QUARTERLY BEAT / DECEMBER 2023 ///
/// QUARTERLY BEAT / DECEMBER 2023
THE FOUNDERS’ NOTE
Founder/CEO JUSTINE LEE
GARRET PACHTINGER
Founder/COO
HERE ARE SOME TIPS WE WANTED TO SHARE:
As 2023 comes to an end, we’re excited for what 2024 brings! It’s been an amazingly busy year for our VETgirl team and we’re really proud of what our team has accomplished! We’re closing out the 2023 year with 102.5 hours of LIVE webinars, 31.5 hours of sponsored LIVE webinars, and 12 FREE hours of Spanish CE (not including the 1,000 hours on-demand in our library)! Not only that, but we had an incredible, sold-out VETgirl U Conference at the bougie Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort, which included over 1,000 veterinary professionals; our first ever successfully, sold-out dental lab; almost 70 exhibitors; and both a veterinarian and veterinary technician education track. Now we have to turn right around and plan VETgirl U 2024 in beautiful New Orleans. (Don’t forget to sign up to go before it sells out, because seriously, you’ll never go to another veterinary conference like this again!).
• Focus on one thing. • Schedule in breaks in your day.
• Only handle it once (OHIO). More on this in a future blog! • Have a shorter to-do list. (Lower your expectations while setting yourself up for success. Only have 3 things on your to- do list a day!) • Practice 3-minute meditation. • Reconnect with people outside of the veterinary world. • Don’t solve other people’s problems - that’s not your role. • Start a gratitude journal. • Focus on being refreshed and energized. • Be intentional. Pause. Reset. • Be hopeful. • Find your tribe, brag buddy, and accountability partner, as it’s lonely out there sometimes. • Know that there is always a community out there for you (especially with VETgirl!). Make sure to reach out and find it. • Be intentional and add it to your schedule to take care of yourself. (e.g., Block out time on your calendar to preserve it!) • Set boundaries on emails. Like no sending email outside of “normal” work hours (e.g., preschedule emails to go out the following morning so your staff doesn’t feel the pressure to check email all the time!). • You don’t have to solve every problem. • Slow down, fill your cup, and keep filling it with things that light your spark.
We know we’ll be prioritizing these things as we enter the New Year. We know the rest of our VETgirl team will be too. We wish you all the best 2024 and thank you for being such an amazing part of our VETgirl community.
WHAT ELSE WAS NEW WITH VETgirl IN 2023?
We changed our VETgirl ELITE content to provide weekly (from bi-weekly) educational videos, teamed up with some amazing education partners (such as Viticus Group and VetLead), and celebrated many job anniversaries within our amazing VETgirl team. We added three amazing downloadable e-books, including our Ultimate Guide to Toxicology book, our Put Your Mental Health First book, and our Top 10 Go-To-Guides for Vet Tech Life. I mean, how much educational content can we make?! As the New Year (2024, whoop!) approaches, we know that one of our New Year’s Resolutions is to continuously work on our own personal work-life balance. Because the struggle is REAL! And constant!
JUSTINE LEE
GARRET PACHTINGER
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