Fountain of Vitality

Jon Engelson grew up surrounded by doctors. His father taught medicine at USC, and Engelson went to UC San Diego pre-med, on the same path. Then, a misdiagnosis in his mid-20s sent him searching elsewhere, into macrobiotics, homeopathy, herbalism, and nutrition. Years later, his four-year-old son kept coming home from nursery school with rashes, and Engelson asked the question that grew into an In...

A man tore the same Achilles tendon for the third time. Two surgeries had failed, and the surgeons wanted to transplant a tendon from a cadaver. Dr. Sean Altman took a different path. Ultrasound guided needle electrolysis, laser therapy, and a loading program helped the body heal the tear on its own. Twelve weeks later he ran a 5K. One year later, he ran two half marathons with his son. He is in h...

In 2008, Van Carlson watched the auctioneer's gavel come down on businesses run by people he knew. Little league sponsors. Pillars of their towns. Good operators who worked hard and still lost everything when the financial risk they carried every day finally caught up with them. He had sold insurance to many of them. He also knew a piece of tax code, written in 1986 while he was still a high schoo...

A stranger sprinted up to Vance Morris's daughter in a grocery store and asked how her ballet recital went. The family had no idea who she was. She turned out to be a carpet cleaning customer who had watched Emma grow up through years of newsletter photos, and Vance knew right then she would never leave his company. She would have to move or die first. That moment captures the customer retention m...

A board-certified ophthalmologist watches his patient flying in from a private estate cry the same tears of joy as the uninsured patient who has been blind for ten years. Same operating room. Same week. Dr. Sumeet Jindal performs custom lens replacement in ten minutes per eye, restores sight to patients who cannot afford care, and rebuilds eyelids and faces with the precision of a microsurgeon. Hi...

August 13, 2023. Thayne Martin had a seizure mid-swim and sank to the bottom of his pool. He woke up alive at the bottom, and the bitter, angry version of him did not come back up with him. Twenty plus years of professional therapy had helped him talk about the damage. It had not rewritten it. What finally did was a $100 bill handed to a stranger named Carla at a Carl's Jr. counter, and the wave o...

JD Tremblay is one of three people who finished the EpicDeca, 10 back-to-back Ironmans across six Hawaiian islands. He is a Canadian military veteran, a biomedical engineer, a certified naturopath, and the Director of High Performance and Mental Resilience at Hungry Warrior Academy. His method for sustained high output is not what most athletes preach. It rests on a system he calls BRAIN, a redefi...

Before he was 40, Dr. Fawad Mian had a torn shoulder, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinosis, and a knee surgery that turned out to have never been done right. One orthopedic doctor wanted to scope his knee without imaging. Another suggested chopping off his collarbone. A foot doctor wanted to detach a tendon and shave down bone. He was a board-certified neurologist watching mainstream medicine fa...

Axay Shah was 50 years old when he noticed something unsettling. The energy he had at 30 and 40 was gone. He looked at older friends in their 60s coping with arthritis, obesity, and diabetes, and refused to accept that future as inevitable. On December 5, 2009, at his mother's birthday dinner, he announced he would switch to raw food on January 1. His brother-in-law challenged the delay. The next...

Michelle Fletcher spent more than a decade in corporate IT before a parking lot conversation at her gym redirected her life. A stranger mentioned plant-based nutrition, and within two months, her 14-month-old son's chronic breathing trouble had cleared. Her diabetic father reduced his insulin dependence. That single interaction opened the chapter that is now the Holistic Business Network, a growin...

Jay Campbell was a 29 year old college basketball player when a freak injury tanked his testosterone to the levels of an 85 year old man. That moment sent him down a 25-year path of self experimentation, underground forums, and eventually writing eight books on therapeutic hormones and peptides. Now, at 55, he hasn't seen a traditional doctor in two decades. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality...

Most families never talk about care giving until the crisis has already arrived. Raymond Lavine has spent over 15 years specializing exclusively in long-term care benefits, and he explains why waiting for a care giving event to force the conversation guarantees drama, overwhelm, and financial strain. He breaks down the hidden dynamics that keep families silent and offers a practical framework for...

She built websites for the largest family-owned grocery chain in the U.S., invested in a Texas winery, ran a construction company, flipped houses, sold cybersecurity SaaS, and then walked away from corporate life for good. Now Kimberly Cohen runs Uniqua AI with her husband David, helping smaller companies build go-to-market strategies, AI agents, and growth systems they could n...

What if fear isn't something to escape but a signpost worth following? In this episode of the Fountain of Vitality podcast, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Kris Land, Veteran CEO and Serial Entrepreneur, to explore the deeper mechanics of what it means to be alive and why most people are playing the game of life without knowing the rules.   Kris traces his path from selling...

Researchers spent seven years failing to find a non-drug way to produce dopamine in the brain. Then one scientist, on a hunch, tried 80 Hz vibration on lab rats and found 200% of baseline dopamine in a single session. That accident became a NIH-funded clinical trial, a 60% reduction in generalized anxiety, and eventually a chair you can sit in at home. Thomas Wilkinson lost his brother to a methad...

Every 20 seconds, somewhere on this planet, a person loses a limb to diabetes. Most of them had a foot ulcer first. Most of that ulcer was preventable. And most of those people had no idea any of it was coming until they took off a sock, found a stain, and realized they were looking at a wound they had never felt forming. That is not a failure of willpower. It is the result of a system that was ne...

What happens when AI can read emotion and stay safe for the enterprise today? In this episode of the Fountain of Vitality podcast, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Craig Tucker, CEO and founder of VERN AI, to trace a 10 year journey that began with a goal, to build a companion for his grandmother who was alone. Craig explains how conflicting psychological emotion mo...

What does it look like when your nervous system has been running on fumes for years and you don't even know it? In this episode of the Fountain of Vitality podcast, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Dr. Julie Merriman, a licensed professional counselor supervisor, yoga instructor, and author of In Pursuit of Joy, is here to unpack the hidden mechanics of burnout and compassion fatigue. Julie shar...

How do new med spas and weight loss clinics fill their calendars without burning through staff and ad budgets? In this episode of the Fountain of Vitality podcast, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Jason Whetstone, Founder of Med Spa Accelerator, to break down the patient acquisition engine he built for medical practices entering the booming GLP-1 and aesthetic treatment space. Jason shares how h...

Medical coding books become obsolete 60 days after printing. Coders used to play musical chairs at conferences just to win one. Now AI tools confidently deliver wrong answers, and nobody catches it until the claim gets denied. Brad Watt has been on every side of this evolution, and he's not done rethinking the toolbox. In this episode of the Fountain of Vitality podcast, host LaMont...

What happens when a construction electrician’s son from Long Island becomes a Navy flight surgeon flying F 14 Tomcats off aircraft carriers, then serves as a White House physician visiting 44 countries on Air Force One during the Clinton administration? Dr. Rob Darling shares stories from 25 carrier landings as “Goose” in Top Gun jets, protective medical support missions with the Secret Service wh...

What happens when 57 percent of Americans consume ultra-processed foods and face chronic inflammation, preventing longevity goals? In comparison, GLP-1 medications promise weight loss but destroy 40 percent of muscle mass, including heart muscle cells. Dr. Robert Silverman, author of Amazon's number one bestseller Immune Reboot, reveals how the Power of One philosophy, removing ultra-processed foo...

What happens when 70,000 Alaska Native people with some of the worst population health outcomes in the world build a healthcare system from scratch—asking customers what they want instead of doctors dictating treatment? Darrell T. Moon, a former hospital administrator turned healthcare reformer, reveals how Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care achieved 98 percent customer satisfaction, wo...

What happens when a decision made for Roman war chariots two thousand years ago still shapes modern highways? In this solo episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt traces how chariot axles sized for two horses carved ruts that became medieval wagon standards, influenced railroad gauges, shaped automobile widths, and continue to define today’s road systems. What began as...

What a season it's been. Over the past year, Fountain of Vitality host LaMont Leavitt sat down with 20 remarkable guests to explore health, longevity, business growth, and what it takes to live a life worth living. This special recap episode brings together the most impactful moments from Season 1. You'll hear from CEOs who transformed their companies with AI, doctors pioneering new approaches to...