Hey and welcome to the Peskies Pest Control Podcast today. I have got Dr. Beau beard with me. He owns The Farm chiropractic business in Birmingham, Alabama, and also Chelsea, Alabama. Beau, how you doing today?

Doing pretty good. Hope my voice holds out here, so we’ll see.

Hey, all good. You sound great on, you know, on camera and all that. So both tell us a little bit about your business. Let’s just kind of, you know, go into why you started all that fun stuff.

Yeah. So we’re, again, we’re a chiropractic and rehab center. So it’s called The Farm, functional athletic rehabilitation and movement, which can be a mouthful. So just go by the farm. But it’s myself and my wife, Doctor Sloan, who started the practice back in 2014 and like I said, it’s a mix of chiropractic. So people tend tend to think chiropractic is just coming, get your back adjusted or popped and see you later. But we both have a masters in sports rehab. We have a lot of other, you know, fancy certifications nobody want to hear about. But what that allows us to do is kind of look at your whole health from, you know, global standpoint, yeah, we have a musculoskeletal focus, but our tagline is better than before. So the goal is, you don’t just come in and, you know, get your back pain taken care of. We’re looking at how you move, how you eat, how you train, kind of, the things you do throughout your life, and really try to get you to move better than before. So we don’t see you for the same thing in our office, hopefully, again,

That’s great. Yeah, I know as a firefighter, you know former firefighter, mobility is everything. Strength is everything, because you just as we age, we start to fall apart.

It’s a natural part of life. And I did a talk this morning to a bunch of firefighters, and we were talking on the importance of not waiting for injuries to show up, but hopefully getting yourself moving better and maybe a little more often so they don’t show up at all. That would be the real goal, which is kind of a bad business model, but that’s, you know, that’s what we want our patients to work towards and strive for.

Yeah, I would 100% agree. I mean, the food is almost 100% if you’d agree.

Yeah, it’s, you know, the funny thing is, people come to us, obviously, for, you know, an ankle sprain, low back pain, a headache, jaw pain, and, you know, within a couple visits, we’re talking to all these people about, yeah, how you sleep? How do you eat? Are you exercise, not enough or too much? Should you try something different? And, you know, all the fun stuff in between. But yeah, we’re really trying to take care of your whole health to our best ability, and also just be be a part of your healthcare team, you know, which is maybe a lost art nowadays. So we’re trying to bring that back.

I would agree. I think, I think health in general is a lost art.

We can have a long conversation on that. But yeah, like I said, you know, if somebody comes to me, and let’s say it’s because of their knee pain, and I think that maybe one of the more important aspects to not only help their knee pain, but for their health, is to, you know, decrease inflammation, lose some weight, you know, we kind of say, give them what they want, but keep them around for what they need. So we want them to be on knee pain, but I also want them to be a healthy individual that doesn’t need pain anymore. So we’re to pay anymore. So we’re gonna have those hard conversations that, you know, maybe I don’t have a treatment or a tool specifically for that, but I can help you walk, walking down that path.

No, that’s awesome. That’s awesome. So what got you into business, you know, let’s just talk about what made you want to start and go out on your own and take that leap of faith, if you will.

Yeah, so going way back, since I’m old now, when I was nine years old, I fractured my femur playing kind of pick up football. I still, to this day, have a titanium rod my left femur. And on the back end of that surgery, I just, you know, I was from small town in central Illinois, didn’t have the greatest, you know, post op rehab program, which meant none, and they basically, I guess, thought I was a kid and you’re going to be fine, you’re resilient. And everything wasn’t perfect, especially when I got into sports. So some things kind of came to light later. So I really got into this because I was fortunate enough to play sports, you know, for a long time after that initial injury. And I want to make sure when I first got into practice that that never happened to a patient that I saw, right, if a kid came in with injury, or an adult that they got the best possible care. As it’s evolved now, it’s kind of more what we just talked about. Like, I see, you know, we have an athletic spin, but I see a lot more just, you know, general, you know, average Joes, weekend warriors, people that are just trying to be the best they can every day. And that tends itself towards a more holistic approach, or whole health approach. So now what kind of fires me up is, you know, solving the problems of, you know, can I not only get somebody out of pain, which becomes easier and easier as you go into practice, it’s well, can I get them to put on some muscle, you know, get over this kind of osteoporosis thing, lose a little weight, deal with this autoimmune issue, and you’re trying to do that is economically and as timely as you can. But also, like I said, like, we want them to get what they came for, which, if you package it correctly, you can do all that at once, and you just gotta, you know, that’s part of business, right? It’s figuring out how to package that.

100% Well, I mean, and I’d say it is all in a package. I mean, you’ve got to eat right. You’ve got to exercise. You’ve got to you’ve got to do all the things. So just like here at Peskies Pest Control, with the pest control, sometimes our customers have to help us out, just like your customers have to help you out.

Yeah, I mean, there’s, I think everybody understands this. I could give you all of the best information. I could tell you stuff that’s in, you know, some of these books here behind me, and if you don’t act on it. I mean, it doesn’t change anything. So we don’t just say, Oh yeah, you got to go do this stuff. The really what your job becomes kind of a coach. It’s like how to kind of motivate people to stick with this, or make the change, or do their home exercises, or, you know, whatever it is, and that that can be really tough. I mean, myself included, I don’t think I eat perfect. I think I eat really good. I don’t do all the things I could do to keep myself feeling awesome, because I just want to go, you know, hit the trail and run, instead of doing my, you know, drills every once in a while. So the goal is keeping the motivation high, making it fun, right, not making it kind of a drag. Have to come into a clinical setting and at the end of the day, just, you know, really aligning goals. So if somebody wants to be able to do something that maybe they told they couldn’t do or they shouldn’t do, and you will allow them, or allow them to see that they could do that and eventually accomplish it. I mean, that’s that’s the fun stuff.

Oh, 100%. Well, other than the amazing passion that you bring to this, you know, this line of work, because I know I’ve spoke with you off camera, you know, you bring a lot of passion to your to your business, and I really respect that. So what else sets you apart?

Yeah, like I said, we, you know, when we it’s funny. So when we first came to Birmingham, I thought we are coming into the sports medicine mecca, right? We have James Andrews, who set up his Andrews institute here, who is basically the godfather of orthopedic surgery in the sports realm. And I kind of walked in, I was like, Oh, we’re kind of set apart and different based just on what we offered, right? That kind of chiropractic, physical therapy, sports performance, functional medicine, like nobody was offering. All that. Times have changed, right? We’re talking 13 years later. There’s more people offering those products, and now it’s kind of well, what does set us apart? I really think, is if you came into a session and, you know, just kind of follow to all the clinicians around the office, you’d see we have a lot of interns from a lot of, you know, chiropractic and physical therapy schools all over the country that come and hang out with us. So there’s an educational component to what we’re doing as doctors with other students that bleeds over to the patient visit, where it seems to be this kind of teaching thing. There’s also, you know, I teach to professionals as well. So the fact that I have to kind of stay sharp and hone my skills enough to where I’m not just, you know, treating people, but it’s like, Well, how am I going to go help other professionals treat on the same, you know, I don’t want to say the same levels. That’s like, we set the bar, but we’re trying to so I really think education is at the epicenter of all we’re doing, and it helps me stay sharp. It creates a more fun experience for the patient when they have interns in there and they see it’s kind of a team approach to their case. But yeah, if you came in there, I think everybody leaves and says the same thing that they get educated as a patient, they can tell we’re trying to do that with our interns, our preceptors. And then, you know, I think everybody’s aware that, you know, comes our practice, that I’m a nerd, and I, you know, like to write books and teach and lecture and do all that stuff. So it’s just kind of wrapped into the practice.

No, I love it because, again, the passion everything, it just it shows through in your business. So let’s let everyone know. So first of all, I know you are in Chelsea and Birmingham. So is there just one location, two locations? What’s going on there?

Yeah. So we’re literally can throw a stone and hit the Chelsea city limit sign from where we’re at in Birmingham. So we’re in the narrows off, technically highway 280 but old highway 280 so again, right off highway 280 the intersection 41 and 280 and we, like I said, we are technically closer to Chelsea than we are the Birmingham Metro. But we service people, you know, on a daily we have people coming from out of state, you know, from hours away, and then, you know, from five minutes away, as we’re fortunate enough to live, you know, less than 10 minutes away from our office here. Yeah, we, have a small town feel, but we still service a much bigger area.

I love it well, but I appreciate you coming on the podcast. And again, as us being a small business, we really like to talk to other small businesses and just, you know, have fun talking about our business.

Yeah, well, I really appreciate me having me on and, yeah, can’t say enough about how you’ve helped us out with your own company. So I appreciate it as well.

Well, I appreciate you well. Hey, have a great rest of your day.

All right. Thanks, Michael.