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Heart First Leadership
Welcome to Heart First Leadership, the podcast that explores a revolutionary approach to leadership. In a world that often prioritizes success above all else, it's easy to find ourselves leading from a space of fear, doubt, and unworthiness. There is a new way!
Join me, your host Ryan Sawyer, and my co-host and wife, Heidi Sawyer, on a transformative journey as we seek to inspire and guide leaders, parents, and athletes to unlock the secrets to a truly fulfilling life—one that resonates from the heart. In Heart First, we challenge the conventional norms and embark on a voyage together, where heart-driven leadership becomes the compass for a life well lived.
Are you ready to redefine where you lead from? Let's dive into meaningful conversations, insights, and practical tips that will empower you to embrace a new paradigm of leadership.
Heart First Leadership
From Military Service to Heart-Led Coaching: Dr. Tyler Simmet's Inspiring Journey Through Cancer and Transformation
When Dr. Tyler Simmet swapped his military boots to be a coach, little did he know that his story would touch so many lives. Now a beacon of hope and transformation, Tyler's journey from a U.S. Army physical therapist to an online health and mindset coach is not just inspiring; it's a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. As he recounts his college days, where a volunteer stint for hurricane relief altered his trajectory from chasing material wealth to embracing a life of service, you'll feel the palpable shift in what success truly means. His narrative intertwines with my own revelations on heart-centered living, as we both share the daily practices that keep us grounded in our values—meditation, faith and the disciplined routines that clear the clutter and amplify our purpose.
Witnessing Tyler's vulnerability as he opens up about his battle with cancer is a profound experience that challenges us to confront our adversities with a heart-first mentality. The podcast has undergone a rebranding to constantly remind us of this mission, particularly in the cutthroat realms of business and sales. Our guest reflects on the jarring discovery of a spinal tumor and the emotional whirlwind of misdiagnoses and cancer treatment. His story is a vivid portrayal of the strength found in faith and community support, as he transitions from military service to a life calling that leads others through their darkest times.
Lastly, Tyler's approach to healing and growth through positive outlooks and lifestyle changes offers a deep dive into the potential of metabolic therapy and the significant role of nutrition in combating illness and enhancing life. As he details his post-cancer life decisions, including the brave choice to start a business in personalized health care using functional medicine, it's clear that his heart-led journey has not only armed him with remarkable resilience but also imparted wisdom that he generously shares with the world. For those keen to follow his ongoing work and insights on wellness and self-care, @drtylersimmet is where his story continues to unfold, and where yours can take a turn for the better.
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I'm excited to introduce to you today a friend and a colleague, dr Tyler Symmett. Tyler is a US Army veteran. He spent his time in the Army as a physical therapist and now he is an online health and mindset coach. He helps people with their mindset and does home lab testing to help people learn how to thrive in the face of cancer. Today, you're going to hear Tyler share his story as a cancer survivor, and it's a beautiful illustration of how we can take our life circumstances and even our life struggles and use them as an invitation to lead with our heart. So sit back and enjoy as Tyler shares his incredible story and how he leads with his heart first. Well, welcome back to the show. I have another guest on today, a friend and a colleague, and I'm just excited for the audience to really learn from Tyler and meet Tyler as well. He's kind of new, emerging into a new realm which will hit in a minute. So, tyler Symmett, thank you for being here. I appreciate you showing up today, man.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me, man, it's an honor.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, tyler, I'm going to. Obviously I'll do a little introduction before the show. I'll record that at a later date after this. So what I want to do is I really just want to hear from you, being on Heart First Podcast. What this is all about is us identifying these moments in our lives that woke us up and grabbed our attention to lead with our heart Right in a way that shifted or course corrected our life in some way, shape or form. So, without any real fluff, I want you to just share a little bit, like let's just go right to that moment. Let's not even avoid it, let's just go right to that moment saying what is something that comes to your mind of an event or a series of events that woke you up to lead more with your heart in a new and different way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so when I was in college I was a junior at Washington State I had a buddy that was in my fraternity and his mom was working for the American Red Cross at the time, and so she had approached him about going over and helping with relief efforts following a big hurricane in New York that hit in 2012, at the end of 2012. And so we were on Thanksgiving break and he just approached me about it and was like, hey, man, would you be interested in like doing this with me and going over there? And at the time it sounded like a cool free trip to New York, basically. And so it's like, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2:We did the training and got the call the day before the last day of finals like, hey, we need you guys over here, can you get on a plane tomorrow, basically. And so, without diving too deep into all the specifics of that trip, it just really kicked me in the butt just to see people that were really struggling in need of help and then being able to offer some of that assistance, even if it was just like delivering food or getting clothes and just like basic needs and supplies where they needed to be, and just being a part of that effort with a bigger group of people that had this bigger mission. That was way beyond anything like material or external. It was all about love, essentially, and I'd been exposed to some different aspects of that growing up and had some amazing role models and things. But I also had a large part of me that was very externally focused and very much focused on what this world can provide, like what I could get, what I could achieve what kind?
Speaker 2:of money I could make, and that's kind of what I was studying pharmaceuticals at the time with the hope of going and making a lot of money, essentially not because it was something that I was passionate about.
Speaker 2:And so when I got back from the trip and I was just like reevaluating all of these things, I kind of had a lot of hearts to hearts with myself and with my friend that I went with had a really large impact on him as well, and I kind of freaked all my family out because I changed my major and I was, like you know, I was getting closer to the end than the beginning of school and, interestingly enough, like I shifted towards sports psychology.
Speaker 2:Long story short, that same kind of heart behind it led me toward wanting to serve in the military, and so I ended up becoming a physical therapist in the military and the army specifically. And yeah, and then that. So that one moment was definitely like the biggest game changer and it brought me to God, it brought me to Christ and just made from that moment on, it like made me know that I was always going to put my heart first and I was going to put love first in my passion, and it wasn't because what I felt on that mission trip, on that trip, was something that that I knew right away. Like you can't buy, that like and.
Speaker 2:I wasn't making any money off of it. Like you know, there was no profit and so, like, when I got back, it was like what am I like stressing out and doing all this work and studying to go, like you know, make this money when I have an opportunity like this that shows me that, like the good or the gold is can be in this moment, right now, if I just let it be, if I focus on that, on that love in my heart, and so that's kind of, yeah, the origin story, I guess.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, thank you for your service. Appreciate that, obviously, it's an incredible stuff. What's the need to do is to enter into the military and spend. How long were you in the army? For seven years, seven years. So thank you for that.
Speaker 1:And just in this world that we live in, where we are bombarded with information and if we're not careful, we're being conditioned and really kind of programmed to be so externally focused, right on materialistic items, even if we say we're not, we have to really check that. And we know success, how success is measured, I believe, needs to be re-evaluated right. And we really need to evaluate success based upon the meaning that we are pursuing in life and in this pursuit, this pursuit of meaning. Really, the only way to do that is to come from the heart, right, and then to have a level of faith that things will turn out for us or things will, you know, will be taken care of to a certain degree. So that's really my next question, and it's hard to have a heart first question without it being somehow based in faith.
Speaker 1:And so before we I know there's a second part to this conversation and before we really hit on that, I would love to hear a little bit from you just how that plays into your daily life, to stay connected. How do you stay connected to this? Because it's one thing to have this, a moment right when we feel like, well, that was really cool, that made me feel amazing and look how these people are living it and look how the impact that we can make. And it's right here, right now, in this moment. You don't have to have a degree, you don't have to make a certain amount of money to make the impact you want to make. But how do you stay connected to that on a daily basis? How do you stay connected to this heart first approach to life?
Speaker 2:That's a good question and, to be honest with you, it's a daily battle, something that I always have to work on, making a priority and overcoming that. Like other part of myself, I feel like there's almost like two sides, like one that is like of this world is focused on external accomplishments, rewards, attention, and ultimately I go through this yo-yo cycling type of thing sometimes where I'll start to get away from heart center and then I'll come back to realize, okay, I'm getting off track enough to come back and so it's a constant battle. But I've built routines and things into my routine that allow me to stay focused on that, and also a lot of the things that I've said no to along the way help me stay focused on that. There's a lot of opportunities and things that have come up job offers and different ways to pursue life outside of the military now that I'm out of the military and really difficult things to turn down at times, but they weren't heart centered and so it just is kind of anytime I have a big decision like that, I evaluate what's going on deep down and I think these practices and these disciplines that I was talking about they help me kind of to keep a good level head to be able to assess whether or not this is coming from. This is what I feel in my heart is the right thing to do, and part of that has included meditation for me, because when we're always, when I'm always up in my head and going and on my phone and on my computer and listening to podcasts and just constantly consuming information and constantly on the go, it's just like it's almost like my brain just goes on autopilot and I go on autopilot. It's just kind of like however I am biologically designed and wired to be is how I'm going to operate when I get into that mode. But when I get deep into my meditation practice and I'm really consistent with it, it's like the mind just quiet down. And I'm not saying, like you know, if you're new to meditation, I'm not saying that you're going to go in and you're going to have that experience right away or that you should even try to have that experience, but for me that's what's happened in it and when I can quiet the mind down, it illuminates like what's going on in the heart and now I can really live that out.
Speaker 2:And then also my, my faith. My faith walk is like everything for me, and that includes Bible Bible study every morning and then a men's group Bible study that I go to on Tuesdays, and then a, you know, a good prayer life that I'm regularly engaged in a conversation with God and it's not something that I just wait until Sunday to go be with God. He's always there and that's a relationship that I consider the most important relationship in my life and if I keep that, my top priority is like maintaining that relationship through through some of these practices and also just like spending time with him, having some time in isolation, to where I could just be alone with him. It's like something that Jesus did all the time is he would get up early just so he had that time, you know, when no one else was up and he could be alone with God or would go into the mountains to fast for you know, 40 days and then have all that alone time with God.
Speaker 2:I think sometimes it's an issue. It might be an issue if you can't be alone. You can't, you don't feel okay if you're not around other people. Because, like what? In my faith journey, what I realized is like when I, when I feel comfortable being alone, it's like it's almost like I don't even feel like I'm alone, like like someone's there with me, like he's there with me, and we kind of dove deep into there. But that's just. This is how I, how I think about and honestly feel about these things.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, thank you for sharing. I love it. I mean I'll let you keep going on and on, because I you know how meditation, you know how meditation is to me, you know how important that is and and relationship with God, and I look at meditation as spent, and taking that time out, hitting pause and spending time with with God, I mean it's biblical, right. I still know that I am God. I mean that's that's, that's the whole piece, and so I just love you eliminating that. You know. A couple of things I want to hit on. I think there are maybe in this, in case somebody missed or brushed over top of it, you mentioned a couple of times this idea of decluttering, that you said no to certain opportunities that aren't heart centered and that you get out of your head. This, to me, meditation is is a practice of decluttering right, because our heads can become cluttered with thoughts, with beliefs, with all kinds of preferences, and so the idea of getting out of your head and into your body, into your heart, being centered and spending that time, gives you the ability to kind of be like oh yeah, that's right. It's almost like a wiping of the slate every single day, because if we don't, we'll just kind of nationally fall into these trends and these patterns of being incredibly externally focused and I'm going to, I'm going to.
Speaker 1:I have a confession to make here on the podcast that you know that this, this current redirection and the rebranding of this podcast, was 100% to make sure that I'm holding myself accountable To leading my life heart first.
Speaker 1:I couldn't even tell you how many times since I have changed the name to heart first, how many times that comes up when I'm sitting in front of somebody, I'm in a conversation that's sales based or whatever, and and I start thinking about the money, I started thinking about the enrollment or the, or the offer, and then it, and I'm like heart first, listen, like that's what it does, and literally it just legitimately gets me out of my head and into my heart and to the point where then now I'm, now I'm actively listening, right now I'm actively paying attention, now I'm actually in the moment with the person, rather than trying to figure out what we can get out of it.
Speaker 1:Right, it's like the world is asked is, is, is, and say it's not about the world saying what can it provide for me, but what can I? What can I give? What can I give to the world right, and that's, that's living a heart first life. So, yeah, I know I love you sharing that, and so I would love to hear from you now, like, just if you could share more about like you recently retired from the army just you recently moved off from the army, just a few months back and what is it that you are now doing and what has led you to that living in this way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was a bit of a wild ride the past couple of years. So I was Aaron and I my wife. We got married in February of 2022.
Speaker 2:And then a couple of months after that I was at work and talking with my boss, just kind of in passing and just talking to her. I'd had some numbness into my arm and I'd had back pain for a long time but I just kind of wrote it off to be in a football player and a wrestler and sitting in class for seven years of school and and it just kind of made sense and I'd do some physical therapy and it would feel better.
Speaker 2:Do massage feel better? So yeah, it's just mechanical back pain, no big deal. She's like well, why don't you just go get an MRI if this has been going on for so long? It's right down the hall, just go get it checked out. And so I did. And then, being in the military environment as a provider, I was able to pull up the images almost immediately and I did like a few glances up at the name on the image because I was like this can't be my back, because there was a big tumor that was pressing into my spinal cord, indenting like almost like half of my spinal cord, and it was also pressing on onto a nerve root. And so we walked down to orthopedics and they're like yeah, we don't really deal with this stuff a lot. I recommend you get a off post referral to neurosurgery, because we didn't have any neurosurgeons on post and the guy, the neurosurgeon, was extremely calm. It took me a while to get in there, but he he's like there's nothing to worry about here. You know, it's definitely a benign schwannoma.
Speaker 2:It's growing off this nerve root, not concerned, but I think we should go get it out because it's it's really large and, you know, taking up a lot of space and pressing on your spinal cord and all this stuff. And so I was like, yeah, that sounds like a good plan. I had a couple other neurosurgeons take a look with very similar feedback and so not not very concerned going into the surgery. And then after the surgery I woke up in the neurosurgeons like man, it went great, we got it all. He's really excited. I was excited. I was like great, like I can put this behind me, continue my military career and like move on with life.
Speaker 2:But I go in for my follow up appointment a couple of weeks after that and he shows me on the MRI that they didn't get it all out and not even really close, but and also they got the pathology report indicating that it was a rare type of cancer and so not not the news that I was expecting at the time, you know, and I I had this moment outside of his office where I was just sitting there and kind of you know, a shock mode a little bit and doing some Googling and wanting to see the science behind it and seeing things. Like you know, five year survival rate is 50% with this, which is is complicated, you know it's it's not doesn't tell the whole picture of, like, what's going on with that person, but I was just kind of like questioning God. You know, for the first time in a long time it's like I felt like so much energy and he was working so much in my life to get me to this point and and I felt like there was so much ahead. I knew there was so much ahead and and then almost honestly, like almost within a minute or two of me going down that thought process, I was at a point, at that point already in my faith life, to be like, wait a second, you're, you're questioning God again, like we've we've gone down this road before and we've already done this, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like I don't have to understand. Like his, his intelligence and his plan is much greater than me, even if that includes me not being around. Honestly, that's these are the thoughts that I was having. And after that it was. It was quite a journey Like I.
Speaker 2:I had to go to New York for a second surgery just a couple of months later. So it was a. It was a major back surgery, the first one. Everything was already really beat up in there. They go in January 3rd of 2023 and, amazing surgeon, he was able to to get all of it out. I was on the table for like eight hours.
Speaker 2:I wake up and you know they're telling me the good news and you'd think I'd be excited and and I was, I was happy, but I was in so much pain and I and my arms, I think, had been like stretched out for so long, like my arms were actually almost in more pain than my back. And then the nurse comes in and she offers me like acetaminophen and that's just not going to, that's not going to cut it right now. So I, yeah, long hospital stay it was like a week and then I had to stay in local in the area to Airbnb for another week and really, you know, pain meds really not doing much of anything. And and so that was the time where, like, my mind started spinning a lot because I was someone that, like before this for the first surgery, I was working two jobs I was working the army and then, off a place, off base, I was prepping for a bodybuilding competition which is like almost a full time job in itself, and so I was like go, go, go. And so for me to go like from a hundred to nothing, like that quick, it just put me in a really rough spot mentally. There was no transition phase for me, and so not that it would be easy if I, you know, if I was a lazy person, like anyway, this is the difficult circumstance. And so I finished up in New York, bluebacks, north Carolina, alright, and had some just some life circumstance things going on to like my military career was kind of in jeopardy and there was some like a real estate transaction where the guy was acting kind of weird and and then I just was getting in my head about everything.
Speaker 2:And Then it was about February, about a year ago, my friend Rob had told me about your, your program, integrated mindset, and I was, you know, familiar with the space, but then, like meditation and like self improvement, and Done read a lot of books and done, done some work on the yoga certification and and so I was interested and ultimately signed up and it was like, from that moment of the class starting, four weeks after that, I was able to get off of my anxiety medication and I was almost to a point where it had relaxed me so much, where it was like I, I, I Was sluggish, like, and so I've learned to find balance, you know, since then. But highly effective, you know, program in and it was really. It was really in perfect timing because I also, in the middle of that, I had to go to Atlanta for radiation where I was living by myself and just going for this special type of radiation we were still continuing the program at the time and it just allowed me to have this amazing Group and community and yourself and I, you know, connecting One-on-one on top of that and just kind of really this extra support system and all of these mental tools and resources that I was able to practically apply, you know, right at the time to make it feel like it. You know it was, it was a struggle, but it didn't really feel Like a struggle if that makes any sense. It just it just felt like I was. It was another growth phase, because that's how I was looking at it, because like the content and the things that we talked about, where I got to a point, ultimately it just helped me so much in my faith walk to just let go and trust God and and give up everything to him and in his plan and then, and then later in the course, being able to visualize what I want my life to look like next. And being able to do that from a heart first, heart centered kind of perspective, kind of led me on this new path where I'm. I'm actually now working with the cancer community, which was something that I I wasn't going to do and I had to go through a lot of soul searching and and help from like real models like yourself Just to kind of land me back in this place. But ultimately this it was like it was the Ultimate version of heart centered of like.
Speaker 2:When I went to this conference last July, I think it was for my particular type of cancer and being able to share some of the lessons that I learned through your through integrated mindset and connecting with them and realizing that, like From my own walk, I realized that this was, this is the most important work that there is, because, like you can, you can do a morning routine that includes like cold plunging and a great workout and you can feel good. But but it's not, like it's not necessarily Correcting things, that healing things that are happening at a root level, you know, like at the core of your being, like really healing from the inside out, is what I think all of us need, not just the cancer community. Everybody has their own version of difficulty, of Trauma that they have experienced in their life. You know, emotional and otherwise, that they have to Process. And I and I just fully believed that, like the more that I've learned about this work.
Speaker 2:And and then I went to a Retreat, so I was silent. It was a silent retreat for three days and and I and I felt the same way because that was difficult, but once I got over the hump on on the tough part of that, I had that same thought this is the most important work because I just I had stuff coming up that like from my childhood and stuff I didn't even think was still there, but it came up and I worked through it. I used the things that they were teaching me at this retreat to work through it and I and now I continue practices from that retreat and it's it's like anything else, though If you don't use it, you lose it and its consistency and like as a physical therapist, as a health coach and kind of what I'm doing now I'm not doing physical therapy now, but like that's, that's what I try to preach to people is that it has to be something that you are. If you're gonna add Something into your life, it's it has to be something that you can foresee Bringing into your life forever. Essentially, like not looking at it is like I do this for two weeks and I'm good to go and I don't have to do.
Speaker 2:It takes work, but anything like in life that that is going to bring you like Benefits and it is gonna like make things better, is gonna take work, it's gonna take effort, and and so it's just a matter of like discipline and effort for me. And so a little bit more like specific about what I'm doing With the cancer community is like I got certified to coach integrated mindset and so I'm bringing people into that course, and then I started my own business where I am certified Integrative health practitioner and so I can order functional medicine labs for people and it gets shipped to their house and and then they ship it back to the lab and then as their coach, I get the results and then we go over it in and develop a very personalized health plan based on, like, what's going on specifically in their body and we look at different things like hormone levels, gut health, immune system functioning, food sensitivities, kind of the list goes on there. But yeah, that's like the, the general idea of what I'm doing now and how I got there.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you again for sharing that, that whole story.
Speaker 1:I know it's.
Speaker 1:It's never easy to share those stories that that are, you know, or some of our pain-wise but that pains a lot of times is a Nudge or an invitation to then do something that's really truly meaningful and to lead From that place. And so it's. It's fun to see the unfoldment and be a part of your journey and supporting you along the way in a way that allows for you to really step into something. And from our vantage point over here watching you, it's incredibly clear that you're on a on the right path and that you're doing what you're meant to be doing. So it's an honor to be a part of it.
Speaker 1:So give me, give me just a quick little like elevator pitch of what is your heartfelt Desired outcome for someone who you do work with. It's. It's a current, as someone who's either currently in the fight of battling cancer or a cancer survivor. And if they can't, and if they came to you and worked with you for, you know, got their blood work and and experienced that health coaching and worked on their mindset through, you know, the program that you facilitate, what do you feel like is the desired outcome for that individual on the other side of it.
Speaker 2:Everybody has a different experience with cancer Everybody, you know not one even if you have the same type of cancer. Not one person's walk is the same, but what is consistent throughout is that it is. It's an energy suck, you know, not just the cancer itself, but the treatment, the treatment options are just. They can steal your energy and the things that you have to deal with mentally and spiritually around the diagnosis, even rob, rob it even more and they and they put your health in a in a more compromised position. And the reason that I'm so passionate about this and wanting to bring it to this community, both both sides of what I'm doing the physical and the mental, spiritual is because if you go to an oncologist, it's very rare that they're going to even mention these things or or even like accept that they have any sort of value to them. But what? What we know and it's not just me saying this, this is backed by science is like the body has an incredible ability to heal itself. And then the body and the mind are so closely connected that the mind has incredible healing powers. And if you look at something like the placebo effect and just the power of belief and someone's taken a sugar pill. They think it's curing their depression and their depression's gone, and that's honestly just kind of a minor example of how strong, how powerful the mind can be. And so my goal through this, through the mind and the body and the spirit, working on all of these things to create an optimal internal environment for healing, for healing from the trauma that you're going through and all the in looking at your situation a little bit different way and playing the hero and not the victim and learning to grow from it and and coming out of the fire as just with another layer of a shield on, basically you know of armor and and just having that much more because, because you can go the other direction right, you can let it, you can let it drain you, you can let it get the best of you and feel sorry for yourself and start drinking and and marijuana and and and band-aid solutions, or, like saying before, you could put in the work and I and that goes back to what I'm saying before with energy levels, you know, with me it was.
Speaker 2:The treatment was much worse than the disease, like the disease itself. Basically, my main symptoms I don't know Amanda gave me some fatigue. I don't know the. My main thing was that I had the, the numbness into my arm, and some back pain. Afterwards. I couldn't move. I couldn't move for basically two weeks after my surgery and then for probably two months after that I couldn't sit up for more than five, maybe 10 minutes at a time and then the radiation ended up giving me a lot of issues. That kind of extended after that. And so I just focused in so hard on these principles because I knew the power behind them, having you know a lot of background in this and and understanding the science around.
Speaker 2:Okay, if cortisol, which is our, our main stress hormone, if that is chronically elevated over a long period of time because we're overly stressed out, what happens is we start producing less of the hormones that give us more energy and help our libido and make us feel alive, like like testosterone and progesterone for women, for example, and it also decreases the or it interferes with the immune pathway where basically the, the lymphocytes, the T, the killer T cells, which help, you know, do things like fight cancer, those aren't converted to the active form If we have excess cortisol, and so our immune system is dysregulated and that is strongly influenced not only by our stress hormones but also by what we're putting into our body. There's also a lot of good research coming out around metabolic therapy for cancer in in showing that a lot of tumors really feed on on insulin and on sugar, and so there's a lot of people having success going on like keto diets or doing a lot of fasting while they're, you know, in the midst of this, and so I'm not I'm not necessarily advocating for that, but that's part of what I can test for is looking at your insulin levels and your blood sugar, and I'm not saying we need to drop all the way to zero, but that would basically mean you're dead. But but, but getting it to a healthy, like sustainable level through a very specific nutrition plan that includes a lot of protein and minimal sugar and refined carbohydrates. And even though you can't control what's happening necessarily with the, the cancer and the treatment and all this stuff, you do have control over those things, and that is going to directly impact your energy levels, which is going to directly impact your outlook and your, your joy and your ability to kind of, and it can be this upward spiral to a point where I honestly believe that it can. It can save lives and and and not even just save it from death, but like I look at where I ended up and like it could have gone the opposite way for me.
Speaker 2:Like I am, I'm really doing well. Now when I'm it's not even that far out, it's like a year out from all this stuff and I'm back in the gym, I'm doing hot yoga, I'm climbing mountains, I'm running on the beach with my dog. Like I'm I'm doing great. And I don't mean that I don't say that to just you know, look what I, look what I did. But it's it's about like showing some some proof that this stuff works and that's why I'm moving into this.
Speaker 2:I honestly think that the happiest I would be right now is if I were to go take a job at a, at a physical therapy clinic and working with athletes and I would be having a blast and having a lot of fun. But like that's not heart first right. Like it's tough starting businesses, tough trying to grow these things and putting yourself out there and and trying to make yourself known, but it's, it's 100% worth it because of all these things that I, that I've kind of told you about, of like how strongly I believe it and I'm letting like my heart lead. I'm not taking kind of that, what I would consider like the easy way out of just going and taking a job and and working nine to five and life simple and life's good and it's fun and I'm loving it. But it's about it's not about me, it's about God and it's about it's about everybody else, the people I could serve, you know.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful. So, again, thank you so much, and I just love your passion behind what you're doing now and and just your conviction of leading with your heart. So this is exactly the type of conversations I want to have, and and and just excited about watching. You know where it takes you and how many lives you impact and even potentially save right. So give me, give us an idea of where to find you on Instagram, like what's, what's the best way to find you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Instagram right now is definitely the best place. In my handle is Dr Tyler Cimet. That's D R T Y L E R and S I M M E T.
Speaker 1:Awesome, and I'll obviously put that in the show notes and everything else. Give me one piece of advice for somebody who is going through the situation that you've been through. Just just one. Just one thing. What's one piece of advice?
Speaker 2:Your biggest enemy is is yourself and and the mind right and where it can go in like for me, it could go too far in the future, too far in the past and just just be here now, Use your said and done, but just be here now and and just make progress. You don't have to be perfect, you don't have to do everything at once, but just like be here and just like taking baby steps, like one thing at a time, and not and not trying to do too much at once, and because overwhelm is real and the stress is real and it's harmful and there's so much, there's so many things you could do to help your cause, but just you don't need to do it all at once.
Speaker 1:Yeah, awesome. Incremental shifts, man, yeah, great. Well, I highly encourage everybody to go check out, watch Tyler or follow Tyler on Instagram, and if you have somebody who has either been recently diagnosed or has is a cancer survivor and you know that this type of work health coaching, mindset coaching could benefit them, reach out to Tyler, see what he has to offer, at least have a conversation and and he has an incredible heart and so much to offer. So thank you again, tyler, for coming on the show today and sharing your story and just look forward to to watching, see the impact that you make. Awesome Thanks, ryan.
