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Jason Wersland

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“Had my kids take some scissors and I got, I told them, you have to cut all the Z's off of these things. And we still laugh about them, like complaining, I'm so tired, my hand hurts of cutting Z's off. So they've been involved since they were little.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think that in my life there were life moments that prepared me for that luck when it hit. But I have a deep belief that You do hard things, it always pays off. Anyone that does that, whether it's getting up in the morning and working out or going to school or taking a job, cleaning out oil tank, or whatever the job is, it's just gross and ugly and it's hard, it always pays off when you invest in yourself. But I also go back to that voice on my stairway when I was younger where like this is bigger than me and I think I knew that early on. You have to create missions and purposes that are bigger than you. I'm not going to see the full fruition of this. I don't know. There might be someone who's not even born yet that might benefit from this. And I think that's what keeps me humble and driving for the growth of this company and the story.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What role did you take on? So I was founder, and then eventually we called it chief wellness officer. But in the early days, I was just founder and product development. I was helping with. Ideas and stuff, but the business aspect of this company was Ben. This is the secret that I think happened with Ben and I. I knew at what point to hand it off to him, but he also knew at what point I needed to be involved. So he sees things through that lens that I don't. So to be able to create the relationship, the essence, the soul, and then hand it to Ben to be able to build the business model around it, that's really what made us successful.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So right now I think we have almost 600 plus patents. And so that's one of the ways we've protected ourselves. Companies like Amazon were amazing. They were shutting people down. So there were months in 19 and 20 and 21 where we'd shut down 500 resailers or sellers on Amazon because they're copying us. And we have a full-time team now at our office that that's all they do is enforcing cease and assists. They're scrubbing, looking for things on the internet of people that are copying us. So, yeah, that was the engine behind our protection is as important as our manufacturing.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we ended up raising our A round in September of 22 with North Castle Partners. And they were a godsend because they knew what we were trying to do. They knew the industry. And over the last couple of years, I think I've learned more than I have in my entire life.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was a client and he was also a client of a friend of mine that was his trainer. Justin loved the Tharragon, and he was the first person that said, I want to invest. So Justin came on. And then I started having. Celebrities that I worked with, like two chains and Daniel Craig and Jay-Z and his group. And we signed a deal with Ronaldo. We signed some other deals with Carly Kloss, James Harden. And what we ended up doing with these guys, we said, hey, you want to be an investor and an ambassador? So we had a little bit of investment and a little bit of payout for the ambassador side of things. So that model worked for us.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we did a strategic round. We raised between 20 and 25 million, end to 18, the beginning of 19. That wasn't necessarily to do anything other than just get the, it was about voices. I needed voices. And I wanted people that had a larger voice than I did to tell our story.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god, yeah, COVID was huge. I mean, our company went hockey stick. I mean, it was like just shot out. Our message hadn't changed. Take care of yourself, increase blood flow, take away pain, take care of yourself. You don't have to go to someone all the time for things. Learn your body. Think about how that resonated when COVID hit. Oh my gosh, I can't see a massage therapist. How can I take care of myself? And I think that messaging just started to build this underswell.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He calls me again. I'm like, what is going on? I answer the phone. He's like, Dad, dad, are you watching TV? He's like, no. He's like, it's the finals. And Kyrie just used the Theragon on TV. We sold out that weekend.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was on cam So, Kyrie's backstarted to spasm, and people don't know this, but you cannot take a product onto an NBA floor unless it is sanctioned and authorized by the NBA, unless The athlete specifically asks for that tool. So Kairi said, I need you to bring that out on the floor. But the rule is they have to cover it if it's not sanctioned or doesn't have the NBA on it. They have to cover it with something. It can't be seen. He covers it with a towel. Kairi's over there because his back spasming up, and he starts using this blue theragon on the back of his back, but he tries to cover it as he's moving it around the towel falls off. ABC zooms right in right at that time. I was driving to San Diego to a trade show, and I look at my phone and it's my son, and I'm like, I'll call him back in a second.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think Ben will tell you the same thing that he thought the same way you did. He's like, okay, hang on a second. How many NFL players are there? 1,500? How many baseball players are there? How many college? He's like, even if I go all the way down, that's like 30,000 athletes. That's not a business. But he was, I think he was okay with what we'd done at that point. So he literally sat down and started drawing these out. We got an engineer. We started creating the G2. We started selling G1 in June of 2016. By July of 2017, we launched the G2 Pro. And that was our first product we made that we had control of. We actually designed that whole thing.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Question. Yeah. So in that conversation, he said, well, listen, if I'm going to do this with you, I usually like to have a majority shares. And I said, I'm fine with that. Because I look. I needed someone like Ben. And I think what's really important that I learned is that I'm really good at what I do. And I'm not too good at some of the things he does. I needed someone to run the business side of things. And he's like, listen, I'm going to put in half a million and we'll use that half a million and we'll see what we can do with that half a million. But I get 51%. I'm like, done. Like, oh my God, thank you.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was a Friday. He said, What are you doing tomorrow? And I said, nothing. He goes, Can you come here in the morning? He said, Yeah. So I show up Saturday morning. We sat in that room from 8 o'clock Saturday morning until 3 o'clock Sunday morning building out this company.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of course you do. So he lays on the table face down and I treat him. And you can imagine I'd treated thousands of people at this point. I did the very best treatment I could on this guy. And he sits up off the table and he says, oh my God, what is that? So I kind of tell him in 30 seconds what it is. And we sit down at this conference table and he said, what do you want to do I said, honestly, I want to get this out to as many people in the world as fast as I can because I feel like someone's going to steal this idea from me. Literally reaches across with his hand, shakes my hand, and said, let's do it.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, if you think about this, and I hope people that are listening realize imagine the journey that I went through and now I'm sitting in a billionaire's office going to present him with something that I think changes people's lives. All stakes were there. And he walks in the door, he swings the door open, and he has this positive energy and this big smile. And I immediately felt like I knew him. So I'm like, hey, my name is Dr. Jason, and I have this Therag on it. And do you have anything that I could like work on that you particularly have with your body of issues with? I couldn't have planned it better. He looks at me and goes, actually, I have scoliosis. And I get massages on my upper back all the time to relieve the pain.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Ben Nazirian, Ben's family owned Qualcomm, Ben's dad was an amazing person in the business world. So their family had quite a bit of money. And so I was like, I got to go meet Ben. So I called his secretary, set up an appointment. Now they're in the Rolex building downtown Beverly Hills. He's on the top floor of the Rolex building. Imagine where I've come from, this Utah kid. Like scrappy, and I walk into this dynasty of a family's building. I'm meeting Ben, and I set up my little chiropractic table that had a hole burned in it, and I'm sitting there with two there guns waiting for him to come in the room.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I went back in Angela's office. I sat down and I said, I just got this bill of lading and I need you to tell me what's going on. And she said, you need to leave my office. And I said, I'm not leaving until you tell me what's going on. And she just stared at me, like, didn't say a word. It was the most... Like a movie. She just, it was like a stair down. And I said, Look, you tell him not telling me what's going on is telling me what's going on. So we're done. Went. An attorney, I had to go. She had 250 jigsaws in her warehouse, and she would not give them to me until I bought the company back from her. Those are the only 250 I had left. Literally. So I ran a U-Haul, got a sheriff, got a warrant, went out, gave her like $24,000 in a check, bought my Therra guns back.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was an owner, but she was paying me a commission on the sales of the product. None of that made sense to me. So I call my brother. I'm like, his name's Alex. I'm like, Lex, what's going on? He said, I don't, what are you talking about? So I called Davis, the guy in China. I said, can you send me the Bill of Lading for that last order? The bill of lading will tell me how much we paid for those products. Angela is telling me we were paying 150 I'm like something's fishy here. Davis sends me the bill of lading, and he was charging a seventy one dollars.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I walk out and I'm sitting in my car empty bags, and I've got a wad of cash in my hand. And I'm like, that's what I'm going to do. Not one of them asked me how much, not one of them tried to negotiate and they knew what it did for them because of what James was saying. So that was like a huge aha moment for me. So I come back, I go to the bank, literally load it into ATM, come back to LA, I go to Angela, go to her office, super excited about this, and she hands me a check. And she says, here's your commission. And I said, what are you talking about? So, well, that's what you make. And I started looking at it. It didn't make sense to me. I was asking a lot of questions. And she's like, well, we have this business partnership. I'm going to run the bank account and you'll just make a commission.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he goes back to camp, talks to him, and that guy calls me. His name's Jim. Jim calls and says, hey, James says you got more of these. How many more of these do you have? And I said, how many do you want? He said, I don't know. Can you bring me like 20 of them? And I was like, what? My dad had these big carpet sample bags that you could like fit a Volkswagen in. They're huge. And I packed two of those full of air guns, loaded them on an airplane. I flew out to the New England Patriots at the beginning of the 2014 season. I met them at their hotel. Belichick and the team let me set up in the lobby. I sold 20 Tharragons in 20 minutes. As fast as these guys could buy them, I have photos from it. It was the most amazing experience.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So what happened was I was working with a guy, a friend of mine named James Anderson, who played for the New England Patriots at the time. And he was so fascinated by what this did, he's like, I'm going to get this in the NFL for you. So I said, what does that look like? He said, well, the trainer at the Patriots is one of the best trainers in the league.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I get a call from my brother, and he's at Angela's office. Dude, I got a gun from Bob. I'm like, what? Yeah, I got this thing from Bob. I said, show it to me. So it's FaceTime. So he FaceTimes me and I'm looking at it. And it was still real grainy FaceTime at the time. And I said, turn it on. I want to hear it. And he turned it on and I could just hear that it was too high. The frequency wasn't right. So I'm like, hey, of course they didn't get it right. I'm that kind of an attitude. Tell her to tell him it's got to be slower. Three weeks later, we get another one. My brother calls, hey, we got this thing. And he turns it on. I was like, whoa, bring that home. So he brings it home. And it's this orange, ugly looking thing that had this attachment that Bob made. And I turn it on and I'm like, oh my God, this is it. This is it.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think I really believe now as I look back on it, we all have a bully in our head. And that guy was coming at me. Are you doing this is a waste of time? Why are you doing this? And I would kind of succumb to that. You know what? You're probably right. Like, I don't know why I'm doing this. It's not going to work.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“His business card said China Bob, and Angela paid for China Bob to come over and sit with me in a room in her office. He didn't speak in it word of English. So now I'm sitting here talking to Angela, and she's translating to Bob, and Angela doesn't know amplitude, frequency, like she doesn't know any of those things. I don't know what she's saying to him. So he leaves with his big smile on his face, and I'm thinking he didn't have a clue what I'm talking about. So I literally thought, guy, that that was it. I'm like, this is the end. I can't go any further. I really can't massproduce these”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So at that same time, my younger brother, youngest brother, was working for a woman that owned a distributor, a flooring distributor. Her and my brother and my dad knew her. And she was from China. And I was like, hey, there's a link. So, my brother says, hey, let me introduce you to Angela. So I go and I meet Angela. And then I moved into the first Theragun that I mass produced came from a connection that Angela met introduced me to. The guy's name was China Bob. Not joking, that was his American name.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Todd and I, we were doing some billing late one night. We'd gone down to Marie calendars and had a couple of drinks. We came back upstairs and it was like 1.32 o'clock in the morning. And he's in his office 50 yards away from me. I'm in my office and we're kind of yelling back and forth to each other what this thing would be called. The thumper, the rabbit. Like we're thinking of all these things it could be. And he's like therapy gun. And I hear him saying it and he finally yells out, dude, I got it. And I go in his office, I'm standing in his doorway. I can remember this. I'm leaning against the door. I'm like, what? And he goes, thera guns. I'm like, theragons. He's like, yeah, theragons with a Z because your name's Wersland with a Z. And I'm like, yeah, but my name's Wersland with an S. He's like, yeah, but people say it that way. So I think thera guns. So that's what it was called for a while. I actually have t-shirts made that says Theraguns with a Z.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so in 2014, I had six 1099 tax forms because I had six different jobs that I was doing trying to keep the money coming in while I was doing this on the side. So one of the 1099 jobs that I had was doing medical billing in the workers' comp and PI world. And that's kind of another story, but I ended up meeting this guy named Todd. Todd had a business that he was creating a software platform for medical billing in the work comp and PI world. And I thought that was a great idea. So that was what I was kind of doing at night. And I treated Todd one day in his office. And he was like, oh my God, dude, that thing's amazing. So suddenly now, Todd had the brains, the capital, and potentially the relationships in that work comp space where I thought, hey, maybe. This is like the path.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the first time I thought to myself, wait a minute, there's something here like I can make a couple thousand bucks a month doing this.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I would tell the guys, look, I can sell these for probably $400, but I'll sell them to you for $250, but I want your feedback after you use it. It's mandatory that you tell me what you would change on it. So, the feedback I got from that experience was I can't have a cable, I don't like having to screw the attachments on and off, like that takes too long. Other than that and the noise, it's great. Okay, that's awesome. How much would you, if I perfected all of those things, how much would you pay for that? This is what got me. Everyone said I'd pay $1,000 for that.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yep, and it was the cheat. Think about this. It was the cheapest jigsaw you could find. The vents on the side of this Kawasaki jigsaw, when you started it and you stopped it, you let go of the trigger, sparks would fly out. So that was my first iteration. But guy, people were buying them as fast as I could make them.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a plugin that had a shorter cable than your iPhone cables. I mean, it was, I couldn't get more than three to four feet away from a plug”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So I went to Home Depot and I bought 250 three inch bolts. Then I went to the Rivet section in Home Depot and I bought these little screw-on rivets that fit that bolt. And then I went to the fence post cap section in Home Depot, and I bought a bunch of fence post caps. And I measured a ball, a foam, toy ball, and it fit inside of that upside down fence post cap. I'd literally put super glue around it and I'd stick the ball in there after I put a rivet in it. I had a guy out in the valley in LA powder coat them so they were black and he welded them into the piece of this jigsaw and then I would put them back together and I would sell one jigsaw retrofitted with two of those ball attachments that I made”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I call my brother and I'm like, hey, I know it sounds crazy, but I think this jigsaw thing I'm working on is going to turn into, I want to figure it out. Can I borrow $2,500 from you? I'll pay you back as quickly as I can. He's like, yeah, sure. Gives me his credit card. I call this girl. I order him. And because I ordered $2,500 worth of product, my cost went way down. So now I had, it was almost $11 for each one of these jigsaws. So, I get 250 of these jigsaw And they're all around me in my life.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. I was still like, this was going to be a side project, a side hustle. Like, I might sell them in my clinic. I didn't know what I was going to do. I had to figure it out”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wanted 10. Like, I want to buy 10 of these jigsaws that I see on your website. What's the wholesale price? And she said, the wholesale price is $19.99. I was like, oh, wow. Can I get 10 of those? And she's like, no, you can't. You have to have an account. Oh, what do you have to do to have an account? So you have to have a credit line. And like, well, I'm not going to get credit. What do I have to do to order these? She said, well, if you place an order for $2,500 and you pay for that, then you have an account and will give you a credit line. I'm like, wow, where can I get $2,500?”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, in my clinic, and there were other. That were coming into that clinic from our school and friends. So I'm like, I'll just start. Like I just need to get some of these and start experimenting with them because I'd only had this one. So I was like, well, where can I buy jigsaws for really cheap? So I go to Home Depot and the cheapest one I could find was like $39. And I'm like, man. And it was a Kawasak I thought in the carpet world, there's wholesale, retail. I thought there's got to be wholesale. So I literally looked up Kawasaki jigsaws and there was a warehouse, like a, I don't remember what it was, but they were in Long Beach. But I just picked up the phone and I called them. And there was a customer service girl on the other phone and she was so cool. I said, hey, listen.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was like that voice. From the stairway was coupled with the universe, and it just open hand punched me in the chest. And I realized I got to figure this out.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. I mean, the number of times I heard literally that statement. Bro, that's a jigsaw. What are you doing? But watching this guy get better was fascinating to me. And now it's December of 2008 and I fly home to be with my family for Christmas. I taught this guy what to do. Said, hey, I'm going to be gone for a few weeks. Come back, walk in my office. My secretary is at the front desk. She's like, hey, your patience in your room. So when she said that, I was like, uh oh, like he may have digressed, maybe he did something he shouldn't have. I've been gone for a few weeks. Maybe he exacerbated the problem. I'm walking down the hallway and I hear the jigsaw going. And he looks up at me with this biggest smile on his face. And he holds it up and looks at me and goes, Doc, you have to figure this thing out. It saved my life.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what it was. I kept thinking to myself that someone's made this. I'll run into it somewhere. But in the meantime, I'm going to keep this thing low key and use it when I need to.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I would go and buy a bag of those, and I'd just tell him, hey, just replace this as you're poking. As the thing pokes through, because by But I went through the same experience with him.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My intention was to use this as a team. He would come in. I would show him how to use it. Okay, do this and do that. And I was seeing him have the same experiences that I was having. And so I just went down the same path. And I kept having to exchange the attachments because I ran out of practice foam golf balls. So I went to the Pets R Us and I bought these cat toys, the rainbow color foam cat toys.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he had, I'm not kidding you. I could have put my name at the top of his intake for him Seven millimeter disbulge, no insurance. I was doing his initial exam and I'm looking at him. And guy, this thing was screaming in the back of my head. He needs this. He has to use this. But I'm like, how do I tell this guy to use a jigsaw? So I asked him to come back the next day to bring his wife. I said, I have something I think that'll help you. Comes back the next day. I bring my Mikita jigsaw to the office in a Ralph's paper grocery bag. Think about that. Walk in, sit down, and I'm telling him, listen, I went through what you're going through. I just kind of came out of it, and I think this is going to help you. So I should take it out, plug it in, turn it on. His wife's looking at me like, what are we doing here? I put it on his shoulder, and in seconds, his shoulders drop and he lifts his chin and looks at me. He's like, oh, wow.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Movement is medicine and that I had to move By October of that same year, I had been to Utah, came back, walk in, patient, the new patient, sit down, my secretary hands me the paperwork, and I'm going through this guy's story, his injury. How old is he? Wow, he's the same age as me. That's weird. What does he do? He's a bus driver. He was in a head-on bus collision with another bus, and it threw him through his windshield into the other guy's windshield.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So January, February, March was just to keep me out of pain. And I learned that experience. March, April, May. Now I can kind of lift my arm and I'm realizing what it does for the range of motion of a joint. And then the next thing I started doing was getting myself better. I started using this as a recovery tool before foam rolling was even around.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was sort of problem solving in my head, thinking, okay, I went through all this sacrificed away from my kids, started practiced, all these things, and now I'm sitting here and I have this tool in my hand, and that number four changed the way I feel. There is something to that. And it will reveal itself to me later.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm moving it around and I stop and I found a spot and I'm like, oh God, that feels so good. I'm breathing, just moving it around in my body until I find a place that it feels good. I open my eyes and I look and it's on the number four. I'm like, that's interesting. There's something about that number, and I don't know what it is yet. I found out later that that's actually frequency. And four was 40 hertz. And if you look now, if you Google 40 hertz, it will come up with the reset frequency. There's a lot of things woven into that number. And I learned by firsthand experience. 40 hertz can do for the body”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, someone had to thought of this. I can't be the first one that's done this. Someone had to think of this. This has got to be out there in the world somewhere. But for right now, this is working and I'm going to make it work. So I did that through the night, woke up the next morning. I didn't like how barbaric that looked. So I was thinking to myself, huh, what could I do? I had a bunch of practice foam golf balls. I love golf. And I made a hole in the ball with a pen, sort of pried it open a little bit so it would fit over that distile And now I could just, it wasn't stabbing me. Now it was just hitting me. And I would sit there. And the Makita had a dial on the top that went from zero to 10. Was speed. Easy, right? Like, okay, I want slower, I want fast.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. So I turned that on, and as I'm moving it around, just back and forth really slow up and down my arm, my nervous system starts to slow down, and I start to get really tired. I hadn't slept for days. I think it was around 40 days. I got naps here and there, but I hadn't had a night's rest. And as I was doing that, I thought,”
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“Handheld Makita jigsaw Looking at it, and it's three in the morning, so Home Depot is not open. I don't have anything. I'm just kind of like, oh, I know what I'll do. So I bend the blade. I wrap a dish towel around the blade as tight as I can. And then I wrap some electrical tape around that to protect myself from the blade because I just wanted to see if this worked.”
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“Yeah, yeah, if you've ever been anyone cutting wood, they usually use a circular saw, which is. Round looks like a plate or this up and down thing. And this is the up and down thing Ran out, grabbed a jigsaw, brought it in my apartment.”
2024-05-20 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Therabody: Jason Wersland · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT