Dr. Rebecca McGill is a chiropractor and nutrition counselor who's devoted her career to helping others. She followed in her father's footsteps to become a chiropractor, earning her Bachelor's in Biology and Doctorate of Chiropractic with honors. She also specialized in acupuncture and animal chiropractic.

Dr. McGill gained valuable experience working alongside her father in Missouri before establishing her own successful practice in Texas. Alongside her private practice, she taught at Parker University for six years, training future chiropractors and receiving recognition for her teaching.

In addition to human chiropractic, Dr. McGill has a passion for animal chiropractic, treating hundreds of animals over the years, including dogs and horses, with remarkable results.

She continues to contribute to the chiropractic profession by teaching post-graduate programs and traveling internationally to instruct other chiropractors in a gentle and effective technique called Activator Methods Chiropractic Technique.

Dr. McGill prioritizes her family and faith outside of work, enjoying outdoor activities with her husband and three daughters. She owns and operates her practice, The Aligned Spine, alongside her animal chiropractic practice in Northwest Fort Worth.

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LUKE MILLETT (PRODUCER):  Hey guys, welcome to episode 569 of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. I'm your producer, Luke Millett, and here's your host, James Chester.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  So today we have the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Rebecca McGill. And on today's episode, we talk about her clinic, the Aligned Spine and the Equine Spine. And we talk a lot about chiropractic care with animals. Stay tuned for the full episode. Welcome back. This is another episode of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. It's episode 569 today. We have Rebecca McGill coming in from the great state of Texas. Yes, sir. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun today. We had a nice chat session before we got live today. And one of those things was staying true to the lexicon of the languaging of chiropractic. And with that being said, I'll just give our quick opener why we do what we do over here. Well, first things first is we protect freedom of speech with this message. We've created a depository of interviews that have historically referenced what chiropractic is and what chiropractic isn't. So that was really an important part of this mission that we've been on. Secondary, we do support medical freedom of family health freedom. We want people to know it's OK to make choices for yourself and to be informed about those choices. And as we continue on, I talk a little bit more philosophically. We believe in BJ Palmer's Sacred Trust. He was the developer of chiropractic. If you don't know what the Sacred Trust is, I would stop this interview right now and go find your favorite search engine and go look for BJ Palmer's last words. You'll know more about chiropractic than you previously did. Back to the lexicon thing, we believe in subluxation based chiropractic and supporting chiropractors that want to check, detect, and correct for treatment subluxation. And then lastly, we also believe that when man or woman the physical artist suggested it connects them to man or woman the spiritual. And that's innate intelligence and universal intelligence. Really historical things, but still have their place within the chiropractic discussion today. And with that, Dr. Rebecca Mago, welcome to Cara Hustle.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Thank you, James. I appreciate it.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah, I'm ready for some fire. I know you're a second generation chiropractor. You love to take care of your practice called the Align Spine and the Equine Spine. But before we go into that whole journey of animal chiropractic and your practice of chiropractic, tell us the story. How did you get into the profession? I know you were born into it, but tell us a little bit about what it was like growing up as a Chiro kid and how you decided that you were one day going to become a chiropractor.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Absolutely. Yeah. Growing up a Chiro kid, you are kind of born into it. It's a little hard to avoid chiropractic when you are the product of the offspring of a chiropractor. So I am a chiropractor's kid. I am the middle of three. So that may explain a lot to those who believe in birth order. But I am that kid that was born at home and who was unvaccinated before that was a political statement. I went through life really kind of blissfully unaware until about school age that I was the weird chiropractor's kid. And all of that started to become very clear when I would venture into some of my friends houses after school and find things like cartoon bunnies on their cereal boxes, which as a kid, you know, before that I didn't realize there were such a thing. I thought all cereal boxes were boring and showed pictures of brand flames. So I just, I did live a little bit different lifestyle from birth. Being part of a devoted chiropractor's family who cared about what his family put into their bodies, who really adjusted us. We very rarely got sick. I cannot remember getting days off from school, staying homesick. And it was, it was just normal life. It was so bizarre to me when friends would not show up at school and I thought, what are they doing? You know, what's a sick day? I wouldn't experience that. So it was, it was blissful to grow up in health without realizing that I was getting this extra benefit of growing up healthy and just kind of thought it was normal. So as I approached life and starting to think about what I wanted to do when I grew up, I of course went to my first love, which was animals and we had horses growing up. I loved that and I thought for sure I want to become of that, that's my goal in life. And then a few years into that desire, we had a medical emergency out at our farm with one of our horses and that came out and I watched blood and guts and gore and trauma and emergency medicine and decided, yeah, that's not my goal in life. I don't want to be in a lifestyle where everything's life or death and that we're in the middle of, you know, just a dirt and muck. And so I thought, you know, maybe I need to rethink my goal in life. And what I decided was after spending a lot of time in my father's practice, as you do as a chiropractor's kid, I can remember filing files, cleaning toilets, all of the things that you do to help out when you're part of the family business. And so in those capacities of getting to be around my dad and watching him in his practice, I got to see what a successful chiropractic practice looked like. I got to see not only how he got to choose his schedule and got to be an entrepreneur and do all of the things that you do as an entrepreneur, but more importantly, I got to see the gratitude of the patients that he was changing lives with them. And so I thought, you know, what a better, there's really no better calling than to get to serve my fellow man in such a dramatic and dynamic way that they are filled with gratitude when they see you. And that's what I noticed is that his patients love to see him. They came in happy, they left happy, they laughed, they, you know, enjoyed their visits with him. And I thought that's, that's a great way to spend my life.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  So you know, I'm going to unpack some of this with you and talk a couple of stories along the journey with you. Yeah. So sick days. I mean, you know, one of the first things I ever learned 15 years ago when I started like looking at chiropractic videos, I watched this guy named Billy DeMoss.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yes, love Billy.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  And he would always say that the body was like designed to be healthy.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  I agree with that.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yeah. Our creator made us that way. We are, we are designed for health, but things get in the way.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  And it's pretty common today that like, you know, a new mom will have their baby and the baby will be sick before even sick days are a thing. Right. Before it's even like, we're going to call off school. Like we're bringing sick children into this world.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  We are. Yeah. And I'm going to talk about it all the time. I've got my, my Align Spine practice where I help people. I get, you know, all ages in my practice from young to old, from newborn to, you know, elderly. And I love treating the newborns because you see so much change and instantaneously and just their being and their ability to resist illness and their ability to eat without getting colicky, things like that.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Well, one of the greatest things I ever watched was by an animal chiropractor named Jay Komarek. He made a film called Life Adjusted and it was about equine adjusting. So when I saw that your business, your animal side of chiropractic business was called the equine spine. I was like, now you're talking about kids and babies that can't speak. And now you're talking about animals that there's no way for it to communicate other than changing its dynamic of response. Like the only way you can tell if an animal is feeling better is by behaving differently. It's not, it's not like an SOP. Like, Hey, how are you doing today? Well, I'm improving. Well, what's improving? How much of it's like feeling better? You sleep them through the night, you know, what is going on with your symptomatology? Like a horse will just tell you because of its behavior. A baby will just tell you because it's behavior.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  I mean, you hit the nail on the head right there. You know, the, the most amazing thing about being an animal chiropractor and a people chiropractor is I end up getting more patients from my animal work transitioning into my people practice because they watch their animals change and they're, the beauty of animal chiropractic is there is no room for placebo. I cannot convince that horse to behave any differently or that dog or that alpaca. I've got a phenomenal story for you on that one. But I can't encourage these animals to behave differently and respond to the adjustment. It's just their physiology responding to what we're doing. And that is proof in the pudding for so many people.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Well, I think it's like an important part for us to go back and unpack my intro, which is innate intelligence and universal intelligence. Like you've unlocked the innate of that animal and allow it to universally show what it's made to do, which is thrive and have vitality. And you could take like I saw in your body, you could take a lame animal. It's having problems walking, adjust it and all of a sudden, whoa, voila, there's, there's life back into this, this, this animal that's going to like have a better quality of life now. And that's a part where you're not asking the animal for a five star Google review.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Exactly. Yeah. You're a hundred percent spot on. I'm sure we'll talk about copper later, but he is my miracle story from the animal side. And you just can't make this up. You know, when an animal changes in response to chiropractic adjustment, there is no other explanation, but that we cleared the pathway for their nervous system, their innate intelligence to work through that nervous system and improve and heal the body.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  I love how we keep on circling back to the truth and the undercurrent of this conversation. It's the lexicon. Right. You know, you be in the education world working at Parker as a professor there. It's so important for us to keep the languaging intact when you, when you agree.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  I agree a hundred percent. In fact, when I worked at Parker from 2009 into 2016, one of my favorite classes to teach was communication. And the reason I love that class so much is because I found it vital to the future of our profession for us to maintain the just the clarity and the unique lexicon that we have and to make sure that we are continuing to pass that on without our lexicon. We are not a unique profession. We don't have really the purpose behind what we do. And unfortunately, we are the only profession doing what we do. So if we lose chiropractic, we lose an entire form of healing art that is not available anywhere else.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah. And the responsibility now, one of the talking points that I know you wanted to cover today was inspire excellence in the next generation. Yes. How do we do that? And what is your like vision for helping do that?

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Oh, man. Well, I, you know, the very first thing that we have to do as chiropractors is we have to remember that we are called to diligently work and to understand that while we can, you know, enjoy the fruits of our labor, that there is a beauty and a bounty in the work that we do. So I like to motivate, especially young chiropractors coming out, that the first thing we have to remember is that it is work. You know, it's very easy to look at chiropractors that are halfway or three quarters of the way through their practicing career and see all the success and think I want that. But what you're failing to see and just looking at the surface is all of the years of hard work, the determination, the persisting through nose, the getting past the obstacles that goes into that success. So my big thing is to remind those folks to work hard and to remember one of the most, I think the most poignant Parker principles that we have, which is to develop a compassion to serve that is greater than your compulsion to survive. That our first goal in practice is to be concerned for and to really love the patient in front of us to help them through the hardship that they are visiting you for and then to show them the beauty that it's not just getting through that particular hurt or hang up or illness, but that it's actually a way to thrive in life.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah, you know, one of our sponsors, they talk about changing it from pain to brain.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yes.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yes. And that if more people knew that the profound impact that a chiropractic adjustment had on the brain, we'd have a lot more people interested in not being in pain.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Absolutely. Yeah. The amazing neurologic response that the body has to a chiropractic adjustment is something that is well hidden within our profession, unfortunately. And a lot of just our general sentiments from the environment around us, the folks that are unaware of what chiropractors do here that we are a chiropractor and they think we're a bone doctor or we're a back doctor. And they have no idea that what we are is actually a nervous system, Dr. Abrane specialist who can improve the functioning of the body through the chiropractic adjustment in a vast and immense, in immense way.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  You know, I always used to say that if people knew what we did, they would want to do what we know.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Correct.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Correct. And I think that that's why we continuously push on with our show. The way that we produce it is because I was telling you off camera, I was like, people like know that we've done over a thousand interviews on chiropractors and like, does it ever do you ever get tired of the same topic? And you know, just to say like, if I could have a next 600 interviews where all we talked about was changing the idea of the way that people take care of their bodies from a standpoint of pain to brain or from chiropractic to being back doctors to nervous system, like specialists. Correct. Like I've always heard this idea that if people had this vision a long time ago about people being lined up around the blocks to go to chiropractors. Yeah. It seems like we've been at this like major like, you know, fourth and one for a long time. Like, what do we have to do to like get across that line to where people understand that it's not about pain and it's not about being an expensive advil. It's something that gives life to you. And you know, the cliches like give years to life, life to years, you know, that type of idea, but that's really the major premise of this profession.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Correct. Yeah. It's living a more vibrant and a more vital and more healthy life. And unfortunately, like many things in life, the things that are good for us are not always the things that we aim for or are drawn naturally to until we're starting to feel the effects of the negative of not having those. And it usually takes, I feel like for most any worthwhile endeavor in life, it takes a certain amount of pain to get us through the door toward doing what it's required to avoid that pain.

 

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JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah, once again, coming from a patient's perspective, coming from a non-chiropractic perspective, and I sit here and I listen, like, if it wasn't for me doing what I've done in chiropractic, I wouldn't know what vitalism is.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yeah.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  It wouldn't even be a part of my knowledge base.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Right, yeah. And most people who hear that word don't really have a full understanding of the meaning behind it. We're absolutely have a vital component to our being. We are not just a meat bag full of stuff. We have a whole second part of us, which is our soul, our being. And that is a blast of light at conception. And it's the thing that until that's gone, we're still living. And those two markers are the start and the end. But all of the things in the middle, we forget that we've got to cater to that vital component. Speaking of the 4th of July and the high-lift right next to Enable Air Force Base, so enjoy the sounds of the Jetsons.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  They go buy a pallet place for that. More power to them. That's one of the cooler things I've heard as background noise to podcast episodes. I sometimes hear some kids, sometimes they hear some dogs, sometimes they hear patients talking.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  So let's hear some Jets go.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  So let's talk a little bit more granular now because I know we've done a good job of touching on what chiropractic is, what chiropractic isn't. Talk about your love for the animal chiropractic part of your practice and how that translates into people potentially becoming human chiropractic patients.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yeah, you know, when I was in school in the early 2000s at Parker, it was attending Parker that also had an animal program that I first learned that I could do something called animal chiropractic and that it sparked that thing inside of me that I remembered from being a kid and knowing I wanted to be a vet, I thought, okay, my creator has just directed me toward the exact thing that I'm supposed to do in life, which is to help animals through this amazing thing called chiropractic. I was already sold in chiropractic. I knew I wanted to help animals. It was a perfect marriage of the two. So in 2010, when I got my certification, I hit the ground running and just tried to fill that practice as quickly as possible. In fact, at first, I thought, you know what, that's all I want to do. And being a ChiroKid and being a person who's watched so many people heal through chiropractic, it eventually became clear to me that I couldn't just do one, that I felt like I was neglecting the people that needed me if I just did animals. So I kind of opened both sides of it at that point, but I can't tell you the number of animals that I've witnessed over the 13 years of my practice now that have made just remarkable changes. And if you've got time, I'd love to tell you about Copper the alpaca.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  I want to hear all the miracle stories about how you've helped animals.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Okay. Well, this, I've had lame dogs, dogs that have actually been paraplegic or even just not ballon bladder starting to go and had those dogs come back from not being able to walk. But my craziest story to date with animals has been Copper the alpaca. One, because who, I mean, how do you even get into being asked to adjust an alpaca? But this lovely alpaca owner, he runs a farm in Keller, Texas. He called me one day just in a panic and said, Hey, I've got this alpaca. And he's, he can't move any of his legs. He's down. He's doing the, what they call the curl of death, which, you know, he said that to me and I'm thinking, Oh, I think you need to call your vet. He said, no, no, you don't understand. I've called the vet. The vet's been out. The vet says there's nothing to be done for him and I'm a chiropractic patient. And so I just want to see if there's anything that a chiropractor can do. Would you be willing to come out and see this animal? And I let him know that, you know, well, with the proper forms being signed by your vet, I'm happy to do that because unfortunately in Texas, we do still have some laws that need to change to allow faster access for chiropractic care in situations exactly like these. But we got the forms taken care of and I went to see that alpaca that night and having never adjusted an alpaca, but having adjusted a variety of other animals. What you start to learn is that there are definitely some study that has to go into going out to see a new animal, but that essentially vertebra vertebra. And so when I went out to see copper the alpaca, he was in fact doing what they call the curl of death, which for llamas and alpacas means that their head is tipped back so far, they're almost touching their back with it. And that's apparently how they posture when they die. So when I got out to see this animal laying on the ground, not able to sit up having no use of his legs, I thought this is bad. And the owner thought what happened was that he and another alpaca had gotten in a fight and he had gotten run into a fence. So when I went to palpate and feel what was going on, I found that in fact his lower neck, his C7 and T1 vertebra were pretty significantly displaced and that there was a major subluxation. And certainly seems like the causative reason why he was down like he was. So I used a very effective, simple, quick adjustment. And I told the owner, you know, we're just going to have to let his body respond. You know, there's at this point, I've done what I can do. And we've got to wait and see if that's enough to make a difference. And I said, if he still makes it through the night and he's still around tomorrow, I'll come back tomorrow and check on him. And sure enough, the next morning I got a call from that owner and he said, well, you're not going to believe it, but not only did you make it through the night, but now he's at least sitting up. So he went from laying with his neck on the ground to actually being able to sit up. Still didn't have use of his legs, but after about eight weeks and consistent chiropractic care, his body fully healed, he went on to be the stud alpaca he was supposed to be and father other alpacas and still around to this day. And it was just a phenomenal experience to get to help an animal that was truly on its deathbed, restore that vital component and restore its health back to life.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Well, that's a really amazing alpaca story. Yeah, it's pretty, it is. It's inspiring to know what chiropractic can do and how it changes not only that baby's life that you get a chance to adjust on its first hour or check for subluxation and corrective needed. And to translate that to a farm animal, or to translate that to a show horse.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yep, absolutely.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  And that was like the second part of the question, like this guy was a chiropractic patient. And that it might help for his posture of his animal. But I'm sure that there's been cases where you've seen animal come in. And then the owner's like, well, why don't I do this too?

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Absolutely happens all the time. You know, the interesting thing about adjusting horses specifically, dogs have their own responses as well, but horses are really unique to adjust because after you clear a subluxation and they get a response of the nervous system where their nervous system essentially sends a rest and digest signal to their brain, they will give you signs of that rest and digest signal reaching the brain. They'll lick, they'll chew, they'll yawn, they'll shake their body. They'll do all of these physical signs that the owner can't help but see when you adjust them. And so I tell my owners prior to the adjustment, especially the ones that have not ever had a chiropractic adjustment themselves or the ones who maybe are skeptical of chiropractic. I'll tell them before I put my hands on the animal and say, if we're doing what we're supposed to here and we're actually impacting his brain, you're going to see him respond. And I give them the description of what they'll see. And sure enough, after we adjust the horse response and the owner every time is floored by witnessing this everyday miracle that happens when you adjust someone, which is you turn on the lights. You influence the nervous system.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah, I think that that's a big takeaway from today's episode is people can upgrade their nervous system with the chiropractic adjustment. It's visual. And I think we've been integrated and coached for a long time that chiropractic is just about the pain of somebody's low back or their headaches or their neck pain or their car accident or their slip and fall. But what we have to go back to like the roots of the whole conversation is it's an upgrade to your nervous system, whether it's a pain, whether it's a headache, whether it's a slip and fall, whether it's a car crash. All of these instances, we need to attribute the upgrade to the nervous system as much as we attribute that to the upgrade of a nervous system to a horse. I think that all cases are chiropractic cases when it comes to people. We just take a different level of like approach to somebody has been in a car crash or somebody that's an athlete that plays football every weekend or we take people's instances in their case load based on how much trust that person has in their life. And we take a different critical idea of why if you're having headaches every day, why wouldn't you want to get adjusted? If you're having headaches monthly, why wouldn't you want to get adjusted? If you have a lame leg and it has sciatica shooting down it, why wouldn't you want to get adjusted? Yeah. And if you're just a normal healthy person that wants to retain normal health, why wouldn't you want to just get adjusted? Because it's an upgrade to your nervous system.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yeah, absolutely. You know, I think over the years, we've become so renowned at helping people through our pain control that it speaks to what they think they're going in for. And because we don't as a profession communicate effectively very often to people about chiropractic being so much more than that, that's what people come to us for because that's what they think we do. And so it is our job as professionals within the industry to start sharing with people that it is greater than just pain relief. But we're really good at pain relief and that's a phenomenal side effect of chiropractic. But our goal with chiropractic is to actually help your body react better, to respond better to its environment through the nervous system.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Chiropractic is way much more than that. I love that. So let's go lightning around. I have a few questions I want to touch on. Who are some of your heroes? Who's inspired you to become the chiropractor you are today? I know probably I'm just going to take the first one voice from you, your dad.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  You knew that was coming. Yeah. So I actually had the privilege of working alongside him for two years and you talk about working with a hero and a mentor, you know, who's also somebody that you love dearly like your father. It's amazing. But the really cool part of that is I also got the experience of meeting some of his mentors before they passed on. In fact, the mentor that got him into chiropractic was Dr. Yenny, Dr. Richard Yenny, who is well known for bringing chiropractic acupuncture over to the states. And he's just a phenomenal chiropractor. But he is the reason that my father became a chiropractor. And because my father is the reason I became a chiropractor, I was so excited to get to meet and have a dinner with him and just sit at the feet of giants and learn more. So I've gotten to meet him, Dr. Versendall. I got to teach for many, many years with activator and sit with Dr. Four, who has brought just an entire component, an entire technique of chiropractic to life. And in meeting so many of these heroes, what I've learned from our chiropractic heroes is that we do kind of a poor job, which you're helping to turn the tide with this podcast that you do because we're going to have record of some of these chiropractors coming through. But we do such a poor job of really holding on to some of the great concepts and really learning from and absorbing from these great chiropractors that we all eventually leave our time here. And it's important that we have this information and this knowledge to pass on.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  You know, just listening to you, when we first started this conversation today, almost an hour ago. I was telling you about like how, you know, we benchmark these things like you did. You went to school, you grew up in the chiropractic world, you became the doctor, you became the educator. Now you do the equine, you do the human practice and you're doing life the way that you do it within the chiropractic profession. And that's the thing is like, we're a culmination of all of it. Correct. So we're not just like start and stop. Yeah. So it's a linear process that we get a chance to have like this arc of life. And it's really cool when I meet somebody that's a second generation chiropractor or third generation chiropractor that's had this amazing arc of life where they decide that it's not a start and stop, but it's a continuation. Absolutely. And I think that that's something I've really taken away from today's episode with you is all of it matters. And it's a linear arc of life. Like we're going from one edge to the other edge. I was thinking about walking across America and I made this post the other day.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  I saw that.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  And one of my buddies that's out in Washington said that one of his patients did it. They like had a tire. They started with a tire in one ocean and they ended with a tire in another ocean while they were at the bike. I think that that's the continuation of a career or a profession. We want to see it like leave it better than we found it.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yes.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Yeah. And I think that that's really a very moralistic and ethical way of dealing with chiropractic is it's not just for us. Yeah. And if BJ and DD wouldn't have like made it public and started a school, like we wouldn't have this amazing healing art today.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Absolutely. Yeah. And it requires us pouring into that next generation. If we're going to have it continue the way it was intended.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Well, that's an amen moment for me.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Me too.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  If there were, if people wanted to know more about you, reach out to you, schedule you for another interview on their podcast or work with you directly, where do we send people

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  to? You can send them to my website at www.thealignedspine.com or email drmagil at the alignspine.com.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  And at this juncture, is there anything I didn't ask you that you wanted to share with our audience today?

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  No, I just, I think that, you know, we've got to mentor, motivate and mobilize the next generation of chiropractors and that it is, you know, my generation of chiropractors responsibility to do that, to help, it's very easy as chiropractor in a solo profession, sorry, in a solo practice to focus on just what the profession can do for us. Can it give us a lifestyle that we want? Can we make a living? Can we feed our family? But really it's so much bigger than that. And it's important that we start really focusing on helping that next generation of chiropractors and giving them a hand up and allowing them to do the hard work to continue the profession.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Well, they have big shoulders to stand on.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  And I stood on the shoulders of many big ones before me. You know, there's, that's what life is, is standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before you. We've got to keep that drive alive of learning, sitting at the feet of the greats and soaking it all in and then passing that along when it's your turn to do that.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  Rebecca McGill, Doctor of Chiropractic, Episode 569, Chiropractic, really appreciate you being our guest today.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  I appreciate you having me. It was great talking with you.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  So much fun. I want everybody to learn more about animal chiropractic. If you want to reach out to Dr. Rebecca, go to www.thealinespine.com or email her at Dr. McGill at thealinespine.com. With that, thanks for being on our show. It was a lot of fun. And I look forward to connecting with you soon.

DR REBECCA MCGILL DC (GUEST):  Yes, sir. Thank you so much.

JAMES CHESTER (HOST):  All right. Bye for now.

 

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