About Dr. David

I’ll be honest, I find these ‘About’ pages a bit of a joke. I mean, who do you think writes all of the great accomplishments, accolades and details of who ‘I’ am?

The author of course… Me!

So I’ll spare you all the ‘hype and ego about being a respected leader who’s won all sorts of awards and just tell you a little about me:

I’m a regular guy who struggled for over 2 1/2 years to try to ‘make it’ in practice. The short version is… I sucked at it. I mean really bad. I just couldn’t figure practice out and was broke, depressed and angry. I hated chiropractic so I quit… I left the profession for good (or so I thought).

After a short stint outside chiropractic, I ‘decided’ (long story involving passion, love and my ‘wife to be’), to go back into practice. But this time around it was different. I’d had a pivotal moment, an epiphany if you will, which led me to some deep (I mean seriously deep) self examination as to why I ’sucked’ so bad and why I hated chiropractic.

Long story short, within a very short period of time (just a few months) I went from flat broke and pathetic (my biggest day in practice had been 9 visits) to running a booming practice seeing several hundred patients a week (ok… more than that; I’m a humble guy)!

Over the years, I invested well over $150K in ‘me’ so that I could become as master at helping others. I opened another practice which I quickly built (less than 6 months) from scratch to seeing 400+/week in only 17 hours per week, 100% cash (NO insurance, PI, Work Comp), low overhead with around 50-55% kids.

I mastered everything I could and built what I consider an ‘Epic Practice’. I helped lot’s of people, had the respect of my community, made a ton of money and built and incredible quality of life form myself and my family.

During the process, I became extremely passionate about helping other chiros do what I did. In 2001, I sold my practice and moved to New Jersey (yeah, I know!) to be President of CLA (Chiropractic Leadership Alliance) alongside my dear friends Dr. Patrick Gentempo and Dr. Christopher Kent.

I traveled over 100K miles a year speaking, inspiring and helping docs build better practices. I learned a lot over the three years I was there, but my heart (and love for my family) took me back home to San Diego where I could surf constantly and ‘be’ with my wife and three beautiful daughters.

What I love to do more than just about anything else is help docs succeed. I’ve worked extremely hard at mastering the art of communication and more importantly, how to teach other how to do the same. I’ve had the honor of speaking all over the world to small ‘underground’ groups of 40 and to audiences of 10,000. I’ve have shared the stage with the greatest minds in our profession and with many of the greatest minds in the world.

Although I used to be afraid to lead in silent prayer (seriously), I’ve performed in excess of 200 outside lay lectures in the communities I practiced in and have taught thousands of chiropractors how to do the same (with outstanding results I might add).

In 2009 I started a company called Essentials For Your Success. Why? Simple… I want to show docs how to succeed in a big way without all the hype, BS and high cost that is so prevalent in our profession. I know what it takes to succeed in practice and in life. I know who you have to “be’ and what you have to ’so’ (specifically) to build and Epic Practice and my passion (and frankly my gift) is to teach others how to do the same.

I launched a teleseminar series; The Practice Pros, that is the largest and most successful of it’s kind in our professions history. Thousands of docs joined in and benefited from the series in huge ways. The Practice Pros Monthly members site is a continuation of sorts of that series and is a way of keeping docs ‘Connected With Success‘.

My passion and purpose is to save lives through the power of chiropractic and I am committed to doing just that by providing you state of the art internet based coaching, inspiration, motivation and practice-building strategies (that really work). My goal and commitment is to help you impact your community in a huge way and in turn, create the unparallelled success and prosperity that you deserve.