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An interview with Dr. Glenda Rivoallan, Founder of WeTalkWellbeing and Soulgenic.   But the most important thing about how I define resilience is the ability to not just bounce back from challenges, or adversities, or more negative things that happen to us in our life, but actually bounce forward and with the ability to thrive. Dr. Glenda Rivoallan Defining resilience Teaching resilience Integrati...

An interview with Jill Vialet, Founder of Playworks. And ultimately, what you're trying to do is set these kids up to succeed, not to eliminate risk, but to help them learn how to manage and mitigate and navigate risk in a way that helps them to be able to just thrive. Jill Vialet Playworks inspiration Setting children up to succeed Managing and navigating risk The value of play Addressing su...

An interview with Lawrence Kosick, Co-Founder and President of GetSetUp.  We just truly believe that a person's last 20 or 30 years of their life—which is a really significant amount of time—it can be their best years. But in order to do that, there needs to be a place and a community that empowers them.  And however we get there, that'll continue to be our goal. Lawrence Kosick GetSetUp...

An interview with Lisa Robinson, Director of the Office of Food Access & Healthy Communities for the City of Somerville (formerly Shape Up Somerville).   Now, we recognize that there's so many root issues that can lead to obesity. And it's a complex issue. And we recognized that back then, as well. But how do we come together to really focus in on what's the main goal for attack...

An interview with Dr. Simon Rosenbaum, Associate Professor in the School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney. It's actually saying, acknowledging the challenges, acknowledging how hard it is, acknowledging that this isn't going to be a cure, but it can be part of people's recovery.  There are ongoing challenges. And our job as that workforce is saying how do we help those people at that poin...

An interview with Amanda Rees, Co-Founder and CEO at Bold. And so that more and more individuals truly believe for themselves deep down that they have the power to influence how they age.  They don't feel like aging is happening to them, but that it’s never too late and that there's something that they can do and they feel armed and informed about that. Amanda Rees Bold inspiration for f...

An interview with Michael Stack, CEO/Founder of Applied Fitness Solutions and Host of the Wellness Paradox Podcast.  [H]ealth and wellness and fitness professionals have all of the capabilities necessary to help improve public health dramatically in this country. Yet there's a trust, communication and interaction gap between those professionals and our other allied health and medical professi...

An interview with Graham Melstrand, Executive Vice President, Mission and Stakeholder Engagement, at the American Council on Exercise®. So many communities provided some flexibility in exchange for those closures that were imposed on them, by allowing those facilities, those exercise professionals, to take their programs and services to a risk mitigated environment in parks or other community spac...

An interview with Bryce Hastings, Head of Research at Les Mills International. But now when I look at people exercising in a lot of facilities, I see people who are exercising because they have to be there, not because they want to be there, but because they’ve been told by the health professional, or they've recognized something in their life that they want to improve.  And the key to retent...

An interview with Dr. Sarah Linke, Associate Clinical Professor at UC San Diego. A lot of times we get stuck in healthcare talking to [patients] about how they can prevent cardiovascular disease in 30 years. Well, that's not relevant to them today. There's always tomorrow to exercise to prevent that from happening in 30 years. But how do we focus, how do we train them to focus on those i...

An interview with Pat Rumbaugh, Executive Director at Let's Play America Let them play on their own as early as possible. Let them be outside as much as possible. And most importantly, parents, educators, model playful behavior. Pat Rumbaugh Play as essential for people of all ages Addressing the perception of play as frivolous Active play in the classroom Play as a learned and natural skill...

An interview with Wayne Moss, Executive Director at the National Council of Youth Sports. But all of these benefits really transfer over the course of a lifetime.  And that’s why I think that it is really important for all young people to be involved in sport and really to find whatever it is, is their particular interest, the thing that they like to do, and the thing that they can continue to do...

An interview with Gretchen Reynolds, Phys Ed Columnist for the New York Times. But figuring out how this topic, how this—the whole arena of physical activity— how important it is for our lives, that is, there are stories in all of that and that is what sticks to people. That's how they can remember this information and figure out how to apply it to their lives. So, so yes, I think of myself a...

An interview with Dr. Robert Zarr, Founder & Medical Director of Park Rx America. When I'm asked this question, do patients roll their eyes when I talk about a nature...I've never seen anybody roll their eyes. They're actually so thrilled that I am legitimizing their wishes and their desires to be outside, to spend time outside, to move outside, because most doctors don't d...

An interview with Dr. Rachele Pojednic, Assistant Professor and Program Director of Exercise Science at Norwich University.   [T]he industry sort of sees them as a target population to change, rather than thinking of them as a target population that can be a part of our community. And so, I think, as we are entering into a space of inclusivity and acceptance, I think this really presents a timely...

An interview with Kelly O'Brien, Executive Director of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Brain Health Partnership. And so physical activity, I think, is one of the most important. It's also one of the most scientifically backed and researched interventions. Dozens and dozens and dozens of studies have confirmed over and over and over again, that consistent and increased physical activity can actu...

An interview with Dr. William Bird, CEO and Founder of Intelligent Health and General Practitioner. And we just don't think sometimes. We make physical activity like a tablet, because that's what we're used to as doctors. But physical activity shouldn't be anything extra.  It should be part of your well-being, it should be part of your life. It should give you the vibrancy and...

An interview with Katera Noviello Kapoor, Senior Director of Health Promotion, Wellness & Athletics at 92Y.    We're just more passionate than ever about just expanding our reach to people who were not exercising prior to COVID. Because a lot of the people that were exercising, they're back with us, they're ready to go, they were hungry to be back with us.  But it's those t...

An interview with Caraline Coats, VP of Provider Venture Investing at Humana and Interim Leader of the Humana Foundation. There's not one answer, not even by community or population, I think. So it's a constant marriage of understanding our individual member needs, barriers in the community, building trust within the organizations in that community, and then connecting all of those dots...

An interview with Dr. Meghan Venable-Thomas, Cardio Dance Instructor and Community Engagement Manager at TRILLFIT®. And like just making more people feel and know that that health and wellness is for every body, every type of body, every age of body, every mobility of body. And it's, I think, a real opportunity at the intersection of equity and health, to really be lifting up that more and mo...

An interview with Dr. Brendon Stubbs, Senior Clinical Lecturer, King's College London Now the links between mental health in the context of the crisis were not always implicitly made. But more and more people are talking about the impact of not being able to connect with our friends being indoors. But physical activity proves a real, profound opportunity to help us move, feel better, connect...

An interview with Elaine Wyllie, Founder of the Daily Mile. The Daily Mile is a solution. It's not a message. It's a practical solution in the school day. It's on a plate. parceled up. There you are. And if you do the Daily Mile, you will change the health and well-being of your children.  Now, and for the future. Elaine Wyllie Starting the Daily Mile Engaging children in the proces...

An interview with Joel Dembe, Advocate for Disability and Inclusion and Paralympian. We need to better integrate people with disabilities into all aspects of society. And I would start with health being the first thing, recreation opportunities, making fitness equitable. It's simple, I just want all people with disabilities to have the same opportunity to stay fit that able bodied people do....

An interview with T. Morgan Dixon, Co-Founder & CEO of GirlTrek. And every single one of those members has committed to opening her front door, stepping out on faith, in hope in a time that feels hopeless in the direction of our healthiest, most fulfilled life. What that looks like practically is that we pledge to walk 30 minutes a day, five days a week to establish a lifesaving habit of walki...

An interview with Dr. Daniel Fulham O'Neill, Orthopedic Surgeon, Sports Medicine Doctor, Sport Psychologist, and Author, Survival of the Fit . So then we get the first graders. And now we have kindergarten and first grade doing PE.  Every kid, every day.  And now it’s second grade.  And now we just keep building up through your school system. And by the time these kids graduate from high scho...