Episode #166. The Moment Curiosity Turns Into a Career-Altering Breakthrough, with Dr. Harvey Castro, Chief AI Officer for Phantom Space

Summary

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Risk Never Sleeps Podcast: Episode #166

Title: The Moment Curiosity Turns Into a Career-Altering Breakthrough
Guest: Dr. Harvey Castro, Chief AI Officer for Phantom Space
Host: Ed Gaudet (with co-hosts Saul Marquez and others)
Date: December 16, 2025

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Episode Overview

This energizing episode spotlights Dr. Harvey Castro—ER physician, prolific author, digital health entrepreneur, and Chief AI Officer at Phantom Space. The conversation dives into how Dr. Castro’s trademark curiosity led to a series of bold career pivots and innovations, including the viral integration of AI into healthcare, the launch of digital health apps, and his current work at the frontier of space-based data infrastructure. Listeners are encouraged to embrace innovation, take career risks, and prioritize empathy in medicine.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Origin of "Dr. GPT" and Early AI Adoption in Healthcare

• Moment of Inspiration: Dr. Castro describes encountering ChatGPT in 2022, immediately recognizing its disruptive potential for healthcare.
  • Quote: “Within the first five minutes, my whole life flashed… I said, you know what? I’m going to write a book on how we can use ChatGPT in healthcare. And within five minutes… I started writing the book using ChatGPT.” (01:17)
• Innovation Pays Off: His book, ChatGPT and Healthcare, went viral, accelerating invitations to speak worldwide and leading to an advisory role with Singapore’s Ministry of Health.
  • Quote: “When they heard me speak, I came off the stage and they said, ‘Hey, can you do this for our country?’” (01:54)

2. Track Record as an Early Innovator

• Medical Apps Pioneer: Dr. Castro recalls developing one of the first iPhone medical apps, IV Meds, inspired by an urgent code blue situation in the ER.
  • Quote: “I’m coding a patient in the emergency room… and I’m looking at this thing called the iPhone One. The App Store had just opened. I’m like, what if I put that drug book on the phone?” (02:52)
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: He swiftly built and launched 40 more apps in response to healthcare problems he saw firsthand.

3. Building Healthcare Ventures Centered on Empathy

• Founding Trusted ER: Pushed by hospital constraints, Dr. Castro founded his own network of ERs, hospitals, and urgent care centers, with a mission of teaching doctors to treat patients with empathy—“the human touch.”
  • Quote: “I created my own healthcare system… My goal was to teach doctors how should we treat patients, not just the medicine.” (05:03)

4. Prolific Authorship, TEDx Talks, and Educator Role

• 27 Books and Counting: Ranges from AI in healthcare and crime to entrepreneurship. He uses poetry and memorable themes in his five TEDx talks.
  • Quote: “If you go on Amazon and type in Harvey Castro—27 books from using AI in crime to entrepreneurship to AI in healthcare.” (05:50)
• Memorable Line: “Do you know that where you live determines whether you live?” (08:02)

5. Personal and Professional Risk-Taking

• Literal Leap: Dr. Castro describes jumping off a 30-foot bridge in Florida purely for the thrill—mirroring the boldness in his career choices.
  • Quote: “A couple of years ago, I jumped off a bridge in Florida because everybody was doing it… and then it took me forever to swim to the side. I was like, what the hell was I thinking?” (08:47)

6. Advice to His Younger Self & Pushing Boundaries

• Staying True to Purpose: Encourages trusting one’s conviction despite skepticism.
  • Quote: “Even if everybody around me is like, Harvey, you’re ruining your career… I still went with it.” (09:54)
• Overcoming Doubters: Faced pushback for publishing early on ChatGPT in healthcare but persisted.
  • Quote: “I had so many people tell me, Harvey, you’re going to look like a clown with the ChatGPT healthcare… Don’t do this… And I did it.” (10:11)

7. Cutting-Edge AI Experiments: The Digital Twin

• Quantified Self / Digital Twin: Dr. Castro explains wearing multiple health monitors, housing his own data on a private server, and using AI to optimize daily decisions.
  • Quote: “I’m creating my own digital twin. I’m analyzing all these data points… leveraging AI… so then literally I can go through and be like, ‘Should I eat this or should I do that?’” (10:49)
• Public Digital Versions: Offers a voice-cloned, bilingual "digital twin" on his website for public interaction.
  • Quote: “It’s harveycastromd.com… There’s a digital twin there, so you can ask me anything. And one is cloned in English and one in Spanish.” (13:39)

8. Human Longevity and Self-Improvement

• Muscle Mass and Aging: Regrets not doing more strength training—advocates for building muscle to increase longevity.
  • Quote: “As we get older, your muscle mass determines your longevity… So we need to put on muscle.” (12:33)

9. Networking and Manifesting Opportunities

• Meeting Tony Robbins: Shares story of visualizing and actualizing a meeting with Tony Robbins, driven by being told it was impossible.
  • Quote: “Someone told me no… That’s fuel. And so tell me no, I’ll get it done. Two months later, I made it happen.” (15:02)

10. Current Role and Future in Space Medicine & AI

• Chief AI Officer for Phantom Space: Now leads AI initiatives focused on using satellites and space-based data centers to impact global healthcare.
  • Quote: “I’m working on a network that'll be outside of Earth to help change medicine on the planet.” (16:32)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Acting Quickly with AI:
  • “Within five minutes, my whole life flashed… I said, you know what? I’m going to write a book on how we can use ChatGPT in healthcare.” (01:17, Dr. Castro)
• On Empathy and Leadership:
  • “The healthcare we give… do we do that human touch, that empathy?” (05:18, Dr. Castro)
• On Defying Skeptics:
  • “Even if everybody around me is like, Harvey, you’re ruining your career… I still went with it.” (09:54, Dr. Castro)
• Favorite Life Line:
  • “Do you know that where you live determines whether you live?” (08:02, Dr. Castro)
• On Manifestation:
  • “Tell me no, I’ll get it done.” (15:04, Dr. Castro)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Introduction & “Dr. GPT” origin story: 01:03–02:18
• Medical app invention & entrepreneurial drive: 02:52–05:03
• Trusted ER and empathy in care: 05:03–05:18
• 27 books & TEDx reflection: 05:49–08:02
• Risk-taking: The bridge jump: 08:47–09:39
• Advice to younger self & perseverance: 09:54–10:37
• Digital twin and quantified self: 10:49–13:43
• Meeting Tony Robbins—manifestation in action: 14:40–15:38
• Chief AI Officer for Phantom Space & future focus: 16:32–16:59

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How to Connect with Dr. Castro

• Website & digital twin demos: harveycastromd.com
• LinkedIn & YouTube: Frequent posts on medical AI, digital health, life hacks & longevity
• Book list: Search "Harvey Castro" on Amazon

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Tone & Takeaways

Dr. Castro’s animated storytelling, humility, humor, and unshakeable drive shine. This is a candid, high-energy, and inspiring discussion about harnessing curiosity and not being afraid to leap—whether into water, entrepreneurship, or bleeding-edge technology.

Listeners learn:

• How core values, empathy, and adaptability fuel innovation
• The importance of defying doubters and risking failure
• Practical and philosophical views on technology, health, and longevity

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Recommended for anyone interested in digital health transformation, leadership, and the mindset behind career-altering breakthroughs.

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Transcript

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Foreign.

[Ed Gaudet]

Welcome to Risk Never Sleeps, where we meet and get to know the people delivering patient care and protecting patient safety. I'm your host, Ed Gaudet.

[Saul Marquez]

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the AI Med Insights Podcast. Saul Marquez here. And I'm excited to showcase our next guest with my amazing co host, Ed Gaudette.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You soul.

[Saul Marquez]

We are here on day two of the event. It's been energizing and today at this moment, we have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Harvey Castro. He is the Chief AI Officer at Phantom Space. He's an influencer. He's doing a lot of things. We're going to get a chance to get his perspectives on AI, the world, his life.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

He's Dr. GPT.

[Saul Marquez]

Dr. GPT. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Look at that. I love that little pin he's got there. And he's got the universe around his neck.

[Saul Marquez]

He does. Harvey, welcome.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Welcome, Harvey. Yeah, awesome. Well, honored to be here. I'm excited. I really am. And this has been a great conference so far.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

So good energy, good vibe. Oh, we're going to have fun on this one, I think. All right, first question. Why Dr. GPT?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

It's a good question. So in 2022, when ChatGPT literally came out, I happened to be on my computer and I saw this thing called ChatGPT. And literally within the first five minutes, my whole life flashed. And I said, you know what? I'm gonna write a book on how can we use ChatGPT in healthcare. And within five minutes of me trying ChatGPT, I started writing the book using ChatGPT. Using ChatGPT. Oh, fast forward three weeks later, it was World Market, and people were like, what is ChatGPT? And when in the world. What do you mean you're using this in healthcare? And I'm like, A to Z, this is how you do it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Ye.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

And that book went viral.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

What's the book called?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

ChatGPT and Healthcare. And because of it, I became invited to all these talks around the world. The best one was the Singapore government Ministry of Health was in the public, and when they heard me speak, I came off the stage and said, hey, can you do this for our country? And if you can, you can be an advisor for our country. So I'm an advisor for the country of Singapore, specifically the Ministry of Health.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Damn, that's a mic drop moment.

[Saul Marquez]

It definitely is. Wow.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I don't even know what question to ask this guy. Now, today's what to put us up with. Today we've got crazy guests on, lots of talent. Unbelievable.

[Saul Marquez]

And that's the type of caliber of people that come to aimed the caliber, like Dr. Castro here. What brings you to this conference, Harvey?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I was invited to speak. Dr. Chang and I are good friends. Obviously, when that book came out, he was like, harvey, what is this thing called ChatGPT in healthcare? And explain to me, what do you mean? How you applying it already in healthcare?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Guy who got him on the train.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

So though he actually, in his fairness, he had been doing it way before me. I just call myself the new kid on the block. Just to give you a little background. When the iPhone came out, I'm the first person in the world that created an app called Ivy Meds. But let me tell you the story behind the story. I was coding a patient in the emergency room. A person was literally dying in front of me. And I told the nurse, hey, we need to start this medication now. And she's like, one second, doc. She got a textbook, she got a calculator. And I'm looking at the guy dying. I'm like, doing cpr. I'm like, gosh, we need this medicine, like, yesterday. Like, I'm sorry. Like, we gotta go. And I'm looking at this thing called the iPhone One, and the app store had just opened. I'm like, you know what? What if I put that drug book on the phone and you tap it three times and boom, there's the dose. So I did that, and within three weeks also, that thing went viral. Like, I put it on the app Store and the whole world, it was in the top 10. I did another 40 applications after that. And so I've always been this person, like, there's a problem. No, let's fix it. And so the.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You have a virus of innovation.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I love to do it. Yeah, I love to do it. And I got to throw in this quick other story. So I just graduated residency.

[Ed Gaudet]

Where?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Oh, emergency medicine.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Okay. You're a Leafs fan.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I'm a New Yorker. I grew up in Queens, this small town, so. And I actually work Giants medicine. Giants messengers. But now I've been indoctorated to Texas. So I've been in Texas since. God, since 92. So now I'm a Cowboys fan. And I have.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You're a Cowboys fan? My brother's a Cowboys fan.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

All right, so good. So hopefully no haters out there, but here's a quick story. So in the hospital, I get called to the principal's office, and like, hey, Dr. Castro, you're spending too much time with your patients. And I'm like, show me the curve. So I'M like, right in the middle. I'm like, why are you giving me a hard time? It's not like I'm spending way too much time. It's like, yeah, but we know you can work a little faster. And I'm like, well, I became a doctor to become a doctor, not to pass the meat faster forward. And so it pissed me off so much that in Texas there was this thing called the freestanding. ER had just started where you could have your own emergency rooms. And I said, you know what? I'm going to build these things, I'm going to get investors, and I'm going to create my own healthcare system. So I created my own Healthcare System. 8ers, 2 hospitals, 1 urgent care billing company, Staffing, marketing, grew it to about 400 employees.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

What was it called?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Trusted ER. And my goal was to teach doctors how should we treat patients, not the medicine in the 90s. This was in 2012is when I started. And then my company started in 17.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Okay.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

And yeah, because at the end of the day, the healthcare we give. Yeah, we know the science, but do we do that? Human touch is that empathy? And so literally, I was teaching doctors to be more empathetic. And I created a culture around it. And people love coming to my ers.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You're writing a book on that?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Not yet. I should.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You should? Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Actually, I had never thought of that. I should.

[Saul Marquez]

Hey, listen, you seem to be the kind of guy that thinks about it and does it. So three weeks it'll be published.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That book will be probably. What are you going to call it?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I actually do have 20 caring doc. I like that.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

The Caring Doc.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I do have 27 books.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Do you?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yes. If you go on Amazon and type in Harvey Castro 27 books. From using AI and crime to entrepreneurship to AI and healthcare.

[Saul Marquez]

This guy's something else.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I can't keep up with guests this today. I don't know, I feel so. I keep feeling smaller and smaller.

[Saul Marquez]

There's a fire on the mic right now.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Dr. Castro just brought me down. Like, I'm like at Adam level right now. I'm at Adam level. 27 books. That is so cool. Do you still running?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I do. I actually have two. One with two books. The second edition of ChatGPT and Healthcare is due to the publisher. I. I told him I would do it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Who's the publisher?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Of course you would ask me. I forget the name of it. But the second one is Wiley. Oh, Wiley. I have another book with real. Yeah, that's a real deal.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Have you published With Wiley before?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

No, this will be my first time.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yeah. That's big.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

How about Taylor Francis?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

You've done any? Not yet, no.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Okay.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

But I'm getting there.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

No, you got 27 books. I mean, who could say they have one Soldier? You have a book out.

[Saul Marquez]

You know what I had. It's self published, if. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Wait, what's it called?

[Saul Marquez]

You know what it was. It was a project. It was a what?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Called.

[Saul Marquez]

It's called how to Be the Best Medical Device Sales Rep. Oh. I wrote it before I started the marketing agency.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I love it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

And is it out there?

[Saul Marquez]

Yeah, it's out there. You could get it on Amazon.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

There you go.

[Saul Marquez]

Self published.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I bet you.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Well, you're going to love this. Next week, I'm speaking at Medica. Oh, they're a big medical device.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You need to bring up this book. You need to hold that book.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

That's right. You got to give me one. I'm there.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

We got a better way.

[Saul Marquez]

That's right.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Saul Marquez way.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

And I'll drop the mic and the book at that second.

[Saul Marquez]

The whole.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I mean, it's not Dr. Castro level, but it's a book, damn it.

[Saul Marquez]

Don't let perfect get in the way of execution.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Amen. Amen. I don't have a book out, but I do. I was published in jama.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Oh.

[Saul Marquez]

Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I love it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

For a poem. I'm a poet.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Oh, nice. Okay, well, you and I need to talk.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Are you a poet?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

You're right. No, no. But just because I just did my fifth TED Talk, TEDx Talk on Sunday, and I tried to use a lot of poetry and key lines in my talk.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I love that.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

So one of my.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Is it recorded?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

They all are. There's four right now.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Can we get links? Links to the program?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

There's four that are out, and the next one will be in January. That'll be out. Use those four. But the skinny on the poetry. I've been using certain lines like, do you know that where you live determines whether you live? And that's my theme of my life.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That trope. Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

And then from there, it's like, people like. And I said it twice. And people are like, whoa.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yeah. So you only have to say it once here.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

That's right.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That's the caliber of people.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

We're still small atoms, but, you know, I love it.

[Saul Marquez]

What does Everybody think about Dr. Castro over there?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Wow.

[Saul Marquez]

Wow.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

They're going crazy for him.

[Saul Marquez]

Holy smokes.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I know.

[Saul Marquez]

Do these people follow you everywhere?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yeah. You brought your entourage?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I do, yeah. It's like my AI guru is following me around.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

All right, lightning round for this, man.

[Saul Marquez]

Let's do it.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

All right.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Riskiest thing you've ever done.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Oh, my gosh. This was crazy. Me, a couple of years ago, I jumped off a bridge in Florida because everybody was doing it. I was like, ah, you can do it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Wait, wait. Something tied to your ankle. Was it a bungee jump? No, I just jumped.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I just jumped.

[Saul Marquez]

What bridge?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I saw a bunch of people jumping. They're like, how are you?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You told me it was like a Disney bridge or something.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

No, this. And then when I jumped, and then it took me forever to, like, swim to the side. I was like, what the hell was I thinking?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

How high were you?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I got a video. Probably 30ft or maybe a little. I remember going down. I'm like, I don't see. Sorry, I don't see a light. Because I would look up and I'm.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Like, we'll keep that in if you want us. Are we going to edit it out? It's up to you.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

It's fine. That's the first time I've ever cursed in public.

[Saul Marquez]

Well, you were back in the moment, but that. You were.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You don't do things small, man.

[Saul Marquez]

No big.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Or go home. Right there.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah, that was. I shouldn't have done.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

No, it's okay. It's okay.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

It's an experience.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

It's a word that has many meanings. Right. Like, you can use it in so many contexts. It's so versatile. It's a very versatile word.

[Saul Marquez]

It. Right. Oh, yeah. So then, if you had the opportunity to go back to 20 years old, what advice would you give to yourself?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah. God, that's a hard one. If anything, I would just encourage myself to continue doing what I do because I'm really passionate about what I see. And if I'm convicted and my heart tells me to do it, even if everybody around me is like, harvey, you're ruining your career.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Everyone. Everyone will always say that.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yes. I still went with it. And even the ChatGPT book, I had so many people tell me, harvey, you're gonna look like a clown with the ChatGPT healthcare. Like, what if this is unproven science? You're gonna look like foo foo medicine. Don't do this, do it. And I did it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

So I would tell my 20 year old, just follow your heart and do the right thing. And that's what I've been doing. It's nice to know now everything. Hindsight's 20 20, right. I can look back. I'm like, oh, yeah, these were all great decisions. But at the moment it was like.

[Saul Marquez]

Just that bridge moment, which is why.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

We think 20 years old to coincide with the 2020. See what we did there?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Oh, I love that you have two watches on.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I do.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

What's going on there?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I have the Apple watch, I have the Oura ring, and then I have. And then what I'm doing is I'm creating my own digital twin. And so I'm analyzing all these data points to see what I'm doing. And I'm leveraging AI and I'm using medicine and I'm putting it all on one. And so then literally I can go through and be like, okay, should I eat this or should I do that? Should I exercise? And when I exercise, how, based on my wearables, based on my sleeping, my patterns, my. Could I. Should I work out today? Should I not? And if I do what kind of workout and for how long and what heart rate should I keep my heart rate at to get the optimal.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Who are you? Like the bionic man or something? Incredible.

[Saul Marquez]

Where do you house, like, so where do you house your twin?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I have it on my own private server and I have my own GPU so that no one has access to. And I have my own. I got the new. What is it? Gdx, whatever it's called. Nvidia that just came out.

[Saul Marquez]

Whoa.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

So I have that and I'm creating some other business products with it.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You can go back in time and change one decision you made. What would it be? That's a new question. You were here for that?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

No, I like that. Honestly, innovating, believe in nothing should change. Because we all learn from things, even things that we wish that happened. And I think there's a lesson. And the other part is, whenever something happens on the spiritual side, I always pray to God. I'm like, God, reveal why this happened to me because I know I'm supposed to learn. Just reveal it to me in my lifetime so that I can't.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Okay, we're not going to accept that answer. We need you to change one decision. It could be anything. Don't eat that. Don't drink the milk that just went through the microwave. All right, that was the last guy.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

All right, I'll throw one. If anything, I'm not a muscular guy. I wish.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Pretty muscular. No, I wish underneath that suit is non muscular body.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Nah, it's all AI. No way. So I wish I had put on some muscle mass because go to the gym more. You would have gone to the gym. Here, I'll give you a little pearl. You know, as we get older, your muscle mass determines your longevity. If you're really thin and that much muscle mass, you're not going to have a good core and your mortality goes out. So we need to put on muscle.

[Saul Marquez]

Oh. So let's hit the gym.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Looking too fat?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

No, you're looking good, man.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Muscle. Oh, looking good.

[Saul Marquez]

I like this guy.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I like this guy. What are you doing later? Continue the conversation.

[Saul Marquez]

All right, this is Scout.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

What's your twin like?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

My digital twin.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Did your twin say the same thing?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I don't know. We should ask him. We should ask him for sure. Actually, I'll call that his name.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Do you have a name for him?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I don't. My car is called Jarvis because I did program the AI into the Jarvis, and I literally call him Jarvis. But on the digital twin side, if you go to my website, I cloned all my books. All 27 of them are there. It's harveycastromd.com and all my social media. Harvey Castro MD.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

It's pretty easy to remember.

[Saul Marquez]

Yeah. Harvey Castro MD.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

And there's a digital twin there, so you can ask me anything. And then one of them, it's cloned in English and one is cloned in Spanish.

[Saul Marquez]

That's cool.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

So you can have a conversation within. It's my voice clone.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I love it. Desert Island. Five albums. What would you bring?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Ooh, I love Hotel California.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Eagles fan.

[Saul Marquez]

Another one.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

That's such a good song.

[Saul Marquez]

Classic.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Oh, God, that's so many songs now. What else do I like? I don't know. I just keep it to that one. Because any Colonial album. Album. Actually, I do love Carlos. Be some old stuff. It's good. And I'm a fan of. I'm biased. I love Shakira and I love Malumba.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That would be a fun island.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

That would be.

[Saul Marquez]

That'd be a party island.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I would be on that island.

[Saul Marquez]

I think I would party.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I would shake my hips and I love meringue.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Oh, yeah, that is. Oh, yeah. That's on my list. I want to meet her, actually.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Shakira?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

How do we make it happen?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

She's in Miami, so. Oh, I need.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

How do you make it happen without being.

[Saul Marquez]

You make it a choice and then you make it happen.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Okay.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You manifest.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I do. I gotta tell you this quick story. So you guys have heard of Tony Robbins?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Yes, of course. Yeah.

[Saul Marquez]

So I did a lot of his stuff, man.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Okay, we'll have to talk.

[Saul Marquez]

Yeah.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

So before I built my first emergency room. I did my first one, and I needed some funding. I needed some VCs. And I'm sitting with my business partner, and I said, you know what? I'm gonna reach out to Tony Robbins and I'm gonna meet him. And she's like, harvey, change your standard. That's not gonna happen. Oh. And it pissed me off. I said, you know what? I am gonna meet him now.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Because someone told you no.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That's all I'm wanting to. That's fuel. And so tell me no, I'll get it done.

[Saul Marquez]

Watch.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Two months later, I made it happen. He went to a conference that I was at, and I bumped into him, and in my mind, I had a 30 second elevator pitch. I pitched it to him. He's like, harvey, here's my business card. I want to talk about your business. This is really good.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Really?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

And he gave me his personal assistance card. He said, here you go.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Did you get the meeting?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

And then did you get money?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

No. Because there were some things that didn't. We didn't align with. But the skinny is this. It happened. I got a picture with him, and I put it out to the world that it was gonna happen.

[Saul Marquez]

That's awesome, man.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That's fantastic. What's your sign? When were you born? What month?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

January 11th. Capricorn.

[Saul Marquez]

Oh, 11111.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Damn, it's 1111 today.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I know.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

A lot of ones in a row.

[Saul Marquez]

That's true.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

The world's aligning.

[Saul Marquez]

Today's your day.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Happy veterans.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah, I was in the US armings.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

You were?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

When I was 18.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Me too. What did you do?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Dental assistant.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Oh, no kidding. I was field artillery officer.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Nice. Yeah. Thank you for your service.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Service. Look at that. And thank your digital twin for his service.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

That's right.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

True.

[Saul Marquez]

And for everybody listening, thank you for your service.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

And thank you for your service. Yes, absolutely.

[Saul Marquez]

Well, look, anything else?

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Said I could talk to this guy.

[Saul Marquez]

I know we got to do a part two on, like, we got to.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Have him on again. Yeah. 27 books.

[Saul Marquez]

Just incredible.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

It's incredible.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah, I've been blessed.

[Saul Marquez]

Give us. Give our listeners how to get in touch with you again, Harvey. And best place that they could learn more about you.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yeah. Easiest is harveycastermd.com and I love YouTube and posting videos and I really put a lot of content on LinkedIn. So if I see a new AI model, how can we use this in healthcare? Or how can we use it in life? And I do life hacks and longevity on it. And then the latest and Greatest that you guys haven't talked about is I am the Chief AI officer for Phantom Space. We do rockets, satellites, and data centers in space, and I'm working on a network that'll be outside of the Earth to help change medicine on the planet.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

That's cool. He's talk about that.

[Saul Marquez]

He's like the Colombian Elon Musk.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Yes. I like that.

[Saul Marquez]

Columbia.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I love that.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Dance.

[Saul Marquez]

Yeah, yeah. He actually has moves.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

He's got moves, right? I love like that.

[Saul Marquez]

I run with it.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I am.

[Saul Marquez]

I know you will.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Moves like Jagger.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Amen.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

See what I did there?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

That was good.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

I had another question. You mentioned longevity. If you could live forever but not know what the outcome was and you'd have to leave people you loved, would you do it?

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

I would. Because the greater good is to give back to the community. So if all that wisdom, I'd be giving back to the world. Oh, so you would live forever and just keep giving.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Really interesting.

[Saul Marquez]

Okay. All right.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

There it is.

[Saul Marquez]

There you have it, folks.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Dr. Harvey Castro. Amazing man. Check out his 27 books, check out his website, check out his company, right? Satellites. I like satellites. Do you like satellites?

[Saul Marquez]

I love satellites. We're sitting here with the Colombian Elon Musk.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

The Colombian, the hipstone line.

[Saul Marquez]

If you guys want to see him dance, check out his LinkedIn. Check out his website.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Actually, I do have videos of me doing too, on stage.

[Saul Marquez]

There you go.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

Oh, we got to see the video. We have to post a link of that.

[Saul Marquez]

We'll link all this.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

No, we will.

[Co-host (possibly Adam or another host)]

All right. Awesome as well.

[Saul Marquez]

Appreciate y' all hanging with us. Thanks for tuning in. And Dr. Castro, thanks for being on the podcast.

[Dr. Harvey Castro]

Awesome, guys. Appreciate. Yeah.

[Ed Gaudet]

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