152: Jason Wachob - MindBodyGreen... The Early Days • What Is Wellth? • Operating From A Place Of Gratitude
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jason Wachob is the founder & CEO of MindBodyGreen and the author of Wellth. He's been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Vogue. Jason has a BA in History from Columbia University, where he played varsity basketball for four years.
In this episode, we discuss:
- MindBodyGreen... the early days
- How Jason avoided back surgery by doing yoga
- What inspired MindBodyGreen?
- Building community in the health and wellness space
- It's not easy to find your dream job
- Most people shouldn't become an entrepreneur
- Maintaining balance/keeping healthy as a health and wellness entrepreneur
- The best exercise is the one you actually do
- Working alongside your life partner
- Children are a pleasant distraction from work
- "Last work related comment"
- Disconnecting from your work might not be realistic
- The entrepreneurial vs. the conventional timeline
- What is Wellth?
- Food should be pleasurable, too
- If Jason could only pick one exercise... it would be yoga
- Operating from a place of gratitude
- Upcoming health trends for the remainder of 2017
- Jason's first two hours in the morning
- Finding a balanced wellness routine
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 152 |
| 0:14.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marty Wasserman |
| 0:16.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:20.0 | This week our featured guest is Jason Wachab. He is the founder and CEO of Mind Body |
| 0:25.4 | Green which is dedicated to health and happiness and the website gets 15 million |
| 0:30.7 | unique visitors per month. He has been featured in the New York Times |
| 0:34.8 | entrepreneur, fast company, and vogue. Jason's book is titled Wealth and no pun |
| 0:40.8 | intended but this interview is packed with a wealth of great information for you guys. |
| 0:45.2 | And just so you guys know wealth is spelled W E L L L T H so he does a little play on words and you guys are going to understand a little bit why he's |
| 0:53.8 | combined those two words together. |
| 0:55.9 | Such a good conversation, as you know they just keep getting better and better, so we're |
| 0:59.7 | excited for you guys to hear this one. |
| 1:01.8 | So now I'm going to read our review of the week and this is coming |
| 1:05.0 | from C Fitness and it's a five-star review titled Best Source for most recent health information. |
| 1:10.3 | First off I truly enjoy listening to Jesse and Marnie. They are always |
| 1:14.1 | upbeat, optimistic, and never political, a true breath of fresh air. In terms of |
| 1:18.6 | content, this is my favorite source for new healthy lifestyle practices. |
| 1:22.1 | All of their guests are experts and |
| 1:24.1 | have gone on to purchase many of their books. My personal and my husband's health |
| 1:28.0 | have greatly improved since I've started listening to the show. From diet to |
| 1:31.4 | exercise to mental health this podcast offers everything you want in a health show. It is truly inspirational. And my life is far better because of it. |
| 1:39.7 | Thank you, Jesse and Marney. keep up the wonderful work. |
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