Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. Every Monday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dr. Stephen Simonson, and our topic today,

a day in the life, what's it really like to be a pharmacist? Welcome, Stephen. Great to be here.

Thank you. Thank you. Stephen, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

I am. After a long career, you kind of focus into what you really enjoy doing, and fortunately have had the opportunities to do that.

Excellent. Dr. Steven Simonson is the CEO and managing partner of Goodrich Pharmacy Incorporated with five community pharmacies in Minnesota.

He is graduate of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy along with his wife, Wendy, who's also a pharmacist, where he now serves as an adjunct faculty member.

Steve was the 2013-, 2014 president of the American

Pharmacist Association. He is past president and founder of the Minnesota Pharmacist Foundation

and past president of the Minnesota Pharmacist Association. He is actively advocating for the

pursuit of patient access to and coverage for pharmacist's patient care services.

Steve has received the APHA Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellent Award and the University of Minnesota's Outstanding Service Award.

He is at his best taking care of patients.

Well, as I explained in the introduction, Steve, this episode of our show, award. He is at his best taking care of patients.

Well, as I explained in the introduction, Steve, this episode of our show is all about helping listeners get an up close and personal look at one of the highest rated occupations or

professions in the country. So before we begin our chat, I'd like to share with our listeners

just a few statistics about the profession

of being a pharmacist, if I may. And this is from the U.S. News and World Reports, Best Jobs Report.

There are 318,600 total pharmacists in the country. Median pay is 126,670. It ranks number 27 of health care jobs, number 21 in best paying jobs overall,

and ranked 55 out of 100 of the best jobs in the country. And as we discussed pre-interview,

the educational requirements are typically four years at the university, but there are programs

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