693 Wellth vs. Wealth with Jason Wachob

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

THERE'S NO ONE SIZE FIT ALL FOR WELLNESS. Jason is founder and CEO of mindbodygreen.com which receives 12 million visitors each month. He’s also author of the book Wealth and has been featured in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Vogue. Jason has a B.A. in history from Columbia University, where he played varsity basketball for four years. He was suffering from terrible back pain from traveling constantly and was able to heal himself through yoga, sleep, and nutrition. Jason knows the importance of building a life, not just a bank account. In this episode, Jason shares with us the definition of his revolutionary word “wellth” and how it’s different from “wealth.” Discover all that and more on Episode 693. In This Episode You Will Learn: The meaning of the book title “Wellth” (00:42) How Jason created MindBodyGreen (1:57) How Jason healed his back pain (2:49) Why Jason loves what he does (5:22) The one thing Jason has to be careful of (6:14)

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:10.2	Our guest today, his name is Jason Wackup.
0:13.4	He is the founder and CEO of MindBodyGreen.com, which is a huge health and wellness site that
0:19.5	gets over 12 million unique visitors a month.
0:23.0	As well as over 4,000 contributors, it's really the authority in the health and wellness
0:28.2	space online.
0:30.3	He's been featured in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Vogue, and all over the place.
0:35.2	He has a BA in history from Columbia University, where he played varsity basketball for four
0:40.2	years there.
0:45.3	I think that wealth is a blend of mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and environmental
0:52.8	wellbeing.
0:54.5	And so, I think the way I see true wellness is this blend.
0:59.9	I don't think it's just self-help.
1:03.1	I don't think it's just fitness or just nutrition or just the environment or just business.
1:08.2	I think all these things are interconnected and becoming our best self.
1:13.4	And so, I sort of leave the building box, I think, as we touched on, I don't think
1:18.2	there's any, I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all approach to anything.
1:22.5	And so, I think that each individual has to decide, which elements are important to them,
1:29.2	where they're locking, where they're not, and decide, where they need to make change
1:33.5	in their life.
1:34.5	In a lot of ways, I think wealth is the book that I wish I had 15 years ago when I was
1:40.0	going through this, where I would just go to Barnes & Noble and just read anything I
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