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The Entrepreneurial Journey Behind Stem Cell Breakthroughs | Dawne Russell DSH #1383
25 May 2025
Chapter 1: What is Dawne Russell's background in stem cells?
Yeah. So she's like, you know what? I'm doing this. Like, I really want to do this. So she did the stem cells. Sure enough. gone wow yeah so you know I got uh I got back home and I ended up leaving Costa Rica and I came back home you know I have two kids my daughter just had a baby so I'm like I gotta get back home I can't be like that hippie grandma that like lives down in Costa Rica and so um
I came back, I guess, almost a year and a half ago now. And Tina reached out to me and said, hey, you know, like, we're thinking about getting into this. Like, this changed my life. And she said, you know, I've been a doctor now for over two decades in the ER. And she said, and I really want to help people heal. Like, I want to help them with this.
I just don't want to be putting them on a bunch of pharmaceutical drugs and managing their symptoms. Like, I really want to help them in this, like, last leg of, you know, work for me. Yeah. So I said, girl, I'm in. Like, what are we going to do? What's this going to look like? And so what we've done is we've put together like little clinics, you know, so it's we can't do it in Canada.
So you cannot localize injections are what they allow in Canada. Typically, they're from your own like you can get donor cells in Canada, but typically they have you harvest them from your bone marrow or your fat, which is. Stem cells not even doing what they're supposed to be doing in the first place.
So essentially, to me, it's like a cortisone shot, really, you know, when you're doing that kind of thing. So we offer it in the U.S. only. And the nice thing about the U.S. is here they've got something called the research and development model. So we're able to operate under that. But we're not allowed to say it heals anything. We're not allowed to call it a treatment.
We have to call it therapy. But we don't care because we're like, you know what? We'll call it a therapy. We won't claim that it heals anything, although it does. And we'll just roll. Yeah, your customers will talk about it. Yeah, 100%. Well, because the results are just unbelievable. Better than any pill, I'd imagine.
Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I'm the one that it's like, I've had so much experience with it that it's like people will try to like, what about this? And what about this? And what about that? And I'm like, you know, there's all sorts of things that come up just because people aren't really educated on it. And a lot of Canadian doctors, like they're not even allowed to talk about it. Whoa. Right.
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Chapter 2: How did Dawne transition from aesthetics to stem cell therapy?
They're not even allowed to like, you know, I've got some very good friends that are doctors and they're like, we want to refer clients to you, Don, but like we risk losing our license and we are not allowed to be. I know. So, And I'm like, okay, well, you don't have to tell them that you, you know, I might just get them over here.
So, um, we do it in the U S so we're doing it in Birch Bay, Washington, um, New York, Vegas. Yeah. So we're doing pop-up clinics. And the nice thing about us is we just, we want to travel it. We're all in a position where we can really kind of do what we want. And that's what we love. Right. It's like we went to New York.
We just like we did a concierge, you know, service for a group of people saying it's like, yeah, we'll come to you. And that's the other way of keeping our costs down as well. You know, because you can go to Central America and there's some amazing stem cell clinics out there because, you know, stem cell therapy in Central America is normal medical practice. Really?
Like when you tell them over there, this is not.
Chapter 3: What are the benefits of umbilical cord stem cells?
Chapter 4: How does psychedelics play a role in healing?
Back where? Yeah. Like people with really bad rheumatoid arthritis. inflammation, pain, generally gone next day. Like I've seen this like week after week after week for two years. And I'm such an experience-based person. Like I'm that type where I'm gonna prove it to me. You gotta prove it to me. If I'm gonna talk about it or do it, like I gotta know that it works.
So we saw, I saw everything that two years from chronic pain, you know, like, like disc regeneration, autoimmune, Lyme, Crohn's, like just tons of things. And And I kind of did my own research because the place that I was at didn't really do a lot of like pre and post research on the treatments.
But I stayed in contact with a lot of clients from there because I really because I'm like, OK, well, this is cool. And I'm seeing this within 24 hours. But like, what's the long term on stem cell therapy? Like, what's the long term going to be? And I'm still in contact with these people. And they feel amazing. And it's just... So, you know, I was there for two years. I ended up coming back.
I have two amazing business partners, which is a doctor and a nurse. You know, so I got my heavies with me now. But I met them down there. And they came and did stem cell therapy. So they were down there to do ayahuasca. And they actually ended up doing stem cells with me when they were there. Because I was doing all the education and the consultations and whatnot.
And Tina, my business partner, Dr. Hills, she looked at me and she's like... how the hell, like no offense, but like I'm an ER doc for the last two decades. How the hell do I not know about this? And she's from Texas, you know? And I said, Well, I've got my ideas as to why. Because if I told you what I'm about to tell you and how much I've seen that this heals and fix things, that's why.
So you're out of business. Yeah. And she had been a power lifter back in the day. So she had been dealing with chronic back pain for years. Yeah.
So she's like, you know what? I'm doing this. Like, I really want to do this. So she did the stem cells. Sure enough. gone wow yeah so you know I got uh I got back home and I ended up leaving Costa Rica and I came back home you know I have two kids my daughter just had a baby so I'm like I gotta get back home I can't be like that hippie grandma that like lives down in Costa Rica and so um
I came back, I guess, almost a year and a half ago now. And Tina reached out to me and said, hey, you know, like, we're thinking about getting into this. Like, this changed my life. And she said, you know, I've been a doctor now for over two decades in the ER. And she said, and I really want to help people heal. Like, I want to help them with this.
I just don't want to be putting them on a bunch of pharmaceutical drugs and managing their symptoms. Like, I really want to help them in this, like, last leg of, you know, work for me. Yeah. So I said, girl, I'm in. Like, what are we going to do? What's this going to look like? And so what we've done is we've put together like little clinics, you know, so it's we can't do it in Canada.
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Chapter 5: What are the experiences of patients with stem cell therapy?
Chapter 6: What precautions should be taken when using psychedelics?
Yeah. Like people with really bad rheumatoid arthritis. inflammation, pain, generally gone next day. Like I've seen this like week after week after week for two years. And I'm such an experience-based person. Like I'm that type where I'm gonna prove it to me. You gotta prove it to me. If I'm gonna talk about it or do it, like I gotta know that it works.
So we saw, I saw everything that two years from chronic pain, you know, like, like disc regeneration, autoimmune, Lyme, Crohn's, like just tons of things. And And I kind of did my own research because the place that I was at didn't really do a lot of like pre and post research on the treatments.
But I stayed in contact with a lot of clients from there because I really because I'm like, OK, well, this is cool. And I'm seeing this within 24 hours. But like, what's the long term on stem cell therapy? Like, what's the long term going to be? And I'm still in contact with these people. And they feel amazing. And it's just... So, you know, I was there for two years. I ended up coming back.
I have two amazing business partners, which is a doctor and a nurse. You know, so I got my heavies with me now. But I met them down there. And they came and did stem cell therapy. So they were down there to do ayahuasca. And they actually ended up doing stem cells with me when they were there. Because I was doing all the education and the consultations and whatnot.
And Tina, my business partner, Dr. Hills, she looked at me and she's like... how the hell, like no offense, but like I'm an ER doc for the last two decades. How the hell do I not know about this? And she's from Texas, you know? And I said, Well, I've got my ideas as to why. Because if I told you what I'm about to tell you and how much I've seen that this heals and fix things, that's why.
So you're out of business. Yeah. And she had been a power lifter back in the day. So she had been dealing with chronic back pain for years. Yeah.
So she's like, you know what? I'm doing this. Like, I really want to do this. So she did the stem cells. Sure enough. gone wow yeah so you know I got uh I got back home and I ended up leaving Costa Rica and I came back home you know I have two kids my daughter just had a baby so I'm like I gotta get back home I can't be like that hippie grandma that like lives down in Costa Rica and so um
I came back, I guess, almost a year and a half ago now. And Tina reached out to me and said, hey, you know, like, we're thinking about getting into this. Like, this changed my life. And she said, you know, I've been a doctor now for over two decades in the ER. And she said, and I really want to help people heal. Like, I want to help them with this.
I just don't want to be putting them on a bunch of pharmaceutical drugs and managing their symptoms. Like, I really want to help them in this, like, last leg of, you know, work for me. Yeah. So I said, girl, I'm in. Like, what are we going to do? What's this going to look like? And so what we've done is we've put together like little clinics, you know, so it's we can't do it in Canada.
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