We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dr. Fatimah Esfahanizadeh DC. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dr. Fatimah below.
Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have Dr. Fatimah with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?
This is a good question because I have never looked at myself as having a particularly ‘type A’ work ethic, until I realized I did.
It came from my Baba (that means Dad in Farsi). My Papa is from Iran and came to America around the time of the revolution. He was accepted as an international student at Cal Poly SLO and the family that sponsored him to come to America bailed on him shortly after he arrived. He was so broke that he lived in his old Datsun and would shower at the gym and frequent all-you-can-eat pizza places.
Somewhere in there he met my mom and had my sister and I. He worked part-time as a taxi driver while in college and when he graduated he stuck with it and continued that throughout my life. He started his own company and the rest is history.
Looking back on it he worked 14-hour days every day and never complained or commented about it. He just got up and did it, day in and day out.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I am an upper cervical and cranial chiropractor. I’ll elaborate….chiropractic is a field of healthcare that focuses on normalizing and balancing out the nervous system by working with the spine and its alignment. The spine along with the skull houses and protects the nervous system and can shift out of alignment from injuries and daily stressors such as poor posture, desk jobs, and micro-traumas.
Within chiropractic, there are varying specialties and mine is upper cervical and cranial work. The top of the neck and the brain are essentially the source of life so it’s my jam. I knew I would be some sort of doctor at a very young age and in my teens I was lucky enough to find chiropractic and now here I am.
Every human who’s alive has a nervous system. Within that my favorite people to work with are busy female small business owners, entrepreneurs, and corporate employees who don’t have time to be anything less than 100% healthy.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
This question is so broad that I’m not quite sure how to go about answering it.
Knee-jerk gut thoughts that FIRST come to mind……
- Figure out what you like or want to do as far as career and THEN pick the college/graduate degree that goes with it.
- Don’t start college straight out of high school without a solid plan.
- If you do go the college route, do community college first to save a grip of cash and get the mistakes out.
- Love life…and this is especially for women who want marriage. If you meet the one don’t put them on the backburner behind school and career, make them even with it. A partner should compliment and add to your life so if you feel that he (or she) is taking away from your career or schooling then his NEXT as soon as you can.
Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?
This is often. First thing, get a plan or system(s) in place which entails trial and error to find something that works or that you think is working. It will always be evolving so making changes along the way is more than necessary.
If I am in a state of overwhelm I say ‘no’ to everything that isn’t correcting the reason why I am overwhelmed. For example, if I am overwhelmed because I’m giving up too much ‘face time’ and therefore I am not able to work on or in my business then I bail on the ‘face time’ or whatever it is that’s preventing me from accomplishing the task at hand.
Overall, a routine is key and you MUST be EXTREMELY consistent.
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