Move to Live®More

An interview with Dr. Carol Maher,  Professor of Population and Digital Health at University of South Australia. So it's really interesting that the leading U.S. clinical guidelines for managing depression and anxiety consider exercise as an alternative treatment. Because that really implies that there's not evidence behind it or that it sort of isn't congruent with mainstream medic...

An interview with The Honorable Rob Wilkins,  retired US Air Force Master Sergeant and member of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition. By using our megaphone by using our voice, but I also think by joining forces by bringing more groups together—so be it the VFW, Move to Live More, schools, individuals—all these voices coming together in one big cruise ship liner or some...

An interview with Dr. Jessica Matthews, Associate Professor and Program Director at Point Loma Nazarene University and Director of Health & Wellness Coaching at UC San Diego Health. That shift when you really embody it, and you bring it to the way in which you meet and see the people you serve, it will transform the way in which you then devise a plan forward together, those action steps, the...

An interview with Dr. Rebecca Hasson, Director of the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory at University of Michigan. So while working with adults is great, working with children is even more impactful because we can reach them at a very young age when physical activity habits are being formed. And we can help to give them a passion and a lifestyle for moving more throughout the day that can...

An interview with Dr. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of Fit Nation: the Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession. A big story is laying out the way that we have the rise of a massive fitness industry and a kind of collective sense that exercise is good for you and you should be exercising more and this is just uncontroversially like a positive thing. Yet, at the same time, we don't b...

An interview with Dr. Mary O'Connor and Kanwal Haq, Co-Authors of Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Better Health .  And we simply have to stop expecting the current "healthcare" system to deliver on health. It's not structured that way. It can't do it that way. Doctors and nurses are not trained to do that. And we need to move wellness into communiti...

An interview with Dr. Karen Wonders, Founder and CEO of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance.  But when you look at it as a whole and the impact that it has on the patient, the way that I feel is how can we not offer them exercise when we can visibly see the impact that it has in the life of someone? You can't say that about chemotherapy. You can't say that about a lot of the traditional treatment...

An interview with Dr. Hadiya Green, Founder and President of Healthy Healing Community. But for me, the coaches who I adore the most and I find are great coaches are the ones who can take someone and take them to the next level. They can adjust their plan and still attain that goal at the end of a person's personal best, in addition to what may contribute to the team. And so I think, an atten...

An interview with Dr. Michael Hosking, Creator of Revocycle Mind and Body Cycling. [W]e can start to build from scratch a new fitness that emphasizes the things we're talking about today. Mental wellness, holistic health, meditative movement, mind body practice. I think that's the way we'll make it sustainable. Dr. Michael Hosking Research on mental health and exercise Physician exe...

An interview with Jason Gootman, Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Wellness Coach. And for someone who's new to this idea, what you're really doing is acting as a mirror and a magnifying glass. You are showing them who they are, allowing them to grab hold of what they bring to the table that's going to help them be successful in this behavior change process. Jason Gootman Ref...

An interview with Rob Bisceglie, CEO of Action for Healthy Kids. The only way I know to approach that issue is from a whole child perspective. I have spent 15 years studying and experiencing this. I see no other way. All the issues that kids face are intertwined. You can't separate them out and say, Oh, we're gonna deal with the nutrition or the physical activity or make sure that they h...

An interview with Hal Hargrave, Founder, CEO and President of The Perfect Step. [T]he need is here.  The diverse populations are here. The equitable access and the inclusive programming is not. So how do we create that bridge, and provide that and see where it goes...The club made money by accident, by just creating profit centers that were equitable for clients by way of their price point, inclus...

An interview with Nate Wilkins, Co-Founder of The Ageless Workout.   The years may be accumulating, but we're not aging, we're aging well. And so it's these people who have decided at some point that the barriers are not for us, right?  We may move a little bit slower, our minds may not be at the place that it was, but by God, we may be so much better. And we can help younger people...

An interview with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr,  host of the Overcoming Working Mom Burnout podcast. And so I think one of the things that I keep trying to remember in this, and it was really helpful to me is, for moms to not to think about being a martyr in this situation.  It's very easy for us to sort of play that role and do everything and then feel resentful about doing everything. That's no...

An interview with Tarik Kitson, Founder and Executive Director of Active Plus. But how about those other kids who don't really care about being an athlete, but they have the right to know what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. You don't have to be a basketball player or a soccer player to be active. We want to be able to show them the foundation and the importance of working out, of...

An interview with Dr. Brian Biagioli, USREPS, and Dr. Jim Borchers, USCAH. For too long we have stood by and really in only certain little corners of athletics paid attention to these issues. But now, medical organizations, fitness organizations, athletic organizations have come together and have really decided that we need to have a standardization to this and we need to professionalize what we&a...

An interview with Dr. Melissa Sundermann, Lifestyle and Internal Medicine Physician.   You just did that 10 minutes, you just did a meditation. And that's going to be great for your focus, and, and just feeling better. And I think just like connecting to our sense of self.  When we're out in nature and we get rid of all the other distractions, it's using all five of our senses, whic...

An interview with Ken Rose, CDC Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. And I think one of the things that we have to recognize as a result of the pandemic is that having places for people to be active and ways in which for them to be active in times of national crisis really is an essential function, not a nice function to have. It is an e...

An interview with Dr. Dan Bornstein,   Founding Principal of DBornsteinSolutions, LLC and Military Sector Chair of the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan. What is the secondhand smoke of sitting or physical inactivity? I would argue it's national security. And so if we don't do these things to increase the physical activity across our population, we really do put ourselves at risk of b...

An interview with Michele Levy, Founder of Zing!   But that's just what today's kids and schools need. They need a little bit more structure, but a lot more creative play around movement and wellness. I'm just thrilled that we get to help people. As I said, if I want to work my butt off, I want to be doing it for a purpose. And the fact that I get to see people's faces light up...

An interview with Dr. Jessica Grossmeier, CEO at Jessica Grossmeier Consulting and Author of Reimagining Workplace Well-Being: Fostering a Culture of Purpose, Connection, and Transcendence . And when asked, the people that quit their jobs last year say I want a more flexible schedule. I want more meaning and purpose and fulfillment in my work. And they want to feel valued, respected and included b...

An interview with Eric Levitan, Founder and CEO, and Dr. Katie Starr,  Scientific Advisor at Vivo. [A]s we are aging, that strength training component is so important, because not only does it help us maintain muscle mass, it also helps with the quality of the muscle.  It helps us reduce that fat that starts to infiltrate that muscle, so that the muscle will continue to contract like it's sup...

An interview with Dina Buchbinder,  Founder and President at Education for Sharing. You will think that play is just something like a nice to have, but it is at the center, at the heart of how we learn and why we learn and the reason that…like in order to really engage with what is relevant today and how can we prepare our brains to learn what we will need, I think it has an intimate relation to p...

An interview with Paula Turicchi, Chief Strategy Officer for Parkland Community Health Plan. I think that a successful partnership is one that there is a mutual relationship.  It is a partnership, it's a collaboration, and there is a shared opportunity to really impact the community. Paula Turicchi Parkland Community Health Plan Taking healthcare out into communities Assessing community needs...

An interview with Dr. Michelle Segar, Behavior Change Scientist and Author, The Joy Choice .   And The Joy Choice is the perfect imperfect option that lets us do something instead of nothing. So we've got to get past the all or nothing dragon that's been getting in people's way. And I do want to say that the idea that people should become flexible is also a new message that, well, i...