At 15 years old, Elia Toscanelli collapsed after an athletic competition and awakened inside an ambulance surrounded by doctors, cables, frightened friends, and his mother searching for answers.
The next two years took him through hospitals across Switzerland as he searched for an explanation. Then his mother brought him to a chiropractor—and the direction of his life began to change.
In Chiro Hustle Podcast 814, James Chester talks with Elia about the journey from experiencing chiropractic to feeling called to dedicate his life to it.
Now serving people in student clinic in Madrid, Elia shares one of the episode’s most powerful lessons. When the first person came through the door, he didn’t feel ready.
He decided to be ready.
That philosophy extends throughout this conversation as Elia challenges chiropractic students to reject victimhood and become active participants in their own development. Read the Green Books. Listen to the greats. Find mentors. Visit practices. Build community. Study philosophy. Develop your message. Show up.
Having visited more than 60 chiropractic practices and recently traveled from Europe to Colorado to speak at Mile High, Elia explains how immersion in the chiropractic community has shaped his understanding of the profession and his responsibility to its future.
The episode culminates in a powerful question he shares from Reggie Gold:
If today you were the last chiropractor on Earth, would chiropractic survive?
For students, recent graduates, mentors, educators, and chiropractors who believe the principle must be preserved and communicated, Episode 814 is a challenge to stop waiting for someone else to build the profession you want.
Know the principle.
Develop your message.
Find your people.
Show up.
And decide to be ready.
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