Discover the blueprint to success at SummaUp

0:00 It just seemed like it you had everything that I was looking for it was a blueprint to success 0:15 today, guys, we're gonna talk with one of my patients, Chris, and we're going to talk a little bit about his experience with SEMA. So Chris, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Yeah, I'm Chris. I live in San Antonio, Texas. I have a family of two children, a six year old and a one year old. That keep me very active and busy. And, you know, I'm married to a beautiful wife. And we just moved down here to Texas out of Michigan. So we're kind of happy to be in a state where there's a lot more sunshine than eight months of cloudiness attire for the military 25 years, still a pilot helicopter pilot looking at continuing commercially, and also just venturing out into other businesses. For my first question, I'm going to ask you a little bit about your experience with starting up with sumo Sumo. So I want you to draw back to when you were still in the initial decision base. And I want you to think about what it was like, what problems were you trying to solve? Exactly. And I want you to be specific, rest assured, and issues in terms of your business, your health, your family dynamics, like what was off, and she needed to fix. And that's great. Yeah, I think the biggest thing or a couple biggest things were lack of energy, lack of clarity, and focus, mental fogginess, you know, just not having a lot of energy in the tank after, after a day of work, whether it's to homeschooling kids, or just literally, you know, doing work, external work, you know, either in the military, or even in retire electrons in different business ventures, it just, it just wasn't all together the way I felt like I used to remember myself in my 20s and 30s. And I just knew something was off. But it became such a 1:57 the norm that I think you just get used to it, I wasn't who I wanted to be, I didn't have the energy and the clarity that I wanted to have. And I wanted to be more physically fit and active with my family. Let's talk a little bit about that. That person that you want to be that what I like to refer to as your ideal performance state. So there is this gap, there's this juncture that needs to be bridged, right, between your current state and your ideal performance state. So tell me a little bit more about that. It sounds like you had some ideas for your business, homeschooling your your daughter, what exactly did you have in mind that you'd wanted to accomplish, but you weren't able to? Because of your current mental, physical state? Yeah, I would just say, you know, one was just being able to even keep up with the family where I mean, you know, having the help with the household or having to help with schooling it, you don't realize how much being in the military, it takes a lot of energy. But it's, it's a different form of energy than when you have little kids, and trying to, you know, mold them into something that that required a lot of extra energy that sometimes I just felt ill prepared for, just because of being tired, right, and the mood and that puts you in, and being able to organize everything. And then on top of that, you know, having to start looking at nonprofits or you know, how to broach different things in the commercial aviation industry, how can I expand a safety and safety business or a commercial enterprise where I wanted to see myself was, obviously perform at on the home front, being able to knock all that stuff out of the park, but then also car about three or four or five solid hours of just really focused attention on where do I want to take our business ideas, or, again, professional enhancements, whether it's getting my commercial pilot's license, or the instrument rating, so I can actually jump into jets, those types of things. So that to me, that's where I wanted to be was I wanted to be able to third say, Hey, I already know how to fly helicopters, how can I actually start doing some, some more commercial enterprise level work that can take me out of the nine to five and more into kind of coaching and mentoring other like minded folks into a more of a sustainable business model? Very cool. Yeah. And I think with any individual, any entrepreneur that's just starting a new business, there's a tremendous amount of energy input that's needed at the beginning. And so manifesting that channeling those resources is pretty typical. The next thing I wanted to ask was, you had mentioned that you had an unlike the words utilized had kind of fallen into this rut where you were okay with your declining energy levels and your mental clarity and you were able to kind of, you know, to make do, but what was it that made you say, hey, you know what, this is unacceptable, like, was there like an inciting event that made you finally be like, Alright, I need to go seek treatment. I need to do something about this. Yeah, I think I think when I actually saw pictures of myself that you know it again, I wasn't obscenely overweight by any stretch, but definitely what 5:00 When my family even made made remarks of years ago, what I looked like and then you know what I look like now you can really start telling the body transformation that it's a slippery slope and a very easy to not see, because you look at yourself in the mirror every day, you don't notice the changes necessarily over the course of a year or two years. But I think that started started my road, my journey to say, something's definitely off because I have loved handles now, you know, and, and then I want to say, particularly, probably being very honest, my my emotional state, with my family, being very agitated, very easy to be frustrated, and not my normal self that I, you know, that I that I wanted to be and what I used to remember to be where it just seemed like I just was very easy to be agitated. And that's obviously not a good place to be when you have a young family. So yeah, I think that's probably is when I had to take a look hard look in the mirror and go something's not right with sleep diet, or all the above. And I need to just kind of just nip it in the bud. Yeah, I can totally understand that with young children needs to have a lot of patients, particularly if you want to parent them appropriately. And with your background, the military, I imagine. We first started your very great family and seeing that change is probably a big issue. Okay, so how did you find out about us? What initially prompted you to be like, Well, hey, this guy seems interesting. I liked the sparring videos, you know, the testimonies of people, the layout just made sense to me what you're offering, as far as you know, consulting and just being able to put it in a nice tidy package, it just seemed like it you had everything that I was looking for. It was a blueprint to success. I can, I can work hard, I can play hard. And if I have a map to follow, I'll go and capture the flag at the end of it. So it just just made a lot of sense to me as a military guy. Yeah, I'm really happy you touched upon that, because that's something we really try to focus on in clinic accountability. And displaying or having a treatment plan. We like to call it your longevity blueprint, I like that term, where basically the goal is to ensure that you reach your ideal performance, state, mental and physical, of course, but at the same time, radically reduce your risk for developing chronic illnesses, heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, diabetes, all those things, because obviously convene in great shape and can sit down and said, a heart attack in your 50s. What is it? Is it worth for you to mention something that that is, is quite true. There are a lot of options out there. In terms of working with providers, or longevity clinics? What made you think, Hey, Dr. Ryan is, is a good option for me. Sima up is a great clinic, me personally. Well, I think one your own testimony, right, your background, what you've done, you obviously the proof is in the pudding. And you know, you put yourself out there with the pictures and how you've won your own physique competitions. I think that's a great just a great thing. Because right? I mean, you could be unhealthy yourself and mark it because you have the knowledge. But if you don't follow your own blueprint, then how can you expect someone else do so I think that just like any leader, right, if you want people to follow, you have to kind of walk the walk and talk to talk. I think the best leaders are ones that that eat their own cooking, so to speak, and try to present an example for their buck, right? 8:17 They're, they're trying to basically produce be a paradigm for them. And I'm not saying that I'm perfect is certainly not but I do, you know, take my health very seriously and really helps out in terms of taking care of patients because I can relate with them. Right? When I first started my fitness journey, I by no means was very athletically inclined in my situation with dealing with low testosterone levels was something that was was quite difficult and challenging. And that's really helped me empathize with a lot of mutations. So let's talk a little bit about your experience after he joined a couple of months in and some of the changes in evidence. So let's focus primarily on your physical appearance, like what changes do you notice in your body and an overall comm? One energy levels, I mean, even within a matter of two or three weeks, it could just tell like cutting out a lot of the sweets coming out of the processed foods and really starting to be truly clean. I just saw a massive, massive increase in clarity and just energy levels and then in my body just even from like a puffiness and inflammatory kind of state. You know, I would say within two weeks or three weeks I was I was now just even slimmer in the face. I would say it took a little bit of time and then I lost a lot of weight probably like mean for me again, it wasn't super big, but I think I'd lost eight pounds within the first couple weeks and then it slowly it slowed down but then I've lost 16 pounds in three months. And for a guy who's already kind of skinnier in nature, that was a huge thing to go back from. I think it was up to like a 33 plus waistline for again, I'm not a very big guy and the thin frame guy to a 31 waistline so I mean that's a huge dip. 10:00 Whereas that I've noticed I'm back down the pants that I wore when I was in my 20s weren't going to really try to focus on getting some more definition or dominance. And then, of course, you know, putting on some muscle masses, as what you had mentioned. But yeah, I'm really very, very impressed with with your results. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about some of the changes you saw in terms of your career plans. Now, you had mentioned that you were working to create a consulting firm for for pilots. So what changes have you made in regards to this? Or what steps have you made towards that endeavor? Yeah, so um, so I definitely have been able to kind of broad broaden out my my network, finally, you know, and have the motivation to start contacting folks on the outside that I know. And that's the biggest thing, I guess, with any consulting or any kind of expansion of a business is finding the right people that are available and have the prerequisites to be able to help bring in future clients. So that really is the biggest thing that I've changed as I went from being unmotivated or not being able to find the time to actually starting to really hone in on what do I want the business plan, what are I want to be able to do with it, and then who do I want start building that team with so that's, that's been the biggest thing over the last couple of months is getting the household in order, getting the homeschooling thing knocked out, and getting everything in such a place where I really feel comfortable that I can start focusing a lot more energy on on the business plan, and also starting to get my name and hat for those professional enhancement courses. That is what I really need. Because of based on my background in the military, you want to get so much now I've got to actually start reaching out to what is it like to be in the civilian commercial industry? Well, saying that, why advisors in the medical space and telling me was a small hinges swing big doors, right. And you're you're making those small steps, which will lead to some pretty pretty big changes. But remember, you need to make the initial steps, right, and I'm really happy that now you have the energy to drop, when to push forward. I expect this is going to be a really, really lucrative and wonderful business for you, as it has it. As I've seen a lot of my patients who've started consulting businesses, or wash services grow to 100 300%. Okay, now let's focus a little bit on the change in your relationships with your family. And as you mentioned, you needed to get a fair amount of energy to homeschool your daughter, but what other changes have you seen in with your family, my relationship with my wife has been really, you know, I mean, it's been good, but definitely has been a lot better, because now it's not just We're surviving and keeping the head, you know, just floating above the waterline, but really been able to start taking the family out for more stuff, just focus on her, because the kids are now taken care of. And just I think the interactions are much better, too, it's a much more cordial, less of a 12:57 hotspots, you know, flaring up every now and then and being able to kind of deal with it part with more on mature attitude, versus just a quick reaction due to really having no energy left and just trying to deal with it from an emotional basis. So I would say it really is changed the family dynamic in a positive way. You know, and that's, I'm really happy that you mentioned that because many of my patients don't recognize how much hormonal optimization can really affect their mood, and their personality, optimizing things like your testosterone levels, DHEA relatives and loved ones are again low and you really, really key to ensuring you have both mental clarity and sustained focus, but at the same time, have a nice, smooth emotional state, right? Fluctuations in those hormones can make a big, big difference. So I'm really happy to see the manifestation of optimized and more balanced you know, with your family, which is great. Um, were there any other benefits that came with working with SEMA have anything outside of changes in terms of your career plans or family relationship? Have you been able to develop new hobbies that you weren't able to pursue? I don't have the space yet. So that's what we're in we're in the in the kind of design and building phase but it's been nice to be able to start looking at this house that we just bought and kind of figuring out the footprint of fixing it all up. And we've been doing we're doing a lot of yard work and sounds funny but making space for me to gym. So that was the first big thing is I have no natural legitimate not not Elaine but like a gym that can do everything that that was required for the program. So now, the next phase is to slowly build out a workshop so that can actually start ideally taking the family and start you know building whether it's dirt bikes or go kart kids things like that. So we can start having family projects that actually enhance their own scientific and engineering background, so it helps supplement it with their education and our bonding time. That's really awesome. I know that you're doing a lot of homeschooling. So I guess it's giving me an opportunity to do a lot of like practical techniques. 15:00 gehrmans Maybe he started spark in your, in your daughter and your son's mind in regards to maybe like a STEM career, whatever you like to pursue, which is, which is really interesting. Okay, well I'm gonna end on this question, what would you tell someone who's watching this now is uncertain about you and make money? What would you tell them to help them make a decision in regards to 15:23 moving forward perhaps? Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me, you know, money is money, right? You can spend it on drinks and other things that are superfluous. Really, that doesn't matter the most. And to me, the, the biggest thing I would say is just go do it. If it's if it's a money thing, and if you have the money, you're not going to waste it. This is the best investment you can possibly make. Because it's in your health, you could be a multimillionaire and have a lots of money and be unhealthy. While you're not going to be as happy as spending a little bit on yourself and actually have a long, fruitful and healthy life where you can enjoy everything to its maximum potential. So to me, that's the biggest thing. It's just go do it. You have nothing to lose other than getting better health and who doesn't want that? Well, thanks so much, Chris. I really appreciate you sharing your experience. And I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Yeah, you're welcome Dr. Ryan, have a great weekend.