Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and brands

to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. I am so thrilled to have Dr. Pat Bologne on the show today

from Health Network and many ventures.

Dr. Pat, you are an expert in helping people be the best

selves if you will and I know that's a very small way of phrasing everything that

you do.

But I want to talk about your backstory

because I was really intrigued

when I was looking at your website

and I saw you had retired

and then you realized that there was this whole other thing that you are called to serve people for and to help people with.

Yeah, you know, when I retired I always wanted to live in a big city.

I didn't really retire.

I sold my business and I was going to go on a trip around the world

and which I never ended up doing.

Oh, and you know, it's like bummer and because I was going to

to South America and at that point in time it was safe to go to Venezuela. I mean I

knew a chiropractor there that said come you can work in my office you know and I had a lot of those

invites straight across but I went skiing and as the universe has it they had

something else in mind for me and I got nailed by a snowboarder and I ended up being a like breaking, you know,

a meniscus, cherry a ligament, spreading my neck, my shoulder, I mean, it was, you know, it went from being very mobile to like not being in a good place at all

and for like maybe like five years. I mean it was significant. I think you just remember getting into I was with a boyfriend at the time and he had a two-seater jaguire

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