Cullen Easter is so awesome, and so are you. It is with a contagious enthusiasm that Cullen has started the non-profit OpiCure, a foundation keen to get addicts off drugs and on bikes. Like many, Cullen progressed through middle and high school accelling in sport and keeping up with the academic flow. Naturally, the current pulling him toward university. But unlike most people I know, when things didn’t feel right he had the foresight and self-awareness to pull back and re-direct.
The thing I admire most about people like Cullen is their ability to hear ‘no’ and stay steadfast anyway. How many people have you met willing to drive 6 hours to the nearest hospital, resume in hand, to apply for one of the most thankless jobs in healthcare (I’m looking at you nurses) and have the door shut in their face, yet hammer on anyway? None? Me neither.
Call it luck, call it fate, or call it Cullen’s calling--this kid is the one in a million and 100% worthy of your support. As a pro-cyclist (4th Tour of the Gila, 37th Tour of Utah, the list goes on) and full-time nurse in the emergency department, Cullen is wired to help others and OpiCure is the avenue to do just that. I am honored to donate my time as a physio to this effort.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
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