When the Game Designer Tells You to Put the Phone Down Joel Bergman makes video games for a living. He runs an indie game studio in Indianapolis called Grizzhoot. He has spent his entire adult life designing the very loops that pull people in, keep them engaged, and make it harder to put the controller...Read More

How a Wellness Coach Finds the Time and Motivation You Swear You Don’t Have Most people who walk into a wellness conversation start the same way. I want to feel better. I want to lose the weight. I want to have energy again. Then almost immediately the second sentence: but I do not have time....Read More

There Is a Statistic That Should Stop Every Man Reading This Laura Burdick was running a hot yoga studio, coaching nutrition clients, and on the path she had carefully planned. Then a drunk driver hit her. She woke up paralyzed from the chest down. Most people would call that the end of the story. Laura...Read More

Most People Are Treating the Wrong Problem We medicate depression. We talk about anxiety. We scroll through articles about mental health at midnight while doing absolutely nothing to address what is actually wrong. Psychologist Dr. Dan Franz, who joined Dave Rodriguez and Dimitri Snowden on The Vitality Journey Podcast after 30 years of clinical practice,...Read More

There Is a Statistic That Should Stop Every Man Reading This Primary care physicians, the first line of defense in this country’s healthcare system, miss the diagnosis of depression in men upward of 70% of the time. Not because they’re bad doctors. Because men are conditioned to show up at a doctor’s office with physical...Read More

You Are Not Just Tired. You Are Carrying Four Different Things. Most people call it burnout. Some call it the mental load. But according to Mel Goodman, founder of WorkMom, what we vaguely call “overwhelmed” is actually four separate, distinct burdens, and lumping them together is exactly why nothing gets better. Lucy King, co-host of...Read More

The Real Reason Moms Feel Like They Are Drowning Most moms know something is wrong before they know what to call it. The days feel heavy. The nights are short. The to-do list never ends. And somehow, even in a room full of people, there is a specific kind of loneliness that only a mother...Read More

The Question That Changes Everything Dave Rodriguez was lying on a gurney in the ER, two pulmonary embolisms confirmed, when a second question hit him that had nothing to do with survival. The first question was predictable: am I going to die? The second one surprised him. In the middle of monitors beeping and doctors...Read More

Your Calling Already Exists. You Just Haven’t Found It Yet. There’s a question most people never ask themselves. Not because they don’t care about the answer, but because no one ever told them the question was worth asking. What were you put on this earth to do? Not what job should you have, not what...Read More

Why Most People Hate Their Jobs (And What to Do About It) What if the biggest drain on your energy, your mood, and your sense of purpose wasn’t your schedule, your health, or your relationships? What if it was your work? According to a 2025 Gallup poll, only 21% of American workers are truly engaged...Read More