KAJ Health & Wellness LIVE

Most families don't start preparing until something goes wrong—a fall, a diagnosis, a scam that drains an account. By then, decisions are being made in a crisis. Kim Brant-Lucich and Alexander Nury explain what to put in place before that moment: the legal documents every family should have, the financial scams targeting older adults and how to spot them, how to weigh healthcare and living options...

Some people grow up in chaos—alcoholic parents, violence, a rough housing scheme—and quietly accept that this is just how life is. Eddie Gilmour didn't. He went from that childhood to the Royal Marines, then into covert policing, counter terrorism, and becoming one of the UK's most qualified surveillance trainers. He later built an award winning luxury security company serving the world's biggest...

You've said the affirmations, written the goals, repeated the phrases—and nothing changed. Jerry Levin thinks he knows why. A retired pharmacology professor turned massage therapist, he argues that the voice in your head has been telling you a story, much of it written before you were old enough to know you were writing it. Some of that story is worth keeping. Some of it is quietly ruining things....

Bariatric surgery changes your anatomy. It doesn't change your habits, your identity, your relationship with food, or the addiction patterns that got you there. Shenelle Coplien lost more than 120 pounds after surgery—then discovered the harder work was only beginning. She built The Bariatric Rewrite to fill the gaps she saw in traditional post surgical support. This conversation explores why so m...

Most people know the news makes them feel worse. They keep scrolling anyway. Samuel Brooks — games producer, entrepreneur, and founder of Rally News — recognized bad news consumption as an addiction and decided to do something about it. This conversation gets into what the bad news cycle is actually doing to your mental state, whether filtering your news is even ethical, how to stay genuinely info...

You have a talented kid. They train hard, they show up, they perform. But talent doesn't protect them from burnout, injury, or the long term cost of ignoring rest and recovery—and most families, coaches, and schools don't see the warning signs until something breaks. Dr. Kindra Ingram explains what the support system around a young athlete consistently overlooks about their health and wellbeing, a...

You can be excellent at work and still feel disconnected at home. High achievers often assume success in one area will translate to the other. It doesn't. Army veteran and relationship coach Eric A. Williams explains why—and what actually closes the gap. He shares what it means to "run someone else's code," why so many people carry things alone even when they have people around them, and what heal...

Everyone tells you to forgive. Nobody tells you how. Katharine Giovanni has spent years teaching people the actual process—not the platitude. She explains why "just forgive them" is the worst advice we give, whether you can forgive someone and still never speak to them again, and what it really means to get someone out of your head. This conversation is for anyone carrying emotional weight they've...

Most people have no real way of knowing whether they're actually growing emotionally. They feel better, or they don't, and that's the whole measurement. Joshua Pritikin, PhD, is an Internal Family Systems practitioner with a doctorate in quantitative psychology—an unusual combination that makes him want to measure the things therapy usually leaves vague. He explains what IFS actually does, why wor...

If relationships have always felt uncertain, unbalanced, or chaotic, you may have learned that pattern long before you ever chose a partner. Bev Mitelman grew up in an unpredictable home and built her practice around what she learned from it: attachment styles form in childhood, and they quietly shape who you trust, what you tolerate, and how you cope when things get hard. She explains what attach...

You can sit for years, follow every technique, and still hit the same wall—because the thing blocking you isn't your practice. It's what you're carrying. Scott Ambrose has spent nearly fifty years exploring meditation, breathwork, and mystical experience, and he argues that higher consciousness doesn't come from going up first. It comes from going down: facing the wounds, repressed emotions, and p...

Some people seem naturally calm. The rest of us assume we missed that gene. Health and resilience coach Olga Pinn says that's a lie. Calm isn't something you're born with—it's a skill you train, like a muscle. Drawing on her background as a Fortune 500 ecommerce leader and her MIT certification in AI systems, she shares strategies for training your nervous system, stopping overthinking, and buildi...

Most people assume intuition is a gift only a few possess. Jared believes otherwise—and he says the real blocker isn't talent, it's fear. An evidential psychic medium in recovery from addiction, he explains how fear shaped both his addiction and his recovery, and how learning to stop running from it changed everything. He shares what happens when you start facing the parts of yourself you've been...

When someone you love dies, the world offers advice, platitudes, and time. Most of it doesn't reach where you actually are. Warwick Dunnett knows this — he lost his son suddenly, and spent the next ten years searching the world's religions, spiritual traditions, and scientific theories for something that did. He's a former 747 Captain and author who comes to this conversation not as a theologian o...

Some people don't become agreeable because they're easygoing. They become agreeable because it kept them safe. Bradley Gabbert traces that pattern back to a traumatic brain injury at two and a half years old—and to decades of silence, conflict avoidance, and handing his choices to other people. He explains how he came to recognize the pattern, why breathwork and hatha yoga reached something words...

Most conversations about longevity focus on diet, exercise, or new drugs. Stuart Berkowitz is making a different argument: that the bigger opportunity may be in how existing medical evidence is analyzed. A math researcher and serial founder, he explains how Bayesian analysis applied to CDC medical records could, in his assessment, identify better treatment combinations for people with chronic illn...

One in four families is fractured by estrangement—and most people going through it feel like they're the only ones. There's no funeral, no closure, no script for what to do when a parent, sibling, or child is still alive but no longer in your life. Stephanie Weaver has lived it: her parents died, and the estrangement didn't. She speaks honestly about the ongoing fracture, the grief nobody validate...

Most of us judge water by one question: is it clean and safe to drink? Robert Gourlay has spent more than 30 years asking a different one—what else is water doing inside living systems? A researcher and inventor, he explores water's structure, energy characteristics, and relationship with microbes, soil, plants, and human cells, drawing on hundreds of experiments. He explains where conventional wa...

Founder burnout doesn't happen overnight. It builds quietly through ignored signals – emotional overload, loss of identity, fear masked as hustle. Tomide Akinola helps leaders decode their "internal data" to spot burnout before it crashes. He shares how to trade chaos for flow, eliminate fearfulness in decision-making, and scale joy – not just revenue. This conversation gives you a framework for r...

Starting a virtual counselling clinic isn't just about booking software and a website. It's about scaling access to mental health care while holding onto the clinical ethics and values that make the work meaningful. Clinical counsellor, researcher, and founder Stephanie McAlister built Virtual Connect Counselling – a Canada wide practice – and learned firsthand how to balance business growth with...

Many people—entrepreneurs included—feel the world is changing faster than they can keep up. New technology, uncertainty, and constant pressure leave them stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. Osteopath and author Tom Meyers sees this in his clinic daily, and he argues the fix isn't just mental. His approach starts with the body: it needs to reset into ease first, because clear thinking isn't availab...

Frequency healing is one of the most talked about—and misunderstood—approaches in wellness. Michael Upstone has spent 18 years exploring 25+ modalities, performing thousands of treatments, and training doctors and clinicians. He shares what frequency healing actually is, what it can and cannot do, and how it fits alongside conventional medicine. He explains the concept of the "sweet spot" in heali...

Most people only learn how their health insurance really works after they get a bill they didn't expect. Physician executive and former federal health leader Dr. Terry Adirim has seen the system from the inside—running healthcare for nearly 10 million people. She shares what every patient should understand about their plan before a claim gets denied, the steps to fight back when it does, and how o...

You train hard. You sleep enough. You take the right supplements. Yet you still feel wrecked—sore, exhausted, and unable to bounce back. The problem isn't your muscles. It's your nervous system. Steve McGough, a neuroscience researcher and inventor of the hi® massage system, explains why recovery fails when the nervous system never gets the signal to stand down—and why most recovery tools work on...

The world keeps asking for more—more achievement, more money, more proof that you're doing it right. And many people reach the success they were chasing, only to find it doesn't feel like a good life. Author and strategic life coach Kirana Sidin explains why meaning is built somewhere else entirely: in ordinary choices, essential questions, and timeless wisdom that outlasts the noise. She shares h...