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Okay, I want to define some terms first.

Wellness.

It's a big word.

It's a big word.

And it describes a huge number of different practices. And it's a term that seems

like it's getting broader and broader in definition all the time. So my first question,

what even is wellness? Oh, I mean, it is an increasingly ambiguous term. It really was meant to be everything the pharmaceutical

and health industry doesn't touch. And generally things that you could tend to yourself,

like fitness, nutrition, relaxation techniques, but increasingly it's starting to mean things like

beauty or spirituality. It can kind of mean anything. And the problem

with that is that whenever something starts to mean anything, it can kind of mean nothing. It has since

sort of disintegrated into more of a consumerist term than anything these days, which is why now

when you say the term wellness, people automatically think of things like a CBD leggings and like face mass and bubble baths.

I'm sorry, who's thinking of CBD leggings?

I've never heard of those before.

Gotta get some, Brittany.

They're all the rage.

I'm not on the right email list serves.

I tell you all what.

Today, we're getting into wellness.

It's a global industry worth $6 trillion that's starting to encompass all kinds of things, including spirituality, from the spirituality of wellness practices like yoga and Reiki to treating wellness itself like a religion.

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