Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon.

And today on the podcast, I want to interview the very wonderful Ryan Green, Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon. And today on the podcast, I want to interview the very

wonderful Ryan Green, Dr. Ryan Green, originally trained in orthopedics and sports medicine.

And he is the CEO and owner of Monarch Athletic Club in West Hollywood. And welcome to the podcast, Ryan.

Thank you. I'm honored to be here.

Yes. So tell us a little bit about what made you go into fitness and starting Monarch Athletic Club. Yeah, it was pretty interesting when I was training in the surgical space. All I ever wanted to do was

be a team orthopedist like my mentor

in medical school and learned quickly that the change that I was really passionate about, which was

allowing people to do what they wanted to do for as long as they wanted to do it, was going to be

difficult to execute in a traditional hospital setting.

Because as you know, you don't get a lot of time.

And most people, by the time they get to the hospital, don't really want to worry about

what they're doing outside of it.

They just want to fix the acute issue.

So I had a crisis of conscience because I realized everything that I thought I wanted

wasn't exactly where

things were going, but I knew I could still achieve that goal in the sports medicine space,

but it was just going to look a little bit different.

So I did a fellowship after residency at Mayo Clinic in academia and research thought

perhaps by producing papers, people would read about ways to improve their lives,

but realized quickly that that also wasn't going to be as impactful as I wanted to.

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