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EDUCATION:Life Chiropractic College, Dean’s List / Doctorate – September 1990Athletic Scholarship Life University Running Eagles Rugby Club 1986-1990SUNY-College at Plattsburgh Bachelor’s Biology and Nutrition -December 1985Archbishop Molloy HS, Queens, NYPROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / ORGANIZATIONSAttendee: Dynamic Essentials, Atlanta Georgia 1986-2006Recipient: California Chiropractic Association (CCA) Doctor of the Year 2015*Recipient: Life University Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2015Recipient: Champions For Life Champion Doctor of the Year 2015Recipient: California Chiropractic Association (CCA) Doctor of the Year 2014Stage Presenter: The Wave, San Francisco, CA 2015C.O.R.E. San Diego, (Monthly Chiropractic Group) 150 members President 2012-2015Recipient: CCA-San Diego Doctor of the Year 2013Recipient: California Chiropractic Association Distinguished Service Award 2014Recipient: California Chiropractic Association Distinguished Service Award, San Diego 2015Member: International Chiropractors Association (ICA) (Active since 1994)Past Member: International Chiropractic Pediatric AssociationStage presenter Focus Seminars, Poconos, PA 2010Candidate: New Zealand Chiropractic College Presidency (2011)Member: West Virginia Chiropractic Society (WVCS) 2001-2011Appointed : Sgt. of Arms, CCA San Diego District 2011-2012California State Alumni Representative, Life University 2011-presentWest Virginia State Alumni Representative, Life University 2001-2011Member: California Chiropractic AssociationMember: International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (I.C.P.A.)Elected : Vice-President of CCA, San Diego District 2012-2015Appointed: Chair, Membership Department, CCA 2013-2017Founding Member: LIFEforce1000 (Life University), 2008- present. Hosted over 60 Student Recruitment EventsLife University ‘P.E.A.K. Doctor’ 2014-presentStage presenter Life Vision Seminars, January 2013CCA Convention Speaker 2015Champions for Life, (Life Chiropractic College-West) 2012-presentPre Chiro Club San Diego, Founder 2012Elected: Director CCA San Diego District June 2015-2016CCA Key Doctor-Assigned to LegislatorsTestimony in record for CA Senate Hearings 2013-2015Elected: CCA Region 1 Director (San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside Counties) 2016-2019Facilitator, LIFE 201 Retreat through Life Chiropractic College West (2015-2016)Associate Faculty, Southern California University Health Sciences, 2016-presentMaster of Ceremonies, The Wave, San Francisco, CA, August 2016Co-Founder, ChiroWunderLux, Student Retreat, Joshua Tree, CA September 2016, 2017Recipient: California Chiropractic Association Leadership Award San Diego2017Recipient: California Chiropractic Association Botterman Award San Diego2017Keynote Speaker- Life Chiropractic College West January 2017Keynote Speaker- Life Chiropractic College West May 2017Nominated: Presidential Candidate Life Chiropractic College WestNominated: CCA Doctor of the Year, 2016-2017Keynote Speaker- Life Chiropractic College-West, October 2017Elected, President, California Chiropractic Association, January 2018Keynote Speaker- Life Chiropractic College-West, January 2018Re-elected, President, California Chiropractic Association 2019Recipient: California Hero Award presented by Senator Joel Anderson October 2018Recipient: Thomas N. Truax Award for Political Influence, San Diego, December 2018Continuing Education Presenter, California Board of Examiners Approved 2017-2019Recipient: California Chiropractic Association Presidential Award 2019Associate Faculty, Palmer Chiropractic College-West, 2019-presentCo-Founder, Ranch Mukuna Intentional Community, Oaxaca, MX 2020-2022Founder: ‘Design Your Life’- DC Experiential Training 2023Author: “When the Levee Breaks” – Platypus Publishing 2023 TRANSCRIPT JAMES CHESTER (HOST): You made the 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 to give us a 5-star rating on iTunes to continue hustling. This episode is sponsored by Imaging Services, Chiro Health USA, Chiro Moguls, Pure Chiro Notes, Titronics, Sherman College of Chiropractic, New Patients in a Box, The Influencer Authority Podcast Training, Mango Voice, Life Chiropractic College West, and M-Sculpt. Let’s Hustle! LUKE MILLETT (PRODUCER): Hey guys, welcome to Episode 503 of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. I’m your producer, Luke Millett, and here’s your host, James Chester. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): So today we have the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Danny Gambino. And if you want to hear a Chiropractic love story, stay tuned. Welcome back. This is another episode of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. Today I have Danny Gambino. Really excited for this episode. I might say that about every episode, but this one’s really special. We’re going to get an update on Kim Gambino, his wife. We’re going to talk all things chiropractic. I mean, if you guys would have heard the conversation that we were just having off camera before we jumped on here. Wow, so much love and passion for what the profession has provided to both of us. We went back and talked about chiropractic biophysics. We talked about supporting the sacred trust and guarding it. I mean, so many different levels of belief and passion for chiropractic. But before we get into episode 503, I’m going to let everyone know the big why. Why do we do it? We do it over here at Chiro Hustle. First things, First Amendment. Freedom of speech is so important. It’s really important for chiropractors. So let’s not forget our language. Let’s not forget the things that chiropractic stands for. Two of those things that lives inside of that zone of the First Amendment are family health freedom and medical freedom. We really believe that there should be more of a charge forward for keeping family health freedom safe and protected. And I believe chiropractic has been doing that for a long, long time. Next thing we do is we do believe in protecting, like I said earlier, BJ Palmer Sacred Trust. If you guys don’t know what that means, go to your favorite search engine and look for BJ Palmer’s last words. You’re going to know so much more about chiropractic than you previously did. I guarantee you. We support subluxation based chiropractic. I can’t believe we actually have to say that, but we do. And then lastly, the adjustments to most powerful part of chiropractic and to philosophy. And we believe that when someone gets adjusted man or woman to physical, when they get adjusted, it connects them to man or woman is spiritual. And I know we’re going to get down on some of that stuff today because Dr. Danny’s wife, Kim, has been on a health healing journey over the past couple of years. So I’m really excited to host this show today and we’re two minutes in. So Danny Gambino, welcome to the show. DR DANNY GAMBINO DC (GUEST): Thanks, Jim. It’s super honored to be here. Chiro Hustle is just now in its just burgeoning stage and I’m super excited to be part of this program. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Well, I got your CV. I got your bio and all the decorations that you’ve had. I mean, I don’t mean you think you went back like that far. You just showed me like five years of accomplishments, which I think is pretty cool. So you’ve definitely had a lot of impact on a lot of lives in chiropractic, but I’m most interested in your life and your journey. And I think this is my favorite part of any interview I ever do, honestly, is like, what is your story? How did you find chiropractic? DR DANNY GAMBINO DC (GUEST): Well, that goes back into the early 80s. I was a decathlete in college. My family had been going to a chiropractor in New York. I was away at college. So I didn’t get the memo and, you know, I came home one summer. My brother’s one of my brothers. I got five. He says, four. I’m one of them. And he says, he should go to a chiropractor. I’m like, Oh, go to a what? I what? He says, yeah, you go to a chiropractor. I go, what? Why? And he says, well, you know, it helps your nervous system. I was studying biology. So that made sense to me. And he says, plus it’ll help maybe with some of your, you know, performances. The decathlon, you know, is 10 events. So it’s kind of a strange event because it’s one event, but it’s really 10. So you got to do 10 things to count as one. It’s kind of bizarre. But anyway, I have been keeping track of, you know, as much physiology as I knew at the time. And I went to this guy’s office. He didn’t really teach me much. I went there three times a week for whatever summer break we had. And then the following year, you know, was just loaded with meet records and school records and personal bests really logarithmically off the chart of what I was doing. So I couldn’t figure out anything else that would have done it besides getting adjusted. So the next summer I go back there, I’m getting adjusted again. And I see this poster on his wall, you know, and this is we chiropractors, you know, deal with the work with the subtle substance of the soul. I said, that’s just a strange thing that having like a doctor’s office, right? We released the imprisoned impulse, the tiny rivulet of force that emanates from the mind and flows over cells to nerves, nerves to cells and serves them into life. I was like, holy shit, this is me. I’m doing this. Whatever this is. I didn’t know what chiropractors really do. I don’t know why. I don’t know how they do what they do, but if they can elicit this human expression out of my body, you know, when it just shows up in this one sliver of human performance, all in. So I remember being stunned. I was just like, I had this aha moment and I went to a pay phone. That’s when I had pay phones and I dropped into my quarter and I called my mom and I’m like, mom, I know what I’m going to do for the rest of my life. And she goes, oh, really? I said, yeah, I’m going to be a chiropractor. And she says, OK, that’s nice. What time are you going to be home for dinner? I remember going, OK, whatever. I hung up and I walked around the city for a while and it was just so easy. It was a very easy decision. And so I went my way back to Atlanta, from New York. It was a foreign city back then to me being a New York city kid. And I was mentored by some of the greatest in the profession, these legends, these icons, they belong in the museum, right? Most notably Dr. Sid Williams. And everybody says, I could never understand them. I just was like, I was staring at a, I don’t want to say like a circus animal, but I was just, I didn’t know what to think of the guy. And he started talking about stuff I didn’t understand, but I just felt drawn to it. And I said, I have to know what this guy is talking about. So I just basically sat at the feet of this guy and learned as much as I could while I was there. And of course, attended DE and really practiced, practiced developing the idea of how chiropractic is so, so vastly different from any other health care model that exists. There’s three models, right? There’s the allopathic model is, you know, fighting everything with drugs and surgery, a radiation. Then there’s the complimentary and alternative medicine that’s fighting it disease with everything, but drugs, radiation and surgery. And then there’s chiropractic, which doesn’t fight anything. You can’t, fighting disease is a losing game. You know, but if we can tap into that human expression, that life force, you know, that prana, that chi and illicit and tease some of that, you know, those sparks into a flame. People obviously physiologically respond better, musculoskeletal literature, they respond better. But more importantly, they respond better, you know, as an integrated web of connected human beings, they don’t litter as much. They don’t, they stop beating their kids. They take better care of their bodies and all other aspects. And this ramifications, what I really was all over. And I’m like, well, I got to be really good at this. So I can be really good at that. And then I just went crazy, you know, in the last five years, maybe I got all these accolades in the last five years or six years. But, you know, it’s we’ve been prime in a pump for 30. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Yeah, I know that was a, that was our initial talking point when we started talking is kind of like the car medic wheel, if you push it really slow, it comes back really slow. The law of reciprocity, if you give a lot, sometimes it comes back to you. And I think that that’s really special is I was interviewing John DeMartini once. And I was just asking him about how he got to where he is in his career. And he’s like, you know, overnight success took 25 years. And I think that that rings really true is a lot of times it takes a career to find that level of the accolades come in. And it’s for lack of better resource to say. It’s like lifetime achievement awards. Like you have to serve for a long time before you get recognized for service. And we’re talking about vitality earlier. And I think that there’s a lot to be said if people knew that chiropractic was the vitalistic source for them. And if they even knew what the word vitalism met, they’d all be like really interested in getting some more of that. So, so I don’t think like early on when you’re going to the chiropractor for your decathlon like training, they were doing anything other than optimizing you and giving you a higher level of expression of life. And, you know, you having access to said, I just interviewed Joe Espazito this morning. And he was telling me stories about said too. And just how valuable it was to learn from that man and to pay attention to him. He’s like, yeah, the dude would lock the doors for three hours and you’d have to listen to him lecture. DR DANNY GAMBINO DC (GUEST): You know, I went on a hunch that this guy knew what he was talking about. I didn’t really, I was skeptical, right? And like, oh, he’s just a college president. Okay. And I learned how to push on bones and anatomy. Yay. But I, there was a bit of me that trusted him more than the bit was that was skeptical. And then when I started to embody some of the principles that he talked about, I saw them as true for me as well. And then it was, I was all in. And whatever the guy said was golden. And love more hate him. And to tell you the truth, you know, he was irascible, right? He was non-contained and sometimes difficult to get along with. But I think 40% of the chiropractors on planet earth came from his vision. So, you know, we owe the guy a debt of gratitude. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Well, I think it’s always the ones that push the boundaries that are hardest to accept and the hardest to understand through. And you know, I have three of his books right over here. I went to my first DE this past year and I just see how he even has a legacy that lasts beyond his physical body and how he still has an influence that’s helping the future of chiropractic. It’s teaching the science, the philosophy, the art, the family part of chiropractic. Like there is a part of family in chiropractic. And I really believe that that’s what he did is he brought families together and being one of the old school seminars and gatherings for chiropractic. He did something darn right because people are still carrying on that legacy. DR DANNY GAMBINO DC (GUEST): Right on. Just had a birthday on the 18th if he was still alive. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Nice. Yeah. So let’s get more into like parts. Let’s give it an advice column. Like, let’s just talk practice growth for a minute. Like if you gave some just ABCs to somebody that’s watching this today and you’re like, hey, you might want to consider doing this if you wanted to have a successful chiropractic practice. What would you suggest to them? DR DANNY GAMBINO DC (GUEST): The first thing I’d say is you have to know your why and you have to stay connected to it. Now, the bigger yo…
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