Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

Constant Restarts: When Life Throws Hurricanes & Babies

13 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this candid monologue, the speaker recounts the repeated disruptions to their pelvic‑floor therapy practice caused by successive hurricanes and a maternity leave. Each natural disaster forced a loss of momentum and patients, and the birth of a child required a period of leave, prompting the speaker to feel they had to "start over" repeatedly. The narrative highlights the cumulative frustration of having to rebuild the business multiple times, the emotional toll of perceived setbacks, and the temptation to abandon the venture due to the effort required to regain lost ground.

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So as I started to get momentum, hurricanes hit, lost momentum, lost patients. People put pelvic floor therapy in the background and, you know, I lost a lot of business and I felt like I had to start over. Then I had the baby and I went on maternity leave and then I felt like I had to start over. Um, more hurricanes hit and you feel like you have to start over. So there was just a lot of pauses. I felt like in business that was an easy time to say, this is too difficult, I don't want to do it, or, you know, this too much effort having to go back and try to get patients