A clinical instructor blocked her plan to load a chronic back-pain patient with 12-pound weights.
1. The Made 2 Move Podcast launches with Hannah explaining why the show exists and why movement is the center of its mission.
2. Hannah is the host, and she matters because she is both a physical therapist and one of the owners of Made to Move.
3. The episode asks what the podcast is for: to explain why Made to Move exists and why its team believes people need clarity, not fear, around pain and health.
4. She says she has hosted the Healthy Charleston Podcast since 2020 and now wants Made to Move to reflect a broader mission beyond Charleston.
5. She ties that mission to a letter her mom found during decluttering, which she wrote in 2020 about a medical mission trip in Ecuador.
6. The Ecuador trip mattered because she saw manual laborers with painful knees, backs, and shoulders whose bodies were their livelihoods.
7. On the bus ride in Ecuador, she realized she had been choosing medical school because it seemed impressive and practical, not because she felt called to it.
8. She says that realization pushed her toward physical therapy, where she wanted to help people move, exercise, and remove barriers to activity.
9. Her high-school health history shaped the story too: mono for a second time, tonsillitis seven times in one year, and about 14 months on the couch.
10. A YMCA membership and daily elliptical workouts after school became the turning point that changed her mood, attendance, friendships, and identity.
11. She says movement became a non-negotiable after that, because it helped her through sadness, stress, and breakups.
12. In college, her friend Christian introduced her to CrossFit, which gave her a new identity as “the CrossFit girl” and “the strong girl.”
13. She says doctors she shadowed warned that healthcare was changing and that they had little time with patients, which made her question the pre-med path.
14. Her PT school experience became a second disillusionment because she heard repeated messages that running was bad, lifting was dangerous, and CrossFit was hurting people.
15. The golfer with chronic low back pain became the clearest example, because she wanted to load him with exercises like deadlifts and Jefferson curls but was told to do 22 minutes of manual therapy instead.
16. She says she hid behind a wall to use a 12-pound weight with him, then got in trouble and lost the chance to treat him independently.
17. She later found a very different model at Made to Move, where her own shoulder pain led her to a clinic inside a CrossFit gym with full-hour one-on-one care.
18. The format is personal, chronological, and reflective, with Hannah reading from the Ecuador letter and moving between memory, philosophy, and business history.
19. People who care about physical therapy, movement training, and healthcare philosophy will get the most from it.
20. People wanting a short, purely clinical episode without founder story will probably skip it.
