Episode 97: Kyoshi Thomas Clifford
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
We are joined today by martial arts expert and overall inspiring guy, Kyoshi Thomas Clifford. We invited him on today to share some wisdom related to living intentionally and successfully through the current COVID-19 pandemic. We cover the importance of providing yourself and your children with structure in the midst of what is, for many people, a less-structured time. In such a time we ought to lead by example—be a victor, not a victim. Now is the time to stay strong, not just for yourself but for your community. To distill the message down to a single phrase, Kyoshi is telling us to persevere in personal responsibility in all aspects of life. We talk more specifically about persevering in the fight for good health. We have a golden opportunity right now to start developing some disciplines. Will you come out of this situation healthier, happier, and better than before, or will you retreat from discipline and be self-indulgent? We talk about all kinds of strategies for kicking addictions as well. Thanks for tuning in!
Contact Info:
Kyoshi Thomas Clifford:
- Email: [email protected]
- Facebook: Thomas Clifford (personal profile)
- Facebook Group: A Dojo for Everyone
Diet Doctor CME:
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: http://www.lowcarbadvisor.com/
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
- Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, welcome back to the low-carb MD |
| 0:14.1 | podcast. This podcast, you know, Brian's going to be really |
| 0:17.4 | upset that I didn't invite him to this one, but this one's |
| 0:20.0 | actually extra special to me. |
| 0:26.2 | We're going to interview somebody who's actually been a role model for me and probably affected my life in a lot of ways that he even knows. We have today Kyoshi Thomas Clifford, okay? He is a martial arts |
| 0:39.2 | expert in training and training others in martial arts for 40 years and I'm quite jealous of actually |
| 0:46.9 | his accomplishments. You know I come in here I open this practice in Japan, New York and with the goal of serving my community. |
| 0:54.3 | We've been here for two years, you know, trying to serve my community for the past four or five |
| 0:59.2 | years, and he's been doing it for 40 years. |
| 1:04.0 | He's opened up, I want to say four schools, |
| 1:08.0 | four martial arts schools, and he's trained thousands and thousands of people in various martial arts including |
| 1:15.7 | karate kung-fu juzitsu and there's one important person he's trained. |
| 1:23.1 | That's me. |
| 1:24.4 | He trained me for two years. |
| 1:26.7 | I think I was 17 or 18 and 19. |
| 1:29.2 | I gave two full years full-time martial arts and he trained me and we'll talk about that in a little |
| 1:36.8 | bit that's something that the audience may not know a lot about but he trained me and |
| 1:42.4 | before we start before we get into it. |
| 1:45.0 | I want to talk about exactly what the main lesson that I can think of that he taught me |
| 1:52.0 | and how it applies to every single patient that I deal with and how it applies to every single person right now. |
| 2:01.0 | And that lesson that he taught me was perseverance. So first of all I just want to say thank you Thomas Clifford for coming on the podcast. It's an honor to be able to interview you today, and I can't wait for people to hear the message. |
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