Hi, guys. It's time for another episode of the FAKTR Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Riddle. Welcome and thanks for listening. Today is part 1 of a 3 part master series with doctor Tim Stark. In our master's series episodes, doctor Todd Riddle will sit down with pioneers, innovators, and leaders who have left a lasting impact in their respective fields. In this special 3 part series, we explore what it truly means to achieve mastery. Not just in a profession but as a lifelong pursuit of excellence and influence.

Mastery is more than just proficiency, it's about reaching a level of expertise where knowledge and experience merge with intuition. It's the relentless commitment to learning, evolving, and contributing something of enduring value, and those who attain mastery stand at the forefront of their fields, guiding others with the wisdom gained through years of dedication. In this series, we're proud to feature doctor Tim Stark, a true pioneer and influential leader in healthcare academia. With decades of experience at the highest levels of academic leadership, doctor Stark has not only mastered the clinical aspects of chiropractic care for athletes, but has also been a visionary leader in integrating sports medicine into the chiropractic profession. His influences span generations and his work continues to impact athletes, coaches, and health care practitioners today. So join us as we dive into Doctor. Stark's journey, exploring the path of a master, his pivotal contributions to sports chiropractic, and the legacy he's building for the future of the field. Let's get started.

Doctor Tim Stark, we are live. I've been looking forward to this. Welcome to the FAKTR podcast.

Thanks, doctor Riddle. Likewise, I've been looking forward to this as well, for months. It seems like

We've we've been working hard to plan this one out. We've got a lot of stuff that I wanna to cover. It's gonna be a very wide ranging conversation. I'm sure we're gonna talk about motorcycles and coffee and barbecue, and then try to work in some clinical stuff as well.

Speaking of which, I like your t shirt.

I wore just for you. I was trying to to harness my inner Tim Stark here. Whenever I'm I'm talking to people and really trying to get our audience to know who they are, I think it's a great place to start from the very beginning. You have a very wide ranging career with tons of experience in there. And, basically, what I wanna ask you to do first is just kind of give an overview of who you are, and then what I wanna do is kinda pick out some of those clinical nuggets out of there so that we can try to bring as much value about what's going on around in in your head?

Yeah. Well, that's a really good starting question and a broad question of who are you? I tend to ask that question a lot when I'm coaching jujitsu and I've got somebody walking in and they wanna start a class, and I'll tell I'll ask them, what's your story? And they're like, what do you mean what's my story? So it's being that question's being thrown back at me. I don't know where to even start other than I'm a I'm just a North Dakota kid, probably not a kid anymore. You and I share a a common feature now where our gray matter is starting to leak out onto our face. But I'm just a North Dakota boy, grew up in a the the state the entire state is small of of the state of North Dakota. I grew up in a pretty humble home. Parents work their tails off to make sure that myself and my sister could have what we wanted. Was encouraged all through school to go to a tech school.

Thinking back, maybe that would have been a good choice back in the day, but I I had a number of friends that were planning to go to college, and I didn't really know what I wanted to do. In the early days, like, a lot of us when we're in grade school, we probably want to be veterinarians or firemen, and those were true with me. I think as I got into high school well, somewhere around middle school, we had a visitor visit us from the United States Air Force. And he was talking about the Air Force, and I just was engaged. I wanted to be in the Air Force. I wanted to fly. And so all through high school, that's what I thought I was gonna do. And when I was a senior in high school, I was I graduated high school early.