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Wellness 3.0

18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings

These days, most people find it easier to lock eyes with a screen than with another person. The Wellness 3.0 podcast, brought to you by Fabriq, sheds light on what social wellness looks like in our modern tech-centric world. With weekly guests, we'll uncover the causes of the loneliness and disconnection epidemic, find common ground, purpose, and belonging, and find out what we can do to strengthen our social fabric and improve our social wellness for a healthier, happier future.

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Episodes

Amy Baglan: That's a Wrap! Wellness 3.0 Season 1

August 27, 2019 20:45 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MB

In our final episode of Season 1, we wanted to leave you with some inspiration from the best memories and the most actionable insights that we’ve learned from our incredible guests over the past few months. We look back at some of the most impactful conversations that Amy’s had to help us pave the way for a more socially well, deeply connected world.  At Fabriq, we are on a mission to empower people to make meaningful connections everyday. This means looking closely at our society’s social...

Debra Fine: Ways to Have Better Small Talk

August 06, 2019 17:38 - 1 hour - 84.1 MB

This week our guest is Debra Fine, author, speaker, and guru of all things small talk. Debra began her career as a highly analytical engineer, an occupation that allowed her to maintain her natural shyness and avoid situations that required social interactions. But, seeing how others’ speaking abilities allowed them to flourish, Debra decided she was tired of being shy, and decided to research strategies for starting conversations, keeping them going, remembering names, practicing “active li...

Mark Shapiro: How to Use Technology & Social Media to Feel More Connected

July 30, 2019 19:00 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MB

This episode’s guest is Mark Shapiro, the man behind the Are You Being Real? Podcast. Mark’s a TedX speaker, life coach, avid voice memo sender, and social media experimenter. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wish every single one of your Facebook friends a personalized happy birthday message every single day? What if you had 3,000 Facebook friends? That’s exactly what Mark has been doing for almost three years. He’s on a mission to figure out how we can deepen our social conn...

Tyler Norris: How to Build Healthy Communities & Grow Healthy People

July 04, 2019 16:22 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MB

This episode’s guest is a highly accomplished leader in the health and well-being space. Tyler Norris is a social entrepreneur, a trusted advisor, and a community healer. He’s CEO of Well Being Trust,  an independent, national foundation dedicated to advancing mental, societal, and spiritual well-being in the United States. All of Tyler’s work has centered on three important themes. First, building healthy communities so that healthy people can flourish and reach their full potential. Second...

Chad Littlefield: Start with Intention for Conversations That Matter

June 25, 2019 23:17 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MB

This episode features guest Chad Littlefield, the Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of We and Me, Inc., where he’s on a mission to create conversations that matter. Forbes has called him a global expert on asking questions that build connection and trust in teams. Most recently, Chad and his business partner Will Wise launched their new book Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter. In his interview, get to know a few things about Chad including how his passion for c...

Jeff Howard: Lean Into Discomfort and Other Lessons from Men’s Groups

June 18, 2019 21:16 - 1 hour - 92.3 MB

This week’s guest is Jeff Howard, a somatic psychotherapist based out of Boulder, Colorado with a practice called Three Leaves Counseling. Somatic therapy is a body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses a combination of talk and physical therapy for holistic healing. Jeff is also a popular men’s group facilitator, writer, musician, and father who values honesty, humility, and growth. Jeff is fascinated by people and the reasons that we behave the way we do, ...

Jason Shepherd: Creating Meaningful Community Spaces

June 13, 2019 15:34 - 1 hour - 93.9 MB

Today’s guest is Jason Shepherd, a master community builder in Denver, CO who has become a good friend of Amy’s over the years. Jason is an investor, an entrepreneur, and a partner at Atlas Real Estate Group. Jason is driven by a strong purpose to create vibrant, connected, and equitable communities and is interested in how property owners can take on a more active role in connecting people in the communities that they live and work in. To do this, Jason started a wellness-based social club ...

Shaylyn Romney Garrett: 4 Cultural Norms That Keep Us from Connecting

June 04, 2019 23:13 - 1 hour - 96 MB

Today’s guest is Shaylyn Romney Garrett, a woman who has dedicated all of 2019 to reconnecting — you’ll hear a lot about her journey in this episode. Shaylyn has spent her whole life studying, experimenting with, being fascinated and frightened by community, yet she thinks she has less community than anyone else. On her blog, Project Reconnect, Shaylyn takes on a new challenge every month to bring her back to community, connection, and relationship. Listen on to find out about Shaylyn’s mo...

Aaron Kahlow: Feel Deeply Connected, Our Greatest Human Need

May 28, 2019 21:43 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MB

Aaron Kahlow has become a close friend of Amy’s over the last few years, ever since they first met when he was working at Conscious Company Media. Aaron has over 20 years of experience as a founder and CEO, building and growing 5 companies and organizations. Over the past 5 to 10  years or so, he’s dedicated his life and work to using the skills from his business background to help further the consciousness and mindfulness movements, and truly help people find greater connection in their liv...

Casper ter Kuile: Rituals & The Purpose of Religion

May 21, 2019 20:11 - 57 minutes - 79 MB

On this episode, Amy interviews Casper ter Kuile, a man with a very cool job title — the Director of Possibility at The On Being Project. Casper is also the co-creator of How We Gather, a millennial-led spiritual startup collaboration between Harvard Divinity School, the Fetzer Institute, and On Being. Although Casper grew up disconnected from and actively avoiding religion, today, he holds masters degrees in both divinity and public policy at Harvard and remains a Ministry Innovation Fellow...

Sue Heilbronner: Coaching Conscious Leadership & Authentic Relating

May 15, 2019 17:58 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MB

In this episode, Amy calls up a mentor, personal friend, and a fierce woman in leadership, Sue Heilbronner. She’s a speaker, a startup CEO, an investor, a professor at CU Boulder, a conscious leadership coach, and the co-creator of both Leadership Camp, as well as MergeLane, an accelerator for startups that have at least one female in leadership. Sue also mentors startups through the Techstars accelerator program in Boulder. She also teaches Conscious Leadership Camp, which you’ll learn more...

Arielle Ford: How to Use the Law of Attraction to Manifest Anything

May 07, 2019 15:33 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MB

In this episode, Amy chats with Arielle Ford, the “Cupid of Consciousness” and the fairy godmother of love. Arielle is a figurehead in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. She’s a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, speaker, and is co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series. Her mission is to help women find love, keep love, and be loved. Arielle is a gifted writer and author of 11 books, including the international bestseller The Soulma...

Justin Kruger: Giving Back to Our Community

May 01, 2019 00:32 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MB

Justin Kruger is the founder of Project Helping, a non-profit based out of Denver, Colorado that improves mental wellness through what he has dubbed kyndfulness, or a daily practice of volunteering, intentional acts of kindness, and gratitude. Practicing kyndfulness brings awareness to the impact that serving your community can have on others and on your own mental state. Justin has gone on to found Kyndhub, an online community that similarly encourages people to do kind things for one anoth...

Dr. Rachel Abrams: Understanding the Human Animal, Love, and Right Relationship

April 23, 2019 07:00 - 53 minutes - 74.2 MB

In today’s episode, Amy digs deep with Dr. Rachel Carlton Abrams, voted the “Best Doctor” in Santa Cruz County for 9 years running. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, Rachel received her MD from UC San Francisco and a master’s degree in holistic health from UC Berkeley. Board certified in family medicine and integrative medicine, she refers to herself lovingly in this episode as an “integrative weirdo doctor.” At her award-winning integrative medicine clinic in Santa C...

Scott Kriens: Modeling Leadership with Authentic Relationships

April 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

In today’s episode, Amy hops on the phone with Scott Kriens, a highly successful entrepreneur, the co-founder of 1440 Multiversity with his wife Joanie, and, we’re lucky to say, one of Fabriq’s investors. After losing his father in 2004, Scott began to think long and hard about the question “What really matters?” At his core, Scott is a learner and a builder, committed to finding new ways to tie the world around us to that which is real and powerful within us. Moving beyond having more of ...

Joan Blades: The Art of Conversation & Connection

April 08, 2019 16:20 - 43 minutes - 40 MB

In this episode, we’re connecting with Joan Blades, the creator of Living Room Conversations. Joan is on a mission to rebuild respectful discourse across ideas, cultures, and party lines, while embracing our shared human values because when we care about each other, we find ways to meet each others’ core needs regardless of our beliefs. As co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org, Joan has given people the space to come together and promote their shared values. She’s a nature lover, artis...

Melody Warnick: How to Make Friends In a New City & Belong

April 04, 2019 01:03 - 1 hour - 56 MB

In the first Wellness 3.0 interview, Amy connects with Melody Warnick, a journalist who set out to find out how to fall in love with and feel at home in the places where we already live. Author of This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, Melody interviewed long-time residents who are thriving in their cities to learn what keeps them where they are. She took the best ideas back to her new hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia, and began a series of “Love Where You Live” experiments...

Amy Baglan: What Is Social Wellness?

March 27, 2019 15:40 - 5 minutes - 7.37 MB

What is Social Wellness? In the very first episode of Wellness 3.0, Amy Baglan, CEO & Co-Founder of Fabriq and MeetMindful, dives into her background, the meaning of “meaningful connection”, the social disconnection epidemic, and what she believes is the emerging third wave of health & wellness — something we like to call social wellness. “These days, most people find it easier to lock eyes with a screen than with another person, yet we are innately social beings. So what happened? And w...