Rural Futures with Dr. Connie Episode 5 Featuring Dr. Tyler Ideus

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[00:00:00.300]Welcome back to the show.
[00:00:01.610]This is Caitlyn, producer of the Rural Futures podcast
[00:00:04.580]with Dr. Connie, subscribe where you listen
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[00:00:13.550]Thanks for listening.
[00:00:15.468]I always say, just because you're from a small town,
[00:00:19.320]the middle of Nebraska doesn't mean
[00:00:20.780]that you still can't have a global impact
[00:00:23.790]and again, with kind of that hard work that you've learned
[00:00:26.630]and you've put in and you've seen your parents do
[00:00:29.750]and their parents do, it's just very valuable
[00:00:33.240]for your business life.
[00:00:35.023](upbeat music)
[00:00:36.950]Rural Futures, the podcast where we connect
[00:00:39.950]thought leaders and doers at the intersection
[00:00:42.490]of technology and what it means to be human.
[00:00:46.426]Every episode, we talk with entrepreneurs,
[00:00:48.120]researchers and achievers to create impact
[00:00:51.070]for generations to come, and now here's Dr. Connie.
[00:00:55.740]Welcome to another episode of the Rural Futures podcast.
[00:00:58.870]I'm your host, Dr. Connie Rimers Hill
[00:01:01.190]and with me today is Dr. Tyler Ideas,
[00:01:04.170]he's an international expert
[00:01:05.600]that connects farming, food and health in very unique ways
[00:01:09.770]and so we're very excited to dig into the fact
[00:01:12.080]that he's choosing to build this life in rural Nebraska,
[00:01:16.910]but really teaching globally and being invited to do so,
[00:01:22.011]so Dr. Ideas, welcome to the show.
[00:01:23.350]Thank you very much.
[00:01:24.540]Absolutely, now tell us a little bit more.
[00:01:26.270]I know I have a lot here in this introduction.
[00:01:28.120]You know, you teach globally, you're teaching a lot
[00:01:31.500]of postgraduate and postdoctoral work to people in health
[00:01:35.590]but in a very unique way, can you explain a little bit
[00:01:38.090]what that means?
[00:01:39.110]With the continuing education or the postgraduate,
[00:01:41.630]postdoctoral work, what we're doing is...
[00:01:46.806]We're working with some kind of new cutting edge ideas
[00:01:50.320]that just haven't been exposed across the world yet
[00:01:54.040]at this point, specifically for me it's brought me to
[00:01:57.460]places all over the United States and in Canada,
[00:02:00.720]into Europe, China, I'll be going to Taiwan later this year
[00:02:05.120]so it's been a neat experience, it's been neat to
[00:02:07.790]listen to different people and their experiences,
[00:02:10.590]both in clinical practice but also from kind of just
[00:02:14.810]a healthcare standpoint as well and the different systems
[00:02:18.991]that people work in as well.
[00:02:20.965]Now tell us exactly what you're teaching,
[00:02:22.926]tell us, and why do you think it's grown
[00:02:25.526]in this popularity, this is a program on the future
[00:02:27.100]and you're kind of on the cutting edge of this emergence.
[00:02:29.540]So this is a rehabilitation approach for people
[00:02:33.330]with different types of musculoskeletal disorders
[00:02:36.050]and diseases, so we might be working with things from
[00:02:40.080]low back pain to headaches, knee pain, hip pain
[00:02:43.760]but then in addition to that it's very popular
[00:02:46.760]in strength and conditioning and performance,
[00:02:49.510]from all levels to youth to, you know, collegiate
[00:02:53.420]and professional athletes, people that are working with
[00:02:56.120]those types of clients, finding this information
[00:02:59.140]really, really valuable.
[00:03:00.800]And I know you're a doctor of chiropractic medicine,
[00:03:02.752]correct, but you've really expanded beyond that
[00:03:06.510]to really connect not just the chiropractic
[00:03:09.200]but really those health outcomes and connecting that
[00:03:11.660]back to food and health.
[00:03:13.980]I do have a background in chiropractic,
[00:03:16.110]but the way that I practice that is very, very different,
[00:03:19.870]probably, than what most people think of.
[00:03:22.710]I consider it more of being
[00:03:24.750]a specialist in physical medicine
[00:03:26.960]and if we look at the definition of physical medicine,
[00:03:29.613]it's the treatment of different types of diseases,
[00:03:33.110]musculoskeletal issues, through rehabilitation,
[00:03:36.800]nutrition, manipulation without the use of drugs or surgery
[00:03:40.990]so then when we kind of look into agriculture,
[00:03:44.160]the nutritional parts of things, there are points where
[00:03:47.630]what we eat, what we grow
[00:03:49.220]has a huge effect on our health as well.
[00:03:52.830]Okay, so I think we need to dive into that
[00:03:54.880]because you're originally from Filly, Nebraska,
[00:03:57.060]and that is Filly with an F. (laughs)
[00:03:59.330]Yes.
[00:04:00.163]Right, so we want to get the right size Filly
[00:04:03.120]and how big is Filly Nebraska?
[00:04:04.700]So Filly, at this point, I would guess is about 100
[00:04:08.900]and then it's just kind of, you know, it's as we're seeing
[00:04:12.360]common in rural, the population is declining
[00:04:16.102]and so I think we're probably down to around 100 people
[00:04:19.253]at this point, yeah, yep.
[00:04:21.440]So we've seen the decline, but you've chosen
[00:04:23.630]to really take your expertise but also continue to farm
[00:04:27.460]and link this food
[00:04:28.574]and positive health outcome piece together
[00:04:31.430]which is very rare and unique.
[00:04:33.577]A lot of people talk about it, you're doing it,
[00:04:35.100]so tell us a little bit about
[00:04:36.650]your farming background as well.
[00:04:38.270]Right, right, so growing up on a farm,
[00:04:40.840]I always tell people, you know, when you grew up
[00:04:43.740]outside of Filly there was about three things that you did,
[00:04:47.701]you farmed, you worked hard, and played basketball,
[00:04:52.360]those were the big things.
[00:04:54.080]It wasn't as much football because we were all harvesting,
[00:04:57.180]you know, during the fall. Sure, that makes sense.
[00:04:58.876]But when that was done, then we played basketball,
[00:05:02.430]so the values and stuff that you can learn
[00:05:05.040]from the farm, the hard work as well as sports
[00:05:07.500]and the competition and getting out of your comfort zone
[00:05:10.571]has really taught me a lot and I use those all the time
[00:05:14.560]in how I approach clinical practice and education
[00:05:18.052]and farming as well.
[00:05:20.622]Well, I love how you've really chosen to create
[00:05:22.470]your own future by taking that background of the sort of
[00:05:26.240]love and passion of sports and being active
[00:05:29.051]with agriculture and medicine and really combine that
[00:05:32.470]to create yourself as an international expert
[00:05:35.640]and really a cutting edge leader in terms of how we can
[00:05:40.540]forge a different future in health.
[00:05:42.610]So Dr. Ideas, I'd like to dive into a little bit about your
[00:05:46.150]philosophy as a leader,
[00:05:47.260]because obviously you're forging a new path,
[00:05:50.077]you're taking that future and you're creating it one day,
[00:05:53.450]one class, one idea at a time and that takes
[00:05:57.220]a lot of guts and courage to do in our society,
[00:06:00.210]so tell us a little bit about your leadership philosophy.
[00:06:03.480]I guess several kind of things that I think about,
[00:06:07.984]one of the big ones is always to get used to
[00:06:11.520]getting out of your comfort zone, right, and so
[00:06:14.530]I think that if we're just kind of always comfortable
[00:06:18.060]and, you know, doing the same thing and not getting out
[00:06:21.160]of our comfort zone, it's hard to really be a leader,
[00:06:24.990]you know, it's hard to do new things, it's hard
[00:06:27.360]to really, truly make change.
[00:06:29.910]Eventually you just have to be comfortable with getting out
[00:06:33.620]of your comfort zone, in addition to that,
[00:06:36.787]you have to be willing to put in the work, right,
[00:06:40.550]to make things make sense and have them be successful
[00:06:44.380]and so I was recently watching an interview
[00:06:47.530]with Kobe Bryant and he was kind of just talking about how
[00:06:52.000]there's kind of a standard in the NBA on, okay,
[00:06:55.130]players might go in and work out a little bit
[00:06:57.100]and then they rest or go to practice and then that's
[00:07:00.540]kind of their routine and so then he kind of thought about,
[00:07:04.760]well, how can I do more?
[00:07:06.560]So he thought then he would get up earlier,
[00:07:09.540]he would do workout, shoot, whatever, rest, and then kind of
[00:07:13.040]do the normal routine and so he said, then, that was
[00:07:16.996]an extra couple hours a day and he said in one day,
[00:07:21.340]it's not a huge difference, in one week it's not
[00:07:23.900]a huge difference, even in one year
[00:07:25.600]it's not a huge difference, but then if you do that
[00:07:27.640]year after year, then you're really starting
[00:07:31.390]to kind of create a gap, you know, and then you've put in
[00:07:34.550]the time and the hard work and then you can kind of have
[00:07:37.540]I think a clear vision for what it is that you're trying
[00:07:40.970]to do and you can be really comfortable with these
[00:07:43.810]new things and ideas that you're trying
[00:07:46.390]to kind of get across.
[00:07:48.620]You know, and these are the exact type of guests
[00:07:50.750]we like to get on the show, mavericks like yourself
[00:07:52.920]with that grit, and you brought up that word vision
[00:07:55.970]and you also brought up the hard work and doing
[00:07:58.190]what it takes so I'd like to segment now
[00:08:00.640]back into that vision
[00:08:02.350]that you have around blending health and food
[00:08:05.780]and physical activity together.
[00:08:08.860]You know, obviously as somebody's that's still involved
[00:08:12.310]in farming and somebody that uses conventional farming
[00:08:16.450]practices, and then also somebody who works in a clinical
[00:08:21.119]setting, and I love research and I read all the time
[00:08:24.924]and read research and then firsthand having these experience
[00:08:28.380]with patients, there's some real questions that come about
[00:08:32.270]and that we have to ask ourselves and so for example,
[00:08:36.160]I have a patient recently that I was seeing for
[00:08:39.600]just kind of this generalized neck, shoulder area pain
[00:08:43.510]and tension and she had received some really great care
[00:08:46.670]from different types of medications to injections
[00:08:50.130]to physical therapy to chiropractic in the different
[00:08:55.020]types of modalities and things that exist within
[00:08:58.497]without a lot of success and so as we kind of
[00:09:02.420]dug into her history and figuring out why the heck
[00:09:05.460]this is going on, one thing we eventually found out
[00:09:08.970]was her large consumption of soy products
[00:09:12.190]because she ate a vegan diet and so she was getting
[00:09:15.860]her protein through that source so as we know
[00:09:20.460]and as we've seen through a lot of research,
[00:09:22.310]that can be a food that people are really sensitive to
[00:09:25.754]these days, right?
[00:09:27.180]Well, you hear on one end, it's a major health benefit
[00:09:29.880]but on the other end, you're saying it can also be
[00:09:31.950]something else depending on the person.
[00:09:33.860]Right, so then in her case, we removed that from her diet
[00:09:37.928]and that was enough to clear up her symptoms.
[00:09:42.950]So again, we just have to ask that question if
[00:09:46.480]why would that be, you know?
[00:09:48.260]And to me that's really powerful because I think
[00:09:50.190]oftentimes, you know, healthcare itself is estimated
[00:09:53.580]to be a three trillion dollar industry,
[00:09:55.700]many groups trying to disrupt it at this point and time
[00:09:59.180]and take a different approach, some people are even saying,
[00:10:02.590]you know, it's really focused on sick care rather than
[00:10:04.820]healthcare, and just that story, a very powerful story
[00:10:09.280]that you told, you're trying to go back and say,
[00:10:12.200]okay, we can use all these different modalities
[00:10:14.980]and they all have a place, but we also have to go back
[00:10:18.420]and find the story, the real story and find out
[00:10:21.070]what's going on, what's really maybe causing
[00:10:23.740]the challenges so we can get to resolution,
[00:10:27.120]not just a short term fix.
[00:10:29.460]That's exactly right, when we're talking about
[00:10:32.720]the resolution, I think it's very important for multiple
[00:10:36.740]reasons, number one is obviously it's good for the person
[00:10:41.628]but then at the end of the day,
[00:10:43.310]it can ease some of the burdens of the cost
[00:10:46.050]on the healthcare system, and again,
[00:10:48.800]some of the interesting experiences I've had
[00:10:51.530]being in different countries and talking to different people
[00:10:54.720]in these different healthcare systems,
[00:10:57.250]the one thing that I've found is no matter where I'm at,
[00:11:00.398]it's expensive, so for example, here we have
[00:11:04.440]private insurance, you know, high deductibles,
[00:11:06.820]high premiums and so on, so it's expensive,
[00:11:09.437]in the Czech Republic, for example, whose government
[00:11:12.650]healthcare system, one scenario is maybe you go into
[00:11:16.910]the hospital for a traumatic brain injury
[00:11:21.050]and you're kind of allowed a certain amount of time
[00:11:25.780]in rehabilitation and then when that time is up, then--
[00:11:29.850]That's it?
[00:11:30.683]Your time is up, so at that point you have one
[00:11:32.570]of two options, number one, you're done with care,
[00:11:35.920]right, or then you go to a private place and pay
[00:11:39.710]out of pocket, so then in those scenarios
[00:11:42.040]they're paying very, very high taxes
[00:11:44.136]and then at the end of the day they're gonna be
[00:11:46.460]paying out of pocket as well, so again,
[00:11:49.720]at the end of the day, it's just sick people
[00:11:51.970]are expensive and it has to get paid for
[00:11:54.680]one way or another, and so if we can do things
[00:11:58.320]in an agriculture and growing food
[00:12:00.620]and growing food that's gonna be really healthy for people
[00:12:03.632]to prevent certain things, I think we're all
[00:12:06.890]gonna come out ahead and I think at that point,
[00:12:09.440]when just the overall population is a lot healthier
[00:12:13.180]in the scenarios where people do need help
[00:12:16.150]or there is some sort of trauma,
[00:12:17.880]there's just gonna be such an abundant amount
[00:12:20.090]of available money and funds that it's not such
[00:12:23.260]a burden for us to then help those people out.
[00:12:26.000]So you can really see this from a place of abundance
[00:12:28.860]as well, it doesn't have to be sort of this scarcity model
[00:12:31.400]where there's not enough.
[00:12:33.000]Right.
[00:12:33.833]Rather, in the future we could actually forge a path
[00:12:36.794]that if we had health on the front end,
[00:12:39.718]there would be care for those 'cause people
[00:12:41.750]are still gonna need it, right?
[00:12:43.160]There's no one perfect system, but we could evolve
[00:12:46.020]the model if we chose to.
[00:12:48.050]How do you see the future
[00:12:49.800]of food and health coming together?
[00:12:51.490]Yeah, I'm not trying to say that we stop
[00:12:54.040]conventional practices and the research
[00:12:56.000]and the technology and everything that we have accomplished,
[00:12:59.540]being in a country like China and I was in Beijing
[00:13:03.180]and then we took a really neat train ride
[00:13:05.343]kind of through the countryside to another city
[00:13:07.830]called Nanjing and you could just see the abundance
[00:13:10.740]of people, you know, just so, so, so, many people
[00:13:14.120]and all these apartment buildings that are just skyscrapers
[00:13:17.610]so you just saw the mass number of people.
[00:13:20.370]There still has to be some type of, I think,
[00:13:23.140]more mass production of things, so we need that,
[00:13:26.510]we can't get away from that, but at the same time
[00:13:29.300]I think that it's okay that if we look into
[00:13:31.720]additional farming practices and being aware of ways
[00:13:35.810]to start expanding growing things organically
[00:13:39.331]and I think that also then can potentially help with
[00:13:43.580]rural growth and even create more opportunities within
[00:13:48.410]rural communities, just because those types of practices
[00:13:52.850]require a little more hands-on work, hands-on labor.
[00:13:57.340]We're not just gonna be able to drive by with a big tractor
[00:14:00.550]sprayer and just cover these mass amounts of acres
[00:14:04.400]so it would return a part of farming to a little bit more
[00:14:07.310]of a hands-on practice which I think would be good as well.
[00:14:10.740]I always say that they're talking about putting up
[00:14:13.070]these hydroponic plants on the ocean, you know,
[00:14:15.900]and these types of things.
[00:14:17.603]Vertical farming, we have a lot of cool stuff happening.
[00:14:19.340]To grow, you know, these foods and stuff
[00:14:21.990]and I just think, my gosh, we have some of the best people
[00:14:24.860]in the world that understand how to grow things
[00:14:27.330]and we have some of the best climates and the soils
[00:14:29.670]in the world right here to do that and so I just think
[00:14:32.650]there's a huge opportunity for us to be leaders
[00:14:36.020]in that area as well.
[00:14:37.520]I agree, I love reading about how, you know,
[00:14:39.830]they're bringing sensors and AI and drones and robotics
[00:14:43.440]all into agriculture to make it more sustainable
[00:14:46.376]and it'd be great to bring some of that more thoughtfully
[00:14:49.900]and intentionally here to Nebraska to explore exactly
[00:14:52.415]what you're saying.
[00:14:53.248]Yeah, absolutely.
[00:14:54.427](gentle music)
[00:14:57.300]When I read things, and if they're somewhat
[00:14:59.520]controversial, then I'll read both sides.
[00:15:03.150]I have a stack of books at home that's all about
[00:15:05.880]low carbohydrate living, so no breads, no grains,
[00:15:08.850]those type of things, but then at the same time,
[00:15:11.130]I also have books that the title, one of them is literally
[00:15:14.360]called Eat Wheat, but even in that book what it talks about
[00:15:18.330]is that the wheat that we used to eat 30 years ago,
[00:15:22.930]the way that the bread was made without preservatives
[00:15:25.840]and processed and all those types of things
[00:15:28.750]is way way way different than what we're eating today
[00:15:32.760]so these highly refined grains and processed
[00:15:35.700]that have potentially been sprayed to kill to get in
[00:15:39.090]to harvest early, that's why I think we're seeing, like,
[00:15:42.330]this huge number of more urban populations having problems
[00:15:46.690]with our conventional farming needs.
[00:15:49.570]This is what's a little tricky because it all gets
[00:15:51.619]a little confusing, right?
[00:15:54.330]So there's a lot of information out there
[00:15:56.370]and it's good to read both sides
[00:15:58.430]and gather all that information.
[00:16:00.455]I'd love to learn a little bit more
[00:16:03.160]about some of the health outcomes that you've achieved
[00:16:06.196]by reading and digging into both sides
[00:16:09.734]and how you're getting to health outcomes,
[00:16:12.370]positive health outcomes through that sort of
[00:16:15.110]questioning process.
[00:16:16.370]Right, there is a good experience that I had
[00:16:18.580]with a patient not too long ago.
[00:16:20.750]There was a young man, I think he was 22 years old,
[00:16:24.980]I believe, and so then he had kind of been
[00:16:27.450]in and out of the hospital with C diff,
[00:16:30.100]which is just a bacterial regrowth in the stomach
[00:16:34.240]and small intestine that just leads to some really
[00:16:36.770]serious health issues, obviously.
[00:16:38.960]Then he was given the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis
[00:16:43.030]and told that he would just need these infusions
[00:16:45.570]once a month for the rest of his life.
[00:16:48.030]They would have to do kind of continued blood testing
[00:16:50.867]since this is an immunosuppressive drug,
[00:16:54.690]there's kind of a lot of complications and side effects
[00:16:56.970]that could come from that, him and his parents
[00:17:00.020]were both very, very concerned about him going down
[00:17:04.540]that road and they wanted--
[00:17:06.402]It's a lifetime sentence.
[00:17:07.406]Yeah, right, and they wanted to look if there's
[00:17:08.750]anything else they could do, any other options
[00:17:11.170]and at that point we just ordered some blood tests
[00:17:14.080]that looked at basically
[00:17:15.400]different types of food sensitivities
[00:17:17.310]or allergies and when we got those results back
[00:17:20.630]we did see that he was significantly sensitive
[00:17:24.330]to dairy products, basically and different grains,
[00:17:28.970]so like gluten and glietens, which are different proteins
[00:17:31.860]within a certain type of grain and we completely took
[00:17:34.570]those out of his diet, we came up with a plan for him
[00:17:37.970]and then over a period of a few months,
[00:17:40.226]his symptoms were gone and he's still symptom free
[00:17:43.882]over a year later and not that every single case
[00:17:48.120]of ulcerative colitis or Crohn's or anything like that
[00:17:51.740]can just be, you know, miraculously cleared
[00:17:54.120]by a few dietary changes, but like I told him
[00:17:57.201]in the very beginning, even if you do still need
[00:18:00.920]some type of medication, maybe it's a little bit less
[00:18:04.356]and I don't think that anybody is gonna be worse off
[00:18:07.990]by cutting, like, sugar out of their diet
[00:18:10.318]as he was dealing with it or if somebody else is dealing
[00:18:14.140]with that, just kind of their overall health
[00:18:15.860]can be so much better, you know, but like in his case
[00:18:19.290]then as well, if we think about the cost,
[00:18:22.100]that would have been accrued over a lifetime
[00:18:24.859]of needing those medications and those infusions,
[00:18:28.530]would have been astronomical compared to what it is now.
[00:18:31.810]And I think even his overall wellbeing,
[00:18:33.699]thinking about the cost but also his quality of life
[00:18:36.830]in terms of just freeing up time to have that energy
[00:18:40.610]to go do what you really want to do.
[00:18:41.940]Yep.
[00:18:43.623]It's fantastic.
[00:18:44.863](gentle music)
[00:18:46.870]Okay, so you're a busy guy, I mean, we know this
[00:18:49.460]so you're farming, you have a full practice,
[00:18:51.970]you're traveling internationally
[00:18:54.430]and really helping advance this whole connection
[00:18:56.980]between food, health, but also activity
[00:19:00.910]in this vital lifestyle.
[00:19:03.713]Tell us a little bit about what brings joy into your life
[00:19:08.070]around that, but also why you do everything
[00:19:11.870]that you're doing, because it's a lot.
[00:19:13.650]With the farming aspect of things,
[00:19:16.060]that's just something that,
[00:19:17.840]you know, I thoroughly enjoy, so I've made the comment
[00:19:21.290]before where some people go play a round of golf
[00:19:24.780]on the weekend, you know, or whatever it might be
[00:19:27.250]and I always say, there's nothing in the world
[00:19:29.700]that beats sitting in the combine on a nice fall morning
[00:19:33.770]with a cup of coffee and my family that takes turns
[00:19:37.470]riding with me, so that's just a lot of fun.
[00:19:40.630]I gotta go there, because I know that you're married
[00:19:43.340]and you have two little people in your life, right,
[00:19:45.830]so do they get on the tractor with you?
[00:19:47.520]Oh yeah, we've had many rounds in the combine
[00:19:49.858]with four people in the cab, so two kids moving around
[00:19:54.380]and trying to, yeah, keep them somewhat still
[00:19:58.600]but it's all worth it, that's what makes it fun.
[00:20:01.260]Yeah, and I appreciate that you're really bringing
[00:20:02.810]that next generation of leaders along, getting this
[00:20:05.550]very hands-on experience out on a farm, that's so cool.
[00:20:08.990]So then in addition to that, the postgraduate
[00:20:11.760]and doctoral continuing education, that just kind of came
[00:20:15.781]about organically, I guess, and again, just kind of
[00:20:19.800]my passion for learning and curiosity,
[00:20:22.690]when I was exposed to this program, you know,
[00:20:25.370]I was just very, very intrigued and fascinated by it
[00:20:28.090]so continued to just learn and research and dig
[00:20:31.520]and then over a period of time then was asked
[00:20:34.530]if I would be willing to be a part of the group
[00:20:37.380]that is teaching to expand this just because the demand
[00:20:41.410]is so, so, so high for this program.
[00:20:44.580]I've always been a curious person and I think
[00:20:46.660]in clinical practice, one of the things I enjoy the most
[00:20:49.230]is the examination process.
[00:20:52.390]I spend a ton of time always on the first exam
[00:20:55.230]and I always say there's literally no information
[00:20:58.390]that's not important.
[00:20:59.890]And we do all kinds of different movements
[00:21:01.920]and history and again, diet and activity
[00:21:04.630]and all those types of things, then to finally end up at
[00:21:08.430]the answer of why you're feeling the way you are,
[00:21:11.460]what's going on, and so that's an enjoyable process as well.
[00:21:15.700]Well, I love this whole idea of you just like
[00:21:18.260]to explore and you like to get to the why
[00:21:20.380]and you are such a learner and take that deep dive in,
[00:21:24.230]both in your practice, your teaching, but also,
[00:21:26.720]you know, your farming and thinking about this whole
[00:21:29.840]evolution of agriculture, of food and health together,
[00:21:33.340]which is amazing, so what parting words of wisdom
[00:21:36.250]would you leave our audience with?
[00:21:38.020]I think there's a few things that always stick out
[00:21:40.740]to me, number one, one of my mentors told me early on
[00:21:45.390]when I was in school and he was talking specifically
[00:21:48.590]to clinical practice, but I think we can take that outside
[00:21:51.748]of that world, but he said, every single patient
[00:21:56.180]and every single visit with every patient deserves
[00:21:59.000]a 10 out of 10 with your effort and that doesn't matter
[00:22:03.280]if it's a professional athlete or if it's Grandma,
[00:22:07.260]for example, you know, every patient, every visit
[00:22:09.850]deserves a 10 out of 10 and so I kind of take that too
[00:22:13.450]in the way that I farm and when I'm planting,
[00:22:16.010]for example, I'm gonna give out a 10 out of 10 effort.
[00:22:19.050]With the teaching aspect of things, if I'm gonna do it,
[00:22:21.480]I'm gonna give a 10 out of 10 effort for that,
[00:22:24.635]so I think that's something that's really important.
[00:22:27.080]I know I mentioned a little bit of being willing to get
[00:22:29.510]out of your comfort zone.
[00:22:31.510]Absolutely.
[00:22:32.343]I think is really really important.
[00:22:34.559]I think that we need to embrace competition
[00:22:37.513]and not be afraid of competition, not be afraid to compete
[00:22:41.120]and to truly compete, you really have to know
[00:22:44.150]what you're talking about, you really have to know
[00:22:46.260]what you're doing.
[00:22:47.350]Putting in those extra hours.
[00:22:49.010]Right, right, and then, yeah, exactly.
[00:22:51.320]That work, that grit.
[00:22:53.582]The hard work, right, you know, and just being willing
[00:22:55.540]to put in the couple extra hours that others aren't
[00:22:59.710]and then again over a long period of time,
[00:23:02.170]those extra hours just add up and add up and add up.
[00:23:04.886]Well, I know at the Rural Futures Institute,
[00:23:06.990]we appreciate the fact that you've designed a life
[00:23:10.550]where you're choosing to live rural
[00:23:12.480]and you're continuing to farm but you're also expanding
[00:23:16.570]and you're an expert internationally living locally
[00:23:19.780]and so you're really making this life work,
[00:23:22.180]so thank you for all you're doing to serve Nebraska
[00:23:26.240]but also get Nebraska out there, you know,
[00:23:28.840]and the great work that's going on, both on your farm
[00:23:31.770]but in your practice
[00:23:32.890]and really helping people around the world.
[00:23:35.060]I always say, just because you're from a small town
[00:23:38.230]in the middle of Nebraska doesn't mean
[00:23:39.740]that you still can't have a global impact.
[00:23:42.877]And again, with kind of that hard work that you've learned
[00:23:46.010]and you've put in and you've seen your parents do
[00:23:49.150]and their parents, it's just very valuable
[00:23:51.850]for your business life.
[00:23:54.060]Well, I'm really excited to see
[00:23:55.030]what the next generation of young farmers on your farm--
[00:23:58.050]Yeah, right.
[00:23:59.050]Accomplishes with all that you're teaching them as well.
[00:24:01.840]So thank you so much for being here.
[00:24:03.490]Thank you.
[00:24:05.320]Thanks for listing to Rural Futures with Dr. Connie.
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[00:24:15.470]In episode six, Dr. Connie talks with inclusion
[00:24:17.905]and leadership expert, Dr. Helen Fagan.
[00:24:20.850]Dr. Fagan was born in Iran and has lived in three countries
[00:24:24.230]and five states, through her personal experiences
[00:24:27.200]she has developed an intense passion and deep knowledge
[00:24:30.100]for the development of inclusive leaders
[00:24:32.214]and now she researches, teaches and consults
[00:24:35.320]internationally in her field.
[00:24:37.660]Because most of the time, our biases are formed
[00:24:42.120]based on little information.
[00:24:44.980]Overgeneralization.
[00:24:47.190]One of my areas that I absolutely love is neuroscience
[00:24:51.020]and what we're learning about the brain
[00:24:52.900]and the human capacity to exclude without even recognizing
[00:24:57.748]that they're excluding and so the idea is that
[00:25:01.520]we want to develop the prefrontal cortex
[00:25:04.450]in these young adults because that is where inclusion
[00:25:07.948]begins to take shape.

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