EP074: Living your Best Life with Dr. Bob Rakowski

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Oh my goodness. Dr. Bob is looking handsome as ever. I'm not surprised. He's always raising the bar, raising the game. All right, guys, you're not even ready. You can't be ready because this man is next level energy, one of my favorite humans on the planet. Let's get our energy up to just meet Dr. Bob when he gets into the building here. Would you all just take a step back, stretch it out, Give yourself a little stretch. Let's do some squats. Let's do a couple squats. Let's do a couple stretches. I saw Dr. Bob speak live on stage and man, this guy is just beaming energy, just radiant positivity. And if you see his videos online, it will make your day better. With introduction. Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, super happy Sunday. I'm so happy to see you here, Dr. Bob. He's going to be talking about multiple streams of income for your practice. We are in luck. We are very grateful for you to be here. All right. Your income outside your practice. Income outside your practice. We're going to have a chat with Sachin Patel and Dr. Bob Rakowski. Let me give a proper introduction. Robert A. Rakowski, D.C. cCN D A, C B N D I, P A.

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Those are all the designations. Just so you know, Dr. Bob is a chiropractor, board certified kinesiologist, certified clinical nutritionist, certified biological terrain instructor, and the clinic director of the Natural Medicine center in Houston, Texas. In addition to running a busy practice, Dr. Rakowsky has lectured internationally for over 28 years on various topics related to natural and lifestyle medicine, happiness and success. He has appeared on numerous television programs and international radio talk shows. He's a recognized expert in functional endocrinology and in office diagnostic procedures to assess nutrition status. His clinical experience ranges from treating elite professional athletes to critically ill patients with a variety of cancers and autoimmune diseases. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome to the digital stage Dr. Bob Rakowski.

Hey. Happy, happy, happy, beautiful, amazing day. You're looking sharp as always, Satchin. Great job. I'm beyond amazed at how your team transitioned to such an epic event in such a short period of time. It just shows what great teamwork can do and what great leadership can do. I think we're gonna have a fireside chat. So I'm not gonna turn on my fire. Cause it's, you know, if you're on The Celsius scale, 20 degrees in Houston, Texas, here today. But I'll tell you, I bought this jacket to have this jacket made for the live event, so I figure I'll put it on anyway. So I want you to dress up for your crowd. Bring my best.

I love that.

Want to start with some questions? How do you want to proceed here?

Yeah, let's do this. So we're gonna have an awesome conversation. I want to remind everyone to update your page. So go ahead and hit refresh, and that'll update the speaker slides, and it'll give you access to all the latest resources. So before we dive into this, I want you to go ahead and do that. Love the jacket, by the way, Dr. Bob. Love the smile, love the energy, love the integrity. I love so many, many things about you. And I also love the fact that we get to share you with hundreds and hundreds of people. Now, let's see here. We've got almost 400 people online right now that are going to hear this message that may not have heard it had we not made this shift. And I did want to acknowledge you for saying that because you're always one to recognize others, and that's a very important attribute of success. And, you know, many people. I study people. You know, I don't just know people, I study them because the people I choose to hang out with are people that are going to make me a better version of myself because. But also be humble, have humility, and also be receptive to their own personal growth. So I love our relationship and our friendship and our mutual mentorship of each other. It's been such an honor to know you very well over the last couple of years. I've obviously followed your work like many people on here for many years prior to that. And it's so great to be under your wings and flying by your side at times as well. So, um, let's have a conversation that goes, you know, behind the scenes a little bit. Okay. I want people to get a behind the scenes glimpse of what it takes for someone to achieve success, you know, success that you have. But Also, one of the things that you've done is you've diversified yourself. I want to talk about that as well, because that's important for practitioners to realize is that, you know, we don't want to. We want to build a Parthenon. We want to build several pillars in our empire in order for us to be corona proof and really anything that comes our way, proof. So that's what I wanted to get get out of you today. We haven't prepared purposely for this presentation because I want everything to come from the heart. So that's what a Fireside Chat is all about. We're going to have a lot of fun. I'm going to be in the live stream as well. If you have any questions for Dr. Bob, please post them. Before we get too far into this, I'd love to know more about your origin story. Where does your story start? What's something you want to share with us?

Well, we might just go back 56 years when the sperm met the egg, because it was a pretty unique moment in that my mother, 56 years ago was on the birth control pill. So back then it was much, much, much stronger. And conception was not supposed to happen. Fast forward first trimester, my mother gets the German measles, rubella, and apparently her water broke. So what exactly happened? We can't turn back the clock and say, but there was still a viable fetus there. And the doctor said, you know what? We strongly suggest that you abort this baby. Because if this baby's born alive, it will be severely, mentally and or physically retarded. Now, my mother, being a wonderful, wonderful woman with great faith, she said, you know what? If God wants to take my baby, he'll take my baby. You're not touching my baby. So now we go back, I'm born first two years of life, I did not sleep, according to my mother, hardly at all. Just little cat naps throughout, which probably drove her crazy. Doctor's advice was to have her drink a six pack of beer before nursing me. Maybe that would help. So think about that as an advice to a mom, right? She'd try anything because I wasn't sleeping. To this day, I have an aversion to beer. But my mother says with all that awake time, I could read by age two. Now, I certainly don't remember that, but I do know that I have a passion for reading. And I do know that in terms of what standard academics looks for, it's very easy for me. I didn't have any challenge with standard academics. Now that doesn't mean I can play a musical instrument because we have lots of different intelligences. I didn't get any of that musical intelligence, but at least in terms of grasping concepts, I had that. So then, early on, wonderful upbringing in the Midwest. I say I had the best childhood anybody could have. I had two parents that loved each other and loved their family. Both had a phenomenal work ethic. And somewhere along the line you said, bob, we want to talk about your mentors. Well, my parents would start as my first mentors. They taught me about unconditional love, and they taught me about phenomenal work ethic. Little tangent there. My dad missed one day of work. Now, he was a factory worker. My mother was a grocery store checker. Brilliant people. But I remember when I was age 12, my dad missed one day work. And I stayed home all day just crying because I thought my dad was dying. There was just no way I could understand my dad missing a day's work. It wasn't even in my paradigm. So, by the way, in my entire adult life, I've not missed a day's work due to. Due to sickness. Right now I had a surgery and took a day off. But no, I didn't miss anything due to sickness. So they taught me resilience, integrity, work ethic, and unconditional love. And I say, what more could anybody ever ask for?

I love that. You know, my father, actually, in my whole life I'm trying to. I can't even picture it when I try to form the picture in my head. I've never seen him down and out. He's never taken a day off work sick either. And I, in all transparency, I've missed one day of work. And it was because I had the sniffles. And as a chiropractor, you can't show up at the office with the sniffles. That would be an irresponsible thing to do. So it's my one day off that I've taken. So I can totally relate about. And I didn't know that about you, actually, but I can totally relate how our father figure in our life and our mother figure, the valuable lessons that they teach us at an unconscious level, and the story that we write about what is even our own capability, right? If you see healthy, vibrant parents that are taking good care of themselves or at least having such strong integrity and intention in everything that they do, then it's easy for you to mirror that and emulate that. And that actually brings me to my next question, which is where does your immense positivity come from? Because I've seen you in the face of adversity, and you always have a smile on your face. So how do you do that? What's the secret there?

Well, again, some of it's going to be upbringing, but the rest of it's a choice. Happiness is a choice. You know, they've said happiness is an inside job, so why not create that inside job? And I'm the guy that will know that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not a train. If I got the horse manure under the Christmas tree, I know there's a pony somewhere. So it certainly learned optimism, because it wasn't. I remember going through some challenges in my teen years. My mother looked at me and she said, who would you trade places with because you have so many gifts and talents? Take an inventory of that. And who would you trade places with? And it was a very serious question that I took seriously. And I went, my gosh, I wouldn't trade places with anybody. And so now how can I optimize what I have? And then very early on, I met Tony Robbins in person, had my picture taken with him, and I told him, I said, tony, it goes back about 40 years ago that I was first exposed to your work and immediately resonated with it because it's like, okay, you can take control of your life. And the secret to living is giving. And I just came to realize the best way to be happy is give.

Happy.

And with that philosophy, it's literally created everything I want to date. But of course, we want so much more because we're all about it. Growth and expansion.

I love that. Thank you. When you met Tony, what was your initial impression of him?

Well, I'll tell the story. I was in an elevator with Pete Cohen. I absolutely love him. He's in the uk and we had a professional rugby player in the elevator with us and Ian Phillips, 6 foot 4, 365 pounds. He had this little girl in the elevator. He looked at her. He says, you get to describe him in one word. What is it? She just looked at him and she went, big, right? So Tony is bigger than life. And you ask him, how did you get bigger than life? He says, personal growth. And that is just hilarious because people may or may not know he had a pituitary tumor. He's 6 foot 7, his hands are bigger than my head. He is bigger than life. So that would be my impression of Tony. Bigger than life. He has that same work ethic. He doesn't miss the only thing he ever missed was a California canceling his event of 12,000 people. For Covid, you know, turn around and say, look, we're about personal power empowerment, you know, showing up as your best self where you can handle that storm. But we play the hand we're given, right? Play it well.

Well, you know, thanks for sharing that. And I could totally agree. Tony is larger than life. One of the things that we were banking on with this, with our live event is we were going to use a Tony Robbins rule. And so we were not going to cancel unless Tony canceled. And I was shocked because I was banking on him not canceling because I wanted to do the live event so badly. And then when he canceled, I was like, okay, Tony's canceling. Something's up, you know, and certainly they made it illegal for people to get together. Part of me even says, if it wasn't illegal, I know that 12,000 hungry people were going to show up and we're going to leave that three day event and change the world. But unfortunately, with the way times are, it is what it is and I'm sure they'll make the best of it and it'll be bigger and better than ever because people are going to be hungry for personal growth, especially coming out of what's going on these days.

Well, let's take another Tony pivot. So one of his first big events was actually in Vancouver that was declared illegal. And he had a bunch of people that he put on, I believe it was six different buses and bused them across the border for a three day event because Canada said he was taking jobs, especially some psychologists and therapists. So you pivoted maybe even more effectively than Tony because Tony served those that were there, but you serve now a much greater number than you could have at a live event. So he'd be very proud of you. In fact, I know he is.

Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate that. All right, so tell us a little bit more about how you diversified. So you started off as a clinician. So let's go there. You started off as a clinician, and then how did you pivot and expand and start spreading your truth and knowledge and your influence all over the world?

Well, as a clinician, let's say that I was a structural specialist. Right. So I was very excited about structure as an athlete and someone who had experienced phenomenal benefits from chiropractic. I said, I'm going to master structure. But then when I started looking at people that had practices that I really admired, they were already integrated clinicians. They were Using entire lifestyle, they were using clinical nutrition. So the next thing I began to study was clinical nutrition. One thing that I had, that was a really big tip, I'll tell people. I went to engineering school, electrical engineering. I graduated second in my class. But I never felt that I was a really good engineer. Academically, I was really solid. I didn't have enough passion to be an engineer, to be a good functioning engineer. So when I made the shift to decide to become a chiropractor, I called my chiropractor who was up in Wisconsin, I was in Texas. And I said, Dr. Mike, I want to be really good. What do I need to do? And he had brilliant advice. He said, bob, the people that are going to teach you are going to teach you what they know. But here's my experience. People that are in the academic environment are often there because they didn't succeed in the private environment. So if you want to be an academic person, learn from them. If you want to be a clinician, learn from clinicians. So I visited well over 100 successful doctors in Houston, Texas while I was going to school. And my simple request from them was, I want you to teach me what makes you different. Teach me the one thing that you do. And again, the people that I resonated with were the integrated clinicians. So then I started taking on practice, clinical nutrition and learning that and studying that. And as I began to apply that, I saw that people had better results. But satchin, there was a day that changed my life. And majid like stories, I would ask myself, even before the book, the one thing, what is the one thing that I can do for this patient that would get me the most bang for my buck? And I shared that with one of my mentors. And he said, bob, are you asking what is the least I can do for my patient? Instead of asking, what is the most I can do for my patient? And as soon as I started asking, what is the most I can do for my patient, all my limiting beliefs about, oh, they can't afford this, they won't do that, it all went out window. I put people on epic comprehensive protocols and I saw people turn around in the wonderful functional medicine story, People that were sent home to die, that are still Alive today nearly 30 years later, and started applying these principles to elite athletes. What's the most I can do? Yeah, I can balance their pelvis, but what if I alkalize their system? What if I modulate their inflammatory process? What if I talk them into getting a really good night's sleep? What If I give them better dietary choices. Because you'd be amazed. You wouldn't be. But so many people would be amazed at how many elite athletes, because they think they're bulletproof, are fueling their body with pure garbage. And once I started fine tuning these people, everything took off. But in terms of diversification, first I went from structure to structure and chemistry, to structure, chemistry, and complete lifestyle. Then I finished. I'll tell you how I got into speaking. I finished all of my clinic credits at the Texas Chiropractic College in six weeks. We have a year to do that. It took me six weeks.

Wow.

The underclass people looked at me and they said, how in the world did you do that? And I said, I started studying from people that knew a lot about helping people, and I started applying it. And they said, you should teach a seminar. And I asked if I did, would you come? And enough people said yes. So picture I'm out of school a month, and I put a seminar up. 200 bucks for five weekends. So it was a very good deal back then in 1992, but I had 60 people show up and give me $200 cash. So from being broke, patient mindset to a $12,000 payday, which, of course, I had to work off over five weekends, Suddenly I realized Zig Ziglar was right. You can have everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want. And that launched speaking as a diversification.

Nice. Nice. Great. See, I'm learning so much. I love this. I love this. And it starts with humble beginnings. It starts with being of service. And what's really fascinating to me is I feel like there's, like, this switch that goes off for people, and there's just something that drives them or motivates them or pushes them. And once that switch gets flipped, there's no going back. How do people find that? Is there any good advice you can give someone to find that switch and flip it for themselves?

Hang out with people that have flipped it. I've heard a number of your speakers talk about the law of association, and it makes perfect sense. It's even a proverb. If you hang out with five fools, you'll likely be the sixth. You hang out with five obese people, you'll likely be the sixth. You hang out with five people that are on purpose to make the world better and have the tools, the resources, and the drive to make it happen, you'll likely be the sixth. So just imagine that you have hundreds of these people all coming together with that Common mission. Just think, if everybody had your view of the world, would this be a problem? I promise you it wouldn't be right. It'd be this little blip on the scale that nobody heard of. So it's up to us to raise that bar. And congratulations for scaling that.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. So you start speaking, you start training practitioners on how to emulate success because you were clearly emulating yourself. And then you, I don't know, I don't know where you started speaking next, but you got picked up by Metagenics eventually and started touring with Jeffrey Bland and you even trained with Dr. Hyman. I remember you telling me some stories about that. I'd love to learn more about that experience. You know, when you started speaking for Metagenics and traveling and you know, you've, not only are you teaching clinicians, but I know that you've, you've got great listening skills. So you're listening to their challenges and concerns and what's holding them back. And you even put on presentations on practice and clinical success. So I'd love to get some of your insights in the training you've taken, the stages you've been on, and what kind of input you get from practitioners. I know that's a loaded question, but let's start with the training.

I'll break it down into pieces. So, you know, I had listened to Jeffrey Bland's audios, right? And back then it was cassette tape. I knew that he was a phenom in terms of his understanding of clinical biochemistry. When he was coming to Houston, Texas, I was the guy that showed up two hours before the door opened. I sat in the front row, I took copious notes. And at the end of that session, 1993, I walked up to Jeff. That's the first time I saw him live. And I said, Dr. Bland, I absolutely love what you're sharing, but it's too much for one day. This needs to be a two day seminar. And he looked at me and said, bob, with my schedule. I introduced myself first, right? Bob Brachowski. He says, with my schedule, that's never going to happen. So what I did is I took his syllabus. He would have a typewritten syllabus, about 200 pages with 3, 4, 500 references in back. I'd read his cover to cover 10 times. And then I'd go and I'd dig into the references and I'd say, okay, does this really say what he's saying? Do we draw the same conclusions? I'd say we have a 95% hit rate. I sometimes would look through things at a different lens and get a different conclusion, but I thought, we really think alike. The very next year, I showed up. I sat in the front row again, but I had already been teaching functional medicine at my seminars. Then a year after that, I did it again where Jeff Bland was in a city and I was speaking for the company Nutrition Dynamics at the time. And I said, look, I'd like to do a clinical follow up to what Jeff Bland did. Well, what had happened? And keep in mind that every business is in business to make a profit. If not, you're in business. Their sales crushed in terms of the nutrition products, anything they had done in any previous year. Because Jeff will tell you he's more academic than clinician. I took all this stuff and I applied it clinically and then Metagenix said, hey, how about we do this little tag team series where Jeff teaches in the city on Saturday, you teach on Sunday, and then ultimately we end up flip flopping. I would do clinical before he'd do academic. I'd be in one city Saturday, he'd be in that different city, and then we'd flip flop cities. And it turned out to be such a great success for Metagenics that we ended up doing that for over a decade.

Wow. So show up, be of service, innovate, be autodidactic, learn right. Dig through it and anything's possible.

Anything's possible.

Anything's possible. I love that you have a beautiful family. Jacob and I, your son, we're great friends. Just a remarkable human being. So he clearly takes after you in many regards. And I'm sure there's there's many attributes of yours that I have yet to see. And, you know, it's an amazing relationship that him and I have developed and you and I, and I have developed. I love the values that you both have. It's just great to see that now you're going to be passing on those values. You just had a granddaughter. I'd love to learn more about how Lily's doing and how that experience has been for you being a grandfather.

Well, let me. Yeah, let's start with that. So Lily was born at home in a tub of Kangen water with essential oils in the background and Mozart playing. And so she had an introduction to the world that was absolutely so beautiful. And then her wonderful mother, Megan, all organic all the way through, Kept the placenta attached for as long as possible. Not 10 seconds, but probably more, something like 10, 15 hours. Still having that connection. Beautiful bonding she's just an epic little girl. And you look at her, she's so far ahead of the learning curve. Her body has not been intoxicated. They have a super pure, clean home environment. They got the salt lamps for the EMFs. All their food is organic. They grow a bunch of their own and body, mind, and spirit. They've stepped up the game and they've showed what's possible to bring a beautiful young girl into the world. So now my youngest daughter now is also expecting. So Kelly and I will be grandparents times two by August. And a nice similar background for Christy and Yuri and their beautiful daughter to be as well.

Amazing. Congratulations again. That's so awesome. So such a fortunate family. But, you know, you're sharing this information with the world. You're putting yourself out there. You do tons of Facebook lives. You're always inspiring people, and you're just a great role model for everyone to emulate. I love that. And I want to also talk about Kelly, your wife, amazing human being. Like, she is so on top of things. That's what I love about her. Tell us about you and Kelly. How'd you guys meet?

You know, I was introduced to Kelly by a friend of mine in engineering school. And interesting story. So my first degree again, electrical engineering. I went to school with a guy named Troy Davies, and he said, hey, Bob, my cousin's having a party this weekend. Why don't you come along? So I met Kelly, and some people don't know this part of the story. Kelly was engaged when I met her, and so she was off limits. I thought, well, she's cute, she's bubbly, she's vibrant, but she's taken. So I actually started dating her best friend. But what happened? That I really didn't know. Even though she was engaged and had been engaged for two years, at that point, they had not yet set a date. And so something's not right in that equation.

Right.

So at any rate, ended up spending time with Kelly and Troy. They were both in Vegas for a family gift. Troy had told me, look, our family takes us to Vegas for our 21st birthday. I'll be there with my mom, my aunt, my cousin, and me. Why don't you come along? I said, yeah, sure. So I showed up, and turns out Kelly and I got along instantly. Well, then when we went back to Wisconsin, actually went on a double date while I was dating her best friend. But we just realized we had a lot in common. And literally, we were having a conversation a few weeks later, and she said, you know, Bob, I Think I'm break up with Jeff. I said, really? She says, well, yeah, it's just not right. And I went, hmm, you know what? Go ahead and do that, and maybe you and I can go out. Well, you know, next thing you know, you know, time moves along, and we just had such beautiful synergy right from the very beginning. And, you know, as they say, the rest is history. So we have been officially married 31 years, right? 32 years coming up here, and three beautiful kids. Seven businesses, which we could call our other babies, and all thriving.

Amazing. So that brings me to my next question. Naturally, then, do you mind sharing what those seven businesses are?

Sure. So I do consider my chiropractic practice and nutrition practice separate businesses. So that gives me the magnificent seven. But we also. Then I have an education company. We have commercial real estate. We have residential real estate. We have a coffee business. And then when you start looking at it, you realize that there's a lot of things going on there. But all of them are going well because we've had great mentors in the process. I remember my parents teaching me about never getting behind the interest curve. When I bought properties, Kelly and I said, you know what, let's just buy things that we can buy. So we bought a number of commercial and residential properties when we had the cash to do it. Well, now that looks like wisdom because we have plenty of friends that were leveraging a lot to put these things on, and now suddenly they're in crisis and saying, how are we going to put this together? Whereas we're saying, you know what? We're in a really good position at this point to serve the world, add value. You know, we've had some people that have already lost jobs where we say, you know what, let's weather these tough times together. You've been a good tenant, and let's work for a win, win. And, you know, when you have a lot of reserve, it certainly puts you in a position to serve better. And with great mentorship and good diversification, we've gotten to the point where we can do that.

I love that it takes courage to start one business. Maybe, you know, some cojones to start two or three, but it takes, you know, a lot of heart and a lot of love, you know, to start seven and to operate them with that intention of super, super high integrity. And I love what you said about how when you have reserves, you can serve. Right? And if you look at the word reserve, the word serve is in there. And so you're able to be somebody who can Take the stress off of somebody's back, right? Because of the positioning that you have, you know, financially, you know, spiritually, you're able to do that for people. So I want all of you guys to really listen to what Dr. Bob is saying very carefully, because it's through his success, through his effort, nothing was handed to him. You know, very clearly. It wasn't even about being at the right place at the right time. Right? When you think about Dr. Bland and your relationship, like, you weren't just somebody in the front row. You were somebody who took the syllabus and analyzed it, upgraded it, tweaked it, had a conversation about it, and then started making yourself available to do that. I mean, that's not just being in the right place at the right time. It's being in the right mindset at the right time and at the right place at the right time. So it's all of those things in order to do that. So thank you for sharing some of these intimate stories. It's really nice to see how we can learn from your experiences. And there's probably been opportunities where some of us had said, oh, man, I wish I could do this. I wish I could lecture at this event, or, how do we become a speaker here? And there's your formula. Be of service, right? Add value.

Well, we'll go with that. Connect with you. Connect with Majeed, right? He's phenomenal with the stories. But if you have a mission that you're passionate about and you have a message that you want to share, well, then you just start connecting with people that lead people down that path. Association is a huge chunk of success.

Now you coach me, you mentor me. You're somebody who involved myself. You and I are involved in a business together. Organo. And it's been a phenomenal learning journey to learn how to operate a new business under a new paradigm. It's also been amazing to witness your own personal growth and development. So you're always reminding me of trainings that are coming up that you're involved with, with mentorships that you're involved with, and always inviting me along, which I super, super appreciate. It's always great to have a mentor that is pulling that rope to pull you up the hill. Not pushing you up the hill, but pulling you up the hill. So, of course, with mentorship, you've got to do the work. The mentor is going to guide you and provide you with the wisdom so that you could move up the hill quicker and faster. So I appreciate you for all of that knowledge and training that you've provided and that inspiration you've provided, you certainly never stop learning. And one thing I also notice about you is you're always in the front row and you're always taking notes. You want to talk about the power of note taking?

Well, I want to talk about proximity first.

Sure.

Just from a simple engineering standpoint, the inverse square law works the distance or further away. It squares the impact of the message. And so we could think of that in terms of radiation. I watched you do a Facebook live by a microwave, which was epic, and you saw what was coming out of that. But if you're further away, further away, further away, you're not impacted. It's easy to understand the negative, but it's maybe not so clear on the positive. When you're up close and personal with a Satchin Patel and he's sharing from the heart and his heart field is actually touching you, that is going to move you forward to so, so, so powerfully. I just got chills talking about having that, reliving that experience that I've had with you and I've had with Tony Robbins and I've had with Richard Branson and I've had with these phenomenal beings. You can't get it from the back row. And then, you know, Zig Ziglar said, a short pencil is way better than a long memory. And so I like to think that I can grasp and I can remember and, you know, sure I can. But if I actually write it down, and I do mean physically write it down, the data is very, very clear, that the action of connecting letters is much more powerful than your fingers going like this on a keyboard. So I write it down and I draw pictures and then the day does not pass before I've reviewed it and highlighted it and often rewrote it. So understand that. There's a book that I really like. It says, if how tos were enough, we'd all be skinny, rich and happy. But reality is, the how to's are all there. You and I both love Simon Sinek. We need the why to, but we need the repetition. We need to make the information our own, make it make sense to us, and then apply. May even go back to Aristotle. Tell me, I might hear it. Show me. I'll get a little more. Involve me and I'll remember. So we want to get involved with the data.

I love that. One thing that you teach, that I think every practitioner on here would benefit from is the Magnificent Seven. You want to talk about those? Because that's a great Clinical pearl for everybody.

You've got a lot of magnificent sevens, but I think you're talking lifestyle. Eat right, drink right, think right, move right, sleep right, poop right, talk right every single day. And we can nail these things down in very simple catchphrases. Eat right. If God made it, it's okay. If man made it, touch it, think right. Focus wins. What you focus on grows. So focus on what you want. Drink right? Our bodies are two thirds water. Our planet is two thirds water. Our brain is the most hydrated organ. So maximize our water by making it clean. But why not nutrient dense? So you talked about your beautiful elixir. Awesome. Every morning I have healthy coffee and other things that are going to move it along. When you put Reishi in coffee. Phenomenal, right? And there's data people that are doing traditional Chinese medicine. International Journal of Biologic Science, little tangent here. People that did traditional Chinese medicine that had Covid were much less likely to progress to severe cases. And if they did, much more likely to survive. And when we talk much more, 400%, 500%, 700% more likely in the better circumstance. So we want to drink, right by nourishing our water. Move right. Move outside. You and I shared data about open air hospitals where people actually got the chemistry from plants, the fight insides, picked up their immune system and were able to beat other flu pandemics of the past. Much better in open hospitals. So we want to move outside moderately. If we don't move enough, we're going to have problems if we move too much. Today wouldn't be the day probably to do a triathlon where you're going to really spend yourself because you're going to suppress the immune system a bit in that extreme activity. Sleep, right. Anders Ericsson, best of the best, said the best of the best sleep 8.6 hours a night in his book Peak Performance Poop. Right. Well, you talked about that in your morning routine without too much graphic detail, but we have all elimination routes. We exhale, we sweat, the liver and kidneys work together, the bowel and ultimately we want to make all our eliminations work. Right? And then finally talk. Right? Bruce Lipton likes to say that this body here is a community of 50 trillion cells. And when they communicate appropriately, well, we can be much, much, much healthier. So Mansoor did a phenomenal job with genetics like he always does, and he talked about this viral shedding. But to expand on that, usually the cell has to burst when it's viral infected to infect other cells, but this one actually has Exocytosis. The virus vacuoles can get out much more easily with this virus. But if you look at communication where that cell has been impaired, our immune system knows. And the natural killer cells in cytotoxic T's, if we have good communication, is going to take care of it. And these are going to be the people that are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, but they're certainly not going to progress to severe talk. Right. Is going to be the 50 trillion cells that we have all communicating, you and I, communicating with this community and then taking that message to the world in a way that empowers.

I love that. One of the things that I learned after being taken under your wings was all about mushrooms. And that was a rabbit hole that I've gone down for the last two years. I know you've gone down the rabbit hole for a little bit longer than that. And we share a common passion for nature and some of the lessons that we've learned from the fungal community. So I'd love to hear what some of your best metaphors and takeaways and even pointers or tips that you can offer for those of us fungophiles, because I know there's a bunch of us on here that also consume the organo products and are very fascinated with the medicinal properties of mushrooms. So I'd love to hear what your perspective is, is on it.

Well, let's go to one of our co mentors, Paul Stamets. You know, and after they had nine, 11 and they had issues with potential threats of bioterrorism, you know, Paul Stamets was literally contracted by the Department of Defense to look and see if mushrooms had something that could combat bioterrorism. And they found solutions to anthrax and they found solutions to some of these bugs that we don't even want to name or even think about. But there's so many things that they do. There's a reason why this. I don't even know if we call it kingdom phylum, whatever, right? I gotta go back up that chain quite a bit. But they're not a plant and they're not an animal. They're something in between. They breathe oxygen, they give off carbon dioxide, and they were one of the first living organisms on the planet. So how did they live so long? They are profoundly resilient and they know how to live within the environment. And our favorite herb, reishi, the herb of spiritual potency, literally takes death, a dead log, and turns it into life. And it puts the body in a parasympathetic state and it's proven to enhance natural killer cells. And there's literally, if you just look up the term Ganoderma, over 1700 PubMed studies, another thousand under the name Reishi, another 500 under Lingchi, all describing the same thing. And when you see that there's data that it can actually block replication of hiv, that it can eradicate herpes, that it can eradicate hpv, you start looking and saying there must be something to this. But I love the way you explain it. And I heard you say it again this morning. In a fight or flight circumstance, instead of my liver and kidneys getting 50% of my body resources, my blood flow, my oxygen, my nutrition, it cuts down 5%. You cannot thrive in that circumstance. And in fact, you will die in that circumstance if you keep going up too long. But ganoderma, putting the brakes on the sympathetic nervous system. Enhancing the parasympathetic nervous system, Increasing circulation, alkalizing the body, enhancing the immune system anti inflammatory by 13 proven mechanisms, 430 unique molecules in Ganoderma, 79 of which are antimicrobial. How deep do you need to go down that rabbit hole? Before you go, this makes sense. And then you and I reaching out. You've done such a fantastic job. I just was looking at the numbers. It's likely that there were 80,000 doses of the herb of spiritual potency that people consumed because you shared it. Now I've been doing it longer. I'm talking about just last month, just last month in our team, 600,000 doses. And I don't know of a single person in that network that I have that has a personal Covid issue. So now can we make any claims? No, but that's a pretty hard stat to argue with.

Powerful stuff, man. If you're not into mushrooms, I would definitely start with the study of reishi. The products that Dr. Bob and I consume ourselves and consume, provide for our family. And our network of practitioners is called organo. And we're always happy to share more information about that as an opportunity for those of you that might be interested. But this, you know, studying mushrooms has been super, super fascinating for me. In fact, it's such a great topic of interest with practitioners that I'll be speaking about at Terry Wahl's conference, and I've spoken about it at the North Carolina conference, which you'll be speaking at this coming year. And practitioners are just blown away with what mushrooms are capable of. In fact, Paul Stamets has a great ted Talk, right. Six ways mushrooms can save the world. And he talks about the profound things that mushrooms can do for nature. And because we're part of nature, it can do profound things for us as well. So if you haven't gone down that rabbit hole, I highly suggest it. And one of the most powerful movies I've ever seen. I actually purchased it and today is my. When I have some downtime, I'm gonna watch it again. Is fantastic. Fungi with Paul Stamets and Louis Schwartzberg. Just a beautiful, beautiful movie. Had me smiling, laughing, crying. Just such a great movie. I think everyone tuned in should watch that movie.

Well, you know, one that's really gonna increase the level of appreciation. And you know, if we go to Paul Stamets. Love the man, but I'm a guy of sevens, right? And I think seven, there's a lot of data that says sevens should be the number. He missed the seventh. And that's wealth. So medicinal mushrooms, somewhere between a 40 and 50 billion dollars a year market. Ganoderma, US alone, according to PubMed, 2.5 billion. So when we start with our seven life areas. Mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, social, financial, impactful. This can have an impact on all of those seven areas. And impact before income is what my mentors have always said. So imagine if you helped hundreds of thousands of people be more confident in this crisis, have more peace of mind, have a more resilient immune system. I think we'd be in pretty good shape. I also love that Mansoor was talking about we got 80% of people with premetabolic syndrome or full blown diabetes. Hey, these people are at risk. And so when we have ways of enhancing insulin signaling, six different ways proven by Reishi that I'm aware of so far, we're moving something in the right direction for our world.

Well, Dr. Bob, thank you. You've been so generous. You've been such a great mentor to me, a great mentor to many of us that are tuned in live right now. Please continue to do what you do. Speak the truth, spread the love, spread your message and continue to inspire so many of us practitioners. You're doing such an amazing job. I love you, I appreciate you. And please send my love to the rest of the family.

I will, I will, I will, I will. Hugs and love to you and your entire tribe. Just an epic group making the world better. I'm happy to be a part of it.

Thank you.

So great to see you, Dr. Bob. Boundless energy, boundless wound wisdom, boundless positivity. Dr. Bob Rakowski, what a day. It has been and we are powering through the lunch hour and enjoying this so much. I can't believe it's already around lunchtime. And for those of you who are signed up for the implementation webinar that will be starting in 10 minutes, we'll be starting at 1pm Eastern Time. That's going to be in 10 minutes. If you want to join the implementation webinar, for those of you who are ready to implement so many things you've learned right now and want not a moment to lose, then make sure that you get your hands on the gold package at the bottom of the screen or the diamond package. And of course, this is complimentary for anybody who has paid for a ticket to the live event or is in the mentorship program, make sure you click the link to register right now to the implementation webinar starting in 10 minutes. All right, lots of pearls of wisdom. If you would please consult your notes and share in the chat. What was your biggest takeaway, your biggest insight from Dr. Bob and that lovely fireside chat with Sachin Majeet?

I'd love to love to add that I wanted to say thank you to everybody, but specifically I wanted to say thank you to you for emceeing and hosting us and bringing us entertainment, entertaining us behind the scenes that a lot of people didn't get to see, working behind our speakers behind the scenes, making sure that everything was in order, getting on calls with us earlier this week. You know, you volunteered your time here this weekend and I wanted to, you know, deeply acknowledge you and let you know that I love you and I appreciate you and that I'm looking forward to supporting you in any way that I can. And you know, I think our tribe would agree that you did a fantastic job. So thank you for your commitment this weekend.

Well, thank you so much. It's an honor to be here. And for those of you who may have missed my presentation, it was about how to use public speaking to grow your practice, even now online. And I've offered a complimentary strategy session with me me. I will drop the link in the chat. It's expertspeaker.com ppl and I've had the great privilege of working with so many members of this tribe and I am dedicated to serving the mission of functional medicine practitioners. I am known best as Majeed, like magic. And I think it's important to be not just easy to remember, but to be impossible to forget. So I will leave this fine community to the implementation webinar. And Satchin, would you like to share any final Thoughts? Any closing remarks?

Sure. I would love to thank you everyone for participating this weekend, for playing all out, for being committed to not just this weekend, but to your vision, your mission, to your dharma, which is living in your highest truth and creating a life that is not something that is a legacy you leave behind, but is a legacy that, that you live. I hope that you understand the golden thread. I think in all of this there was a couple. One was community, the importance of community. This is what you need to be doing for, you know, the question is what do you need to be doing for your community? And then the other question is what community do you need to be surrounding yourself with? Remember community. The word I like to use is Satsang. Fellowship of truth seekers. You need to find who that fellowship of truth seekers is to support you, to nurture you, and to help you co create your absolute best life. So proximity, as Dr. Bob said, is power. And I enjoyed the proximity of all of you this weekend. I know of course being in person is amazing, but the next best thing is being in a forum like this and being able to hang out. I also wanted to acknowledge the Avengers Agency for all of their hard work for helping us sell out the live event and then flipping it in less than two weeks into a a live event like this online and making it open to the entire world. You know, we had, in two weeks we had about 2,500 people register for this event. So pretty remarkable when you think about it, to be able to expand this vision and this mission of creating a better world and helping you co create that better world together. So it's amazing. You know, the event was originally titled, or it still is, beyond the brick and mortar. And the universe challenged us and said, okay, how badly do you want to go beyond the brick and mortar? And the easy thing to do would have been to just throw in the towel and say, hey, we'll let people figure this out. But we said no, we're going to keep the live event because that's the highest integrity thing to do. And we're going to have this event and open it up to everybody. If you've paid for the live event, then you're going to get all the bonuses that the diamond package includes, which you already should have known that you're going to get that you'll get all the recordings, you'll get everything because we always over deliver. If you get a gold pack, then we're over delivering on that. On the gold experience you were going to get the notes and the recordings, but we Want to do a bonus presentation for everyone who got a diamond or gold experience or anyone who's in the mentorship or anyone who just joined us because we always over deliver. We're going to practice what we preach. So we've got this webinar coming up in about six minutes or so. You know, right below where I'm speaking, there should be a button that says join. Now if you purchased an experience, either the gold, the diamond live ticket or mentorship, then join us. We're going to dive deep. We're going to show you some practical tools that you can use. We're going to answer questions that you have. We're going to do some laser coaching. You know, some of you may need to be prepared to go on camera if you have a question. We're going to do some hot seats and I do that for 90 minutes. That's what I was able to negotiate with my son. And then I'm going to be a dad for the rest of the weekend and maybe we'll watch a movie. We'll watch Fantastic Fungi again. So that's the rest of my afternoon. I'd love to hear what some of your biggest takeaways were. And then we'll wrap things up in a couple minutes and we'll jump over into the Zoom room. Any closing remarks from you, Majeet?

Sunday afternoon with Sachin Patel sitting around watching a mushroom video. I can tell you that is actually what happens in the house on a Sunday afternoon. These guys love their mushrooms. And thank you for turning me on to Organo gold last year. I have been sipping my Reishi King coffee. I just love because it's called King. My name around the house is called dad. King. That's what my kids call me. Speaking of kids, it was very interesting, Dr. Mansour talking about the effect that this corona thing is having on the kids. My little 4 year old runs around the house going, coronavirus, coronavirus. And we're biking through the streets of the neighborhood on our tandem bike going, we gotta outrun the coronavirus. So I don't know how to explain it to the kids. I mean, well, I do actually. And in fact that's one of the gifts that I have as a communicator. I'm sure you can relate. Sachin is trying to explain things to young people helps you find the essence of the language and the simplest ways to explain things. So actually we have explained it. In fact, I had this necklace that my kids hadn't seen and they said, where'd you get this necklace? And I said I bought it and my little 6 year old was like, around people. Because we're not supposed to go around people. Well, it's amazing, amazing. Sachin, we were just in paradise two weeks ago in the mansion in Portugal talking about how excited we were to address 200 of the people who are leading the health revolution right now. And now we have the opportunity to address 2,500. What a blessing this has been.

It has. It sure has. And you know, I am looking forward to an amazing, amazing year ahead. This has been the, in my opinion, this is the greatest and not just greatest, but most important time for us to take action. Right? There is certainly there's financial rewards in the work that we do and of course there needs to be for us to run a business and to grow and to be able to kind of change the narrative on this planet. But there is more so a responsibility that we all have right now because we have something to offer the world that it clearly needs, which is leadership and empowering people. And now is the time for us to then make sure that we have the business tools, the right mentorship, the right community in order to pull us up this mountain. And we all go together. That's the other thing. We all go together and it happens so much faster when you're part of a tribe. So I'm going to jump over. I love you all. Deepa's watching upstairs. I love you, Deepa. Thank you. I love you Devin. Thank you for being here and allowing me to do this as a nine year old, nine and a half year old only child. I want to acknowledge him for being so quiet and being so patient with us over this past couple of weeks since we've been extra busy trying to put this presentation on for you. So love to you all and I will see you on the action taker webinar. Talk to you soon. Bye for now.