July 7, 2025 • 35 mins
From devastating brain tumor to groundbreaking innovation: discover how former athlete John Graham Harper turned personal tragedy into triumph with LumaFlex, a revolutionary red light therapy device.
In this compelling episode of LifeJacked, Dr. Ro interviews Harper about his remarkable transformation from a promising sports career to becoming an award-winning entrepreneur. After facing life-altering health challenges and brain surgery, Harper found hope in red light therapy, leading him to create LumaFlex - a portable device that harnesses specific wavelengths of red and infrared light to promote healing and optimize performance.
The conversation explores:
-The science behind red light therapy and cellular regeneration
-How personal struggles can spark innovation
-The importance of support systems in entrepreneurship
-Building resilience through consistent routines
-Balancing motivation with discipline
Harper's story powerfully demonstrates how setbacks can become stepping stones to success, with LumaFlex now holding eight global awards. His journey from patient to pioneer showcases the transformative power of resilience and innovation.
Ready to be inspired? Tune in to hear how one man's healing journey sparked a wellness revolution that's changing lives worldwide.
In this compelling episode of LifeJacked, Dr. Ro interviews Harper about his remarkable transformation from a promising sports career to becoming an award-winning entrepreneur. After facing life-altering health challenges and brain surgery, Harper found hope in red light therapy, leading him to create LumaFlex - a portable device that harnesses specific wavelengths of red and infrared light to promote healing and optimize performance.
The conversation explores:
-The science behind red light therapy and cellular regeneration
-How personal struggles can spark innovation
-The importance of support systems in entrepreneurship
-Building resilience through consistent routines
-Balancing motivation with discipline
Harper's story powerfully demonstrates how setbacks can become stepping stones to success, with LumaFlex now holding eight global awards. His journey from patient to pioneer showcases the transformative power of resilience and innovation.
Ready to be inspired? Tune in to hear how one man's healing journey sparked a wellness revolution that's changing lives worldwide.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you do when life throws you obstacles that
seem insurmountable, leading you to question every step you've taken
and every dream you've changed. Welcome to another episode of
Life's Act, the Resilience Podcast. I'm your host, Doctor Rowe,
and we'll be diving deep into resilience, innovation and transformation.
(00:20):
My next guest, John Graham Harper, knows this journey all
too well, from dreams of athletic glory.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To facing profound health challenges.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
John's story is a testament to the power of perseverance
and innovation. As a founder and CEO of Lumaflex, John
has revolutionized recovery through groundbreaking red light therapy, turning his
personal battles into a beacon of hope and healing for others.
Listen closely as we explore how John harnessed his setback
(00:54):
to craft a life changing solution that's impacting people world wide.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Sometimes life gives us lemons, sometimes it gives us lemonade.
Other times it gives us something entirely out of left
field that makes us say w T F. But no
matter what obstacles come, there is most often a way
out from the other side, and we are once again victorious.
(01:28):
My name is doctor Rome, and you are listening to
my podcast about resilience. Every guest shares a tragedy to
triumph story to give listeners like you the inspiration to
push through every single day. Listen now as my next
guest shares how they were life jacked.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Hi John, welcome. Thank you so much for being a
guest on my show.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How are you very good? Thank you so much for
that wonderful introduction. Yeah, I greatly appreciate the opportunity to
be obviously on your platform you've built. You know, you've
built this platform. You've got a lot of trust with
your audience. Everyone listens, they love what you say, they
trust what the information that you give out, and for
me to be able to have access to that audience,
(02:16):
I'm very appreciative. Thank you so much. Yeah, I mean,
I love sharing not only my story but obviously what
light is, how powerful light is, and how it can
help us in many aspects of our life. So yeah, again,
thank you so much, Doctor Rowe.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, do you know what really makes this show great
and the reason why I do it week after week
is because I have fantastic people like you from all
Walks of Life who come on and share their stories
and stories of resilience, right, and not every story is
you know, an extremely tragic story, right, and that you
(02:53):
know still exhibits what resilience is. Sometimes they're temporary setbacks,
but it's still inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Right, You're still your life is still jacked for whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Still show and show.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The listeners that you know, you can still bounce back
no matter what the setback is. And that's really what
fuels me to continue to have this show because I can,
you know, show and prove to people that you really
can get over anything and get past it.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, and I mean even it's not just about getting
past it, it's it's something that is written in our DNA,
Like the way that we level up as human beings
is my overcoming challenges. And when you look at all
of these people that are very successful in whatever aspect
of success or whatever definition people give, like you know,
whether they be a famous athlete or some you know,
(03:47):
the elong you know, flying rockets to Mars or you
know or whoever or whichever, how they've packed life is
they've they've embraced challenges, you know, you know, they've been
race these times and when you know, when everything really
turns terrible, and they realized that they level up when
they overcome it, so they go they kind of go
(04:09):
forward and they actually look for challenges because they know
when they overcome them, they go to another level. And
when I, you know, cracked this code, I realize it's
it's a blessing when things go wrong, when when challenges come,
you know, come your way and you really are at
the bottom, because that's when you can level up and
you you know, can go to heights that you haven't
(04:31):
been before.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh no, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Now, John Mini may not know this, but you started
out with an athletic career that unfortunately was cut toward.
So can you take us back to the beginning of
your own journey.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, I was very you know, I was a young
skinny boy that you know, wanted confidence, wanted wanted attention,
wanted sort of validation respect. So I found that in
I found that confidence in the gym, you know, you know,
building muscle that when you find when you talk to
most large you know, bodybuilders or athletes, if they all
(05:06):
have that similar background where they wanted confidence and muscle
is kind of like armor that you put on your
body to protect that little teddy bear. In sig you
could say, yeah, I was exactly the same. And I
kind of, you know, as I was, you know, excelling
in the gym, becoming very athletic, I wanted to always
you know, push the boundaries and get more confidence, more
(05:29):
attention and be able to like, you know, really validate
myself from my place on this planet. So that that
led into, you know, to sports. And I played rugby
quite well, and but I had to stop playing rugby
after an injury where I busted both my shoulders on
my left knee. It was quite something that I'll never forget.
I was on tour, I was with the whole team,
(05:50):
you know, and when this happens and you rush to
hospital and the whole team is it's like it's it's
something that sticks in your head, right, because I remember
that day very well and I thought I was on
top of the world. But yeah, obviously the universe wanted
wanted to teach me otherwise. But I you know, rushing
through because of a very long story. I'll try to
rush through it a bit. I went into amateur boxing
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because I found, you know, even though fighting combat in
sports in general's not it's not considered safe. In my opinion,
it was much safer than rugby, where you know you
can get a hit or you know, a collision that
you know if you're not looking, whereas with combat, you
know that your opponent is in front of you and
you know, you sort of there's a way in which
(06:33):
you can at least I could get this very aggressive
challenge met. But I could see my opponent and I
could you know, I could face some head on, you know,
nothing was coming from the sides, like like it wasn't rugby.
But after years of boxing, I started to get very
severe headaches and it was like somebody was pointing their
finger in the back of my head. It was like
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they were pushing into my skull. Really intense headaches, and
I went to the hospital and after doing a series
of scans, I found a tumor in my head, which
the doctor told me was from micro traumas to the brain.
So I wasn't allowed to do any more impact sports
and I had to schedule the surgery. I had to
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have the surgery in eleven months or else the tumor
would have grown, and using micro surgery wouldn't have been
an option, so they went the way they did is
they went into my ear to avoid like any severe
scarring or anything. They used this microsurgery to go through
my ear and get the tumor out and it was
(07:36):
about the size of my thumb. But it was a
very scary experience. It was something that my wife was
I'm very happy that she was with me the entire time.
Were sort of you know, it was something that brought
us very close together. But you know, that basically ended
any of my impact sports career. I pretty much didn't
want to. Yeah, I was motivated to do anything aggressive
(08:00):
after that for a long time. But I bet yeah,
it was a light at the end of the tunnel,
and light light being red light because my wife throughout,
you know, my time, you know, with all these injuries
doing being a being an athlete, she would always push
red light therapy onto me. And it was something that
I thought, you know, it was my wife is Chinese,
(08:20):
so that it was sort of this functuing medicine. You know,
I just did it to a peaser, and but it
worked and I would find not only relief, but like
I would find complete ceiling. But the device that she
would make me use with quite cumbersome. It was something
that was difficult to use as an athlete, right I was.
I was, it was it was like it with a
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lamp with a large weighted base and I would have to,
you know, drag this thing around the house. That it
did work. But it got me thinking about what light was,
and you know, I went down the rabbit hole learned
a bunch of amazing, you know, scientific studies, and that's
when I started my you know, the company that I
have now, which is Lumaflex, which is the world's number
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one portable red light therapy panel because it waterproof, is durable,
it's something that you can use all in one put
on your head, your shoulder, you know, your knee, your ankle.
So even though like looking back at that time and
I was devastated, I remember being in this hospital and
just thinking like, how the hell did I get here?
You know, who wants to be in a hospital with
(09:24):
this bandage on your head?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
No, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So I want to just kind of just the one
thing that is so inspiring about your story for me
as I was doing research and preparing for this interview,
is that your journey from facing a brain tumor, which
is devastating within itself, right, and like you said, it
was just this traumatic experience even through the surgery finding
(09:51):
out how large the tumor was.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And but you didn't give up, right because you could
have easily been like, you.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Know what, I can't do anything else. Also, that's you
know aggressive as far as a sports and athletics athleticism
that I have, I just, you know, I'm just going
to just sit at home and just maybe collect disability
or something.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
But that's not what you did. You decided to found
a whole company, right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You found it Lumaflex, which, like you said, is is
you know, a wonderful company bringing red light therapy to
you know, people's homes. And yes, light is one of
those elements in our fantastic universe and also has healing properties,
right because a lot of times people say, hey, you
got to get some vitamin D from the.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Sun, but not knowing that also there's this red light.
So what was you know?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I mean you kind of already shared a little bit about,
you know, your driving vision, but really let the listeners understand,
like what is the what was the driving vision behind
developing a revolutionary red light therapy divide?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, I mean from a from a perspective of a
competitive athlete like we I was always is about, you know,
what's the latest and greatest supplements, you know, protocol or
what's this. You know, it was all down to like
the hacks that you can do to optimize your performance.
And it was always pills and potions and needles and
(11:15):
things of this sort. And you get down, you know,
you sort of go down so far down that dark
path and you start to you certainly don't become any
more healthier, right because yeah, there's ways in which you
can optimize your performance, but they're not not not they're
not usually natural, and they certainly don't you know, support
(11:36):
you in you know, in the long run. So you know,
seeing something that's natural, that's from the sun, it's non invasive,
that has the ability to also not only recover, you know,
help you recover and help you steal, but also optimize
you for performance was so exciting for me. It was
so like I felt like, you know, it was almost
like a cheat, you know, cheat code. It was something
(11:58):
that anybody could well, you know, why didn't anybody tell
me about this? Why have I been spending all this
money you know on these non these very evasive artificial
ways of boosting my performance and recovery when there's natural
some you know of natural means readily available. Right, So
what's in you know what's outside? In sunlight, you've got
about you've got about fifty fifty four fifty five percent
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of sunlight is infrared light. That's what we can't see
about around forty percent is visible light. And then that
that remainding amount is that is UV light. So a
lot of people when they when you think about the sun,
you think of UV light, You think about the heart.
You know, the sunburn right or you know, which which
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you know catablyzes ourselves. But we don't ever really think
about read and infrared light, which actually gives our cells
energy and the optimal time to get read and infrared
light when it's pure reddin in forred light is at
sunrise and sunset. And that's you know, me being based
here in my there's beautiful sunrises, you know Thailand or
you know any any of those areas. If you've ever
(13:05):
been to Bali, there's beautiful sunrises and sunsets there. That's
reading in for red light and the later UV light
come you know, that comes into play later in the
you know, throughout the day, throughout in the middle of
the day. But what what does this light do? Right?
This the light gives our cells energy, so it pierce,
he goes to our skin and gives gives energy to
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the mitochondria. And the mitochondria is the engine of the
cell we all know, right, So giving energy to the
engine of the cell allows the cell to do what
it's supposed to do. So it's not really the light
that is healing you or optimizing you. It's giving energy
to your cells for them to heal you and optimize you.
And when when this, you know, when this was explained
to me, you know, from scientists who I'm still very
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very close friends with. You know, those six seven years ago,
I was, who has blown away with something? You know
I must not, you know, fell off my chair. I
thought it was so amazing how something thing that is
readily available to us outside at any you know, it's
it's it's always available to us throughout the day. But
we do want that pure reddit in for red light.
So creating devices, beds, panels, you know, portable devices like mine,
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we're getting those powerful rays of light that provide those
healing We're putting, putting them into a product, into a device,
and you can carry it around with you, you can
aim it at the area that you need, you know,
sell you little energy. And it's yes to me, it's
it's magical. It's something that I'm you know, every day
wakes me up out of bed with a big smile
on my face because it's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I love it. So with red light therapy, I mean
and with loom of Lex, explain to the listeners exactly
what is red light therapy, how do you use it
with the device, and what are the true benefits? Like
all the benefits you've named a few of them, and
of course we can use it in rehabilitation, but what
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are the true benefits of using the red light therapy.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
So with Lumaflex, we are using for red light, we
use six thirty nanometers. We use this particular nanometer for
red light that goes about an inch into the body.
And then we use eight fifty which is for infrared.
That's infrared light. That's the infrared nanometer that we use.
So those two nanometers are programmed into the LED, and
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each LED is both red and infrared, so it's a
dual nanometer. LED, So on the panel, I have forty
five LEDs. That's forty five red and forty five infrared
on the panel. So go about an inch into the body.
We can serface conditions on a surface level, like me
being an amateur boxer getting bruised in the face. You know,
(15:44):
this was something that i've you know, that you can
use for for skin rejuvenation. Right now, infrared is going
deeper into the body. That's addressing you know, chronic pain
like bone, you know, down to the bone into the joints.
You know, pain that is you know, plagued people for
for a number of years, and they can they can,
but then their cells don't have enough energy to address
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that pain. So now by giving energy to the cells
in that affected area, the cells now have a surplus
of energy which they can use to heal. That's that's
how it works giving So remember anything to do with
light is cellular energy. It's cellular health. Anything any whether
it be an LED mask you know, or a large
panel device, a bed you know, with an infrared sauna
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you know, or any sort of portable device that's addressing pain.
It's giving energy to the cell. It's giving you, it's
making your cells healthy. It's allowing your cells to do
what they're supposed to do. So three mechanisms occur. By
giving energy to the mitochrondia to the cell. Right, we've
got increased ATP, we have increased blood circulation, and we
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have anti inflammation. With these three mechanisms, there is an
array of outcomes that you can you can attain and
that can be even you know, hair growth. There are
devices now that you put on your head to support
hair growth. You know, the led masks I mentioned for
a beauty outcome, for addressing wrinkles, pimples, right, or or
allowing your skin to be rejuvenated and more and making
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you look younger. I mean the whole longevity you know,
live you know, living longer. With Brian Johnson, you know
how he's this guy he raves about how he wants
to live forever. He uses red light just for you know,
addressing his cellular and you're giving his body, his cells energy.
So always remember that whenever there's a question about what
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is light, always think it's it's giving our cells energy.
It's addressing the condition on a cellular level. It's like
it's like imagine you had your phone, you know, you've
had your you've got your iPhone, and your iPhone is
losing battery and you're trying to you know, you know,
use it. You're trying to use Uber, you're trying to
like play some phone game, or you're you know, you're
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using the chat feature social media, and the battery is
draining on your phone when you plug the battery, when
you plug the phone in with the wire. That's the
same as what light is doing to your body. So
a lot of questions people ask, it's like can it
do this, or can it do this? Or can it
do this? In my mind, it's like people asking me,
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can I use this application with that much battery? Can
I use this application with it? It's forget, forget all
of that you're putting. Just like you're plugging your phone
into the the wire, your body is getting energy on
a cellular level. So anything that the cell needs to
do or to be optimized to do, that's what light
can give you, right, it can give you that energy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
So you know, one of the things that I know
about innovation because this is definitely innovative. Right most time,
innovation it stems from personal challenges which you have your
through a recovery and.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Through you know, in going through rehabilitation.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So what do you think fuels your desire to do
this research to help others? Because you know, you can
have a product, right and you can develop a product,
but if you don't really do the research, because you
I can tell that you really have done the research
on red light therapy, like you know it through and through.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So what do you think drives this desire to do
this research?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And from my competitive background as an athlete, like, it's
you don't just want to make something that is the
same as everybody else's or do something that is the
same as everybody else. You want to I mean, it's something.
I mean, I'm not to be boastful of proud, but
if you're going to do something, just be the best
at it, or at least try to be the best
at it, like Lumaflex for design and innovation. I've won
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eight awards, eight global awards on this product. It's the
most heavily awarded product in red light therapy on the
planet now and I think it's people have asked me, like,
you know, you know, how did this whole how did
you sort of you know, in manufacturing and building the product, prototyping, testing,
all of this. It all just came from like, well,
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we're gonna you know, this idea, we're going to do it.
You might as well be the best, you know, like,
if you're going to if you're gonna compete, don't shoot
for like second third place, go for the first place.
I think that's kind of where it came from, at
least from you know, in my my head, you know
where I get the drive from. It's kind of just
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I like you, for example, running you know, user trials
in the early prototyping phase, right that development phase where
we're trying to get a product and we're passing it
out to people and getting feedback. So I wanted a
product that encourages consistency of use. Right, this is what's
very very important. It's I don't want to innovate on
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light therapy or on portable devices. I didn't want to
innovate there. I wanted to innovate on time. I wanted
to innovate on people's time and people using the product.
The product needed to adapt to the person, not the
person adapt to the product. Because if you have a
product that adapts into people's lives, then they're easy to
use it, it's comfortable, it's seamless. Then you create consistency,
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and that consistency is where red light therapy really is
a game changer. Somebody who is consistent in using red
light therapy on a day, you know, day to day basis,
if they have a condition, they running, you know, they
have a car accident, you know, or they're all beaten
up and bruised, or they have an injury, they will
recover much faster than if someone who had that same
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incident just starts using red light therapy. So consistency is
something we always see in success. You know, if you
want to lose weight, you want to be a millionaire,
there's things that you have to do every single day,
and there's redlight therapy is no difference. So, you know,
coming from a fitness background where I'm encouraging people to
be healthy, to exercise every day, ten minutes every day
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is better than you know, twice a week, and you know,
for an hour you're preaching this consistency message. I applied
all of that into the design, you know, and the
development phase of how we brought the product out, and
I yeah, I mean, I'm yeah, I'm very happy where
it came from I would I obviously, you know, there's
obviously trials along the way, there's failures along the way.
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So when I look back, I'm you know, I'm not.
I don't have this thing keen of like, yeah, I
planned for all of it to go this way, and
that's where I am right now. I planned, you know,
to be you know, the world leader in portable red
light therapy. It happens along the way, it just sort
of goes and you you just have to be open,
You have to be you know again, accept those those challenges,
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those pitfalls, those times when you stumble, and you know,
make sure that you learn from it and keep going.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
One of the things that you know, you mentioned consistency earlier,
and I know one thing that has definitely been consistent
for you in your life is having a strong support system.
And I believe that having a support system is crucial
and resilience.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Can you kind of talk about the key people in
your life who've helped you push through and how they've
influenced Loum Reflex's journey.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Definitely my wife. Definitely my wife. You know that saying
behind every great man is a great woman. I like
in my pessional career when I'm shaking hands with some
of these you know, the who's who's, whether they be
like a famous athlete or you know famous you know
person like even you know, the famous biohacker, like I
had the wonderful opportunity to meet RFK at the inauguration
(23:34):
on the twentieth in d C. It was you know,
it was part of his the MAHA movement, right this
make America healthy again. And his wife was there as well.
I see it all the time. I see the you know,
the wife being a great support to help you like
to grow people's careers and a lot of these careers
that I know, of these gentlemen that I know, But
my wife was exactly the same. My wife all the
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way to the you know, from the beginning, whether it
be like going through the surgery, lots of failures and mishaps,
lots of business failures, she was always there, never sort
of you know some that was never questioning or just
sort of she was very you know, rolling with the
punches and just saying, look, you know this is something
that you know it's hard now, but it's going to
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get better later. My wife, absolutely, like one, has been
my rock other than that has been my older brother.
Big shout out to my older brother. He's a very
he's my oldest brother. He's he's been a great, great
support obviously my mom, my dad, and then people that
I find like, especially in manufacturing and light therapy manufacturing,
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there there are some gentlemen that are really good at
what they do and they there was one one guy
in particular, Alan Derkashire, who's very very exceptional at what
he does with light therapy, very much more learned in
light therapy than me, but really wanted me to learn
and grow as well as a lot of encouragements from
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empowering me. And that's something I'll never forget. But yeah,
I mean the list goes on. There's so many people.
You can't You can't do it alone. You really can't.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, absolutely, And I know.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
One of the things about resilience is that it's built
through mindset gifts, right and especially as a business owner,
right as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You're an entrepreneur. I'm an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There are peaks and valleys, up and downs, you know,
ebbs and flows. So how do you maintain a positive
and forward thinking outlook whenever you're faced with big challenges
because of course challenges do come right, especially personally, but
most definitely professionally.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So how do you stay.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Positive even when you know maybe an order doesn't you know,
go out on time, or a product you know you
use the manufacturer and there's some defects that are discovered,
which all of those things like you can't even anticipate
that they You anticipate that they may happen, but you
can't control whether they happen or not, or any other
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random things, right that happen when as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
In your business.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
So yeah, that's that's such a great question. It's something
that I'm still learning and I don't think I'll ever
know how to completely you know, do that or or
or completely hack that part of my life. I because
there's this balance between discipline and motivation. You know, your
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motivation and discipline. You need to keep them both in check.
You have to have discipline to get the work done,
but motivation kind of gets here, gives you drive to
do it, and sometimes, you know, with big motivation, you know,
can also have like a very big crash. So I'm
always learning, you know, to have you know, my discipline
takeover when my motivation fails when things are rough, when
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the storm hits the company and we're all you know,
it's like there's that feeling like abandon ship. You know.
That's when you have to have that discipline and be
like no, just do the work. And I think everyone
who does any kind of fitness who is you know,
they get up and they go for a run, or
they go to the gym, or they're just used to
(27:17):
the gym. You know, before when it was as a
competitive athlete, I use the gym to excel in the sport.
The gym was a place in which I was, you know,
working on myself to compete somewhere. But now the gym
is a place of like peace. It's like it's where
I fix my problems, you know, if it's things are
going really bad, like those problems that you mentioned Exactly.
(27:41):
This happens all the time. It's so funny you said that.
I think you must have, you know, a little bit
of a background in manufaction because that happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
And when you I run to the gym, it's that's
the place where I've conquered before, like I own in
that space. So then that gives you this confidence to
then fix the problem outside where you know you're having trouble.
So definitely a regime. You know, that discipline of routine
is really important. It's so fundamentally important, you know, because
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the company now is growing at a very fast pace
and there's there's those growing pains where we have to
you know, do the you know, the refining, the back
end work we have to keep make sure we you know,
we're crossing all our te's and dotting all our eyes.
There's all those little things that need to be done,
you know, because we're moving so fast. So it's it's
(28:37):
something I'm I'm having to get used to right now.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I love it. Though.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
The key thing I think that you said is in
building resilience, especially professionally and personally, is keeping that motivation
and discipline. Instance, Right, it's so hard because it's easy
at time to just give up. It's so easy, right,
And a lot of times it almost feels like your
(29:04):
brain wants you to give up, right because I feel
like your brain is like, let's let us not do
this because it's safer than what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, I think it's the discipline that you know, if
people can develop discipline. I think that's what helps us
to go Nope, I'm going to see this through. I'm
going to make this commitment and I'm going to finish it.
I'm going to get to the finish line.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Which that's very much what athletes do, right. We got
to finish it. We got to get to the end.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Especially.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
What it's almost over.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But I do have one last question for you, and it's,
you know, for our listeners hoping to cultivate resilience in
their own lives, whether it's an athlete who is you know,
in recovery, or if it's an entrepreneur just trying to
make it day to day, you know, developing their company.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
But what practical steps or mindset.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Shift if you will, you know, like you said, with
the motivation and discipline, would you recommend based on your experiences?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I mean, I mean, I'm really I'm not really a
fancy person with my morning routines and my you know,
forty books this year that I've crushed and all, you know,
my podcast. I'm kind of a real meat and potatoes
kind of guy. But un usually usually when I would
always just something that really resonate with me as a
young kid, which I think always. I always think about,
(30:36):
is I remember hearing a quote. There are two quotes
that I just always seem to have in my head.
One was do do something that scares you every day, right,
And for me that was like to you know, just
embracing challenge, understanding that overcoming challenge is how you reach
another level. So do something that scares you every day.
(30:57):
And then the second is forward, always forward. And I
think there was some marine who said this, and it's
it's just something that is it seems simple, but sometimes
simple is what works, at least in my head as
an athlete. I'm not like the sharpest tool in the shed,
but I just know what it means to work to
overcome challenges and not be scared of when things go wrong,
(31:18):
you know, to realize that it's you know, it's you know,
it's just a you know, it's it's a down and
then what's coming is now a very very big up.
So you know, someone that's that's the best I got.
If you want to hear like some real magical gury stuff,
that's you know, I'll save that for the Tony Robbins
and on all those guys. They've got better advice. On that.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Hey, no, but you know what what I love about
each guest and you know, people such as yourself, you're authentic, right,
because sometimes it is something very simple. It's not something
that's deeply profound. It's something that we all have at
our fingertips that we can just grab and hold.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
On to and apply to our lives. That's really, it's
really what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Well to John for sharing your extraordinary journey with the listeners.
That means today your story turning personal adversity into innovation
is a powerful reminder of what resilience truly means.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I mean, you've shown.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Us that the profound impact that a change in perspective
can have on our lives and those around us.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So how can listeners find and connect with you?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
It's where I'm very much active is on Instagram, but
like at John Graham Fitness, so that's a lot of chats.
We have a lot of great ambassadors, influencers, athletes that
endorse Lumaflex, so that usually comes or always on. Are
always on Instagram and for email just John at Lumaflex.
(32:50):
Anybody who wants to really understand what light therapy is,
right you want, we have an education program we have
the Lumaflex Academy. We have the Found's Course. This course,
in my opinion, is the most well packaged course on
the planet. I want to go from zero to hero
in light therapy and integrating light therapy into their lives.
(33:12):
Anybody listening, if you email me, just say you know
I listened to the podcast. I want to have enrolled.
I'll enroll you for free. We sell it on the website,
but if you're listening, email me at John at lumaflex
dot com and then give me your email and I'll
enroll you for free. I just need to get the
education out. It's the way I see the whole, you know,
photo biomodulation industry as a whole growing and more awareness
(33:36):
coming to natural and non evasive means of treatment over
losing pharmaceuticals. So yeah, it's something I would I really
encourage everybody to jump on to join our education.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Wonderful. Any last words of encouragement for the listeners.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, I mean, if you're hit with a challenge, just
remember that this is like a gift. It sounds really
hard to think that, but once you you hack that,
once you learn how to hack embracing challenges that's when
you kind of go to God mode. Yeah, that's for God.
That's when you debate God mode. So embrace, challenge, the
(34:13):
way forward.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Love it now, John, As we conclude this episode of
Life Stack the Resilience Podcast, I hope the listener is
still inspired by your journey and motivated to transform their
own challenges into opportunities for growth, and listeners out there
don't forget the contact John so that you can be
part of the Red Life Therapy program.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I want to with you and your family.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
John, nothing but blessings and abundance here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Please take care. Thank you so much, John Graham Harper.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Everyone be sure to join me next time for more
uplifting stories and insights on resilience. Until then, keep pushing forward,
embrace the journey, and remember that every setback can lead
to a greater comeback. Doctor Rowe signing off,
What do you do when life throws you obstacles that
seem insurmountable, leading you to question every step you've taken
and every dream you've changed. Welcome to another episode of
Life's Act, the Resilience Podcast. I'm your host, Doctor Rowe,
and we'll be diving deep into resilience, innovation and transformation.
(00:20):
My next guest, John Graham Harper, knows this journey all
too well, from dreams of athletic glory.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To facing profound health challenges.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
John's story is a testament to the power of perseverance
and innovation. As a founder and CEO of Lumaflex, John
has revolutionized recovery through groundbreaking red light therapy, turning his
personal battles into a beacon of hope and healing for others.
Listen closely as we explore how John harnessed his setback
(00:54):
to craft a life changing solution that's impacting people world wide.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Sometimes life gives us lemons, sometimes it gives us lemonade.
Other times it gives us something entirely out of left
field that makes us say w T F. But no
matter what obstacles come, there is most often a way
out from the other side, and we are once again victorious.
(01:28):
My name is doctor Rome, and you are listening to
my podcast about resilience. Every guest shares a tragedy to
triumph story to give listeners like you the inspiration to
push through every single day. Listen now as my next
guest shares how they were life jacked.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Hi John, welcome. Thank you so much for being a
guest on my show.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How are you very good? Thank you so much for
that wonderful introduction. Yeah, I greatly appreciate the opportunity to
be obviously on your platform you've built. You know, you've
built this platform. You've got a lot of trust with
your audience. Everyone listens, they love what you say, they
trust what the information that you give out, and for
me to be able to have access to that audience,
(02:16):
I'm very appreciative. Thank you so much. Yeah, I mean,
I love sharing not only my story but obviously what
light is, how powerful light is, and how it can
help us in many aspects of our life. So yeah, again,
thank you so much, Doctor Rowe.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, do you know what really makes this show great
and the reason why I do it week after week
is because I have fantastic people like you from all
Walks of Life who come on and share their stories
and stories of resilience, right, and not every story is
you know, an extremely tragic story, right, and that you
(02:53):
know still exhibits what resilience is. Sometimes they're temporary setbacks,
but it's still inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Right, You're still your life is still jacked for whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Still show and show.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The listeners that you know, you can still bounce back
no matter what the setback is. And that's really what
fuels me to continue to have this show because I can,
you know, show and prove to people that you really
can get over anything and get past it.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, and I mean even it's not just about getting
past it, it's it's something that is written in our DNA,
Like the way that we level up as human beings
is my overcoming challenges. And when you look at all
of these people that are very successful in whatever aspect
of success or whatever definition people give, like you know,
whether they be a famous athlete or some you know,
(03:47):
the elong you know, flying rockets to Mars or you
know or whoever or whichever, how they've packed life is
they've they've embraced challenges, you know, you know, they've been
race these times and when you know, when everything really
turns terrible, and they realized that they level up when
they overcome it, so they go they kind of go
(04:09):
forward and they actually look for challenges because they know
when they overcome them, they go to another level. And
when I, you know, cracked this code, I realize it's
it's a blessing when things go wrong, when when challenges come,
you know, come your way and you really are at
the bottom, because that's when you can level up and
you you know, can go to heights that you haven't
(04:31):
been before.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh no, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Now, John Mini may not know this, but you started
out with an athletic career that unfortunately was cut toward.
So can you take us back to the beginning of
your own journey.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, I was very you know, I was a young
skinny boy that you know, wanted confidence, wanted wanted attention,
wanted sort of validation respect. So I found that in
I found that confidence in the gym, you know, you know,
building muscle that when you find when you talk to
most large you know, bodybuilders or athletes, if they all
(05:06):
have that similar background where they wanted confidence and muscle
is kind of like armor that you put on your
body to protect that little teddy bear. In sig you
could say, yeah, I was exactly the same. And I
kind of, you know, as I was, you know, excelling
in the gym, becoming very athletic, I wanted to always
you know, push the boundaries and get more confidence, more
(05:29):
attention and be able to like, you know, really validate
myself from my place on this planet. So that that
led into, you know, to sports. And I played rugby
quite well, and but I had to stop playing rugby
after an injury where I busted both my shoulders on
my left knee. It was quite something that I'll never forget.
I was on tour, I was with the whole team,
(05:50):
you know, and when this happens and you rush to
hospital and the whole team is it's like it's it's
something that sticks in your head, right, because I remember
that day very well and I thought I was on
top of the world. But yeah, obviously the universe wanted
wanted to teach me otherwise. But I you know, rushing
through because of a very long story. I'll try to
rush through it a bit. I went into amateur boxing
(06:12):
because I found, you know, even though fighting combat in
sports in general's not it's not considered safe. In my opinion,
it was much safer than rugby, where you know you
can get a hit or you know, a collision that
you know if you're not looking, whereas with combat, you
know that your opponent is in front of you and
you know, you sort of there's a way in which
(06:33):
you can at least I could get this very aggressive
challenge met. But I could see my opponent and I
could you know, I could face some head on, you know,
nothing was coming from the sides, like like it wasn't rugby.
But after years of boxing, I started to get very
severe headaches and it was like somebody was pointing their
finger in the back of my head. It was like
(06:54):
they were pushing into my skull. Really intense headaches, and
I went to the hospital and after doing a series
of scans, I found a tumor in my head, which
the doctor told me was from micro traumas to the brain.
So I wasn't allowed to do any more impact sports
and I had to schedule the surgery. I had to
(07:15):
have the surgery in eleven months or else the tumor
would have grown, and using micro surgery wouldn't have been
an option, so they went the way they did is
they went into my ear to avoid like any severe
scarring or anything. They used this microsurgery to go through
my ear and get the tumor out and it was
(07:36):
about the size of my thumb. But it was a
very scary experience. It was something that my wife was
I'm very happy that she was with me the entire time.
Were sort of you know, it was something that brought
us very close together. But you know, that basically ended
any of my impact sports career. I pretty much didn't
want to. Yeah, I was motivated to do anything aggressive
(08:00):
after that for a long time. But I bet yeah,
it was a light at the end of the tunnel,
and light light being red light because my wife throughout,
you know, my time, you know, with all these injuries
doing being a being an athlete, she would always push
red light therapy onto me. And it was something that
I thought, you know, it was my wife is Chinese,
(08:20):
so that it was sort of this functuing medicine. You know,
I just did it to a peaser, and but it
worked and I would find not only relief, but like
I would find complete ceiling. But the device that she
would make me use with quite cumbersome. It was something
that was difficult to use as an athlete, right I was.
I was, it was it was like it with a
(08:42):
lamp with a large weighted base and I would have to,
you know, drag this thing around the house. That it
did work. But it got me thinking about what light was,
and you know, I went down the rabbit hole learned
a bunch of amazing, you know, scientific studies, and that's
when I started my you know, the company that I
have now, which is Lumaflex, which is the world's number
(09:03):
one portable red light therapy panel because it waterproof, is durable,
it's something that you can use all in one put
on your head, your shoulder, you know, your knee, your ankle.
So even though like looking back at that time and
I was devastated, I remember being in this hospital and
just thinking like, how the hell did I get here?
You know, who wants to be in a hospital with
(09:24):
this bandage on your head?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
No, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So I want to just kind of just the one
thing that is so inspiring about your story for me
as I was doing research and preparing for this interview,
is that your journey from facing a brain tumor, which
is devastating within itself, right, and like you said, it
was just this traumatic experience even through the surgery finding
(09:51):
out how large the tumor was.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And but you didn't give up, right because you could
have easily been like, you.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Know what, I can't do anything else. Also, that's you
know aggressive as far as a sports and athletics athleticism
that I have, I just, you know, I'm just going
to just sit at home and just maybe collect disability
or something.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
But that's not what you did. You decided to found
a whole company, right.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You found it Lumaflex, which, like you said, is is
you know, a wonderful company bringing red light therapy to
you know, people's homes. And yes, light is one of
those elements in our fantastic universe and also has healing properties,
right because a lot of times people say, hey, you
got to get some vitamin D from the.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Sun, but not knowing that also there's this red light.
So what was you know?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I mean you kind of already shared a little bit about,
you know, your driving vision, but really let the listeners understand,
like what is the what was the driving vision behind
developing a revolutionary red light therapy divide?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, I mean from a from a perspective of a
competitive athlete like we I was always is about, you know,
what's the latest and greatest supplements, you know, protocol or
what's this. You know, it was all down to like
the hacks that you can do to optimize your performance.
And it was always pills and potions and needles and
(11:15):
things of this sort. And you get down, you know,
you sort of go down so far down that dark
path and you start to you certainly don't become any
more healthier, right because yeah, there's ways in which you
can optimize your performance, but they're not not not they're
not usually natural, and they certainly don't you know, support
(11:36):
you in you know, in the long run. So you know,
seeing something that's natural, that's from the sun, it's non invasive,
that has the ability to also not only recover, you know,
help you recover and help you steal, but also optimize
you for performance was so exciting for me. It was
so like I felt like, you know, it was almost
like a cheat, you know, cheat code. It was something
(11:58):
that anybody could well, you know, why didn't anybody tell
me about this? Why have I been spending all this
money you know on these non these very evasive artificial
ways of boosting my performance and recovery when there's natural
some you know of natural means readily available. Right, So
what's in you know what's outside? In sunlight, you've got
about you've got about fifty fifty four fifty five percent
(12:23):
of sunlight is infrared light. That's what we can't see
about around forty percent is visible light. And then that
that remainding amount is that is UV light. So a
lot of people when they when you think about the sun,
you think of UV light, You think about the heart.
You know, the sunburn right or you know, which which
(12:45):
you know catablyzes ourselves. But we don't ever really think
about read and infrared light, which actually gives our cells
energy and the optimal time to get read and infrared
light when it's pure reddin in forred light is at
sunrise and sunset. And that's you know, me being based
here in my there's beautiful sunrises, you know Thailand or
you know any any of those areas. If you've ever
(13:05):
been to Bali, there's beautiful sunrises and sunsets there. That's
reading in for red light and the later UV light
come you know, that comes into play later in the
you know, throughout the day, throughout in the middle of
the day. But what what does this light do? Right?
This the light gives our cells energy, so it pierce,
he goes to our skin and gives gives energy to
(13:26):
the mitochondria. And the mitochondria is the engine of the
cell we all know, right, So giving energy to the
engine of the cell allows the cell to do what
it's supposed to do. So it's not really the light
that is healing you or optimizing you. It's giving energy
to your cells for them to heal you and optimize you.
And when when this, you know, when this was explained
to me, you know, from scientists who I'm still very
(13:49):
very close friends with. You know, those six seven years ago,
I was, who has blown away with something? You know
I must not, you know, fell off my chair. I
thought it was so amazing how something thing that is
readily available to us outside at any you know, it's
it's it's always available to us throughout the day. But
we do want that pure reddit in for red light.
So creating devices, beds, panels, you know, portable devices like mine,
(14:13):
we're getting those powerful rays of light that provide those
healing We're putting, putting them into a product, into a device,
and you can carry it around with you, you can
aim it at the area that you need, you know,
sell you little energy. And it's yes to me, it's
it's magical. It's something that I'm you know, every day
wakes me up out of bed with a big smile
on my face because it's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I love it. So with red light therapy, I mean
and with loom of Lex, explain to the listeners exactly
what is red light therapy, how do you use it
with the device, and what are the true benefits? Like
all the benefits you've named a few of them, and
of course we can use it in rehabilitation, but what
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are the true benefits of using the red light therapy.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
So with Lumaflex, we are using for red light, we
use six thirty nanometers. We use this particular nanometer for
red light that goes about an inch into the body.
And then we use eight fifty which is for infrared.
That's infrared light. That's the infrared nanometer that we use.
So those two nanometers are programmed into the LED, and
(15:21):
each LED is both red and infrared, so it's a
dual nanometer. LED, So on the panel, I have forty
five LEDs. That's forty five red and forty five infrared
on the panel. So go about an inch into the body.
We can serface conditions on a surface level, like me
being an amateur boxer getting bruised in the face. You know,
(15:44):
this was something that i've you know, that you can
use for for skin rejuvenation. Right now, infrared is going
deeper into the body. That's addressing you know, chronic pain
like bone, you know, down to the bone into the joints.
You know, pain that is you know, plagued people for
for a number of years, and they can they can,
but then their cells don't have enough energy to address
(16:06):
that pain. So now by giving energy to the cells
in that affected area, the cells now have a surplus
of energy which they can use to heal. That's that's
how it works giving So remember anything to do with
light is cellular energy. It's cellular health. Anything any whether
it be an LED mask you know, or a large
panel device, a bed you know, with an infrared sauna
(16:30):
you know, or any sort of portable device that's addressing pain.
It's giving energy to the cell. It's giving you, it's
making your cells healthy. It's allowing your cells to do
what they're supposed to do. So three mechanisms occur. By
giving energy to the mitochrondia to the cell. Right, we've
got increased ATP, we have increased blood circulation, and we
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have anti inflammation. With these three mechanisms, there is an
array of outcomes that you can you can attain and
that can be even you know, hair growth. There are
devices now that you put on your head to support
hair growth. You know, the led masks I mentioned for
a beauty outcome, for addressing wrinkles, pimples, right, or or
allowing your skin to be rejuvenated and more and making
(17:13):
you look younger. I mean the whole longevity you know,
live you know, living longer. With Brian Johnson, you know
how he's this guy he raves about how he wants
to live forever. He uses red light just for you know,
addressing his cellular and you're giving his body, his cells energy.
So always remember that whenever there's a question about what
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is light, always think it's it's giving our cells energy.
It's addressing the condition on a cellular level. It's like
it's like imagine you had your phone, you know, you've
had your you've got your iPhone, and your iPhone is
losing battery and you're trying to you know, you know,
use it. You're trying to use Uber, you're trying to
like play some phone game, or you're you know, you're
(17:56):
using the chat feature social media, and the battery is
draining on your phone when you plug the battery, when
you plug the phone in with the wire. That's the
same as what light is doing to your body. So
a lot of questions people ask, it's like can it
do this, or can it do this? Or can it
do this? In my mind, it's like people asking me,
(18:16):
can I use this application with that much battery? Can
I use this application with it? It's forget, forget all
of that you're putting. Just like you're plugging your phone
into the the wire, your body is getting energy on
a cellular level. So anything that the cell needs to
do or to be optimized to do, that's what light
can give you, right, it can give you that energy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
So you know, one of the things that I know
about innovation because this is definitely innovative. Right most time,
innovation it stems from personal challenges which you have your
through a recovery and.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Through you know, in going through rehabilitation.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So what do you think fuels your desire to do
this research to help others? Because you know, you can
have a product, right and you can develop a product,
but if you don't really do the research, because you
I can tell that you really have done the research
on red light therapy, like you know it through and through.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So what do you think drives this desire to do
this research?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And from my competitive background as an athlete, like, it's
you don't just want to make something that is the
same as everybody else's or do something that is the
same as everybody else. You want to I mean, it's something.
I mean, I'm not to be boastful of proud, but
if you're going to do something, just be the best
at it, or at least try to be the best
at it, like Lumaflex for design and innovation. I've won
(19:39):
eight awards, eight global awards on this product. It's the
most heavily awarded product in red light therapy on the
planet now and I think it's people have asked me, like,
you know, you know, how did this whole how did
you sort of you know, in manufacturing and building the product, prototyping, testing,
all of this. It all just came from like, well,
(20:00):
we're gonna you know, this idea, we're going to do it.
You might as well be the best, you know, like,
if you're going to if you're gonna compete, don't shoot
for like second third place, go for the first place.
I think that's kind of where it came from, at
least from you know, in my my head, you know
where I get the drive from. It's kind of just
(20:21):
I like you, for example, running you know, user trials
in the early prototyping phase, right that development phase where
we're trying to get a product and we're passing it
out to people and getting feedback. So I wanted a
product that encourages consistency of use. Right, this is what's
very very important. It's I don't want to innovate on
(20:44):
light therapy or on portable devices. I didn't want to
innovate there. I wanted to innovate on time. I wanted
to innovate on people's time and people using the product.
The product needed to adapt to the person, not the
person adapt to the product. Because if you have a
product that adapts into people's lives, then they're easy to
use it, it's comfortable, it's seamless. Then you create consistency,
(21:08):
and that consistency is where red light therapy really is
a game changer. Somebody who is consistent in using red
light therapy on a day, you know, day to day basis,
if they have a condition, they running, you know, they
have a car accident, you know, or they're all beaten
up and bruised, or they have an injury, they will
recover much faster than if someone who had that same
(21:30):
incident just starts using red light therapy. So consistency is
something we always see in success. You know, if you
want to lose weight, you want to be a millionaire,
there's things that you have to do every single day,
and there's redlight therapy is no difference. So, you know,
coming from a fitness background where I'm encouraging people to
be healthy, to exercise every day, ten minutes every day
(21:51):
is better than you know, twice a week, and you know,
for an hour you're preaching this consistency message. I applied
all of that into the design, you know, and the
development phase of how we brought the product out, and
I yeah, I mean, I'm yeah, I'm very happy where
it came from I would I obviously, you know, there's
obviously trials along the way, there's failures along the way.
(22:14):
So when I look back, I'm you know, I'm not.
I don't have this thing keen of like, yeah, I
planned for all of it to go this way, and
that's where I am right now. I planned, you know,
to be you know, the world leader in portable red
light therapy. It happens along the way, it just sort
of goes and you you just have to be open,
You have to be you know again, accept those those challenges,
(22:35):
those pitfalls, those times when you stumble, and you know,
make sure that you learn from it and keep going.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
One of the things that you know, you mentioned consistency earlier,
and I know one thing that has definitely been consistent
for you in your life is having a strong support system.
And I believe that having a support system is crucial
and resilience.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Can you kind of talk about the key people in
your life who've helped you push through and how they've
influenced Loum Reflex's journey.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Definitely my wife. Definitely my wife. You know that saying
behind every great man is a great woman. I like
in my pessional career when I'm shaking hands with some
of these you know, the who's who's, whether they be
like a famous athlete or you know famous you know
person like even you know, the famous biohacker, like I
had the wonderful opportunity to meet RFK at the inauguration
(23:34):
on the twentieth in d C. It was you know,
it was part of his the MAHA movement, right this
make America healthy again. And his wife was there as well.
I see it all the time. I see the you know,
the wife being a great support to help you like
to grow people's careers and a lot of these careers
that I know, of these gentlemen that I know, But
my wife was exactly the same. My wife all the
(23:55):
way to the you know, from the beginning, whether it
be like going through the surgery, lots of failures and mishaps,
lots of business failures, she was always there, never sort
of you know some that was never questioning or just
sort of she was very you know, rolling with the
punches and just saying, look, you know this is something
that you know it's hard now, but it's going to
(24:17):
get better later. My wife, absolutely, like one, has been
my rock other than that has been my older brother.
Big shout out to my older brother. He's a very
he's my oldest brother. He's he's been a great, great
support obviously my mom, my dad, and then people that
I find like, especially in manufacturing and light therapy manufacturing,
(24:40):
there there are some gentlemen that are really good at
what they do and they there was one one guy
in particular, Alan Derkashire, who's very very exceptional at what
he does with light therapy, very much more learned in
light therapy than me, but really wanted me to learn
and grow as well as a lot of encouragements from
(25:03):
empowering me. And that's something I'll never forget. But yeah,
I mean the list goes on. There's so many people.
You can't You can't do it alone. You really can't.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
No, absolutely, And I know.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
One of the things about resilience is that it's built
through mindset gifts, right and especially as a business owner,
right as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You're an entrepreneur. I'm an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There are peaks and valleys, up and downs, you know,
ebbs and flows. So how do you maintain a positive
and forward thinking outlook whenever you're faced with big challenges
because of course challenges do come right, especially personally, but
most definitely professionally.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So how do you stay.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Positive even when you know maybe an order doesn't you know,
go out on time, or a product you know you
use the manufacturer and there's some defects that are discovered,
which all of those things like you can't even anticipate
that they You anticipate that they may happen, but you
can't control whether they happen or not, or any other
(26:10):
random things, right that happen when as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
In your business.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
So yeah, that's that's such a great question. It's something
that I'm still learning and I don't think I'll ever
know how to completely you know, do that or or
or completely hack that part of my life. I because
there's this balance between discipline and motivation. You know, your
(26:35):
motivation and discipline. You need to keep them both in check.
You have to have discipline to get the work done,
but motivation kind of gets here, gives you drive to
do it, and sometimes, you know, with big motivation, you know,
can also have like a very big crash. So I'm
always learning, you know, to have you know, my discipline
takeover when my motivation fails when things are rough, when
(26:57):
the storm hits the company and we're all you know,
it's like there's that feeling like abandon ship. You know.
That's when you have to have that discipline and be
like no, just do the work. And I think everyone
who does any kind of fitness who is you know,
they get up and they go for a run, or
they go to the gym, or they're just used to
(27:17):
the gym. You know, before when it was as a
competitive athlete, I use the gym to excel in the sport.
The gym was a place in which I was, you know,
working on myself to compete somewhere. But now the gym
is a place of like peace. It's like it's where
I fix my problems, you know, if it's things are
going really bad, like those problems that you mentioned Exactly.
(27:41):
This happens all the time. It's so funny you said that.
I think you must have, you know, a little bit
of a background in manufaction because that happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
And when you I run to the gym, it's that's
the place where I've conquered before, like I own in
that space. So then that gives you this confidence to
then fix the problem outside where you know you're having trouble.
So definitely a regime. You know, that discipline of routine
is really important. It's so fundamentally important, you know, because
(28:15):
the company now is growing at a very fast pace
and there's there's those growing pains where we have to
you know, do the you know, the refining, the back
end work we have to keep make sure we you know,
we're crossing all our te's and dotting all our eyes.
There's all those little things that need to be done,
you know, because we're moving so fast. So it's it's
(28:37):
something I'm I'm having to get used to right now.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I love it. Though.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
The key thing I think that you said is in
building resilience, especially professionally and personally, is keeping that motivation
and discipline. Instance, Right, it's so hard because it's easy
at time to just give up. It's so easy, right,
And a lot of times it almost feels like your
(29:04):
brain wants you to give up, right because I feel
like your brain is like, let's let us not do
this because it's safer than what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, I think it's the discipline that you know, if
people can develop discipline. I think that's what helps us
to go Nope, I'm going to see this through. I'm
going to make this commitment and I'm going to finish it.
I'm going to get to the finish line.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Which that's very much what athletes do, right. We got
to finish it. We got to get to the end.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Especially.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
What it's almost over.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But I do have one last question for you, and it's,
you know, for our listeners hoping to cultivate resilience in
their own lives, whether it's an athlete who is you know,
in recovery, or if it's an entrepreneur just trying to
make it day to day, you know, developing their company.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
But what practical steps or mindset.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Shift if you will, you know, like you said, with
the motivation and discipline, would you recommend based on your experiences?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I mean, I mean, I'm really I'm not really a
fancy person with my morning routines and my you know,
forty books this year that I've crushed and all, you know,
my podcast. I'm kind of a real meat and potatoes
kind of guy. But un usually usually when I would
always just something that really resonate with me as a
young kid, which I think always. I always think about,
(30:36):
is I remember hearing a quote. There are two quotes
that I just always seem to have in my head.
One was do do something that scares you every day, right,
And for me that was like to you know, just
embracing challenge, understanding that overcoming challenge is how you reach
another level. So do something that scares you every day.
(30:57):
And then the second is forward, always forward. And I
think there was some marine who said this, and it's
it's just something that is it seems simple, but sometimes
simple is what works, at least in my head as
an athlete. I'm not like the sharpest tool in the shed,
but I just know what it means to work to
overcome challenges and not be scared of when things go wrong,
(31:18):
you know, to realize that it's you know, it's you know,
it's just a you know, it's it's a down and
then what's coming is now a very very big up.
So you know, someone that's that's the best I got.
If you want to hear like some real magical gury stuff,
that's you know, I'll save that for the Tony Robbins
and on all those guys. They've got better advice. On that.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Hey, no, but you know what what I love about
each guest and you know, people such as yourself, you're authentic, right,
because sometimes it is something very simple. It's not something
that's deeply profound. It's something that we all have at
our fingertips that we can just grab and hold.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
On to and apply to our lives. That's really, it's
really what it is.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Well to John for sharing your extraordinary journey with the listeners.
That means today your story turning personal adversity into innovation
is a powerful reminder of what resilience truly means.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I mean, you've shown.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Us that the profound impact that a change in perspective
can have on our lives and those around us.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So how can listeners find and connect with you?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
It's where I'm very much active is on Instagram, but
like at John Graham Fitness, so that's a lot of chats.
We have a lot of great ambassadors, influencers, athletes that
endorse Lumaflex, so that usually comes or always on. Are
always on Instagram and for email just John at Lumaflex.
(32:50):
Anybody who wants to really understand what light therapy is,
right you want, we have an education program we have
the Lumaflex Academy. We have the Found's Course. This course,
in my opinion, is the most well packaged course on
the planet. I want to go from zero to hero
in light therapy and integrating light therapy into their lives.
(33:12):
Anybody listening, if you email me, just say you know
I listened to the podcast. I want to have enrolled.
I'll enroll you for free. We sell it on the website,
but if you're listening, email me at John at lumaflex
dot com and then give me your email and I'll
enroll you for free. I just need to get the
education out. It's the way I see the whole, you know,
photo biomodulation industry as a whole growing and more awareness
(33:36):
coming to natural and non evasive means of treatment over
losing pharmaceuticals. So yeah, it's something I would I really
encourage everybody to jump on to join our education.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Wonderful. Any last words of encouragement for the listeners.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, I mean, if you're hit with a challenge, just
remember that this is like a gift. It sounds really
hard to think that, but once you you hack that,
once you learn how to hack embracing challenges that's when
you kind of go to God mode. Yeah, that's for God.
That's when you debate God mode. So embrace, challenge, the
(34:13):
way forward.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Love it now, John, As we conclude this episode of
Life Stack the Resilience Podcast, I hope the listener is
still inspired by your journey and motivated to transform their
own challenges into opportunities for growth, and listeners out there
don't forget the contact John so that you can be
part of the Red Life Therapy program.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
I want to with you and your family.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
John, nothing but blessings and abundance here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Please take care. Thank you so much, John Graham Harper.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Everyone be sure to join me next time for more
uplifting stories and insights on resilience. Until then, keep pushing forward,
embrace the journey, and remember that every setback can lead
to a greater comeback. Doctor Rowe signing off,
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