The podcast crew talks with chiropractor and practice owner, Bryant Harris '05, about the road less traveled and the benefits and downsides. Was it worth it? Transcript: - Hello, and welcome to the "What's Career Got To Do With It" podcast, where we hope to provide a space for honest conversation and information that encourages the listener to take the next steps in their career journey. Wherever you are at in this process, we hope this episode will meet you with affirmation, guidance, and maybe some laughs along the way. On this episode, we have Dr. Bryant Harris joining us, who is a chiropractor and owner of True Center Chiropractic Care. Welcome, welcome. - What up, happy to be here. - Yes, so Dr. Bryant Harris is here to kind of talk to us about, you know, discussing or answering the question of what is the route less traveled? - Yes, sound effects are good. So welcome back home. - Yes, welcome back. - How we doing? - I'm doing great. I love it here. - You enjoying false fall? - Listen, you know, I'm up in D.C. We have false fall up there, too. - Oh, yeah. - Multiple days, but it's not humid, so it's just warm. - Oh, yeah, we're back to the humid. - So it's not that humid here. It was comfortable, but yeah. - Yeah, I love the humidity. - Good to you. - No, said no one ever. - Wow, gotta have a great flat iron. Anyhoo, well, why don't we open this up by giving you an opportunity to further introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about your work, and then we'll dive into that road. - Yeah, all right, so since this is a Duke podcast, I guess I should get some of my Duke credentials - That part. - In terms of that. So, as I said, my name is Dr. Bryant Harris. I'm a certified perinatal and pediatric chiropractor in Annapolis, Maryland. I do own my practice, Shoe Center Chiropractic Care, and a little shout-out to myself. I am the first black certified perinatal and pediatric chiropractor in the world. I graduated from Duke in 2005. I was a sociology major with a minor in biological anthropology and anatomy, which apparently is no longer here, and has a certificate in human development, which who knows if it's here as well. They've done and changed up the curriculum and all the degrees. So, yes, my degree might be obsolete now. So, yeah. So, talking about the road less traveled a little bit with this, and from when I was at Duke, I was told that I may have been the first chiropractor, or anybody had interest in becoming a chiropractor, and the first to become a chiropractor, with Duke being so, at the time, very much heavily pre-professional. You know, pre-med, pre-law. Other people would go to, like, you become a consultant or investment baking, and then go off to B school, and then you had some other people that did TFA. When I was here, if y'all don't know what TFA is, it's Teach for America, which was basically just a landing spot before they decided to go off to law school, medical, or go into consulting. So, I had all intents to become a medical doctor when I come into Duke, right? All intents. Just like so many other students, when they get here, it's like, yes, I'm pre-med, and then you have that teacher that said, look to the left, look to the right. One of those people are not gonna be next to you. These people are not gonna become a doctor. I was going through things, and at the time, we had like DUB4, which is a Duke University Black pre-health organization, and I was like interning in the hospital, doing all the things, and I was like, I came back after my freshman year to talk to my pediatrician, 'cause I wanna be a pediatrician, hence why I'm a perinatal and pediatric chiropractor now, and I was like, hey, doc, I just wanna make sure I'm doing everything I need to do in order to become a pediatrician. He was like, skirt so bright. I wanna be honest with you. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't become a pediatrician. I'm like, wait, pause, hold up. - Oh, whoa, whoa. - We should have
