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Kionce King, a senior majoring in kinesiology, shares her experience and interest in pursuing a career in physical therapy on the Empower Her podcast. She talks about how a personal experience with physical therapy solidified her decision and expresses her desire to work with athletes. Kionce also discusses the importance of diversity in the field and encourages listeners to follow their dreams and never give up. Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Empower Her podcast. I'm your host Victoria Salters and today we have a very special guest, AUM's very own Ms. Kionce King. Kionce, could you take a minute to introduce yourself to the listeners and tell us a little bit about yourself. Hi everyone, my name is Kionce King. I'm from Phoenix City, Alabama. I'm a resident assistant on campus. I'm on the first floor of World Hall. I have been a resident assistant for two years now. I'm a senior majoring in kinesiology. Okay Kionce, thank you for the introduction. So my first question is, could you share a specific experience or moment that solidified your decision to pursue physical therapy as a career? One moment I can think of is when I was in high school and I was on dance team. I had to go to physical therapy because I sprained my knee and from that experience I noticed that I want to be a social therapist because I love that how the interaction was with them. They helped me out in so many ways. Yeah, great experience for me. That's really cool. So as you transition to graduate school, what specific areas within kinesiology or physical therapy would you want to work in? Great question. I've been thinking about sports a lot since I'm more interested in sports in my opinion. Any specific sports, but yeah I think in my opinion since I was a dancer in high school, I gravitate towards anything athletic wise. I would love to help any athletes out in like clinic or high school. So would you like not be into doing like professional or like a whole different thing? I would be professional. I would, but it depends on how my life is and through my years, like if I have a child or a family. I don't know how that's going to be, but I would love to be professional. Okay, so another question I have for you is in what ways do you see the field of physical therapy evolving in the future and how do you plan to like adopt to these career changes? Because you know everything's going like, I mean I don't know how like affected physical therapy would be like, you know like that with emergence of like AI and stuff like that with technology. Like have you like noticed? I haven't noticed anything. In my opinion, I haven't noticed physical therapy. I think actually, I actually think it's more individuals becoming physical therapists that I have seen throughout the years because I think physical therapy is a great career to go into. Yeah. Especially if a black woman because there's not a lot of African-Americans in the field. Yeah, I think a lot of people don't know about physical therapy at all. Everybody just wants to be a nurse. Yes, yeah. I think it is evolving though. I got you. And my final question is, actually I lied, that is my final question. Okay, thank you so much for your time and again you're listening to the Empower Her podcast and would you have, do you have any takeaways for the listeners? Just follow your dreams and never give up. Okay, thank you so much.