Dr. Ben Ozanne P3

Transform your understanding of health and fitness through the inspiring stories of Ariel, a seasoned massage therapist, and Lucas, an insightful fitness coach. Lucas opens up about his personal journey, overcoming a congenital anatomical issue that affected his back. He shares how a simple shoe lift was a game-changer, enabling him to enjoy CrossFit without the nagging pain. Our conversation explores the importance of self-discovery and continuous education, highlighting how these elements shape the way we support our clients in their health journeys. Tune in to discover the power of adaptability in maintaining a balanced and fulfilling lifestyle.

Explore the compelling narrative of a health practitioner whose personal lifestyle changes have sparked profound professional growth. By making minor but impactful dietary adjustments, this individual has significantly enhanced their well-being, driven by a desire to be present for family. On the business front, the expansion of a chiropractic practice and the addition of a new doctor underline the value of mentorship and collaboration. As we plan for future growth, including a move to a larger facility in 2026, we also celebrate the joys of family life, which fuels our passion and dedication in the field.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Embracing a Healthy Lifestyle
• 7:30 Health Journey and Business Success

Transcript

Embracing a Healthy Lifestyle

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome to Lifestyle Strength, your guide to mastering health and well-being in the real world.

Speaker 2 0:04

I'm Ariel, a massage therapist with over a decade of experience in holistic health, and I'm here with Lucas, a seasoned fitness coach, who's transformed the lives of hundreds in Northwest Arkansas.

Speaker 1 0:14

We're here to share real stories and expert insights about embracing a healthy lifestyle while balancing the everyday hustle.

Speaker 2 0:20

Join us as we explore practical ways to achieve wellness and thrive amidst life's challenges.

Speaker 1 0:25

Let's dive in.

Speaker 2 0:28

So something me and Lucas talk about a lot is kind of just, in our fields, hypocrisy, how often we see it in other people and have to hold ourselves accountable. And I know, when I first came in, I think your business model was just a little bit different. Um, and then it's drastically changed and I know I had seen you on social media, I think Facebook, and I was like wait, that's Ben. I was like wait Also, I was like wait, he has another kid. But and I don't know if that was maybe the motivator but your lifestyle has kind of changed and I'm curious why, what, what, what took place that? Maybe you moved in? I know you're doing CrossFit right, so, like I know you didn't do that 10 years ago, no, I didn't.

Speaker 3 1:13

I did work out. Okay, I did exercise, I've always tried to practice what I preach. Okay, Um for the most part Um. So some of it is just my own health discovery figuring out more about my own body and my own health. So even on my, like you know, you graduate and then, at least for me, it's been still a continual educational journey.

Speaker 1 1:37

Absolutely.

Speaker 3 1:37

Learning more. So even like the chiropractic biophysics certification, I've only had that for three years.

Speaker 2 1:42

Okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:44

So that was something I pursued after graduation and continue to try and improve my practice and how we're taking care of people. Some of that comes from frustrations of I couldn't help this person. Why not?

Speaker 2 1:55

Right, how can I?

Speaker 3 1:56

if. I have another case like this how can I help that person, even though I wasn't able to help them?

Speaker 1 2:02

at that time or if they decide to come back to me with the same issue, can I now help them?

Speaker 3 2:07

right, um, and so then, discovering things about my own health, my own body I dealt with and reason why I never did chiropractic I'm sorry CrossFit it's because I actually would have lower back issues so I would run or exercise and I would get my back thrown out and this is I'm practicing. Know like I'm adjusting people and my back is still like getting jacked up here and there and I'm like why?

Speaker 2 2:31

Right.

Speaker 3 2:32

So I figured out that I actually had a congenital anatomical issue, that my right leg is almost 10 millimeters shorter than my left. Wow, and that is why I kept having back problems because, exercising standing, whatever it may be, was continually putting stress on my back. Okay, and so, like if I sat, my hips were level Right. And then when I would stand, my hips would be off Right, and so that created a lot of problems, and so once I figured that out.

Speaker 3 3:00

I actually was able to like all right now I can actually run, I can exercise and I can throw weight on my body now and not have a problem.

Speaker 2 3:08

Do you have to do it a certain way, or do you are you? Did you figure out? I need to like a little bit of a lift in a shoe.

Speaker 3 3:13

Yeah, so I, I. I now wear in all my shoes eight millimeter lift on the right side.

Speaker 2 3:20

Wow, and that just, and it just leveled it out, it resolved it. It wasn't like being slightly off, so you can get an adjustment. Yours is enough that you're like I better put that lift in my shoe.

Speaker 3 3:32

Oh yeah, a hundred percent Like cause. I got again adjusted through chiropractic school. After chiropractic I would go once a week and I still go once a week to get adjusted for my own wellness. Um but everyone that would check me is like man, you're, you're you own wellness but everyone that would check me is like man your right leg is half inch shorter and it's like, okay, why I'm adjusting, I'm rehabbing myself. And so it boiled down to it wasn't a functional thing, it was anatomical, so I had to address that, Otherwise I was going to keep having issues.

Speaker 2 4:00

When did you discover that and is that how you decided? Well, okay, now I can, can run, I can put weight on my body and I can do something like CrossFit.

Speaker 3 4:09

Yep so, and that was part of chiropractic biophysics too.

Speaker 2 4:12

Okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 4:13

Further analysis of anatomical variances, congenital anomalies and how that all fits into taking care of a person. Yeah, because some of some of our education there was differing of views on leg length discrepancy. Most chiropractors are trained to check for it.

Speaker 2 4:30

Right.

Speaker 3 4:30

But oh, you've got a short leg and that means you have this, this and this. We're going to adjust that and you should be fine, right, which for some people that works Right, and then for some people it doesn't. And then they're like why why do I keep hurting? I keep getting adjusted, doesn't? And then they're like why why do I keep hurting? I keep getting adjusted, keep getting massage, rehabbing it. Well, yeah, you have a anatomical problem that we got to fix that.

Speaker 2 4:50

Right, okay. Yeah, that is so cool that you say that I don't know if you've taken any courses or done anything where you discover about yourself too. I've done that, but I will tell you. You talk about the clients that you weren't able to help. Sometimes.

Speaker 2 5:02

I'll be like you know what you talk about the clients that you weren't able to help. Yeah, sometimes I'll be like you know what? I'm just going to find a class just for this one client that I have. Like you know, you can have all these people and you're like stuck on. Okay, I've done all the things that I know and this person I need to find a course. That just specifically. And sometimes I'll be in courses and I'll be like oh yeah, okay, okay, this is going to help this person. And now we'll make a list, I'll put it in my notes, like, okay, this is for this person. And then I'll come back and I'll be like, hey, I took a course and this is for you.

Speaker 1 5:32

And it can be so frustrating too, like when you're working with that person.

Speaker 2 5:35

Yes.

Speaker 1 5:39

Because you know they're putting everything you possibly can to solve their problem. And I think that's where a lot of practitioners and a lot of customers get turned off to practitioners as a whole Because they're like, well, that didn't work and they link that together Right. And so then they're just jumping ship to the next thing. That sounds good.

Speaker 1 6:03

Right, oh, that's true, not sticking it out, and it's really hard if you haven't gotten them on a timeline, or at least gotten them to start to like, have that benefit. Yes, right, so just getting them that small win. We've talked about that a lot. It's finding that small win there and letting them like not just like, recognize it, but like, consciously, like, feel that win Right?

Speaker 2 6:23

I think that's huge. So, speaking of small wins, what would you say, through your journey in health, wellness, fitness and being a chiropractor for 14 years I mean that's a long time what is a personal win for you and a personal win for your business when you think about your clientele and how you're serving in the community? Cause I know you're doing a lot of things in the community aside from and through your business, which that alone, in my opinion, is a huge win for the community, Just that we have small businesses that are willing to do all these amazing things.

Speaker 2 7:00

but for yourself personally and for your, your business, what would that look like?

Speaker 1 7:06

Hmm.

Speaker 3 7:07

So are you saying, like what has happened, that I would consider, or what would I consider?

Speaker 2 7:11

Ooh, Can you give me both, if you just want them both, yeah, I love it. Oh yeah, bring it on. He's like oh my gosh, you just made it harder.

Health Journey and Business Success

Speaker 3 7:19

Yeah Well, so at least in my personal life, you know the fact that I was able to start CrossFit.

Speaker 2 7:30

Yeah.

Speaker 3 7:30

I think it was. I think was huge for me in my own health journey and transformation and how I felt. So there's just been small things that I've picked up on as I'm trying to help others and then also like, okay, how can I apply this to myself? So making small dietary changes that have helped me. So within the last two years, I've probably felt the best I've ever felt in my entire life.

Speaker 3 7:54

Yeah, and that's just like you know, with a leg length discrepancy, or like I don't do eggs and I don't do avocado okay, as a part of again discovering I have food sensitivities, so that's taken away a lot of other issues as well. Yeah, so just the continual pursuit for me of let me get better so I can take care of my family better, so I can be present for my family has been a has been a win Um and then in the business too. We just added another doctor, so this will be the third guy a doctor that.

Speaker 3 8:25

I've that. I've had work with me, Um, and that to me is a win.

Speaker 2 8:30

That.

Speaker 3 8:30

I have guys that trust me enough to want to come and learn and work with me as well. And my big idea I got trained when I got out of school by some mentors, and so I want to be the same for guys coming out of school, because it can be frightening and scary. Like all right, how am I going to do this? Where am I going to go? What am I going to do?

Speaker 1 8:49

Absolutely, and so being a resource for that.

Speaker 3 8:50

So that's where Dr Jacob. He's joined the practice fresh out of school. He's a great, awesome chiropractor, but again with the idea of come learn from me and then go do.

Speaker 1 9:00

Yeah, absolutely You're going to lift other people up. I love on your first answer about just making those simple changes. So many people are looking for that like I need to do keto, and that so many people are like looking for that, Like I need to do keto and like that's going to solve like all these problems in my life, and it's like no, here's somebody who's in it, who's had this amazing journey and it's just this little simple things over time that can make so much difference that you don't notice tomorrow.

Speaker 1 9:26

You don't notice next week, but like over the course of months and years, and those things add up and that's, that's awesome. I mean, that's just awesome, like that's really cool. And then the second point, like being able to pass that information down and something that you're obviously passionate about.

Speaker 3 9:44

Yeah, I love being, you know, a resource for my profession and and helping us in some regards to to have an identity even more so, where there's clarity, you know what you're going to get when you go to a chiropractor and people trust us across the board with our profession. Uh, we still have a long ways to go and and people feeling more and more comfortable and knowing what we do, but trying to help kind of push that forward. More, yeah, for sure, more and more.

Speaker 2 10:13

I like how you had mentioned this new guy. You're like, oh, he's great. And some people would say, well, anybody fresh out of school, how can they be great? They have no experience under their belt. I can personally say, mentoring and doing what I do as well, the same thing that you do. I have a young guy. He's less than a year in and I've been mentoring him and he's and they are what I call gold mines. They are the people that you know. They chose the right field. Yeah, um, because they are skilled, they are passionate. Um, they're like empty vases, they're.

Speaker 1 10:43

They're like, they're like fill me I want sponges sucking up all the information, yes and teaching you at the same time, oh, a hundred percent.

Speaker 2 10:50

Like I, don't know about you. You get passionate, passionate about what you do. It refuels me 11 years in and so sometimes people are like, oh, but you don't really charge for certain mentoring and stuff like that. I'm like you know why? Because I am getting something in return and it's keeping me fresh in my business and my model and it also holds me accountable and makes me continue my continuing ed, because I hold them to a standard and it's like I have to be doing that same thing. Yeah, yeah. So what are your wins for the future? What does that look like?

Speaker 3 11:22

um, well, some of that. So like in business, continuing growth, um we, it's going to happen. We have a new building that, uh, we purchased in march. Okay, talking about delayed gratification, though, there is a tenant in the building. That will not be done until may of 2026, wow, so I would love to be in that building right now wow you got ways to go, because it's double the size of where we're at. Okay, which we could use.

Speaker 2 11:53

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 11:54

But so it'll be a win when that actually comes to fruition. Okay, it's like God said here's your future building, but you can't have it for, you know, two and a half years.

Speaker 2 12:04

Okay, cool, there we go.

Speaker 1 12:06

So I mean, owning a building is awesome in and of itself.

Speaker 3 12:13

I awesome in and of itself. I'm very grateful that we got to that point and doors opened, and so that will be a win when we actually open our doors in that new facility for the practice. That's awesome. And then you know personally. You know with my family. I have three daughters Keeping me young. I have a 16 month old.

Speaker 2 12:30

Yeah, so see I, I, I'll be transparent. When I saw you on social media again, I was like, oh my gosh, Ben has radically changed his life. Oh my gosh, Ben had another kid. And then I was like, oh, oh my gosh, I think that kid was his fuel. Yeah, that's really what I thought. I don't know because, but it sounds like you were already.

Speaker 3 12:49

you already started before then, somewhatwhat yeah, but those changes kind of opened the door for my wife and I to have the third, because she had quite a few health challenges and we were on a journey with her health, getting her well and feeling well, and then she's like, let's have a third.

Speaker 3 13:08

You know, when she finally was like feeling well enough Because she wanted to have more, but after a second her health is terrible. Um, she had a lot of health challenges, autoimmune things and God you know, through that journey and trying to figure it out, getting her healthier, getting me healthier, um, and then, yeah, the third. So it's just kind of like I was like, all right, here you go.

Speaker 2 13:27

Isn't that crazy though You're saying, when we got our bodies healthy, we were able to multiply. Yeah, and this is beautiful. I love that. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 13:39

I mean. I have a fresh baby so for me I'm like oh my gosh Like, but that is so.

Speaker 2 13:44

That is so amazing to me. Um, and that is that's almost like the ultimate results of living a healthy lifestyle. Or even when you're struggling, like she was struggling, and you find your way back to be able to have that that beautiful uh, you know um outcome.

Speaker 3 14:02

I guess you could say, yeah, 100 yeah, and so even in the personal life continued, uh, success. You know my wife, her health is a lot better but wanting to see, see my entire family healthier and vibrant, and you know their side just rocking and rolling. I think you know, again, that's a continual like process and work, yeah, but she's homeschooling the girls and that they can take what my wife and I have kind of held valued and then see them take that mantle will be another small win but I think a big win.

Speaker 2 14:45

Oh, that's huge and so beautiful because it's so simple. He could have said anything in his personal life, even in his business life. In your personal life you're just like, even in his business life, but in his just that, in your personal life you're just like man. It's just that we put in the work and we're getting to see the fruits of that labor through our children. Yeah, I'm not going to cry, but that is sorry To me. It's the vision it is.

Speaker 3 15:05

It's a very clear vision that to your point, but obviously very gratifying for you.

Speaker 2 15:13

Wow, yeah Well, thank you so much for being on. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 15:17

Give yourself your business. Tell people to get in contact with you.

Speaker 3 15:21

Yeah, so we're Thrive Wellness Center. We're located in Fayetteville, up across the street from Shogun's Steakhouse, up by the mall, so kind of the uptown Fayetteville area. Our website's thrivearcom, and then our phone numbers four, seven, nine, four, three, nine, eight, one, two, one, so a lot of people too. If they they don't want to have to talk on the phone, they can just book directly on the website, um, or they can also call to get in for an appointment and and talk with us. And then you know, see Ariel and Lucas and the whole nine yards.

Speaker 2 15:53

Yeah, absolutely Get your health overhauled. Yeah, and if anybody is watching this and they're like I have forgotten what he said, it's cool, we'll post it, but also your phones, listen. And this dude is all over Instagram.

Speaker 1 16:06

Facebook, you're going to get his ad I promise you will get it.

Speaker 2 16:12

And then no big deal. You don't have to memorize anything you just said because it's going to pop up and it's just going to. It's going to help you along the way. So well, thanks again for joining us it was such a pleasure.

Speaker 1 16:22

Thanks for coming. Great conversation Awesome.

Speaker 2 16:24

Till next time.