396. Why High Performers Can’t Afford to Ignore Wellness with Dr. Taz Bhatia [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Business

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

High performers think they can outwork stress — until their bodies prove them wrong. In this encore episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Dr. Taz Bhatia, a nationally recognized integrative medicine physician, to uncover why ignoring your health is the fastest way to sabotage your success. From cortisol spikes and energy crashes to the hidden costs of “powering through,” Dr. Taz reveals why the most ambitious leaders can’t afford to treat wellness as optional — and what it really takes to build resilience that lasts. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why Type-A achievers often miss the early red flags of burnout — and how to spot them in yourself How to design a health plan that fits your lifestyle instead of adding another job to your calendar What it takes to extend not just your lifespan, but your health span, so every year is high performing If you want to keep winning at the highest level, this conversation will show you why performance starts with wellness. ---- Show Notes: 03:11 – Dr. Taz shares her personal health collapse that forced her to rethink conventional medicine 13:57 – The difference between holistic, integrative, and functional medicine 17:35 – Why the U.S. health care system became “sick care” instead of true health care 23:24 – The five bodies of wellness: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and community 27:22 – Common health challenges high achievers face under chronic stress 30:26 – The red flags of burnout and why powering through makes them worse 36:20 – The hidden dangers of sugar and fad diets 41:33 – How to create a realistic, sustainable wellness plan without making it a full-time job ---- Links & Resources: CenterSpringMD Institute for Functional Medicine Blue Zones ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. —- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 110. Leading Ladies: Four Leaders in Business 132. Summit Spectacular: Part 1 214. Dream Team: How to Hire & Keep High-Performing Talent

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0:00.0	wellness for me is really being well at multiple levels of your being we have an emotional body
0:08.4	a physical body a mental body an energetic body and then a community body right that's our social body
0:14.3	that's dr tas batya integrative medicine position in wellness expert and one of the leading holistic doctors in the nation.
0:23.0	Wellness is when all of those bodies are functioning in tandem at their optimal, right?
0:29.6	You've got a community to go home to or to be in, and that's a big part of health.
0:34.0	Regulation of your emotions is a critical component of wellness.
0:37.4	Honestly,
0:37.9	those things are driving the decision making when it comes to your physical health.
0:47.9	I'm Michael Mogul, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth
0:52.1	company. I've built my business through practice,
0:54.6	not theory. Crisp started which is $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in
0:59.2	revenue over the last few years, earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing
1:03.6	private companies in America. Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating
1:07.9	massive growth within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed law firm owners do the same for theirs. In each episode
1:14.8	of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond
1:19.0	to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo, and
1:23.4	define what it means to be a true game changer. Today, we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes from the podcast where I sat down with
1:30.9	Dr. Tass to discuss why true wellness goes beyond just physical health, the most common health
1:35.6	challenges high achievers face and how to combat them, and how our communities and environments
1:39.9	can either support or undermine our well-being.
1:42.6	When a family is unhealthy or when there is a lack of family,
1:48.0	you can give people stuff to do from here to eternity,
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