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The Weight Is Over

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Author of The Weight is Over, Trent Mozingo DC joins us today!

I grew up on a farm in Southeastern Indiana, where my family worked hard to make ends meet. We raised beef cattle, crop farmed corn and soybeans, and even raised a garden from which we canned vegetables to preserve them for the winter. Chickens frequently ran around the barn lot, and I can remember climbing around on the stacks of hay with my sister to search for chicken eggs to be gathered for breakfast. There were seldom dull moments on the farm with the raising of animals, and it seemed like every week some pigs would escape from their makeshift fenced lot and make their way into the front yard, where they would root up the lawn with their noses, looking for fresh grub. This would generally turn into an eventful morning because we would have to turn the acre of sod back over and try to fit each piece back to where it came from, like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. Tending to the farm was a never-ending job that consisted of grinding feed for the animals, baling and stacking hay for days on end, and endless hours behind the wheel of a tractor tilling the soil for planting.

Quote: “One of the biggest challenges that we face today regarding our health is the mixed emotions of who is responsible for it.” — Trent Mozingo Twitter: @MozingoDC

I am the youngest of four children; in order of oldest to youngest—Travis, Troy, Tiffany, and Trent (that’s me). As you can probably imagine, our names would get mixed up quite often. Travis and Troy are nine and seven years, respectively, older than me, and my sister Tiffany, is two years older. Tiffany and I grew up thick as thieves. We were always bouncing around the farm looking for adventures, probably a little spoiled because our older brothers were taking care of most of the grunt work of farm life. Travis and Troy were like mentors to me. I always wanted to be just like them, so I would spend as much time analyzing their every move as I could. Still to this day, I feel like the little brother that’s trying to follow in their footsteps.

Our parents allowed us a great deal of free-thinking growing up. We had strong principles such as “Work comes before play” and “Always help a neighbor in need.” These embraced our daily lives. It always seemed like farm life provided a lot more work than play, but looking back on the years of growing up, I can see how it’s how I got to this point of my life. There is no debate: hard work pays off. As I write this, I am nostalgic about the undeniable blessing that my life has received. Our parents were not hovering parents; they allowed and demanded us to take responsibility for our own actions. They also helped each of us build confidence within ourselves to take on the tasks that lay in front of us.

There were times that making ends meet were more difficult than others, but there was never a time that money was wasted on paying to do things that we could do ourselves. Ours was a small farm; that meant our equipment was old and not under warranty. When the tractor broke down, we had to fix it. When the lawnmower blades became dull, we had to sharpen them ourselves. When we wanted a treehouse, we had to build it.

The confidence that our parents instilled in us certainly started my brothers and me out on the right foot. I can remember, as a small child, lying on the dirt floor of our barn holding a wrench for Travis or Troy as they worked to put a new axle into the back of our combine harvester. That was so they could make it a four-wheel-drive machine instead of two-wheel. During the harvest season that year, it rained constantly, turning our fields into a muddy mess. Without four-wheel drive, our combine would have been unable to reap the crops; thousands of dollars would have been lost.

We had no formal education on mechanics. We had no teacher to explain how to do mechanical things. John Deere mechanics were not there to help us. We were gifted the opportunity to figure out on our own how things worked, and we had no choice but to do it. This started for each of us at a young age. I was lucky to be able to piggyback on my brothers’ already unbridled ability to diagnose what was wrong with something by learning the principles of how it worked. I can assure you this: if you want to know how to fix things, you have to know how it works.

You don’t know your full potential until you have no choice but to fulfill it. There were times that our wood splitter was inoperative and we needed wood to burn in the stove of our home to stay warm in the winter. We had to fix it. There were times that the corn planter was not applying the correct amount of seed. We had to fix it. There were times when a cow was struggling to birth the calf. We had to help. There were times that the hay baler would not tie the strings properly to secure the bale. We had to figure it out. As the years passed, it became apparent that the hands-on approach to learning how things work provided a strong database of mechanical knowledge for my brothers and me.

We acquired a strong understanding of how things worked. We came across machines on which we had never worked before, and we just applied our ingrained logical thinking. Thus, the easier it became for us to understand how to fix things.

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

Diabetes
No Sugar No Grains
Healthy Farm Life

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

www.new-startsolution.com

www.new-starthealthcenter.com

www.facebook.com/NewStartHealthCenter

www.facebook.com/groups/newstartsolution

Our Mentioned Influencers:

• Vinnie Tortorich of Fitness Confidential Podcast and FAT: A Documentary movie.

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30: Introduction

10:00: I knew you and I would geek out about farming. But I think it’s interesting how a tie is ties back to a healthy lifestyle, weight management, nutrition, and lifestyle. What does DC mean to you? Doctor of Chiropractic.

20:15: There’s a ton of value in massage therapy alone. 80% of the patients see massage therapy in my office as well.

30:30: You seem to be pretty headstrong human. That’s a pretty important thing for overcoming stress. It’s very important to overcome anything. A lot of patients find some sort of satisfaction or relief from being diagnosed with something because then it takes away some of the stress. It takes away their responsibility.

40:00: It’s a preservative. It’s a sugar byproduct. It’s corn syrup.

49:50: What I touch on is their perception in the medical world, which is what a doctor hasn’t told you because they see it backwards. They see everything backwards. They have studies released that eating eggs is comparable to smoking cigarette, no it doesn’t make any sense. They have studies that says being overweight can cause heartburn or acid reflux. By the way, that study about the cigarettes thing was from a vegan doctor who has just been outed this year, that he actually never completed his doctorate.

01:04:16: Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

The most important thing is to take responsibility for your health. You’re the only one, no one should be more excited about your health than you are. Once you get excited about it, there’s a lot of really good answers out there. Now it’s this movement to whole food health that’s really changing a lot. There’s not a single person that I know, that I’ve ever treated, that made 100% of the right choices. They’ve come in and they’ve had a week that went by that was stressful, terrible traveling, whatever it was, but we get back on the horse. They clean it up again and then they just kind of watch their health get better.

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250: My 250th Podcast, My Collapsed Lung Surgery, and Hospital Health Tips

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Scott’s Collapsed His Left Lung and Discusses His Surgery from his Spontaneous Pneumothorax for our 250th Podcast Episode:

There’s more to Scott than just his recent health injury scare with his collapsed lung aka Spontaneous Pneumothorax. Scott Mulvaney has a higher purpose to inspire you to LIVETHEFUEL! His Podcast Show is to help “FUEL Your Health, Business, Lifestyle!” He’s acquired 20+ years of Fired Up Success in sales and coaching, along with Epic Failures along the way. Oh and yes, he’s a former USFS Hotshot Wildland Firefighter!

Scott‘s 20+ professional years includes conquering roles in sales, marketing, coaching, training, and leadership development. He has balanced his professional business career growth while flexing 15+ years across the fitness industry too. He is a “Scott of All Trade’s” with an adrenaline junkie passion for self-development and lifestyle transformation.

Scott Mulvaney has a limitless mindset for growth. Current focuses are on growing in the public speaking, social media branding, and online marketing sectors. His conquered roles included successes with major companies including ADP Corporation, T-Mobile USA, and KGB formerly InfoNXX.

Scott embodies the limitless energy necessary for personal and professional success. This is FUEL is thanks to his years in the health and fitness coaching space. His Lifestyle Freedoms include balancing CrossFit, Skiing, Cycling, Skydiving, and Travel. Scott balances professional pursuits with philanthropic activities, having served as a board member(s) and investing countless volunteerism hours with multiple 501(c)(3) organizations.

Live The Fired Up Epic Life! #LIVETHEFUEL – Scott W. Mulvaney

Scott’s most extreme background experience stems from serving in public service as a Hotshot Wildland Firefighter with the US Forest Service as well.

Scott Mulvaney competes in all types of action and endurance sports. Accolades include completing the Marine Corp People’s Marathon, half marathons, a Ragnar Race (200-mile relay), multiple OCR Races including Tough Mudder and Spartan Races. He is an avid mountain biker having competed in multiple races in GA, CO, and AZ and multiple 100-175 mile road cycling events to benefit the National MS Society, American Diabetes Association and other charities.

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Top 3 Hot Points:

Nutrition: what you put in is what you get out.
Rest and Recovery: your body and mind heal the most at night.
Self-Care: be your own Inner Physician, take accountability for your health.

Final Words:

My final public service announcement is if you know tall, lean athletes, don’t scare them with this, but make sure they’re aware of blebs and what a Spontaneous Pneumothorax. A partially collapsed lung is no joke. I did find out from a good friend of mine, that her son’s girlfriend last year was finishing a softball tournament championship and the same exact injury happened to her because she was a tall, lanky, lean athlete.

Now granted, I’m 41, so they’re not expecting this type of stuff. I guess that’s the fun of me being a health and fitness junkie, is I could survive a lung collapse better than most but you can still get injured. So again, last part of the big picture message here. Take care of yourself. Focus on self-care, what you put in is what you get out regarding nutrition. It’s important but also proper rest, and recovery, along with proper mindset, stress relief, and bringing the cortisol levels down.

I was pulling out all the stops and I’m still pulling out all the stops so I can bounce back as fast and as healthy as possible.

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On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”02:00″] How the injury happened and what went down to trigger this 35% collapsed lung.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:20″] During the holiday transition, the back rib was out of alignment, so I was not able to breathe properly. Especially during fitness activities. I got sent into a few occasional fits of aggressive coughing. Back in 2010 or 2011, I did the same thing while firefighting. I did see a chiropractor then and they put the rib back into alignment a few days later with none of this aftermath. I was fine, no major fits of coughing back then. So I never triggered the spontaneous pneumothorax aka the blebs that collapsed my lung.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] CrossFit community shoutouts to the #SYRArmy of SYR CrossFit and the #AdorationNation from CrossFit Adoration
[spp-timestamp time=”16:00″] I just did yoga that Friday, January 18th, before going for the X-ray. I think I’m going to zip in, grab this X-ray and then go meet Dr. Megan Cannon Ph.D. because I was going to record a new podcast that we’re going to air this month. So I think I’m just walking in walking out, grab an X-ray and they’ll send it over to Dr. Robin Kaplan of East Penn Chiropractic.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:10″] Scott passes the f*ck out?! I’ve never had this severe of an injury or trauma. I’ve had my shoulder rebuilt twice back in 1999 and again in 2007. That is all outpatient stuff. I’ve never been hospitalized.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:55″] Surgery was Wednesday, January 23rd, scored a new chest tube that day to help the healing process. I also got to enjoy a breathing tube for surgery, not cool. The next 24 hours gave me a rough throat, scratchy, and thirsty as hell once they take that thing out. So Thursday was so much fun for day 1 of post-surgery recovery.
[spp-timestamp time=”31:30″] Garbage Hospital Nutrition. I did eat the hospital food but it took some work. They tried serving me things like stuffed shells and french toast. I was like, dude, I’m here to heal and recover and get out healthy, I do not need inflammatory foods. I’m not here for you to make me feel rewarded, like when you’re trying to give me dessert for breakfast. Sorry guys. French toast is death, stuffed shells are death. There is ZERO nutritional value in all of that stuff. Focus on what you FUEL your body with. What you put in is what you get out. I told them eggs and bacon every morning if you bring me lunch/dinner it is a clean protein with no sauces. I also had my fiance bringing my stuff in, I got bone broth rolling daily. The proof is all on Instagram @scottwmulvaney and @livethefuel
[spp-timestamp time=”34:20″] Final Words

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Breathing tube out, new chest tube back in, and lung surgery success. 💪🏻👍🏻 Much love for all the support. I’m stir crazy, need to get outside, goal is outta here by the weekend. Much love everyone, sharing is caring, positive energy, gratitude, and LIVETHEFUEL!!! 🤜🏻🔥🤛🏻 . . . #partiallungcollapse #pneumothorax #breathingtubessuck #restandrecover #comebackstronger #livethefuel

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