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🗓️ 9 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Entrepreneurs, the Playbook. We're here live at the National Restaurant Association. |
0:04.5 | I'm here with an incredible entrepreneur, Bradley Bostic, the chairman of 8C1, and of course, |
0:10.9 | his own managing directorship of the health cloud capital company. |
0:18.2 | Financing well-being is the way that I look at it. Welcome, Brad, to the playbook. |
0:22.5 | It is so great to see you, David. So good to be here. So when we're at a show like this, a lot of |
0:28.2 | people don't know how well-infused wellness is in all different shows, but especially in our food |
0:35.8 | system. And there's a lot of things that people don't |
0:40.1 | think about that has really changed your life, your trajectory in business. What are some of the |
0:46.3 | things that you're doing financially to change the way people eat? Well, let me just put a really |
0:53.1 | fine point on that. So I used to be on the board of a |
0:57.3 | hospital called Escanazi Health, which is a critical access hospital in Marion County of |
1:03.5 | Indianapolis. And one of the things that we found was that a huge correlated factor for people who were very sick often was their food |
1:16.0 | supply. So people talk about food deserts and all of that. So we actually created a program that |
1:21.7 | was called food as medicine. And these people with families would go to the primary care doctor and the prescription instead of for |
1:29.2 | drugs would be for food and then we have actual groceries that are fully like clean foods that are |
1:36.2 | vegetables fruits and and actually have urban farms that are associated with them that we'd have a lot of |
1:42.9 | young people work in and then you'd go |
1:45.0 | in and get this better food and come to find that actually made people much more healthy. |
1:50.4 | So there's a huge connection. |
1:52.5 | And there's been a shift. Food was always medicinal. And now it actually creates this ease, |
1:58.7 | especially in America. And we're starting to shift that and elevate the awareness to it. |
2:05.6 | Now, I know you're funding things and you're actually putting capital into shifting that |
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