The Business of Wellness

I’m running it back this week to one of your all-time favorite episodes from January, 2022 with the brilliant & talented  Kate Lemere . Kate is a Chief Instructor and Founding Trainer at Barry's Chicago. She sat down with me for a proper smackdown of all things diet culture (and so much more).     We discuss:  How to get (and stay) informed from credible sources  Fitness questions she's asked the...

Ali Wing is the CEO of Oobli , a new line of food & beverage products sweetened with sweet proteins in place of sugar and traditional non-nutritive sweeteners that are ubiquitous on the market today. We discuss:  Ali’s background in healthcare & CPG: How she became interested in this product/technology, the opportunity at the intersection of biotech and CPG food & beverage, and what makes Oobli a...

Martin, Mathias & Mads Klarborg are the sons of Etly Klarborg, founder & designer of Klarborg , a Danish design brand with the primary goal of spreading joy, happiness, and hygge through its whimsical cast of characters. On today’s episode, we discuss:  Growing up Klarborg: The trials & triumphs of working for a family owned & operated company– how this helps achieve business objectives, how it (s...

Ben Witte is the founder & CEO of Recess , a better-for-you beverage brand that I can *actually* stand behind as a Registered Dietitian (!!!).  On today’s episode, we discuss:  The state of “better-for-you” food & beverage products: How Recess has approached brand positioning differently from other brands in the category by prioritizing & perfecting their product, first and foremost, & focusing on...

Julie Alvin is the SVP of content at TheSkimm & a trusted digital media executive, content strategist, and editor with expertise in women’s health & lifestyle media. She’s previously held roles at Bustle Digital Group, Time, Inc., and Refinery29, overseeing coverage of everything from news and politics to health, career, money, style, and entertainment. She is a former adjunct professor at NYU’s M...

Udo Erasmus is a pioneer in food product development, specifically in the development of manufacturing standards of food oils, including flax oil. He’s the founder of Udo's Choice , a supplement brand and global leader in creating cutting edge health products specializing in healthy oils, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and greens. He’s also the author of, Fats that Heal Fats that Kill, & holds a M...

Rachel Engelhart, MA, RD , is a Washington, D.C.-based Registered Dietitian, licensed professional counselor and certified intuitive eating counselor who brings a Health At Every Size®-informed approach to eating disorder recovery for patients of all ages.  Hot topics we discuss on today’s episode: The Ozempic of it all (3:00): What to know about GLP-1’s from the perspective of an expert in eating...

Pro podcast host  Jenny Hutt joins me on the podcast today to chat about grief; our mutual grievances with nutrition & health information on social media (and social media influencers); panic within the dietetics profession (and what’s causing it/what to know about it), and how to navigate working with a health professional when it’s not working for you.  TW: Grief. Skip to 27:00 to bypass our dis...

Denis Kaser is head of international marketing for Le Gruyère AOP . He has extensive experience in the marketing world, including with food and drink companies. He is passionate about sharing the stories of the people behind Le Gruyère AOP and his home country of Switzerland, in addition to the promotion of what has been consistently named the world's best cheese. We discuss:  Le Gruyere AOP produ...

Joanna Sapir is a wellness business coach who teaches holistic wellness & healthcare practitioners how to build better businesses by streamlining their processes, creating systems to take back their time, build a steady monthly income, and have more repeat clients in their businesses.  We discuss:  How to say “no” and make more money as a result Beating practitioner burnout: How to avoid it, and h...

Today on The Business of Wellness Podcast: Justin Levy is the Executive Director of Conscious Alliance , a Colorado-based hunger relief organization, and Randy Gilbride is the VP Commercial Operations at Sunrise Strategic Partners . This summer, Conscious Alliance announced that Sunrise Partners will join their family of annual donors, starting with a meal distribution event last month to support...

In this solo episode, Jaclyn London, MS, RD, will dive deep into the WHO's classification of aspartame as a group 2b carcinogen, analyze the statement as a Registered Dietitian, evaluate the media coverage surrounding this topic, explore the wording of the statement, and ultimately answer the pressing question: Is it safe to drink Diet Coke? Welcome back to The Business of Wellness! Today, I start...

Heather Sachs, MS, RD , is a dietitian with expertise working in science & regulatory affairs for some of the most relevant food companies of our time, including Coca-Cola, KIND, and Blue Apron. We discuss everything about the business of science and regulatory affairs at CPG food & beverage companies of all sizes, including: Navigating health claims on food products and packaging; what it means t...

Today I’m thrilled to welcome Tara Vander Dussen to The Business of Wellness Podcast !  Tara is a fifth generation dairy farmer best known online as @thenewmexicomilkmaid . She’s also an environmental consultant, mom of two girls, farm wife and co-host of the Discover Ag podcast (with which I am currently obsessed). We discuss: Dairy myths, farming myths, food and nutrition myths, agriculture myth...

📣ANNOUNCEMENT 📣The Business of Wellness is moving to Patreon!  Sign up for full access to all future podcast episodes, exclusive interviews, brand case studies, and limitless nutrition q+a’s with YOU, here! My guest today is Sara Brooks , co-founder of Goldilocks, a founder-first CPG consultancy. Prior, Sara was the founder & CEO of Covet PR, an agency she founded in 2014 that quickly became one...

Everyone’s talking about it, but even if you don’t pay much attention to Vanderpump Rules or burgeoning businesses of its cast members, I think you’re going to want to listen to today’s episode of The Business of Wellness for some specific  food, nutrition & wellness tips for both brands and consumers.  So, what exactly is the unsung wellness  hero of #scandoval? You’re going to have to listen to...

Leah McGrath, RD, LDN , is a retail dietitian, trusted advisor, &  the founder of BuildUp Dietitians , a community of dietetics professionals and students to share evidence-based information & professional resources. She’s also a voice of reason in the cluttered space of nutrition communications, setting the record straight on Twitter and through her weekly Substack newsletter.  We discuss: Gut he...

Welcome back to the Business of Wellness! Today’s solo episode is a deep-dive on the Bud Light controversy from a food & beverage marketing standpoint. We take a hard look at what better-for-you brands can and should learn from Bud Light’s many missteps throughout the handling of this controversy and discuss: Why defining & staying true to your unique value proposition as a food & bev brand is int...

Lauren Manaker, MS, RD, LD, CLEC, CPT is a Charleston-based dietitian, cookbook author, freelance writer, media expert, and women’s health dietitian specializing in fertility, pregnancy & infancy through early childhood nutrition.  We discuss: -Nutrition tips for women trying to conceive naturally and via IVF: What advice to heed vs. ignore about nutrition & early pregnancy -What to look for in a...

Brigitte Zeitlin, MPH, RD, is a NYC-based women’s health coach, founder of  BZ Nutrition , and a powerhouse entrepreneur. She joins me today to discuss building her own private nutrition counseling practice from the ground up & what she’s learned from her seven years of experience as a founder & owner of a nutrition counseling private practice. We discuss: Navigating a culture of scarcity vs. buil...

Daniela Elazari, RD , is the Director of Well-Being in the Office of Work/Life at Columbia University .  We discuss: The pros, cons, and applications of the evolution of employee weight-loss programs  to employee wellness activations over the past decade The biggest myths and misconceptions about programmatic approaches to workplace wellbeing  How to implement a program for your employees even if...

Listeners, it’s time for a food & nutrition news update. Today I’m covering some of the biggest topics in consumer food & nutrition from the first few months of 2023 including: WeightWatchers Acquires Sequence, Telemedicine Company Focused on Obesity Medicine– the pros, the cons, the media coverage, and my take as WW’s former head of nutrition & wellness. Nature Medicine’s recent study findings li...

Welcome back, listeners! My guest today is Vanessa Rissetto, MS, RD, CDN (listen to part one with Vanessa, here). She's the CEO & co-founder of  Culina Health, and today we’re discussing everything from venture capital in health tech to her latest funding round; the intersection of wellness & entrepreneurship, and the misinformation that’s running rampant about food, nutrition & health amongst VC’...

Adriana Bevilaqua (AG) is the Chief Creative Officer at M.Booth , a global PR & marketing agency in NYC.  We discuss: Having a diverse & versatile media diet & why it fosters creativity at work & compassion in relationships The future of AI for food & beverage brands and how we can better leverage AI tools to optimize creativity  Defining “longtermism” - one of AG’s (most)  fascinating trend predi...

Ken Rusk is the founder of Rusk Industries, Inc., a construction business entrepreneur, & Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Blue Collar Cash: Love Your Work, Secure Your Future, and Find Happiness for Life  We discuss: Career confinement by way of student loan debt: Why alternative pathways to success matter now more than ever Ditching the tired, overused trope, “get out of your comfort z...