What if the medical system wasn't designed to make you better — just to manage you?

A firefighter paramedic and a cardiologist both came to that same conclusion. And both walked away to build something better.

In this episode, I sit down with Sam Tejada — founder of Liqui Vita Wellness Centers and author of How to Win in Modern Wellness — and Dr. Christopher Davis, triple board-certified cardiologist and founder of Reveal Vitality and Longevity Institute. Together they share what they witnessed inside conventional medicine, why they left, and what they're doing instead.

We cover the real drivers of chronic disease, why most doctors are practicing 25 years behind the science, and how tools like IV therapy, peptides, mitochondrial support, and environmental toxin testing are changing lives that conventional medicine had given up on.

We also talk about an ALS patient who completely turned around in one week — and why Sam says the single most important thing you can do for your health is start measuring it.

Key Takeaways:

• 00:00 Introduction: Sam Tejada and Dr. Christopher Davis
• 04:00 90% of 911 calls and the broken system
• 07:00 How Sam discovered functional medicine
• 09:26 From interventional cardiology to integrative medicine
• 14:26 Why his colleagues called him crazy
• 18:00 How IV nutrient therapy changed everything
• 22:32 The origin story of Liqui Vita
• 28:48 Why most IV drips contain a known toxin
• 33:00 Building the American IV Association
• 38:04 NAD therapy: the debate and the side effects
• 45:52 The peptide Dr. Davis uses personally
• 46:26 ALS patient turns around in one week on SS-31
• 51:00 VO2 max: the best predictor of longevity
• 54:05 Stem cells and ejection fraction
• 01:01:50 You can't improve what you don't measure

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How to build wealth with blockchain, passive income, and software nodes — without buying or trading crypto.

In this episode, serial entrepreneur and blockchain expert Billy Womack reveals the decentralized finance strategy that turned a $11,000 investment into over $50 million.

He grew up with nothing. Parents working two to three jobs combined, making $60,000 a year. He joined the Air Force at $11,000 a year. And he refused to accept that as his ceiling.

In this episode, I sit down with Billy Womack — serial entrepreneur, US Air Force veteran, and CEO of Skybound Live — who has built over $50 million in blockchain without ever buying or trading a single crypto token. Instead, he invested in software nodes: the infrastructure that powers decentralized networks and pays its owners every single day.

Billy breaks down why most people are playing the wrong game in crypto, how owning a piece of the network is fundamentally different from chasing tokens, and why he believes we are living through the biggest wealth transfer of our generation.

He also shares the story behind Skybound Live — the world's first decentralized blockchain travel company — and how everyday people can use software nodes to fund the life experiences they've always wanted.

Key takeaways:

• 00:46 Why Dr. Joy is talking about money
• 04:07 From $11K a year to his first exit at 27
• 05:34 How Billy found Bitcoin at $220 a coin
• 10:15 How $11,000 became $12 million
• 13:00 Why you should own the network, not the token
• 17:15 The world's first decentralized travel company
• 22:30 How Parler got shut down — and what changed
• 33:53 Why patience is the #1 wealth-building tool
• 36:29 How Parler pays you for your own data
• 48:21 Teaching blockchain to break the poverty cycle

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

What if the therapy your doctor never mentioned is the one that finally moved the needle?

Laurent Goldstein had tried everything. High-dose vitamin C. Hyperbaric oxygen. Cryotherapy. IV therapy. And yet his chronic lymphocytic leukemia markers refused to budge for four years.

Then he came to Dr. Joy Kong's clinic for stem cell treatment. One week later, his white blood cell and lymphocyte counts had dropped to nearly half — the lowest since his diagnosis.

In this episode, I sit down with Laurent Goldstein, award-winning filmmaker behind Listen to the Lion — a documentary exploring the frontier of healthspan and longevity. Laurent shares the personal health breakthrough that changed his view on stem cell therapy, why Western medicine falls short on chronic disease, and what it really means to stack therapies for maximum effect.

We also explore the philosophy behind his films: why he believes most people have a lion inside them they've been taught to suppress — and how awakening that drive may be just as powerful as any protocol.

Key takeaways:

• 00:00 Wellness journey starts at 18 in France
• 03:45 How chiropractic unlocked holistic medicine
• 06:30 Why turning 70 forced urgency
• 14:30 Why stem cells beat every other modality
• 19:00 The lion metaphor — and the voice aging silences
• 23:55 Zero pain, more energy, didn't catch the cold
• 28:15 4.5 years of leukemia with no results — then this
• 31:55 Why umbilical cord cells outperform your own
• 33:25 The symphony approach to healing
• 39:28 Where to watch Listen to the Lion for free

✨ Watch Laurent's documentary for free: yoursecondfiftylife.com

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.