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Wellness Law Podcast

Are you interested in or already have a wellness business? Perhaps you deliver employee wellness services, or practice as a health coach, functional medicine provider, lifestyle or relationship expert, spiritual coach, integrative and holistic health practitioner, or you invent wellness products and devices. Regardless of your role, you need to stay on top of the law that affects the wellness industry. This podcast will feature wellness industry experts and thought leaders and explain how the law affects what they do. You will learn about the latest lawsuits, investigations, and research that can help your wellness business reduce risk and thrive.

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Wellness Law Podcast

Why Wellness Law Matters: Cynthia Stamer on Policy, ABA Advocacy, and Building Legal Infrastructure for Wellbeing

June 28, 2026 • Barbara Zabawa • Season 7 • Episode 8

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Host Barbara Zabawa welcomes Cynthia Marcotte Stamer to the Wellness Law Podcast to discuss how multiple legal disciplines intersect with “wellness law” and why it should be recognized as a distinct practice area. Stammer, an employee benefits and labor and employment lawyer with deep experience in health plans and ACA/HIPAA-related reforms, describes her public health roots and focus on changing systems rather than helping one person at a time. She explains how the American Bar Association enabled early collaboration, mentoring, and policy advocacy that can drive community-wide legal change beyond the profession. Their conversation contrasts wellness and healthcare, highlights inequities between luxury wellness (e.g., med spas, peptides) and basic needs (housing, food, access to medications), and emphasizes multidisciplinary, people-centric infrastructure solutions informed by real-world barriers, especially after COVID.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
03:23 Cynthia’s Wellness Roots
04:52 Building a Practice and the ABA
06:56 ABA Advocacy Beyond Lawyers
08:54 Why Wellness Law Matters
11:31 How New Practice Areas Emerge
14:12 Wellness vs Healthcare Systems
16:26 Med Spas Biohacking and Equity
22:23 Multidisciplinary Solutions via ABA
24:08 COVID Lessons and Systems Thinking
27:55 Closing Thanks and How to Connect
29:48 Podcast Outro and Resources

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