Bert Martinez:
Today on the show, Dr. Tim Young, let me ask a question. What if success wasn’t about how much you earn, but instead was about how much you evolved? And today with Tim Young on the show, we’re going to be talking about that. You know, one of the things that I like about his book, we’re going to talk about that a little bit. Dr. Young invites us to redefine wealth not as just pure numbers and numbers are important, but also about energy, about Service, about impact. Dr. Tim Young, welcome to the show.
Dr. Tim Young:
I’m honored. I really, really appreciate you having me here. This is, this is something special for me.
Bert Martinez:
Well, great. So I got to ask you, you know, you and I been talking a little bit before the show, and so how did you go from, you know, a talk about your career path, what got you involved in, in chiropractic medicine, and then also you, you competitive bodybuilder for years. So talk about that. How did all this evolve?
Dr. Tim Young:
Well, I’ll make a very, very long story short. So I grew up in southwest Missouri, and really in the beginning and down in the hills of Missouri, the, you know, the Ozarks, you know, everybody knows the show the Ozark. This is the actual true Ozarks. And, and then when I was in about the fifth grade, we moved to the city, Springfield, Missouri, this town. And my uncle was a chiropractor and he’d been in practice in Springfield for probably 30 years. And my Uncle Bill and I would go see him for, you know, sports injuries and bike wrecks. And I wrestled and played football in high school. Well, when I was 18 years old, I was involved in a very, very serious car accident.
Dr. Tim Young:
We went off a bridge. I landed on my side. I had, I broke my back, a bunch of ribs. I shouldn’t have walked away from it. It was a horrific accident. And I said, I’m in the emergency room. They run MRIs and a bunch of tests and I was there all night long. And the orthopedic doctors come in and said, well, young man, we’ve got some bad news for you.
Dr. Tim Young:
And at that point, I had just decided at 18, I was going to become a bodybuilder. I just started working out, just started. I was, I’ve always been tiny, Tiny Tim my whole life. And I was a 98 pound freshman in high school. And the only reason I remember that, because I wrestled 98 pounds my freshman year. So I graduated 150. I had gotten up to 160. This car accident.
Dr. Tim Young:
We got some bad news for you. Your, your, your Bodybuilding days are over. You’ll never lift heavyweight again. And more than likely because of this fractured spine, you’re going to have a, a limp for the rest of your life. Well, you know, you tell that to an 18 year old young man. This is 1985 and you’re defeated. So about six weeks later, I, when I could actually walk again, I go see my uncle Bill and I tell my uncle Bill, this is what they told me. And he had a.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s in the book. I won’t say it here, few choice words. And he said, lay down. And he starts adjusting me. Six weeks later, I’m back in the gym working out. Six months later, I win Teenage Mr. Missouri, right? And I competed for 23 years after that and I’ve never had a limp. That was kind of an inspiration.
Dr. Tim Young:
But then I had, but, but then I was going to be a Navy seal. I joined the Navy. I was going to be a seal. I was going to be a warrior. That’s all that I could live, think, breathe, sleep was Navy Seals. And I’m preparing to test for buds. This is, this is 1988, Great Lake, Chicago. My back starts hurting again because I’m doing all this crazy training.
Dr. Tim Young:
Of course, I’m 22 years old. I don’t know any different. And so I go to see the medical, the Navy doctors and they run their test. They call me into med hold a few weeks later and a lady’s sitting at the desk and she says, they say right here that they know you have a problem, but they’re not sure what it is. So they’re recommending exploratory back surgery. Now, Bert, I’m 22 years old. I’m not very bright. I’m from the hills, Missouri.
Dr. Tim Young:
I’m training to be a warrior. But I do know this. The words exploratory and back surgery should never be used together. And I looked at her and I said, no, ma’. Am. And she got real confused and she looked up at me, she said, excuse me. And I said, no, ma’, am, I’ll not have any surgery. And she said, well, she got flustered.
Dr. Tim Young:
She starts moving paperwork. She goes, well, all we can do is just send you home. Now, Bert, you have to understand, when I tell this story, I was going to be a warrior. That’s all I thought about. I didn’t go to church. I wasn’t spiritual. It’s not that I didn’t believe in God. I just didn’t think about God.
Dr. Tim Young:
None of this was in my word at that moment. God laid his hand on my shoulder, said, you’re going to be a chiropractor. I knew I had a sense of a peace, warmth, knowing. And I would just smile. I remembered like it was yesterday. And I said, send me home. I get out of the Navy, I work till January building chain link fence. I started my undergrad, didn’t start until I got my chiropractic degree.
Dr. Tim Young:
So that was, that was my journey. That’s what got me from the hills of Missouri to becoming a chiropractor.
Bert Martinez:
That’s awesome.
Bert Martinez:
So you’re sitting here and you have the spiritual experience. You get this whispering. Call it the Holy Ghost, call it. Like you said, God laying hands on you. You are going to be a chiropractor while in this again, you call it med hold. So that’s pretty profound.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s, it’s, it’s, it really is. And it, it. And here’s the thing. I knew. I, I knew I was going to be a chiropractor, but I didn’t know what that meant. It had nothing to do with money or success or. I didn’t know. I didn’t even know what all I knew do.
Dr. Tim Young:
Uncle Bill popped my back and, and it made me feel better. That’s all I knew. I knew nothing about the career. I knew nothing about school. I just knew this was what I was going to go do. And, and, and I just, I followed that voice. I followed that calling. It was a, some people say a calling.
Dr. Tim Young:
I, I felt a pull, like pulled me in that direction. And, and, and again, I. Not a very good education. My high school was not the best high school. I just, I wasn’t very. I wasn’t a good student. I’m physical. I, I lift heavy things.
Dr. Tim Young:
I beat people up. I mean, that’s, I was just a physical person. Right. Right. I, I had to win. I won the Missouri tough man to have enough money to go take a test to get my license. I mean, this is who I was. But it was, but.
Dr. Tim Young:
So it sent me down the path in my career, but it also sent me down the path. Wait a minute. There’s more going on in the universe than just just falling through the day with no purpose. There’s more. It set me on my spiritual journey also, I guess I should say.
Bert Martinez:
Sure, sure. Well, and, and I tell you what. I’ve been fortunate enough to, to hang around a few Navy SEALs. I’ve had several Navy SEALs on the show. And Navy seals are not only tough, but they’re smart. I mean, yeah. You know, you have to be, you’re under pressure. You’re, you know, a lot of Navy SEAL training is spent cold and wet.
Bert Martinez:
And so not only are you under pressure, but you’re cold and wet and you got to figure things out. And, and so you’re, you have a certain level of smart and.
Dr. Tim Young:
Oh, yeah, you got to make decisions at high level decisions. Yeah.
Bert Martinez:
Yes. And what I have found is that sometimes high school is just not the place for. What do you call it, to develop this. I, I myself, no, did not do well in high school. In fact, I used to sit there and I was in awe of these kids that were saying, well, I’m graduating high school and from high school I’m going to do xyz, I’m going to go to college for this reason. And I was like, wow, what is that about? And, and I didn’t get my, you know, aha moment, my calling until, I don’t know, I think I was 38. And then I realized, oh, this is what I want to do. And it just, you know, I, I, like a lot of people, I struggled terribly with algebra.
Bert Martinez:
In order to go to law school, I had to become proficient in algebra, not because algebra is required, but because there’s a logic to it. And, man, I took it upon myself. I ended up here. I am 38 years old and I’m, I have a tutor coming to my house. My house to help me with algebra. But, you know, it goes back to. Once you, once you have that focus, that drive, nothing gets in your way.
Dr. Tim Young:
Well, it’s a sense of purpose. It’s like, okay, something, it’s either something, something hits you, something is called within you to give you a sense of purpose. And once you have that sense of purpose, then you create the drive and the discipline. Although to reach your sense of purpose, like, you know, you hear it all the time. It’s, you know, it’s, it’s when the why is big enough, the house take care of themselves. And in your why, that’s what you found out, your why? I found out my why, you know, and it was. And it was in my, in my opinion, you can’t take it away from me. I believe this with everything I have.
Dr. Tim Young:
It was a divine intervention. It was, like I said, there’s no other explanation for me. And then, but that’s a great big why, you know. Right.
Bert Martinez:
Well, and I agree with you. There is no other explanation. I mean, what are the chances of the Navy saying, hey, it’s either this or go home. And in that moment, you have this, this very spiritual experience. There is no other explanation.
Dr. Tim Young:
No. And, and you know, again, 100% never, ever occurred across my mind to ever be a chiropractor. Like I said, all my eggs are in one basket. I’m down that rabbit hole. I am going to do this. And then. And just like that, no, you’re going to go do this. But, but what was interesting was, Bert, is it wasn’t.
Dr. Tim Young:
It wasn’t a sense of confusion or really, it was just okay. Yep. And in this knowing. So it’s. I’ve told the story a lot, you know, in large. When I speak to the stages in large groups, I. Every time I tell it, there’s no way I can articulate and bring forth the true essence of that moment. But here I am all these years later, you know, because of that moment.
Bert Martinez:
Well, and again, this. Sometimes it is hard to articulate a spiritual moment like that. It’s. To me, it’s, you know, it’s like the burning, the burning bush experience that Moses had. How do you put that? And really articulate what he must have felt and, and, and the, the spirit that he must have felt at that level. So, no, to me, it makes sense. And so I know, you know, for anybody who is spiritual, they’ll go, oh, yeah, that makes total sense. That’s just the way it works.
Bert Martinez:
It is that small whisper that, that pulls people in directions if they’re willing to obey, if they’re willing to go, yeah, that makes sense. Let’s do it. And, you know, you could have said, no, I, I am not going to do that. I’m going to stay in the Navy and make that my career. But it sounded like you listened and the world opened up to you. All right, let me ask you this. Here you are, you’re a chiropractor, you have this awesome experience, not only with the spiritual side, but with your uncle and stuff. As you’re going through your career, was there one or two or maybe several patients that just opened your eyes to what healing really was? Any, any, I guess, patients that stand out that made you go, oh, my gosh, this is, this is not just popping a back.
Bert Martinez:
This is, this is something else.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yeah. You know, but we, we could do a 24 hour straight podcast on that. I’ve got thousands. I’m in the middle of my 30th year and, and I travel worldwide, teaching and speaking. But in practice, I’m still in practice as we speak, and there are so many. But I will tell you, I’m going To tell you the one. I’m going to tell you the one that really, really. They got so many.
Dr. Tim Young:
I could, I could talk about so many. One of them was in the very beginning, I had a little boy that was brought to me. His name was Oscar. He was 4 years old. And Oscar, his family was from Alaska, Eskimo. And, and he had just adorable little man, little comb over. He looked like a little man, right? Well, Oscar was born with what’s called a hemi vertebrae. His third lumbar was.
Dr. Tim Young:
If you, if you look at the spine, it looked like a piece of pizza on its side. So it was shaped, shaped like that. And he had a real bad scoliosis. Oscar had two kidneys that were failing. One was the size of raisin, one was even smaller. He had surgery scheduled. They were going to remove one of his kidneys so the other one supposedly would get more blood supply, nerve supply, whatever. He wasn’t thriving.
Dr. Tim Young:
He wasn’t growing any taller. And he couldn’t control his bowels. At four years old, he was still wearing a diaper because he had no bowel control. He just couldn’t control them at all. And I actually have the letter right here. His mother wrote a whole thing about this. The kids at school would make fun of him, tease him because he wore a diaper. And it was heartbreaking.
Dr. Tim Young:
And so she brought him to me and I had other things happen, but I looked at his X rays and it was the first time I’d ever seen a 4 year old’s X rays like that. And the first time I’d ever seen a spine like this. And I will tell you, Bert, it was the first time in my career that I went in on a Sunday. I never went to the office on Sunday. That’s family time. And I told my wife, said, I’ll be back. I ran up to the office, I pulled those X rays up, and I sit there and I’m looking at them. And the first time ever in my life at this career, this was 27 years ago, six years ago, I looked up and said, I need some help on this one.
Dr. Tim Young:
I don’t know what to do. And then it, and then it was revealed to me. I’m a chiropractor. Adjust. So that Monday, mom brings him in. I said, this is what we’re going to do. I started adjusting Oscar. I started adjusting that third lumbar that no one else would touch.
Dr. Tim Young:
Matter of fact, she went and asked his medical doctors if it was okay. And they threw a fit. And he’s going to paralyze him. He’s going to kill him. All bad, ugly things. Right, right, right. She trusted me. I, I, I told her, I said, I, I, I believe, I believe in the potential of the human body to heal itself.
Dr. Tim Young:
And I started adjusting him. In six months, his kidneys tripled in size. They started functioning again. His bowel started working, and he grew six inches. Wow. I got a message from him and his mother last year. He’s 6 1, living in Alaska now. He’s strong, healthy.
Dr. Tim Young:
Oscar sent me up here. He’s taller than his mom, and he’s 100% healthy.
Bert Martinez:
That’s incredible.
Dr. Tim Young:
I can, I can tell you story after story after story like that. I have so many. But what happens was it was kind of like my path and my, my career choice and my future was revealed to me. Chiropractic, the principle of the chiropractic was revealed to me because what it is, all we’re dealing with is the inborn, innate intelligence. So with all, all of us to heal on the inside, we have the potential. We have the right to be healthy. And all I do as a chiropractor is look for the interference, remove that interference and allow the inborn intelligence to take over and do its job. And when that was revealed to me, then, then the practice exploded, because then I realized, well, if I could help one Oscar, well, maybe I can help two and five and ten.
Dr. Tim Young:
And then what I did was I learned along the way to remove my own limitations on the amount of people that I could actually help. And that’s what created my success. But it came from the one that’s incredible.
Bert Martinez:
And again, I’m going back to that spiritual moment that you’re having there in the Navy. And if all you ever did is make Oscar whole, it would have been worth it.
Dr. Tim Young:
It would have been worth it. It would have been worth it to Oscar. Yeah.
Bert Martinez:
I mean, you go from barely having kidneys to having kidneys to being able to control your bowel movements and, and stuff that we take for granted every day.
Dr. Tim Young:
Oh, it’s, you know. Well, I had, I, you know, I had a baby that they called me in, some parents of a patient. I treated her through her whole, her whole pregnancy, and then she was going to have a natural birth. Well, when she went to have Coleman, he was over 11 pounds, and he got stuck in a birth canal, and they rushed her to the hospital. I get the phone call from dad that night that I don’t know if there’s anything you can do, but they’re saying Coleman’s probably not going to make it through the night. He’s not going to live. Can you do anything? Again, another spiritual moment. So I said, well, I can’t just walk into a hospital and walk into ICU and start adjusting people.
Dr. Tim Young:
I can’t do that. He said. He goes, well, let me call you back. He calls me back, Burt in Oklahoma City. I’m here in Oklahoma City right now. I don’t know how many hospitals. There’s six hospitals. I have one patient out of all my patients that’s a pediatrician.
Dr. Tim Young:
That one patient at that hospital at that moment, on that floor with. At that time, was on call. Incredible. Doctor, you’re going to come in that. That doctor said, you tell Dr. Young if he could do anything. Come on. Because we.
Dr. Tim Young:
We’re watching him die word for word. I go into that icu. I walk in, and it’s a little room, and the head. The nurse is standing, waiting on me. Oh, you must be Uncle Tim. Yeah, I’m Uncle Tim. I’m visiting. So I go in.
Dr. Tim Young:
They put the garb on me, all these things. I walk in, and there’s mom and dad standing there. And Christy, the mom, she couldn’t even speak. She looked like she’d been hit by a bus. All the blood vessels in her eyes were completely busted. Blood red, right? And I look at Mark, the dead. I said, what happened? I said, well, Coleman got stuck in the birth canal, and they turned him. They pushed and they ripped him out.
Dr. Tim Young:
Wow. Ripped him out. So I walk over, and he’s in this little icu. This, you know, with. With a bucket with a plastic bed and tubes and wires and all that. And I got pictures of it. They took them later. And I look up, and his heart rate, and I don’t remember the numbers exactly, because this was a moment.
Dr. Tim Young:
This was 13 years ago. This was a moment that I didn’t realize I’d be talking about. But his heart rate was through the roof. It was like 160 beats a minute. Wow. His respiration. That’s the only two things I understood what all this was. His respiration was like 6.
Dr. Tim Young:
His heart was about to blow out of his chest, but he couldn’t breathe. And I looked down at him. His eyes. His. All the whites in his eyes were gone. Blood red. Wow. To burn.
Dr. Tim Young:
I reached through the tubes and the wires, and I pick him up and I check. And he has a rib. He has. One of his ribs had been dislocated, pushing straight backwards. And I took my thumb and I said it, and it Just went right back in place. I laid him down and I checked the top bone in his neck, and where they turn a rip. They pulled him. They twisted the top bone.
Dr. Tim Young:
And I took my finger and I set it and I laid him down. He turned over and looked at me, took a deep breath. At that moment, heart rate started coming back down, Respiration started coming back up. And I turned around. There’s four nurses and mom and dad watching me. My favorite part of the story. Well, not the favorite, but the head nurse, she’s older. She’s pissed that I’m there, arms are crossed.
Dr. Tim Young:
She says, well, those machines are not really that reliable. I just went and hugged Christine and I hugged Mark, and I said, he’s going to be fine. I go home, eat, eat dinner with my family. The next day, Dr. Thompson, the pediatrician, comes in and gets his adjustment. He goes, I don’t know what you did, but Coleman’s going home today. What are the odds that he is on call? And so when you see Bert, when you see things like that, when you experience things like that, they can’t take it away from you. You can’t.
Dr. Tim Young:
They cannot take that away from you. You can’t convince me it didn’t happen. We witnessed it. He’s there. And Coleman is now 13 years old. He’s. And guess, guess what Coleman wants to be now. He’s going to go be a chiropractor.
Bert Martinez:
I was gonna say he’s got to be. Absolutely.
Dr. Tim Young:
But I’ve got. I got thousands of stories like that. So I. I love telling them, but it’s, It’s. It goes to the power of the intelligence of the human body. And when you give it the opportunity, it can heal itself of anything known to man.
Bert Martinez:
I love that. I love that. And that is so true. What’s incredible to me is that every day, and if not every day, certainly several times a year, you will hear doctors changing their theories of how the body works. We’re still trying to figure that out. We know that placebos can work as well as, quote, medicine, you know, so what we believe our body can achieve, right? And so it’s an incredible thing. And I think that sometimes, and I’d love to get your take on this as a. As a medical provider, I think that we have both the medical side and the consumer side.
Bert Martinez:
We have now been trained to want the pill. I don’t want to go to the gym and lose weight or get in shape. Do you have a pill? Can I get a shot? I mean, look at all the stuff about GPLs and. And all that stuff. And so we have become accustomed, for lack of better terms, to ask for the pill. You know, what do I take to fix this? What’s your.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s a trillion dollar business, pharmaceutical companies, a trillion dollar business. And they spend a lot of money on brainwashing, like every. You know, I was. We were just. I was just teaching over in Australia, and my wife and I got to laugh. And I said, you notice we were laying in bed one night just trying to, you know, get her the clock right. Watching tv, and I said, did you notice something? She said, what? Not one drug commercial. It’s not allowed over there.
Dr. Tim Young:
But here, three out of four drug commercials. We are brainwashed from the time we’re little. To take something, to take something. It’s all by design.
Bert Martinez:
Sure.
Dr. Tim Young:
And what happens is we are taught that health comes in a bottle. You have to take my kids. One time, my son was a freshman, my daughter was a junior in high school. And we went to. The three of us just went to dinner, and they said, dad, we got it. We got a problem. I said, what is it? Said at school, and my son in the eighth grade, my daughter and junior. We are the only kids in our class that are not on our medication, the only ones.
Dr. Tim Young:
And our class is telling us we are the one with a problem, that there’s something wrong with us. And so that’s the society that we live in. You know, that’s what RFK is trying to change. But the interesting thing is, I’ll give you this scenario. You’ve heard of the word spot? The term spontaneous remission?
Bert Martinez:
Yes.
Dr. Tim Young:
All right. Zero money, zero studies, zero thought, zero energy into finding out what that really is. They just named it. You’re dying of cancer. You got six months. Six months goes by, there’s no cancer. Where’d it go? We don’t know. Spontaneous remission.
Dr. Tim Young:
Because there was no money being made off of it. Sure. That’s what it’s all about. If they can’t make money, they can’t make money off of it. Then it shouldn’t work. It’s like stem cell. Stem cell is one of the most amazing new breakthroughs that we’ve seen in a long time. I’ve used it.
Dr. Tim Young:
Blew a disc in my lower back. I mean, the disc was ruptured down into a nerve root. It was bad. There’s no adjusting that, right? Yeah. Stem cell pulled it back. My wife and her neck, same thing. But when you talk to the medical doctors, they. There’s no scientific proof that that Stuff works, right?
Bert Martinez:
Right. Absolutely. Well, and to your point, I think, I think RFK is doing the best he can and I love uphill battle. Yeah, it’s an uphill battle. I mean, you know, it’s so funny because I just wrote him a letter because I think you’re, as you mentioned, it’s a trillion dollar industry we have. It is, you know, the pharmaceutical industry. If it’s not number one, it’s number two. And as far as lobbying efforts, they hire number one.
Bert Martinez:
Yeah, they’re number one people who hire retain lobbyists. The pharmaceutical industry. And so you have RFK who’s saying, hey, maybe we don’t need all of these vaccines. And certainly, you know, I’m not saying that the vaccines never work, but to sit there and say, hey, you have a healthy child, let’s start giving them vaccines right away.
Dr. Tim Young:
Why?
Bert Martinez:
Why it doesn’t, it’s never made sense to me. And, and certainly, look, if you and I were going to go to, let’s say, in no disrespect to India, but if you and I were going to go visit India, maybe we should consider some, you know, kind of prophylactic. Maybe it’s a vaccine, maybe it’s something else because India is a unique place all to itself. But if you’re born here in America, and I bet you if you’re born in, in, in, in Europe, England, the chances of you getting a disease that needs a vaccine at the age of 0 or 2 or 3 days is like nil. It just doesn’t make sense.
And I was, there was a, what do you call a legal case that came out, is that a year ago, maybe two years ago, where, you know, again, I don’t know what the doctor was thinking, but the, the mother comes in with her healthy child, a beautiful young daughter, and she hasn’t had any vaccines in years because she doesn’t need them because, you know, our body is capable of doing all this stuff by itself. And the doctor said, oh no, look, we got to catch her up on all these vaccinations and gave her like 10 or 12 vaccinations and she went from being a healthy child to being an invalid. And, and she was, you know, it’s not that the money is worth it because they only got a couple of million dollars.
Bert Martinez:
But you know why? It’s, it’s such a, it’s such a thing that, that as you said, the programming is there, the, the propaganda is there that we stopped asking why, why should my child get these two or three vaccines? He or she is only a few hours old or only a few days old. And, and it just drives me nuts. And, and I think that again, RFK is, is got an uphill battle. He’s, he’s fighting some big, big money. And, and yeah, to your point, it is big money. And so, and we’re not talking about just the, the, the medicine side. Look what he’s trying to do with the food side where we’re gonna try to get rid of artificial everything, you know, artificial coloring. Let’s start with that.
Bert Martinez:
I think that’s the number one thing on the agenda. It’s like, why did we need to have bright colors and food to begin with? I mean, I’m sorry, it’s just.
Dr. Tim Young:
So it’s programming, it’s programming back to that. It’s program programming and brainwashing. And you know, to your, to your absolute point, and a lot of people don’t know this, that vaccines are the only pharmaceutical drug on the market that have zero liability. There’s no. The pharmaceutical companies have zero liability. Congress passed that when Reagan was in office that they went and lobbied and they, they, they went and said, if you don’t do this, we’re all going to go bankrupt because there were so many lawsuits against them that they removed liability from that. So you can’t sue a pharmaceutical company at all. There’s a vaccine court, but you can’t see that.
Dr. Tim Young:
You can’t. Which is bankrupt. You can’t sue them. Why would they do that? Why would they, why would they make that? There’s only one reason. And you know, we can go down that rabbit hole. But I spoke several years ago at a large conference.
Dr. Tim Young:
But his story is amazing on how he, how he learned about this, but it’s true. And in anybody that educates himself, they’re going to look at this and go, this is ridiculous. When you got to look at, like you and I were kids, we got like five vaccines and, you know, and now they’re getting 96. And then all you got to do is go to California and look at that. In the next five years, one out of every two boys, 50% of every male child will be autistic. 50%. If, if that doesn’t make you stop and go, wait, what then I don’t know what will. And, but then here’s a real simple thing.
Dr. Tim Young:
Go look at, go look at an Amish community. They have Zero. Autistic kids. Zero. They have.
Bert Martinez:
And how many vaccines do they take? Zero. Vaccine.
Dr. Tim Young:
Zero. Yeah. And so you’re like, well, wait a minute, let’s look at that. Nothing to see here. So it’s, it’s, you know, again, this is what’s interesting is, you know, chiropractors have been saying the same thing RFK has been saying for years, and he’s a huge, huge advocate for chiropractic. He really, really big. But you just look at him, look at his age. Look at how healthy he is, right? If you’ve ever seen with a shirt off, it’s like, you know, I wish I look like him now.
Dr. Tim Young:
But again, as chiropractors, we’ve been saying this for years, but we’re the quacks because we’re anti vaccine, we’re anti medicine. Now the whole world is starting to wake up because of COVID the COVID vaccine. Take this vaccine, you won’t get Covid. Well, then everybody did, right? And then every now everybody’s dropping like flies because of it. And now the world’s going, wait, what? Maybe, maybe the chiropractors aren’t quite the quacks that we thought they were, right? And so it’s waking up. It’s a great time to be on the right side of the, of the equation. But we still have an uphill battle because they’re still making a trillion dollars a year, Bert.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely. Absolutely. And speaking of propaganda and marketing and lobbying, a lot of people don’t know this, but when chiropractic medicine was being, I guess, developed and was starting to become mainstream, the medical industry spent a lot of money fighting you guys. They were trying to close down chiropractic medicine altogether and call you quacks and call you guys this and that and more or less. You know, most of the chiropractors that I know are 10 times fitter than the average doctor, right? And you go through more or less the same amount of schooling. You have to know the body, you have to know how things function, all that stuff. But again, this massive organization, the American Medical association, said, hey, we can’t have this. And, and, and, and a lot of people do not understand that that’s the way big business is done.
Bert Martinez:
It’s, it’s unfortunate, but that is what it is. It’s a medical business. Not, not necessarily focused on healing people, but making sales.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s making sales. It’s all that it is. You know. You know that. What you’re talking about is the chiropractors actually sued the AMA, back in the 50s. It’s called the Wilt case. So we won that, right? We won that. But here’s the thing.
Dr. Tim Young:
You know, I was just talking to somebody just here, just recently, just a little bit ago, about this. You know, it’s all. You know, one of my best friends was. It was a medical doctor. We grew up together. Fifth grade all the way through. He. I went.
Dr. Tim Young:
We graduated together. He went. He went to the Navy. I go to the Navy. He gets out, I get out. I’m sitting in Southwest Missouri State, getting ready to take my interest examination. He sits down next to me, right? We paralyd each other. He’s.
Dr. Tim Young:
He goes to medical school. I go to chiropractic school. He came and observed me. He was a chief resident at Mayo. He’s brilliant. Guy’s a genius. Number one pick in the nation. He’s just that guy.
Dr. Tim Young:
I. That was not me, but he. We’re sitting. He comes and observed my office when I. I was in practice for about four or five years. And he said. He goes, tim, here’s a couple. He said, one, I’m not sure what you’re doing, but I will tell you this.
Dr. Tim Young:
You believe in what you’re doing, and your patients believe in you, which is the only thing that really matters. Then he says this, Bert, and this is powerful. He goes, here’s the problem with the medical profession. If they ever admitted that what you are doing is right as a chiropractor, they would have to admit that what they’re doing is wrong. That’s never going to happen, ever. So they don’t care how much research you have, how much proof you have. They don’t care. You’re never going to be accepted.
Dr. Tim Young:
Because if they did that, then they’re on the wrong side, and it’s never going to happen. And. And. And right then it clicked with me. I will. I refuse to ever try to be accepted by anyone other than the one laying right in front of me. That person that walks in with the. The little.
Dr. Tim Young:
The. The little sick boy or the asthma patient or the. Or the, you know, the patient that came in a couple years ago. He said, doc, you gotta. You gotta help me. He said, I’m getting ready to turn 74 years old. I’m gonna go hiking. All right, Where.
Dr. Tim Young:
Okay, let’s. Let’s get you go. We gonna. Where you gonna hike at? And I thought it was going to be like this little mountain here in Oklahoma. No, I’m gonna hike Kilimanjaro. And. And he did. He killed it, right.
Dr. Tim Young:
And so that’s the only person I give. I don’t care about being accepted by, by the world. Right? I only get, I, I’m gonna get results and I’m going to be accepted by the one in front of me. And it’s the same way. It’s the same way when I help, when I help somebody with my business coaching or whatever, I don’t care what other people think. Let’s help you help more. Let’s help you help more. And that, that’s really what, what all this boils down to.
Dr. Tim Young:
We’re never going to beat the system. It’s too much money. Too much money. But we can, but we can help the one in front of us. And that’s really what it boils down to for me.
Bert Martinez:
You know, and, and I have a little bit of a story. I, I went and saw my doctor.
Dr. Tim Young:
This is.
Bert Martinez:
I can, I think I can say it’s been a couple of decades. I went and saw my doctor and he blew me away because he says, hey, you know what, you may want to go to a chiropractor and see what results you get there. And, and, and then he also wanted to do acupuncture. This is a medical doctor who believes in a holistic approach, that medicine isn’t always the answer, that maybe chiropractic medicine can do it or maybe this we call Eastern medicine. The. And that just blew me away. And I thought, man, we’re finally starting to make a little bit of headway in that direction. And it is, I think maybe, I don’t know, whatever this percentage is, 5 or 10% of medical doctors are starting to realize that they’re not the only way.
Bert Martinez:
Right. And you probably know this better than anybody else, but a lot of consumers don’t know this, that doctors, medical doctors for sure do not get any kind of training when it comes to fitness or exercise or nutrition.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s just like, no, none, zero, they, they’re training what they do. To your point, here in Oklahoma City, the top neurosurgeon here at Mercy, he runs a neuroscience group. He brought him and his wife brought their six year old daughter to me years ago for asthma. And asthma was cleared up in a matter of a week. Fast forward. She’s now, that little girl is now a doctor. She’s an osteopath. And she reached out to me and wanted me to help her learn how to adjust.
Dr. Tim Young:
But then about a month ago, this neurosurgeon brought his wife to me for vertigo.
Bert Martinez:
Wow.
Dr. Tim Young:
Right. No one else Brought her to me and it’s a little bit daunting because she’s on my table and I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to adjust the oxygen. And he’s sitting right here again, top neurosurgeon, leaning forward, watching and asking questions. No, that’s not daunting at all. You know, no pressure whatsoever. No pressure at all. And he’s asking me questions and he goes, oh, that makes sense.
Dr. Tim Young:
And then I adjust her and I help her up. Her vertigo is gone before they get home. But to your point, yeah, and he, he actually made the comment to me and he’s, he’s done, he done brain surgery on my wife. My wife had a Benign Hemangioma about 12 years ago and he removed it. He’s my hero. I love this man. And he does brain surgery. His words to me, chiropractic is one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to us.
Dr. Tim Young:
He said, because without you, I’m way too busy and I don’t want to be that busy cutting on people. And I thought, what a beautiful thing. Now you’re not going to get everyone to say that because you got egos involved and you got, you know, big house payments to make and I get all that. But to your point that doctor, if they truly want to help another human being, they’re going to find a way to actually help them, not manipulate them and just give them something that’s going to make them sicker. And that’s, and then I really think that the world Covid was a curse and a blessing in a lot of ways. And I think it woke a lot of people up.
Bert Martinez:
Oh, absolutely, absolutely. It was a curse and a blessing in many ways. Just like a lot of things in life, you know, there’s, you know, we, we, we as a society learn from some of our curses and, and we turn them into blessings and, and some of the policies and procedures today, some of our safety procedures. If you go on a cruise ship, the Titanic didn’t have enough lifeboats. That was a curse. But the blessing that came out of that is now all cruise ships have to have enough lifeboats for everybody on board. So nobody has to worry about that anymore. You know, and so same thing with some of our FFA regulations.
Bert Martinez:
Some of the same, you know, in. So anyway, so there’s always that it’s a double sided coin for a reason. And, and sometimes as humans, we’re a little slow to learn the lesson, to grasp the blessing. Right?
Dr. Tim Young:
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes we’re Very slow.
Bert Martinez:
Yeah, absolutely. All right, so let me ask you this, because here you are. We’ve talked about, you know, you wanting to go not. Not just to be a naval officer, but an elite naval warrior, the seal. And so talk a little bit about your upbringing. Was there something in your upbringing? Was it a work ethic that was taught to you? Was it, you know, talk a little bit about your upbringing other than coming from the Ozarks.
Dr. Tim Young:
Was it.
Bert Martinez:
Was it like coming home or living at home?
Dr. Tim Young:
Well, you know, again, you know, down where I’m from, originally from, if, you know, in. In the Southwest Missouri, down in the Ozarks, it was. We lived in the hills. Hills. And. And the work ethic was this. You get up and you just work hard, right? You either get. You either get up, work hard to get your ass whipped.
Dr. Tim Young:
One of the two. And I was raised. I was raised where I was. And a lot of people don’t get this, especially today, that we hunted, we fished, and we. And we. We had a garden. That’s how we fed ourselves. We, you know, we went to the store for mustard and ketchup, and that’s about it.
Dr. Tim Young:
You know, we had. We milked goats down the road. I mean, it was. That’s. That’s how I was raised. But then you get out and you work in the hay fields and then you cut. We cut our own wood. And for.
Dr. Tim Young:
We. We burnt wood for fire, right? For heat. So there was always. There was always an. And my father and mother were two of the hardest working people ever. There was always an internal work ethic, but it’s a work ethic of survival, right? You. You. There is no time to lay around.
Dr. Tim Young:
There is no time. I mean, we. You gotta. You gotta make things happen, right? And so that was. That was instilled as at a very young age. But then, you know, then. Then, you know, it’s kind of crazy. I’ve got a lot of different stories growing up, but it was in sports.
Dr. Tim Young:
When you start playing. Playing sports. I started playing football and the fifth grade, and then you learn team sports and you learn to overcome adversity. And in high school, I played football and I wrestled. You overcome adversity, but then, to be quite honest with you, you’re. I, I think it. I think just watching my parents work so hard for very little, not ask for anything, but you. You worked hard because that’s what you did that, you know, you just.
Dr. Tim Young:
It wasn’t an option. You didn’t question it. You were kind to people, you cared for others. You Worked hard, you paid your bills, you lived, you died. That was kind of how I was raised. But then when I, but then when, when the bodybuilding bug struck me, of course I read the, the, the encyclopedia bodybuilding in the eighth grade and Arnold was my hero. And then I, I always was tired of being tiny and smaller. And then when I, I had, There was a kid that was a bodybuilder in high school, name was Randy.
Dr. Tim Young:
And he was big in high school back then. He was huge. And I, I made a comment to him, I know exactly where I was standing when I said it in school, right before we graduated, you know, I, I want to be a bodybuilder. And he laughed at me and he said, you can’t be a bodybuilder, you’ll quit just like everyone else. And Bert, I don’t know, that was, that was the time that I went just like that. And from, and, and when someone told me that I couldn’t do something, I was obsessed. And, and so from that moment, almost one year later, I won Teenage Mr. Missouri.
Dr. Tim Young:
Right? I beat everybody. And, and, and so, but in order to do that, you walk into the gym at 155 pounds, you can’t lift your ass with both hands, right? You have to learn, you have to learn how to work hard, right? You got to learn from the bigger guys and you got to show up every day and you got to put forth 100% effort. If you’re going to accomplish your goal, you don’t do it by talking about it. And so the, the work ethic that I learned basically through survival, I applied it to bodybuilding. And then it, and it taught me lessons of discipline and consistency that I didn’t even realize. I thought I was just doing it because I love bodybuilding. What was really happening was I was learning the lessons for life that I was going to carry on with me throughout my career. And so that’s where all that comes from.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely. There is something special that you get from sports. And I think that one of the, one of the great things that I appreciate about bodybuilding is that failure is just part of success. You know, at first you can’t do 100 pound bench press, you know, you fail at it. And then, you know, over time you can do it and you struggle to get one or two reps, and now you can get to the point where you can do 10 or 12 reps. And, and you know, I remember my, my journey. I, I was weighing 134 pounds, right? And it took me five years of constantly working out and eating just to get to, to 180 pounds. You know, it’s just for, it’s just, you know, very slow.
Bert Martinez:
But to your point, the lesson is failure is okay. And the people that are actually doing it. I’ve never had anybody in the gym laugh at somebody else because they were too small or too fat or whatever. It’s a community and we all know that we’re on, we’re all on our different little path. But it’s okay to help your, your neighbor.
Dr. Tim Young:
Well, yeah, but in bodybuilding, it’s. To your point, we have a, we have a phrase. Train to failure. Yes, train to failure. You train and you train till you can’t do it no more. But then when you can do it. But Bert, here’s the, here’s the secret. Put more weight on you, put more weight on you.
Dr. Tim Young:
Don’t leave it the same weight, same reps, same sets. You add reps, you add sets and you add weight. That’s growth. But that’s growth. The same way I did in chiropractic practice, right? Here’s the thing. A lot of people can’t wrap their mind around this, but the average chiropractor in their Office sees approximately 100 patient visits a week. That’s the average throughout. Throughout the country, throughout the world.
Dr. Tim Young:
I’ll see 103 hours now.
Bert Martinez:
Wow.
Dr. Tim Young:
How do you do that? Because I put systems in place. I added more weight, more sets, more reps. What I did was I pushed myself out of my comfort zone in order to accomplish my goal. And in order to do that, you have to remove unnecessary things. And if you’re going to be a bodybuilder, you can’t eat cheesecake every day. You have to remove unnecessary things. If I’m going to be a bodybuilder, if I’m going to squat 500 pounds and get my legs bigger, I’m not going to run a marathon. That’s silly.
Dr. Tim Young:
You remove unnecessary actions. And so in order to accomplish your goal in business and in my, in my business, in order to accomplish a high value practice where I’m serving and helping a lot of people in a short period of time, I had to remove those unnecessary things. Right? But you do that by the discipline of going in every single day with the discipline of adding more weight, adding more reps and adding more sets and creating that to failure. And to your point, there are days that I got my ass kicked, right? And then you’re like, what just happened? But then you get up and you go, do it.
Bert Martinez:
Again.
Dr. Tim Young:
And that’s, that’s the secret to success in a nutshell. Is that right there.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely there. There is something very special about kicking your own butt. You know when you’re, when you are laying on the floor at the gym and you can barely move and you’re out of breath and you’re hurting, man, that was that. Those are some of the best times, right?
Dr. Tim Young:
They are the best times. One of my favorite and I, I, I hope we have a minute. I’m going to tell you one of my favorite lessons that I taught myself, kicked my own ass in, in my career, and I did it in bodybuilding. And I learned a lot about myself and I don’t even know why I did this. I’m 20 years old. I’m 20 years old and I’m getting ready. I’m, I won teenage Mr. Missouri, but I’m preparing for now, Mr. Missouri. I’m jumping to the big dogs because I think I can do this right. And so it’s a Friday night, Springfield, Missouri. All my buddies are, we’re going to go out, we’re going to go cruising, we’re going to go party. And this is 1986. I go to the gym on a Friday night. It’s leg night. I got, I got to get my leg workout in before we go out.
Dr. Tim Young:
Fellas. I go into the gym. There’s no one in the gym but the girl working behind the front counter. Only person there. I go in the back leg room. I made a decision that I was going to put four. I warmed up and I was going to put 405 pounds and I weighed 198 pounds. I’m putting 405 pounds on a squat rack.
Dr. Tim Young:
I have no spotter, I have no trainer part. There’s no one in the gym. And you know what a squat wreck looks like, right?
Bert Martinez:
Right.
Dr. Tim Young:
I made the decision for whatever reason, and it wasn’t my brightest moment, but I was going to put 405 on. I’m going to walk it all the way out of the squat rack. I’m going to go all the way to the ground at what we, what we call ass to calves, all the way the bottom and all the way up, and I’m going to do three sets of ten. Bird. I’ve never done it before, even with a spotter. I’ve never done three sets of 10 at this career. But for whatever reason, I’m doing it and I made a decision. I’m either doing it or it’s crushing me right here in this floor.
Dr. Tim Young:
Do the first set and I. 10 and up. And I rack it. I’m like, all right, that was kind of tough. But I got this. About halfway through set two, I start questioning my sanity a little bit, like, oh, this is not going well. And I, and I, and I struggle through it and I, that was the last. And I, I rack it.
Dr. Tim Young:
I had a decision to make, Bert. Bail or stick to my guns. I crawled under it, I backed it out. And it was again, you got to understand, that was 1986. Here it is 20, 25. And I, and I did it and I racked it. And I remember laying on the ground going, that was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life. But to this day, that set the tone for every thing I’ve taken on.
Dr. Tim Young:
Every test, every goal, every project, everything that someone said that I couldn’t do, I know I can because I taught myself that lesson, you know, and it was one of the most important moments, transitional moments of my life that I carry with me to today. They’ll tell me I can’t do something because I’m going to crawl under that squat rack, I’m going to back it out, and I don’t need your help. Right. And so bodybuilding and fitness and sports, I think, like you said to your point, teaches you lessons that I didn’t realize at the point, at the time, all I was doing is teaching myself something that was, I was going to be needing to use down the road in my future. And I’m still, I’m still kind of using it today.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely, absolutely. It’s, it is a. I, I think it’s a great mindset builder. There is something that happens when you play sports, especially when you’re playing these sports that are more, what do you call it, Less of a team sport, more independent and wrestling and bodybuilding and all the else.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yeah, yep.
Bert Martinez:
You know, long distance running, you know, some. Yeah, it’s the, uh. Yeah, there’s something there where you have to dig deep, deep, deep, because there’s nobody else. You got to finish this, you know? And, and, and it’s a wonderful thing. It’s a wonderful thing. And I think that, that somehow we have cheated. Not all of us, but there’s, we are cheating our young people from knowing the glory of, of, of winning. Not, not, not necessarily competing, but doing something that was bigger than you thought you could do.
Bert Martinez:
And, and, and also we’re robbing our children from failure. I think failure is a great teacher. It humbles you and it makes you smarter and more Resilient. And I think that, you know, our work ethic has suffered here in America a little bit, but, you know, we’ll, we’ll save that for another time.
Dr. Tim Young:
Well, yeah, and I. So really, really quickly, to your point, my son, he started wrestling in the third grade and he, and in the fifth grade, he never won a match. He went all year long. Oh, and to Owen two. Oh. Never won one match. But he kept going back and he kept going back and I didn’t push him. He’s like, you know, I’m wrestling this weekend, dad.
Dr. Tim Young:
All right. We kept going fast forward. He’s, he’s two time state champion. He gets a full ride callership scholarship to wrestle in college. Well then, but he doesn’t want to do that. He wants to be an MMA fighter, right? And so he goes and he, and he fights, he fights 12amateur fights, 10 professional fights. He’s an, an amazing fighter. Calls me one day, we’re in Italy, Dad, I’ve changed my mind.
Dr. Tim Young:
Fighting, fighting is selfish. I’m only fighting for myself. I’m going to be a Navy seal. I want to fight for something bigger. Wow. All right, son, I’ll tell your mother. He goes, yeah, run that by her. And so then.
Dr. Tim Young:
But he wrestled his whole life. He’s never swam. I mean, he’s been in the water. He swam, but not swam.
Bert Martinez:
But not like Navy SEAL swimming.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yeah, he trained so hard for six weeks that not only did he learn to swim, he learned to swim and run because he didn’t really run that much, that he qualified for $25,000 bonus and got a special forces contract. So he goes into a special forces contract boot camp already because he, because of his work ethic. Right. And he learned that from the third grade on. To your point, there’s nothing that kid can’t and won’t do because he’s never been taught that he couldn’t, but he learned the tools and the, and the ethic to accomplish that. You made a great point. You don’t see that very often. It’s rare.
Dr. Tim Young:
But, but he, he, he, he watched. He, he, he learned by example. I mean, it’s my mother, his mother was also, she won overall Junior national. She’s also hard working and was a bodybuilder. The two of us, we were the, we were weird parents. Our kids just shook our heads. But, but we taught them that ethic. And so I appreciate you, you saying that.
Bert Martinez:
Well, you know what it is, again, you and I have talked about this. What we, what we do speaks louder than what we say.
Dr. Tim Young:
Exactly.
Bert Martinez:
And it’s an incredible thing. Okay, I want to talk about your book.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yes.
Bert Martinez:
And, and dig, dig into this, because here you are, you’re a chiropractor. A chiropractor. You have this, you have your practice going on and, and talk about this. What was the moment, what was the, the, I don’t know, the inspiration, the pivot that made you say, okay, I got to do this. Next thing, I got to help other chiropractors talk about that.
Dr. Tim Young:
So I went. I was an associate doctor for the first three years. I worked for three other doctors, train wreck after train wreck, at the train wreck, whatever. And then I personally there. And there’s coaching groups like, like in all businesses. I joined a chiropractic coaching group back in 1999. And, and I got a great coach and I learned the, the business lessons and the chiropractic lessons that they don’t teach you in school that you got to learn out in business. Right.
Dr. Tim Young:
And I moved through the ranks and within 17 years of growing this practice, I grew this. One of the largest practices in the whole world, one of the most successful, and I actually outgrew the coaches. So, long story short, I go out and then I get asked, okay, teach us what you’re doing. We want to know how you’re doing it. Then that leads me into starting my own consulting and coaching group. Well, and it takes off. It takes off. I, I got up as far as many as over 400 doctors in 32 different countries worldwide.
Dr. Tim Young:
I’m working with chiropractors, teaching them my system on how to take all the philosophies and the principles of chiropractic, what we’ve been talking about, and how do you apply those into business where you can actually be successful with it? Because they don’t teach that anywhere. Well, I reached my level of influence, social media. I speak, you know, but I can’t speak to everybody. And so then somebody come to me and said, look, your story, there’s so many things, your story is amazing. But, you know, we need it. We need to put this in print. That way we can reach more people. And then, then and I was like, well, okay. And I really wasn’t sold at that point.
But then what happened was, he said, but look, not only can you help and reach more chiropractors, what you did in chiropractic and with your business principles could help any business. It doesn’t matter what it is, because I’ve helped a lot of people with all kinds of industries with Just the things that I’ve. That I teach in a book. So that’s what led me to, like, all right, and then I hired Beverly Hills Publishing, Andrea Albright. She was absolutely fabulous on this. She helped me.
Dr. Tim Young:
She walked me through this process. We come together and we created the book. And what’s interesting was I only put one post out there when I released it, and we had like three to 400 orders overnight. I mean, it just, it took off and. And I’m so far behind that I haven’t even tried to sell anymore because we got to get caught up. But that’s what led me to write the book, is when you create so much success in what we call a boutique profession, chiropractors. There’s only 60,000 of us in the whole country, 80,000 in the whole world. That’s not that many in comparison to, like, medical, doctors or other professions.
Dr. Tim Young:
Right. Which you create. The success that I created in this, it is, to me, it is so disrespectful to. To the God that gave me this opportunity, that laid his hand on my shoulders. It’s so disrespectful to the profession as a whole that created this success that I have to keep it to myself. It. It is, it is absolutely my responsibility to share what I know with as many people as I can within the chiropractic profession, but not only that, within all professions, because the same principles that created my lifestyle, that created this great big life I get to live, I want to help that, create for other people also. It is, it is this.
Dr. Tim Young:
This book is my introduction to the world of. This is what’s possible. Coming from a hillbilly kid to where I’m at.
Bert Martinez:
I love it. And so you can hold the book up. It’s called Millionaire Chiropractor.
Dr. Tim Young:
Millionaire Chiropractor. Yep.
Bert Martinez:
Build wealth, serve more, live free. I love that. Build wealth, serve more, live free. The new model for your seven figure practice. And this is important because, you know, there is, There is no doubt numbers are important. You got to make the money. Look, you cannot, you cannot contribute to your community without a certain level of money. You can’t, you know, you can’t contribute to your favorite charities without a certain level of money.
Bert Martinez:
You know, Warren Buffett, he’s retiring. He’s, you know, and. And he’s promised to give away several billion dollars to his favorite charities. And, And I think that in every career, there’s this, I don’t know, growth curve where it’s. First, it’s all about me. I gotta get my business. Rock and roll. I gotta take care of my family.
Bert Martinez:
It’s me, me, me or whatever.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yes.
Bert Martinez:
And then once you reach a certain level, it’s about we. How can I inspire others, how can I help others, how can I give back to my community? And so that’s obviously where you’re at now.
Dr. Tim Young:
So, so yes.
Bert Martinez:
You have this book and then, and then you’re going around the country and I saw a video where you and what’s his name? I’m blanking on his first name. Last name is Gunderson.
Dr. Tim Young:
Garrett. Yeah.
Bert Martinez:
Thank you. And, and so I met Garrett a few years ago before he had the long hair. So it’s been a while.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yeah.
Bert Martinez:
And out in Utah. And so. But there is one of those things that as you become more successful, you want to help other people achieve. And, and that not everybody gets to that point. The, the sad fact. And there’s two reasons for that. A, sometimes they just don’t get successful enough. And then there’s other people who believe that if you’re successful, you’re taking money away from me.
Bert Martinez:
So they don’t like to share. They’re very selfish. Deal. They’re very still about them. And so they don’t give back. They don’t give to their communities unless it somehow helps them politically or financially or something like that. So. Excuse me, I’m sorry.
Bert Martinez:
So when did you launch the, the, the, the book and the. What do you call it? And the coaching that you do now?
Dr. Tim Young:
So I’ve been, I’ve been doing a coaching for about 10 years and it just, it just really exploded. It kind of caught me off guard. And so it’s been. And it’s grown and it’s really been kind of crazy. I launched the book about, about, about two months ago. I launched it and then we, we just got. Got ended. It got hit with so many orders because we’re, we’re doing all this ourselves.
Dr. Tim Young:
We’re kind of. You go to the millionaire chiropractor dot com. That’s where you get the book. So Amazon’s not taking all of it. And then that way we. That way I can communicate with everybody. But about two months ago. But to your point, this is what’s interesting about the book.
Dr. Tim Young:
If you’ve ever read the book Think and Grow Rich. And I know you have, right. I’ve got, I’ve got an original copy up in my thing. It’s one of my favorite books. Well, when you read the book Think and Grow Rich, it’s not about being rich. It’s about the quality human being that you create on your journey to become rich. Yes. My book isn’t about being a millionaire.
Dr. Tim Young:
What it’s about is my principle. What I, my, my message. If I was to stand on a podium and preach, my message is this. What you do is not as important as who you are because what you do is a direct reflection of who you are. This book is about becoming the person, the, the leader, the, the, the, the, the, the doctor, the, the, the father, the husband that it takes to become success. It’s which, who you are. Stepping into any business is so much more important. And that is one of the lessons that, that was revealed to me and this was the secret to my success is that when I wake up every day, the first thing I think is the way I do anything is the way I do everything.
Dr. Tim Young:
My next thought is my every thought, word and action will be to honor my wife. And I set the tone with that and everything I do throughout the day. And that’s what’s created the success. Then you create the systems and everything around. But I wrote this book because, and I wanted to capture everybody’s attention with Millionaire chiropractor because there’s not very many of them, right? And I want to create a whole world of them. But I also want to create millionaire people that understand that it’s not about the million, it’s about who I am to create the million. That’s my message more than anything about the, from the book.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely. In the book you use. And it’s, it’s. People hear it all the time. It’s that millionaire mindset. And, and, and it is a mindset. I think that, you know, one of the things that, that I’ve noticed we have, when I say we, we as a society in general have a weird love hate relationship when it comes to money. Again, there’s been this myth, these, this propaganda, this, this misuse of scripture where money is the root of all evil.
Bert Martinez:
And that’s not true. It’s a love of money, right? And we see people all the time, they ruin their lives because they have to have that money that everything. They’re so obsessed with it that they end up hurting other people and destroying their family and stuff like that. We see it all the time. But there is a mindset because I do believe, and we’ve seen it several times where a millionaire will go bankrupt and within a year or two he’s back on top. He’s got that mindset down. And it’s not just the work ethic. There is a mindset.
Bert Martinez:
Talk about this. Give me your idea of what the millionaire mindset look like.
Dr. Tim Young:
The millionaire mindset comes from a set of character traits, I believe. Because here’s the thing. Really, what I believe in is this money. Money, all money is, is a direct reflection upon the energy, the attention and intention you put into anything you do. So it’s just a re. It’s just. It’s a. It’s a.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s a transfer. It’s a balanced transfer of energy. If I’ve got a million dollars in a bank, well, unless somebody just wrote a check and put it in there, I created that. And so you don’t. You don’t create a million dollars by being lazy. And so the million. The book, the millionaire mindset is I’m going to put forth the energy, the intention, the intention, the attention to all the areas of my life that’s going to take to create that millionaire, that million dollars. And that’s what.
Dr. Tim Young:
And then what happens is. Here’s what happens, Bert, is when you do that, you. You have no sense of guilt about the wealth that you created because you understand where it came from. On the flip side of that, what you just said, that so many people have so much scarcity mindset because they are not willing to take the responsibility for their own thoughts, words, and actions to create a better human being that can create this, and so they’re not going to do that. So since they have that scarcity mindset, they’ve refused to take responsibility for themselves. Now they can blame others for being successful. It makes them feel better about themselves. That’s, That’s.
Dr. Tim Young:
That, to me, the millionaire mindset is honestly just a sense of responsibility and taking responsibility for your own thoughts, words, and actions. That, to me, is a millionaire mindset.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, there are some people out there and you cover this in the book. You talk about vibration. You talk about that, the vibration. And a lot of people miss this. But there are some people who are in tune. They’re.
Bert Martinez:
They’re putting out a different vibe, they call it. Right. They’re vibrating at a different frequency, and life seems to be so easy for them, and they’re just flowing. And, you know, opportunity and money comes to them because of their vibration. They’re. They’re again, the millionaire mindset that they have. And then you have the opposite. Where some people struggle to get out of bed.
Bert Martinez:
They. They, you know, they. They consider themselves unlucky. And you hear them talk about, oh, you know, if I won the lottery, I would lose it. Or, or my favorite one is I don’t want to win the lottery because I didn’t pay all those taxes.
Dr. Tim Young:
What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Tony Robbins, Tony Robbins says this. Tony Robbins says depression isn’t something you have, it’s something you do. Yes, exactly what you’re talking about. You know, the, the, the lack of success. And he also said, Tony, you probably can tell he’s like my hero. Right? He also says this. There’s not a lack of resources in the world.
Dr. Tim Young:
There’s a lack of resourcefulness. And I see it all the time. And I see it with chiropractors a lot. You know, I was just having this conversation. You know, I’m considered a high volume doctor. High volume practice. Well, the ones that aren’t willing to train themselves and to master their art and to master their technique and train their thoughts, words and actions and put the system into place, they’re not willing to do that. So when you do that, you’re wrong.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yeah, I’m not going to do that because what I’m doing is right. It’s a protection mechanism. It’s a human, it’s a human trait. And that’s why. And I tell this, listen, 90%, 10% of the chiropractors see 90% of the patients. Yes. 10% of the world makes 90% of the money. Right.
Dr. Tim Young:
It’s just a fact. And people don’t like that. Especially the 90% want to hear that, you know, reality sucks sometimes, truth hurts. But those of us that actually want to be successful, they’re like, you know what? All I’m looking for is the answer. Give me a path, give me direction, give me a system. I’ll go to work. You know, when I went, when I first walked into the gym as a bodybuilder, you know, I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know how to be a bodybuilder.
Dr. Tim Young:
I didn’t know the first thing. I weighed 150 pounds. But I found the biggest guy in the gym named Tim Miles. I’ll never forget him. He was Mr. Missouri. He was a giant of a human being. And I got in his back pocket and every time he turned around, there I am asking a question.
Dr. Tim Young:
Can I work in with you? Can you spot me? What are you eating? And he just, I drove him crazy, right? And we become really good friends. But I did the same thing when I got into practice. I found the biggest practices. What are you doing? Show me. Teach me. They just, it just makes sense, doesn’t it? And I’m doing that Today, my. My coaching business has taken off so much, and it’s. And I’ve impacted chiropractors throughout the world.
Dr. Tim Young:
I just had a doctor in Sweden, a little tiny village in Sweden, in March, triple his practice in the first month. Now, now I inadvertently get to help three times as more people in Sweden. Right. And so I want to scale this. That’s why I wrote the book. If I can help this many doctors, well, then if I help this many doctors, if I help this many people, then I’m inadvertently helping that many people getting chiropractic care. So I brought in. I hired a coach, and I brought in somebody that’s going to help me scale.
Dr. Tim Young:
I’m going to learn from the people that I don’t know from you. That’s what you’re supposed to do. That’s where growth comes from. But if you have a scarcity mindset, good enough is good enough, right? It is not good enough for me. You know, Bert, I didn’t come this far. Just come this far. Exactly, Exactly.
Bert Martinez:
All right, let’s talk about this, because this is something a lot of people, I don’t know, they trip over. Let’s talk about visualization. This is something else that you cover in the book.
Dr. Tim Young:
Yep.
Bert Martinez:
You know, let’s talk about that. How do you teach somebody to visualize and to see their life before it becomes a reality?
Dr. Tim Young:
I think what happens is everybody get. People get the cart in front of the horse. So many times, what they do is. They say. They. What they do is I. This is. I.
Dr. Tim Young:
I want this. I want this. I want this. But the first thing is, it’s like, I want to go on a trip. I want to go on vacation. I want to go on a trip. Well, where are you going? I don’t know. Well, you.
Dr. Tim Young:
You kind of need to know where you’re going. Okay. All right, well, I want to go to. I want to go to Universal Studios. Okay, fine. How are you going to get there? I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it. Well, we kind of need to get a game plan on where we’re going to go.
Dr. Tim Young:
And so what I see. What I see is people get tripped up. Is first of all, visualization. You got it? You’ve got to be very crystal clear with yourself. What do you want? But more importantly, Bert, why. Why do you want that? Right? And so for me, what I teach in my program, and I teach it in a book, if you want a million dollars, great. Okay, now you’ve. Now you’ve distinguished.
Dr. Tim Young:
This is what I want. Now we got to backtrack. How do we get there? But what they’re getting, the cart in front of the horse is this. It starts with the one. It starts with the one patient, the one conversation, the one adjustment. It starts with the one in front of you being present in the moment and visualizing that person getting well, visualizing the interference being removed, visualizing health being restored. And you do that with conscious effort. We call it present time consciousness.
Dr. Tim Young:
Being present and being present, is it something that you say to them is something they feel from you? And when you’re present and you focus and you have the vision of that one person responding, then you repeat that, and you repeat that, and then it goes back to everything we’ve been talking about today. And then the next thing you know, that one adjustment may just be one of the ladies that I adjusted that was suffering with things, and she happens to be one of the most influential people in Oklahoma. And she referred me. 60 people over 20 years that referred their friends and family. So I went from 100 a week to 200 a week, like in one month, because that one adjustment that I paid attention to right now. So, quite simply, visualization comes from being very honest and crystal clear. Where do you want to go? And then backtrack it and start with, if I’m going to run a marathon, I’m going to run from here to 26 miles. I got to take the first step, right? Focus on that.
Dr. Tim Young:
And that, to me, is how you visualize and put everything into action. It doesn’t matter what business you’re in. I don’t care what it is. The one in front of you is the one that you master. When you master that, then you repeat that, and then you get to your end destination.
Bert Martinez:
Absolutely. And what’s interesting about that is when I do marketing for a client, I ask them about the 1. Who’s your 1 ideal client, male or female, you know, what’s their age? And if. If you can narrow it down, the. The more crystal clear you are at who you’re trying to attract, who you’re trying to serve, then that’s where you can laser in and then expand from there. And a lot of people, the. The number one mistake they make is they live in generalities. I want to help everybody.
Bert Martinez:
Well, that’s great. We all want to help everybody, but the reality is we cannot help everybody. And so, yeah, I love this idea of just narrowing it down to the one being crystal clear as to what you want. And then from there, you’re reverse engineering okay, how do I get there? And I think coaching is such a shortcut. It’s one of those things that if you really want to go fast, you get somebody who’s already done it, who can help exactly unlock your, your limiting beliefs. It’s to me, absolutely.
Dr. Tim Young:
I, I’ve got 30 years of practice. I got 30 years of practice. And not only do I have 30 years of practice, I’ve got 30 years at my volume. So if you look at the average chiropractor sees a hundred, 100 a week for years. I saw 250 a day. So I maybe have 200 years of experience when you look at it that way. And, and not only, not only practice, practice experience, but life experience. Been married for 29 years.
Dr. Tim Young:
I’ve raised three kids. I got three grandkids and one on the way. I, I’ve been a competitive bodybuilder. I, you know, I, I’ve done a lot of different things in my life. And you take that wealth of information and then I’ll get a young chiropractor that’s two years out, he’s married, got a brand new baby, and he, and he said, doc, you just don’t understand. And I, and I always, I always say to say, you’re so pretty.
Dr. Tim Young:
Me how I don’t understand. But then, but then I’ve got all this wealth of knowledge that I could say, I, I do understand. I’ve been where I’ve been. Me, my wife, My wife and I, and We had the three kids when they were little. We lived in a two bedroom apartment. I was making $700 every two weeks. My daughter’s gymnastic bill was $500 a month and rent was $500 a month. So we were, you don’t know how broken.
Dr. Tim Young:
Four and, and I’m married with three kids, right? I got a story to tell and we overcome it. So you take your story and your experience and then you’re able to coach and help people. Why would you want to go through that? Why won’t you just listen to somebody and then go and do what they did and avoid all that pain? Right? There’s a level, there’s a certain level of pain and things you got to experience in order to learn. But boy, you can lessen that pain a lot if you just listen the ones that came before you. And I’ve done that my whole life.
Bert Martinez:
Yeah, and I think there’s, there’s an adage about, you know, the, a really smart person will learn from somebody else’s experience, right?
Dr. Tim Young:
Wisdom it’s called wisdom.
Bert Martinez:
Yeah, absolutely. All right, listen, I want to thank you so much for stopping by. If somebody wanted to find out more about the millionaire chiropractor, where do they go?
Dr. Tim Young:
They can go to the millionairechiropractor.com that’s where the book is. And you’re going to get a lot of tips. There’s a lot of information there. You can reach out to me on, on social media, just Tim Young and you can go on Facebook. I get everybody gets to me on Facebook messenger. So Tim Young, D.C. I’m in Oklahoma City. That’s the easiest way to find me.
Bert Martinez:
Great. I’m going to put all these links in the show notes and Dr. Tim Young, thank you so much for stopping by. It’s been a great show.
Dr. Tim Young:
Bert, I’m honored. I appreciate your time. Thank you.
Bert Martinez:
All righty. We’re out. Thank you so much, man.
