The Healthy Desk Jockey

Discover how small habits can lead to big results and transform your life now! In this inspiring episode, Deborah Johnson and I dive into the powerful impact of micro-habits on health, productivity, and overall well-being.  You'll learn actionable strategies to reduce stress, build healthier routines, and take control of your day. I share my journey of creating the innovative vidaBALL, a pate...

Check out my interview with "How to Trust Your Breath" with my sweet, amazing friend @HeatherHansen. Stacy Fritz   invented the vidaBALL, which is on its way to being the next huge thing in stress, relief, breath, work, and self-regulation. In our conversation, we talked about the work that went into that invention, the grief that drove her, and all of the ways that she advocated to make...

What a great interview with Julianne Kirkland from the Women Leaders Podcast womenleaderspodcast.com . I get the opportunity to share how implementing micro-movements throughout your day is crucial for your leadership success. Julianne and I also drop golden nuggets about why the words we use matter when trying to build and grow. Listen to the interview HERE Watch the interview HERE

What a great opportunity to be interviewed by Joanne Newborn, “Experts Unplugged: Speaker Spotlights from the Medical Fitness Association Conference” - where we chatted all things "wellbeing" AND the upcoming Medical Fitness Association 33rd Annual Conference taking place in Baltimore November 1-4. I was thrilled to discuss my speech, "The Breath of Purpose: Unlocking Your Full Pote...

Stacy Fritz had the pleasure of being interviewed by April Mahoney, the host of the  internationally recognized award winning podcast, On The Edge. The show is  an internationally recognized award winning podcast and global brand. Her reach spans to over 80,000 people in 47 countries.  With over 1400 episodes under her belt she is known as a major force and influencer in the world of podcast media...

Stacy Fritz had the pleasure to sit down with Jim Porter, president of StressStop.com , a company that has been providing stress management and resilience training and training materials to corporations, hospitals, government agencies and military bases for over 30 years. Mr. Porter is the author and creator of many of these materials which include dozens of workbooks , training videos and CD&apos...

I had the opportunity to sit down with Kathleen Bands, owner of My Cleaning Service , a 3rd generation commercial cleaning company, to discuss our respective companies. Kathleen and I unpack how My Cleaning Service and FIT2order are on a mission, especially post COVID, to keep our clients and customers healthy and safe AT WORK.

The alarming number of NEW  COVID-19 cases as a result of the Delta variant has led many seeking to “boost” their immune system as a defense to the illness. While we definitely need our bodies’ defenses to be as strong as possible, our immune systems cannot technically be boosted.   It can, however, be strengthened and supported with good nutrition and lifestyle habits like regularly exercising, g...

FITness may not always be easy, but it’s certainly not complicated. Living healthfully is really quite basic. As we say at FIT2order, you need to eat well, move more and stress less.  [ Eat Well] Generally speaking, nutrition basics are easy. 1.     Avoid processed foods. 2.     Eat a lot of different types of vegetables. 3.     Choose lean protein sources including legumes. [ Move More] There is...

Outdoor Workouts: Too (Hot? Cold? Embarrassed?) for an Outdoor Workout? Think again. The Benefits are Tremendous! COVID-19 has brought many challenges to both the fitness industry and fitness consumer alike. Before COVID, Americans largely associated exercise with a trip to the gym or studio, but the pandemic has forced many to sweat it out at home. As a result, digital workouts, have become the n...

The weight loss industry is full of myths, half-truths and gimmicks. But weight loss doesn’t have to be complicated. There are numerous research-backed techniques you can implement during your typical day that can aid your weight loss goals.  Some of the tips discussed are purely dietary (like cutting back on sugar), while others are more lifestyle-focused (like chewing food more slowly). By imple...

Welcome back to The Healthy Desk Jockey... On today's episode, we are talking about taking care of your most important muscle, y our heart! Did YOU know? Your heart beats about 115,000 times a day; it pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood every day; it’s about the size of your fist; and it can continue beating even when it’s disconnected from the body. [ So, what are YOU doing to take care of yo...

Join Stacy Fritz from FIT2order to learn about the the tools and strategies that will help you build the foundation for good health, FITness, nutrition and mindset skills for success....including losing the Quarantine 15! 

A panel at the Global Wellness Summit brought together top journalists and future-forecasters to predict the big wellness trends of 2021.  Stacy Fritz shares the three trends that the panel determined would gain serious momentum throughout 2021 including how to support each of the trends with the tools and strategies needed for employees.  

Listen back on the Webinar: Corporate Wellness for a Rising Remote Workforce delivered a few weeks ago by Stacy Fritz from FIT2order. This webinar replay includes:  -Insights on the corporate responsibility of physical and mental health and safety of the employee -Implications of emerging shifts in workforce wellness from “nice to have” to corporate responsibility. -Wellness at Work trends for 202...

[ Research on the Benefits of Yoga is Catching up to What Yogic History Has Touted--for a mere 5,000 Years.] The 5,000 year-old practice of Yoga has established its relevance in today’s world. The Yoga Industry is an $11.5 Billion Industry, and Yoga practitioners have grown from 20 million to 36 million in just 4 years. The number of male Yogis has doubled, while the over 50 crowd who practices yo...

Every 2 minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. Chances are you, your employees, or their families have been impacted by breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month will be in full swing in just 2 short months. It’s time to start planning your company’s pink initiative! And as you do, think about how you will get your employees involved to not only bring awareness to this all-too common...

Today, I am sitting down with the one and only, Anna Fitzgibbon. Anna is the owner of OutGrowth, a FIT2order FIT coach AND Pattie and my longtime friend. We will be chatting it up about Anna's super cool business, OutGrowth, that connects student interns, businesses AND local farms, how she started her business AND why it's a win-win for ALL including our beloved desk jockeys. Anna and I...

[Are you sitting down for this?] The CDC calls it “Occupational Sitting.” The medical community calls it “Sitting Disease.” Others refer to “The Desk Sentence,” “The Desk Jockey,” and “Sitting is the New Smoking.” These terms have emerged from the growing body of research linking prolonged sitting to fatigue, weight gain, chronic illness, and early death. [Maybe you should take a stand.] The avera...

Have you ever sat so long at work, engrossed in your latest project, that your butt literally falls asleep? Goes numb? Known as Dead Butt Syndrome or “gluteal amnesia,” the condition indicates that the muscles of your rear end are forgetting how to do their job because –--of inactivity. [Dead Butt Syndrome=What’s Happening Down There?] When we sit too long, blood flow is restricted, nerves get irr...

A few generations back, most workers did not worry about the job hazards of developing eye strain, slouched shoulders or dead butt syndrome (it’s a “thing”*). They didn’t worry about tracking their daily steps because most jobs required moderate activity. Today, with more than 26 million Americans working in occupations that involve long periods of sitting, it’s not a surprise that standing desks,...

If you sit for most of their work day (think > 4 hours), you are considered “sedentary,” a medical term indicating you are at a higher risk for certain diseases as well as musculoskeletal disorders.  With the recent publication of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Total Worker Health Report (2017) addressing the hazards of occupational sitting, the implications of prol...

For 11 years, FIT2order has provided corporate wellness programs that engage employees in healthy behaviors—fitness classes, nutrition seminars, weight loss challenges. Participation rates are the standard measure of success for these programs. Over the years, FIT2order has, unwittingly, developed an additional, “bigger picture” metric. Meet Betty. Betty is our internal, subjective and toughest st...

Today’s podcast is about how it is possible to successfully manage a chronic condition like diabetes.  Meet Andy. Andy was 8 years old when he  was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.  He has been managing his diabetes for 37 years.  Our interview with Andy includes: His “diabetic bottoms” that woke him up How he successfully manages his diabetes with exercise, nutrition and medication How he works ar...

Today’s podcast offers a little more insight into the evolution of FIT2order.  We thought it might be a lot of fun on #FlashbackFriday to give a behind the scenes look at FIT2order’s brand new FIT.  We’ve had terrific feedback AND a few questions that felt so curious, we decided to take some time to give you the back story. FIT2order, is almost 10 years old! It is unbelievable that almost a decade...