Name: Functional Medicine with Dr. Kyle Gillett
Uploaded: 2025-01-01
Description: Episode 1 of Share the Lifestyle podcast featuring Dr. Kyle Gillett discussing functional medicine

He Looked at the Guy Next to Him and Decided That Would Never Be Him.
What do you do when you look at the guy sitting next to you — twenty years older, same desk, same job — and realize you're staring at your own future? If you're Mike Johnson, you start over.

In this episode, Mike joins the Share the Lifestyle podcast to trace the full arc: eight years in the Air Force, a run to the top of Northwestern Mutual, a stint on national television, and the moment in Costa Rica that sent him down a rabbit hole that became Oshun. This is the story of a man who kept choosing the harder, better path — and built something that holds up.

"We get down on our knees and pray. But then we gotta get up and do the walking." — Mike Johnson

Show Notes:
He showed up to a job fair in a suit when everyone else came casual. He told his new boss he'd be number one in two months — and then was. He walked away from national fame to learn Spanish in Mexico because the noise was too loud. And when a skin crisis in Costa Rica left him allergic to 79 out of 83 allergens tested, he didn't just find a solution — he built one from scratch, bootstrapped, with his own manufacturing, his own supply chain, and a standard of ingredient integrity that most brands won't touch.

Key Topics:
-The Desk Job Wake-Up Call: Why seeing your future in someone else is either a warning or a gift
- Building With Integrity: What it actually takes to go from focus group to manufacturing floor
- Men and Brotherhood: Why Mike believes men are quietly missing the structure, purpose, and tribal connection that women have long understood
- Conflict as Growth: The buffalo principle, the organism ego, and why avoiding conflict is avoiding the very thing that makes you better.
- Faith and the Walking: Why less than 10% of people actually do the walking — and how that truth has shaped every chapter of Mike's life.

Chapters:
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Resources & LinksOshun Website

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