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Attorneys, The Soul, Addiction, and Heroes

Attorneys, The Soul, Addiction, and HeroesFAMSAG Magazine
March 2021

I am a doctor. Last month I saw a vacationing young attorney who tripped over her daughter’s baby carriage and broke her right wrist. After we splinted her arm she asked for a written excuse. Odd. Why? She explained she needed the wording to be explicit: Please excuse [name] as she will have decreased productivity for the next four weeks.

Whether you’re a doctor like me, a law student, a practicing attorney, or a driver of the...

YOU’RE BEING CALLED: A Message from Dr. Kennedy

YOU’RE BEING CALLED A Message from Dr. Kennedy Belief in A Bliss-Filled Life

With thirty-eight years of family and geriatric medicine and more than 800,000 patient visits you’d think I’d be tired. I’m not. I’m angry about the monster of burnout, addiction, and depression and its suppressive grasp on the potential of every life it grabs. Think tentacles.

For me, Dr. Don Kennedy, practicing medicine is not about handing out pills, it’s about healing and insuring every person, no matter their...

THE SURFER’S JOURNEY IMMERSION PROGRAM: How to Begin Again

THE SURFER’S JOURNEY IMMERSION PROGRAM How to Begin Again Introduction

The Surfer’s Journey Program is a research based multi-modular curriculum and immersion that follows the theme and ten research-based principles of The Surfer’s Journey. It was created to develop transformational heroes:

Fearless cause-driven leaders who wake each day to inspire, teach, and improve all they touch, no matter the cost. That’s you!

The program uses the tenets of surfing, transformational leadership, and...

How to Create Your Surfer’s Journey Journal

How to Create Your Surfer’s Journey Journal

Creating The Surfer’s Journey

In 2012 I burned out,  left my thirty year medical practice, went surfing, and wrote The Surfer’s Journey as my research based thesis in a Phd in Leadership program.

Now I practice Motivational Medicine and professionally coach and teach students and people like you how to lead a rich, bliss filled life.

This is what I wanted to do. I’m a better doctor now.

How Will this Book Help You?

People who come to me are trying...

Lessons from Surfer Lance Clinton’s Near Death Story

Lessons from Surfer Lance Clinton’s Near Death Story

Lance Clinton is a surfer who almost drowned on a big day at Hermosa Beach Costa Rica. I met with him while doing interviews for The Surfer’s Journey and when he said, “ I almost died the other day,” I recorded his story.

It wasn’t that he almost drowned; it’s his articulate and insightful recollection that makes the interview so powerfully metaphorical. I’ve shown the video to my clients and in my talks and there were themes and lessons t...

Mind, Body & Soul’s Run For Recovery

Mind, Body & Soul’s Run For Recovery

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Mind Body & Soul Surfing Club is hosting the 5th Annual “Recovery Run” 5 & 10k run/walk event at Lake Baldwin Park in Orlando, Florida.

This event is to benefit the Recovery Community in Central Florida. Proceeds directly benefit Turning Point of Central Florida Inc. (TurningPointCFL.org).  Turning Point is a 501(c)3 company that has been instrumental in providing quality outpatient treatment options in Central Florida for over 2...

How to Create Your Surfer’s Journey Journal

Creating The Surfer’s Journey

In 2012 I burned out,  left my thirty year medical practice, went surfing, and wrote The Surfer’s Journey as my research based thesis in a Phd in Leadership program.

How Will this Book Help You?

   Dr. Kennedy Costa Rica

You want you to wake-up happy, healthy, and living what you are created to do, not what you’ve been molded to do under a social mask that doesn’t fit.

So, that means taking the risk to begin again to discover what you are and what you’re supposed...

How to Create Your Surfer's Journey Journal

In 2012 I left my thirty year medical practice and began my surfer’s journey to research ways to improve lives and develop socially conscious leaders because people were in pain, on overload, and asking for help.

With what I discovered I formed a new company and then created Motivational Medicine so I could coach and teach people how to live a rich and meaningful life. This is what I learned:

                                “Surfing teaches, saves, changes, and improves lives.” 

   Coydogg Cos...

How to Create Your Surfer’s Journey Journal

In 2012 I left my thirty year medical practice and began my surfer’s journey to research ways to improve lives and develop socially conscious leaders because people were in pain, on overload, and asking for help.

With what I discovered I formed a new company and then created Motivational Medicine so I could coach and teach people how to live a rich and meaningful life. This is what I learned:

                                “Surfing teaches, saves, changes, and improves lives.” 

   Coydogg Cos...

Lessons from Surfer Lance Clinton's Near Death Story

Lance Clinton is a surfer who almost drowned on a big day at Hermosa Beach Costa Rica. I met with him while doing interviews for The Surfer’s Journey and when he said, “ I almost died the other day,” I recorded his story.

It wasn’t that he almost drowned; it’s his articulate and insightful recollection that makes the interview so powerfully metaphorical. I’ve shown the video to my clients and in my talks and there were themes and lessons that recurred so I decided to show three quotes and w...