The Broken Instruments

On Episode 034, Patrick Ocampo joins The Broken Instruments.

Pat has been a brother of mine since we were young, growing up in a Community of Faith. Since then, we’ve ventured out into our different circles of friends, finding our individual career paths, and facing the challenges of Life.

Recently, Pat and I have reconnected about marriage and ultimately finding our vocations as Men. While he’s documented his journey through PT school, many have seen his latest post about a particular challenge that has brought him to depths that only he can describe.

In Episode 034 I asked him about his mindset, his inspiration, and his darkest times during this battle. Knowing Pat, his answers didn’t surprise me, but there were times where he made me realize that we relate now more than ever before.

00:00 Introducing PT Pat Ocampo

03:43 The Journey of PT School, Facing the Boards

07:40 Beneath “Positive Pat”

14:55 The Supportive Wife, The People Who Depend On You

17:20 Moving out to Los Angeles, Self-Discipline

22:24 Gym and Mental Health

24:37 Physical Therapy Found Me

27:24 How to Build Rapport as a Healthcare Provider

31:08 Physical Therapists, Chiropractors, & Future-Proofing

34:29 Mental Health & Future-Proofing the Mind

38:41 Emotional Responses from Body Adjustments

40:19 Expressing Real Empathy and Connecting with People

46:02 Success vs Significance, Purpose & Service

52:14 Embracing Failure, Reigniting Purpose

56:00 Serving God, Praying for these Moments

59:01 The Greatest Part of Not Passing the Boards

1:03:40 A Message to Your Future Self, Never Forget THIS Follow/Support/Subscribe to JORDAN V CARREON of The Broken Instruments: EPISODES 001-026: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_18KarF06lJFBX7bun_Z3L4NMRYKmd6 Instagram: https://instagram.com/brokeninstruments Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broken-instruments/id1546954284 Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/show/2ozoNreypMeoxpdiCemn7W?si=XLEjxFneTyu77Vf-hzh7Aw ABOUT Jordan V Carreon @jordanvcarreon A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations. YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCT8b3w6zPAx17-Pvagxkl3w Website: https://solo.to/thebrokeninstruments #JordanCarreon #PatrickOcampo #TheBrokenInstruments

The King's Disease is a Broken Instrument series about Fatherhood.

Part 2: FOUNDATIONS OF A MARRIAGE | BALANCING FAMILY & WORK | ANXIETY & DEPRESSION

Franco Pacoli, Husband and Father of (soon to be) 3. Some know him as the "quiet guy," and others know him as the guy who "always wants to real talk," but I know him as my respected, wise Godbrother. Now, we relate to each other even more on yet another battleground, that of Family and Fatherhood.

Growing up in a Community of Faith, living under the shadows of our Fathers, and dealing with the realities of Fatherhood, Franco and I sit down for one of the realest talks of The Broken Instruments Podcast.

Out of the countless conversations we've had off the record, I'm grateful to have recorded this one.

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ABOUT Jordan V Carreon @jordanvcarreon A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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The Queen’s Gambit is a Broken Instrument series about Motherhood.

Ruby-Ann Lopez, is an Educator, Makeup Artist, Entrepreneur, most importantly, a Wife, and Mother of 1.

Her journey to and through Motherhood has been riddled with challenges including Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Anxiety, and she joins the The Broken Instruments podcast as a beam of hope for Mothers, Women, and Families.

The picture she paints about the everyday (sometimes moment-to-moment) struggles in the Vocation of Motherhood shows that even in the darkness, the Mother’s Sacrifice is bright and beautiful.

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ABOUT Jordan V Carreon

A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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00:00 Why a series about Motherhood?

04:22 A Mother to a 'Queen'

05:49 The "Things I've Learned in Motherhood" series

08:53 Encouragement for Women & Mothers

12:50 Mental Health & Pregnancy

19:30 SuperDads, Creating Space, & Showing Up

27:49 Balancing Time, Money, & Quality Moments

33:44 Mothers & Babies Bond in the Hard Moments

39:36 The Postpartum depression/anxiety "Party"

42:48 Dealing with Mother's Guilt & Pattern-Interrupts

46:04 Vocations Give Energy to Parents

47:28 Faith Will Outlast Us & Simplicity is Everything

50:27 Broken Families Cycle to United Families

56:25 Taking Accountability & Risking Failure

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In this episode, my Wife and I talk about the rarity of long-term relationships that result in Marriage, building a Traditional Family, the Keys to a Healthy Relationship, and accepting the realities/practicalities of gender roles when raising our Children.

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ABOUT Jordan V Carreon A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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You can see it in someone’s eyes when they’ve witnessed outrageous misfortune, and there is a dark side to working in the health care field that is rarely spoken about.

This episode features Son Lam @mrdot and Kiana Garcia @kianagrams, two members of the amazing army of Frontline Workers who worked in the COVID ICU through each wave of the pandemic. Like many other health care workers, they witnessed things some of us couldn’t even imagine. The stories of Death may be dark, but for those who are fortunate enough to be living, they help us learn more about the value of Life.

Much respect to the Frontline Workers who have faced Death so much that they learned to embrace it.

“We weren’t preserving Life anymore. We were managing Death,” was what Son Lam told me the night that I met him. The conversation that we had that night led to what I call Episode 026 of The Broken Instruments Podcast.

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A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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Muscle Icon’s Dan Mendoza-Conner joins The Broken Instruments Podcast to speak on his story from Athlete to Founder. The perspectives he developed on his journey helped him construct the foundation of Muscle Icon, “the next generation bodybuilding enterprise.”

From athletes, to products, and to competitive events, Muscle Icon has become more than a brand. It is a strong Community that stands for the Athlete and the Opportunities that go beyond the Stage. Dan and his team at Muscle Icon work “to give people a way for authentic relationships with athletes, sponsors, and help fans relate to their journey.” It is more than muscle. It is more than a brand. It is more than a show.  It was a pleasure to meet up with the Muscle Icon team for this off-site podcast episode!

To the Muscle Icon Team, I commend and respect what you stand for and what you do for the individual as well as the Community. It was a pleasure to highlight this, once-considered “underdog” story, and share the message of discipline, hard work, and perseverance. I sense a healthy disturbance in the Bodybuilding Industry, as this company continues to take action and redefine what it means to be a Muscle Icon.  

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ABOUT Jordan V Carreon

A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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Sabine Shoepke, the 2021 Muscle Icon Inspire Award Winner, was always a bold, hard worker who had accomplished things many of us can only dream of. Her journey consists of leaving home at the tender age of 16, launching multiple businesses, and giving birth to her twins. Beneath all these great things was the underlying challenge and struggle to overcome adversity.

With $300 back in 2010, she created and founded Shiny Little Blessings, a boutique of handmade, custom jewelry each with a simple message of encouragement. It has now become a social enterprise, that gives support to children and families who are facing homelessness.

Today, Sabine tells her story with grace and pride. She was not always the strong, powerful Lioness that we see on social media. From a sufferer of domestic violence to a Powerhouse of Joy, Sabine says her saving grace was, of course, her children and in recent years, the world of bodybuilding. What a great pleasure it has been to speak with her, and it is my honor to host her on The Broken Instruments Podcast!

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The King’s Disease is a Broken Instrument Series about Fatherhood.

Gerald Thomas Doromal, aka Mr. D, is an Educator, Coach, Mentor, Husband, and Father of 3. As a child, his family left a life of wealth for the “land of opportunity," but as he lays-out, the opportunity is only the beginning. It was through sports, a tough adolescence, and guidance from both of his strong parents that he developed the “thick skin” that he hopes to instill in the youth of today.

Even more than his words and his story, his Family is his living testament to God’s abundant blessings and the path of hard work. Both of which come with the challenges that we all need to find ourselves and our Purpose.

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ABOUT Jordan V Carreon A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Caitlin Nepomuceno is an NLP Practitioner, Hypnotist, Time Line Therapist, and Master Life Coach. While many know her as The Heart Headed Coach, I best know her as my Sister in Christ.

I’m honored to highlight this Warrior and Guardian who is “helping people unburden their minds in order to end the war inside themselves.” In Episode 021, Caitlin shares her story of how she traveled back in time to heal her health, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Soon after, she realized that this was more of a spiritual battle than anything else. Through NLP and Time Line Therapy, her main vocation as a Master Life Coach is to help others alter their timelines to heal the current state of their lives in all aspects. For Marvel fans, Miss Minutes of the TVA, even Loki, ain’t got nothing on The Heart Headed Coach!

Follow The Heart Headed Coach on Instagram and Facebook: @theheartheadedcoach

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A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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While working together in Mental Health, I’ve literally trusted this guy with my Life in certain situations, and he knows he can trust me in the same way. From the Mental Health floor to our current paths in Life, @sittingbull91 has always had my back. He calls me his Mentor, but I always tell him that I’d rather him consider me family.

In this episode, we dive into why he thinks Mental Health is the most important aspect of health and well-being. We tap into de-escalation, dealing with confrontation, and how we nurture healthy relationships with friends and family.

When you go through numerous battles alongside someone, you end up forging a bond that won’t be broken.

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A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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The QUEEN’S GAMBIT is a Broken Instrument series about Motherhood.

I can’t think of anyone more fitting to join me on the kick-off the new QUEEN’S GAMBIT Series than my Wife and Mother of my daughter. Fully-biased. It’s my podcast after all!

For those who don’t know, Gracie and I were married in 2018, but our journey began over 16 years ago. Starting from such young ages, we LITERALLY had to learn as we went, and were shaped by the circumstances that challenged us both as individuals and as a couple. We have grown together on the path to the people we are today, and acknowledge that we have so much more learning to do. In this episode, we mark the entrance into a new realm.

The QUEEN’S GAMBIT Series will consist of stories of Motherhood and the ultimate Sacrifice given on the Queen’s side of the board. In my small way, I hope to highlight both Mothers and Fathers in order to shed light on the need for Strong Families of Virtue.

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ABOUT Jordan V Carreon

A Father and Husband working towards building a strong and virtuous Family. Professionally, I am Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator who specializes in the field of Mental Health. Since 2012, I discovered a vocation in helping others develop strengths in healthy communication to support functional relationships. Through my nursing career, my podcast, my business, and my Family, I look to help restore Strength in Families and Virtue in Vocations.

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The KING'S DISEASE is a Broken Instrument series about Fatherhood.

To kick off the new King’s Disease series, John Angelo Doromal (Husband and Father of 2) joins Episode 018 of The Broken Instruments Podcast to have a discussion about the adjustments, worries, and unending challenges of being a Father.

From day one, Angelo and I have lived our lives alongside each other through the ups and downs of becoming the men we are today. Coming together for this talk, we reunite in the necessity of becoming the fathers we want to be for our families.

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We started recording family videos for Amela at different points of her first year so that when she grows up, she can see her parents learning as they go. We planned to record this episode when she turned 1 this past April, so this podcast episode is long overdue. Still we believe it was necessary to have this talk and share our story.

Episode 017 features my Soulmate, my Wife, the Mother of my child. Gracie and I dive into the hard-learned lessons, and the tough realities of what it was like raising Amela during her 1st year of life.

This is our shoutout to all the parents who have endured to give their children the best lives that they can have, and our message to those who are bringing in the next generation with us. The journey TO Parenthood was just a warm-up to the challenges and lessons that we learned from our First Year as Parents. While we have so much more to learn and experience, here is our take on WHAT WE WISH WE KNEW about Parenthood.

Mela’s parents,

Jordan and Gracie

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The greatest form of Art is that which allows you to recognize the best in others.

Episode 015 features my older brother, Elcid Carreon, a writer, director, filmmaker, and a true renaissance man. In this episode, we deep dive into the timeless art of storytelling and how we are all influenced by a web of great artists, thinkers, and philosophers, all of whom express themselves differently.

This talk made me revisit and reflect on many things. Who are my influences? What is the purpose of doing what I do each day? How do I express my care and empathy for those around me? Is my imperfect life shaping up to be a great work of art?

If I am broken, can I still be built for Service?

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“But, are you a different animal AND the same beast?” -Kobe

In a given situation, a snake in the forest is just as beastly and threatening as a lion in the jungle. Mutual respect in all situations is the key for all of us to win in our own lives.

We don’t live the same lives, but we can all relate to the highs and lows in all stories. We also relate in the hard work, the grit, and the determination we all need to have to overcome challenges. It’s what makes us ‘A PEOPLE’: a group of individuals who share the same foundational character but hold different forms.

John Anthony Doromal returns for Episode 014 of The Broken Instruments Podcast to give us another deep dive into his competitive nature, and what it took to WIN his physique competition. He is now a sponsored athlete of @muscleicon , and continues to grow as a notable personal trainer and fitness coach, based in the west coast. As a regular on the podcast, he always brings conversations that push my boundaries and reignite my passion for highlighting the best in people.

Congrats again to my brother, @antstheticsfit . We got even bigger things coming.

Thanks for listening everybody.

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I found a hero in the mirror.

I was distracted long enough to see too much pride and too little action, two things that don’t constitute a hero.

Episode 013 is about how I had to get over myself and how no one owes me sh*t.

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(Recorded back in November 2020) The majority of my clients seek help with stress, anxiety, and worry. This isn’t the easiest thing to bring up out of the blue, but fortunately, a listener sent-in a question about this!

First off, Episode 012 brings anxiety to ground-level, then we talk about what actually helps us manage anxiety for the daily battle with Life in this world. BTW, hell yeah, anxiety runs heavily in my family.

As usual, my sister @a.carryon13 brings-in her very insightful perspective as a young woman who grew up in a strikingly different world than me. Our convos usually end up with heavy, but enlightening understandings.

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I really appreciate hearing from you and what topics you wish to dive into. Simply put, this helps me gain great InSight into the REAL issues we all deal with.

We are all Broken Instruments, but we can still make noise. KEEP THE QUESTIONS/TOPICS COMING Y’ALL! 

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In this episode, I do my best to healthily expose all the biases of Mental Health. Rather than just being aware, the real question is do we care enough to take action for ourselves and for others?

Every part of me has been telling me NOT to post about my Faith because this is "social media." So, I decided to post a LOT about my Faith. 

Regardless if people agree or disagree, stand firmly for who you are and what you believe in. Devote to something greater than yourself because it's never really about us and our selfish egos. Choose to be a DISCIPLE of the Way of Life that calls you. Discipline is NOT just for success. Real discipline is for living life with meaning and purpose.

Sacrifice yourself for the greater Good, whether people know it or not. That is what He did on Good Friday. This is what He does every time we live this life without Goodness.

With respect for and sensitivity to what our close friends and family are going through, my wife and I felt that we needed to revisit a topic that we discussed in episode 003. In that episode (recorded in September of 2020), we discussed our life after losing a loved one. It was a very special episode for us, but it was a talk that we had years after our losses. We (and many others) have been through a rough few months since the turn of the year, losing a few more beloved people in our lives. Now, it was time to discuss the feeling of actually going through another storm.

In this episode, we had another deep reflection of how it is being in the thick of our current life struggles. We have so much respect for the challenges that many people are going through right now, and we hope that we can just offer a few possible perspectives that are currently helping us navigate our storm.

Never forget that no matter how hard life can get, it is in the hard times when STRONG PEOPLE are forged.

We ask for Faith, and we're given an opportunity to understand what real Faith is.

No one is spared when the hard times hit.

I trust in God, and in His Almighty Strength.

The body is the mind. No matter your goal in life, the commitment to a specific craft can be the deciding factor in accomplishing one’s Life Masterpiece. Some artists sculpt with clay, and others sculpt with blood, sweat, tears, and powerful mindsets.

In this episode, we are given a rare peek into the mind of a Physique Competitor, Athlete, Personal Trainer, Coach, and Artist. John Anthony Doromal is a testament to how far humans can push themselves to answer life’s “what ifs.” There are so many more layers beneath the surface.

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(Recorded back in September 2020)

In this episode, Gracie and I (with Amela yelling in the background) open up the difficult topic of losing a loved one. It's rare that she opens up about her experience of losing her Father, but she was so gracious to have me share part of her story on the podcast.

With the losses of life in the past year (not to mention the losses throughout the lives of mankind), we felt compelled to talk about what has helped us get through the grieving process. In these hard times, I believe strong people emerge to support those in need. My wife is one of the strong ones.

Strength is not only in the forms of forward motion and backward motion. It's sometimes in the form of stillness. One of the many things I've learned from Gracie is that being still and allowing life to BE WHAT IT IS can be one of the strongest things we can do.

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IG: @gracie6367