Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Today I'm joined by my dear friend and business partner Jacob Laub. Jacob is the

co-founder and COO of Commune and over the past decade he has been central to building this

platform from the ground up into a global community dedicated to personal and societal well-being.

This conversation is a little bit different than normal

instead of interviewing an outside guest, as I typically do.

Jacob and I will sit down to discuss a pressing question.

Should health be considered apolitical,

a matter of personal choice,

or is health inevitably political, shaped by the policies and systems

that govern access to food, health care, and clean environments?

From nutrition subsidies and SNAP benefits to the culture of wellness influencers and the ways

public health can become weaponized in partisan battles. We explore the complex intersection between

individual responsibility and collective policy. This is a candid, behind-the-scenes exchange

that pulls back the curtain not only on how Jacob and I think about wellness and politics,

but also on the values that guide Commune itself.

Okay, without further delay, my conversation with Jacob Blau.

Jeff, it's good to see you in the digital realm.

Today is September 5th, and around this time of year, I always think about the origins of

commune because we launched our first course

right around this time in 2018. It was a different era. But strangely, one that I find myself having

moments of deja vu. We came up with the concept for commune in the first year

of the first Trump administration, and it felt like a moment when we remembered some aspects

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