So I would love to kind of start with what drew you to HR initially, and how you came to work with therapy practices.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, and there is some serious intersection when we start talking about how employees behave in the business, support the business, and of course are compliant with the rules and regulations that we each have to navigate and learn about.

So my journey to human resources, like most HR professionals, is a little bit of a zigzag.

So most people, now I think more than before, like I've been in the industry about 25 years, When I started out, there was no bachelor's degree in human resources.

It wasn't even a thing.

It just didn't exist.

sort of simultaneously what are the core things that someone who's just launching a practice should be mindful of if you're like okay you may not be able to do the entire thing before you launch but if you're going to enter this territory here are some foundational pieces to put in place to save a lot of effort and friction down the road.