Reversing Pharmacist Burnout

Hi, I'm Josh.

My journey to becoming a pharmacist started with an adolescent cancer diagnosis. 

I was 16 and in and out of hospitals fighting leukemia. When they were pumping me full of chemotherapy fluid the fluid spilled on the ground, a bright yellow neon fluid and they came to clean it up in hazmat suits. They were so scared of this fluid they didn’t want to touch it. But yet they were pumping this fluid into my body. 

It’s when I realized “that’s kind of messed up” and became obsessed with wanting to cure people. I became a pharmacist with the intention of helping people heal with medicine.

And, just a few years in, I quickly discovered the whole pharmaceutical industry and all those pills weren’t benefiting anyone but the pharmaceutical company. 

Even if it wasn’t intentional I saw that just keeping people sick all while I was working late nights coming in on the weekends and barely able to make payroll.

I finally had enough and came up with an idea to go beyond the pill and traditional dispensing model. 

Instead of keeping people addicted to profitable pills, I thought… “What If I coached people to be well through lifestyle changes to supplement their nutrition?”

Through this concept alone, my business started to become much more profitable than ever before, and I watched as my pharmacy transformed from being a struggling business into a highly profitable wellness based pharmacy business that made my community healthy.

It’s now my mission to help other pharmacists turn their pharmacies into wellness centers and help them become profitable so they can afford to stay home on the weekend to take their families on vacation and be home for dinner.