Leaving a $100 Million Empire Behind For Good | Jim Greenbaum
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jim Greenbaum walked away from successful $130 million business with one mission in mind, use his wealth to change the world. Little did he know that his world was about to change as well.
It all began with a conversation at the gym.
Those few minutes helped this man with exceptional generosity and a tireless work ethic to help others began to realize that he too needed help.
After growing up in the land of Crisco, red meat, and Coca-Cola, Jim knew he had to do something to avoid the same fate as others in his family who were stricken with heart disease. He was already struggling with high triglycerides and cholesterol.
Jim was given a copy of The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and began implementing changes. It only took one month for "everything to go into total balance" for the first time in his life.
The effect was so profound that Jim shifted the focus and vast resources of his foundation to moving the world toward a plant-based diet and vegan lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.0 | So my friend, you know, typical vegan at the gym, she asked, |
| 0:06.0 | do you have any health issues? |
| 0:08.0 | Do you take any medications? |
| 0:09.0 | I said, yeah, I've got a family history of heart disease. |
| 0:12.0 | I've got all the markers high |
| 0:13.1 | triglycerides, high cholesterol, taking medication on both and she's oh change your |
| 0:17.0 | diet. Read this book the China study. I said you're full of shit. I mean that's |
| 0:21.0 | a hippie diet. You're're crazy well she kept nagging and finally she got the book |
| 0:26.2 | for me I started reading it the science seemed really sound I said okay let me try |
| 0:30.0 | this out went check my blood stop the pills my diet, checked the blood again a month or two later. |
| 0:35.6 | First time I life, everything went into total balance. |
| 0:38.0 | I was sold, boom, I'm going vegan. |
| 0:40.6 | Wow. |
| 0:41.6 | After that, I started going to some conferences, meeting other people, and within a couple of years, |
| 0:45.3 | realized, as most of us do, and if the world went plant-based, it solved 70% of the world's |
| 0:51.0 | greatest problems and leaves trillions of dollars |
| 0:52.9 | left over to solve the rest. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more |
| 1:14.0 | than 150 countries. Hi to everyone listening in Mesquite Texas, Fort Wayne |
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