about the mobile stroke unit she was just saying you don't understand how important time is brain and how you can literally see someone that just had a stroke starts losing those faculties and regains them you know in in those moments so paint us a picture when when did it become so obvious how important this is was there a particular patient a particular experience

I think this is a lesson, honestly, we learn every day.

There are so many countless meaningful patient interactions we've had, but one that really comes to mind and I was really, really, really touched by is that we were dispatched to a call a few years ago now with one of the fire departments in our county, and we arrived to a dentist office for a patient that when she was paying for her dental services, all of a sudden she had a facial droop develop.

And they called 911.

She was young.

She was a young black woman, 40 years old.

And, you know, we don't tend to think stroke happens in young.

I'm curious about, in the ideal scenario, like everything went your way, what would your vision be? Like should every hospital have one? Should these mobile stroke units be parked, you know, every few blocks? Like what would you ideally do to have a bigger

So what were the, uh, biggest challenges in getting eHealth Merit off the ground, and how did you overcome them?

Yeah, there were a lot of challenges.

I'm not gonna lie.

I didn't know anything.

[laughs] I didn't know anything about business.

I didn't have a business degree.

I didn't know how do you start a corporation? Does it, is it supposed to be an S corporation? Is it supposed to be a C corporation? What do you do? How do you find a lawyer? How do you find funding? How, how do you do this all on your own? It really, the idea came to me when I was serving as a consultant for, for the company I was telling you about, Encompass, and my role as a consultant was here.

Can you talk a little bit more about some of your interests outside of your professional career? I know you started to talk about Pilates already.