Dr. Mindy Pelz

About Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz, D.C is a best selling author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional medicine expert who has spent over two decades helping thousands of people successfully reclaim their health. She is a recognized leader in the alternative health field and a pioneer in the fasting movement, teaching the principles of a fasting lifestyle, diet variation, detox, hormones, and more. Her popular YouTube channel combines the latest science with practical lifestyle tools every person can use to reset their health. She is the host of one of the leading science podcasts, The Resetter Podcast, and the author of three best-selling books; The Menopause Reset, The Reset Factor, and The Reset Kitchen.

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Dr. Pompa:
Welcome. Here with Dr. Mindy Pelz, one of my favorite people on earth.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Mutual, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Gosh. I am so excited. I know we’re both excited about the seminar. You and I, this is our thing, right? Being in person with a bunch of people and sharing ideas. Man, we love it. All right. Look, I’ve watched you explode, you’re following explode. I just recently interviewed Ben Azadi, his following exploding. I talk about the importance, hey, we can have the greatest message in the world. I believe we do, right. We just keep getting sharper and sharper with our group of doctors, where we train together and you’ll be joining us folks.

And if you want to join us, there is a link below and you’ll get the early bird special. Join us for sure, because we do have a very intimate group, but we all share ideas and we grow together and you’re going to share so many of the things that you’ve just grown with, how to do groups. You’re doing groups, membership. I say, membership programs better than anybody. You’re going to share that. But you’re also going to share something that I feel is so relevant today, fasting around hormones and women.

You have a massive women following, and yet, fasting for some of them is very difficult. Low carb is difficult, right? And my diet variation principle, I spoke about as an answer to this years ago, but one thing you’ve done so well is making it so simple for people to put into practice. There’s my dog.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I was going to say, I love the dog. Do I get to bring my dog into the interview, too?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yeah. We welcome all dogs here. And I am in Tulum, Mexico. And this is dog heaven, by the way. Dogs, just like, they wander around the beach, they do their thing. But he believes this is heaven, but anyways, yeah. So you’re going to share a lot. You’re going to share like, say, how you’re doing these membership programs. I mean, you’ve turned them into huge, huge income streams. But more importantly, you’re reaching thousands of people with information, where you were just trying to reach in your practice.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah. No, and I’m so grateful that I had a membership group as we went into last year and it was already had a pretty strong foundation. But what I discovered last year, and I think this is going to be going forward is that people are learning how to do health in a virtual way. And if 2020 was just an accelerator of that, and what I’ve discovered is that more and more people actually, they want off social media and they want to have Zoom interaction with people. They want to be able to ask questions, they want things uncensored. And it’s just been an incredible, incredible experience.

Last year we had, gosh, we 10 [timesed 00:17:35] our group from 2020. So we’re at over 1,000 members now. And we had like 100, a couple hundred before the pandemic hit. And it wasn’t anything that I have any unique, super power for. It was just that the information that you have taught me, that I’m teaching on social media, combine that with the change in the world. And all of a sudden, it was almost effortless. It just was like, I figured out how to match the message with the right medium and off it went.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. It’s puzzling to me because I look at the environment, I go, gosh, you’re not doing that, when I speak to doctors. Oh, you need to be doing that. And they look at you with saucers. Number one, they don’t know how, which you’re going to show them what you’re doing. It’s so easy. I say that just from like, you start somewhere. It’s not easy in the sense that you have to start somewhere, but it’s easy in the sense of what you’re doing, just make so much sense.

All you’re doing is giving people exactly what they want, to your point. People are just tired of just doing the same social media thing. They want to be in a group, right. I mean, I’ve done that even myself. I started Facebook groups and people are learning that way today, they have no choice.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
They have no choice, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
And so therefor, [crosstalk 00:04:31] watching this, you have no choice. You need to bring your information to the people.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yep. Yeah. And actually when the pandemic first hit, I had so many doctors reach out to me and say, “Hey, can you just tell me how you’re doing what you’re doing on the platform?” And I was like, well, there’s a formula to follow. And we’ll talk about that at the seminar. There’s a way to set it up where this becomes effortless.

And for me, it’s the first time in 25 years in practice, that I have freedom from my brick and mortar. I tell the story of last year, my daughter who’s 20 years old in college, was moving apartments and needed a moment of like, mom to come and help her move and get her moved in. And I could take my virtual world and help my daughter, be a mom, and then also thrive with my business. And that was the first time ever that I’ve been able to do that ever. Usually I’m handcuffed to my brick and mortar and I can’t do it.

Dr. Pompa:
I think one thing you’ve done well too though, is monetize it. Right? So a lot of people do these things, they get a following, but then they don’t monetize. Right. You have to do both if you really are serious about bringing a message. And I can tell you that you’ve done a superior job there than most, and you’ve done a better job than most at actually bringing a really valuable message. I think that’s why you’ve earned so well.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Well, so what I learned, again, I owe much to your teachings. And what I did is just take what you taught me and apply it. I always say, when somebody teaches you something, it’s not like a buffet, you follow their formula and then you apply it. And the next thing you know, you’ve got the same success that they have.

And with the concept of fasting, people want to know about this as you know, today because it’s free and the beautiful thing is it taps into our principle. So we can say, the body heals itself, you take food away from somebody and they discover the body heals itself. There’s nothing else that’s done that.

And then the only thing that I did is just map it to hormones. And I’ll be talking about that because what’s been really cool is that we’ve been able, over hundreds of thousands of women, we’ve been able to look at women that are post-menopausal, menopausal, trying to get pregnant, and look at the hormonal perspective and say, okay, what fast should a post-menopausal woman do? What fast should a woman do on day 10 of her period?

And we’ve come up with a really cool tool that I’ll be actually debuting at the seminar, which is what I call a fasting circle, where it’s a tool that they can just look at the day and know what fast to do. And we’ve been doing it in my [resetter 00:17:35] community with incredible success. So I’m really excited to share it with everybody.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s awesome. That’s one thing you’ve done so well, right. It’s one thing when you have a principal, but it’s another thing actually making it so people can do it, understand it. And I give you just so much applause over that because the principle of diet variation, I’m like, gosh, it’s amazing people don’t understand this and how it works. But it’s another thing going, oh, here’s how this group of people actually can utilize it. You’ve done it better than anybody.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
It’s free. Diet variation is freedom. And that’s part of what I’ve been teaching my [resetters 00:17:35] , is like, we don’t have to be rigid with our diet choices. We can be free with our diet choices, but we have to have some values. We can’t go off on the deep end all the time. We have to have some values and we need to know how to map it to our hormones. And that’s what I think is, you planted that in my head and then I just applied it to hundreds of thousands of women. And now I’m standing back and going, oh, I see patterns. And now we can start to teach those patterns, which is really exciting.

Dr. Pompa:
But to your point though, see, okay, if you were just in a brick and mortar practice, you’d be able to apply it to hundreds. But you’re applying it to hundreds of thousands because of your reach that you’ve developed. Again, this is the future, there’s a formula that works. Right. So therefore, not only did you effect people, not only did you monetize it well, but we are able to dial in things at a much greater detail and effectiveness because you’re working with hundreds of thousands versus a few people.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah. Agreed. And I even have a bigger vision because I feel like if everybody stepped out of their brick and mortar, and I’m not saying that you have to leave your brick and mortar behind. I’m just saying, take the powerful message you have in your brick and mortar and let’s expand it. And what I’ve been able to do just with my platform is drive patients into chiropractor’s office. I’ve put patients in acupuncture’s office on the East coast. A couple of, of our functional medicine doctors in our group, I’ve put patients there.

So I have this vision, if we all expand our reach, then people are hearing a very similar message and we can start filling offices of functional medicine, doctors of all types. And then we can start to change the paradigm of health. So when you look at the mission of it, we actually can do more by us expanding out of our brick and mortar. And I’m not saying don’t, you don’t have to give up the brick and mortar. I’m just saying, if we unite that we can have a greater impact.

Dr. Pompa:
Well, look, that’s what I’m hoping, people come and unite with us. I mean, we’re tabbing this to 100 people at the seminar and it’s going to be very, very intimate. I know we all can’t wait because it’s been a while since we had a seminar.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I could cry, I can’t wait.

Dr. Pompa:
Right. Obviously you can join online, but there’s going to be something more special about being there. I had a conversation when I was here in Mexico, matter of fact, probably just two days ago. It’s a group of guys who have killed it in cryptocurrency. Now keep in mind, I know nothing about the topic. Okay. But I was fascinated because they went from nothing to billionaires, these guys. Right.

And you know, they were renting this incredible house and he was talking to me in a language that I needed an interpreter, but he did say some things that resonated with me. But he said, okay, like the banking industry, the way it is, he said, it’s like a horse and buggy. They have to move so slow. Everything moves so slow. But with us in crypto, we’re able to move so fast around the banking industry. And his point was, is that’s why it has to go to crypto. That’s why there’s going to be a world currency with crypto. That’s why everything has to go to, that’s why he’s telling me to invest into crypto.

Look, he’s like, because it moves fast. It’s like a Tesla versus horse and buggy, and I got that. But to your point, just being in a brick and mortar practice is like a horse and buggy today. You need the Tesla, we can move fast. We can affect a lot more people. We get a lot more data. Obviously, we can monetize quicker because we’re doing it … We can bring people, valuable information, charge less, affect more lives because of this new crypto, if you will, right, in our space. That’s why people need to hear your talk, honestly, because you’re doing something extraordinary.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I love that analogy because that’s how I feel. I feel like when I’m working on my brick and mortar, it’s just so slow moving, especially in a pandemic where it’s locked down and then it’s not locked down. And it’s like, okay. But then I come to my virtual world and I feel like I can get my, not only get my message out faster, I can reach more people. But then financially, it comes back to me. And there’s this weird moment where I just, all I’ve now done is step into my mission.

It’s like, I just can lead with my mission and the business follows so effortlessly. Whereas in a brick and mortar, there’s more overhead, there’s more staff. What do you do with all the closures? I mean, I’m in California and it’s like open, close, open, close. So it’s a great analogy. It does feel like a Tesla. We actually have an e-tron now sitting in my driveway, an Audi e-tron. So I’m going to say it feels like an Audi e-tron

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. Back in my day, right? In our day, you and I were always driven by the mission, right. From Body by God and all, mission, mission, mission. But think about this, right, just thinking back now. I remember the day in my office where we’d have the talks, right. There’d be 20 to 50 people in the office and you’d get a few people who’d get excited and take it. I mean, think about it now. I mean, you have thousands of people taking the mission. You have thousands of people that are driving it to other women. Right. It’s like, we had those few in the office, right. I mean, how much more-

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I was trying to tell my young associates about, oh, back in the day, we used to fill this place with … If we got like, in my office, if we got 60 people in there, that was amazing. And people were like slammed up against the walls. Last night, I had a final call for a reset experience. We did a fasting variation class. There were 200 people on the call from all over the world. And it was like, I just sat there, and just in my comfort of my own home, being able to connect with over 200 people all over the world that were fired up, talking about the results they were getting with diet variation and fasting. And ah, I mean, I couldn’t go to bed last night. I was like, so fired up by the impact we can make, is huge.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Yeah. We have such, what an amazing time. Right. And the social media drives me nuts for the bad of it, but I’ll tell you, we can sure use it for good. We have to use it for good, right. It is the Tesla or the electric new car or whatever the heck the new car is. I have no idea the Audi, right?

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
The e-tron, the Audi e-tron. If you come my way, I’ll give you a spin. It’s pretty sweet.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m surprised we don’t have one because [crosstalk 00:15:06] Audi’s in our family. It’s like, Audi this, Audi that. Does it have an engine purr to it? Because see, that’s a [Marilee’s 00:15:14] thing, she has to hear the engine.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Oh, no. It sounds like you’re in a spaceship. It goes [inaudible 00:15:19]. It’s 100% electric.

Dr. Pompa:
Well, look, people need to hear your message. Honestly, we have a message that the world needs and we have a responsibility to bring it. And if you’re not bringing it in some fashion in the way you’re doing it, then you’re going to be left behind, simple as that.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah. And we’re more powerful together. And there never has been a time where our message could unite. And I have really, again, the other benefit of being online is I feel like I’m more in collaboration with other doctors than ever before. And for me, that feels amazing. Because I do lead with mission, but that’s what I feel like I’m here to do is to change lives. So I don’t want to do it by myself. I want to do it with a bunch of people that are on that same mission.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. I feel the exact same way. All right. Last question. One glaring reason why they need to show up at this seminar, not just watch it.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Oh, what you’re going to teach is, or all of us is two major things, the new way people are going to approach nutrition and fasting and detox, that onto itself as a Tesla, a totally different way of looking at this. And then I don’t think, we’re never going back to old style, brick and mortar. There is a new world that’s emerging. If you just even take the word, telemedicine, all practices are trying to figure out how to do telemedicine and we’ve dialed it in and we’ve dialed it in a way that we can make such a big impact. Our businesses can prosper, but our lives can be more diverse. I mean, I’m not handcuffed to my brick and mortar anymore. So if that resonates with you, then you need to be there.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Well said. Thank you.

Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Thank you. So grateful for you. Excited to see you face-to-face and give you a hug.

Dr. Pompa:
I know, me too, likewise. See you at seminar, the link below folks, join us. Your practice will change. You will change. And therefore the world would change. We have a message the world needs. We just have to bring it. Join us.