From Veteran to Wellness Innovator

implemented everything that the military has taught me to progress forward to wear them at today.

David Mitchell was a veteran health and wellness entrepreneur and the founder of Supreme Strip. He helps people optimize their health and performance through innovative wellness products that combine advanced delivery technology with everyday convenience. Where was that sort of entrepreneurial journey sparked for you? Some days I'm tired and I don't feel like doing it.

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with the sublingual strips.

“If you had to give one key tip for success, what would that tip be?”

Just never give up and just...

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She'll come up with the lead years and fall in the box is not on the planet. You can live your dream. Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. Again, I am your host Jason Tyler and I am joined today by David Mitchell. David, how you doing today?

Good, how are you? Doing good, doing good, doing good. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Appreciate you being here, appreciate you being here.

So, I want to just, you know, we're about to go into filming your episode here and I want to kind of ask you, what's your number one takeaway that you want the audience to be able to learn about through your story? Basically, that no matter what your past is or where you've been in life,

you can always, always reach your goals.

There's always an opportunity to turn it around. It's always, I'm a firm believer in that. Talk to me a little bit about, so you guys are coming in from San Diego. You're talking to me a little bit about the West Coast. What's your, what's your history?

“How do I get the David that is sitting across from you today?”

Well, I grew up in Palmdale, Lancaster, which is East, Northeast, LA County, High Desert. So I grew up there when I was 17. I joined the military, got stationed in Kansas. And when I came back, I ended up moving to Oceanside in 2001. And that's kind of where I've been ever since.

Gotcha, got you. So as far as, and this is something that I talked to with a lot of the guys on the show, like I have interviewed ton of guys that come in from the military, what was your experience of kind of like transitioning back into civilian life? It was tough.

So, you know, I was stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas. So it's kind of out in the sticks and there was really nothing to do. So it took me a while to get adjusted to that. But then getting out and moving to Oceanside in the city life. It took me a while to adapt back to that, you know.

So yeah, from what I've heard, I'm not military. I got a bunch of buddies from the military, but what I've heard is like, you go from this like super structured environment. And then when you come back to civilian, it's like, all right, no one's, I don't got, you know, no one's telling you what to do anymore.

Correct, correct, and then that took, that took a lot of adjusting.

“I think I came out strong in the beginning.”

And then I kind of, you know, fell to the waist side and kind of took a different path. And then went through a lot of trials and tribulations before, you know, I kind of got back on track and kind of implemented, you know, everything that the military has taught me to progress forward to where I'm at today. Now, when you mentioned trials and tribulations, it's been on that a little for me.

One of my biggest ones was, uh, May 7, 2000, 2008, I got into a, uh, motorcycle, or trials of five, I'm sorry. I got into a bad motorcycle accident, uh, almost, almost died. I spent six months in the hospital, uh, about six months. I learned how to walk again. So, yeah, I almost lost my dad in a motorcycle accident.

I remember I was growing up, he saw his right, he wrote a decadity and I would know when my dad was coming home, because I would hear him out here and come home.

And then, you know, I go to school, come back home and mom's crying and like, what's, what's going on here? And she's like, your dad's in the hospital, he was in a bad motor. He had to be airlifted. This was what 2000, almost hit 2004, okay, around that time. And broken clavicle, all the ribs on his left side shattered, I, I go to the hospital. My dad's like, swollen up like a balloon. And after that point, I was like, all right,

never going to ride a motorcycle. Like, that was just my takeaway from it. But it's, it's traumatic.

“It is like, that's a, that's an experience. And to come back from that, is it's own trial and tribulation, right?”

I want to address the elephant in the room here. You are absolutely jacked. Oh, talking to me a little bit about your fitness journey. So I've always, always enjoyed fitness. I started lifting weights in high school by 15 years old. Believe it or not, I was actually small, small kid. We had graduated. When I graduated boot camp, I think I was 145 pounds. When I graduated boot camp. So when somebody went to my

duty station, got in a little bit of trouble. My first weekend there. And so my

swiliter started taking me to the gym every day after work. And that's kind of where I really,

really fell in love with it. And I just, every, I've lifted every day since since the military. So it's just something I, I've grown to love and it's my passion.

“And it becomes a part of you. You've had a certain moment. Like, I'm, I'm in my gym journey now.”

And like, I try to keep my frame right around. I'm like six foot 200. Like, I'm like, I'm good right there. But when you start going, you're almost like, all right, it's kind of a chore. And then I don't know where kind of this switch flips. Like, oh, now I don't feel right if I don't go. Right, right, right. Like, that's like my major thing now is if I don't go to my days ruined, like I got to do it right before work, come in, get my lift in, move on with the rest of my day.

Now, talk to me a little bit about your, your company. How did, how did that start? Where was that sort of entrepreneurial journey sparked for you? Um, so in this particular case, um, you know,

I get up early in the morning, anywhere from 3 to 330 a.m. First thing I do is cardio in the

morning and a lot of the times I'm tired. What's your cardio of choice? Um, I, I, I like to mix it up.

“So um, I'm a big on stairmaster and I was about to say stairmaster. Yeah, it's stairmaster. It's tough.”

It'll get you. So um, but yeah, so you know, I, you know, some days I'm tired. I don't feel like doing it. Um, and so, you know, I've tried the coffee in the morning. I've tried the pre-workouts. And like, you know, once you do the pre-workouts, it's not fast cardio anymore. Mm-hmm. Um, and I'm only that. It's like, you know, sometimes I switch up my cardio. You know, I'll do sandbag workouts outside and, you know, I'm doing burpees and stuff like that.

You know, I got liquid sloshed in my stomach. I come burping up coffee and, um, so I might do this gotta be a better way to get caffeine. So I ended up buying and I bought some, uh, caffeine capsules online. I took one of those before it ended up just burning my stomach while I was working out. So um, um, yeah, I just wanted to come out with a different way to uh, to get caffeine into my system without disrupting the fast cardio, bulletin of it, without having anything sitting in my stomach.

And so we came up with with the sublingual strips. So um, to that's, that's my number one thing with a lot of, you know, all I do is interview entrepreneurs in here, right? And the number one thing that I see, but among all successful entrepreneurs is you identified a need and you were like, all right, I'm gonna solve it. Yeah. Right. We're problem solvers at the end of the day. Now going into, you know, starting this business, getting it up off the ground, it came from a

need that you had. How have you kind of identified or what have you seen in people that have come to you for this product? So there's a lot of, a lot of different needs. Um, so you have anywhere from college students. Um, oh, man, oh, killed with that in college. Yeah, you know, I mean, he's not about it. You fall on a sleeping class. You know, you don't have to like crack, you know, crack a can open. Um, you know, you just take a strip. It's good for delivery drivers.

There's all day, they're out delivering. Most of it, you look at any delivery truck. They have an extra truckers, truckers for truckers. You know, so it eliminates the need to use the

for traveling, it's great. Different time zones. Um, so you just, I mean, it's just easy. It's convenient.

“It fits in your pocket. There's, you know, hmm. So it's like having one of those like, uh,”

like the lystereen breath strips, you know, some, yeah. And we do make a mint flavor. So if you're going into a business meeting or whatever, you pop a mint one, boom. And now you're now you're showing up. Yeah. On point. On point with fresh bread. All right. I'm going to need. You got any samples on it? I did. All right. I'm going to need. I'm going to need that. Um, talk to me a little bit about now. You guys can't see this, but uh, we have a guest with us in the room. Talk to me a little bit about

you guys relationship. She, she's sitting back there. You guys can't see her. So, um, I met Jamie a long time ago. We actually worked together, um, you know, in the gym. Um, we ended up losing contact. I want to say in 2009. So she ended up going to the East Coast. And so we lost contact. And, you know, her life would on my life went on. Um, I ended up getting, you know, I ended up getting married, head kids, um, and long story short with that. She ended up getting cancer. She passed.

And it's hard for your long story. Shortly. Thank you. Shortly after that, um, we were, or I was in the gym and Lone Behold. She, uh, she walked by me. And I was like, I was, I was training with my buddy. And I go, is that girl's name, Jamie? He's all, yeah. And I was like, dude, I know her. And so, yeah, one of those moments really, where do I know? Yeah. And so, anyway, he called her over. And she came over and, um, we just started talking and hanging out and one thing led to another.

And here we are eight years later. So, thickest these. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I love to see it.

Now, we're, you know, we're here at inside success, right? Uh, my, my one question that I always ask

“of all my guests on the show is if you had to give one key tip for success, what would that tip be?”

To never give up, you know, failure is a man-made circumstance, you know? And it's something that we created. It doesn't come true unless you believe it. You know? So, if you never believe it, it'll never come true. So, um, just never give up and just, you know, you may find a thousand days not to do something, but one day you'll find a way to do it. And take notes while you're going through the thick of it, because I think a big thing for me was as I was, you have failures,

but you don't have to accept failure. I just do that in some learning experience. Yeah, that's all it's a lesson. Yeah, it's a lesson along the way, but if you don't implement on those lessons, I think a big thing that people do is they'll go through a loss or a lesson and they'll be like, man, like, all right, this is what happened. I can't do that. But then they go and make the mistake again.

“Right. And life is funny. Life will keep teaching you that same lesson slow over and over and over until”

you get it, right? So, like a big thing for me has always, at least now, I'm 33 now, like a big

thing for me in this season of my life, is I got to write it down. I got to write it down. I got to keep a notebook that says, hey, this is what I learned from that experience. Yeah, I'm a firm firm believer in writing everything down. Um, you know, on my, on my bathroom mirror, you know, I have my goals out, everything written down and, and, and so, and if you visually see it every day, like, I really believe it, it, you know, starts to get ingrained in you, and you start believing,

you know, and at that point, you're attacking your subconscious. Yeah. You start to believe it on a subconscious level. And then at that point, it's, it's a foregone conclusion. I throw it.

I think if you have, you know, if you never write your goals down, and you never look at them,

you'll, you'll never achieve them. They're just going to be thoughts. They're floating around up there in the evening. Amen. This has been an incredible, incredible pleasure. I'm really excited to see your episode, which guys, if you're still tuned in at this point, make sure you check out David's episode. It will be coming out shortly after this podcast episode airs. Where can people find you on social media, on the, on the internet? Where can they find your

products? Where are you located? Uh, so if you go to supremestrip.com, um, that's the website. You can order there. Um, and then we have Instagram. There's, uh, supreme strip and stem strip. Because we will be launching other products other than, um, other than the, the, the caffeine. So I do want to launch a, you know, a sleep one. Um, and we, we do want to launch a male enhancement one as well. So, all right. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. Well, you're going to have a

another incredible episode of the living or legacy podcast. David, um, I think we're pretty much ready to go and film your episode. No, let's go do it. Let's do it. All right, guys. Catch you in the next one.