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Happy Holidays! 🎉🎁 I wanted to personally invite you all as I’m hosting a FREE 30-minute New Year Midlife Workshop on Jan 5 at 1 PM ET where I’ll walk through the 3 key HABITS to upgrade in 2026 so you can start the year thriving, not exhausted.
No prep needed, just come as you are and you’ll leave with a simple, action-focused plan.
Here’s the link — it’s a quick 1-minute sign-up (and you’ll get the recording even if you can’t make it live). Also, if you have a friend who’s been saying, “something feels off lately,” please feel free to forward this to her too. Excited to kickoff 2026 together 💪Xo
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As we near the end of 2025, I wanted to step back and synthesize the ~280 deals and ~$13B of capital invested across the Health & Wellness space this year to answer a handful of key questions: Which deals and themes were most important in 2025? What are whitespace opportunities for 2026? What deals were most important for the different types of investors who pay attention to this space?
This is a big reason why WGM exits! It's important to find people who've been there/done that to save time and $$
Extension Health in NYC does this - a friend/colleague was running partnerships there recently - can oing her for you to find out more LMK
HI Friends. I am looking to get a dexascan in January prior to my next year of training and racing. My wife is getting it as a Christmas present for me. Any recommendations for where in NY she should get the gift card to?
I would prefer that we keep the $ in the WGM family 🙂
My 1st year of being a founder in a nutshell 😂
Any other Granola AI users look at their Granola Crunched for 2025 yet?
(N=2K consumer survey commissioned by Talkspace)
I really love end of year reflections and always liked how does his. Hope I can find some time to do it this year! 😅
Anyone else have end of year reflections or traditions they enjoy??
Calling all potential investors! If you are in the NYC Metro area you have likely heard of Soft Bar ( . Thanks to a kind intro by <@U0999NQ70SF> (shoutout Rachel!!) I was given an early opportunity to be part of the team and since opening nearly 2 months ago, we've seen some exciting results. We are continuing to raise as we head into the new year and I thought this would be the perfect forum to share, if you are interested to learn more shoot me a DM or better yet, send an email to <mailto:)!
Hi all! I’m trying to build a best-in-class, “no-regrets” tech stack for a project I’m working on. How does this look to you? Any particularly good/bad experiences with certain tools? Anything you’d change or add?
Communication
• Slack / Discord
Project & Knowledge Management
• Notion / Asana / Trello / JIRA / Monday / Linear / Todoist
Storage & Shared Folders
• Google Drive / Notion / Dropbox / Box
Domains, Hosting & Infra
• Domain host: Cloudflare / GoDaddy / Namecheap / Google Domains
• Asset hosting: AWS / Google Cloud / Azure
• Hosting websites: Firebase / Vercel
Builders, Dev Environment & Repos
• Website / app builder: Lovable / Replit / v0 / Figma / Github Spark / bolt.new / Base44 / Framer / etc.
• Repository: Github / Gitlab
• AI Dev (IDE): Cursor / Windsurf
AI / LLM Layer
• AI: OpenAI / Groq
Auth & User Management
• Auth: Clerk / Firebase Auth / Supabase Auth
Branding & Design
• Brand:
• Design (flows): Figma
• Design (assets): Canva
• Image editing: Gemini Nano Banana
• Video creation: VEED / Descript
• Other creative resources: Unsplash / Graphicburger / the noun project / flat icon / envato elements
Analytics, Tracking & Monitoring
• Analytics (Website): GA4
• Analytics (User Behavior): Mixpanel
• Analytics (TBD / product): Posthog
• Analytics (SEO): Woorank / Google Search Console
• Session recording: Hotjar / Microsoft Clarity
• Attribution / app analytics: Appsflyer
• App error tracking: Sentry
Customer Data & Communication
• CRM: Hubspot / Bitrix24
• CDP: Segment (Twilio)
• Newsletter: Octopus
• Consumer Engagement Platforms: Brevo / MailerLite / Klaviyo / ConvertKit / MailChimp / SendGrid
• SMS: OneSignal / Twilio / Attentive / CrispIM
Surveys & Events
• Surveys: Typeform / Google Forms
• Events: Partiful
Data & Backend
• Database: Supabase / Airtable / Google Sheets / Notion
Business Ops
• Admin email: GSuite / Zohomail
• Calendar manager: Calendly / Setmore
• Password manager: Lastpass
• Accounting: Quickbooks / Wave
• Time tracking: Toggl / Clockify
• Expense & banking: Ramp / Everlance / Chase ACH payment services
BI & Dashboards
• BIs / dashboard / data visualization: Looker / Retool / Metabase / Google Data Studio
Sales, Marketing & Growth
• Ads: Meta Business Manager / Google Ads / (TikTok) / (LinkedIn)
• Social media management: hootsuite / buffer
• Content marketing: Hypefury
Automations & Integrations
• Automations / integrations: N8N / Zapier / Make / Paragon
Customer Success, Demos & Docs
• Customer service: Zendesk / Freshdesk
• Demos: Loom
• Document sharing: Docsend
Legal
• Legal docs: PandaDoc / Docusign / Hellosign
• Legal templates: Cooley Go
• Legal services: Legal Shield
Misc / Already Included Elsewhere
• Legal Shield, Unsplash, Graphicburger, the noun project, flat icon, envato elements, Ramp, Everlance, Chase ACH payment services, Appsflyer
Huge announcement that Function Health just closed their $300M Series B round:
Taking an interesting class at Stanford called "Fundamentals of Effective Selling." The entire class is about learning to lead with curiosity in the sales process. It provides an excellent framework that can be applied to everything from formal sales to hiring talent to raising money, and more.
The framework has two components:
1. Five buckets of questions
2. Process of layering (where the differentiation is)
The five buckets of questions include:
• Current situation: What is the world the other party finds themself in
• Problem defined: the past, present, & potential problems
• Impact; the impacts of the defined problem (quantitative if possible)
• Ideal: what would the ideal solution look like
• Benefit: if the person gets to their ideal, what's in it for the customer?
The process of layering involves digging into each bucket with questions that:
• Explore and expand on what the person means
• Quantifies specific points (impact, scope, relevance)
• Provides examples the person has experienced
Going through this process can help customize the pitch, presentation, conversation in a way that anchors the information in a personalized way for the other party
Sharing a productivity / organization system that's been helping me stay on top of things with school, conference planning, and social media! Would love to learn from others on tips they enjoy!
Notion – Command center for tracking sponsors, speakers, conference planning, assignments, and tasks. Relational databases keep everything connected and easy to update.
Superhuman – Keeps email chaos under control. Reminders (Mon/Wed/Fri) and snippets help me batch follow-ups with speakers, founders, and sponsors without dropping the ball.
Riverside + CapCut – Podcast editing made simple. Riverside cleans up filler words and pauses; CapCut adds finishing touches.
Granola – Call notes and action items. Perfect for flagging podcast moments that'll become social content.
Content Process:
1. Ideate (or use AI to brainstorm)
2. Voice-to-text first draft (Wispr Flow)
3. Polish with Stanley/Notion AI
4. Edit to match my voice
5. Schedule on LinkedIn/Spotify
Building a wellness business can feel isolating sometimes. I’ve noticed that when I share my intention for the week, I’m much more likely to follow through and I always feel inspired hearing what others are focusing on too.
My intention is to organize my calendar to block off deep work time and dedicate specific days (or parts of days) to calls so I’m not constantly context switching and can make meaningful progress on bigger projects.
What’s yours?
Sharing a small win 🎉 + ask for advice 🙏
We are in a business where we rely pretty heavily on partner action to help move the needle forward (context: we help partners create and run validated clinical trials faster, cheaper, and easier). When it comes to partners marketing their studies or recruiting, there's only so much we can do. So internally, we've been going rounds coming up with different decks, best practices, tips and tricks, etc. to share in hopes of encouraging them (one, specifically) to promote. Not sure if it was the gentle nudges in Slack or the pared-down deck, but we finally got that partner to update their website based on our suggestions, which resulted in some traction (6 sign-ups from 0 over the past month). This is certainly a great win (all steps in the right direction!!) but here's the ask: What have you found most effective when it comes to getting partners to act?
- "Dietary supplement uses among U.S. adults increased significantly during the last decade, with notable growth in the use of specific products like fiber and probiotic."
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October's Health & Wellness deal activity remained strong. Highlights included a $350M investment in a HVLP gym franchisee, a $300M investment for practitioner-focused VMS, a $200M acquisition of HVLP gyms in Europe, and a $60M raise for longevity VMS. In total, October featured 7 acquisitions and ~$1.1B of disclosed investment across all Health & Wellness verticals.
Hi all. Very random question here but does anyone have a connection with Andrew Huberman? I have been in an communicating wiht someone claiming to be him via a gmail account and can't really tell if it is him or not. He seems to know about his schedule, when he is in Venice etc. It seems random as he reached out to me personally from a gmail account.
Love all 3 tips Brian! Thank you. And excited for sauna with good peeps this week!
wow thanks for sharing @Nao Yukawa. sorry to hear that and hopefully we won't lose faith! especially in people who are introed through places like WGM 😉
awful thing to do
It seriously made me doubt EVERYTHING
Ohh I should've read comments in this group more carefully 😭
It's awful to scam early stage founders, for whom even a few thousand dollars could change the course of their business