,
like let's all get together, let's all sing karaoke, let's
get some food, going drink, yeah, things like that. But
(30:44):
it's yeah, it's just that sense of bringing people together,
and I think that blends well with the workplace too. Yeah,
being being able to connect with the patients other coworkers
like that.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's nice when I feel like, especially nowadays, when people
are like you're a Filippine when they're not Filipino and
they know that we are.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Really cool association.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Okay, Like I kind of understand the culture absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's different though, I don't know when I was in Reno.
I love Reno, but it was just so it was
it was different. And I think when I shifted over
and went and came to you and I'll be I
remember seeing Casey and I remember seeing like all these
Filipinos and I just was not.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Used to it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I remember walking in and being the only like tan
brown person in like the room.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, any Asian anything into a room and reno and
then they like they they wouldn't understand that.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I was Filipino and they'd be like, oh you Korean, and.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I'm like what.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But it's it's it's definitely like a cultural It's great
because in Vegas at least you would be.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
It's so divert it's so diverse program it's diversity.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, and it was it's weird. So it's cool to
come into a community like this that is Filipino. I
was like, oh my god, Philippine.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
They're not just family, and then that casey.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
What I love about being being Filipino. It's also how
I celebrate being Filipino. I just feel like a lot
of us just live very unapologetically and love unapologetically.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
And as long as I follow that, like.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I feel like that's you celebrate your culture.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
You make as many like connections as you can with
people around you who are both inside and outside of
your culture just by sticking to that, and I think
it works really well.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Like yeah, I love yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, it's always like people are always telling growing up.
Speaker 11 (32:35):
People always be like, you're so you're too nice, You're
too nice, You're.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Too nice all the time, and I'm like, I love,
it's just too loud.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
It's just.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
We are people pleasing.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
But yeah, we're all healthcare that's how you know. But
like the car, the effort to.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Be nice is so much easier than the effort to
be me. That's why we are the way we are
because we like to see.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
People happy recently, it's just as simple as that. Completely agree.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Well, that concludes today's interview.
Speaker 11 (33:07):
Do you guys have any you.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Know, last words of encouragement or even if you want
to plug the PET club for upcoming members that or
maybe upcoming students that are applying into the PET program
maybe if they want to.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Join, well if anyone is applying for physical therapy. You know,
v is an amazing school, right, I'm biased, but we
are huge on diversity. I mean we have this amazing
club and so many others. We have a diversity, Equity
and Inclusion Club, so we cantile.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
There's also other clubs.
Speaker 8 (33:43):
Too that like started from students as well, really Spanish club,
per club, club, Sports sports club. Yeah, it's all like
student ran. Everyone has like a faculty advisor.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
But we can even give out or where can they.
I know you guys have Instagram.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
We do have Instagram.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
Bring that, uh, secretary, it is a you know, VPT
phil M Club.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
On Instagram, and then maybe just message there.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
If anybody wants or is interested in applying to Physical
Therapy School, you can always contact there.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
And then if you need help with shadowing, networking or
anything like that.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I mean there's a bunch of outpatient locations and clinics,
not just outpatient but in patient that we can probably
connect you with.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Sure, we do a lot of mentorship.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
Remember you don't have to be Filippine.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
You do not have to be.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Thank you guys so much again for joining us. Casey,
you have any sorry, I don't want to cut you off. Alrighty,
that is it for today's episode. Thank you again to
the students and the board directors of the un V
Physical Therapy phil M Club. My name is Sarah mel.
Thank you for joining us again. If you have any recommendations,
(35:10):
fellow business owners, community leaders, new businesses, restaurants, stuff like
that that you want to be featured on this show,
please reach out to me at Sarah Malfay on Instagram.
I would love to have new guests here. Thank you
and we will see you next Thursday.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
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