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Dr Sarah’s unique understanding of health is changing lives globally. She is the co-founder of Vital Wellbeing, a company providing vital tools for generational change in health…globally. Since the 1990’s Dr Sarah and her husband Dr Randall have been global mentors to thousands of individuals, families, health professionals, celebrities, and sporting personalities. They have facilitated and inspired people to live a vitalistic life. In early 2000 Dr Sarah coined the term Health Expression which today is used around the world by health professionals, health enthusiasts, individuals, and families. In 2010 she organized the world’s health information into bite sized pieces so people could understand it – identifying three distinct health approaches. With an extensive education in teaching, psychology, and general science, in addition to her Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College Davenport, Iowa, Dr Sarah has emerged as one of the foremost thought leaders on vitalistic health. She has authored books, e-books, reports, articles, and has been interviewed on radio, television, in podcasts, and by numerous print media. Dr Sarah has over 35 years in the health industry and her achievements over this time include:• “Non-fiction Writer of the Year” with her signature book, “The Vital Truth®” which set the stage for the chiropractic vitalistic movement.• International & Bestselling Author of “The Vital Truth®” and “The Health Illusion”• Named ‘One of the Most Influential Chiropractors Under 40’ – Lifestyle Magazine• Amazon #1 in a compilation book “Thank God I®” stories of inspiration for every situation.• Global Impact Award Finalist 2016 for Women in Leadership Dr Sarah is a mother of three children, all home birthed, non-medicated (over the counter, prescribed or scheduled), and all home educated. She is married to Dr Randall Farrant, also a chiropractor. They currently live between Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf and the Waikato, NZ. In a world where mediocrity, collective ignorance, apathy, medical propaganda, and misinformation is the norm, there is a need for the likes of Dr Sarah… we would do well to listen to her unique and compelling views on how we can influence generational change in health globally. Dr Sarah’s style is direct yet compassionate; her material is well-researched and rigorously fact-based; her message is surprisingly simple. Her aim is to enable people to make informed decisions about their health, and the health of those they love. TRANSCRIPT JAMES CHESTER (HOST): You’ve made it to Chiro Hustle. Sit back and learn from the greatest influencers in the profession on the world’s number one Chiropractic podcast. Before we dive into this powerful episode, please remember to subscribe to our channels and give us a 5 star rating on iTunes and to continue hustling. This episode is sponsored by Transact Card, Align Life, NeuroInfinity, Imaging Services, Chiro Health USA, Chiro Moguls, Pure Chiro Notes, Titronics, Sherman College of Chiropractic, New Patients in a Box, Life Chiropractic College West, Pro Hockey Chiros, Pro Baseball Chiros and the IFCO. Let’s hustle. LUKE MILLETT (PRODUCER): Hey guys, welcome to episode 523 of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. I’m your producer, Luke Millett, and here’s your host, James Chester. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): So, today we had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Sarah Farrant. And if you want to hear the story about the future of chiropractic and the term health expressions, stay tuned. Welcome back. This is another episode of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. Today it is episode 523. And I have Dr. Sarah Farrant on with me today coming from New Zealand, correct? DR SARAH FARRANT DC (GUEST): That’s right. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): I’m going to talk about the most of the most of the time. And I’m going to just read off something from her bio that I thought was super profound and excuse the moment, but then I’ll get in and I’ll give the introduction of why we do what we do over here at Chiro Hustle. And the unique perspective here is in a world where mediocrity, collective ignorance, apathy, medical propaganda and misinformation is the norm. There’s a need for the likes of Dr. Sarah. We would do well to listen to her unique and compelling views on how we can influence generational change in health globally. I think it’s profound. And that’s why I get everybody to give me a quick bio on themselves so I can start to understand who they are. Dr. Sarah also studied at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, my hometown, which a lot of you that watch and listen to our podcast know that. And it’s just quite compelling. We’re going to talk about some things she’s done to write some books and some things about her career and how her husband became a chiropractor on the journey with her. But before we get there, the big why, why do we do what we do over here at Chiro Hustle? Well, first things first is freedom of speech, first amendment. We never censored anyone. I think that that’s something so valuable because censorship and banning of people and suppressing of truth and information is really an issue in the culture where we are today. It’s global. So I want to make sure that everybody knows that we protect freedom of speech with our show. We will always stand in the goodness of truth and chiropractic. We also believe medical health freedom is essential and family health freedom is essential. We have control over our households and how we feed ourselves and what we put into our body and what we don’t put into our body. We also protect the Sacred Trust, which is BJ Palmer’s last words. If you don’t know what the Sacred Trust is, I urge you to go to your favorite search engine right now, pause the show and go find out what BJ Palmer’s last words were and find out what BJ Palmer’s Sacred Trust was. You’ll learn so much more about chiropractic than you ever could have imagined before that point. And then we do support subluxation based chiropractic. And we also believe in in intelligence and universal intelligence. We believe that man or woman, the physical, when they get adjusted, it connects them to man or woman, the spiritual. With that being said, Dr. Sarah, welcome to the show. DR SARAH FARRANT DC (GUEST): Thanks for having me, James. I’m looking forward to sharing with everyone. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Yeah, and there’s a lot of impact that I just shared in the first three minutes. And the reason I do that, Dr. Sarah, is in case somebody doesn’t ever sit through the whole episode, they at least know where we stand for. And they understand the power behind the message that we create here. DR SARAH FARRANT DC (GUEST): Yeah, good for people to know. Good for people to follow along with you and what you’re doing. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): It’s great. Oh, yeah. You know, it’s a big journey and we were talking off camera. Over the past five and a half years, going to year number six, we’ve done almost over 1,200 interviews. And you’re actually an official 523 of our show. And there’s so much reverence I have for the chiropractic profession to continuously carry this torch and swing this amour hammer. My big ask for anybody that’s made it to this part in the interview is just to share this. That’s your dues. Pay your dues and share this message so more people can understand the power of chiropractic and the truth of chiropractic and more people can become influenced to practice natural health. And I think that there’s so much to be said about just sharing, comment, like, subscribe to our channels. You know, I think honestly, Dr. Shire, I never really got down that path too much, but I’ve been listening to a guy named Andy Ferssella and his podcast is called Real AF. And I started to realize that that’s the economy that we’re in. We’re in the share economy that if somebody’s like, you know what, you should be Jim, you should be a leader in this profession, you should go, you know, be on politics. I’m like, well, you know, you should do, you should share a message. Some more people can get influenced with what we’re doing here. And that’s where we actually get momentum in this world. So off my stage here, it’s your turn. Our show really opens up with your story. And if you could just share with our audience today a little bit about your journey through chiropractic, you so eloquently shared this with me. We thought we were alive, but we weren’t. And you said you could replay the whole message for us. So how did you get into this beautiful profession? DR SARAH FARRANT DC (GUEST): Okay. So there’s two, two visions were happening concurrently at the same time. And it was 1972 when it all started. And my dad had bought us a black and white TV for the family. You know, we thought we were rich and we could sit down, we could watch, you know, bandstand in Australia, listen to the news. And on this particular night, I was setting the table and there was a news flash that came on the TV. So we all went and we sat on the couch and watched it. And in comes this surgeon who was a brain surgeon who just performed the first brain surgery of its kind. And I sat there in awe of this man, like how did he get to open up this skull and look inside and then sew the guy back up and the guy still alive? Like I wanted to look inside the human body. I wanted to be this brain surgeon. Anyway, the breaking news clip finished and we got up and I shouted to my family, you know, I’m going to be a doctor and change people’s lives. In that same year, it was the Moscow Olympics and I saw these athletes walking out into the arena, proudly dressed in their country colors and I looked at them and go, oh my God, how did you, four years of training, how did you get here? And you’re now going to go and attempt to break records and the power that comes out of the human body to be the best that you can be in your sport. And so I said to myself, I didn’t now announce this to the family. I said to myself, I’m going to be an athlete and I’m going to be wearing the green and gold one day. So when I got to school, it became very, very clear that I probably was not going to be the brain surgeon, even though I come from a lineage of medical doctors scattered in our family from my father’s cousins and et cetera. And I was called at school, you know, dumb and the dunce and would have been categorized and dyslexic, no doubt. But I never lost this vision of I’m going to be a doctor and change people’s lives. And I used to go to a lady called Miss Claire and everyone knew who Miss Claire was. She was the dunce’s teacher. And they would call me out in the class, Sarah, it’s time for you to go to Miss Claire and everyone would snigger and in the background and I’d get my menila folder, I’d walk out of the classroom, depending on what year I was in at that time at school, but I would always go to this oval, had beautiful green grass, her little brown door was in the opposite direction. And as soon as I planted my left foot on the green grass, it was always my left foot, some left handed, I would say to myself, I’m going to be a doctor and change people’s lives. I’m going to be a doctor and change people’s lives all the way to her brown door and then all the way back from her brown door back to the classroom. So I got to confirm to myself and affirm to the universe every single day of my school life that I’m going to be a doctor and change people’s lives. I had no idea how it was going to work, when it was going to happen and what kind of doctor I was going to be. I just knew that that’s what I was going to be. So it would seem that the first of my visions would come to fruition, which was being this elite athlete. And so I was selected into the Australian rowing team and moved to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, where I trained and upon retiring from that, I was invited to apply to the Australian College of Physical Education, which was in New South Wales. And it was a college that was set up for elite athletes in consideration of their training regime. And even though I had retired, they had offered me a place. So I went and studied there, I finished second in my year, which just goes to show when you’re interested in what you want to learn, you’ll find a way to learn it. And because I was sitting in that dyslexic kind of environment, I always believe that anybody that is dyslexic has this ability to see a system. And so systems became my way to cope, I guess, in the world and see things in a different way. Anyway, so I finished at college, I traveled a bit, and then I opened a gymnasium with a friend in Melbourne, in Victoria, which is my home city in Australia. And I set myself up as a strength and conditioning coach. So I was a strength and conditioning coach of World Aerobics champions, that’s back in the day, national basketball players, Melbourne Tigers basketball players, and Australian touch football players. And then I found myself back at the IS lecturing on talent identification, you know, how do these people think, what do they do? But during that time when I was training the elite athletes, they weren’t able to visualize. And I was always very, very good at visualizing in color, I could sense things, I could close my eyes and kind of see it all and be in it. But these athletes were finding it hard to do that. So I went to Le Trobe University and I applied to go and study psychology. And lo and behold, I got in because I’d done well in my physical education studies. And whilst I was studying psychology and working, that’s when chiropractic came into my life. And my husband, my then boyfriend, but now husband, we were working in the gym and this lady had come up to him and said, oh my God, you know, he’d spoken about, I have a bat, he had a back challenge. And she said, oh, well, you’ve got to go and see Ken. And we were like, okay, we’ll go and see Ken. Anyway, so we went off to see Ken. We really didn’t know that he was a chiropractor until we got them, like, oh, right chiropractic, you know, because when you’re in the fitness field, it’s like chiropractic is there, but everyone loves, you know, other health professionals. So we went and saw Ken and we were blown away by his level of education, his commitment to helping Randall change his love of imparting the knowledge of health and where it comes from. And anyway, I left and booked myself an appointment, but they were a husband and wife couple. So I saw his wife, Karen, and Randall saw Ken. And then they became fast friends. We would hang out with them all the time and they were moving state and they took a few of us out for dinner. And at that dinner, I said to Ken, and I don’t know why it was Ken. It would have been Karen as well, but it was Ken that answered. So I asked the question, well, if you had the chance to study again, where would you go? And he said, oh, well, I would go to Palmer and we went Palmer. Like where’s that? And he goes in Iowa, Iowa, why would you go there? And he goes, well, that’s the founding college of the profession. And we were like, but why would you go there? And he said, because of the philosophy, we went philosophy. And he said, yes, the reason why we do what we do. So the next day, I drove myself back out to where I was studying psychology and I went to the internet. This is back in the middle 1990s, James. So the internet is very rudimentary. You can’t print a page. It’s a whole word. And so I looked up Palmer College of Chiropractic, I pressed print and this no doubt, like 30 pages came out, right? So I’ve got it together. I’ve gone out to the quadrangle where at La Trobe, I sat there and I’ve just started reading. And my eyes have picked up on nerve system and then they’ve picked up on brain to body and then they’ve picked up on a health definition about optimal well-being and not necessarily the absence of disease or infirmity. And then it’s got in the top right hand corner, click here for the doctor…
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