The Fulfilled Practitioner

By Ricky Brar

The Fulfilled Practitioner is a podcast for natural health practitioners who want more than just a busy practice, they want a meaningful one. Hosted by Ricky Brar, functional health expert a

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May 05, 2026 Tanya Candee on Going From Corrections Nurse to Building A Thriving and Truly Fulfilling Practice
Most practitioners are told to niche down, pick a lane, and stay in it. Tanya Candee never got that memo and her practice is thriving because of it.
In this Meet Your Health Heroes episode, Ricky sits down with Tanya Candee, RN and owner of Awakened Wellness in Sidney, Montana. Tanya is a practitioner who went from corrections nurse to hairdresser to horse trainer to functional wellness entrepreneur. Her story isn't linear and that's exactly the point.
Tanya shares how she built a brick-and-mortar wellness hub that serves her local community and runs a group program online for ambitious professionals dealing with fatigue, hormone imbalances, and labs that keep coming back "normal." You'll hear her philosophy on meeting patients where they're at, the 120-day foundational approach that actually moves the needle, and why being a generalist might be the most powerful thing a practitioner can be right now.
If you've ever felt stuck between what the business coaches tell you to do and what your community actually needs from you, this conversation is for you.
Connect with Tanya:
Website: https://awakenedwellnessllc.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RN.tanya
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakenedwellnessllc/
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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46min
April 15, 2026Katie Garrott on the Fulfillment Formula, Evidence-Based Practice, and Building a Leveraged Practice
What does it actually take to feel fulfilled in practice? Not just busy, not just successful on paper, but genuinely fulfilled?
In this Meet Your Health Heroes segment, Ricky sits down with Katie, a functional nutritionist with a degree in functional medicine who built a thriving multi-practitioner clinic from the ground up, without any formal business training, and lived to tell the tale. Her story starts with a mother battling fibromyalgia, a personal health crisis abroad, and a deep conviction that there had to be a better way to help people.
What came out of years of trial, tears, and relentless curiosity is something she calls the Fulfillment Formula, a three-part framework that changed how she runs her practice and how she now trains other practitioners through her Functional Practitioner Academy.
This conversation is packed with practical wisdom you can use right away, whether you're in your first year of practice or your seventh.
In this episode you will learn:
Why Katie created the Fulfillment Formula and the three pillars that define it
How evidence-based tools like questionnaires changed the way her clients showed up and followed through
Why connected client care is about changing the brain, not just getting results
How Katie charted for 6 clients in under 15 minutes
The systems (Trello, Slack, and a knowledge base with thousands of pages) that let her take two-week international vacations without checking in
Her take on where natural healthcare is headed and why AI will never replace the practitioner who truly connects
What she'd tell every new practitioner starting out today
This is one of those conversations where you realize that the best practitioners are never done learning and that the most powerful shift you can make is choosing to build with intention from day one.

Connect with Katie:
https://fxpractitioner.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thefxpacademy/
https://www.facebook.com/thefxpacademy
https://www.youtube.com/@FxPractitioner
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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1h 14min
April 10, 2026AI for Health Practitioners: Has The Train Left The Station?
You have heard it a hundred times. AI is changing everything. The future is here. You need to get on board.
Unfortunately, for most health practitioners, that message lands somewhere between overwhelming and completely useless. Because nobody is telling you what to actually do. Nobody is meeting you where you are right now and walking you through what this looks like in the day-to-day reality of running a practice.
That changes today.
In this episode, Ricky gets as practical as it gets on the topic of AI and what it means for health practitioners at every level. Whether you have never opened ChatGPT in your life or you are already using AI daily and want to take it further, this episode maps out a clear progression from your very first move all the way to building a fully leveraged, automated practice that works for you around the clock.
Ricky also pulls no punches on the risks. There are real dangers with AI that most conversations gloss over, from losing your voice to trusting the tools blindly to the very real threat of eroding the patient trust you have worked so hard to build. You need to hear this part just as much as the exciting stuff.
To zoom out even further, Ricky brings in ideas from "The Last Economy" by Emad Mostaque, the founder of Stability AI and one of the most influential voices in the AI revolution. Mostaque's concept of the Intelligence Inversion and his Thousand-Day Window framework reframe this moment in a way every practitioner needs to understand. We are not just navigating a new tool. We are living through a full economic phase transition. And the practitioners who understand that are going to build something very different from those who don't.
This is the AI episode you have been waiting for.
In this episode:
Why AI is not a threat to great practitioners, but a massive threat to burned-out ones
The exact beginner move Ricky recommends to every practitioner who has never used AI before
How to build a prompt library that becomes one of your most valuable practice assets
Using AI for content repurposing, client education systems, and program creation
The advanced systems that allow a solo practitioner to operate at the scale of a full team
The real risks of AI in a clinical context and how to use it with integrity
What Emad Mostaque's "Intelligence Inversion" means for the future of health and healing
Why the choices practitioners make right now may matter more than they realize
If you have been waiting for someone to cut through the noise and give you a real roadmap, this is it. Let's go.
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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30min
March 26, 2026The Dunning-Kruger Trap: Why the Best Practitioners Doubt Themselves the Most
A bank robber. Lemon juice. And the reason your expertise is making you invisible.
Why is the practitioner with the weekend certification posting every day while the one with fifteen years of clinical experience is nowhere to be found online?
It's not laziness. It's not a lack of strategy. It's a cognitive bias called the Dunning-Kruger Effect and it might be the single biggest thing standing between where you are and the practice you're capable of building.
In this episode, Ricky unpacks the psychology that quietly keeps the most talented practitioners stuck. The deeper your expertise, the louder the inner critic. The more you know about the complexity of health, the harder it becomes to simplify your message and show up confidently. Meanwhile, someone with a fraction of your knowledge is out there making bold promises and posting daily.
That is not okay and it's not going to fix itself without understanding what's actually happening.
In this episode:
The wild true story of the bank robber who inspired the original Dunning-Kruger research
Why your doubt is a sign of expertise, not a reason to stay quiet
The three-stage confidence curve and exactly where most practitioners get stuck
How your clients are dealing with their own version of this and what it means for your clinical communication
Three practical steps to break the trap and start showing up with the authority you've already earned
This is the episode for every practitioner who knows they have more to offer than what they're currently putting out into the world.
Your doubt is not telling you the truth. Your evidence is.
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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22min
March 04, 2026The Practitioner's Game - Don't Stop After One Shot!
You worked hard to get here. The certifications, the training, the personal health journey that lit the fire in the first place. None of that was easy. You earned your seat at the table.
So why are you treating your first missed shot like it's the last one you'll ever take?
In this episode of The Fulfilled Practitioner, Ricky uses a powerful sports analogy to unpack one of the most self-defeating patterns he sees in talented practitioners: quitting after the first attempt. The first post that didn't land. The first webinar nobody showed up to. The first email campaign that got crickets.
Elite athletes don't retire after a missed shot. They study it, adjust, and come back with better mechanics. Over time, their shooting percentage improves. That's not luck, that's the system.
Ricky breaks down why practitioners need to shift from measuring success by whether the first shot goes in, to measuring success by how much their shooting percentage improves over time. Because the practitioners who build real, sustainable practices aren't the ones who got everything right on the first try, they're the ones who stayed on the ice long enough to get good at the game.
In this episode:
Why quitting early is costing you more than you realize
The mindset shift that separates struggling practitioners from thriving ones
How to use every "miss" as data to sharpen your approach
What increasing your shooting percentage actually looks like in practice
Wayne Gretzky missed 83% of his shots.
You didn't come this far to walk off the ice after one shot.
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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19min
February 23, 2026Meet Your Health Heroes: Kelly Fletcher on Becoming a Mom at 17, Cancer Survivor at 22, Health Hero Today
What happens when life forces you to become your own best patient?
In this Meet Your Health Heroes segment, Ricky sits down with Kelly Fletcher: an adult geriatric acute care nurse practitioner and functional medicine certified practitioner based in Oregon, whose personal journey through cancer, early menopause, and motherhood at a young age became the foundation for the deeply compassionate practice she runs today.
Kelly shares how she went from writing prescriptions for everything to digging into the root cause of why her patients don't feel well and how that shift changed everything. You'll hear about the powerful transformations she's creating for her clients (including one that you won't forget), her weekly Zoom community calls, and the non-negotiables that keep her grounded and energized every single day.
This episode is for any practitioner who's ever felt like the system wasn't giving their clients or themselves, real answers. Kelly proves that your own hardships can become your greatest clinical superpower.
In this episode:
How a cancer diagnosis at 22 set Kelly on a path toward functional medicine
Why Kelly believes community is just as healing as any supplement or protocol
The mindset shift that fuels her fire every day
Her non-negotiable daily habits (hint: Oregon sunshine plays a big role)
Where to find Kelly if you or someone you love is struggling with hormonal health
Connect with Kelly:
CascadeVitalityCenter.com
Instagram & Facebook: @CascadeVitalityCenter
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
Follow me on instagram: @fulfilledpractitioner
Follow me on Facebook: @drrickybrar
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28min
February 10, 2026Meet Your Health Heroes: Dr. Randy Michaux on Connection, Purpose, and Creating a Practice with Love
There are moments in practice that remind us why we do this work. For Dr. Randy Michaux, it's when he finishes a call, places his hand on his heart, and breathes in the gratitude of truly connecting soul-to-soul with another human being.
"If nobody else hears you, I do."
In this heart-warming conversation, Randy shares what fulfillment really means to him and it has nothing to do with protocols or perfect outcomes. It's about connection. It's about being present enough to notice when someone says "I'm fine" but their body language screams otherwise. It's about giving someone permission to be heard, seen, and held in their suffering.
Randy's journey to his heart-centered practice wasn't linear. He opens up about losing his father and recognizing how little he actually knew. About standing at a conference, unable to look his future coach in the eye because he couldn't trust himself. About the day he sat at his desk and released massive weight through the emotion code, learning for the first time to trust his intuition.
You'll hear how Randy rebuilt his definition of success from the ground up. For years, his bank account dictated his worth, creating an exhausting rollercoaster that left him depleted. Today, he measures success in love: how he receives it, how he gives it, how it flows through every patient interaction.
Randy shares the practices that keep him grounded: morning meditations filled with divine love through breathwork, daily walks where he simply listens to the wind and birds, and learning to honor his need for intentional rest instead of pushing through like a generator when he's actually a projector.
This conversation will remind you why you became a healer. It's about the sacred exchange that happens when two souls connect. It's about trusting yourself enough to step outside the box. And it's about remembering that your value isn't measured in dollars, it's measured in love.
Connect with Dr. Randy Michaux:
Website: https://www.totalbodywellnessclinic.com/
Podcast: Restore the Real
Facebook and Instagram @dr.randymichaux
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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Follow me on Facebook: @drrickybrar
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57min
February 04, 2026 The Systems Gap: Why Talented Practitioners Stay Exhausted and Unfulfilled
Why most health practitioners are one breakdown away from closing their doors and the one thing that will save them.
You didn't become a practitioner to spend your life chasing invoices, answering the same questions 47 times, or feeling like your practice owns you instead of the other way around. Yet here you are: overwhelmed, exhausted, and wondering if you made a mistake choosing this path.
The culprit? A complete lack of systems.
In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on what systems actually are (spoiler: it's not just fancy software), why running your practice off your brain and daily willpower is a guaranteed path to burnout, and how the absence of systems doesn't just drain YOU, it limits your ability to impact the people who desperately need your help.
I'll walk you through two real-world scenarios and show you how it is possible to go from drowning in manual tasks and client chaos despite being extremely talented, to increased impact, outcomes, and fulfillment while working half the hours.
If you've ever felt trapped by your own success, stuck at a ceiling you can't break through, or secretly resentful of the practice you once loved, this episode is your wake-up call.
Plus, I'm opening up a limited number of Systems Audit Calls where we'll identify the exact leverage points in YOUR practice and work towards creating a roadmap to get you out of the weeds and into the impact you were meant to make.
Your fulfilled practice is waiting. Let's build the infrastructure to make it real.
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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20min
January 28, 2026Meet Your Health Heroes: Krista Story on Rewriting Family Health Stories Together
In this Meet Your Health Heroes segment, I sit down with integrative health practitioner Krista Story to explore her inspiring journey from public school educator to holistic health advocate. Krista shares how personal tragedy and chronic illness drove her to rewrite not just her own health story, but to help countless others do the same.
Key Topics Covered:
The Origin Story: How a personal tragedy and subsequent struggles with thyroid disease and Lyme disease launched Krista's mission to become her own health advocate
The COVID Pivot: Transitioning from full-time educator to health practitioner during the pandemic
Her Ideal Client: Working primarily with overwhelmed moms and their children to address diet, toxicity, and lifestyle factors
Daily Practices for Fulfillment: Starting each day with gratitude journaling, nature walks, and intentional prayer/meditation
Blending Modalities: Combining quantum nutrition, muscle testing, biofeedback systems, and frequency work for root cause healing
Energy Protection: Strategies for empathetic practitioners to protect their energy while serving clients in difficult situations
Building Community: Launching an online gut health group course to create connection and collective healing
Technology and the Future: Embracing AI and digital platforms to reach more people and stay relevant in modern healthcare
Memorable Quotes:
"I rewrote my own "story" and I'm helping others."
"Being fulfilled for me is just being in alignment with my purpose...every day that I wake up, my goal is to help and serve other people."
"I choose gratitude...I don't start my day without gratitude."
"When you don't have those limiting beliefs, everything in your life is so much more successful and more energetically better."
What's Next for Krista:
Launching her online gut health group program
Writing her second book
Expanding her community presentations on health barriers, children's health, and nervous system wellness
Connect with Krista:
Website: kristastory.com Practice: Rewrite Your Story Health and Wellness
Episode Takeaways:
This conversation beautifully illustrates how personal pain can transform into purpose, and how practitioners who prioritize their own self-care and alignment create the most powerful healing spaces for their clients. Krista's integration of science, intuition, and genuine connection serves as a model for fulfilled, sustainable practice.
Get my book The Fulfilled Practitioner for FREE: www.rbrar.com/tfpbook
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34min
January 13, 2026Meet Your Health Heroes: Joshua Sharp on Group Healing, Finding Your People, and Building a Fulfilled Practice
Episode Description:
In this Meet Your Health Heroes segment, Ricky sits down with Dr. Joshua Sharp (Doc Josh), a chiropractor turned functional health coach who's transforming how practitioners serve their communities. Josh shares his powerful journey from trying to be everything to everyone, to discovering the profound impact of serving his people deeply through his online group program, Gut Rescue Odyssey.
This conversation dives into the evolution from solo practice to leveraging community healing, the wisdom of "some will, some won't, so what, someone's waiting," and why listening to your spouse might be the best business advice you'll ever get.

Key Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Meet Your Health Heroes
01:14 - Who is Dr. Joshua Sharp?
02:38 - Josh's origin story: From chiropractic to functional health coaching
05:43 - Discovering his ideal client: Why moms are the gateway to family health
08:28 - What being a "fulfilled practitioner" means to Josh
12:56 - The practice lesson learned the hard way: "Some will, some won't"
17:47 - What was Doc Josh like as a kid?
19:26 - How Josh's practice evolved from zero profit to online freedom
22:56 - The power of community in healing
26:42 - Healthcare trends Josh is watching: Frequency tools, light therapy, and terrain theory
31:10 - Daily routines that keep Josh grounded and focused
34:35 - Protecting your energy while serving others
38:31 - The one piece of advice for younger Josh: Listen to your wife
41:17 - What's next: The podcast journey and loving the process

About Dr. Joshua Sharp:
Dr. Joshua Sharp is doctor of Chiropractic and health coach. After years in traditional practice, Josh transitioned to serving families through his online group health coaching program, Gut Rescue Odyssey. He hosts the Discover Health Podcast and shares educational content on his YouTube channel, Discover Health with Joshua Sharp.

Connect with Dr. Joshua Sharp:
Instagram: @DiscoverHealthFM
Website: www.discoverhealthfm.com
YouTube: Discover Health with Joshua Sharp
Podcast: Discover Health Podcast

Quotes to Remember:
"My fulfillment used to come from learning as many different things as I could, but now I'm realizing that it's focusing on finding my people and just helping them as deeply and as meaningfully as I possibly can." - Dr. Joshua Sharp
"Some will, some won't. So what? Someone's waiting." - Bruce Bond
"Listen to your wife. This is a person that knows you, loves you, wants good things for you, and is directly impacted by your decisions and your level of fulfillment in your practice." - Dr. Joshua Sharp
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FAQs about The Fulfilled Practitioner:

How many episodes does The Fulfilled Practitioner have?

The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.