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3 THINGS PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURS DO AT THE END OF THEIR DAY

By Cindy Gordon

Does the time pass by so quickly you never feel like you’ve accomplished enough? Do you always feel behind the eight-ball with too many deadlines looming and not enough time to get them done? Is your business growth stagnant because you don’t have time to get to the important tasks that will move it forward? By incorporating these three steps into your daily habits you will become more productive and see your business grow.

SET YOUR TOP PRIORITY FOR TOMORROW

What makes a person productive is focus. It’s very easy to get caught in the weeds of your business and forget about the important tasks that will make the biggest difference to your business.

Stepping back to look at all the things that need to be done and taking time to ask yourself which the highest priorities are will enable you to start your day off working on the vital tasks, instead of allowing yourself to step into the tasks that are comfortable and easy.

SCHEDULE TIME FOR EMAILS AND MESSAGES

Like Pavlov’s dog, we have been trained to react to the sound of a bell. Unfortunately, the bell is the chime of an incoming email. As soon as we hear the chime, we turn our attention away from the task at hand to fulfill our curiosity and our need to feel important. An email only takes a few minutes to deal with yet adding to that the time it takes to get refocused on your work can lead to 5 – 10 minutes of low productivity per email. Multiply that by the number of notifications you receive, and you could easily be losing hours of productive time a day. No wonder you always feel overwhelmed with work!

Keep your email software closed, and your phone on mute while you work. Schedule two or three breaks within your day to deal with emails and messages. This allows you to break from your tasks when it is convenient and stay focused and productive throughout the day.

DOWNLOAD A TIME TRACKING APP

When you are in midst of work, you don’t realize where your time gets sucked up. Since downloading a time tracking app (I use RescueTime, but there are lots of others to choose from), I have been able to see how much time I spend in different programs and if I have too much idle time. The program runs in the background of your computer system and provides you with a weekly breakdown of your time. I never realized how much time my daily crossword puzzles took up. Once seeing the data, I was able to be more conscious about when I play games and what needs to get done first. This type of software is great to help

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These three easy steps are not only great ways to improve productivity, it’s also excellent for being more strategic and intentional in your business. Having your goals in mind will make planning your priorities more tactical to get the greatest return on your investment of time.

Cindy Gordon is the owner of Business Rescue Coaching, LLC, an executive coaching group that provides leadership and operational support to small business owners to gain more success with less stress. Business Rescue Coaching provides one-on-one coaching, Executive Peer Support groups and leadership workshops. To learn more visit: www.BusinessRescueCoaching.com

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COVER STORY REGENERATIVE BIOLOGY IN DEER VALLEY: THE FUTURE IS HERE

By Amanda Collins

When you think of future technologies, your thoughts probably shift to the Silicon Valley, a well-known hub of technology. But it may be time to change your viewpoint. Deer Valley is now home to a leader in regenerative biology, Axolotl Biologix. The company’s mission is to harness medical technologies, specifically regenerative biology, to enable the body’s own cells and tissues to repair and regenerate. This leads to a greatly improved quality of life by encouraging the elimination of pain without surgery or dependence on highly addictive pain medications, such as opiates.

Axolotl Biologix is named after the axolotl, commonly referred to as a Mexican salamander. Actually an amphibian, the axolotl can regenerate nearly every part of its body, from limbs to spine, without any scarring. The name is apropos since Axolotl Biologix’s products repair and regenerate human tissue and cells through the use of amniotic-derived regenerative fluid. This fluid acts like a magnet, recruiting the body’s own stem cells to regenerate and repair damaged tissues.

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In their Deer Valley cleanroom, Axolotl Biologix scientists process cells from screened placentas donated following elected C-sections. These cells release regenerative products in the form of growth factors and cytokines into a fluid during the manufacturing process to yield a regenerative fluid. The regenerative fluid is processed and placed in small vials to be shipped to the clinic. Following processing, the final product contains no actual stem cells. Once they receive the vials, medical professionals inject the solution directly into affected areas, delivering amazing regenerative and healing properties that enable patients to avoid surgery and longterm pain-treatment regimens.

Phillip Larson, Axolotl Biologix’s President, is a fifth-generation Arizonan and long-term resident of North Phoenix. One of eight children, Larson credits his close-knit family for instilling in him the value of education and helping others. When he launched the company, he sought to locate its headquarters here in Deer Valley. In considering the space they needed to grow, Larson realized the company would require office space for employees as well as warehouse area for a cleanroom, labs, manufacturing and shipping. Since his father’s civil engineering firm had been located near the Deer Valley Airport, Larson looked to this area first. Comparatively speaking, he could have chosen something near Scottsdale Airpark, but his investment would have been triple the cost of Deer Valley. Here, though, he was able to secure an amazing facility that is both affordable and well located for developing and transporting products. As an added perk, most employees are commuting opposite traffic patterns, making their drive much easier. Plus, after working for the airlines previously, Larson had jet fuel in his blood, making it hard for him to stray too far from the familiar.

Axolotl Biologix markets its products as solutions to aid in the repair and regeneration of damaged tissues. Physicians have reported benefits in patients suffering with chronic issues, including burns, wounds and severe diabetic neuropathies. As Larson points out, when a patient loses a limb through amputation, the pain and lifestyle change can lead to opiate addiction, depression and even death. He firmly believes that the company’s products can save lives by saving limbs. Extreme pain can be debilitating, and many patients want something that works immediately. For years, physicians have prescribed opiate-derived drugs to combat severe pain. Unfortunately, that has led to overdependence on medications such as OxyContin, Vicodin, codeine and morphine. Currently, the country is facing an epidemic as more and more people become addicted to opioids.

Axolotl Biologix lab

Axolotl Biologix seeks to change the trajectory of pain management by enabling physicians and their patients to forego opiates and eliminate pain through the use of regenerative biology. Whereas pain medication targets the symptoms, it doesn’t address the cause of the pain. That’s where these amniotic-derived fluids change the conversation. The company’s products not only assist with diminishing pain, but inflammation as well.

One patient had such severe diabetic neuropathy pain that he had scheduled elective amputation of his leg below the knee. Even opiates weren’t helping combat the pain. But by injecting amniotic-derived regenerative fluid directly into the tissue, the

patient enjoyed more than a 60% ceiving a cold, uncomfortable injecreduction in pain. His leg was saved, tion. and perhaps even his life. Essentially, by using Axolotl Bi- under the guidance of the company’s ologix’s products, patients are able to Chief Science Officer, Robert Kelpress a reset button on their tissue’s lar, Ph.D. He is a highly respected biochemistry; resulting in a whole- biotechnology innovator with sevennew world opening up to them. teen years of experience developing “ Axolotl Biologix is named after the axolotl, commonly referred to as a Mexican salamander. An amphibian, the axolotl can regenerate nearly every part Axolotl Biologix currently provides three amniotic-derived therapies, including two fluid products and one membrane product. AxoBioFluid®A medical devices, including regenerative technologies. Dr. Kellar advances regenerative medicine through research, technology and clinical ” of its body, from limbs to spine, without any scarring. is the first commercially available application. Since March 2017, Kelroom-temperature regenerative fluid lar and his team have launched two product designed to help patients heal amniotic-derived fluid products, sucfaster. The fact that it is delivered at cessfully passed the company’s first room temperature makes it unique; FDA inspection, established worldsuch fluids are typically shipped and class scientific and medical advisory stored frozen. Axolotl Biologix’s boards, published two papers in product can be shipped without the peer-reviewed scientific journals on need for dry ice and can be stored the Axolotl Biologix technology and without expensive freezers, reducing improved manufacturing efficiencies the overall cost, a savings that can at the company’s Deer Valley plant. be passed on to patients. Time is also AxoBioFluid®A was developed saved since the fluid doesn’t need to Kellar’s career work in regenerative be brought to room temperature for medicine has been shown to speed up use; it’s already there. In addition, by the healing process for cardiovascular using a product that is approximately diseases, orthopedic injuries, diseased 72 degrees rather than one that might cells, skin wound care and more. For be 40 degrees, the patient avoids re- the patients who cannot risk surgery, such as the elderly, Axolotl Biologix’s products can make a world of difference in their lives. And that fact helps both Kellar and Larson sleep better at night.

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Axolotl Biologix was named the 2018 most innovative regenerative medicine research company in the USA by Global Health & Pharma. But even with the apparent miracle cure Larson, Kellar and their team have tapped into, they’re not about to rest on their laurels. They work every day to improve Axolotl Biologix’s current product offering and make them better for today and tomorrow.

Currently, the company’s scientists are developing a next-generation technology that will encorporate a unique protein, elastin. Our bodies stop producing elastin around age twelve, and by seventy, more than half of it has been depleted in the body. A loss of elastin contributes to the pathology of aging, including wrinkles, brittle bones, cardiovascular disease and sore tendons and ligaments. Axolotl Biologix is focusing first on the elastin in the skin and then moving inward to other tissues and blood vessels. Because elastin can be used in any body tissue, Larson sees numerous applications, from cosmetics to burns and wounds. They plan to release this new product in the near future and see a vast market for it in the medical community.

Currently, Axolotl Biologix’s amniotic-derived regenerative fluid costs approximately $3,000 to $4,000 per injection and is not covered by AxoBioMembrane patch

insurance due to it being such a novel technology. However, when patients are able to eliminate pain and avoid the possibility of developing an opioid addiction, that price tag starts to feel pretty reasonable. It’s certainly less than the more drastic option of surgery and amputation that many who could have benefited from this science have previously chosen.

Learn more about Axolotl Biologix at axobio.com.

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