The Entrepreneurial Journey Behind Stem Cell Breakthroughs | Dawne Russell DSH #1383
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Stem Cells Journey
06:38 - Starting a Business
10:15 - Stem Cell Frequency
11:34 - Ceremony Count
15:52 - Memorable Ceremony Experience
17:57 - Ayahuasca Visions
20:00 - Unique Ceremony Experiences
21:06 - Purpose in Experiences
21:20 - Legalizing Psychedelics
23:20 - Psychedelic Safety
28:35 - Microdosing Benefits
30:10 - Mindful Medications
31:30 - Postpartum Depression Insights
35:51 - Common Health Issues
37:28 - Stem Cells for Autism Treatment
38:58 - Exosome Therapy
41:39 - P-Shots Explained
43:02 - Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
45:50 - Canadaβs Pandemic Response
49:23 - Overcoming Burnout
50:29 - Closing Remarks
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Yeah, I'm not surprised at that.
That's a hot thing right now.
Oh, damn, is it ever?
Yeah.
Right.
I'll be taking this back to, you know,
I tell Tina, I'm like, I call her headquarters.
I'm like, I'm going to take this back to headquarters.
She'll be like, of course.
Okay, what are we doing?
Penises?
Let's go.
Take it back there because guys will be your biggest word of mouth marketing after you give them that one.
Yeah, no doubt.
I know.
Yeah, no doubt.
Okay, guys, got Don here today.
We're going to talk stem cells and psychedelics.
Yeah.
What a combo, huh?
Such a good combo.
I got to see.
I got to learn how you stumbled across this business.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well,
so I've got a background in medical aesthetics.
I'm a medical aesthetician and I had a big medical aesthetics clinic.
And it's the second one that I had, I built that from the ground up.
And for about five and a half years, I just worked myself to the bone.
You know, when you start a new business, that's, that's what it takes, right?
There's really no shortcuts.
So
I just got to the point where I was, you know, getting pretty burnt out.
But I had a couple of clients that I had been doing treatments on, you know, like laser resurfacing and that kind of stuff.
So that's where I really started to kind of tap into stem cells because they were in their like late 60s, early 70s.
And, you know, I would do like a resurfacing treatment, a laser treatment on Rita, and she would just heal so quick.
I'm thinking, as you get older, your epidermis takes a little bit longer to heal.
So, you know, she'd roll in to get some sunscreen or something.
I'd look at her face and I was like, okay, what's happening here?
Like, why are you healing so quickly?
So she eventually said to me, she said, well, listen, we've been going to Costa Rica since our 40s and we've been doing full body umbilical cord stem cell therapy.
So that's where I really just kind of tapped into.
And I thought, okay, now it's kind of making sense because not only did these two heal really quick, but they were vibrant, never sick.
You could just like, they moved really well.
So I thought, okay.
So I really started to like tap into that.
And my partner at the time, my medical director, my clinic, he had a background in vascular surgery and, you know, he was doing Botox and filler and all the stuff in the clinic.
And I went up, I said, Andrew, we need to do stem cells.
And he said, what do you mean do stem cells?
I said, we need to do like full body umbilical cleared stem cell therapy.
And he said, oh yeah, no, we're not allowed.
And I said, what do you mean we're not allowed?
I said, we can't do that in Canada.
Like you can't.
I think we can do localized injections.
And I said, well, why not?
He said, oh, I'm sure you'll tell me.
Because I'm just that kind of person.
I'm like, hey, I need to dig into this.
So over the next couple of years, I started to really do a lot of personal research into it.
And, you know, I'm from Vancouver, Canada.
And it's, it was just kind of roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.
You know, I'm not a doctor or anything like that.
So I only had limited access to that kind of stuff.
So, you know, I kind of let it go, but I really kept researching it still.
So lo and behold,
a few years later, I just got super burnt out.
And I was like, man, I got to go.
and go on a vacate and get a little bit of work-life balance back.
You know, like, what can I do where I can go and just chill out?
I knew I couldn't go to a yoga retreat because, you know, back then I was pretty alpha A type.
I'm like, I need to go somewhere where I cannot control the program.
I'll be running that shit by the end of the week.
I'm like, I need to go somewhere.
And a friend of mine had told me about ayahuasca.
And so I thought, you know what?
I'm going to try this.
And like, just a little sidebar on me, like, I'm ultra vanilla.
Never done a drug in my life, barely take Tylenol.
Like, I am like, when people heard I was doing this, they're like, holy smoke, especially my son.
You know, he's a professional hockey player.
He's like, mom, do you know what you're going to do?
I said, yeah i think this is what i need so down to costa rica i go and i did a week of ayahuasca and lo and behold the place that i went to had a stem cell therapy clinic wow site i know so i was like and by that time i had done about five years research so i was really dialed in and i was like okay this is epic like cool um so i did my week there and i came back home totally total life changing for me.
Came back home and about three months later, they reached out to me and said, Hey, would you ever consider coming down here and working with us?
I thought to myself, What am I going to do in an ayahuasca retreat?
Like, you know, and they said, Well, we would love for you to work in our stem cell clinic.
And I just sat there and like, hey, I have to do this.
So, you know, I took a couple of days to think about it.
And I thought, you know, I'm going to sell my clinic because I can't be down in Costa Rica for half the year and be here running a successful clinic.
So I sold my clinic, wrapped that deal up in about five months, and off to Costa Rica I went and I was there for two years.
Wow.
And it was amazing.
So I got to work in the stem cell clinic
every day, pretty much for two years.
We did about 30 to 40 treatments a week.
So I really got to see the benefits of what stem cells do.
So, you know, I'm kind of in that position where it's like, well, you're not a doctor, you know, you're not this, you're not that.
I'm like, yeah, but I got the experience and I do it myself and I've seen it like firsthand, you know, like it's just within 24 hours.
That quick.
Yeah.
Like people with really bad rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation, pain, generally gone next day.
Like I've seen this like week after week after week for two years.
And I'm such an experience-based person.
Like I'm that type.
Rama, prove it to me.
You got to prove it to me.
Like I got it.
If I'm going to talk about it or do it, like I got to know that it works.
So we saw, well, I saw everything that two years from chronic pain, you know, like, um, like disc regeneration.
autoimmune Lyme, Crohn's, like just tons of things.
And I kind of did my own research because the place that I was at didn't really do a lot of like pre and post
research on the treatments, but I stayed in contact with a lot of the clients from there.
Cause I really, cause I'm like, okay, well, this is cool.
And I'm seeing this within 24 hours, but like, what's the long term on stem cell therapy?
Like, what's the long term going to be?
And I'm still in contact with these people and they feel amazing.
And it's just, so.
You know, I, I was there for two years.
I ended up coming back.
I have two amazing business partners, which is a doctor and a nurse.
You know, so I got my heavies with me now.
But I met them down there and they came and did stem cell therapy.
So they were down there to do ayahuasca and they actually ended up doing stem cells with me when they were there because I was doing all the education and the consultations and whatnot.
And Tina, my business partner, Dr.
Hills, she looked at me and she's like, how the hell?
Like, no offense, but like, I'm an ER doc for the last two decades.
How the hell do I not know about this?
And she's from Texas, you know, and I said, well, I've got my ideas as to why.
Because if I told you what I'm about to tell you and how much I've seen that this heals and fix things, that's why.
So you out of business.
Yeah.
And she had been a powerlifter back in the day.
So she had been dealing with like chronic back pain for years.
Yeah.
So she's like, you know what?
I'm doing this.
Like I really want to do this.
So she did the stem cells.
Sure enough, gone.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, you know, I got, uh, I got back home and I ended up leaving Costa Rica and I came back home.
You know, I have two kids my daughter just had a baby so i'm like i gotta get back home i can't be like that hippie grandma that like lives down in costa rica and so um i came back i guess almost a year and a half ago now and uh tina reached out to me and said hey you know like we're thinking about getting into this like this changed my life and she said you know i've been a doctor now for over two decades in the er
and she said and i really want to help people heal like i want to i want to help them with this i just don't want to be putting them on a bunch of pharmaceutical drugs and managing their symptoms like i really want to help them in this like last leg of you know work for me so i said girl i'm in like what are we going to do what's this going to look like and so what we've done is we've put together like little clinics you know so it's we can't do it in canada so you cannot localized injections are what they allow in canada typically They're from your own, like you can get donor cells in Canada, but typically they have you harvest them from your bone marrow or your fat, which is stem cells not even doing what they're supposed to be doing in the first place.
So essentially, to me, it's like a cortisone shot, really, you know, when you're doing that kind of thing.
So we offer it in the U.S.
only.
And the nice thing about the U.S.
is here, they've got something called the research and development model.
So we're able to operate under that, but we're not allowed to say it heals anything.
We're not allowed to call it a treatment.
We have to call it therapy.
but we don't we don't care because we're like you know what we'll call it a therapy we won't claim that it heals anything although it does.
And we'll just roll.
Yeah, your customers will talk about it.
Yeah, 100%.
Well, because the results are just unbelievable.
Right.
It's better than any pill, I'd imagine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, I'm, I'm the one that it's like, I've had so much experience with it that it's like, people will try to like, well, what about this?
And what about this?
And what about that?
And I'm like, you know, there's all sorts of things that come up just because people aren't really educated on it.
And a lot of Canadian doctors, like, they're not even allowed to talk about it.
Wow.
Right.
They're not even allowed to like, you know, one of, I've got some very good friends that are doctors and they're like, we want to refer clients to you, Don, but like we risk losing our license.
Like we are not allowed to be, I know.
So I'm like, okay, well, you don't have to tell them that you've, you know, I'm like, just get them over here.
So we do it in the U.S.
So we're doing it in Birch Bay, Washington,
New York, Vegas.
Oh, no.
So Texas.
Not in Vegas.
Yeah.
So we're doing pop-up clinics.
And the nice thing about us is we just, we want to travel.
Like we're all in a position where we can really kind of do what we want.
And that's what what we love right it's like we went to new york we just like we did a concierge you know um service for a group of people saying it's like yeah we'll come to you and that's the other way of keeping our costs down as well you know because you can go to central america and there's some amazing stem cell clinics out there because you know stem cell therapy in central america is the normal medical practice really like when you tell them over there this is not offered like broadly offered in the us or canada they're like why it's the best thing on the planet what really yeah Like, it's a little too healing.
Is it a big farm over there?
That's right.
Exactly.
They do, but it's a very separate, you know, it's not, there's not the big cahoots like there is here.
Yeah, because of the insurance, probably.
Yeah, exactly.
So, um, yeah.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Have you seen the urine stem cells stuff too?
Um,
yeah,
I actually saw that on your podcast.
I was looking.
I wonder how, how that effectiveness is compared to like the umbilical cord.
Yeah.
Well, you know, and I don't, I can't really speak to that because I haven't done a lot of research into that.
I actually just listened to that on your podcast.
That would be something Dr.
Hills would definitely be able to like know, you know, right off the cuff.
But I don't know like the efficacy of them once they're in urine.
Like I don't know if they would be, I don't know.
That's interesting.
I will look into it, though, because I saw that.
I thought, this is, this is interesting.
But there's so much more in urine, right?
That you're.
that you got to contend with other than just doing pure umbilical cord stem cells.
Yeah, absolutely.
How often are you getting stem cells on you?
I did them about two and a half months ago.
So I, and then before that, about three years.
So I do them basically for preventative.
So, you know, because before you have anything going on in your body, you, you, like, you have symptoms and that's when you know.
So you never really know if anything's going on until you have the symptoms.
So, you know, stem cells, they go in and they address.
The cool thing about them is they go in and they address things that you know about, but also things that you don't.
Right.
So I'm a big preventative.
And so i'll probably do them once every like three years smart something like that you'll stack up a little ayahuasca yeah well i've done 54
that's the most
that's the most i've heard by probably 10x oh really okay that might be a record yeah well you know what the crazy part is is i have worked with people there that have done hundreds no way hundreds
yes hundreds of ceremonies i know like i'm like a baby bird i think
yeah there's people that have been like in i'm talking in the hundreds I feel like there's diminishing returns at that point, though.
That's a slip, it can be a slippery slope.
So when you're doing that much plant medicine, one of the biggest things with doing psychedelics and plant medicine is to make sure you're doing the integration, right?
So you can do these plant medicine ceremonies.
And then it's like, then you, you know, you tap in because, you know, you tap into your subconscious mind when you're in that.
And then you got to come back to this reality.
And you got to function here, but you can't unknow what you just went through.
So integration is really, really, it's a big component.
So when you're going into something like that, especially like we do medically led plant medicine therapy, like for trauma.
And it's really important that, you know, you help people process, right?
You know, because sometimes it can be a little tough to be in this reality and you're like, you know, because you go back and you can see certain things.
And so yeah, integration is huge.
Now, when you get into the people that are doing a lot of like, say, ayahuasca, for example, saying hundreds of ceremonies, they're not taking time to do the integration.
it can go the opposite direction.
It can inflate the ego, right?
And then you've got like, it's almost like you're dealing with this big, dark, heavy energy, right?
Because you have to integrate that.
Cause if not, it's kind of like just stacks and stacks and stacks.
So, you know, I don't know a ton about that.
I recently, you know, kind of ran into a situation.
like that, but a really good friend of mine, she's a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.
And she deals with a lot of
people that journey in plant medicine.
So, one of the things that she is, you know, really adamant about, which we practice as well, it's like before you do any sort of therapy with her, you have to have an integration plan in place.
You know, she's like, it doesn't have to be with me, but they have to do that.
That's cool.
Because that's where you really get the benefits.
Like, you know, you take the wisdom that you learned and you apply it into your life
here, right?
You got to do your due diligence on the retreats too, right?
Because there's a lot of scams and stuff.
100%.
Yeah.
Like, you really want to make sure where you're going is safe.
And, you know, one of the biggest things is is people don't understand, but there's medications that you can't be on, like SSRIs, like you got to make sure that you're off of certain medications, you know, because ayahuasca is no joke.
Yeah.
You know, and it's
produces DMT.
So there's all sorts of stuff going on.
So, you know, with retreats, you just really want to make sure that there's a medical team, right?
Like there is.
In Costa Rica, there's a few, you know, some that are just medically led.
There should always be a medical intake.
You really want to make sure you're doing it with a shaman, not Ted from Seattle that claims to be a shaman.
It's coming to North Van and he's doing ayahuasca in someone's basement.
What?
You'd be shocked people do that.
You know, because these people, you know, they, they're, they're pretty convincing, right?
Like they're pretty convincing because this is, this plant medicine space is just really becoming a thing right now.
And there's a lot of people that are kind of getting into it and wanting to capitalize on it.
Right.
So you just really got to be careful.
Yeah.
If I'm doing ayahuasca, I want to be in a jungle.
Yeah.
I don't want to be in a dark basement.
No, you want to to be with the Columbians or whatever, you know, someone that actually knows what they're doing.
Yeah.
And, you know, because it can really be an amazing, beautiful thing.
I've seen it heal a lot of trauma.
Yep.
Which everyone has these days.
Yep.
Yep.
Everybody's got something, right?
Like whether it was just something as simple as being left in your crib as a baby to cry, you know, which the old school baby boomers thought that was a thing.
Like, you know, working.
I worked in ceremony.
I worked in ayahuasca ceremony for probably about a year when I was there.
And it's like when you sit with people and you talk to them after, it's like everybody's trauma is so different.
And what would be like nothing to say you or me was huge to them at that time, right?
Like in a lot of people's brains, well, everybody's brains are developing from the time they're born to about 14, like solidly.
So, you know, there's a lot of trauma that goes on in that first like seven years, especially.
Right.
So yeah, that's what ayahuasca helps you tap back into that kind of those areas.
And which one of your 54 stands out to you the most?
Ooh,
let me see.
Is that the first one?
Oh, you know, there, this one probably stands out the most.
There was the night I was in ceremony and
I, there, it was loud,
just loud in my ceremony.
And I was sitting there and, you know, the medicine said to me, listen,
just chill out.
Because what happens was I was, I'm a total control freak.
You know what I mean?
I never lose control.
I like to be in control.
And the medicine said to me, you know, if you just sit and get quiet, just chill out
and just sit with trust,
trust
and she said and then i'm going to make you feel like you've never felt in your life so a lot of the time in ayahuasca when you'd start to get that really good sensation like we're not used most people aren't used to feeling that good right like because you know you think about the food you think about lifestyle like most of us don't even know how crummy we actually feel so that ceremony i sat there and i'm not kidding you sean for like two hours like a buddha sat in ceremony and uh my boyfriend was working in ceremony that night.
And he's like, babe, where did you go?
Like you were like literally like a statue.
I said, I know.
Like I turned into like that concrete statue that's outside.
And I just was like, sat there for like two hours.
And then I had the most amazing feelings throughout my whole body.
And by that time, I was able to not panic to be like, hey, what the hell is this?
And that was really profound for me because I actually just was able to sit.
got really quiet.
I'm like, okay, I'm going to trust this.
I'm not going to try to figure it out.
You can never figure out ayahuasca.
Everybody tries to make sense of it.
And it's one of those things where it's like, don't try to make sense of it because you're just not going to be able to.
And that one really stood out to me.
You know, it's like when we get really quiet, we quiet our minds.
Sometimes you can go to the most beautiful place.
So that was a big one for me.
And I remember that one often.
Like, you know, I do daily meditation and I kind of go back to that ceremony and I'm just like, okay.
Yeah.
And I can go into that same place of feeling unreal.
So that was a big one for me.
Yeah.
And did you see aliens on that one?
No.
I've never seen aliens.
On any of the 54?
No.
Because a lot of people see it.
Yeah.
They see somebody.
They see some cool stuff.
And one of the cool things about ayahuasca is, you know, so the place that I was at, we did about 100 people a week.
So like, I know anywhere between like, say, 50 to 100, mostly 100, right?
So you've got 100 people doing ayahuasca together.
So when you talk to people, and week after week, it's like they kind of say, saw the same things, right?
You know, like there's, for instance, there's these little minions, right?
And that, or there's like this huge octopus, or there's this like praying mantis.
So it's like week after week, I'm like, okay, shit, this people are seeing the same things in this.
And it's people that don't know each other.
So yeah, there's some cool stuff.
I never saw anything like that.
I mean,
I saw some cool stuff.
You know, there was actually one night where I was
in ceremony and I thought, I'm, you know, I'm feeling okay.
I'm going to go back to my room.
I think I'm done with ceremony.
And I worked there.
So like, typically you can't go back to your room.
You got to wait till ceremony is over.
But I was like, I'm fine.
I'll go back to my room.
And I went over to my boyfriend and said, babe, I'm going to go back to the room.
Like, I'm good.
He's like, you're not going back to the room.
He's like, it's like midnight.
You're not, you need to stay here.
He's like, just go chill by the fire.
So I'm like, okay, because the cool thing about ayahuasca too is you kind of feel like coherent, you know what I mean?
Like, so it's like, you kind of like, oh, okay, I'm good.
So I went out to the fire and I laid on the concrete bench and I'm laying there.
And all of a sudden I could see this village in the grass, like a fully functioning little village of like,
I'm like, I'm not okay to go back to, holy shit, good thing you made me stay.
And, you know, and it was one of those things where it's like, it just looks like this.
Like, it wasn't like, you know, trippy.
I've never done any sort of psychedelic where I really see that like trippy, whatever.
So I don't really have anything to compare it to.
But, you know, like, you know, there's pintas in ayahuasca and like, you know, the kaleidoscope stuff.
And I've, I never saw any of that.
I know.
People would tell me, I'm like, damn, I haven't seen that.
I really want to see that.
I wonder why some people see it and others don't.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It is interesting that.
that, but you know, quite a few people do see it.
And then there's quite a few people that don't, right?
So everybody, everyone's so unique and so different.
So, and never is there a ceremony that's the same.
You would think you would kind of start to get used to it.
Every single one is different.
They're never the same.
Different in what way?
Every way.
Sometimes it can be the most beautiful, amazing, fantastic night.
And then the next nights, you're in the fucking depths of hell.
Like, I'm not even kidding.
You're like, oh, there were so many times where I'm like, I'm never doing this again.
Like, babe, we got to go back to Canada.
We got to go home.
this shit's crazy you know and then it's like okay what day am i going to do it next week so working there i i drank sometimes once or twice a week so that's why i was able to you know do so many ceremonies but one thing with me is just in instinctively i knew i needed to do the integration because i'm such a prove it to me person like i didn't try to figure everything out but you know there was things times where i'd come out of ceremony and i'd be like what the hell was that?
And then six months later, something comes up and I'm like, ah, okay.
Cause it's not always for right now, right?
It can be like for now, a week later, six months later, two years later.
Yeah.
So yeah, it's pretty cool.
I believe in that too.
I think everything happens for a reason.
100%.
Some people want it instantly, but it takes time for certain things.
Yeah, exactly.
It took you however long to get where you're at.
Like it's, you know, so yeah, it's just, it's pretty cool.
That is cool.
Yeah.
I hope they look more into it in the U.S.
psychedelics and maybe legalize some of them.
I'm hoping so because, you know, for like PTSD and trauma, it's one of the most amazing things.
And the place where I was at, we had a ton of like war veterans, you know, a ton of people come through that were a lot of them suicidal, that were just having a really hard time living after what they had gone through.
And I mean, there's probably like three or four guys that really stick out in my mind that, you know, at the end of a ceremony, people can share if they want.
And, you know, one gentleman in particular came in and he had tried to commit suicide a couple of times.
He had watched his best friend get blown up, his wife get blown up.
And he's like, I just don't want to be here anymore, man.
Like, this is my last hope.
And by the end of that week, he stood up and he's like, I am so happy to be alive.
And, you know, he forgave himself.
And just, so it was really, it's really transformative, you know, when you can really sit with something like that and tap in and, you know, really like go inside.
And, you know, because one of his big things that he shared is like, you know, like I was allowed to kill women and children and for what?
You know, and it's like, oh, that was powerful, you know, because he had this guilt.
And so, by the end of that week, he was forgiving himself.
He was feeling amazing.
And we're just like, yeah, I love that.
I know.
Right.
And, you know, you think of how many, how many people struggle, you know, especially in the U.S.
I mean, Canada,
we don't really have like the big military, you know, anything like that.
So we don't, we don't really, you don't really hear a lot of that there.
Um, but in the U.S., I mean, there's time.
And a lot of the people that came to where I was at, 90% were Americans.
Really?
Yep.
Damn.
We got some healing to do.
But they're doing the work, you know?
Like, they're doing the work.
It's not, it's not easy.
Yeah.
You know, like, that is not a party.
It's not a vacation.
It's not a party.
It's serious work and it's, it's pretty awesome.
America might have the most trauma out of anyone.
No doubt.
Jeez.
Yeah.
Even though we got all this money, we just
mental health out here is terrible.
Yeah.
And that's one of the big things with us, you know, like we're, we want to get people back to a place where they're feeling good.
Their bodies are feeling good.
And, you know, we coach them not only with the regenerative medicine, but like we coach them with like breath work and meditation and really like a lifestyle as well and you know like with doing um the medically led you know plant medicine therapy it's been amazing you know and the biggest thing for me is safety right so you know i have a lot of canadian clients and friends and i recruit a lot of canadians to come down and see us in birch bay washington and that's the big thing is like you know my business partner is an er doc er nurse they're both so incredibly wise and have so much and they've, and they've done ayahuasca.
You know, I think, I don't know, I think each of them have done maybe about 12 ceremonies, but you know, they really, they're those real, like, Dr.
Hills is like your, your real doctor.
Like, she's also an osteo doc.
So she gets into your body and manipulates your organs and like helps you to, you know, figure out what's stuck.
And so we prepare the body.
So she'll do a 90-minute body work session.
like an osteoenergetic body work session prepare your body so like she'll get in she'll be in people's shoulder blades so deep and she'll be like, ooh, what are y'all on?
What is this?
Right.
And we'll just have people releasing, like releasing trauma.
I need that.
Yeah, I know, right?
And she's just like, it's the most amazing thing to watch.
You know, I kind of joke, I'm like, I'm like the water girl.
I'm the assistant.
And I just, but I learned so much watching her work.
So we love that.
We pride ourselves on that is really preparing the body and then doing the stem cells, but also, you know, having the integration.
We have to have that because people are really processing a lot of emotion, right?
There's so much emotion when you get into their body.
And because, you know, a lot of trauma, a lot of people hold that in their tissue.
Yeah.
You know, and so you're holding that like some people hold it in their shoulders, you know, stomach, wherever.
So she gets into the body and it's like, she just, she just zones in on it.
I love that.
I love how you incorporate both like their physical and the spiritual.
Yeah.
A lot of doctors focus on one.
Exactly.
And managing the symptoms, like, you know, Tina, like we get to the root.
We're like, okay.
But it's like, we start with the body, right?
So it's like, okay, let's work, like, let's find out what's really the problem, what's the real problem here.
So we get into their body and you know, get them talking and get them processing things and then coach them from there, too, because a lot of people come in.
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And they're like, holy shit.
I don't know.
I don't know why I just talked about that or what's going on, but like, hold now what?
We're like, we got you.
Don't worry.
And that's where integration is so important, you know, and, and her and Troy know the body so incredibly well.
And, you know, they coach on diet, um, like a mindful practice.
And we're all kind of crazy nuts.
We cold plunge.
do breath work meditation.
You know, I was just telling them, I'm like, Rainman, I have the same routine.
Like, man, I do the same same shit every single day.
And we left Texas.
We left Houston yesterday and I didn't have time to get a coffee.
And I'm like, that's part of my routine.
I get up in the morning.
I make my coffee.
I journal.
I read.
I do my meditation.
I cold plunge.
And I couldn't get a coffee because we were running a bit behind.
So then we finally get to the airport, Starbucks.
I grab a Starbucks.
They messed up my order.
So I'm like, God, damn.
So I go get another one.
mess it up again.
So I'm like, screw it.
I'm just going to whatever.
Yeah, that's a sign at that point.
It is.
And they put a a bunch of vanilla syrup in it.
I'm like, I cannot drink this.
So I threw it out.
Then we get on the plane and the plane was delayed two hours.
Jeez.
So we're sitting on the plane for two hours, no coffee service.
So I'm just sitting there going, holy shit.
And Tina's looking at me.
She's like, you're pretty good considering.
And I'm like, man, you know, but like, I just have that routine, like routine, routine, routine.
And, you know, and it serves me.
right because that's how i start my day yeah every single day i started with a really solid foundation and i just get really quiet goes back to that ceremony in ayahuasca, and it's like, man, this is where I'm going to start.
You know, I really take care of my body and my mind, and then I just go from there.
That's the hardest part of the day.
So, if you can lock that in, you know, the rest of the day is easy.
Yeah, well, cold plunging, there's days where I'm like, I'm crazy.
Why am I doing this?
Like, there's days where I will cold plunge.
Like, I've smashed the ice off of the top of my cold plunge and jumped in.
And I'm like, everything else today is going to be so easy after doing this, you know, and you feel amazing.
Like, it's the craziest, most amazing dopamine hit for like six hours, you You know, so it lasts that long.
Yeah.
If the temperature is the correct, you know, you can't be in like lukewarm.
But yeah, like you literally like,
and I do like the hot and cold, so I'll sauna.
I do the cold plunging.
You should always end on the cold, but just your body feels unreal.
And so, I mean, actually, someone said to me that you get, I've never done cocaine in my life.
Someone said to you, what a line right there.
That you get that same feeling, like that initial same feeling, but for like a six-hour period.
You're like, why aren't these people that are addicted to cocaine cold plunging?
Like, legit.
You should put that on a shirt right now.
I know, right?
No shit.
I got to start cold plunging, man.
I got a pool, but it's amazing.
It's actually really hot now, so I don't think that would work anymore.
But maybe I'll buy a tub.
Yeah, do it.
I got a sauna already.
That's a game changer.
Oh, it's such a game changer.
I did that this morning.
Like I just sauna, I do my meditation.
I'm a micro-doser.
So I, I'm, uh, I micro-dose mushrooms.
Oh, yeah.
Five on, two off.
And I'll just, you know, take my microdose.
I'll go sit in the sauna.
And most of the time, that's where I just get into my meditation is in there.
Do that for like 30 minutes and then do the cold plunge.
And yeah, like it's such a game.
And it's so good for you too, right?
Like it's so good.
I love microdosing.
Yeah, I know me too.
I've started doing it now, probably.
I guess I've been like a solid microdoser for, I don't know, I want to say like maybe eight or 10 months.
Okay.
Yeah.
Love it.
I need to start getting into a routine with that because I'm just off and on with it.
Yeah.
And you know, it's one of the things where a lot of people people will say to me, well, what am I going to feel?
Or what am I going to see?
Or, you know, or, or they're nervous because they're like, geez, I got to work today.
I'm like, yeah, but that's the point.
You can.
You're not going to be seeing anything.
You're not, you're not having a party.
You're not getting high.
You're not going to start to see weird things.
I said, you know, one of the biggest things for me with microdosing is, you know, I just feel that it.
it just kind of helps you to process things better, slows things down.
You're much more present.
And, you know, with how busy I am and all the things that I have going on, I just find that it's like, it grounds me, right?
Like it just, it's fantastic and kind of like smooths me out a little bit.
You know, I said to my boyfriend one day, I said, babe, can you tell when I'm not micro-dosing?
He's like, oh, yeah.
I said, how?
He's like, you're just a little more hardcore.
He's like, when you're micro-dosing, you know, you're a little bit nicer.
You're more locked in.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like a natural adder all people.
So.
100%.
And, you know, I.
One of the big things too is that's another thing with micro-dosing mushrooms is that's a huge trend everyone's wanting to capitalize on right now.
Right.
And that's another thing.
It's like, if you're going to be microdosing, like really look into who, who the founder is, like what's their why?
You know, I'm working with a guy.
His name's Keegan Downer and he owns a company called Mindful Meds.
And I talked to him a number of times before I started taking his mushrooms because I wanted to know him like, what's your background?
Like, how did you stumble across this?
Like, what's your, what's your motivation?
Right.
And it's really important because I feel that the mushrooms really hold the energy of who's at the top.
You know, so for me, you know, he's just that he's unreal and he's super knowledgeable.
He's got a great story, you know, and he really, truly wants to help people heal.
And that's what I was like, bro, we're going to collab.
Like we're going to, so we refer a lot of people to his website because we also try to get people on that as well.
Yeah.
Right.
So it's part of like that mindful, you know, it's great.
You can come and do stem cells with us and we can get you in real good shape, but you want to maintain it.
Right.
Like that's the thing.
So
yeah, it's been a, it's been a huge thing.
No, I love that mindset because the quality of the supplement or whatever you're taking with like stem cells or mushrooms, you need to do your research.
100%.
And, you know, my daughter just had a baby seven weeks ago now.
And
grandmother.
I know, right?
I know there's days where I'm just like, whoa, holy shit, I'm a grandma.
My name's Go-Go.
They call me, she, she's, she's like, mom, you're always on the go.
You're going to be go-go.
I'm like, I'll take it.
And, and, you know, my daughter had a little bit of postpartum, you know, because she had a pretty, you know, pretty crazy labor.
And so she's, but, you know, got into this postpartum and was struggling a little bit.
So anyways, I'm there with her because I stayed with her for about three and a half, four weeks.
And
so the doctor writes the prescription.
And I call, we FaceTime Tina and Troy because they were in Texas, we were in Canada.
And I said, hey, you guys, this is what the doctor has prescribed for Cass.
Breastfeeding mom with a baby that's three weeks old.
Tina looked at that and said, do not take that.
That baby is getting 4% of that dosage.
She's brand new.
It's going to mess up her development.
Do not.
She's like, she prescribed that to her.
Wow.
I said, yeah.
And she's like, that is an intense antidepressant.
You have to be very careful starting, very careful getting off.
And I said, well, the crazy part is, is the doctor actually told her, you know, you should stay on it for six months and then make sure that you're actually in a good state for another six months.
So I'm like, so they're basically saying stay on it for a year.
So anyways, you know, my poor daughter is like a new mom.
She's like going through the emotions and she's like, mom, like, man, what am I going to do here?
And I'm like, you know what?
Fuck, man.
You got to microdose.
And then she goes, well, is it safe?
I said, it's going to be safer than that pharmaceutical drug that they were just going to put you on.
So of course, you know, I called Keegan and he's like, listen, I can't tell you yes or no, to do it or not to do it.
And I said, if your wife was going through this, what would you give her?
He's like, hey, if.
And she's not, you know, he's very, this is what I would give her.
So I said, send it, ship it.
And so Cass has been microdosing and taking functional mushrooms for probably, I don't know, like four weeks.
And she's doing fantastic.
Wow.
Amazing.
And it's one of those things.
She's like, Mom, I can't Google.
Like, there's nothing's coming up.
I said, of course nothing's coming up.
Of course, you know, I said, and she's on a super low micro-dose, but she's on a stack of functional mushrooms and like a small micro-dose.
And I said, I would much rather.
Even if that, you know, that psilocybin is going into that breast milk a little bit, I would much rather that be going into my granddaughter than the heavy synthetic pharmaceutical.
Yeah.
And so, you know, that was just, you know, one of those things where Cass looked at me.
She's like, how the hell am I supposed to trust these guys?
Tina and Troy are like, do not take that.
Man, you cannot take that.
It's going to mess up that baby's development.
That baby's going to be a genius.
Yeah, I know.
Well, that's, I said that to Cass the other day.
I said, hey, Cass.
I'm like, Scotty, her name is Scotty.
I'm like, that kid is going to be so dialed in.
I'm like,
I know, right?
I'm like, she, and Cass is like, she calls me.
She's like, mom, I don't know if this is a thing, but I got ideas, man.
Like, I got business ideas.
She goes, I got so much shit going on.
I don't have time to think about anything postpartum.
So I just kind of sat back and I'm like, oh, yes, this is amazing.
That's cool.
You know, postpartum is a big issue, right?
It is a woman.
It's a huge issue.
Yeah.
And there's not a lot going around.
Like, there's not a lot, you're not, you're not able to really find much on it.
But, you know, it was such a like an intuition thing for me.
And at the end of the day, it wasn't my decision.
It was hers.
And she said, you know what?
I'm like, I'm good with this.
I said, I'm good with it too.
you know and i looked at tina and troy they're like it's better than the pharmaceutical drug i'll tell you that much but you know, of course, they're doctor and nurse.
So they can't really say, yeah, do it.
But they're like, better than that.
So, and, you know, we've noticed a huge difference.
Well, just logically with no side effects pretty much compared to, oh my God, antidepressant side effects.
Yep.
And, you know, and she's got friends that are on like something called citrulline and they've been on it for years.
Wow.
And, you know, one girl's been on it for like years.
She's like, oh, no, it doesn't really go into the breast milk.
It's like, yes, it does.
It goes it like that baby's being, those babies are being affected by that.
So, you know, what do you want?
Do you want a synthetic pharmaceutical or do you want a little bit of psilocybin?
You know, and I mean, ultimately at the end of the day, there was a part of me that thought, well, maybe we should have nothing.
But I'm like, I'm microdose.
I feel amazing.
And I'm starting to really do a lot of digging into it.
And I'm like, and why not?
You know, when you start to really do research and you find out that they're helping to like rewire neurotransmitters in the brain, just the cool stuff, the cool stuff that they're doing with psilocybin is epic.
Yeah, it's nuts.
I know.
We joke.
We're like, hey, my granddaughter is going to be so dialed in.
This kid's going to be next level.
Yeah.
I can't wait for that.
I know, right?
What are the most common issues you're seeing for people that come in your clinics health-wise?
What are they dealing with?
Dealing with a ton of inflammation.
Inflammation.
You know, inflammation's at the base of pretty much everything, you know.
Inflammation, tons of autoimmune,
a lot of self-diagnosed mental health,
because that's the thing.
Let's see.
Yeah, that's that's those are the big ones, you know, that kind of almost covers it.
I mean, inflammation typically is at the base of everything.
So a lot of that, you know, lots of
we're seeing, you know, like irritable bowel syndrome.
Like we're just seeing all sorts of autoimmune.
And that's another thing that I saw in my two years in Costa Rica.
A lot of autoimmune people coming back, you know, coming in on six or seven or 10 medications.
You know, they do their stem cells, they come back.
i see them say six months later like i have no autoimmune and i'm on nothing i know this is the that's going on like it's epic when you were growing up was autoimmune even common or no nothing like that there was no autism in our group of kids there was a little bit of adhd but that was kind of like still kind of you know barely there but as far as autoimmune no and i'm 48 yeah you know so it's like i don't that wasn't really a thing at all but you know you got to think of how many vaccines they're giving these babies now how food has changed, like just how everything has changed over that time.
Right.
So all of this stuff is linked to all of that, I believe.
The autism rates are crazy right now.
They are so crazy.
They just updated the California numbers.
I think one in 20 something now.
It is crazy, like legit.
And there's a doctor, actually, his name is Dr.
Neil Royden.
And I know Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson, those guys, they've gone to him.
He's got one of the biggest stem cell clinics in Panama.
He's doing some epic stuff with autism.
Really?
Like he's, he's actually from, I believe he's from Tennessee originally, and he's got a clinic, you know, in the States here, a stem cell clinic, but he can't do what he's doing out in Panama.
And
he's written a book called Stem Cells, a Rising Tide.
And he's doing some epic stuff with autism.
You know, so we've actually got a couple clients that have children with autism.
And we're going to, we're going to do our own.
We're going to get them.
We're going to do stem cells.
We're going to do body work.
Really?
We're going to, we're going to like take them on that journey and really do our own.
Like, okay, let's see, you know, what we can do with these kids.
So, I'll, I'll keep you updated because we have a couple that are going to come.
I didn't know stem cells could even help with that.
That's that's a new thing.
I'm hearing stem cells are amazing.
So, we use umbilical cord stem cells.
So, there's, I mean, a lot of people get them confused with embryonic, right?
There's a huge black market for embryonic stem cells because they come from an embryo.
Black market?
Black market, yeah, because it's like aborted fetuses, right?
Like they come from embryos.
So, you know, that is something that is out there.
But, you know, when you get embryonic stem cells well those stem cells want to turn into something right so typically people will sometimes get those done and have like a growth you know say they have a growth on their shoulder then they get it removed and it's got like hair teeth like just crazy stuff like that yeah and so it's really important if you're going to be doing stem cells you want to be doing umbilical cord stem cells And predominantly the umbilical cord is a huge mix.
They're not all, not all stem cells are created equal.
So the mesenchymal stem cells, and you'll hear them called MSCs, those are the ones that we use because they're like the most polypotent.
They're like the building blocks of the human body.
And when you get them out of the umbilical cord, they're such an immature cell, your immune system doesn't even know they're there until they've matured and they've done all the work.
So what they do is the stem cells will go in.
and they will lay the foundation.
So they're attracted to anything in your body.
Your body will put off like an electromagnetic signal whenever it needs repairing or healing, anything's off.
So the stem cells go in and they basically lay the foundation in your system.
And then a lot of people are starting to ask us about exosomes, right?
So exosomes are basically, they're excreted from a stem cell.
So they're like the little messengers.
So the stem cells lay the foundation and the exosomes go out there and they're just like little messengers.
So what happens is it's typically what it's doing is it's getting your own body to upregulate.
right so it's getting your own body to send stem cells to those areas start to repair heal duplicate and so on so but exosomes only typically stay in your body for anywhere from two days days to a week, whereas stem cells can stay in there laying the foundation anywhere from like, say, a month to say six months.
Damn.
Yeah.
So it's kind of cool.
What we'll do is we'll have people come back at the three month mark.
You know, people with like, we're, we know, we've got a couple clients that had really bad knees and we're going to do surgery.
And, you know, we said, just come and do this with us first.
Like, let's just see from there.
No surgery.
Dang.
No surgery.
Yeah.
One guy's a hockey player.
And, you know, he came.
He's like, look, I just want to play hockey.
My son's going to be, you know, I can't remember how old his son's going to be.
He's like, but I want to play with him.
He's like, and my knees are so bad.
Like,
basically, he was doing it just so he could play hockey.
I think he was my age.
And, you know, we get messages.
So I do a one-month check-in.
He's like, man, like, I got no pain.
He's like, this is crazy.
I did a leg day at the gym the other day.
He's like, Dawn, I'm in.
I'm ready to do more.
And so for someone like that, I'm like, just come do some exosomes, right?
Like the stem cells are still there.
They've laid that foundation.
So we don't need to dose you up with more stem cells, but we're going to do some exosomes because that foundation is there.
So, you know, people will say to me, well, can I just do exosomes on
their own?
And, you know, I said, I think I said on my social media, that's like sending a UPS truck full of a bunch of packages with no addresses on them.
That guy's not going to know where to take them.
So it's like, no, you want to make sure that you've done stem cells so that they lay the foundation.
They're the live cell, right?
The exosomes are just the little messenger.
So that's what we'll do for that.
So, you know, we kind of put them on a journey and, you know, they can keep healing and repairing and love so yeah have you given any pea shots yet that's a hot thing these days any what the pea shots no you haven't heard of that no oh that's a trend right now looking at that like pea shot as far as like urine um no it's stem cells in in the penis oh oh in the penis yeah okay well okay we we we have started to like look at all sorts of different things like you know like even injecting like people with losing their hair like right into their ears like all sorts of stuff so no cool yeah looking at that you know what i think i feel like i kind of came across something like that a few months ago it's hot right now a lot of guys are so benefits are
um a lot of people have ed okay yeah so it helps with that because they can't even get up right so they're injecting the stem cells right into into the vein yeah they are okay so well the nice thing with full body umbilical cord stem cells is they go through the whole they go through your whole system do you know what i mean so i mean but hey if you want to do a little more localized why not right yeah i'm sure most guys are like just put it right in there let's go yeah i'm not surprised yeah that yeah a hot bang right now.
Oh, damn.
Is it ever?
Right.
I'll be taking this back to, you know,
I tell Tina, I'm like, I call her headquarters.
Oh my God, we take this back to headquarters.
She'll be like, of course.
Okay, what are we doing?
Penises?
Let's go.
Take it back there because guys will be your biggest word of mouth marketing after you give them that one.
Yeah, no doubt.
You know, yeah, no doubt.
Awesome.
Oh, I want to ask this.
When your daughter gave birth, did they let her keep the.
placenta and the uh the cord?
I love that you asked this because
they didn't even really know anything about that as crazy as that.
So maybe it's different in the U.S.
And I'll get into like the lab that we work with and where they get their R chords from.
But I was in Canada and I said to the girl in the delivery room, I said, so like if we wanted to keep her umbilical cord, and she kind of was like, well, like, what do you mean?
Like just the cord, the whole thing?
Like, I said, yeah.
So if we wanted to do that, she's like, oh, you would have had to like set that up a long time ago.
And then you have to have it within eight hours.
And she's like, no, no one really does that.
Like that's not really.
So they're not educated on it really at all.
Wow.
At all.
That's crazy.
And, you know, for me sitting in there, I'm like, isn't this interesting?
Like, that's our business.
We do umbilical cord stem cell therapy.
Right.
So in Canada, it's not really.
I got to experience that firsthand seven weeks ago.
And they're really not educated on it at all.
She's like, yeah, no one really does that.
I heard in the U.S., they just throw them out.
Yeah.
Well, so.
What will happen is when you give birth in the U.S.,
and I can't say it's like this at every single hospital,
but they'll say to them, do you want to keep your umbilical cord?
Do you want to discard it?
Or do you want to donate it to science?
So we work with a lab out of Miami.
And that's like when they say they want to donate to science, that's when our lab steps in and they get and they get the umbilical cords then.
So they're all ethically sourced.
But I was waiting for that.
You know, I had my kids.
My kids are 26 and 27.
And I was waiting for that because it didn't happen when I had my kids, but I thought, this must be a thing now.
No, not in Canada.
That's so much opportunity that they're
leaving on the table i know but you kind of think what are they doing with them
are they actually throwing that
are they but who knows right yeah so um
you know the the lab that we are dealing with is fantastic you know they do super stringent testing and um we are only taking umbilical cords from unvaccinated like unvaccinated donors like so no covet vaccine so it goes through a huge stringent testing process so even when they you know they go through the checklist we still have a we they still have a testing process after that.
Um, so, which is, you know, really important for a lot of people.
Can you tell if it's a vaccinated umbilical cord?
Well, that
like us personally.
Like, do you notice a difference like with the stem cells, I guess?
You know what?
I can't say because we've never used any other than ones that are no like.
And you know what?
And it's not like zero vaxes.
It's just that particular no COVID vaccine.
Yeah.
So not saying that the umbilical cords we get have like the people have never had vaccines, but it's just that particular, that particular one.
Yeah.
There's no one who's so rushed.
Yeah.
I know.
That's why it's like, and so many people are concerned, right?
Because there's been so much craziness since then.
So can we
treated that terribly?
I couldn't even go there.
Oh my God.
It was, it was part of my burnout because I pushed against that so hard.
You know, I had my clinic and
I was
probably about a month in, I started to, I'm like, something's not right.
This is messed up.
I believe there's this virus or whatever they're you know but something's not like i just had this weird feeling i'm like something's off so i never really went along with any of the narratives because it just wasn't sitting with me wasn't sitting right and uh you know i had my own clinic and they were wanting everyone to wear masks and you know interior health and work safe that's our that's my regulating body they're like everyone has to do this and you know you have to have your clinic six everything six feet apart and all this pepe and i said no i'm not doing it i said i just spent over a million bucks on my tenant improvement i've got the nicest clinic the city's ever seen and I'm not putting that shit up in here.
And I don't believe it.
So I actually got to the point where I was being hassled so much.
So I said, you know what?
I got a hold of Interior Health.
So that's Health Canada.
And WorkSafe.
And I said, you guys need to come to my clinic because I want to have a meeting.
I'm going to have all my staff there.
Wow.
And we're going to record it.
I said, if you guys can convince me and convince me, like back it up that all this shit that you want me to do in my clinic is going to work and you got to prove prove it.
I'll do it.
They got to prove it.
So we had a two-hour meeting.
We recorded the whole thing.
They could not prove it.
Did you publish that?
Pardon?
Did you publish that meeting?
I didn't, but I still have it.
I've got it recorded.
I never thought to do that.
I never thought to do that.
I know, right?
At the time, it would have went viral.
I don't know if it still would.
Maybe.
Who knows?
But, you know, my staff had such a sense of
empowerment because I'd been telling them and they were with me.
But they're kind of like, yeah, but don't like, you're kind of like, no one gets to tell you what to do, you know, like that.
And I said, no, you guys, like, I really feel this.
So after that meeting, when WorkSafe left and Interior Health left, they signed up because every business had to have a safety plan through that.
They signed off on my safety plan.
I said, keep doing what you're doing.
I said, oh, I will.
Now, there was one kind of little loophole.
I was the first clinic in the province.
I can't, I don't, maybe the country.
I can't say that for sure to have a liquor license.
So I had a liquor license so I could serve serve wine, you know, come in for laser and I could give you a glass of wine.
So I had the same, I had a liquor primary.
So this was the messed up thing in Canada.
It's like you had to walk in with your mask on, but as soon as you sat down, you could take it off.
So I had that liquor primary, right?
So it's like, so I had that going on anyways.
And I'm like, you guys cannot convince me that these people are endangered six feet from my front door to where they're sitting down.
I'm like, no, there's never masks were enforced in my clinic.
I'm like, I can't wrap my head around this.
It's just nuts.
So it just got to the point where, you know, I was locking my clinic door.
Every single person that came in had to talk to me and get through me because my staff were being hustled a little bit, but I never backed down.
Wow.
Like, no way.
I'm not doing it.
So it burnt me out because it was like two years of like fight mode.
And, but it was worth it, you know, like.
We lost some clients, but man, when we actually got to open again, because Canada closed everybody down for about three months.
Jeez.
When we opened again, we were so busy.
And I had so many people being like, you know what, Don, thank you.
Thank you for keeping this like a normal, safe place.
I'm like, yeah, no doubt.
I'm fucking burnt out.
I got to go drink ayahuasca.
I have a shit together, but no problem.
I got you guys.
Shout out to you.
Right?
Yeah.
Canada might have been the worst place to be during the pandemic.
It was brutal.
You guys couldn't even leave, right?
You had a curfew and you couldn't leave the country.
Yeah, it was, it was insanity.
Like,
I, and.
I was the type that I was like, I was traveling even through that.
Like, I literally tried not to let it affect my life.
Like, legit, I went to Costa Rica.
And then I ended up, I mean, I sold my business in the middle of the pandemic, which was like, oh, thank God.
But yeah, it was, it was haywire.
I, uh, there was a lot of craziness going on.
Some, some provinces back east, worse than others.
Um,
Vancouver wasn't too, too bad, but like Toronto, you know, Quebec, those places.
Oh, yeah, 100%.
They're the, they're the ones responsible for the liberal government still being Canada.
Right now, it's looking even scarier.
It's so brutal.
I know.
I've just gotten past that point of like, I'm just, I throw my hands up.
Is it a teenage one?
I'm like, I'm moving to Texas.
Oh my gosh.
I'm moving here with you guys.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Right.
I'm like in this neutral space, right?
That that used to get me going, but I'm like, ah, you know, it is what it is.
It was a disappointment, but it's like, well, what can you do?
You just got to figure it out.
Well, Don, it's been really fun.
We'll link your stuff below.
Anything else you want to close off with here?
You know what?
Just thank you.
Thank you for taking the time.
Thank you for sitting with me.
And yeah.
I'll stop by the clinic.
Maybe we can record a little session.
That'd be awesome.
I'd love that.
That'd be fantastic.
Yeah.
Cool.
Check her out, guys.
Check out the clinic.
See you next time.