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- When I see a service member
in uniform, that's home to me.

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I actually started out
in a physical therapy.

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And then I realized, you know what?

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This health and wellness field

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is more than just fitness.

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Health and wellness is
this all encompassing

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like the move to health wheel.

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You have nutrition, you
have sleep, you have stress,

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personal development,
also exercise as well.

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So that was the most
enticing thing about this.

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Once I get into work, I'm ready

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to see one-on-one with clients.

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Sitting one on one with
people, and understanding

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where they're at right now,
what their struggles are,

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what their barriers are, and
helping them together come up

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with a solution, all great stuff.

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And then COVID happened.

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Personally, it was very
difficult because it changed.

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We have to shut the center down.

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They sent us home, working
from home and I'm struggling.

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I'm struggling with
this pandemic right now.

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And I'm going through my own
health and wellness obstacles.

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From coming to work, seeing clients daily,

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to staying at home and trying to connect.

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That's probably the most
challenging part right now,

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is trying to reach people
through technology.

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Hey Joe, how's it going? It's Josabel

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from the Army Wellness Center.

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You know, I want people
to know that we're here.

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That just because we closed
our physical location,

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we didn't go anywhere.

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Even in the comfort of our own homes,

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we are a message away,
we are a phone call away.

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And we are right there with everyone

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that we've worked with before.

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