We recently connected with Jonathan Morse and have shared our conversation below.

Jonathan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Do you think your parents have had a meaningful impact on you and your journey?

I could not have dreamed of two better people than my parents to raise me into the man I am today. My mother has been working overnights as a nurse for longer than I have been alive to provide for her family, and my father also owned his own business and was still able to be home to help raise me and my two older brothers. They were with us everyday and showed us how to live life and how to properly conduct yourself on a daily basis. They taught me and my brothers countless life lessons, but a few that were engrained in my head were always treat everyone with love and respect, always be learning, and in everything you do, you do to the best of your abilities.
Every interaction I witnessed my parents have was like having a master class on communication, commanding a room, and how to conduct yourself in front of all kinds of people. They treat everyone they meet with love and compassion which I always try to implement myself with every interaction I have.
My father was a school teacher and principle before I was born and my mother helps teach newly graduated nurses in the hospital how to actually apply what they learned in school. My father was a voracious reader and has thousands of books in his library that covered just about any subject you could think of. Reading is something that I have started picking up more in the last few years and has benefitted me greatly with my life and business.
There was always an expectation in our household that anything less than your best effort was unacceptable. If you are going to do it, then you are going to do it right. It was applied to absolutely everything we did. It could have been as mundane as missing a spot when cutting the lawn, to mistakes made on homework, and it even carried over into my effort when playing sports. They were tough on me and my brothers but I am extremely thankful for this now that I am running my own business and working directly on people. Everyone that comes to me for treatment trusts me with their health and their bodies definitely deserve my best effort.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I work as a Frederick Stretch Therapy (FST) practitioner for my own business, MOEbility Wellness. I help my clients with their post workout recovery, everyday mobility, and tightness and pain caused from stiff muscles and fascia. Growing up I never thought I would be a business owner, let alone working as a stretch therapist. However, I was always interested in healthcare and helping people, whether that was from illness or injury. I started with working in a hospital as a medical scribe with the intention to go to Physicians Assistants school. I actually went through the application process, interviews, and was waitlisted at a few institutions until I had a change of heart.
Personally I have always been more interested in holistic healing techniques to help people heal themselves naturally. My friend had been a FST practitioner for over ten years and he had his own wellness facility which is where I got my start. After working there for over a year I decided to start my own practice.
Over the last 2 years I have now become an FST Specialist, and also have the ability to perform Chinese cupping, fascial scrapping (gua sha), and lymphatic drainage on my clients. A lot of my clients are athletes of some sort. I have worked on high school, college and professional athletes from many different sports including soccer, football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball, track and field, and CrossFit, just to name a few. I also work on a lot of active, non athletes as well.
My current home office is inside of Redline Athletics in Westminster, which specializes in strength and conditioning programs for kids in middle school, high school, and even some in college athletics. I love this space because one of my goals in this realm is to help young athletes to learn how to proactively recover and maintain a healthy body. This will decrease their risk of injury and boost their performance so that they are fully capable of chasing their athletic dreams.
I myself grew up playing basketball from the age of five playing YMCA basketball, all the way through high school, college, and eventually professionally overseas. My path to the pros was not necessarily straightforward. I had a trampoline accident at a very young age that ultimately left my right leg crooked right above my knee. Between growing and being an active child the angle of my leg worsened until I got into high school. The angle of my leg was so bad that at its worse, I could put my knees together and my feet would stand shoulder width apart. I underwent a total of four leg surgeries to correct the angle and make my leg straight again.
With my leg and playing high level basketball, I was prone to having injuries and pain in all areas of my body. Over the years I was pretty proficient at treating myself. The lessons I have learned from the countless aches, pains, and injuries I have sustained in my lifetime help me to better treat my athlete clients.

Training and knowledge matter of course, but beyond that what do you think matters most in terms of succeeding in your field?

In order to succeed in this field you really have to be able to make connections and form relationships with your clients. From a treatment standpoint, you learn about each clients’ tendencies, habits, their natural energy, and you learn about how their bodies function. The relationships also help them in trusting me to work on their bodies, the more receptive and trusting they are to me, the more effective the treatment can be. It helps me tremendously as well, I look forward to work because most of my clients are now good friends of mine!

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

Two main ways I get new clients is giving out stretches for free and by positive word of mouth. Because a good portion of people I interact with still have no idea what a stretch therapist does I have to give them a taste of what I actually do, normally after one or two stretches it kind of sells itself.
Secondly, again it goes back to building relationships and gaining the trust of my clients. A lot of my new clientele come from positive word of mouth from my existing clients or even past clients of mine. If I do right by my clients and they share my info with their friends and loved ones.

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