The Gift Is Broken

Twenty shows. Two and a half months. Nobody knew.

 What it is like to modify a routine that has earned standing ovations for decades and have not one person in the room notice — and what happened when Jason finally told the internet.

In this episode, we cover...
FREEDOM OF SPEECH — "The Night My Gift Broke."

THE FULL STORY — "The Gift Is Broken."

FROM THE NEWSFEED — "Nobody Reads Past the First Line."

FAITH & HOPE — "The Gift You Steward, Not Own."

FATHER TIME — "It Starts at Home"

FUNNY FACTORY — "My Dentist Can Use Both Hands."

FITNESS MINUTE — "Healing Is Not a Feeling."

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December tw well, December 2nd, 2025, a room full of teenagers and me. I'm 47 years old at the time. And uh I'm doing the Raptor. You know the Raptor, right? Yeah, that one. If you've seen me work, you know that. That's what I do. Daddy Dinosaur, mouth wide open as possible, as much as a human mouth goes. Right? Because that's the whole trick. That's what the dentist looked at when I was a kid and said, Young man, you have a gift. So I go all in, the way I always go all in. And I feel a pop in my jaw, then a searing pain, then a high-pitched tone in my ear, the kind you hear after a sound that is too loud to be close to you, and something inside my face has come apart in front of a group of kids. Yeah. So I did what you do. I clicked my jaw back into place with my hands, and right then and there in front of them, they laughed. They thought it was just part of the bit. And last week I asked you what you are known for when you leave the room today. The harder half of that question What is your promise when your signature move is taken away? Alright, coming up on the show, we're gonna talk freedom of speech. That segment will be The Night My Gift Broke, Why a Promise That Only Survives While The Gift Is Working was Never a Promise At All. In the full story segment, we'll talk about The Gift Is Broken. 20 shows, Clients Who Never Knew. And what happened when I finally told the world. From the news feed, we'll talk about nobody reads past the first line. New research on what happens when the thing you're best at gets taken from you, and a rock star who called four years of silence a rebirth. In Faith and Hope, we'll talk about the gift you steward, not own. As I have many friends who speak from wheelchairs, and the sentence they would say to me. In Father Time, it's unscripted as always. I'm excited to share a couple cool stories. And in Funny Factory, my dentist can use both hands. Yeah, I'm going to show you the cover of my old book, You Will Wish I Had Not. But uh in the fitness minute segment, healing is not a feeling. What your body's actually doing while you wait. We are sponsored, of course, by Cardio Miracle, the world's finest nitric oxide and vitamin D3 supplement. So, my friends, stay with me. Today, this one is personal. Polished is the price of admission, not the reason you get chosen. You get chosen for being identifiable. Your reputation is the only asset that keeps working when you're not in the room. The signature move is not ego, the signature move is stewardship. In freedom of speech, I've been avoiding the youth. Seriously, a very successful friend asked me to speak to a group of young folks, and I said, Yeah, I'll try. I mean, with hesitation, because the style of entertainment I do is so foreign to a TikTok attention span. I I didn't think they'd connect, but I've quietly believed for a while now that what I do is only for adults, and I've been working towards that for a while because I was very good at speaking to kids many years ago, but something changed in the last decade. So, you know, what was cool is they loved it more than I expected. I mean, they were all in with me. I was singing, making them laugh. They were taking notes on the promise, on the signature moves. I remember standing there thinking, wow, maybe I can connect with the youth as a speaker. And then I did the Raptor. Oh, yeah. My mouth was open as wide as possible. I go all in on this impression because uh this is something I like to do. I like to throw people off. They're pretty shocked when they see it because I've done more sophisticated things throughout the presentation, and all of a sudden I'm like, you know, so I'm like right in their face. And I'm all in as per usual. Next thing I hear is a pop and a searing pain, and the tone in my ear. I'm like, oh man, here's the part I want you to sit with. I didn't stop the performance. I just clicked my job back in a place with my hands in front of a room full of teenagers, and they laughed because they just thought it was choreography or part of the show. I eventually finished the performance after a few more minutes. I took photos, signed the books, then I got to my car. I sat in the driver's seat writhing in agony and in shock, asking myself one question. What am I going to do now? Because you see, I had another show the very next night. I looked in the rear view mirror in the dark, lit by uh one street light, and I could not open my mouth wide enough to even bite my knuckle. That was too wide. That's an interesting experience because it was crazy pain. And driving home, everything hurt. I I tried chewing some gum. Oh man. Talking hurt. Drinking water even hurt. Like, I didn't know that tearing your jaw was this painful. Anyway, everything hurt. I told my beautiful wife Tammy when I walked in the door. She asked what I was gonna do. I said, I I don't know, I don't have any answers. I I'm just gonna have to do the gig. And the next morning, I paid a whole lot of money to hear more bad news. I had an emergency appointment, went to an oral surgeon. They specialize in ear, nose, and throat issues, and and especially in the jaw. They took x-rays, they told me, Yep, you have certainly torn your jaw. Do all you can to not open your mouth for a few months. Right. At least six months until you feel back to normal. They truly told me, Don't open your mouth for six months. I was like, six months, don't open your mouth. I make a living opening my mouth. So here's what I want to say to you, and it's not about a jaw. I've spent years on stages telling people to find the thing only they can do and give it away. And last week on this show, if you're watching, I told you to name your signature move. And I stand by every word of it. But there's a hole in that advice, and I fell straight into it on December 2nd, 2025. If the promise you made to your family, your team, and your God only holds while the gift is working, that was never a promise. That was a performance under very good conditions. A promise is what is left after the conditions leave. And you do not get to quit being the raptor just because your gift feels broken. That sentence cost me something to learn, and I'm handing it to you for free. You're probably wondering, how did you do the show the next night? Well, I still went in, but the raptor was like this. And they still thought it was funny. So the questions I have for you is what is the one capability your whole working identity is sitting on top of? And if it were taken from you tomorrow, would you promise survive the week? Who are you performing wellness for right now? And when did you last finish something in real pain and tell nobody? And was that strength or was that hiding? What would you do on the second night when it's still torn and the show still must go on? We'll talk about the full story right after this. Okay, so the next night I did the show. And in the full story today, it hurt like nobody's business. I would sing, and then I would turn away from the audience and go. Although I couldn't open my mouth that wide. I was like biting on my knuckle. It was so painful. I'd then turn back around and go, thank you. I did the ending I always do, the one where I talk about being a little kid with the big mouth. I went into this story not thinking, oh man, I can't do the bit. About my mom and telling me it's okay to have the big mouth, and you're, you know, you're you need to share your light with the world. And the dentist who told me I had a gift, and I stood there and delivered that ending while my gift was torn. And so I pretty much had to talk through the mouth injury without them knowing. And I didn't tell the audience anything, I just did the gig. I did my best, and then I modified a home run bit. And and I have a routine that's earned standing ovations for decades, and I had to change it. I did the mouth thing different than if you've ever seen my dentist routine. I did the raptor different, it was smaller. I mean, not as legitimately over the top. It still hurt and it still worked, but nobody noticed. And if you've seen me perform this year, you have not seen the full dentist routine. I have retired it because I can't do it anymore. I can do variations of the dentist stuff as and it still works. But that's the part I need you to hear. Nobody noticed. Clients booked me through those months and never knew. Not one person in those rooms noticed the change in my routine. Although I sure did. I mean, I know exactly what's different. On December 3rd, I came off stage and and and I thought about telling you. I actually considered it. I was gonna write a blog post, a video. If you know if you follow my blog, you know that I'm just an open book, absolutely asking you for advice and questions. And I was gonna do a video, and I I was gonna tell everybody what I'm going through in real time because you know, if you don't post it, did it even happen? If there's no selfie, was it real? Oh, I didn't do it. This time I sat with it for two and a half months, and I went on stage 20 times in that period, and I started doing this weekly show as well. And every single week I showed up here with a torn jaw and talked to you about keeping promises. Somewhere in there, I proved something to myself that I could not have proved any other way. I can do my best work without my gift fully working. I think you can too. I know you can, and I think you already are, and you've not given yourself credit for it. And so then I finally posted about it. I that I I learned something about people when I posted. The messages came in like fast, and I carefully crafted a great blog post around this experience. But the messages came flooding in. I mean, so kind. They all of them were great, and I and it was mostly like, I'm so sorry you tore your jaw, I'm so I bet it was so painful. This one was the one that hurt the most. Most people said, I'm so sad you can't perform anymore. Can't perform anymore. I was performing that week. I was doing this full show and speech uncompromised. They stopped reading my post after the first line. Yeah, I tore my jaw. Oh, he is finished. He's done for. Most people never got to the part where I said, I'm still here. And I'm not angry about it. I'm fascinated by it because it tells you exactly how much of your story the world is actually gonna read. Which means you better not be doing this to others. Don't just don't just read the headline and assume you got the whole story. I mean, that's bad news. It's been nine and a half months now. The audience, you know, they s they still want to know where my uh how my jaw feels. People still ask me, oh, I don't know how you're doing this with your broken jaw. I'm like, look, I tore it and it's fine. Like, I'm working through it. But my current status is nobody knows about this. I'm only sharing it on this show because I thought it would make a great teaching point. That don't just read the headline, don't just read the first line, read all the way through, don't just watch the beginning of a show or listen to the beginning of a podcast. You're not gonna get everything. Now, there are some books I might recommend. You only need to read the first three chapters. That's okay. Uh, because sometimes it just goes on and on saying the same old thing, but at least skim to the end and make sure you got the point. Because guess what? The raptor is still there, it's still a hundred percent. And from the newsfeed, right after this. From the newsfeed, I have a name for it now. A systematic review published in December 2025, the month that I pulled my jaw, pulled together 24 qualitative studies of athletes and injury, and the findings sorted into two themes. Athletic identity disruption, athletic identity reconstruction. Yeah. 17 of the studies were about the break, the breaking, the injury. Seven were about the rebuilding. Seventeen were about the problem. Seven of them were about how to fix it. That ratio is the whole news feed today. We have the studied, I mean, we have studied the fall three times as much as the recovery. And I would bet the internet does the same thing with your story. And the expert advice is not what you would expect. And so the Associated Press ran a piece this July on how injured athletes rebuild when returning to the old life is not on the table. The recommendation was not push harder, it was to go looking for goals and sources of meaning that could become the foundation of a new sense of identity, a new foundation, not necessarily a repaired old one. And then there's this guy who lost his voice. Maybe you've heard of him. John Bon Jovi. Yeah. He had vocal cord surgery. Four years he had to be quiet. This I mean, this June he told people he's fully recovered, and the word he used for the whole experience was rebirth. Four years. That's a long time to not seeing Bon Jovi. Living out of prayer! That's sad that his great voice was injured. I'm proud of him for recovering. That's crazy. I complained about six months. Nobody was tracking Bon Jovi's silence. There's no weekly broadcast where the man explained his throat, you know, like, well, and on in in other news, Bon Jovi is working steadily at not singing or saying anything, just so you know. No, he went he went away. Then he came back. And he did the work while he was gone. And the story only became a story once it had an ending. So that hopefully brings you back to my inbox. Everyone who wrote to tell me my career was over because I'd torn my jaw had only read one line of a much longer story. They weren't being unkind, they're being human, and humans only read the first line. So stop waiting for the world to read the whole thing. It's not going to. Do the work anyway. I had to do lots of exercises. Get it back. And it still kind of hurts. And that's okay. Faith and hope. Right after this. I have to be careful here, and I want to tell you why. I have friends who are speakers, real ones, working ones. Some of them are in a wheelchair right now. And some of them are fighting cancer. One of my friends lived to tell the tale of being paralyzed by brain surgery. And everything for them changed. So let me be clear about my own story. My problem is a small problem. I mean, against theirs, mine pales in comparison. And I know exactly what they would say. If I sat across from them and tried to rank it, they'd say it's not a competition. We all keep the promise when we keep going. And that's the sentence. I mean, that's the whole theology of this segment. And I did not write it. My friends did with their lives. We all keep the promise when we keep going. We make adjustments, we shift what has always worked so that the next moment still works. Nobody in that group is asking to be excused. They're asking to be lifted into the seat so they can get on the plane. In fact, their injury, ailment, or challenge has often become the greatest blessing of the person who gets to serve them. It's an amazing thing to watch my peers who do this. I'm thinking in particular of my dear friend Chad Hymas, one of the greatest speakers that's ever lived. I remember the first time I went somewhere with him. I had to pick him up out of his chair and put him in the car. And that was a fascinating experience. It was humbling, it was wonderful, it was sobering. I came home and was so grateful for all that I could do. And Chad knew that that would be my response because that's what he says everybody feels. And he allows us to serve him. Uh, there are many others like that in that sense that do that. And so God bless them. Chad's blessed many people's lives, he's blessed my life, and he's blessed audiences around the world who've gotten to hear his incredible words from his wheelchair. And he travels the world like 300 days a year, not on a private jet. He doesn't even fly with an assistant. He knows that humanity will help him wherever he goes. Okay? And that's part of the beauty of how he ministers to the world. So here's where I landed on the gift. I called it my gift for 42 years. My mouth. Ah yeah. My my move. My and you know, when the dentist told me as a boy that I had a gift, he wasn't describing something I built. I I didn't manufacture the shape of my own face. I'd have chosen Brad Pitt, right? But it was given to me, which means it was never mine, and the condition it is in was never the measure of my faithfulness. And that's not a religious technicality, that's a load being taken off your back. If the gift is yours, then a torn jaw is a loss of property, and you have every right to grieve it like a robbery. And I did, I felt real grief. But if it was loaned to you, then your job was never to protect it. Your job was to spend it well for as long as you have it. A steward gets asked a different question. An owner gets asked, How much is left? A steward gets asked, What did you do with it? Well, I did 20 shows with a torn jaw before I told a soul, other than my wife. I've done all my speeches and events this year in 2026 with a torn jaw. Nobody noticed it. It happened to me, and I still did all I could with what was working. And so that's my answer for those months. It's not an impressive answer, it's not a heroic one. It's just the true one, and I'd rather stand on a true answer than a polished one. So I'll say it the plain way. The gift is on loan. Got damaged on my watch, doing the thing I I mean, it was given to me for. And for every gig since, I've gone out and used the damaged version because the promise was never made about the gift. It was made about the person I said I would be. We'll transition into father time right after this. Alright, in father time, I'm gonna use this camera for a second. I hope you can see me alright. It's a little crooked here. I figured we'd go with a cool looking angle, because that's so bizarre, especially on the vertical version of this show. Anyway, in father time, I want to talk to you about 2020. I mean, you we all lived it. It's not like this is anything new to you. Do you remember that day in March when the whole world absolutely began to shut down? I remember I was at the gas pump at a Maverick gas station in Bluffdale, Utah. I was just coming back from being named uh, you know, an important person in a magazine, and I was excited about that. That and then I was feeling pretty good because I had a good year lined up. In fact, 2020 was going to be better than 2019 had been and 20 better in 2018, and those were some darn good years. Oh yeah. Well, if you know anything about what happened with live events for speakers and performers, then you know this story. I lost all of my work in one fell swoop. It was crazy. I remember getting the first call from the first client while I was standing at the gas pump, and they said, Hey, because of all that's going on, we're gonna have to cancel. And I was like, Oh man, can we reschedule? They said, eventually, whenever some of life comes back to normal, I said, Okay, I'm I'm here for you. I'm happy, I'm happy to be helpful. And then the next thing I know, I get in my car and I get another call from the next client who said the same thing. We're gonna have to postpone. And I said, postpone or cancel? They said, Well, we'll probably have to cancel eventually, but we're postponing it for now. One after another called me andor emailed me and texted me while I drove home. I'll never forget walking back into the house. I mean, here's this group of children, and we had just committed to go on a big trip. We were going to drive our RV across the country for the summer of 2020. I didn't tell them that that trip was canceled. I didn't cancel everything in our lives either. They still had things that we wanted, subscriptions and other things that eventually we were needing to get rid of so that we could survive. But I didn't tell them anything, and I just said, guys, we're gonna make it through this because they were watching the news and they were going, what are we gonna do? It looks like school's canceled, this is amazing, and I said, Yeah, we're gonna do some homeschool, this will be fun. Little did they know, the bank account was going empty fast. And so Father Time is often about carrying the burden alone and being okay with the fact that the kids don't need to know the story in real time. It's not to be dishonest, but eventually they learned, and eventually we had conversations so that, you know, mentally they could comprehend what was happening and they weren't thinking that they were losing everything that they loved in their lives. That was an interesting time. I had another interesting time like it. When I when I snapped my leg. So I tore my knee, my my knee came off the shin bone, yeah, my kneecap, it went up to the top of my thigh. That's a weird feeling. It's called a patella tendon tear. If you've ever seen it, usually athletes have this experience and you can see that they're writhing in pain. It's a very interesting experience. It was the first time I've had a major injury. Well, I had a lot of gigs because now that was 2021. Yeah, and I had I had wow, I had um worked my way back through 2020, got a bunch of gigs because I went virtual. I went online. I had people that helped me figure out how to make a camera and a microphone work so that I could be anywhere at once. It was amazing. I really liked the gigs I did during the pandemic and COVID, but by 2021 things were starting to roll back, and we were starting to get some gigs, and that was exciting. And then uh I had a client cancel on me when they heard that I had hurt my leg. They said, We can't have somebody at our event with a broken leg. I was like, really? Like, you might have speakers that have other ailments. They said, Yeah, but when we hired you, you were fully upright. We can't have you either in a wheelchair and crutches or with a brace on your leg on our stage. And I, we need your money, we need the money back, the deposit back. This client has never called me back, they've never checked on me. I find it fascinating. And equally, I'm I was frustrated with that. That was crazy because all my other clients were ecstatic that I was still showing up and still arrived with a brace on my leg. My brother had to drive me everywhere in a minivan because I could only sit with my leg straight for like this is my straight leg for like two months. It was bizarre. I had to sit on a chair with an ottoman on every stage, and I appreciate those clients that allowed me to do that. But I want you to think about the different times where you've had to work through whether your gift was broken or it was lost or something happened that you thought, well, I don't know how I'm gonna work through this. I hope you'll take courage in knowing that lots of people go through this kind of stuff. And one of the best ways we can get through it is to laugh. I hope I can make you laugh in this next bit because we're gonna do the funny factory right after this. As we roll into the funny factor, I would love to see who's who's watching. If uh if you want to comment and say hello or where you're watching from, that would be amazing. Whether you're on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, or uh X. We're grateful for everybody. And uh and and I you know I can tell you it's been so fun to do this show uh because I get lots of comments from people that I didn't know were watching, and I appreciate that. The Empress Creations, you're here! Hey, hi Jason watching on YouTube. Thanks. See, I have these people that show up a lot, and uh Empress Creations, you're one of them. Thanks so much. And uh I just appreciate the support and the help. You know, this show also turns into a podcast after it's broadcast live like this every week, and uh so you can find it anywhere you want listen to your podcasts, iTunes and Spotify and elsewhere. So let's do some let's do some funny stuff. You ready? I'm gonna share with you something that's quite vulnerable. Um I'm gonna show you my book. Not the book that you've heard me talk about that's like been successful. Uh I'm talking about this one, The Promise to the One. This is I'm very proud of this. This one is beautiful. It the plenty of these left on Amazon, but I'm just telling it's a great read great book. I'm talking about the book that came before that and the reason we worked so hard to make the promise to the one so great. You ready to see the book? Some of you know it's coming if you watch me before. This is the cover of my book, Signature Moves Before the Promise to the One. Look at that. Yeah, this was the cover. Now, if you're listening to this on the podcast, I apologize. You may just want to go to Minute 29 and check this out. This is the actual book cover. This was the back. There's me as the raptor. This is a book. I tried to sell this. This was the decision. A grown man looked at a photograph of his own wide open mouth and said, Ah, I should put that on the front. That's the one. Yeah, Empress Creation says even the book is hilarious. Yes, the book is hilarious. The book is hilarious. It's wonderful, it's got great content, but this cover, how do you get past the cover? I mean, people won't even read the past the first line of your story. How are you gonna get past this cover? What am I thinking? Nobody wants this on their table. I mean, you've got a nice living room, just imagine for a second. The candle magazines fanned out everywhere, and then this. I mean, come on. It's just a mouth, right? Visitors picking it up, going, is he okay? Is this a medical text? This is my actual mouth. I thought this was a great, great concept. Oh man. I I would give it to people and they would quickly turn it over and hide their hands and wash their hands. I mean, it was that graphic and scary to them. So the good news is my big fat mouth on the cover of my book. This book has mostly disappeared from the face of the earth. Thank goodness. Even though the content is rich, I put a lot of the content of it into the promise to the one. So you're you don't really need to go find it, but you can find it. If you find one, it's a collector's item, and it's also an embarrassing one, but you know, and both are true. It's a rare and humiliating artifact. So now this is how big I used to be able to open it, you guys. This was crazy huge, right? Uh uh Empress Creation says, Are you still selling it? I'm not selling it. You I don't I don't I don't claim it uh because of the cover. So you can find it on eBay, I bet, if you want. But here's how big I can open my mouth today, right? It's about a third. You know? Did you know that the quote on the top says, My dentist can use both hands? Signature moves. Yeah. All right, and I'm grateful for all the people that helped me with that book. I'm not disparaging the book, the content. The cover was a dumb idea. It was my idea. I I thought it was hilarious. My designer created it. We almost had it as a joke, and then I was like, we should just keep it. What a shame. That book did not sell, did not do well. But this is the as much as I can open now. That's the whole opening. My dentist can no longer use both hands. Do you understand what a downgrade that is for a man whose entire brand was the aperture? I mean, I used to be a cathedral, I'm currently a male slot. And people ask if I was always like this. No, I trained for it. I mean, when I was a kid, people would dare me among friends, like, could I could I fit an apple in my mouth? You know, like I could. I could fit an entire apple in my mouth. And there's no lesson attached to the apple. I mean, a group of young men asked a question about the limits of the human jaw, and I answered it with my body, and the bill came due 42 years later in front of a room of teenagers. So let this be the warning the apple deserves. Somewhere out there is a young man who can do something with his face that nobody else can do. Everyone's clapping. Son, I am telling you as a friend, the jaw keeps the receipts, buddy. We're gonna go into the fitness minute right after this. Well, as we wrap up the show today, my cousin Steve said something I couldn't put down. Steve Goates, my awesome cousin, and I were talking. We talk almost every week, maybe even multiple times, and he wrote to me that he was amazed that I had lived with this torn jaw injury without complaining or without even telling anyone. He had been on calls with me and other things and on Zoom meetings and was like, I had no idea, man. That was an example of doing all you can to keep the promise. And let me just be honest about why that landed hard for me. I I did not stay quiet out of nobility. I mean, I stayed quiet because I thought it was crazy to be going through it. I didn't know how to say it without sounding like I was finished. And then, of course, everyone thought I was when I shared, right? So I knew what people would say or think. But Steve saw something real. For nine months, I've had no way to make my jaw heal faster by wanting it more. Listen to that. I have no way to make my jaw heal faster by wanting it more. That's a strange thing for a performer to learn because I mean everything else in my career responds to effort. That's why I've had sleep issues, that's why I've been successful. All you have to do is rehearse more. Show gets better. Push harder, the room comes with you. Oh man, a torn jaw? Doesn't care how badly you want it. I mean, it heals at the speed your body can deliver blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the damaged tissue, and not one beat faster. And so healing is not a feeling, it is circulation. Yeah. That's not a slogan, that's plumbing. Tissue repair happens downstream of blood flow. So the question is not how motivated are you to heal your jaw? It's how well is your body actually delivering, and how well is the blood flow and circulation in your body. Most of us never think about it as something we could influence. We just think, well, that's just how my body is. And we think about the weight on the bar and the time on the watch, but we never think about the delivery system. We never think about, oh, how can how can my body function better from inside? Yeah, I mean, we go to the gym, we push, we run on the treadmill, we go hike and climb. Okay, awesome. These are good things. But this bridge that I'm talking about is where my family work lives. And it's exciting because we have something very special. It's called cardiomerical, and it's the world's best nitric oxide and vitamin D3 supplement. And nitric oxide, if you don't know what it is, is a gas molecule that we all have in our bodies when we're young. And as we grow up, it uh well, uh, I mean, until you're about 40, it really starts to dissipate. By 60s, it's almost gone. So you have to get it in natural ways. Nitric oxide, not nitris like you've heard at the dentist. I'm talking nitric oxide, this gas molecule. Uh, it tells your blood vessels to open so delivery can happen. Now, I'm not a scientist, my family's not a bunch of chemists, but my dad is a genius and he formulated it. He put this all together. This whole thing, it's amazing. It's won awards, it's helped people to get out of their prescriptions of medications that have been damaging their bodies and their lives. My brother and I, we help run this great company with my dad, as well as a great team of amazing people, all with incredible signature moves. They're only here with us because they're so good at what they do. So it's no coincidence that a family of loud people, which we are, ended up in the business of circulation. So for nine months, I've been waiting on my own body to do quiet work. I cannot see or rush. And it's just to heal this one part of my mouth, my jaw. I've given it every advantage I know how to give. The best advantage I can tell you is take your cardiomerical. It will actually push blood flow to the places that are injured. If you've had surgery, when I had surgery on my knee, my leg recovered in a third of the time. The doctors were like, What are you taking? And I said, Nitric oxide and uh cardiomerical, and they were like, Well, that's amazing. We we know about nitric oxide and we don't tell people much about that. So if you're interested in figuring out how you can improve your own health, your own blood flow, maybe somebody you know or love has fallen and broken a hip, somebody's in knee surgery or back surgery or having an issue. Maybe you just know somebody with bad blood flow and circulation that's on every kind of medication under the sun. These things aren't, I mean, they're necessary if you're gonna die, but like you can actually prevent a lot of those issues. And hopefully you'll take a minute to look at this. This QR code will give you a great deal. 60-day money-back guarantee. Keep the product, even if you don't like it. Uh, we're we're just grateful you give it a shot. It's a simple drink. You just pour it in your water, drink it up. I do this before workout, I do it after workout, I do it in the morning, I do it in the evening. Helps me sleep better. Even the days that I go, oh man, I forgot to take it last night. I realize, oh, that's why I didn't sleep as well. Because when you're sleeping, your body is recovering. You need to have that blood vessels be flowing freely and have that dilation. And so, Empress Creations, amazing. I thought it's only for cardiovascular health. Yeah, that's I appreciate you asking. I mean, it looks like it because it's called cardio miracle. Well, the cardio part is mostly just about how you can get your cardiovascular system to improve, and equally, there are a lot of things attached to that, but things like my jaw, my kneecap, uh, my blood pressure is totally perfect. 120 over 80. Even the doctor's like, Wow, man, you're you're in perfect health. You look great. Um, he goes, What medications are you on? I said, None. He goes, That's crazy. Okay, wow. So if you want to improve those things, you know, I I mean, you're not training to look useful for a season, let's say. You're training to still show up in the years when something has torn and uh nobody can tell. And Cardiomerical will help you with that. I hope you'll give it a chance. And thanks for letting me share about that. The show is sponsored by Cardio Miracle. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to work with this company and to see hundreds of people's lives changing because of it. We're ready to wrap up this show. Let's bring it home. Well, December 2nd, 2025, nine and a half months ago. I a pop, a searing pain, a room full of teens who laughed because they thought it was part of the bit. Yeah. Twenty shows after that, clients who never knew. An internet that read the first line and sent condolences to a man who was working that same week and doing shows without complaining. You know, last week I asked you what you were known for when you leave the room. That's your signature move. Today I asked you the harder half of it. And here is where I've landed after nine months of living inside that answer. The gift is on loan. It was never mine to protect. My friends who get lifted into airplane seats to go encourage strangers already knew that. And they say it way better than I do. I hope you'll check out some of those great speakers like Chad Hymas. It's not a competition. We all keep the promise when we keep going. So find a thing you can no longer do the way you used to do, and not to grieve it, but to look straight at it. Then go do the modified version tonight in front of whoever's in the room and let nobody notice. That's not a lesser version of keeping your promise. That might be the only version that ever counted. You do not get to quit being the raptor just because your gift feels broken. No. You just gotta share it. I'm Jason Hewlett. This has been the Jason Hewlett Show. I will see you next week, and until then.