I went to having money to Three Mind Buddy Green, was broke again, you know, turned 30,

living in my mother's basement, I said joke. I was like, I'm just like George Costanza except I have a full head of hair and a little better looking and thinner and it felt terrible but you know money wasn't coming in and it was getting low and it was the right thing to do. So I definitely came full

circle there, but I learned a lot about myself. I learned about what it really

took to be an entrepreneur and ultimately all those experiences

led me to my Muddy Green.

So in retrospect, that was a painful seven or eight years but all good.

Hey there it's light Watkins the host of At the End of the Tunnel and if this is your

first time listening to this podcast what we do is we tell the story behind

the story of change makers who typically started down the

conventional path. You know they took a job for money and then they realize

what most of us eventually realize life works a lot better when you feel fulfilled and you're not just

working for the money. So they take a leap of faith in the direction of their purpose and we take a look at how things turned out. So my guest this week is a dear friend of mine, his name is Jason Wachup, and he is the founder of the popular health and wellness platform that you may have heard of called Mind Body Green.

Jason started his career about as far away from wellness as one could get.

He worked as a trader, admittedly for the money, and

he started making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but he wasn't fulfilled. And then

he became an entrepreneur, and eventually he became a

traveling salesman and he was flying hundreds of thousands of miles a year. Now

Jason is six foot seven So imagine being cooped up in coach class flying hundreds of thousands of miles a year, and that combined with an old basketball injury ended up screwing up his back so badly that the pain became

unbearable and Jason had to go see a doctor and all of the doctors that he consulted with advised surgery which he was reluctant to do because

back surgeries are invasive and they have such a low success rate.

And then almost as an afterthought one of the doctors asked Jason if he had ever tried yoga, which he hadn't.

So he gave it a shot and to his surprise he ended up going from literally not being able to walk, to healing his back completely within six months and no surgery.

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