Are you interested in or already have a wellness business? Perhaps you deliver employee wellness services, or practice as a health coach, functional medicine provider, lifestyle or relationship expert, spiritual coach, integrative and holistic health practitioner, or you invent wellness products and devices. Regardless of your role, you need to stay on top of the law that affects the wellness industry. This podcast will feature wellness industry experts and thought leaders and explain how th ...
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Physician Burnout: How Dr. Lara Salyer is Helping Health Professionals Cope and Move On
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Meet Dr. Lara Salyer, a family physician turned burnout coach and inspirational leader. In this episode, Dr. Salyer shares her personal story of burnout and tips and tricks to help health professionals overcome feelings of hopelessness. The causes of burnout, such as regulatory and productivity demands are discussed, along with suggestions on how t…
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Health and Taxes: An Essential Conversation about Legal Entities and Taxes with CPA Michelle Burke
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Meet Michelle Burke, an accountant who specializes in serving the health and wellness industries. I was so excited to learn about Michelle that I had to interview her for the Wellness Law podcast. In this episode, Michelle breaks down the pros and cons of LLC and S-Corp status, where to incorporate your business, and how S-Corp status even works. S…
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Fitness Law is Part of Wellness Law: Lessons from JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek
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JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek is founder of the Fitness Law Academy, Professor Emeritus of South Florida University, and author of several books, including most recently Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals. In this episode, JoAnn talks about the legal risks that fitness professionals and facilities face, standards that govern the fitness in…
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Liability Insurance Considerations for Wellness Professionals: A Discussion with Miriam Ball of Alternative Balance
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Miriam Ball is Chief Insurance Officer for Alternative Balance insurance, which specializes in offering professional liability and other types of insurance needed by wellness professionals. Whether you are a health coach, massage therapist, acupuncturist or other type of health or wellness professional, liability insurance can protect you in the ev…
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Working Toward Standardizing and Improving Access to the Health Coaching Industry: An Engaging Discussion with NBHWC Executive Director Leigh-Ann Webster
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Leigh-Ann Webster currently serves as Executive Director for the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). NBHWC is leading the effort to create industry standards for health and wellness coaches as well as the effort to help health and wellness coaching gain recognition and greater access through obtaining CPT codes that can be used…
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Exploring the Value of Health Coaching and Board Certification with Brad Cooper
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Meet Brad Cooper, founder of the Catalyst Coaching Institute, a health coaching training and education organization, and US Corporate Wellness, a coaching services company to help companies improve their employees' health outcomes through coaching. Brad was one of the early entrants into the wellness industry and brings his personal experience and …
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A Valuable Resource for Health and Wellness Coaches: Your Coach Health with Founder Marina Borukhovich
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Marina Borukhovich founded Your Coach Health several years ago after becoming a health coach herself. In this podcast, Marina discusses the need for an all in one coaching platform and the legal issues she sees arise with health and wellness coaches. If you would like to learn more about Your Coach Health, visit their website at https://yourcoach.h…
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An Inspiring Wellness Coaching Story: Sarah Miller
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A lot of our clients at the Center for Health and Wellness Law, LLC are health and wellness coaches. We admire the work they do, but we especially admire those who come to a coaching career because of their own healing journey. Sarah Miller is such a health coach. Her story of why she started Wellshine Coaching, LLC is as much heartbreaking as it i…
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Which Legal Entity for my Health Coaching Business? A Discussion with Attorney Adam Tutaj
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Attorney Adam Tutaj is a shareholder at Meissner, Tierney, Fisher & Nichols in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adam specializes in business, tax and health law. Adam shares his knowledge with the Wellness Law Podcast to help startup health and wellness businesses understand the different legal entity options that exist and some of the tax implications of tho…
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Wellness Compliance with Suzanne Hunt of the National Wellness Institute
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Suzanne Hunt is the Director of Professional Development at the National Wellness Institute (NWI). In this episode, Suzanne and Barbara talk about the importance of wellness compliance within the wellness industry and how wellness professionals can learn more about wellness compliance. Suzanne talks about the Wellness Compliance Institute (WCI) and…
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Michael Stack: Advocate for Fitness Industry Standards and What Wellness Can Learn From His Efforts
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Michael Stack is founder and CEO of Frontline Fitness Pros and Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan's School of Kinesiology. He also is creator and host of the Wellness Paradox Podcast. In this episode, Michael talks to us about his efforts in creating standards for the fitness industry, short of state regulation. We discuss why standar…
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The Intersection Between Financial and Legal Wellness: A Conversation with Brent Hines
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Meet Brent Hines, the Executive Director and co-founder of the Foundation for Financial Wellness. In this episode, Brent walks us through why he helped create the Foundation, what it does, and how it can benefit those who work in the wellness industry. Learn why it is important to have your financial affairs (including an estate plan) is imperative…
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The Difference (and need for) Wellness Law vs. Lawyer Wellbeing: With Susan Goodkind Wideman
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Susan Goodkind Wideman is a retired attorney who now coaches lawyers on legal wellbeing. In this episode, Susan and Barbara explore the toxic tendencies of the legal profession and legal professionals, and how coaching can help bring balance and wellbeing to that space. They also dissect the meaning of wellness law and why both types of wellness la…
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Taking on State Nutrition Laws: Jonathan Posey
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Many health and wellness providers would like to provide nutrition counseling, but a number of states prohibit the practice unless you are a licensed dietitian. Meet Jonathan Posey, Founder and Executive Director of the Holistic Health Council and the Foundation of Holistic Health Education. Jonathan works tirelessly to fight state laws that prohib…
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Comparing Wellness to Health Care: Debbie Bellenger
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Debbie Bellenger is the CEO and Founder of the Wellness Academy and leads the Master Class for Fit Pros. Debbie has been involved with wellness for a long time, including significant experience working within healthcare organizations delivering wellness services to patients. In this episode, we discuss the lessons learned from wellness within healt…
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Fighting for Freedom: Diane Miller and the National Health Freedom Coalition
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Are you a health coach or alternative health care provider who is not licensed by a state regulatory board? Do you ever worry about getting punished by state governments for talking about exercise, nutrition, or ways to improve your health? Then you don't want to miss my conversation with Diane Miller, JD, founder and Program Director for the Natio…
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