Healing Through Motorcycling with Joseph 🏍️💡

In this inspiring episode, Melissa chats with JD, who found profound healing and connection through motorcycling at a young age.  JD shares how the open road and the tight-knit biker community became a therapeutic outlet, providing a sense of brotherhood, acceptance, and mindfulness. He explains how riding forces you to be fully present, serving as a form of meditation that helps clear the mind and access the unconscious.

JD also opens up about overcoming adversity, including two life-altering motorcycle accidents that led him on a journey of personal growth. As the founder of Freedom Biker Tours, he promotes core values like authenticity, acceptance, and community, encouraging everyone to live true to themselves. His advice? Don’t wait for a wake-up call—embrace who you are and start living authentically today! 🚀

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Episode Summary:

Motorcycling as a Healing Outlet @ 2:43

Joseph shares how he discovered motorcycling as a therapeutic outlet, especially after serving in the military. He explains how the motorcycle community provides a sense of brotherhood and acceptance that helps heal trauma and stress.

The Power of Mindfulness and Focus @ 13:21

Melissa and Joseph discuss how riding a motorcycle forces you to be fully present and focused, acting as a form of meditation that clears the mind and allows access to the subconscious. This mindfulness and focus is deeply healing.

Authenticity, Acceptance, and Community @ 17:54

The core values of Joseph's Freedom Biker Tours business - authenticity, acceptance, brotherhood/sisterhood, and not judging - are deeply aligned with his personal philosophy. He emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself and embracing a global human community.

Overcoming Adversity and Trauma @ 26:00

Joseph recounts two serious motorcycle accidents he experienced, and how those traumatic events ultimately put him on a journey of personal growth and healing. He shares how the motorcycle community supported him through those challenges.

Advice: Don't Wait for a Wakeup Call @ 35:42

In response to Melissa's question, Joseph advises the audience to not wait for a traumatic event to be a catalyst for personal growth and living authentically. He encourages people to embrace their true selves and accept the world as it is, at any stage of life.

About the Guest:

I’ve always been an explorer. Never really fit into any sort of mold so to speak. Always felt an urge and that need to get out and do things, see the world. Seeing the landscapes and experiencing other cultures and learning about them. I believe in asking ‘Why?’ and never judging. I was raised by an Officer and a Gentleman. My Father, who I lost in 2021 was 99 years old and a WWII veteran. He spent 30-years in the Royal Canadian Airforce. 

I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was a young man. The core values of Freedom Biker Tours are also my personal values, Authenticity, Acceptance, Freedom and Brotherhood. My professional life has been spent working in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality. In Bars and Restaurants, I’ve worked Food and Beverage, and for Airlines as a Flight Attendant and in Operations. I’ve worked for Tour Operators and Travel Agencies and have many years' experience in the Accommodation sector in Hotels and Resorts. I’ve owned and operated a Campground & RV Park and continue to operate a Tourism Consulting Firm. I’ve spent a fair amount of time on various boards as a director. Regarding the latter, politics really isn’t my thing. I’ve always loved riding, but as I grew older and more mature/seasoned, I found a home in the Motorcycle Culture and Biker Brotherhood. A culture whose core values are aligned with my own. Motorcycling, and specifically riding a Harley and the associated cultural aspect of that brand ignites a passion in me that had long been dormant. Learning about it, understanding, and subsequently fully embracing it when researching and writing my Graduate Degree Thesis was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and I will always strive to receive a good dose of ‘Throttle Therapy’ whenever and wherever I can. 

https://www.freedombikertours.com/

https://www.facebook.com/FreedomBikerTours

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmTpkcJmdnElrnwG4_AMdRw

https://www.instagram.com/freedombikertours/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephduboisdhg/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/freedom-biker-tours/?viewAsMember=true

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more!  She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

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