33 "Doctors Are Patients Too" and "Hunting Fields With Cotton Mouths"

Guest 1: [00:00:00] My oldest patient is 103 years old and going strong. What the hell is my job? I studied at Oxford, so I have a little experience with, you know, the NHS and the health care system. It was during my, training years, and I actually received a scholarship to attend there for a year. So I did a year of what they called, I guess, postgraduate work. And it was sponsored through, you know, a benefactor here. And I did a whole year of, evidence based medicine. And it was a great time. I had, you know, my parents lived in England. They had emigrated to England from India way back when, before they, you know, came to America. So I had only known England through their eyes. And I think by the time I landed there, that was, I think, 2000, it was a very different England than what they had, you know, portrayed to me. And I know England is very different now from, from that time that I was there. We are experiencing, you know, shortages, especially in what we call primary care.

So it is not easy to access a doctor. We are severely lacking primary care physicians in our country, especially, you know, at a time when medicine is very different than it was 20 or 30 years ago. And I also have a, special interest in women's health. So in 2019, I came out with a book called Dear Menopause. I do not fear you. And so, you know, midlife for women can be a challenge because we're often, you know, in that sandwich where we're taking care of our families as well as taking care of our aging parents. And it's often at a time when we may be perimenopausal and menopausal. And that's also a time when, you know, we're more most at risk for a lot of health issues as well. A lot of women, you know, kind of give up on themselves. So this is a time that's crucial where you can, you know, focus on yourself. And that can be, in many ways, your health, your career. And when I mentioned the health it could be emotional health.

Physical health. So that's what I refer to when I say uplevel. So focusing on yourself and not giving up on yourself. I get messages through Facebook that I read your book, that I took your book out from the library. It's helped me, you know, definitely, you know, women of color, of different backgrounds like myself, South Asians, we tend not to kind of keep our parents at home and we try to take care of themselves. That at least that's how it was in India. But that's changing. Here, you know, you know, a lot of people try to do the same, but, you know, the support system is different. Our families are smaller. We don't necessarily have the same support structure as there was back in India. So it can be very, very difficult to be in that generation for certain women, depending on their culture. And, you know, I've met many different types of women in my years of practice. So it's not just restricted to South Asians. It can be different women who are struggling to take care of their families, both their aging parents as well as their own families. Unfortunately, there are discrepancies in health, and depending on your you know, where you're from, it can mean that you are at higher risk for certain conditions. Like, you know, again, I'll give my own background.

For example, South Asians are at higher risk for diabetes and heart disease, and that's not often recognized because we present differently, because women don't don't necessarily have that classic, oh, I'm having like, you know, severe chest pain. It could be just having heartburn or some discomfort in the jaw or maybe in the shoulder. So these are the things that women are often challenged with where their symptoms are not necessarily recognized. And unfortunately, on top of that, we don't necessarily get all the testing, the preventative testing, the screenings that we should be getting to screen for these type of conditions before they rear their ugly head. I think people forget that doctors are patients too. So I have run into discrepancies where people do not necessarily realize that I was a doctor. I had to kind of advocate for myself because I knew better. And I have often wondered, okay, did that just happen because I'm a woman of color? Because I have that background, I was able to say, no, this is what's going on. I need this test to happen. But I have that knowledge and background and and obviously there are women who don't, and they need someone to advocate for them because you can only advocate for yourself so much, right? If you're not a trained professional, then you don't necessarily know all of it. And Doctor Google won't necessarily help you with. All of that. That's where a good primary care, a good GP comes in where they can say, you know what, this is going on. You know, we should get you tested for x, y, z. We should have screenings for this because you're at higher risk for these kind of conditions. [00:05:15][315.0]

Naty: [00:05:20] Hey folks. It’s Naty! We'll be back with more right after this break.

Guest 3: [00:05:31] I played professional soccer player Georgie Best back in the day out here in California when I played in the North American Soccer League. He was a legend. I played for seven years. I played for Canada, late 70s, early 80s. My first acting gig was with Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street. The best thing I've ever done in my life is this is holding somebody's ring up and going, there you go. [00:05:51][20.3]

[00:05:55] You're listening to sound. There are high and low tones. You can set machines up now for all kinds, 50 different tones, so you can set up whatever makes you feel good and how you like it. But it will give you a visual display pull tabs, bottle caps, nails, iron. It will tell you and give you an idea of it's more visual displays now, so we can actually see numbers that are registering that give him some idea what it could be. There number 100%, but it does give us an idea of possible ring, possible garbage.

But, he pretty much got a dig at all. But you ain't got to know your machine's good in order not to miss what you're looking for. So I always dig everything I've been testing since I was a kid. I picked up a metal detector when I was about 12 years old and was fascinated about it, put it aside while I played professional soccer, and after my soccer career, I picked it up again, and I found a way to use my metal detector to help people. And with the help of an angel investor in 15 years, he helped me develop this. He paid for everything. We worked out a percentage and, he helped me put together a directory. And we now have over 350 members in 17 countries that are helping people find would be thought was lost forever. Engagement rings, wedding bands, family heirlooms, cell phones, keys, buried treasure.

I've had members find hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold. Silver that someone had buried and forgot where they buried it. The stories are beautiful. I absolutely love helping people find what they thought was lost forever. Most of my members follow my footprint. We don't charge. We just say cover our guests and give us what you feel is fair for us to come out and help you find where you've lost. And that's kind of a unique footprint in this day and age. Some people are very generous. I've done it for a homemade loaf, banana bread, and then somebody gives you $2,000 and it's like, wow, you can afford that. And like, absolutely, you don't know what this means to us. And, helping people is what drives me to do what I do now. I absolutely love it. Last year I had this vision of going across America, meeting my members, sharing their stories, meeting the people they've helped. And I want to do a docu series on this beautiful directory and its members.

And I told my angel investor I was going to take out a whack of money, put it in a company to buy a van, and I asked him if he's okay with that, and he said no. And I went, oh. And he said, I feel better if I give you back your your 35% share. Sounds like you could use it. And like what? He goes, yeah, go. How much he goes nothing. He goes a dollar. If I have to sell it, I go, who are you? And this man helped me create developed a directory that is so unique and so unusual that is now responsible for retraining over 12,300 lost items. The smiles are incredible. We've been on Good Morning America, Huffington Post, New York Times, Atlantic Magazine, Tomorrow Hall Show did a story as I found Jon Cryer spring from two and a Half Men in Vancouver. What we have here is a feel good company. I mean, we are in the business of making people happy, and I'm so proud of it and so thrilled to be meeting these members. And you think we're just guys with many sectors.

We're more than that. I look at these guys like superheroes. These guys are in Florida with crocodiles, alligators, sharks. I met members that are hunting filled with cottonmouth, rattlesnakes, water moccasins. These are poisonous and dangerous animals. And they're out there doing this to help someone find what they've lost. So I wanted to experience it. I drove across America. I've been on the road for almost a year, grabbing and documenting everything in hopes that I can pitch this and and get someone interested, do a true reality show. I've had so many people wanting to do a show, but I can cannot do stupid. I cannot pretend sensationalized, create or staged drama. Therefore I'm going to do it the way I see it and make this all real. And I think it's going to be like one of the first real reality show. So I'm excited, but nervous. [00:10:14][258.8]

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