Hey everybody this is Heidi St. John thanks for tuning in today. You guys have found me at my little corner of the internet today is Tuesday April 12th and today I am just thrilled to have a friend of mine and a candidate for governor of Oklahoma.

I'm sure we're going to talk about why it's so important to see a revival in the citizen statesmen. Let's go stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Alright you guys so I'm excited that you're here a start of a brand new week here at the podcast a lot of things happening we've got primaries coming up we're going to start to see the political atmosphere heat up very very quickly.

You guys have heard me say this a hundred thousand times here at the show we have a crisis in good leadership in this country and that is what is bringing us to the brink of disaster.

And so I am very thrilled to see wonderful citizens just regular ordinary people who have been holding down jobs and contributing to their communities running for office instead of continuing to have these career politicians making one disastrous decision for us after another.

And you guys have heard mark sure what on the show with me before he's a natural path doctor has a thriving practice in Oklahoma and we've talked about the Rona and today we're going to talk about his run for governor my friend mark welcome back to the show.

Oh Heidi thanks for having me it's wonderful to be with you and I'm honored again to be here. Well you're very welcome so you and I got to know each other really in large part because of your jump into politics so you are new to politics like I am not new to politics but definitely new to running for office and you are running for governor in Oklahoma so I would just love because I'm what I'm hoping mark is that people all over the country are going to be inspired by what you're doing.

Inspired by what I'm doing and they start looking at themselves in the mirror and saying maybe it's my turn to take a run for leadership and see if we can't stem the bleeding that these terrible leaders have inflicted upon this country so take the listeners back a little bit to your history maybe just a brief introduction and a lot of people have heard you here before but we've got new listeners and then what what made you run for office because I'm have a feeling that like me you don't need this job.

It really is something the words asked you to do so I'm going to turn it over to you I'd love to hear the story.

So you're right I don't need this job and I'll come back to that in just a moment but going backwards my life has been very diverse I've had a lot of great experiences.

I was a professional baseball player for a time lived across the the seas in a country called Australia.

I was actually rookie of the year over there one year which was crazy little blast the past kind of thing and then I joined the police department where I served 24 years 10 years of which was on the SWAT team.

During that time I was able to travel around the world as a member of the world famous power team we used to break the bricks and do all that kind of stuff so that kind of took me really on every continent of the world except for one and that being Antarctica.

I was never given the Barney Bush experience to go there if you get the play on words there with that.

And after that during my last several years in the police department I was encouraged inside to really expand the mission of protection service to go back to school and become an naturopathic doctor.

My wife Dr. Michelle and I started our practice now the functional medical institute about 10 years ago.

It's been an amazing experience now we went from nothing to being really the premier wellness based clinic in the country and where people from really all around the country world come here and whether it's from motor in person.

It's been just amazing to see what's happened over the course of the last couple of years especially with the appearance of this coronavirus concept pandemic whatever one to call it.

And we've had as we've talked about before incredible success with with that giving people how many people have you treated for code.

It's been over 10,000 so far and you haven't lost anybody.

No we haven't and I will think the key thing behind that Heidi has been the encouragement to not live in fear but to live in faith and realize that you're not going to die one day quicker than God says so.

So let's trust him with that just do the right things and go back to the idea of self government with that you know take care of self.

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