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.
Episodes
21 episodes
A Coach for Wellness Entrepreneurs - Lesli Bitel
Lesli Bitel, MBA, RDN, LDN, is a leading business strategist and coach renowned for her decade-long dedication to elevating the profiles and profitability of functional nutrition and medicine professionals. Listen as Lesli shares her wisdom abo...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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29:34
Helping Corporate Wellness Get at the Root Cause of Disease: Dr. Thomas Lewis
Meet Dr. Thomas Lewis, author of six books and medical scientist with advanced degrees from MIT and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lewis's mission is to examine what really causes disease and believes that is what wellness should be focus...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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25:51
Offering Psychadelic Therapy in the Workplace: A Conversation with Enthea's Founder Sherry Rais
Sherry Rais founded Enthea after spending years working for the United Nations and World Bank. It was there that she realized ending poverty is impossible without addressing mental illness. After learning about different mental health treatment...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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33:16
"It's About the People" - A Soulful Approach to Workplace Wellness with Amanda Rieger Green
Amanda Rieger Green founded Soul Pathology, LLC to bring a new approach to wellness. Soul Pathology, LLC attempts to get to know the humanity of employees and listen to them to understand their needs. In this interview, Amanda explains Soul Pat...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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25:11
Using Precision Medicine or "PGX" for Wellness Programs: A Conversation with Mark Smith, Founder of Avalon Behavioral Health Solutions
Mark Smith founded Avalon Behavioral Health Solutions several years ago to help people and companies avoid trial and error when it comes to finding the right pharmaceutical. Avalon uses "pharmacogenomics" or PGX, which is a genetic test that ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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29:12
Physician Burnout: How Dr. Lara Salyer is Helping Health Professionals Cope and Move On
Meet Dr. Lara Salyer, a family physician turned burnout coach and inspirational leader. In this episode, Dr. Salyer shares her personal story of burnout and tips and tricks to help health professionals overcome feelings of hopelessness. The cau...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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36:45
Health and Taxes: An Essential Conversation about Legal Entities and Taxes with CPA Michelle Burke
Meet Michelle Burke, an accountant who specializes in serving the health and wellness industries. I was so excited to learn about Michelle that I had to interview her for the Wellness Law podcast. In this episode, Michelle breaks down the pros ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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28:55
Fitness Law is Part of Wellness Law: Lessons from JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek
JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek is founder of the Fitness Law Academy, Professor Emeritus of South Florida University, and author of several books, including most recently
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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30:26
Liability Insurance Considerations for Wellness Professionals: A Discussion with Miriam Ball of Alternative Balance
Miriam Ball is Chief Insurance Officer for Alternative Balance insurance, which specializes in offering professional liability and other types of insurance needed by wellness professionals. Whether you are a health coach, massage therapist, acu...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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34:09
Working Toward Standardizing and Improving Access to the Health Coaching Industry: An Engaging Discussion with NBHWC Executive Director Leigh-Ann Webster
Leigh-Ann Webster currently serves as Executive Director for the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). NBHWC is leading the effort to create industry standards for health and wellness coaches ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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34:53
Exploring the Value of Health Coaching and Board Certification with Brad Cooper
Meet Brad Cooper, founder of the Catalyst Coaching Institute, a health coaching training and education organization, and US Corporate Wellne...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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27:25
A Valuable Resource for Health and Wellness Coaches: Your Coach Health with Founder Marina Borukhovich
Marina Borukhovich founded Your Coach Health several years ago after becoming a health coach herself. In this podcast, Marina discusses the need for an all in one coaching platform and the legal issues she sees arise with health and wellness co...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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25:15
An Inspiring Wellness Coaching Story: Sarah Miller
A lot of our clients at the Center for Health and Wellness Law, LLC are health and wellness coaches. We admire the work they do, but we especially admire those who come to a coaching career because of t...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:22
Which Legal Entity for my Health Coaching Business? A Discussion with Attorney Adam Tutaj
Attorney Adam Tutaj is a shareholder at Meissner, Tierney, Fisher & Nichols in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adam specializes in business, tax and health law. Adam shares his knowledge with the Wellness Law Podcast to help startup health and wellne...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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28:33
Wellness Compliance with Suzanne Hunt of the National Wellness Institute
Suzanne Hunt is the Director of Professional Development at the National Wellness Institute (NWI). In this episode, Suzanne and Barbara talk about the importance of wellness compliance within the wellness industry and how wellness professionals...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:45
Michael Stack: Advocate for Fitness Industry Standards and What Wellness Can Learn From His Efforts
Michael Stack is founder and CEO of Frontline Fitness Pros and Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan's School of Kinesiology. He also is creator and host of the Wellness Paradox Podcast. In this episode, Michael talks to us about his...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:46
The Intersection Between Financial and Legal Wellness: A Conversation with Brent Hines
Meet Brent Hines, the Executive Director and co-founder of the Foundation for Financial Wellness. In this episode, Brent walks us through why he helped create the Foundation, what it does, and how it can benefit those who work in the wellness i...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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30:57
The Difference (and need for) Wellness Law vs. Lawyer Wellbeing: With Susan Goodkind Wideman
Susan Goodkind Wideman is a retired attorney who now coaches lawyers on legal wellbeing. In this episode, Susan and Barbara explore the toxic tendencies of the legal profession and legal professionals, and how coaching can help bring balance an...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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23:19
Taking on State Nutrition Laws: Jonathan Posey
Many health and wellness providers would like to provide nutrition counseling, but a number of states prohibit the practice unless you are a licensed dietitian. Meet Jonathan Posey, Founder and Executive Director of the Holistic Health Council ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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33:34
Comparing Wellness to Health Care: Debbie Bellenger
Debbie Bellenger is the CEO and Founder of the Wellness Academy and leads the Master Class for Fit Pros. Debbie has been involved with wellness for a long time, including significant experience working within healthcare organizations delivering...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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32:38
Fighting for Freedom: Diane Miller and the National Health Freedom Coalition
Are you a health coach or alternative health care provider who is not licensed by a state regulatory board? Do you ever worry about getting punished by state governments for talking about exercise, nutrition, or ways to improve your health? The...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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34:19