Joseph Lanctot FNP-C works in an Urgent Care in Stamford, CT; the city that brought the world Oxycontin, the state which headquarters Aetna and Cigna, and whose Senator singlehandedly killed the Public Option in the ACA of 2009.He began his career in nursing as a CNA working on 25 different units at a level 1 trauma center. He has slowly risen through the ranks of nursing which has provided him a unique view of each level of the healthcare system. He has worked in country’s most dangerous inner-city hospitals, the ICU during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and volunteered in refugee camps in Mexico.Founder of Your Freshest Food, this was his first attempt bringing health and wellness to places where it's not available. Still in operation, he recognizes much more work needs to be done in making wellness more affordable, accessible, and available and returning the healthcare system from being a sick-care model to a healthcare model.2x IRONMAN, after previously not being able to swim as an adult or run more than a mile, he appreciates that grit that carries a person past their limits into the space of the impossible. Anything is Possible. Although an Ironman is not right for everyone, movement is. The importance of movement in health and wellness is something Lanctot educates his patients on.Using writing as his creative outlet, he authored Acllahuasi, Folklore of the Inkan Empire and a forthcoming book, Vilcabamba: The Enigma in the Jungle.