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Okay, so today, I am excited to bring you this interview with Dr. Rich Safere. When it comes to

workplace wellness, I literally couldn't think of anyone more qualified to hop on and have this chat with me.

Because workplace wellness is moving in the wrong direction.

And Dr. Severe is here to help.

He is the chief medical director of employee health and well-being at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he leads the Healthy at Hopkins employee health and

well-being strategy. He also holds faculty appointments in the School of Medicine and Public Health

at Johns Hopkins University. And in this conversation, we really took a deep dive into how we can

stop making workplace wellness just about initiatives and programs, often ones that people aren't

using anyway, and move toward a culture of building wellness into the rhythm of our work and our days.

And also, he's just really lovely. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Dr. Rich for Fear, chief medical director, Employing Health and Wellbeing at John Popkin's Medicine.

Thanks so much for joining me on the Modern Mentor podcast. What a pleasure to speak to you.

And I appreciate the opportunity to share what I can with you and your audience. Thank you.

Yeah, you really had to twist my arm because these days, workplace, well-being. I mean, who's interested in talking about that? I think we're all fine, don't you?

Yeah, just a smidge more improvement and we'll be where we want to be.

Sure, sure. I feel like every year, I've been in the workplace, a good number of them at this point, but I feel like

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