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An interview with Mark Harrington, Jr., President at Healthworks, Republic Fitness and GymIt  So some of the things we look at is, is, how do we get the word out that we're not we're not just some company from another city or owned by private equity that is coming in here to make a buck. How can we be out front and talk about how we really do care about this, and all of our teams care ab...

An interview with Joe Nadglowski, President and CEO at Obesity Action Coalition In fact, in our advocacy work around comprehensive care, we say people should have access to nutrition, physical activity, mental health, and then, and then medicine, surgery, whatever else they need, like that comprehensive care. And I think in my ideal world, if I could wave a wand and create the, the new healthcare...

An interview with Katie Feltman, CEO at American College of Sports Medicine And so we really created this new vision statement about movement as our rallying cry. And when you actually sat down and forced that to be the lens through which everything passes, it was magic. It was truly magic. Katie Feltman American College of Sports Medicine roles Delivering education and scientific content to ACSM...

An interview with David Van Daff, Vice President, Industry Development and Public Affairs at National Academy of Sports Medicine We are consistently trying to prepare, coach and motivate our professionals to achieve success in the space. That, to me, is, is more of that professionalism, not just standard certification, but really continually be side by side education, tools and resources to help y...

An interview with Dr. Jessica Bachman, Director of Operations at Stronger U Nutrition And so it's a really great synergy where the gym is extremely important, and what you're doing there to move towards your goals, but then we can take over and stay within our scope of practice when we're talking about health behaviors, talking about nutrition behaviors. Dr. Jessica Bachman Stronger...

An interview with Devin Lebrun, SVP Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, and MV Shook, Healthcare & Innovation Manager, at Orangetheory Fitness There was no lack of care across the people that we talked to and an interest in helping their patients. What we found was there was a lack of tools and support for them to do that, a lack of understanding of how to do it, and the goal would be to...

An interview with Dr. Cate Collings, cardiologist, executive health coach and past president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Once this education piece gets done, you can't put that genie back, that knowledge back in the bottle.  Once a medical student or a resident has seen the life changing effects of using exercise and a dose intervention, using nutrition, they just can'...

An interview with Brendan Kelly, Owner and CEO of The Well Being Counseling and Fitness Center and Dr. Ben Davidson, Chair of The Well Being Foundation Board of Directors and a practicing physician. And so we work with people, kind of try to meet them where they're at and come up with a concrete plan for movement for them, which then, when it's finished, the client gets a copy of the mov...

An interview with Taylor Walsh, Founder and Director of WholeHealthED: The Center for Whole Health Learning in K-12. As you referred to, each one of these practice areas or domains has a movement driving, whether it's mindfulness or time in nature or nutrition and exercise.  They are well entrenched, well established movements already. So we need a movement of movements, and that's what...

An interview with Dr. Euan Ashley, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. I mean, it's really my favorite fact of any fact in the world, and it comes up because a lot of the time, and you just made this point well, that people feel they don't have time to exercise. And I get that. And there are lots of ways we can think of helping people answer that question, but, bu...

An interview with Simon Matthews, Director at the Global Positive Health Institute. We know that social, social connection, close relationships, lead to pro health choices, in other words, where we're more likely to make decisions about our health that are good for us when we're socially connected. And there's all sorts of mechanisms for that, including just the idea of social influ...

An interview with Zoya Lehrer, Co-Founder and CEO of Orgo. So to not lose ourselves right in that runaround and to reflect our own yes, physical needs, but also mental and everything else that comes along with that definitely ties into the way that we think about overall the platform allowing to measure time accurately, and once we do, we can then start to make those better decisions for ourselves...

An interview with Kaitlin Brennan, Chief Operating Officer at Leveling the Playing Field. So in terms of impact, yeah, we recognize that it's more than a soccer ball. It's more than just a pair of cleats. What it really translates to is making sure that that kid has the resources he or she needs to be able to step onto the field comfortably, confidently and safely, to engage in something...

An interview with Petter Aasa, Co-Founder and CEO of Vitala. We are being prescribed as a mobile application to the patients, which is guiding them through daily physical activity that's completely based on the users’ unique combinations of their medical diagnosis and comorbidities, functional ability and physical capabilities, musculoskeletal pain levels, their varying daily form and, of cou...

An interview with Dr. Jayne Greenberg, North American Chair of the International Sport & Culture Association.  Physical education is the only equitable place where all children, children with disabilities, children from the general population, children from various cultures and communities, underserved populations. It's the only place where there's an equitable opportunity to learn e...

An interview with Dr. Allie Riley, Chief Program Officer at Girls on the Run. And through that study, we saw 97% of girls develop critical life skills throughout the course of the program.  A stat that I think this group of listeners will love is that girls who are least active at the beginning of the season increase their physical activity level by 40%. And they maintain that at the follow-up thr...

An interview with Amy Rauworth, Chief Research and Innovation Officer at the Lakeshore Foundation. And I think that's really important to know that it takes a collective movement, and we all have things that we can contribute. But there's times where I need to step up and step back, and I need to stop with whatever I think might be the best health intervention or the evidence-based appro...

An interview with Mark Bayer, Founder at Bayer Strategic Consulting. With health and fitness, most people are kind of aware generally of what the issues are, right? So leading with the ask is so important, and making, and personalizing it as well. And even asking questions, you know, so it's not a monologue, right? If you just have your speech, and you're gonna deliver that you're g...

An interview with Liz Clark, President and CEO of the Health & Fitness Association.  And it's something that again, all these lawmakers understand while they're whether they've maybe gone through something personally, or their kids have gone through something personally, or somebody they know and love. In some way, shape or form. I mean, all of us know people that are having men...

An interview with Dr. Adel Korkor, Founder and CEO of the AB Korkor Foundation for Mental Health. It's because we are really accustomed to caring for disease, the diabetes, the hypertension, obesity, and all of these.  And our healthcare system is really more centric around finding a new treatment for obesity, finding a new drug for diabetes, finding a new drug for hypertension, and not reali...

An interview with Jason Sacks, President at Positive Coaching Alliance. And so I think we need to get organizations to understand and then more specifically, to be able to hold their coaches accountable of what is this culture that you want to create that's going to provide the best possible environment for kids. And in order for kids to feel connected, they need to feel safe, they need to fe...

An interview with Adam Zeitsiff, Chair of the National Health & Fitness Alliance.  This is a great chance for our industry folks and gyms to go out there and build partnerships and get a continual referral stream that has nothing to do with health insurance, co-pays and CPT codes.  Just, hey, my doctor just prescribed this to me. He said I should really be lifting weights three or four days a...

An interview with Malorie Polster, Physical Activity Advisor, and Katie Costello, ORISE Health Communications Fellow, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. We've generally found that the main messages of Move Your Way, really promoting the social components of being active. People really do want to get active with their friends,...

An interview with Emma Zwiebler, Interim CEO at the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry.   But one of the key things for our work, particularly around physical activity, is the partnerships that we have. We very much believe that particularly in the case of physical inactivity levels globally, which I'm sure we'll come on to, it's not something that can be resolved by th...

An interview with Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Founder of The Cooper Institute and Founder and Chairman at the Cooper Aerobics Center. I've had hundreds of letters from people telling me I wish I'd known 20 years ago how much better I could feel. But once I got in shape and followed your recommendations, I felt the best I've ever felt in my life. Do you want to enjoy that type of life you&ap...