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Meet Your Health Heroes: Joshua Sharp on Group Healing, Finding Your People, and Building a Fulfilled Practice

• Ricky Brar

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Episode Description:

In this Meet Your Health Heroes segment, Ricky sits down with Dr. Joshua Sharp (Doc Josh), a chiropractor turned functional health coach who's transforming how practitioners serve their communities. Josh shares his powerful journey from trying to be everything to everyone, to discovering the profound impact of serving his people deeply through his online group program, Gut Rescue Odyssey.

This conversation dives into the evolution from solo practice to leveraging community healing, the wisdom of "some will, some won't, so what, someone's waiting," and why listening to your spouse might be the best business advice you'll ever get.


Key Timestamps:

  • 00:00 - Introduction to Meet Your Health Heroes
  • 01:14 - Who is Dr. Joshua Sharp?
  • 02:38 - Josh's origin story: From chiropractic to functional health coaching
  • 05:43 - Discovering his ideal client: Why moms are the gateway to family health
  • 08:28 - What being a "fulfilled practitioner" means to Josh
  • 12:56 - The practice lesson learned the hard way: "Some will, some won't"
  • 17:47 - What was Doc Josh like as a kid?
  • 19:26 - How Josh's practice evolved from zero profit to online freedom
  • 22:56 - The power of community in healing
  • 26:42 - Healthcare trends Josh is watching: Frequency tools, light therapy, and terrain theory
  • 31:10 - Daily routines that keep Josh grounded and focused
  • 34:35 - Protecting your energy while serving others
  • 38:31 - The one piece of advice for younger Josh: Listen to your wife
  • 41:17 - What's next: The podcast journey and loving the process


About Dr. Joshua Sharp:

Dr. Joshua Sharp is doctor of Chiropractic and health coach. After years in traditional practice, Josh transitioned to serving families through his online group health coaching program, Gut Rescue Odyssey. He hosts the Discover Health Podcast and shares educational content on his YouTube channel, Discover Health with Joshua Sharp.


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Quotes to Remember:

"My fulfillment used to come from learning as many different things as I could, but now I'm realizing that it's focusing on finding my people and just helping them as deeply and as meaningfully as I possibly can." - Dr. Joshua Sharp

"Some will, some won't. So what? Someone's waiting." - Bruce Bond

"Listen to your wife. This is a person that knows you, loves you, wants good things for you, and is directly impacted by your decisions and your level of fulfillment in your practice." - Dr. Joshua Sharp

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SPEAKER_01

Welcome back to the Fulfilled Practitioner Podcast. Today we're doing our favorite Meet Your Health Hero segment. And this segment, it's all about spotlighting practitioners who are not just creating impact, but they're actually doing it with fulfillment, purpose, and authenticity. I've met some of the most brilliant minds and people who are truly changing the world, but we want to make sure that they don't stay best kept secrets any longer. Today I have a very special guest, someone I've got to know. It's probably been over a year now, and uh someone who I absolutely resonate with his values and all of the hard work he puts out there and the impact he makes on the world. Welcome, Josh. Uh, so pumped to have you here.

SPEAKER_00

I'm glad to be here. Ricky, I want you to know I was so excited to be on this show with you. I showered, I put on clean underwear. Um, so I hope that's really coming through. That you know, I'm I'm clean, I'm bathed, I try to take care of myself so I could look good for your show.

SPEAKER_01

I I can see it, I can smell it. So that's awesome, brother. And uh to get started here, I'd love for you to tell the the audience here who you are, what your name is, and what your area of expertise is. What do you do?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so my name is uh Joshua Sharp. I'm trained as a chiropractor. Um, so a lot of people from my my old life know me as Doc Josh or um Doc Sharp, that's what they call me a lot. Um, but over the years I have kind of transitioned a little bit to do more health coaching. I also have some training in uh uh Canadian technique. So uh shout out to my friends up there in Canada um called Matrix Repatterning. Uh and so that was that was fun to learn about matrix repatterning. But I do an online group health coaching uh program right now, and I also host a podcast called Discover Health Podcast, and I have a YouTube channel as well um called Discover Health with Joshua Sharp. So that's what I'm up to these days.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. And and that's why I was so pumped to have you here because you're already doing so much good for the world. And uh I know I was speaking to you earlier, and uh, I do my best not to miss one of your episodes. They're always highly impactful episodes, and you have some of the most awesome guests, and uh, I know you share a lot of personal stories and uh family stories as well. So, uh, what really drew you to this world? I know, like similar to you, like origin as a chiropractor, but how did you come into this functional nutrition health coaching world?

SPEAKER_00

That's an interesting question. Um, I think that I stumbled into chiropractic. I literally just stumbled into it. I always had kind of a passion for science. I really liked science, I really liked biology. Um, my my idea was to go to physical therapy school um after undergrad. And while there, I met while I was in uh undergrad at the University of Missouri, Go Tigers, I met a guy that was going to chiropractic school and learned from him about chiropractic. I didn't even know what a chiropractor did. Um, and amazingly, uh I took some initiative, which at that time of my life was very rare, but I visited a chiropractor just to shadow him, see what he did. And I was amazed by what I saw. And uh after just seeing that and reading a book that he recommended, I completely changed my classes, went to chiropractic school. And while I was there, I mean, it was my goal to be like the best with my hands. Um, I had my hands on as many students, you know, working on them as I possibly could. My poor family suffered greatly uh during that time. So I apologize to them for their many injuries and and many uh infirmities that they're dealing with, even still today, from uh bad adjustments and things that while I was learning in chiropractic school. But after I got married, um, my wife, who I met in chiropractic school, started really, I just started noticing that she was struggling significantly with her health. Um, and so working with patients, you know, you're getting decent results as a chiropractor, but you just really want to like, oh gosh, I know I can do more for this person. And I know I need to learn more. And so that led me to nutrition, it led me to supplementation. But then at home, my wife, who's a chiropractor who knows, you know, pretty much everything I know, is struggling and suffering. And so I'm trying to get better results for my patients, but also trying to learn like, okay, what can we do to help my wife? And so that's what really led me down the functional medicine, nutrition, um, supplementation world right there. Um, was trying to find ways to get better results in practice and chiropractic practice, but also get better results for my wife as well.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, wow. And uh that's why I love being able to interview practitioners like yourself. There, there's almost always a common theme that uh we were kind of forced into this world, right? So it's kind of the classical uh hero's journey. Uh, you think of uh Frodo, uh, he never wanted to go to Mordor, right? Like that was something he was forced into. So it's very similar to us, but but for good reason and good intention as well. And I know uh you've been very transparent and vulnerable, and you've shared a ginger story uh on your own podcast. So if anybody wants to hear that full story, please check out the episode on uh Josh's podcast. So as of today, going through that journey, like who is your ideal person you want to work with? Like, what is that top thing that you're looking for? Who do you love working with most?

SPEAKER_00

This is interesting, and this is another one of those things that I stumbled into. Um, but in practice, I found myself so excited to be working with moms. Um and over time, I think I realized the reason was because the mom is the gateway, right? The mom is the door to the house. What food the family eats goes through the mom. What routine the family has goes through the mom. Where the family goes, how this family spends a lot of their time goes through the mom. And so if you want to impact an entire family and impact their health, then you got to go through your mom. And so um, I would get so excited to see moms, especially with little kids walking in, just because I felt like I had such an opportunity to impact a bigger number of people, you know, through the mom. But then also um my wife and her story, and really when her health took a significant turn was right after she delivered our first. Um, I mean, her health really just crashed. And she had such a passion for motherhood, such a passion for homeschooling. But unfortunately, she was struggling and just could barely function. Um, and so I've developed a passion and kind of a niche uh just trying to hone in on homeschool moms or stay-at-home moms, because that's our story. That's what we went through. We kind of understand the struggles, we understand what can happen um in a marriage, even going through the the difficulties that she went through. Um, and so that's that's who I really want to help, and who I've got a passion to help is moms uh for for a variety of reasons.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, that's amazing. I didn't know that about you. I didn't know um that like that was one of the areas you wanted to make a big impact, but it makes complete sense. And uh, as you were speaking there, I was reflecting back to my own health journey. And I I I semi-joke about it, although it's not a joking matter, is that I probably took years off my own mom's life with all the health stuff that I had going on. So uh, and I I know uh with my wife, she'll joke sometimes that she feels like like a mom to me and my son. So uh that's an underappreciated, underserved group and one that needs help. So I absolutely love it. So if you're if you're a mom listening, I'm sure you could already tell you'd be in great hands with Josh here. Uh now, this is called the Fulfilled Practitioner Podcast. So uh question I uh make all practitioners answer and kind of put them on the spot is what does being a fulfilled practitioner mean to you personally?

SPEAKER_00

It's an interesting question. And to be honest with you, for a very long time I had one idea of what I thought would be fulfilling, and one idea of um what I thought would make me make me feel good. And my idea was I want to help as many people as I can. And in the community that I was in, it's a it was a small rural community. There weren't a lot of options in terms of natural health within probably a 20-mile radius. And so in my mind, I thought, okay, the way that I'm gonna have a big impact is to learn as many things as I can. So I want to be the best at adjusting, I want to learn about laser, I want to learn about decompression, I want to learn about nutrition, I want to learn about um, you know, all these different techniques. So I can, anyone that walks in the door, I can help them. But what I found is is my practice in terms of um the depth of change that I offered, it was a mile wide. There was a lot of different, you know, variety of things that I did, but it was an inch deep. There just wasn't a lot of depth. And I'm in the impact I was having on each individual person, it just wasn't what I was going for. And I wanted to see as many people as I could. And what I've realized over time, and and you were instrumental in helping me um understand this, was it's not necessarily about all the different things and all the different toys and all the different techniques. It's about finding your people, the people that resonate with you, the people that are willing to listen, the people that are um are ready to hear what you have to say and they're ready to take action, finding those people and then just taking them as far as you can possibly take them. It's depth, it's getting to know them, getting to know their um what's going on in their lives and getting to know what's missing or what's what's there that doesn't need to be there, and then really helping um to create a new healthy life for this person and recognizing that when you impact someone in a tremendous way like that, then you're having such uh a broad-reaching effect. Because, like I talked about the mom, if a if a mom is healthier, then the whole family benefits, the community benefits, the church benefits. And so um my fulfillment used to come, I thought, from learning as many different things as I could, but now I'm realizing that it's focusing on finding my people and just helping them as deeply and as meaningfully as I possibly can.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, that that's amazing. The thought that came to mind there, there's an amazing book by uh David Epstein called Range. Uh, and uh it's uh it's a book that I wrote about in my book as well because it it changed the way I see things. And uh one of the the uh distinctions he makes there is that too many times, like especially going to school as a chiropractor, going to school as a medical doctor, a naturopath, you really turn into a specialist where you're learning one singular skill really well. So chiropractic, it's adjustments. Uh, if you're going to school to be an electrician, it's it's to know all circuits and things like that. And he actually argues that a lot of success comes from being a generalist and getting ideas from multiple different disciplines. So when you were going through and making sure you knew about laser and decompression and nutrition and bringing this all in, you couldn't have arrived at that point in time where you're like, you know what, this is the highest impact stuff. This is the stuff that's gonna allow me to impact people with more depth, unless you were a generalist like that. So I definitely want to commend you for that because it's it's a tough decision, right? And I find a lot of us when we start practicing the way that we're taught to practice from school, we don't really quote unquote evolve anymore. And when we don't evolve anymore, we we kind of stop helping people to the best of our ability. We're not learning, we're not kind of going outside into different domains and picking up things. So I love that you've been able to integrate so many things. And you're totally right. Like that's where fulfillment comes from. It's like helping people create those breakthroughs. And that's when it stops feeling like a job. It stops feeling like uh like a packed schedule doesn't weigh you down anymore. You you're you know you're making an impact and you know you're helping people. So I love how your definition of success has kind of changed through your career there as well. Uh, kind of taking a darker turn there is is there any sort of um practice lesson or anything you learned the hard way along the years that you want to share with potentially other practitioners listening in?

SPEAKER_00

I mean, I I've got hundreds. I mean, I've got hundreds. My favorite way to learn, and I know that you're not like this, you're a really smart guy. My favorite way to learn is to do everything the hard way. Um, I listen to other people, what they tell me, and the advice they give, and then I ignore that and I go ahead and do the mistake and I do the thing that I'm not supposed to do, and I like to learn the hard way. That's how I do that's how I do it. Um, so yeah, I've got so many, but one of the lessons that has impacted me. Um it's not my own. Uh, there's a a great, brilliant mind in the natural health world, Bruce Bond. I don't know if you've heard of Bruce Bond or got to hear him speak. He used to do seminars with uh standard process for a long time, quite a while back, but great, great um uh guy with with so much great knowledge, but he said something that was super profound. And what I had learned over the years is sometimes I wanted people to get better a lot more than they wanted to get better. I wanted things for them, like I really want you to change this in your life so you can be healthier, so you don't have to go through this struggle. I wanted things for them that they didn't want for themselves, and I spent a lot of time worrying about those people, trying to argue them into making changes and doing things in their life and trying to take care of them, and they didn't want that. And Bruce Bond had a saying, um, and it sticks in my mind, it just comes up every so often. And the saying is this some will, some won't, so what? Someone's waiting. And wow, it it sounds almost heartless, but you offer the help is there. I have not, I'm not going anywhere, I'm not gone. But if that person doesn't want, if they don't, if they're not ready to to to do the things, it's not easy, then that's okay. Let that go and focus on the people that want what you have, that are ready to listen, they're ready to change, and focus your energy, focus your time, and you're gonna be more fulfilled as a result because this is rejection over here. You're trying to get unrejected, and then this is acceptance, and so much, so much of our time is spent worrying about rejection and and the the few people that say negative things. We spend so much time worrying about that, or that bad review. You spend so much time worrying about that, and not enough time focusing on the 99% of people that love what you do, and they're they're there to listen and they're there hanging on your every word. And and so um those words ring out in my mind. Some will, some won't, so what? Someone's waiting, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Uh I I truly hope like practitioners listening, especially if you're new, like what Josh just said there is a decade to learn the hard way. So he just saved you a decade of time if you can work to adopt that mentality to an extent. And it's so funny because uh there's different ways to present the same same mentality, uh, and same universal truth here. Uh, a mentor of mine taught me that uh you can throw somebody the life raft if they're if they're drowning, you could throw them the lifesaver, uh, but they have to be willing to hold on, right? So if they're not willing to hold on, there's nothing you can do to save that person. So again, like I I know you said it, and and I truly feel it. That's not a negative, that that's not cutthroat. That's that's the reality of things, right? And uh, I know uh the second thing you said there was uh a lot of us, like it's it's interesting, and I think uh we don't really honor it enough is that no matter how good of a person you think you are, no matter how from the heart you are, there's gonna be people out there that just don't like you and and what you have to offer. And those are people that will never work with you. So it's it's really not worth it to dwell on that and keep ruminating on that and letting that get you down. Because if you really focus on all the people you have helped and can continue to help, that's where fulfillment is. That's where the the excitement, the energy comes back. So I love that, brother. Thank you for sharing that. That's uh totally awesome. And I love like the one thing from getting to know you is I love the way you think. And I love how you learn things the hard way. Like the differences we have in personality there, it's amazing because I can see the the value of of those things that you do. So the question I have for you is uh like were you were you always wired like that? Like what was what was uh Dr. Joshua as a as a kid?

SPEAKER_00

That's a good question. I I don't know the answer to that. It was I always wired like that. Yeah, I think I was pretty different. I marched to the beat of my own drum. I was always in my own head having dialogues and conversations and um just thinking through different possibilities and different outcomes and just looking at looking at the world from a philosophical perspective, um, I think was always always there. Um, I had the opportunity to go to my grandmother's 90th birthday um just uh a month ago or so. And one of my former teachers from school was there. Uh, she was a neighbor of my grandmother, and so it was kind of neat to see her. You know, I hadn't seen her in probably oh gosh, 30, you know, 30 years or something like that. Actually, maybe more. Um, and she was telling me stories about myself and remembering things about uh being in school. And so yeah, I think it I think I was always kind of wired a little bit a little bit differently.

SPEAKER_01

I I love to hear that. I learned so much from studying practitioners. So I had to ask, like, what are the origins of of that? And uh it serves you well, right? Like you've you've used it as a superpower and uh you continue to. So that's why I I love when practitioners embrace who they are and uh they're able to pave their own way. So that's totally cool. Um, in those lines, like how has your how has your practice evolved over the years? I know it's been quite the journey. Like, if we kind of actually zoom out and look at it, you're almost in an entirely different profession today in many ways. So, how has your practice evolved over the years?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's a great question. So originally, you know, I worked for a guy and did what he did. I tried to do what he did, and and it didn't really resonate with me, but it was a job and I need money, and I and I did that. Um, just his style, but I learned a lot. I learned a lot from him, and then I had the opportunity to join my wife in practice in 2010. She had started a practice and uh literally made zero dollars. It was every dollar that that came in went right back out. It was zero profit. The very very first year I joined her that second year without knowing how we were going to make our next house payment. And the Lord provided, I mean, it was just amazing to see that I was doing what I was called to do. And God provided for that. So I was so thankful for that. And worked as a chiropractor again, integrating nutrition and so many different modalities. And then at the same time, my wife and I felt called to move, to pick up our lives and move. And so we didn't know how that was going to happen. We didn't know how um how that could ever come about because we were so rooted in the community we're in. We had a large practice with several different practitioners, we had different modalities going, we had several employees, you know, we had a large office there and a lot going on. We didn't know how we could ever leave that. And um we just tried to be faithful to our calling. And I think I learned about um doing online group health. Maybe uh maybe I heard it from you at at a Cellcore event, and it just kind of stuck in my mind. And the more I looked into it and the more I kind of um thought about the possibilities, I thought, okay, this could be something. And I kind of jumped in without really knowing what was gonna happen. I we sold our practice, we moved across the state, and we just had no way of knowing um what was gonna happen. But on the other side, now we are we have an online group health program. I've got a podcast, which is unbelievable to think about, um, that I would be spouting my nonsense, you know, over the airwaves, and people would people would listen to it. And so I'm so thankful for that. I've got a YouTube channel and looking back, I can just see that God was kind of putting those pieces together, the interest that I have and um the things that I that I like doing. He was kind of piecing that together for where I'm at right now. And so I'm so thankful to be here with helping moms, you know, with our online group, group health program, um, and trying to help as many people, whoever will listen, with my podcast and YouTube channel. So completely different place.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. Oh man, that's it's giving me like goosebumps because uh I I know I when I first met you, you didn't have the group set up, and uh now there's geographic freedom and and your podcast is picking up steam. I know we've uh had conversations about uh all of the opportunities and different guests that want to be on your podcast now. And uh, I know you also have the online community program. So I'd love to ask you a little bit more about that. How how are you incorporating community and group healing into your practice today?

SPEAKER_00

Great question. So, community is one of those things that I overlooked. And in any type of health school, you're taught privacy, patient privacy. Um, people need to be in a closed-off room and nobody hears what's going on, and you know, you keep everything secret and everything private. And there definitely are times that that's uh needed and necessary and fine, and and that's that's okay. But um, over time, um, I've learned that being in community, being in a group is really important, and feeling safe in a group is really, really important. And those are actually key components to healing. Your body is unable to really get the most out of your healing journey if you don't feel safe in a community. And that's a really interesting thing to think about. There's a good book out there called The Community Cure, and they kind of go through some of the ideas behind that. I think there's a uh research study from Cleveland Clinic where they talk about uh they have two groups of people doing the exact same protocol, but the the people that are working one-on-one with a practitioner did not get as good a results as the people that were doing it in a group. Um, but finding that that group of people that's going through the same thing that you're going through and being able to, you know, bounce ideas back and forth and oh yeah, I struggled with this, and here's what I did, or oh yeah, I had that question too. Thanks for asking that. You can learn so much more from being in a community. Um, so it's been it's been really uh eye-opening for me, and it's been a learning journey, honestly, um, to learn the best way to try to get people talking and get people engaged, um, to try to keep people engaged between uh between our weekly meetings um that we have. Um it's I'm learning and I and I'm trying to incorporate more things all the time.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. It's it's so needed. And if we really reflect back, uh like there, there's kind of uh there's the world uh before the pandemic, and there's the world after the pandemic. That's kind of how I see it. It's a line in the side. The world is different today, like energy feels different, uh, time feels a lot different to me. And I know some people might think that's a little woo-woo out there, but I I look back and I'm like 2020 to now, like uh end of 2025, it's just been like snap of a finger in many ways. Uh, and the one thing that happened during that time is a lot of in-person one-on-ones, at the very least, you would have this in-person connection. And we're taught this uh in chiropractic school, is that that it's one of the only professions where there's this like in-person, hands-on the person, uh, and uh there's this exchange of positive energy there as well. And uh that completely got shifted when virtual consults became a thing. So, at the very least, if you're someone who does a completely virtual practice, if you can incorporate community at the same time and have people there, that really it makes up for that missing energy that wasn't there in the one-on-one side. So I'm so glad that you're doing that. And I I love your program name as well. It's uh it's one of my favorites ever, I would say. It's uh gut reset odyssey, if I'm remembering correctly, right? Gut rescue odyssey. Gut rescue odyssey. There we go. Yeah, that's uh that's totally awesome. So it looks like things are are shifting, and I'm glad that you're able to play that role. And I know things are continuing to shift. So right now we're in 2025. By 2030, I'm sure we'll be having a different conversation and into different things. Uh, just I know me and you are both um, we like a lot of the tech stuff, we like a lot of the the AI stuff coming out and uh that side of things. Do you see any any trends that you're following really closely right now that are kind of changing the way that we look at healthcare and um how we look at helping people overall?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's a good question. I think that some of the things that I personally have been um excited about and focusing on are things um like new frequency-based diagnostics. There's different machines, different types of equipment out there that can, you know, scan your body and kind of give you an idea energetically based on how your body responds to different frequencies, what could be wrong, what what microbes might you might have, what parasites you might have, what organs or organ systems might be affected. Um it can also, there's some technologies out there that that supposedly can help figure out what things your body might respond best to in terms of supplements or in terms of um different different products that you might use with the with a person. I'm really excited about different types of light therapy in terms of um providing all different sorts of benefits from speeding up healing, from heat shock protein. I mean, there's so many different types of light therapy that's coming out, and more is coming out all the time. Um and I think it's exciting. I'm really interested to see where some of this technology goes. Um but I really am interested to see who's steering the wheel, like who's driving it. And I'm I'm afraid of the direction things could go. Um, but I'm also excited for the possibility. And and what I mean by that is I think so often we get excited about new shiny diagnostics and learning, like, oh, ooh, this person has a bug or this person has, you know, this parasite. And that's great and that's fine to know. Um, but if you lose sight of the terrain, which in my opinion is way more important than you know the organism or micro microorganism that's going on with a person, if you lose sight of the terrain and you you focus solely on the microbe, I think you're you're missing the point and you're you're gonna be floundering probably. But if you can use this exciting technology to help you figure out where the terrain needs to be strengthened and where the terrain needs to be addressed and in the best ways and the best uh ways that you can improve the body and improve the body's ability to heal itself, I think you're you're always gonna find success. And I think that's why over time there's been tremendous success with all different types of techniques out there. Everything from, you know, there was people out there, you know, using magnets, you know, well over a hundred years ago, and they weren't doing it because they were charlatans, they had results, otherwise they wouldn't have been people wouldn't have been coming. Um, it's just interesting to see how technology develops, but focusing on the terrain, in my opinion, is where is where you're always going to get the biggest bang for your effort. I'm just excited for the possibilities of learning about the terrain, maybe in new ways.

SPEAKER_01

I love that. And uh I I feel like I I've been saying it for years as well, is like where we are right now in natural healthcare, especially, is uh what we're still just at the tip of the iceberg. And like even when we say the word microbiome, when we talk about the terrain of the body, what we know about it at this given moment in time, it's still like what's a good analogy, like the Amazon rainforest, right? We've only explored a fraction of it, and I think the gut is the exact same thing, and there's new stuff coming out every single day, and then there's often full circle moments where we thought one thing was good, but it's not as good as we thought it was, and uh as well as like diagnostics and things like that. There's been what dozens of stool tests that have come and gone and uh that are initially all the rage, and then people kind of like just brush them under the rug, and then there's a new shiny object. So you do have to be careful uh as well. So I love that you you take a cautionary approach there, but I'm excited as well. Like we're we're headed for the golden age in many ways, to uh so many things, like from a trained perspective, but there's gonna be a lot of fluff out there as well that we have to navigate. So that's awesome. So, again, this is the Fulfilled Practitioner Podcast. So I know uh one of the things that we we all want to hear from other practitioners is how they maintain their sense of energy, their sense of peace, their sense of fulfillment along the way. So, in your daily flow in with your daily habits, is there any routines or habits that you do consistently that that keep you grounded and clear?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, absolutely. So I naturally I'm not a routine type of person. I'm kind of more like easily distracted and you know, go off and you know, wander off type of a person. But I but I found that I thrive, I do much better with a routine. And so I try to stack habits um to try to maximize like uh the benefit of the time that I spend in the morning. And so I love to wake up in the morning, get my Bible, um, and go outside, put my bare feet on the ground, sit in a place where I can get morning sunlight, um, listen to my Bible, and I sit there for a while and I feel like I'm doing oh, and I also use uh my vagus nerve uh stimulating device at the same time. So I feel like I'm doing grounding, getting morning sun, vagus nerve stimulating. I'm hearing from the Lord, you know, all in the morning. And so I feel like I'm just kind of maximizing that time, just cramming as much stuff in there as I can. And then usually after that time, I come inside and I'll do maybe like a little vagus nerve exercise or something like that, just five or 10 minutes, and then pray with my family. And what I found is that I'm so much more ready to attack the day, and I've got much more clear focus, uh, which is an important thing for me, is finding a way to focus really well. And then also um the the distractions and all the things that can kind of generate stress and um can cause me to feel frantic, like, oh, I've got to do this, I've got to do this, those just kind of melt away, and I can just kind of okay, this is where I need to focus, this is what I need to do, and and that's been um really powerful for me.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. And I I think uh to the practitioners that are listening, especially, uh, because I I've spoken with so many practitioners over the years, and it's it's one of the main things that um I'm doing on a daily basis. Uh, one thing I've come across is when when I start to pick at people's routines, a lot of times the ones that are the most burnt out, the ones that are the most just misaligned, don't have the greatest energy, they often wake up and just step right into the fire. They wake up, throw some caffeine in, and just go right back to back-to-back appointments. And I find uh the common theme amongst the practitioners I found that that stay grounded, stay fulfilled, they they have their vision insight the entire time is this morning priming in a way. And the other common theme that I've seen is a connection to source as well. So I absolutely love that. That's a foundational part of who you are and and the values you put into everything that you do. The that would be how you start your day. And then kind of as you get into the swing of things, as you're helping people throughout the day, is there anything you do specifically to help kind of protect your energy while you're helping others? To preface that, I I know I I've always said it like this this profession we're in, this world we're in, uh, it's one of the toughest there is. Like if you actually just factor in what you're doing and who you're working with, you're working with people who often have a lot of heaviness to their case, and oh yeah, they've been through the ringer. There's sometimes a lot of negative energy that's exchanged, a lot of dealing with victim mindsets as well. Is there anything you specifically find yourself doing to protect yourself from that?

SPEAKER_00

That's a good question. I I have I'm still working that out, I think. Um in the past, like working in my old office setting, I found that being alone and just being just me where it was quiet, um, and and going outside, just I was so disappointed. My whole all the offices that I've worked in, I never had a window in my treatment room. And uh so one of my must-haves was having a window. And so I'm very thankful to have two windows here in this off. This is unbelievable. I've got two windows so I can see outside. Um, and I can go outside anytime I want. And so just taking a little bit of time to breathe and you know, just get some fresh air and experience creation, I think has been really powerful. I learned that over the last few years in private practice, and that's something that I try to take with me uh where I'm at now. Um is I'll force myself to go outside and take breaks. Sometimes I feel the pressure of I've got to get this done, I've got to get all these things done and accomplished, and I don't have time to take a break. But when you don't take time for yourself, you don't take time to reset, then unfortunately the quality of your work goes down. Your energy level um comes through what you're doing. And if you've got a you know, poor energy level and your mindset isn't great, it's gonna come through and what you're doing. And because of so much of what I'm doing now is reaching out to people, trying to communicate to the masses. I really need to be careful of protecting that energy and what I'm putting out there. And so taking a little bit of time to go outside and just kind of take a deep breath and refresh, I think has been really powerful.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. Like it's it's so like sometimes it's so simple, but like there's probably so many people listening right here that might be a little trapped where maybe they don't have access to a window. And uh I can't remember where I heard about it, but I know I've seen it somewhere where even simulated windows, so fake windows, they they produce a massive response uh and positive response to your mood and how you feel overall. But yeah, getting outside and what it instantly took me back to was uh when I first started practicing, my main mentor at the time, Satchin, uh, I looked at his schedule. So I would mimic his schedule, and one of the things that was on there was a two-hour lunch. And uh I would initially like that was very foreign to me. Anybody I had shadowed previous to that, nobody had a two-hour lunch. But when I actually saw how he conducted himself on the lunch, like eating itself was a small fraction of that, but it was getting grounded, maintaining your energy. And when I followed in his footsteps, I found that I was able to maintain my energy really well. And then anytime I sort of ventured away from that, if I, for example, had a busy week where I'm like, you know what, let me squeeze a few people in on this lunch. So let me cut it down to one hour. Uh, I would find, like, at the end of that week, you're like, okay, I kind of understand why people have a glass of wine. I kind of understand why people turn to vices. It it it's all the way that uh nature intended for us to act. So so glad that you're you're uh in a place that allows you to do that. And and it looks like uh, I know as you zoom back, the one thing I love about you, Josh, is uh one of my favorite books is The Gap in the Gain by Dr. Hardy. And uh he mentions there that a lot of people who um don't have fulfillment, they they feel down on themselves. They're constantly looking at the gap between where they want to be and where they are now. But I love that you reflect on the gain always and you look at like your journey and how far you've come and where you are right now. And uh you're so like I could I could always sense the gratitude from you. So I definitely want to give you uh a shout out and a high five there. Uh and now that I know a little bit about younger Josh as well, uh, the question I have for you would be if you could go back and give your younger self one piece of advice, what would that be?

SPEAKER_00

Oh boy. This is a difficult question, and I and I've been thinking about it, honestly. Only one to me, because I've I've got books of advice I think I would give myself. Um I think oh man, this is so hard. Just one, just one piece of advice. I think um it's uh it's gonna be a weird one, maybe, and it's gonna be one that um may not come across, people may not understand it, but listen to your wife. Listen to your wife. And I don't mean that in a joking way, I don't mean that in you know just um a comedic way in any way. What I mean is this is a person that knows you, this is a person that loves you, that wants good things for you, this is a person that is directly impacted by um by your decisions and by your level of fulfillment in your practice. This is a person that's directly impacted by your life. And um so there had been times where I don't think I did a great job of that, or I don't think that we connected really well. And so I I think the piece of advice that I would go back and give myself would be listen to your wife. Um I I'm very fortunate to have a godly wife um who loves me, who is uh loves our kids. And so uh I think that would that would have a big impact.

SPEAKER_01

Oh beautifully said, but at the same time, I'm like, I'm never gonna live this down. Now you're going to be my wife's favorite guest ever. You just got yourself a new subscriber for everything that you do. But uh that's uh that's it's it's so profound when you actually break it down. And uh a lot of us we we like to operate, and I'm guilty of it at all times on our own little island at times. And uh that's when uh we have tunnel vision a bit. So having that that person that cares for us show us a different perspective, like that can be that could be priceless. That could be something that can help you in so many ways. So I'm sure younger Josh would appreciate that advice, and uh I'm sure there would be different different steps you took along the way, as I'm sure I would as well if I heard that advice. Um so what's next for you? Well, what's what's kind of lighting you up right now?

SPEAKER_00

To be honest with you, um I've I've just been so excited to do this podcast. It's something that um looking back that I feel like has always been an interest in my life. I mean, not podcasting because I don't know that podcasting was a thing, but radio and just being like on air. Growing up, I was a very strange kid. I listened to talk radio. Um I listened to uh Rush Limbaugh, I listened to uh sports talk radio even as a kid. Um, so very interesting. I listened to AM radio for most of my life. I've listened to AM radio, and so it was very, very strange. Um but I realize now that I think that was kind of God preparing me for for what I do. It's it's something that I have enjoyed. And so I love getting to know practitioners, I love learning about what they're doing, I love learning things that they've learned. And I really hope that when uh when I'm interviewing these people that I, these guests that I have on, I really hope that my wonder and and my uh my love for learning comes through in a way that other people enjoy learning about these people and these amazing things that they're doing and the amazing ways that they're helping people and the amazing ways that they're changing the world. And so I'm excited just for the possibility of the podcast YouTube channel, where it could go and the impact that it might be able to have for um the poor individuals that come across it and have to listen to it. I I'm I apologize for some of the bad jokes that I have. Uh um, some of them I'm not sorry for, but uh some of them I apologize for, but I'm just excited about that and the possibilities and where that could go, and we'll just see what the Lord has.

SPEAKER_01

Amazing. And uh I highly, highly recommend to anyone listening to check out uh Dr. Josh's podcast. It's uh it's one of my favorites, and uh I'm a I'm a subscriber since I I I hopefully can say since day one or around that time. And uh it's been uh a fun one to listen to and the different stories that you hear from different people you interview, and and you're a master at the arts. So I I totally agree with you that I feel you've been well prepared. There's been a reason that you were attracted to AM radio at a young age and full advision. I used to listen to AM sports talk all the time, uh, like in uh high school, I think is when I started uh as well. So it's uh it's it's an it's a lost art form that's making a comeback. It's just kind of changed the the medium we listen to it through. So that's amazing. So uh I'd love for uh any listeners, uh I know you mentioned it a little bit earlier, but I'd love for you to kind of direct us to where we can learn more about you, your your program, and also your podcast.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I'll share um the information with you. It's ridiculous. I had to look it up myself because I can't remember. I literally cannot remember my uh Instagram. What is it called? Handle or screen name. I can't I can't remember these things, so I had to actually look it up. Um, but I have uh uh an Instagram page. It's called it's at Discover Health Fm uh for foundational medicine on Instagram. Our website is www.discoverhealthfm.com. And then our YouTube channel is Discover Health, or I think it's Joshua Sharp Discover Health or Discover Health with Joshua Sharp um on YouTube. So that's where I'm putting out most of my stuff right now.

SPEAKER_01

Awesome, awesome. And I'll link all that in the the show notes as well. But uh from from right from the heart, thank you so much today for for doing this. I've been looking forward to this for a while, and uh I've been honored to see your growth and your journey and uh all the amazing things you're accomplishing. And I know you're still just scratching the tip of the iceberg. You're gonna make a huge difference in the world. And uh, I'm wishing you the most success with your endeavors.

SPEAKER_00

Well, thanks for having me on. And and it's always nice to meet my one listener that I have, the only listener, uh, my one download a week. It's always nice to meet you face to face. Well, well, you'll have two now. My wife will join for sure. Yeah, that's why I said that was actually just to try to get one more listener, double my audience size.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, so I'm sure the audience appreciates uh your humor. And uh, if you want uh uh help slash comedy podcast to check out, go check out Josh. Awesome. Thank you, brother, and uh so appreciate you. Thank you. Same to you.