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Welcome back to another empowering episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. As always, I'm your host, Phil Better, the podcast mogul. And I'm here to bring you an amazing guest. We're going to be diving into the world of wellness and self investment with a guest whose journey will leave you motivated and ready to take control of your health and well being. He's an author, public speaker entrepreneur whose groundbreaking stretch and release technique has been a game changer for those suffering from chronic aches and pains. With over two decades of expertise, he has helped countless individuals release tension, reclaim mobility, and live life pain free. As someone who sits in a chair all day, the pain in the butt that comes with it is guaranteed and it hurts your back too. But not only did he conquer his own chronic pain, he also transformed his life by losing an incredible 135 pounds while all the while earning a second degree in aging sciences.

His passion for muscle, health and wellness culminated in his recently published book, Stretch and Release, now available on Amazon. So get ready to hear the inspiring story of his success, the science that drives his techniques, and the practical tips that help you on your own journey to a better health. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming the one, the only, Butch Phelps. Butch, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much, Phil. It's my honor to be here.

All right, we're going to just jump straight into it. Butch, why did you become an entrepreneur? What made you decide to throw out the shackles of the 9 to 5, the, you know, the all encompassing American dream, if you will, and go into the world of entrepreneurship?

Well, it, it sort of found me more than anything else. I was at a corporate job for like 20 years. I was turning 40 years of age. You know, you talked about introduction about my weight loss. I had started on that track at 37, lost 105 pounds by 38 and I felt looked good with the lost weight, but I felt really stiff, really bad and I started Working out like crazy because everybody said, you know, if you get stronger, you'll be better. So I started working out like crazy. The more I worked out, the worse it got. And by 40, I was thinking, something's got to give here.

I've been talking to doctors and blah, blah, blah, just down the line and nothing seemed to really fix it. And so I said to my wife I was taking an early retirement from my corporate job and I said to her, I want to find something that can help me give back to society, but I also want to find something that's going to stop my back pain, because it was so bad that I'd crawl out of my car on my hands and literally pull myself up by the door handle so I could stand up straight at 40, 41 years old. So I went to a class called Keys to the Kingdom. It was in a local, a small church that I had belonged to at the time. And it was really a metaphor for how to clear out the clutter in your mind. But they called it your closet. And from that six week class, I came to the realization that what I wanted to do was massage therapy. I thought, I can give back and it's not that hard.

If my back doesn't ease up, it'll be fine. I got into the class, I actually got into the school really quick. I got into the class and I remember saying to my wife, something weird is happening here because I know things about the muscle system and I don't know how I know it. I had never in my life really wanted to go into healthcare of any type. I always wanted to be a business guy, but there were things that came to me that was just almost like divine intervention. And I never had believed in that before. So I started working with that. And then mentors started coming into my life.

One was about teaching me how to do what's called active isolated stretching, which is a specific type of stretch. And then once I finished the school, I started working or volunteering at a senior center. A friend of ours was the CEO of that senior center. And as I started working, they had 54 retired positions. And people's bodies started changing, and at the same time, so was my body. And I would start looking at, you know, different things about the stretching. And I met two neurosurgeons there or one neurosurgeon there, and we started talking about the relationship of the emotional side of the muscles to the physical side of muscles. And then I met a second neurosurgeon at one of the local hospitals who came in to be a guest speaker on dementia.

And he started talking about the brain's role with the muscles. And so I started putting those pieces together. I later worked with a chiropractor who became a mentor as well as a physical therapist. And I started putting the pieces together. Not really. Still not really thinking about some major business here. I'm really trying to figure out how to stop my back pain. Okay.

And. And I did. And I did. And. And so one day I was at the senior center, and two of the doctors came in. They were, like, retired, but there were a bunch of them there. And they sit down. I was having lunch.

They sit down beside me. And one of them said to me, what are you doing in that room in there? And I said, what do you mean? Well, people are coming out different. I'm like, good or bad? Good. I mean, I don't know what you're doing, but whatever you're doing, you're changing people, you know? And I was like, holy crap. You know? And so as I started to delve into it deeper, I started to study the research on it, which was not a lot, but I kept asking questions with people who were far more educated than I was. And I started to see with my own body that within a year, I. All the chronic pain that I had was gone. I was able to do the things that I wanted to do.

Now, keep in mind, I was 41, 42 years old by this time. And then as I started to teach people, I saw that. That people were gravitating to it. Things like plantar fasciitis that people would have. I mean, that stuff would go away in two to five days. Elbow tendonitis, you could knock it out in 30 minutes to an hour. And it was interesting how quickly back pain with it. And I would put, you know, this is.

I'm a stretching guy. I'm a stretching guy. And people would say, oh, yeah, but I stretch at the gym. I go, no, no, no, this is a different type of stretching. But I couldn't get it out in the ad, in the marketing, to really do it justice so that people realize this was something different. And I'm like, this is crazy. And so I got it. I actually rented off the base from a chiropractor.

I had no marketing, really no clients. I was spending 400amonth for this single room. And he said, I can feed you a few patients. He said, I'm not going to build your business, but I feed you a few. And it started from there. And then all of a Sudden I got actually, I went to a thing at score. That's the local thing. That's retired business.

People come in and help you and build in your business. So I went there. I was lucky enough to have a guy who said, you know, my wife is an influencer in the community. He said, I'm going to have her to come and you work on her. I remember I only been doing this about a year at this time. If you can make her happy, she'll get your name out to everybody. And I'm sure I got that. You know, I can do this.

And so she came to my office, I worked on her twice. And she said, you know, my low back pain has stopped. And she's. And I said, well, that's good. And so she started talking. Next thing I know, she sent 25 people to me to start working. And then out of those 25, they just kept building and building and building, and the business just started taking off from in office people, and it just started to grow. And all of a sudden I went from having no clients, so I was working on 10 people a day, five days a week.

And as I started to see this development and started putting these pieces more and more together, I started to bring in the nutrition side of it because I lost weight. And so in 2020, during the pandemic, I had a couple doctors in the past, gps that would say to me, you know, your BMI is just a little high. I was probably 210, maybe 215 at the time. And I didn't really buy into the BMI because it doesn't account for muscle mass. And so. But I said, so at 6, 4, how much should I weigh? And she said, well, according to BMI, it should be between 180 and 190. So I said to my wife, the heck with it. I'm going to test this diet one more time and see if it works.

So in the next six months, I lost 30 pounds. So I went back and she was like shocked. And I laughed and I said, never really seen anybody at the right way. And so the way I was taught the diet was from a physician who had studied nutrition. So it's not a traditional diet or anything you go out and buy. She just taught me a different way of looking at food from a mental aspect. So not only did I lose the weight in 20, 19, 98, but I maintained my weight until 2020, then lost another 30 pounds and maintained it ever since. So then I brought in that piece into the puzzle to help make it A more complete package so that people could learn how to eat better, stretch better, and, and even teach them the importance of strength training, especially as they get older.

So, you know, my. What's morphed into my clientele is more of people who are 50 and older. They like to be athletic, they like to take care of themselves. It, It's. That's where it's morphed into. But now it's starting to get to be a little bit younger people and more athletic people. But that's basically. I mean, it basically found me and it became my passion.

Now, if you would have said, be at 38, you know, in 10 years, this is going to be your passion, I would have fell out of my chair laughing. I had no interest in it at all. You know, so be fair, to be honest. It really found me.

I love that. I love how it was a journey for you. Well, first of all, solving your, your lower back problems, which is generally most. How most entrepreneurs start. They solve a problem they're facing and then going from there. You're just building. And you were lucky enough to find your passion was something that helped solve your own problem, which was like a win, win scenario for you.

Yeah.

And now, you know, like, you're. You, you're helping because I, I guess more younger kids are younger kids. I say younger kids, younger generations are, Are learning how important it is to take care of the body because we saw, we grew up seeing what the negative effects had on our grandparents and our parents. Right. So we're learning how to take care of our bodies. And you're obviously helping on both sides because you would. We need to take care of the older generations as well. When you, when did you start seeing that switch from, you know, your regular clientele being 55 plus to being more in the younger, you know, the elder millennials to the gen zers coming to see.

Yeah. So what happened there was, as I was working on their parents, their parents would say, you know, my kid plays football or my kid plays basketball, my kid plays baseball. So the two kids I had in mind, one was 15 and one was 16, played baseball at one of the local high schools, and they had developed shoulder issues. And this one man, I'd worked on him, he was probably 48 to 55 years of age. And he said, you know, my son has shoulder issues. You think you could fix that? And I said, maybe. I said, let's see what we got. I said, I tell you what, why don't you shoot a video of him pitching? I want to see the movement of his body, because I look at the body as a whole.

And what I saw in the video was that his calves were not rotating and he was overthrowing with his arm. And so when the kid came in, I started to work on his calves and lower leg and instead said, wait, wait, wait, it's his shoulder that's hurting. And I said, I know. And I explained to him what I saw. The kid had not pitched at a game in a year. He was 15. And I got him back to pitching that year, and he pitched the whole season. But.

And so his coach, one of his coaches lives in my neighborhood, and he came down, he goes, what did you do? He said, the kid's name said, what did you do with this kid? And I. And I explained to what was happening. He goes, really? He said, man, we've had him in all kinds of pts and so forth, and no one. Everybody's working on his shoulders. Like, it's not his shoulder. He's overthrown with his shoulder because he has to compensate for the lack of rotation in his lower leg. And so he actually started to change some of his training programs with his pictures because of that. So the thing is, is that when you.

When you look at something like that and you look at the body as a whole, the calf actually has as much to do with rotation of your body as it does with walking. And as most people think now, what most people do as a calf stretch is not really a calf stretch. It's an Achilles tendon stretch. And so I teach people how to stretch all four calf muscles so that you can move that foot vertically, horizontally, and rotationally. And so when you're into sports where you're rotating your body a lot, the calf is where your rotation starts, not your hips. But most people think it's their hips.

Well, I was just. You just blew my mind. Because I always thought it's like everybody says, rotate with your hips. Rotate with your hips.

Yeah.

No, it's.

Yeah.

Really? It starts with your calves. Okay. Wow.

So you. So you have four calf muscles going into three hamstrings, which attaches to the lower part of the pelvis. And so if the calves are loose, the hamstrings are loose. Rotating the hips is very easy still. Like a golfer with back pain. Nine times out of 10, that's going to be his calves, not his back.

Well, I'm definitely going to be sharing this episode. Who's a golfer? Black Plane. When you started to come together with your technique, the. Give me a second here. The stretch. Oh, God. I hate when I lose it.

Stretch and release. It's okay. Yes.

Simple name. When you came up with the stretch and release technique and how it worked for you, what. What also inspired you to share it with other people, like, bring it out instead of just keep it kind of like, you know, safely secured in your business so that you can just keep that there and get that money. Coming up.

Yeah, I mean, you know, the thing for me was I was so ecstatic that it helped me so easily because when I started really studying the muscles, and again, it was more selfish on the beginning because it was. For me, I started studying the muscles, I started studying how the muscles work, and I realized there was an emotional component to it. So most people, when they're stretching, you know, they hold a stretch for as long as they can, pull as hard as they can, sometimes up to a minute, and the whole thought process is on the physical side of the muscle system. What happens is when you pull too hard and you create too much pain, the brain then senses the pain and tries to stop it, so it contracts the muscles to prevent it from happening. And so what people are actually doing is strength training, not really stretching. So that's the dynamic stretch, or not dynamic, but static stretching. That's more strength training. And for most people, from the way they do it.

And so when I saw that and I thought, my gosh, I'm watching people at the gym and I'm like, this guy's never going to stretch out his leg. He's never going to stretch out his chest, you know, And I. I just wanted to tell. I just wanted to walk over and say to him, let me show you a better way, you know, but of course you couldn't, because he wasn't paying me for anything. And I just said to my wife, I really need to be teaching people how to do it. And I've had a few doctors, you know, they always, like, they love talking to me about it because it's not really something that in healthcare that we really learn about the muscles from school, from that emotional side. But I've had a couple doctors said to me, but if you teach everybody how to do it, won't they stop coming? And I said, laughed. And I said, the funny thing is, is not only do they not stop coming, they bring their friends.

And I mean, I had one, I had a school teacher who, you know, he wasn't making a ton of money or whatever, but he had some serious issues with his back. And I said, I tell you what, as a school teacher, I will Stretch you every week if you want to come early morning on Thursday for free. And I said, if you'll send me some referrals, if it works, you got a deal. So every Thursday morning at 7am I would meet him, and I would stretch him for an hour and show him what to do, and he would do it. During the week, this guy sent me more than 60 referrals, and all those people paid me to take care of them.

Yeah, there you go.

So my whole thing is that said to one doctor, I said, so you're under the influence that if. If I keep giving this away, at some point I'll wake up and not a person in Sarasota will. Will have pain. And he looked at me really funny, and I go, that's never gonna happen.

No. No.

Never gonna happen. Okay.

Got a golfing community down in Sarasota. Absolutely.

Yeah. Golfing, tennis, and biking. You know, all kinds of stuff. So. But that's never gonna. And the reason why it's never gonna happen is when you think of your muscles as a human being, everything you think, feel, and do changes attention in your muscles, which means that if you watch, like, a dog or a cat, they stretch every day, several times a day. So should we. Okay.

But that doesn't mean you have to stretch every single muscle every day. And I teach people how to do it throughout their day so that they can actually keep their bodies more limber. And I've worked on people up to mid-90s who have done really well with it. You know, some of the. Sometimes their kids will come with them. And one. One girl was here one day, and she's like. Her dad was 84.

She goes, dad, your hamstrings are freer than mine. And it's like. But the thing is, is it's. It's just learning that there's a mental process to that. And I think is. As an entrepreneur, for me, it was like, how could I not share this with people? Yes, I'm making a profit. But, my gosh, if I can turn somebody's life around, is it worth that little bit of money that you spend to change your life so that you can live your life? And that's my driver as an entrepreneur with. What I do is I want people to know.

And I'll be honest with you, if I. If I won the lottery or somebody gave me $10 million tomorrow, I'd do this for free. It's just that important to me, because, you know, when I. When I was figuring this stuff out, I used me as a Guinea pig. For two reasons. Number one, I wanted to feel better myself. But number two, I wanted to be able to say to somebody, phil, when I'm moving your leg and we're doing this hamstring stretch, you should feel it here. Or you said, you know, every time I move do the hamstring stretch, I feel it over here.

I can say to you, this is what you're doing wrong. Let me help you fix that. But it's what I mean. It's like every day in my life, I leave my. My office with the word wow on my lips because I see amazing things with people who have had artificial joints. People are in their 80s, their 90s, doing things that just flat out blows your mind. And it's just such a great feeling to see people come back and they see you out to dinner or whatever and go, you know, I haven't seen you in six months because I've been doing your stuff. I have no pain right now.

That's exactly what I live for.

Oh, that. I can only see the smile on your face light up when you hear someone, like, because, yeah, you have. You have one of those smiles just lights up just because it's pure. Because you can tell that you're doing what you love.

Yes.

There's few. There's a few people you see when they smile, you can say, this person is genuinely happy because nearly everything in their life is aligned perfectly. And I kind of want to help that with some of the entrepreneurs out there listening, because I'm pretty sure some of them have some back pain or some leg pains or a pain in their body. If you could give us maybe a simple technique or something that could help us just relieve some of that tension.

Yes.

Would you be able to just do that for us?

Sure, I can do that. Yes. So it's like when you think about, like you were saying earlier, you're sitting in front of a computer, you're working all day, you're going to have pain at the back of your neck, pain down between your shoulder blades. Maybe when you stand up, the lower back feels stiff and you're trying to move around. Everybody thinks that they have a problem with their back. And so wherever you go, they're going to massage your neck or they're going to adjust your neck or they're going to adjust your spine. So the thing to keep in mind with the spine is that where the majority of the compression comes on your disc and the lower spine is going to come from the positioning of the pelvis, the majority of the compression on the upper spine and the neck and between the shoulder blades is going to come from the positioning of the head. So your head weighs about 10 to 12 pounds.

Every inch your head moves out in front of your chest. The amount of pressure on the backside equals about 10 pounds per inch. So what happens is that the muscles on the front of your neck, you know, you'll see the big muscles on somebody turns on each side of their neck here, those muscles will start to tighten with tension. And then when you start to lift your head up, because you've been looking downwards so long, the muscles on the backside are overworking, trying to get the ones on the front side to release a simple thing like just taking your chin put into the. Your chin right in the palm of your hands. Give yourself about two or three seconds and actually feel the weight of your head. Don't use your neck muscles, but just use your arms. Lift the front of your chin up towards the ceiling as far as you can.

When you. Because what you want to do is when you first start to feel the tension, you want to stop, you don't want to force it, but you're going to breathe out as you lift your head up, hold for about five seconds so you don't kick in the stretch reflex and then release it and come back down and repeat it 10 times. Now, the reason for the five seconds is that every muscle has a stretch reflex, or what they call a myotatic reflex. It's the same as if someone tried to hit you and then somebody starts to flinch and you move your head, they think it's almost going to try to hit you again. That's a stretch reflex. The 10 times is that you're actually letting your brain see that if I lift my head, I didn't die from it. Nothing's forward, my neck or anything like that, I'm safe, okay? Because as long as the brain doesn't feel safe in something, it will contract muscles on you. Now, the other side of that, sitting in front of a computer or being on your phone all day, is the outside chest muscles, usually right from the armpit sort of down into the chest, will get tight on you.

That will cause the shoulders around and also force the head to lean forward slightly. But the pain will show up between your shoulder blades and you can like get on like a foam roller and don't roll on it. I mean, that's a massive mistake that people make is rolling on it. Because again, we're working with the brain. But if you take that foam roller, put underneath your shoulder Blades where it's going horizontally across your body, not up and down your spine, and just lay back on it and open your arms up. You'll start to release those outside chest muscles. When you do that, don't put weights in your hand. I've seen people try to do that.

Because, again, you're doing strength training, but you're just going to breathe out slowly, let that arm come back so that the muscle here can release. We're not pulling muscles. People, when they think of stretching, they think we're pulling muscles like pulling taffy. We're actually not. The muscles won't get any longer. And I know everybody talks about that, because if the muscles could get longer, your arm, your chest muscle at some point would fit a guy that was 7ft tall. Which makes no sense, right?

Yeah.

So happens is that if you think about muscles like a rubber band. If I take a rubber band and I twist it, it's going to get short, but it's going to get tighter and tighter and tighter. Well, when you have thoughts like worry or you're busy trying to meet deadlines, or you're physically doing something, that muscle is doing almost exactly that as it's getting tighter and tighter. So as this muscle gets tight, it pulls the shoulder in, which sets off putting the head forward. So laying back on that foam roller and just lay back on it and just let your arms come back and let your head come back. Breathe out. You'll start to feel this muscle let go. But don't stay there, because after you get past that five or six seconds, the brain will start to contract, thinking something's wrong.

And so that's why you want to repeat it 10 times to do that low back. If you stand up and your low back is stiff, or you stand for a while and you go, my gosh, I need to, like, sit down. That's the front of your thighs. That's not your back. The front of the thighs will get tight, and as it does that, it will start to pull the pelvis forward, which will set up more compression than lower back. So when you stand up, you're increasing that compression versus when you sit down. If you sit down and have pain but find that you get relief standing up, that's usually your hamstrings. Yeah.

Yeah.

Both. Like the. This suggestion about doing the head. I did it. I did once, and I was like, oh, my God, that was great. And then I can't wait to try the foam, because I know I have, like, I always try and keep my chest out, but I Know, I, I'm on the computer all the time and I'm hunched up because I'm interested in wanting to like get closer to my guests.

Yeah.

Because it's so interesting. I'm looking forward to the foam roller, just that, just to get that steel deal.

Absolutely, absolutely. I do. I do that at least three to four times a week and it's just amazing. I can, it's like I'm going to be 65 in March. I, I wake up with no pain every day.

I'm 39 and I wake up with pain. So I'm a little jealous of you. But I want to know what else do you do to invest in yourself to become a better version of yourself? Like you said, you're 65, 66.

Almost 65.

Yeah, you're almost 65 and you wake up with no pain. You have a great outlook. You're stunning if you will, just visually with your smile and your happiness. What do you do to be the best version of yourself?

I, I set time aside for me and I know everybody will probably think oh my gosh. But I don't have time. I have all these things I have to do. I intentionally schedule a two hour lunch break. I do that because a, I want to spend a little bit of time eating so I don't have to shove it down my face in a hurry. I'm very conscious of what I eat, where I eat more vegetables but also increase my protein. And then the second hour of my two hour lunch break, I literally walk about two to three miles a day. Now luckily down here in Florida I can do it outside and I don' freeze to death.

But I do that every day. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I'm in the gym by 5am for an hour working out, using my legs and my chest where I need the machines to help me work with that. And then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I will take about a 30 minute break and I will do a work a shoulder arm workout with dumbbells. I always go to bed at 9:30 at night. I'm, I make sure I sleep, I go to bed at 9:30 and I want to sleep for six half to seven hours. So that means I can get up at 4:30 or five to start day. I always do that. I meditate usually for about 20 minutes each morning.

That's why I like to get up early too, to give me some time. And then I'm ready to get to my office by nine and start working on people from there. I, you know, for me it's like not just for me, but it's for my clients as well. I want that first person to get the best version of me as well as the last person of the day. I'm always learning. I'm always interested in reading. In fact, in my car, I rarely listen to music. I'm listening to podcasts, typically about how the brain works in all different aspects of our lives.

So that I can start to better understand why people have the pain that they have based on their lifestyle. I mean, you know, are they a person who, you know, has 10,000 employments a day that they have to hit? Are they trying to take care of three children, a husband, and running a business on their own? You know, are they just a person who worries all the time, are stressing and with anxiety all the time. And when you understand that about people, you start to understand why their muscles lock up and they have the pain that they have, have. So I'm always using me as a guinea pig. How can I make this better for not only me, but for other people as well? So I invest a lot in me. I mean, I went back to school at 55 years old to get another degree in aging sciences. A because I love learning, but I'm learning all the time. All the time.

When I was going back and forth to school, I drove from Sarasota to Tampa, which is about an hour drive. And so I did that for three years. And in that period of time, I read a hundred and or listened to 152 books during that period of time.

I know people are having a hard time getting through one book a year. You hear you're just dominating so many books. Speaking of books, because I'm also a voracious reader, what is your book that you seem to be going back to on a more regular basis that you seem like in your life? This one is probably one you need to read every two to three years.

Yeah, yeah, I've got a book that by Robert Lussig. Actually one of my clients gave it to me. A lot of times my clients will bring me books and they'll say, you know, here, read this and about it, you know, because they don't want to have to read it. It's called Metabolical. It's about food. It's about how food affects your. Not only your body, but your brain through inflammation. I'm always looking to find ways to eat cleaner, eat healthier.

What I find is that as I do that, you know, I go to bed at night at 9:30, but then a minute I'M asleep and next thing I know it's 4:30 or 5, time to wake up and my feet hit the floor and I'm rested. But my food has a lot to do with that. So that's one of the books that I like. And then there was one by Daniel, Amen. About the mind. And he talks about the importance of a food, but also the importance of how to take control of your mind versus letting your mind take control of you. And what I find for most people in the muscle world is that when they don't have control of their mind, they have a tough time with aches and pains, which affects their production in the businesses that they're running. You know, I've got guys who are attorneys, doctors, financial people.

You know, they have different types of businesses in the area and you know, by keeping them where they can physically and mentally be sharp, it allows them to really increase their production at work because they can get so much more done. And my wife always laughs. She says, you know, you get more done before 10 than most people do in two days. And I'm a list, I'm a list person, you see. And it's like when somebody gives me a list, it's like my focus is, let's get this list done. Let's do it now.

Yeah, I love the list thing. I have always a to do list and the first thing on my to do list is always mark this off. So I always have one thing done on my list so I can feel going to the next one. It's a little trick I learned.

Exactly.

We're coming up to the end of the episode, which I hate, Butch, because I'm having a great time. Your energy is infectious. However, I want to go back to when you were 10 years old. I have 10 year old butch right beside me. He's amazing. He's just as joyful as you are today, which is astounding that you kept that joy throughout your whole life. But I would love to know, what advice would you love to pass back to 10 year old you? What is that? That advice that you wish you had when you were 10?

I, I, I wish and I learned this in my 30s. I went through some tough times in my, in my 20s and 30s and I learned this in my 30s. I wish somebody would have said to me when I was 10 years old, you got all this talent and I was a, I was a good athlete. I was always naturally strong. I was always, you know, love school of reading and so forth. I wish somebody would have said to me get off your butt, make every day count and focus on learning something every day and drive yourself to be excellent. If I'd had done that, if I'd have had that to me when I was 10 years old, who knows where I would have wound up at that point. Thus for me, school was easy.

I mean, I took, you know, calculus and trigonometry and chemistry and physics and all and it was still easy. Sports came easy because I was much larger than my friends. So that became easy for me. I think it was too easy and I think that I didn't have the drive at the time to really excel at that point in my life. I wish somebody would have awakened me at that time to help me with that.

I love that. That's some great advice. It's great Advice for a 10 year old, to a 30 year old, to a 90 year old. Get off your button, keep going. I'm going to jump off stage here, but I want you to let my audience know where they can find you, where they can connect with you, all that fun stuff. The floor sir, is yours.

Thank you. Thank you Sir. So number one, I have 150 videos and it's growing every week by one video. It's at YouTube channel, it's at, at the muscle repair shop. What I do there is I dive into specific ailments that people typically have. Talk about mindset, but when I'm talking about ailments I'll talk about what causes it. I'll talk about why most traditional treatments fall short and then how you can actually fix it. And you'll have instructions in the video how to help yourself with that.

Secondly, I have a newsletter. You can sign up for it on my website@musclerepairshop.com Every Tuesday the newsletter comes out. It has a specific ailment and again I go into what causes it, what a traditional treatments fail and how can you help yourself. And after discussing how to help yourself, there's at least three videos on each news newsletter that will be specific to what I was talking about to help you through that. And then finally you can always contact me at my office. It's, it's just go to musclerepairshop.com have my office number will be there. If you don't live in the area, that's fine. I've worked with people online as well help people and if nothing else we can just have a chat about what's going on and you can get a better understanding of how to help yourself so that you can proceed from there or we can work together.

I've done it with people from around the country and helping people get it done. And always remember when you, when you want to tackle something like this, you want to make the time for it. I'm not talking about a lot of time. I, I usually stretch about 15 to 20 minutes in every morning and every evening. And I'll teach you how to do that, how to get that right mindset. But if you can do that, what you'll do is you'll change your life, not only on a physical side, but on an emotional, mental side as well. And that's the best way to reach me to go from there.

Thank you, Butch, so much for being here and being an amazing guest. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm looking forward to the roller technique to help me get that to stop rolling in my shoulders. It was a pleasure chatting with you.

This is me too. Me too. And anytime you have any questions, you know where to find me.

Definitely to my audience. Make sure you check out the show notes down below to connect with Butch so you can solve that aches and pains that you may have and get yourself back into a better shape. I want to thank you very much for listening. And as always, remember to invest in yourself.

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