I cannot help but share the most incredible experience this October 2025 attending the Anaheim Annual Lifewave convention with ~ 10,000 like-minded individuals from over 35 countries. What follows are just a few of the highlights and insights I deemed worthy of sharing with you.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
First – I learned a lot about air travel in 2025 on this trip. First, never take the picture till the plane actually takes off. Though we made so many human connections during this trip, we did not make the one that counted to get there in Chicago due to a missing paint chip on the plane in Ottawa. After a ton of stress figuring out another route to LA (by smartphone only – and I had no data – another hard lesson learned) we managed a 4 hour sleep in a hotel there after the most expensive taxi of my life! Lesson learned – Get an Uber and Lyft app.
The Conference
Day 1 – Two hours of science by X39 inventor and Lifewave founder David Schmidt. Next we were stunned and brought to tears by American Alison Levine, mountain climber, motivational speaker and leadership consultant. She is the author of On the Edge: The Art of High Impact Leadership and the executive producer of a documentary, The Glass Ceiling.
She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010, she completed the Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mount Everest. This reminds me so much of another RCAF hero of mine – my friend Major Meagan McGrath who never ceases to inspire me. She is a Canadian aerospace engineer, mountaineer and explorer. She has climbed the world’s top seven summits, visited the North Pole and she is the first Canadian to ski unassisted to the South Pole. She was flown back to Nepal to receive a medal for rescuing a climber and later awarded the prestigious OMM (Order of Military Merit).
Day 2 – We were inspired to stand taller and live bigger by Amy Cuddy, American social psychologist, author and speaker. She is a proponent of “power posing” and is the author of Presence. Her journey through a car accident and becoming a Harvard professor were both powerful.
The Evenings
Now the really fun stuff. We were surprised by 2 concerts! California iconic rock band and Grammy award winners the Doobie Brothers! It was a life bucket moment for me to witness Michael McDonald play piano and sing What a Food Believes.
The next night it was Grammy award winner British Jacob Collier. He is a musical genius phenomenon – you need to check him out. He raises your vibration at a live concert like nothing I have ever experienced. He can simultaneously play the piano and guitar and conduct the audience singing.
Sigh – then the surprise that came out a couple months before and were all anticipating – Sir Elton John as the finale concert. He did not disappoint and in his late 70s, played for almost 2 hours. He even remarked how lucky we were that our company hired him to perform a private concert. Who does that, right? I might have been a little nostalgic when he sang my high school favourite “I’m Still Standing” on the anniversary of the date I was allowed to stand on both feet last year after 2.5 months of non weight bearing one leg. I am almost through celebrating anniversaries with this leg injury I promise, but when your life is changed so dramatically in an instant, I am savouring every moment of my life right now. Candle in the Wind, Cold Heart, Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters were particular favourites and of course he closed with the timeless Your Song. We were 30 feet from this icon in a room full of loving, joyful, grateful people; I only wish I could have brought everyone there to savour this unforgettable experience.
Last but not least, we had the honour of attending the movie premiere of “Code of Creation”, a new documentary that will be a hit when it releases. Here you see David Schmidt (his genius is the focus of the film) and his Danish wife walking the red carpet. It will give you hope in these dark times. I am reminded today as I draft this with hurricane Melissa wreaking damage over the Caribbean of the humanitarian drone technology it touches upon at one point that might be able to bring emergency supplies to those countries hit by unprecedented hurricanes like we are witnessing right now. The world needs to be as ready as possible to help out those in need.
When the movie was over and most had retired, a few of us hung around the red-carpet area and we had the privilege of meeting two more heroes, director Mikki Willis and The brilliant David Martin. The latter is, one of the stars of this movie and 3 more of Mikki Willis’ films. Just 2 more “pinch me” moments on this trip of a lifetime. Now that I am home, I am still not sure I did not dream all this.
A Very Special Meeting
I also got to finally meet my Quantum Healthy podcast partner Andeea! She was even more delightful, funny and authentic than I could have imagined.
Pictured here with her is Beth Blackmore, a hugely inspiring fellow Ottawa-native brand partner of mine in this journey. I cannot forget Rachel Maurice who inspired this trip in the first place pictured with Beth – as they walked the stage celebrating their rank advancements into senior leadership.
How to Reverse Age
I also met Dr Jon Harmon more than once, who wrote this book and my current read. I attended one of his presentations online before coming to California and I noted that in person he does look and has the energy of someone 20 years younger. Hint – it involves a copper peptide.
I came away like 10,000 others there with a conclusion that David Schmidt, the founder of Lifewave and inventor (and who spoke to us for a few hours on the future of science, nutrition, light infused water, home energy, humanitarian drones – just some of his 200 patents), is one of the most generous, authentic and intellectual humans we had ever seen and whose goal is always to serve others. No wonder people were called to make a movie about him with “Code of Creation”.
The Trip Home
The flight home was a redeye so Mary and I lost so much sleep on this trip. Pictured here are Mary and I taking turns to “rest” in Newark airport. We made the most of it with Mary finding a piano to play at 6 am and us sharing our fitness routines together. I certainly paid the price when I came home with my first cold in ~ 10 years. But it came and went quickly thanks to a Lifewave patch protocol I tried. Nevertheless, my heart is full with the connections and new friendships I made and I am lit up with inspiration.
It’s ironic that personal tragedy last fall brought me here. Let me explain that statement. My tibial plateau break in 10 pieces shook my world last year and the surgery that followed. Along came the insight on the X39 patch from one Quantum Healthy podcast guest, Dr Rachel Maurice. It was fate that my podcast partner Andeea followed up on it with the motivation to help her mother suffering from an autoimmune painful disease. I was just here to listen and learn. We met Dr Rachel Maurice the very next day to find out more about what a stem cell phototherapy patch can potentially do.
Well we found out it can do a lot. Within a short time on X39, Andeea’s mother was able to stop her medication and be out of pain. I put the X39 on and by nighttime swelling in my ankle worsening over 6 weeks disappeared forever. I truly believe this patch has helped my recovery from this tibial plateau break that takes many down unfortunately.
See – one podcast episode can change your life! Now I am grateful to be part of this beautiful team who inspire, empower and embrace us all with open arms. May we always strive to be of service to others and continue to “Be and Share the Light”.
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