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We talk about, you know, 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:20.200 financial wellness and even physical wellness, but mental wellness something 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.680 that's not really highlighted enough, and it's extremely important. All 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.679 goes hand in hand as far as finances and being 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.280 an entrepreneur is one of the most stressful careers that 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:30.119 you can actually pick. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:31.760 The number one ass that you need is your health. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:32.440 Yeah. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.680 So today we have we're going to combine all of that. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.280 We have an entrepreneur who is also in the mental 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.880 health space. The first time we've ever really covered mental 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:41.800 health and depth. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.600 And something that we don't talk about in our community enough. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.880 So I'm happy that we have somebody here to highlight 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:47.320 it today. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:48.040 Yeah, for sure. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.640 So David mccullor out of Detroit, from Detroit, right, yeah, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.760 shot shout out to Detroit. Got a out of Lovey Ken, 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.360 Yeah yeah, out in Detroit. Top out there for sure. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.000 So David is interested. I said, he's an entrepreneur and 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.200 he has a company called Inception, which is actually a 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.320 mental wellness It's a variety of different things. It's an 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.920 actual a physical facility and it actually just reading it. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.760 I'll let him explain it better than I can, but 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.480 it attacks it. I don't want to say attack. It 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.119 approaches mental health from a whole different standpoint. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.880 I'd like to call it, and maybe you can take 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.119 Maybe you guys call it this a sent a wellness enterprise. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.760 Well, we call it the first mental health gym. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:34.760 Mental health gym. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.000 Yeah, that's that's something that so let's start right there, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.960 because that's what I really caught my attention because usually 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:44.200 it's a mental health clinic, mental health facility, even like 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.440 a mental hospital. Right, I've never heard of it a 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.680 mental gym. You think of gym. You think of like 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.560 exercise and working out, physical gym. So it was interested 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.600 when you said mental health gym. So what does that mean? 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.359 What's a mental health gym? 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.720 Well, the reason why I came up with a term 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.720 mental health gymist because I wanted to normalize the actual 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.959 process for everyday people to come in and take care 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.359 of their number one thing we have is our mind, right, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.840 but there is nothing for this the everyday average person. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.079 When we talk about mental health, we always talk about 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.680 you know, the aunt who's schizophrenic or something like that. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.880 We go to this very extreme, but we don't understand 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.720 that seventy to ninety percent of doctor's business or due 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.600 to stress related illnesses. So all of your issues that's 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.400 happening right now is based on stress and anxiety, and 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.840 well stress anxiety is just a symptom of stress, but 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:45.360 stress and trauma. So I wanted to create something in 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.680 my first business, you know, kind of going back in 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.680 two thousand and seven, because I personally suffer from anxiety, depression, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:52.840 and panic attacks. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.160 And from that standpoint. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.240 I was personally looking for something to help me overcome 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.640 what I was dealing with. But at that time, there's 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.520 only two resources really available to us. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.400 Typically is taught therapy and the other is medication. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.360 And that's when I first I found my first technology 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.000 that we use called brainwave viptimization. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.200 Brain training is the other term for. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.680 It, and that helped me overcome my anxiety by fifty 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.440 percent just in one day. Pharmacology can't even get those 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.400 types of results. And this is all alternative based technology 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.159 is not considered in the mental or the medical field. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.840 So in discovering that technology and having that experience for 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.880 myself that me and my dad brought that technology, which 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.680 first one is to bring it back to Michigan, and 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.839 we first started was called Neurofitness Center. So really the 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.880 mental health Gym is just an extension of that foundation. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.000 That we started in two thousand and seven, and. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.640 So Inception is just it was a name and it's like, well, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.719 I need to put a title to it that to 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.279 call the people to underst fan that, Hey, you go 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.760 to the physical gym, like you do something for your in. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.280 There, your inner sell I think you said something something brilliant. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:07.560 You said. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.960 A lot of people across the country they look at 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.080 gyms opening up, right, and a lot of people work 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.520 on the outside appearance, but they forget about the inside appearance. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.400 And it really just means that there's a lack of 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.960 something inside that makes you want to have the outside 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.240 be validated more than it should be. It was when 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.600 you took that into mind right and creating inception and 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:31.039 thought about the brain training, how what took the technique? 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.280 Where'd you get this from? Because you didn't initially study science, right. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.360 No, my back My background is an information technology. So 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.919 but the brain is really like like the Internet, and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.520 then universes like the Internet, they all mimic each other. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.320 So so I've kind of understood networks and I understood 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:55.200 that I understood neuroplasticity and neuro's plasticity is the idea 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.720 that your brain can actually change itself. Because growing up, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.640 we taught we were taught that. We all probably heard it, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.960 you can't teach your old dog new tricks. Well, that 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.800 really conditioned us to understand that once something was set, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.680 you're pretty much stuck with that pattern. There's nothing you 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.560 can do about it. That's always been the conversation. But 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.280 that's that's not true. Your brain is constantly changing and developing. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.400 The problem is we continue to do the same pattern 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:28.240 so we get the same results. Right. So, yeah, we 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.040 found that technology, and I found it out of Arizona, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.920 and it's just some amazing people out here that's been 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.640 doing amazing things in the alternative world, but you never 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:41.640 hear about it because it's not in mainstream medical society. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.240 So I was really kind of like on a cusp 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.000 on an out as an outlier out here with you know, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.320 these people in the alternative world, and looked at it 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.760 in a specific way. But now you fast forward thirteen 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.919 years later, you hear everybody know who doctor Sabe was. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.480 I knew who doctor Saby was thirteen years ago, but 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.640 you didn't hear that story because that story was suppressed 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.040 because look, it's money and sickness, not necessarily in being well. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.640 So can we talk about your journey as far as 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.720 so two thousand and five, you suffered from severe anxiety, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.920 painic attacks, depression, and insomnia. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.600 Right, So where did that just happen overnight? 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.480 Or was that something that you always kind of struggle 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.920 with and just kind of got worse as you became older. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.640 Or yeah, so kind of like both. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.080 I always try to take people and then understand the 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.720 trauma paradigm and understanding that we've all experienced trauma in 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.080 our lives. The problem is when we talk about trauma, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.080 we always think about it from a you know, someone 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.240 was in a car accident and somebody was raped or 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.600 something like that. But trauma is anything that's overwhelming to 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.360 your nervous system. You could have been, you know, coming 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.160 down the slide as a kid and then your dad 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.240 or your mom forgot to catch you and you failed, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.160 and all of a sudden you're traumatized by that. So 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.200 it can take very small instances that can overwhelm your system, 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.960 you know, and then on how your system sees a threat. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.960 So you take a look at I tell people, they say, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.760 what happened to you? I say, well, I was born. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.360 The moment you're born, your a trauma clock starts ticking. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.240 You start to you know, experience world in an unsafe way, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.000 and anytime your brain feels unsafe, it's going to go 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.320 into the fight flight freeze response to protect you. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.280 So that's all trauma is. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.120 Trauma is is nothing but a defense mechanism based on 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.120 lack of safety. So I've had you know, you go 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.920 into school, we are at one point in time either 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.280 we were bullied in school or we were to bully, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.600 and those two things stem from you know, a lack 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.720 of safety. Right, So going to school, you know, you 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.160 have instances in school, and then growing up, I was 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.080 in a couple of car accidents and really is no 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.880 one event for me that took me to that one place. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.160 It just was accumulation of everything to the point where 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.199 now my system can no longer adapt and now I'm 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.680 having panic attacks and anxiety and depression. But when people 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.280 come to me and they say they have these symptoms, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:07.440 always go back, Okay, what happened before? What happened when 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.200 you start getting these symptoms, and it's all you can 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.600 trace it back to that trauma. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.400 So you you spoke about as far as a technique, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.920 I forget what it's called, but it's the brain. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.120 It's altered. Yeah, yeah, is what exactly is that? 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:27.120 So brain training is a computer software is the technical 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.720 term is called neuro feedback. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.359 Neuro feedback have been around for thirty years. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.480 So back to that trauma concept where your brain is 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.760 going to go into a state of defense based on 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.800 what you're up against, right, and. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:41.760 It's going to protect you. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.120 Now, this is all instinctual, It has nothing to do 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.320 with you. You know, your brain is going to react, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.560 just like if it starts to get warm in this room, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.000 in your room, you may start to sweat, but you 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.960 didn't turn the sweat glands on right like, so your body, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.320 your body is hardwired and coded. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:58.640 To protect you. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.840 So but after the event is over, after the stressful 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.120 traumatic event is over, your brain becomes locked down in 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.560 that pattern, still protecting you from stuff that happened years ago. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.360 So the neuro feedback is allowing your brain is replacing 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.920 sensors on the scalp and it's all read only. It's 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.240 not electroshock therapy, so it's no juice going into the sensors. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.359 So it's picking up the brainwave of activity in real 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.040 time sends it to the computer software, and the computer 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.120 software it begins to send back these this information to 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.000 the brain. Where you listen to you listening to music 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.840 and there's these skips, pauses and interrupts in the music. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.040 And what that is those skips, pauses and interrupts is 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.440 when your brain is going into these patterns of like 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.679 what I spoke about before, of stress and trauma, and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.240 the brain becomes aware of itself. So if I say, hey, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.560 you got something on your face right here, what do 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.560 you do? You're going to go and try to get 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.280 it off your face because you want to be optimal. Well, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.160 the same thing happens to the brain when it's able 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.680 to observe itself. So the brain training is really acting 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.800 as a mirror, so the brain can see itself and 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.760 the brain can change itself. The brain changes itself by 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.880 moving from a state of anxiety, stress, trauma to a 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.200 state of relaxation because now the brain recognizes, hey, the 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:20.960 threat is gone. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.480 It's not even in front of us anymore. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.120 Why are we still acting as if that threat is 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.040 still present. So we have clients will come in and 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.600 they'll do you know, brain training in one session and 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.079 they'll end up in tears. Why is it because now 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.520 the brain finally let go of everything that was hold 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.240 on to and the body is now going to a 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.240 relaxed state and that the emotions have a surface. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.080 Okay, So as far as you know, turn it into 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.280 an actual business, right, because you decided to try not 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.200 only help people, would actually build out a whole brand 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.920 about it. What was the deciding fact then? How did 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.240 that come about? As far as all right, so you 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.440 you had some issues and then you actually seek help 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.920 yourself and it worked out for you. And now you 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.000 actually want to turn that into something where you're helping 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.520 other people, Like what's the process into actually incorporating it 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.640 and actually making it something that you want to make 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.400 it to a enterprise. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.480 So when we created the first business neuro fitness center, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.679 you know, we were using that technology. So we became 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.560 affiliates of that technology and again we brought that back 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.240 here and was the first ones and we only had 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.400 one one technology at that time. And when we were 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.079 out in Arizona, me and my dad, we saw all 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.440 these people come in. None of us, when I mean us, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.480 none of none of no black people was there other 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.320 than the FedEx guy delivering stuff. Right, So me and 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.360 my dad the only people there, and we're seeing people 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.960 come in through like lunch breaks and things of that nature. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.119 And we started talking. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.360 To a lot of them and the results that they 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.400 were getting was amazing, and it was it was like 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.240 our results. So we felt like this is this is 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.520 something that people really needed. And but we were really 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.640 naive because we thought, as you know, just me and 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.400 my dad were thinking as entrepreneurs and thinking, oh, this 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.719 could really help people and people would want it, but 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.120 people didn't really want it. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.720 That was that was That was my next thing. It 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.360 was like, there's a stigma, especially in our community around 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.199 mental health. It's not something we want to talk about, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.720 like like you said, it's like, oh that's my that's 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.840 my uncle who lives in that room, and don't mess 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.400 with them. And how did you how did you get 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.319 around that stigma and combat that when you were going 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:31.000 on this journey. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.040 You know, honestly, I didn't even I didn't even recognize 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:36.560 the stigma. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.480 I just knew that I had an issue. I was 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:40.240 an entrepreneur. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.080 I got a tool to help me, and I was 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.400 helping other people. And we had clients coming in so 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.959 I never really looked at it as a as an issue, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.640 but along the way I started recognizing that when we 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.440 even just offered it free to our family, like, they 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.880 wouldn't even come in. So I was like, what, what's 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.480 what's wrong? Why don't why don't you come in? And 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.720 it's not just that it was a stigma. It's because 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.840 people have an association to their pain, where you know, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:15.600 an unfamiliar gain is greater than a familiar you know gain, 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.320 So a familiar pain is greater than unfamiliar gain. So 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.520 people will want to stay in that pattern because like, well, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.360 I know this pain and I don't know what's on 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.960 the other side of this, but I'm familiar with this, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.400 so I'd rather stay in this pattern. That is a 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.880 psychological term that's out there. It's a secondary gain. They 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.240 actually receive something from staying in the states that they're in. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.080 You'll see people who will constantly complain about having all 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.760 these different things, but you'll see that they won't actually 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.160 take a steps to do anything about it. So that's 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.440 kind of like thing that we've been kind of up 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.120 against for the last thirteen years. So to really answer 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.960 the question, I've just really stayed the course for the 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.480 last thirteen years to you know how three you know, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.479 how truth goes through those three stages versus violently opposed, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.720 second is highly ridiculed, and thirdly it is wildly accepted. Well, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.840 we're going on a wildly accepted stage. I just happen 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.320 to be still doing what I've been doing thirteen years 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.640 ago and evolveding along with you know, the consciousness as 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.520 it moves towards that. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.520 So as far as you know, you know, you have 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.240 the thirty five hundred square for facility, and I would 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:29.040 assume that building out a mental wellness facility or mental 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.080 wellness company in general, it would be kind of hard 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.760 to get financing because, like you said, especially in our community, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:38.160 black community, it's not something that we really acknowledge. Even 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.120 a lot of people still don't even acknowledge mental illness, 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:41.640 and it's not something that we talk about, and it's 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.720 not something that you know, people don't really go. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:44.880 To therapists that much. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.720 So like, how is that journey as far as like financing, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.480 Like how was you able to get financing and actually, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.880 you know, get people excited and rally behind a business 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.800 that there's definitely a need for. But like I said, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.240 it's not really like a popular thing. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.080 Yeah, well, I'll talk to you about all the pitfalls 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.760 along the way, because I want people to have a 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.960 very clear picture that this is not like easypasy, right. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.960 So when we first started, it was just me and 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.880 my dad and he put up his own money for 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.160 whatever technology we needed at a time, and we had 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.120 like eleven hundred square feet. And so along the way, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.040 again I kept looking at different things because I still 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.800 needed to get better myself. And there's no one tool 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.880 that just takes you to the promised land. You know, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.160 you need, you know, a multitude of tools. If you 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.560 go to the gym, if that gym just has a 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.400 bench press, I mean you're out of there, right, So 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.360 we need multiple tools. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.680 So along the way, I just kept taking. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.720 The money that we were making and reinvesting it back 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:48.600 into the business and adding different technologies. But it started 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.880 really taking off the twenty fourteen when I added one 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.200 of our most popular services called flotation therapy. 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.280 And flotation therapy. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.800 Have been really growing around the world, and so that 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.080 one service. By adding that one service, my business start 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.239 to really skyrocket, and people started going out there and 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.600 making what's called float centers. But because I had my 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.320 background and what I was doing in the beginning. I 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.159 knew that just having a center with one tool eventually 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.080 wasn't going to be the thing, right, It wasn't going 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:22.520 to work. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.439 We had a gym here years ago, it's. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:31.320 Called Fitness USA, and they had these lifetime memberships, and 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.720 this is before all the gyms started really popping up 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:39.399 around nineteen ninety nine. And what I saw too was 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:44.920 happening is that places like Valleys and Fitness La Fitness 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.399 and they start coming on board, and what do they 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:48.000 start doing? 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.320 Add more amenities, right, add more services. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.800 So I kind of took that same approach and said, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.120 you know, if you just got one service, as these 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.479 these wellness based technologies come out, and you have no 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.720 philosophy or rhyme or reason of what you're doing, you 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.040 know it's going to be hard to survive that. And 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.120 that's really what's been happening. You see people with these 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.320 one tools and they really don't even know how they work. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.199 So I had the framework and understanding of what it 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.479 is that we were actually doing, to the point where 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.520 I had a medical doctor come and do some floating 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.000 and he said, you know, I want to open up 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.200 something and this was what our neual fitness center of business, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.240 and we went and opened my full fledged concept up 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.200 in ann Arbor. So we did that and that's how 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.399 I Actually that was an investor that came in that 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.199 put that money up. But then we start having problems 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.920 with that investor and we had to go through a 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.800 lawsuit with that investor and next you know, I'm out 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:53.280 of that location. Long story short, So anybody who thinks 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.960 about going to loss to sue someone, specifically if it's 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.720 a medical doctor. If you if you're of color, that's 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.560 probably not the best thing to do. You know, you're 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:07.200 probably not gonna win that fight. But and not winning 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.119 that fight, it was a great situation for me because 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.120 I had already learned, you know, how to build out, 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.119 do a build out, and I already had multiple people 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.760 coming at me wanting to do more things because they 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.840 saw the model that we had and understood it. And 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.399 so I moved away from that and started fresh and 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.920 just started an inception at the beginning of something new. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.679 At that point, you have the brain training and then 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:40.040 the flotation device, flotation therapy. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.600 Six different services at that time. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.399 Okay, okay, so my quick question about the brain training. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.720 Is I want the difference between that and meditation or 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:48.520 are they combined? 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.600 Like, what's the difference is there? 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:56.320 So meditation is simply closing your eyes and observing yourself 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:02.000 so that you become self aware of your thought problem. Right, Well, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.280 meditation can be really hard for people whose nervous system 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.800 again you're stuck in that fight or flight response, that 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.640 fighter flight or freeze response. So when you close your 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.240 eyes you try to meditate, it's like your mind is 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.280 just racing and it just feels you feel very overwhelmed 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.520 by trying to meditate. So the brain training is not 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.320 necessarily a meditation to it. It's really and this is 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.440 what's trying to take place with meditation as well as 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.119 just a slower moving process. But brain training is like 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.840 that meditation on steroids where it's really it's deactivating your 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.200 autonomic nervous system, which has to do with that fight 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.760 or flight response. So when it comes to mental health, 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.760 I don't look at it from a psychological standpoint, and 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.280