Jason + Colleen Wachob: Well-Being vs. Wellness, Accessibility, and Building Habits That Bring You Joy
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Jason and Colleen Wachob are the co-founders and co-CEOs of mindbodygreen, the leading independent media brand dedicated to well-being with 15 million monthly unique visitors.
Jason is also the host of the popular mindbodygreen podcast, and the best-selling author of Wellth: How I Learned to Build a Life, Not a Resume. He has been featured in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, BoF, and Vogue, and has a BA in history from Columbia University, where he played varsity basketball for four years.
After graduating from Stanford with degrees in international relations and Spanish, Colleen spent ten years working at Fortune 500 companies including Gap, Walmart, and Amazon before devoting her life’s work to mindbodygreen. Colleen has been a speaker at Fortune 500 companies and numerous trade conferences on well-being trends.
The Starretts and the Wachobs arrived at their life’s work on parallel paths. We get into the similarities and differences in their approaches and thinking around the common goal of empowering people to prioritize well-being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | This episode of the Ready State podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Element. |
| 0:20.8 | And look, we're in the middle of our kids' heavy-duty sports and water polo season. |
| 0:26.2 | I mean, when are we not? |
| 0:27.7 | But what we're seeing is the coolers of Gatorade and PowerAid at sporting events. |
| 0:33.6 | And this causes us to pull our hair out. |
| 0:36.5 | For a couple of reasons. |
| 0:37.3 | One, obviously, the single-use plastic bottle has got to get out of youth sports. I mean, and this causes us to pull our hair out. For a couple reasons. |
| 0:41.4 | One, obviously the single-use plastic bottle has got to get out of youth sports. |
| 0:42.8 | I mean, that is just just trash. |
| 0:45.2 | We're just jamming those things into dolphins' eyeballs, right? |
| 0:47.0 | And wonder the orcas are so mad. |
| 0:51.5 | Second is that that stuff doesn't actually help your athletes play. |
| 0:55.5 | It is overly sugared water that actually dehydrates your athletes. So if you're trying to get your kid to like have some electrolytes, that is not the |
| 1:00.3 | solution. We know. And it doesn't help them recover. That's right. We know that. Look, of course, |
| 1:04.6 | introsession carbohydrate really works, but not this. It's at a sugar solution that actually |
| 1:09.8 | pulls water out of your system. And all the |
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