Where female agency shapes culture. In this bonus mini episode, Dr. Kelsy Vick introduces Five Seats, the new interview series she's been building behind the scenes during the Trimester Zero Podcast Festival.

Each episode of Five Seats features one woman who made space in a room that wasn't always built for her. KV asks how she got her seat at the table, whether it was given, earned, or built, which rules she follows and which she refuses to, and, to close, the five people she'd seat at her own table. Wellness is still her home base, but this series is where she gets to be the one learning, right alongside you.

Season one topics include using AI to build human connection, investing beyond the stock market, mental resilience when the stakes are highest, training for LA 2028, and using breath in stressful moments.

Wellness Big Sis still drops every Monday. Five Seats has its own feed, releases every Tuesday, and premieres Tuesday, October 6 with three episodes.

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Where female agency shapes culture.

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This is at the heart of something I've

been building behind the scenes during

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this Trimester Zero Podcast Festival, and

I cannot wait to share it with you guys.

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Welcome back to Wellness Fixes the Pod.

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I'm your host, Dr.

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Kelse Vick, a board certified orthopedic

doctor of physical therapy and a

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women's health physical therapist

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And today is a little bit of a different

episode, a little bonus mini episode

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chatting about the new series that

I've been creating and building during

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the months of August and September,

ready to launch next week, and

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I'm so, so excited about it, and I

wanted to share it with you guys here

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So some of my favorite episodes to

do on Wellness Fixes the Pod are

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the interview episodes where I am

connecting with different guests,

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experts in health and wellness.

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And I love learning and talking

to them, and I love hosting and

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interviewing, and I always enter

these interviews with nerves and

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excitement, but like anxious excitement.

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And I always leave feeling like, "Wow,

this is something I'm meant to be doing."

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So I took that sort of sentiment

and wanted to apply it to other

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areas outside of health and wellness

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And the conversation series was really

inspired by my love for interviews

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and connecting with people, but

then also my role as a PT Some of my

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favorite moments as a PT have nothing

to do with the problem-solving of

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someone's body, although that is,

like, one of my favorite things to do.

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But some other favorite moments of mine

happen when I'm actually connecting

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with the person in front of me

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Learning about the person's career,

their training, their journey to

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where they are today, what they

actually enjoy, what their passions

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are in And I've learned so much from

these conversations that actually

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apply to different areas of my life

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And I wanted to hopefully be able

to share that excitement for my job

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and that part of my job with you

guys in this conversation series

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The other reason I wanted to create this

conversation series was because I love

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educating about health and wellness and

being able to talk about that, but I

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don't necessarily stick to that one lane.

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And I know so many of you guys are

also not interested in just one lane.

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We have a variety of interests,

us women, and I'm no different.

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And a lot of the content that

I actually consume is not even

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related to health and wellness.

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So I wanted to challenge myself to expand

beyond the health and topics that I know

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and love so dearly into other industries

and avenues that I also have interest

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in but maybe don't have the expertise

that I have in health and wellness

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So the curiosity that I know all

of you guys have, I also have.

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And I know it's not just related to

health and wellness, but it's also

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related to so many things that are

broader than health and wellness.

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And it truly does link back

to our overall wellness.

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We can't just fit in one lane.

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Our curiosity, our passions

expand beyond that.

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And I think following that and

pursuing that is a form of wellness.

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So that's what I'm doing with

this new conversation series

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Health and wellness is still

definitely my home base.

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It's what I'm trained in.

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It's what I have the most experience

and expertise in This new series is

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where I actually get to host and learn.

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I typically have very elementary

knowledge on the subject of the

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guests that I'm bringing in.

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So it's fun to be able to host

these interviews, but also learn

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from these super amazing women

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So on Five Seats, which is the

name of my new conversation

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series, I am not the expert

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I'm just the one asking the questions

and guiding the conversation and

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learning along with you Wellness

still definitely sneaks in.

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A lot of the conversations, these

women talk about how important their

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health and wellness is in different

ways, whether it's mental resilience,

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whether it's grit, whether it's how

they structure their lives to be able

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to take care of their health, to show up

in the world in the way that they want.

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So it's not focused on health and wellness

necessarily, but it definitely is a

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subtle underlying theme throughout all

the conversations So here's the show.

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It's called Five Seats

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If you've been here a while, you know

I love the dinner party idea, like a

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casual girl dinner party where we're

just meeting and conversing and chatting

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and meeting cool people in the room,

and that's exactly what I wanted Five

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Seats to feel like The Mavens are

the most dynamic dinner party guests

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And five seats takes that literally

Each episode, I sit down with one woman

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who made space in a room that women

aren't always the most comfortable in

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We talk about how she

got her seat at the table

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And at the end, she'd tell me the

five people she seats at her own

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Every episode opens with the same

question: What's one assumption

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people make about you and what

you do, and what question do

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you wish they'd ask you instead?

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From there we get into how she

got to the table, if her seat

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was earned, given, or built

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Rules she follows and

rules she refuses to.

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Her journey and what she is

looking forward to in the future

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Then we set the table.

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Three seats are the same for every guest.

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Someone who inspires them, someone

who could change their mind,

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someone they haven't met yet but

think they'd be great friends with.

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And the last two seats are guest

dependent, depending on who they are,

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their passions, and their industry

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This first season we get into

Using AI to build human connection

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investing and building generational wealth

beyond the stock market Mental resilience

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when the stakes are the highest.

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LA 2028 Olympics and looking

at an athlete and her training

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behind preparing for the Olympics

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Using breath during stressful

moments and big events

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And so much more.

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Wellness Big Sis isn't going anywhere.

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Episodes will still drop weekly on

Mondays Five Seats is its own feed

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and releases every Tuesday We premiere

next Tuesday, October 6th, with the

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first three episodes of the series

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If you ever thought about who

you'd want at your own table I

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think this show and conversation

series is going to feel like home

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I'll see you guys in the next episode of

Wellness Big Sis the pod, and I hope to

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see you guys joining us for five seats