Adam Torres and Leslie Carmen discuss the Milken Institute Global Conference.
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Listen to Milken Institute Global Conference coverage. In this episode, Adam Torres and Leslie Carmen, Founder of Carmen Care, explore trigeminal neuralgia and the Milken Institute Global Conference.
About Leslie Carmen
Visionary healer, founder, and creator of the Clear Slate Protocol™, Leslie Carmen has dedicated her life to helping others reclaim their health, hope, and wholeness. Her story of personal transformation led to the creation of a methodology and movement that now powers Carmen Care, FR3QUENCY, and practitioner education worldwide.
Leslie teaches that healing isn’t just physical—it’s emotional, energetic, and entirely possible.
About Carmen Care
CARMEN CARE specializes in relieving—and often eliminating—pain at the cellular level through its exclusive, holistic approach. At the heart of the clinic’s success is the proprietary T3 Paradigm™, developed by founder Leslie Carmen, which sets the foundation for deeply personalized and effective care.
This innovative process addresses the ‘3 T’s’:
- Trauma – uncovering and treating emotional or physical traumas,
- Toxins – identifying and removing harmful substances from the body,
- Thoughts – fostering a positive, healing mindset as an essential part of recovery.
CARMEN CARE’s all-inclusive diagnostic method considers a wide range of factors—from food sensitivities and environmental toxins to emotional stress—ensuring that every treatment plan is tailored to the individual’s unique health profile. Consultations are intentionally thorough, prioritizing time, listening, and exploration of the full spectrum of issues contributing to the patient’s condition. More than just symptom management, CARMEN CARE is dedicated to uncovering and treating the root cause of pain and inflammation, offering customized solutions designed to restore health at its core.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to mission matters.com and click on be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so did I have Leslie Carmen on the line and she’s founder of Carmen Care and she was also attended the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.
So today’s interview will be added to that interview series. First thing, first, Leslie, welcome to the show. Thank you so much Adam, and thank you for having me on. It’s really a pleasure and I’m excited to share our story. Fantastic. And I do wanna get into Carmen Care. We’ll also get into your work.
And just to get us kicked off though, starting with the Milken Conference. So this is, I think my fourth year going now. And you know, every year, this is just one of the highlights of my year. We get great interviews from cover amazing stories. Is this your first time there? have you been in the past, like, talk about maybe your experience.
Sure. So it was my first time there and we were part of the wellness garden. that was out there for all the participants. So after they’ve had a long, stressful day, or they’ve been inside mm-hmm. Sitting for a long time, they could come out to the wellness garden and there were people there doing massages, reiki these, these beds that you energized you again, and we were there doing laser therapy for people who had pain.
And we treated probably over 90 people. We were nonstop treating, treating, treating. I had Allison there with me as well, and it was very well received and we had a blast. It was so nice because we were a whole team of people. Everybody was so supportive and the. people that came to us were just so informative and nice, and here we were, you know, treating the CEOs of huge companies and they were just so, so nice and easygoing and loving, and it was just the most beautiful three days that we’ve spent.
And we were just talking together, Allison and I today, we were saying, wow, we really miss that. We, really hope we can go there again next year. It was such a beautiful event. Hmm. That’s amazing. And, and I love talking to PE individuals that are attending for the first time. ’cause my goal is, and I want, I more people to know about it so that, you know, more people can, to participate.
I feel like there’s a lot, of good work being done there. And the more I. More individuals that participate and get involved. You know, there’s a huge variety of people and, I didn’t make it to the Wellness Garden. Now I’m, I got FOMO now, Leslie. See, now you’ve gotta go. I got fomo.
I’m like, wait a minute. How did I miss that one? Gosh, yes. I gotta, in the fact busy doing interviews and I’m working and I don’t know, everybody’s over here getting wellness. I mean, I’m just Right. Well, next thing you gotta come in. There’s lots of good things there for you. I do, I do. well let’s get further into your work.
So tell me a little bit more. I see, I you’re a founder, of course. So tell me a little bit more about Carmen Care. Sure. So Carmen Care was founded after my daughter Lee had a disease called trigeminal neuralgia. So that’s how this whole thing started. When she was 17 years old, she developed.
Tooth pain and this tooth pain didn’t go away. Normally you can go to a dentist and he’ll, you know, check things and see what’s going on, but he couldn’t find anything going on. Then we went to a neurologist because that’s what people are telling us. We should go to a neurologist. ’cause there was nothing really wrong with her teeth just.
The nerves and they couldn’t find anything either. So she ended up in the emergency room with this excruciating pain. Until then, she was actually diagnosed in the hospital with this disease called trigeminal neuralgia. And the scary part of this is we didn’t know that it existed. There were about 150,000 people a year that are diagnosed with this disease.
But we had no idea what to do. Many doctors like that, neurologist didn’t, didn’t uncover it either. So it’s very difficult to diagnose and so many people have different symptoms. Some people will have, you know, stabbing pain. Some people will have crushing in their, like they feel their skull is being crushed.
Some people have it for 30 seconds and some people for 30 minutes, and it can come and go and be there for a day and then disappear and come back for a month. So it is so. Difficult to diagnose that many, many people, you know, commit suicide because the pain is so bad that they just can’t take it anymore.
Oh, wow. So, yeah, so trigeminal neurologist di is also labeled as the suicide disease. So then when our daughter was diagnosed with this, you know, it’s very, very scary for her, obviously. And then also as a mom, because a mom, you always wanna protect your kids. And now here you feel, you know, what can I do?
This is such a scary disease. And I just did a lot of surfing and, and I just didn’t give up day and night. I just looked and looked and saw there’s gotta be another way. There just has to be another way. I’m not gonna do surgery. She was gonna be a lifelong on medication, couldn’t play ice hockey anymore, couldn’t go out with friends, and she was just in bed on high doses of medication that made her like a zombie.
Mm-hmm. And and I was like, this is not happening. Yeah. It, it was. And how old was left during this time, roughly? Sure. She was, she was 17. She was 17 years old. She young. Wow. Yes. Strong, strong, healthy girl. And when you look up trigeminal neurologist normally is diagnosed in people that are over 50, but more and more younger people get this.
Now that I’m involved in this, I see there are young kids. I mean, most of them are like 20, 30, you know, that have this. So there’s no hope. That’s, that’s why I’m so happy to be on this show with you because it’s, you know, share your mission. Because my mission is now to be like, there is hope. Because once I found, I did all this research, I found I.
That laser therapy, which is a non-invasive therapy of laser light. When we use that on our daughter, she healed from it. And now it’s been what is it now, God, like 15 years that she’s been pain free and healed from it. And that’s. What sparked us to open up our clinic. ’cause when I knew that we found this healing with laser, I said, I can’t go back to a regular job.
I have to, this is my mission. I have to share it with the world and show that there is help and there is hope for a disease that is non-curable. So we opened up our clinic and we’ve been treating ever since. Now, we didn’t just treat trigeminal, we also treat, you know, knee pain, back pain, all these other things.
Because laser is non-invasive, very easy to use you know, very works well with your body and there are no side effects. And so that’s what we’ve been doing. And, and yeah, my mission is to, to spread the word and to let people know that there is hope. You don’t have to suffer on your own. And we’re here to help you.
Mm. Now how long have you been on this mission? I know you mentioned your daughter was 17 when this started, but how, long is this? Until present day. She’s, yeah, so she’s 33 now, so wow. We opened up, yeah, so she was diagnosed in 2011. Mm. Then in 2012, I started right away being on the mission of sharing this.
Mm-hmm. And then in 2013, it took about two years to get all the finances and the education, everything I needed to open the clinic. Mm-hmm. And so since 2013, we’ve been on this mission , and sharing this, but it just, it’s not getting out fast enough. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. Roughly. I want people to hear this, but yeah.
Roughly how many people have you treated up, like right now? Probably about many years, but Wow, that’s, yeah. I’d probably say about 50 people with trigeminal and over 4,000 patients in general. Hmm. Wow. So you see the ratio is not a lot, 50 people versus 4,000 there. It’s a very seldom disease. That’s the thing.
Yeah. Another part is you said that it’s very hard to diagnose, so, correct. You can’t, you got a disease that you can’t diagnose and people have it, like, what are the odds that somebody’s gonna catch it? And you said it, comes and goes. Right? So it’s not like Exactly. Hmm. So some people it’s gonna be fast, some people it’s gonna be, wow.
So for those individuals that you’re, as you build awareness around this, you’ve mentioned it’s not spreading fast enough. why do you think that is? Like, what are some things that, can be done to, you know, spread more awareness? Well, I think things like what you’re doing, podcasts, that’s amazing.
That’s, you know, very thankful for that. and maybe a little bit more trust in the natural, because that seems to be a little bit, sometimes the barrier where people think, well, I’m not a neurologist and, you know, there’s no hope. So why, is, you know, we would know this if this would really help.
There would be information out there and unfortunately that’s just not true. I’m trying as hard as I can to spread the word. We have an Instagram page, we. Post about Lee’s story all the time, and somehow it’s just, you know, people don’t believe that a laser can actually help this disease because I, I understand it.
I mean, I really do. I understand this is labeled as the hardest disease to heal. You know, it’s very difficult. Medica some medicine, you can take medication and it’ll just numb, you know, your feeling of having that pain, but you, you still have the issue. So it’s not really gonna help. The root cause. And so one thing, so what’s a laser gonna do?
What’s a light gonna do to help this very difficult disease? And I understand that, but the thing is, if we understand what we are made of, we’re photons of light. That’s what who we are as well. We’re just energy and the mitochondria in the cells, our powerhouse and the laser actually.
Targets that powerhouse the cells and regenerates that energy within the cell. Mm-hmm. So if you’re not well or you’re sick or you don’t feel, you know, strong it, the laser are just giving your body that strength to heal itself. So it’s kind of recharging you. And then our body will heal itself as we we’re, you know, beautiful human beings that have the capability of doing that.
So the laser will help and it’s, non-invasive and it’s a beautiful thing that you can just sit there and we treat you and there’s, there’s no side effects, there’s no pain while we’re treating you. It’s just a, beautiful way to get healed. Hmm. I’ve heard this from other things too.
This is my first time talking about this specific disease. Mm-hmm. But when we think about laser therapy, laser treatment why do you think it’s so difficult for many to accept that that can work? Like, where do you think that comes from? I think it’s because we look at our body more like a car or something like that.
So if you have knee pain, or let’s say bone on bone, knee, right? Mm-hmm. Then it’s usually, well, we’re old wear and tear, so let’s just cut the knee out and put a new replacement in. But. We don’t realize that our body is capable of healing. We’re just over toxic. You know, there’s so many toxins in the water and the food in the air, and our body is burdened by these toxins, so we’re not healing as well.
So we got a detox from that and we don’t see that sometimes when I post, you know? You got a detox. People say, well, you got your liver. That does that. True. But it’s, we’re overburdened with that and I think the education is not there. we’re so just used to taking pills and taking injections and having surgery.
We’re not taking responsibility for this. For our own body, for our own life, we just feel like, well, we’ll, we’ll hand the responsibility over to somebody else. You know, give me a pill and injection, but that’s not how our body works. It’s time that we take responsibility for what do we put in our body?
What are we drinking? What are we eating? Are we exercising? Are we sleeping? We need to support our own body’s healing and we’re not there yet. We’re getting there, I think. Mm-hmm. A lot of it’s coming up now. Right? A lot is, a lot of people are understanding more and more, but we’re not quite there yet.
We haven’t made that, global switch of understanding. Wow. There’s a different way that we have to address sickness and, Health, you know, what makes us healthy, what helps us, and preventive preventative care. I think that is huge. That needs to really be said, and that’s, that’s enormous. Prevent having these diseases in the first place.
Yeah. Well, Leslie, this has been great having you on the show and getting to know more about what you’re doing at Carmen Care. That being said, I mean, what’s next for you? What’s next for you? What’s next for Carmen Care? Talk, about the plan going for Oh, well, so Carmen Care, we have, because I, I get phone calls and emails from people from New Zealand, let’s say, those are my furthest patients.
They flew from New Zealand to come and get healing here. And I just call ’em a couple of days ago, how are you doing? They said they’re both pain free, so how amazing is that? So I wanna be able to get this detoxing. There’s one part of the treatment that I do, that we do laser detoxing and getting rid of those toxins in the body or reducing them.
And I’m, I wanna get that really going and, send that out so that people can. Get this device from their home and so that they don’t have to fly to Carmen Care to get this. That’s one part. We have some laser devices that we also sell, so I wanna be able to branch out so people don’t have to come to us, but we can bring our technology to their house.
So that’s really the next step that we wanna do, so we can reach much, much more people. Wonderful. Leslie, if somebody’s listening to this or watching this and they wanna follow up, they want to connect with you and your team, how do they do that? Yes, well you can go to our website, carmen care.com.
That’s probably the easiest way to remember carmen care.com. Then you can get there, you know, can type a little note in our appointments and you can also give us a call at (561) 405-9577. Fantastic. Everybody listening, just so you know, we’ll definitely put the links in the show notes so you can just click on it, head right on over.
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And Leslie, thanks again for coming on the show. I thank you, Adam. It was wonderful. Thank you so much.
