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 about top legal issues she encounters when helping wellness professionals start and scale their businesses, and some tips to encourage you to make the leap into wellness entrepreneurship. You can learn more about Lesli and her services at LesliBitel.com and connect via Instagram at instagram.com/LesliBitel.

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 focusing on. As a result, Dr. Lewis started Health Revival Partners to help clients get to the right causes of illness and poor wellbeing. This starts with running the right kind of labs, and for corporate wellness, incentivizing the meaningful labs instead of ones that have no correlation to wellness. In this podcast, Dr. Lewis explains his approach to wellness and offers some insights on how wellness can be more efficient and accurate. Learn more about Dr. Lewis's work here. If you are interested in learning more about the Highwire podcast, click here.

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 modalities, it became apparent that at least for some people, existing treatments didn't work well. That's when she became aware of psychadelic treatment, and more particularly Ketamine therapy for those who are resistant to other forms of mental health treatments like anti-depressants and therapy. She is now on a mission to help employers offer Ketamine therapy to employees as a way to address the growing mental health crisis in the workplace. In this episode, we discuss Enthea's business model and the science behind Ketamine treatment. If you would like to learn more, please visit https://www.enthea.com/. You can view Sherry's LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherryrais/ or email her directly at sherry@enthea.com.

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 Pathology's unique way of improving individual wellbeing and how that approach can positively impact a company's financial forecast. Moreover, engaging with employees can reduce legal risk in workplace wellness programs. You can learn more about Soul Pathology, LLC here. Follow Amanda on social media with the handle @soulpathology, and listen to her podcast, Soul Sessions with Amanda Rieger Green.

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 can help identify which drugs will be most effective for an individual based on their genetic predispositions. By understanding an individual's genetic make up, prescribers can prescribe the drugs that will actually work for an individual and avoid prescribing the ones that won't. This saves time and money for patients and purchasers of health care. Why wouldn't a workplace wellness program want PGX as part of the program? If employees are taking prescription medications that are not helping them, then knowing which ones would help them will increase their wellbeing. Learn from Mark how his platform can help advance employee and patient wellness. to learn more visit https://avalonbhs.com/. You can also email Mark at mark.smith@avolonbhs.com.

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 causes of burnout, such as regulatory and productivity demands are discussed, along with suggestions on how to forge a new path to feel reinvigorated about providing health and wellness services. You can learn more about Dr. Salyer at www.drlarasalyer.com. To take the ten question burnout quiz she mentions in the podcast, go to www.drlarasalyer.com/catalyst and look for the "Free Restoration Plan" at the top of the page.

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 and cons of LLC and S-Corp status, where to incorporate your business, and how S-Corp status even works. She answers a lot of tax-related questions that many wellness law clients have. You can learn more about Michelle's accounting firm by visiting www.healthandtaxes.net or email her at mburke@healthandtaxes.net.

JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek is founder of the Fitness Law Academy, Professor Emeritus of South Florida University, and author of several books, including most recently Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals. In this episode, JoAnn talks about the legal risks that fitness professionals and facilities face, standards that govern the fitness industry, and resources to help those who provide fitness services stay compliant and deliver higher quality service.