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Christi attending Kent State
University to play basketball and study aeronautics
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Suffering multiple concussions
in basketball
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Experiencing air sickness,
post-concussions, and needing to change her aeronautics
plans
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Beginning a masters in
architecture at the University of Notre Dame
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Taking a medical leave when her
studies took a toll
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Working as a draftsman at an
architecture office
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Experiencing ongoing seizures
and spending 4 weeks in the hospital
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Needing to use a wheelchair,
upon her release
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Seeing the benefits of physical
therapy, firsthand, and being inspired to pursue it as a
career
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Getting her associates as a
physical therapists assistant
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Working as a personal trainer
and tech in a PT office
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Graduating and then working in
the same clinic as a clinician
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Noticing the job wasn't a
fit
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Getting her own physical
challenges under control
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Attempting to get into the
Coast Guard, but being denied
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Reexamining the direction she
wanted to take her life in, again
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Landing on
firefighting
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Her sister, Notre Dame police
chief, Keri Kei Shibata, helping her connect with the Notre
Dame Fire Department
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Attending the Clay Fire
Academy
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Moving to Indiana from Michigan
with no job and no source of income
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Working as a line & prep chef
at the Morris Inn
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Graduating from the fire
academy & applying at the Notre Dame Fire Department
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Starting her new job in July of
2019
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What she loves about
firefighting, and what the day-to-day is like
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The support she received along
the way
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What it was like to take a pay
cut to pursue her dream
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The messages she got when she
was growing up about "work"
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How she guided herself through
the process of career changes
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What it was like to be the
oldest person in her fire academy
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A theme in her life of being
the only woman participant
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What it was like going into the
service industry while putting herself through the fire
academy
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The importance of having zero
expectations
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How her faith guides
her
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How she's grown and changed
through her career change
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The advice she has for other
career changers
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...and more!