IAM160- Doctor Helps Create Health and Beauty from the Inside Out

Dr. Rahi is a medical doctor specializing in hormones, integrative medicine and aesthestics. She went to Medical school at Ross University, Residency in Internal Medicine at University of Southern California (USC) and Fellowship in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona. She is based in Santa Monica, California. Her vision for health and wellness is beauty and health from the inside out.

• CEO Hack: Working out every day and having complete control of your diet. Also, mixing up workouts.
• CEO Nugget: Be open to possibilities. Try to learn as much as you can.
• CEO Defined: Do what I love and educate and grow.

Website: http://www.doctorrahi.com

Email: doctorrahi@gmail.com

Instagram: http://instagram.com/doctorrahimd

Twitter: http://twitter.com/doctorrahimd

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doctorrahi/

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Intro 0:02

Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkless values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.

Gresham Harkless 0:27

Hello, hello, hello, this is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast and I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Dr. Rahi of doctorrahi.com. So doctorrahi.com spelled out. Dr. Rahi, it's awesome to have you on the show.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 0:44

Hi, thank you for having me.

Gresham Harkless 0:46

No problem. Super excited to have you on and what I wanted to do was just read a little bit more about Dr. Rahi so you can hear about all the awesome things that she's doing. And she is a medical doctor specializing in hormones, integrative medicine, and aesthetics. Medical school at Ross University, Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC), and a Fellowship in integrative medicine from the University of Arizona. Located in Santa Monica, California. Her vision is for health and wellness is beauty and health from the inside out. Dr. Rahi, are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?

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Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 1:19

Yes, I am.

Gresham Harkless 1:20

Awesome, awesome, awesome. So the first question I had was to hear a little bit more about your CEO story and what led you to start your business.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 1:26

I really enjoy integrative medicine and aesthetics and hormones. And it's kind of a, it's more focused on this area of medicine is more focused on disease prevention and health maintenance, as opposed to actually treating the disease once you get it. And generally speaking, a lot of these services are not covered by insurance companies.

So that's the one reason I was able to start my own business. It's a cash-only business at this time. The other thing was when I was in residency, I noticed that a lot of patients that I would see hadn't really no sort of, they had no sort of concept of where their health was.

And every time I would see them, they come into the clinic or they come into the hospital, they would get sicker and sicker. And rarely would you see somebody actually improving. And so a lot of the traditional ways that we're taught as doctors are how to treat illness, it's not really focused on preventing disease, and really trying to help people live their optimal selves.

So the more I learned about the more, the more I learned about the wellness area, the wellness side of medicine, I decided that there was really no practice out there for me to join, that would accommodate me practicing that type of medicine. So I had to basically start my own business.

Gresham Harkless 2:49

Oh, that's awesome.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 2:50

So that I could focus on helping people live optimally.

Gresham Harkless 2:55

That's pretty awesome. And that's a true entrepreneurial form, it kind of seems like sometimes when there's not that thing, or that business or whatever that has already been built. And you see that there's an issue, you see a way to solve that problem. But you don't see that there is a way out there to do that. You have to kind of create that yourself that kind of sound.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 3:11

Yeah, exactly. And I also like the ability to work and create on my own. Where if you join a practice, you're kind of confined within that practice, current active policies and procedures, and just how they run things. And so I'm able to sort of practice medicine, the way I think is best for the patients without having other people hovering over me and telling me what to do.

Gresham Harkless 3:39

Yeah, and I know that a lot of it seems like in the health industry, especially a lot of it is more defensive, where like you say you're treating an illness rather than being on the offensive and actually trying to prevent the illness from even occurring. Is that correct?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 3:51

That's the ultimate goal. That's the ultimate goal of every patient is to focus on disease prevention, and optimal living, so that you're the healthiest that you can be at the current age and current situation that you're in.

Gresham Harkless 4:04

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And now I wanted to hear a little bit more I know, you touched on it a little bit on how you're helping to serve these clients. But could you tell us a little bit about some of the things that you're doing to kind of help support these clients that you're working with?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 4:15

Sure, I do a lot of health counseling, sort of what you would be a dietitian for but I'd like to think that I have more tools to sort of allow patients to get a better understanding of what's going on. I can check their labs or hormones, and use specialized micronutrient testing to see if there are any specific deficiencies. A lot of times people are taking a bunch of different vitamins and they don't know why they're taking everything they don't know if they need specifically a lot more magnesium or they need, you know, they should be on for example biotin.

Just different things that you can be deficient and I can help that and then I can tailor a treatment plan that for a patients sort of focusing on how they can potentially reverse whatever disease they have, or maintain, and not progress that disease or help prevent the start of a new type of disease.

And so I look at a do a very thorough history, looking at basically everything that's happened in the past from day one, and seeing how that can impact how you are living today. And so I offer hormone therapy for both men and women. I offer vitamin injections and occident injections, I also do the aesthetic side where I offer a very natural approach to beauty. Because I believe that you can be healthy and beautiful on the inside and also express that on the outside too. And it doesn't have to be excessive, it could be very subtle. So right now, those are the main services that I'm offering.

Gresham Harkless 5:48

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And it kind of sounds like it's definitely rooted in like the foundation, I guess, from what you're saying, because you said you even look from the very beginning of I guess, all the issues that a person might have, or how that might have built up until what they might be what might be their symptoms, I guess today, so it's kind of important to kind of get an idea of the full range of everything that somebody has gone through and maybe struggled with or working through.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 6:11

Yeah, exactly.

Gresham Harkless 6:13

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And now I wanted to ask you for what I call your secret sauce. And this could be kind of like what you feel kind of distinguishes you or your organization. But do you have an example of a secret sauce you can share with us?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 6:24

Um, well, I mean, if I was going to compare the experience that you would get if you came to see me versus if you went to see another doctor, I like to spend time with my patients, I will spend anywhere from like 30 minutes to an hour, sometimes even longer with a client. I like to develop good relationships with my clients where I started getting to know about their lives I know about their personal lives, their social, you know, their work lives.

And I think that's really important when you're treating a patient because it's important to really get to know them, because you're able to understand them better, because that is it like, you know, I've done sort of class medicine where you work in the urgent care, or like sometimes when you're in the hospital, you don't really have time to really focus and spend time with the patient and you spend like 10-15 minutes. What can you get from a 10-15 minute appointment versus if your doctor really gets to know you over a longer period of time?

And I think that is the key to a successful patient-physician relationship. And I think that would be the key to a successful integrative medicine practice is really developing a good relationship between the doctor and the patient.

Gresham Harkless 7:37

That makes perfect sense. And I imagined too that as you said in like 10 minutes, you probably can't figure out exactly what someone might be going through. But when you have that relationship, you are able to ask those questions that actually delve a little bit deeper. Sometimes you might find underlying, I don't want to say issues, but maybe things that people may not have noticed if they just want to look for 10 minutes or so is that correct?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 7:55

Yeah, I think so. And it also helps people feel more comfortable around you as well when they know that you're listening and you care. And so maybe you'll get more information from them.

Gresham Harkless 8:05

Right, that makes perfect sense. And now I wanted to switch gears a little bit and ask you for what I call a CEO hack. And this might be an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but it's something that makes you more effective and efficient as an entrepreneur, or business owner.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 8:19

Yeah, I think what keeps me going every single day, as I'm very athletic, I work out. I try to work out almost every single day. And I have complete control over my diet, which has been you know, as I keep going every day, I have more and more control. I feel like those two things really helped me keep myself sort of grounded so that I could grow the business as well.

Gresham Harkless 8:44

Yeah, that makes sense. I know that that's always my go I try to go to the gym just to kind of release any tension or any stress or anything. And then trying to make sure that you're putting the right things in your body and are eating the right things as well is important.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 8:59

And a lot of people don't know that. And I'm here to educate them. And the other thing is mixing up the workouts I combined, you know yoga with a lot of weight-bearing exercises, I don't just stick to one. I have like, you know, a different array of exercises for different purposes.

Gresham Harkless 9:18

Okay, okay. Is there any reason behind that, why you do different types of exercises?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 9:22

It's good for your body, but it's also good for your mind. So the weight-bearing exercises help you with weight loss and building up muscle strength, and then more yoga more helping you connect your mind to your body and more spiritual spirituality.

Gresham Harkless 9:36

Okay, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that's always something, especially as a CEO, or pretty much anybody you know, you need to make sure the very your workouts and vary the types of workouts so that you can have those different results. It sounds like.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 9:46

Yeah,

Gresham Harkless 9:46

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And now I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO nugget. And this might be a word of wisdom or piece of advice or if you can happen to a time machine. What would you tell your younger business self?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 9:57

Just be open to possibilities do you I mean, I think I am in the right place. That's where I am and where I'm supposed to be right now. So I wouldn't really change anything. But just to continue what I'm doing. And just try to learn every day as you go, whether it's working in a hospital or working in a clinic or working in my own clinic, just be open-minded, be open to possibilities, and try to learn as much as you can every single day.

Gresham Harkless 10:25

I love that, I love that. And it's definitely important to do that to make sure that you are doing that so that you can continue to stay ahead of the curve. But it also sounds like you're already ahead of the curve and a lot of ways just because of the business you've built, and how you're starting to structure it. So I definitely appreciate that.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 10:40

Thank you.

Gresham Harkless 10:40

You're welcome. And now I wanted to ask you my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of what it means to be a CEO. And we're hoping to have different, quote-unquote, CEOs on the show to look at entrepreneurship, and what it means to be a business owner. So I wanted to ask you, Dr. Rahi, what is being a CEO mean to you?

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 10:55

What it means to me is that I'm able to really do what I love every day and allow others to participate in that as well. So I love, my patients are able to participate in allowing me to do what I love, and to be able to educate myself and grow in ways that interest me.

Gresham Harkless 11:17

I like it, I like it. I appreciate that. And, yeah, it's always a good reminder to make sure that especially when you're a CEO, entrepreneur, and business owner, you're always trying to move ahead and grow. So to make sure that you are of course having the opportunity to do that is definitely one of the benefits and perks of being the CEO.

So, Dr. Rahi I truly appreciate your time, what I wanted to do is pass you the mic so to speak, to see if there's anything additional, you want to let our readers and our listeners know and then also how best they can get in touch with you.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 11:43

The best way to get in touch with me is to email me at doctorrahimd@gmail.com. You can also go to my website, which you mentioned earlier. And then I also have the social media, Instagram which is doctorrahimd again all spelled out on Twitter and Facebook. And the last thing I guess I would want to say is I would urge anyone listening to really try to see if there's an integrative practitioner out where they live because integrative medicine is the future of medicine. And I think that everyone should have you know, as we see an integrative practitioner, one to try to figure out how they can live their optimal path at their current age in their current situation because it's possible for everyone.

Gresham Harkless 12:33

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. And it's a great reminder and Dr. Rahi. I truly appreciate you for all the awesome things that you're doing. And of course, taking some time out today. Yes, and we will definitely make sure to have your links in the show notes just so that everybody remembers that everything is spelled out but you can definitely look in the show notes to click through. But thank you again, Dr. Rahi. And hope you have a phenomenal day.

Dr. Raheleh Sarbaziha 12:50

Thank you so much.

Outro 12:52

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