Justin Stoddart
Hello, and welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. I'm your host, Justin Stoddart, and I'm excited today to have this conversation about health. Have you ever realized that you as a real estate agent, sometimes you'll focus on your health and maybe your business suffers just to touch, and then you go to focus on your business and your health suffers a little bit? Well, today we're going to talk about how really focusing on your health doesn't need to cause your business to dip. In fact, if anything, it ought to improve your business. Because the operator, the owner, the leader of that business is happier, healthier, stronger. I have with me today, a gentleman by the name of Tim James. Tim owns a company here in the Portland area called Chemical Free Body and we're going to hear briefly about his story, and about how he helps people to be high producing professionals, as well as very, very healthy people. He's a great role model for us to follow in that regard. So as a reminder, if you go to thinkbigger.realestate there will be show notes. And you can sign up to get weekly reports of who's been on the show, and get highlights and updates that way. So I encourage you to do that. If you're not then if you've not done that already. So back to today's guests, Tim, first and foremost, thank you for coming on the show today. I appreciate you coming on and pouring into the think bigger real estate audience.
Tim James
Yeah, Justin, thanks for having me on. I'm excited to share today.
Justin Stoddart
Yeah, great. You know, one thing that I've realized, as it doesn't matter how many business tips tips as I tips, tactics, strategies that people give, right? There's shows and websites and YouTube videos that are filled with how to help a real estate agent have a successful business. Yet at the core, if the mechanism through which they can do all those tips and tactics, right, their body is not well, if their mind is not well, none of those things are going to work, right. That's all built upon a healthy lifestyle. That's all built upon a healthy mindset. And part of my passion with I think that your real estate show is to help get the foundation right? help get the thinking right, help get people well and happy and confident feeling good about themselves, so that they can go serve people at a higher level. And I'm thrilled to have you here today because I know that you're going to help us do that. Right? When you drive down the street. And there's endless opportunities for fast food and terrible food options. I walk through a grocery store, and finding things that are high in protein and low in carbs is difficult, right? And even if I do find those things, what I'm putting my buddy, I'm not even sure if it's good or not. So we want your help. Tim, tell us a little bit about your story, how you got to the point to where you founded the company that you did. And then I want you to teach us some principles, health principles that we could all Apply today. Okay, cool. Hold on time. Now, before I do that, I stop, start stop start. So here's what I want everybody to know, is it if you can't watch this whole episode, know that Tim has, has kindly given us access to some things for free to teach us really quick, Tim, what you've offered us, and then jump into the second part of the question that I asked you.
Tim James
Cool, cool. So um, again, thanks for having me on. So for those listening today that would like to optimize their health. Again, I'll teach them tactics today that you guys can take with you that will like totally transform your health. And they're so simple, but they're things that people aren't doing. I'm going to give away free coaching calls to anybody. It's a $97 value, 30 minutes with me, and you just complete a form. You get into my calendar, then you complete a form. And then also i'm going to give a copy of our gut detox Guide, which is the guide we use as our core foundation. To get people started on our coaching program. This is a $67 value. That's everybody's free. from you, Justin courtesy of Justin Stoddart. Think bigger real estate. And if you guys want to get your hands on that manual, which I highly suggest you do, or and on top of that, get a free coaching session, just send an email to info@chemicalfreebody.com, and just say, Hey, I was on Think Bigger Real Estate, I like to get the free manual and free coaching session, and I'll send you those links, and we can help them get started.
Justin Stoddart
Perfect. Alright, so appreciate that. And for anybody that can't listen to the whole episode, for whatever reason, I want to be sure that you knew that there's some take home some things that I've negotiated with Tim, for him to give away, again, free coaching session, as well as this guy that I looked through it and it's it's brilliant. He's really done a nice job with it. So anyway, thank you for that, Tim. So so going back, what led you to want to embark on this journey of really, both for yourself as well as other people and helping them have healthier lifestyles, which again, helps people to then on top of that, build successful businesses, etc.
Tim James
Absolutely. I think a little bit about my background would be important. I grew up over in Eastern Oregon on a cattle on a farm. I grew up on the standard American diet. I was in the mortgage industry for 10 years, actually part of the core training program, which a lot of people here listening will know about, at a high level coaching business for high level realtors and mortgage professionals. And I found myself at age 37, about 30 38 pounds overweight. I had skin issues I had like eczema on both elbows and I had a huge patch on my left knee. I had another skin issue on my shoulder. It was gross. So my belly was sticking out. I was embarrassed to take my shirt off. And I was an athlete. I mean, I played baseball at a high level. I mean, I played baseball for 30 years. And I always thought of myself as like an athlete, you know, take charge type of guy. And my energy was waning. I wasn't sleeping well. I had acid indigestion really, really bad. And I was I was eating like tons and Rolaids. Like all day long. Like I had a box in my car and then my truck and then I had some of my at my house. And it was just it was I was eating those things constantly. Doctor wanted me to go on a sec, but it just didn't sound right to me was I was trying to put it off. I was in denial. And eventually was my gut was jacked up. And I found out I had what was called leaky gut syndrome later, I actually had blood coming out of my stools, like half the time when I was going to the bathroom and I told no one I was just like, you know, I'm ashamed of it. And I thought I'll just go away something. I mean, I don't even know what I was thinking back then. And so this is going on. And then I finally got to a point where I went on a vacation and I had to have surgery and have an organ removed, destroyed the vacation for my family. And and me it was miserable being in hospital in Peru down there when I'm supposed to be vacationing. And, but I didn't know what to do with my health. I mean, you read all these books and stuff. There's all this information out there but it's just pieces of it work but I couldn't put it all together and, and then my friend on my baseball team Colima hoye got diagnosed with like a stomach cancer, and he was the most fit of all of us. And he ended up dying after chemo and radiation and surgery. It was a horrible deal. And he had three little boys that he left behind. With no insurance, we did a fundraiser. And it was just like, wow, that was somebody like my age that had passed away, you know, and it started freaking me out. I'm like, Dude, this guy was like in the best shape of all of us. If he gets cancer, we're screwed. Well, then right after that, my good f...
