The World's Most Interesting People

When Sam Grewe was 13 years old, he was diagnosed with bone cancer. He spent the next two years in the hospital undergoing treatment, including the amputation of his leg. Just two years later, Sam had won his first World Championship title as a High-Jumper on the U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Team. Now, in his 7th year on the team, Sam has won 3 World Championship titles, set a new World Record, and won a Gold Medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Outside of athletics, Sam is a medical student at the University of Michigan, motivated by his own personal experiences as a cancer patient.

Charlie is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Certified Athletic Trainer, and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.  He was most recently the Director of Physical Performance and Resiliency and Lead Physical Therapist for the United States Marines Corps Special Operations Command in Camp Lejeune, NC.  He is also Director of Clinical Education for the Vibraflex Whole-Body Vibration and Andante Medical, the makers of the SmartStep, mobile force plate.  He graduated from Ursinus College with a degree in Exercise and Sports Science in 1996, and went on to earn an MSPT in 1999 and DPT in 2010 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Prior to returning to his home state of New Jersey in the Fall of 2006 after 12 seasons of professional basketball, he was the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach and Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.   Among the highlights of his tenure in Philadelphia was being part of the medical staff that ranked 1st in the NBA in Player Missed Games in the 2005-06 season.

Through rehabbing patients, he subscribes to a movement-based approach popularized by the works of Dr. Vladimir Janda, Dr. Shirley Sahrmann, Dr. Stuart McGill, and Gray Cook.  In training athletes and clients, he champions the principles of the Functional Movement Screen and sound, evidence-based training principles.  Some of the methodologies Charlie is formally trained in include DNS, ART, Dry Needling, Graston, FMS/SFMA, and the RKC.

Aside from working with patients, athletes and clients, he is also under the bar himself.  In 2007, he achieved AAPF Elite status in the 220 weight class with a total of 1915 pounds. His best powerlifting competition total is 800 squat, 510 bench press and 605 deadlift.

Currently Charlie is training and rehabbing clients of all types at Drive495 in Manhattan, NYC and Fit For Life in Marlboro, NJ.  Charlie often teaches and speaks internationally and consults regularly with Nike, the Roddick-Lavalle Tennis Academy, Perform Better, and Equinox Fitness Clubs.

Charlie lives with his wife, Kristen, and dog, Rumble, in NJ.  You’re welcome to email him at charlie@charlieweingroff.com with questions for the Q&A section, to offer a comment, or to discuss a potential workshop at your facility.

Ami B. Bhatt, MD, FACC is the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the American College of Cardiology, beginning in January 2022. As CIO, Bhatt will provide leadership and expertise in health care innovation and continue to grow the College's comprehensive Innovation Program in support of the ACC's Mission to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health.

A graduate from Harvard College and the Yale School of Medicine, Bhatt completed her medicine and pediatrics residency at Harvard, her adult cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and her adult congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension fellowship at the Boston Children's Hospital. She most recently served as the director of Outpatient and Telecardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Corrigan-Minehan Heart Center. While ACC CIO, Bhatt will continue clinical practice at MGH in adult congenital heart disease and teaching as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

As an active clinical cardiologist, investigator and educator Bhatt brings nearly 10 years of experience in telemedicine and digital health to her new role. She founded her first program in virtual care in 2013 and continues to work on creating culturally relevant personalized virtual cardiovascular care delivery models. Her research has centered on identifying and implementing solutions to overcoming access barriers to cardiovascular and telemedicine care.

Dr. Bhatt's interest in digital health strategy and the digital transformation of the cardiovascular field stems from her belief that state of the art, personalized care can be delivered to individuals in the community, empowering patients and creating stronger clinician-patient partnerships for sustainable health outcomes. The ACC Innovation Program has a robust platform to transform digital patient care and advance technologies that are reshaping medicine, and is focused on furthering these strategies.

With a lifelong passion for sexual wellness and plant-based medicine, Kiana has been practicing in the field of sexual wellness, pleasure, and pelvic health for over a decade. Her career began as a full spectrum doula, working with families during birth, postpartum, abortion, and miscarriage.

Her work in pleasure, intimacy, and sexuality is supported by her certifications as a somatic sex educator, sexological body worker, STREAM pelvic health practitioner, postpartum care provider, & doula offering her clients hands on experiences to connect with their bodies and their pleasure. Kiana believes is an sex essential part of wellbeing, and offers a holistic perspective - bridging the topics of  wellness, sex, birth, intimacy, and the universal experiences that women and people with vulvas go through during their lifetime.

A two-time Golf Digest Top 50 Golf-Fitness Professional & Trainer, Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist,  and  graduated with an exercise  science degree,  Ali Gilbert has become highly sought after for her unique approach to training that combines nutrition, training, and lifestyle hacks to alter body composition and optimize metabolism.

Ali found her passion in optimizing men’s health working alongside industry-leading medical practitioners building an authoritative network to empower men with the proper understanding of what true health optimization is.

Her clientele consists of busy professionals who aspire to become stronger, optimize their health, plus conquer nutrition.

She lectures internationally and nationally on various health topics in both the medical and fitness arenas, and is regularly featured on podcasts and publications on the topic of testosterone, metabolism, and golf fitness.

"Hi, I'm Ali. I am a wife, dog mom, meathead + I love a good steak.

I normalize boner talk.

I help busy men get jacked, look great naked, optimize testosterone + conquer nutrition. I do this by helping guys sift through the bullshit and provide them with structure + a plan that works for their lifestyle.

I'm the one men hire when they have taken themselves as far as they can alone. I offer a highly unfiltered, truthful approach. I have coached thousands of attorneys, doctors, other coaches, CEO's, executives, veterans, current military, and any dude looking to optimize his health.

I have a true passion for men's health + have made it my life's work to help dudes find the solutions to all their fitness nutrition + hormone needs."

Pinksocks Life, Inc. is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization focused on promoting human connection around the world by socially supporting other public charities. The pinksocks movement empowers people from all walks of life to connect with anyone, anywhere, by creating a global tribe of pinksocks-wearing people who are focused on empathy, caring, and love. The movement has been decommoditized from its beginning in 2015 – all pinksocks are gifts. Every connection made between the gift giver and recipient is based on an authentic connection, not a transaction.

We’re a community of over 100,000 happy smiley people who are united in changing the world from the ground up, with heart speak, hugs, and gifting. The pinksocks movement began in healthcare, and is now growing in all kinds of industries around the world! We’re all about working together to activate solutions to help move us forward. Politics, bureaucracies, and legacy systems have unfortunately done the polar opposite of what each of us as humans want……which is to be connected!

D.W. Pine is the Creative Director of TIME, responsible for the design of one of the world's most iconic brands. In the past 20 years, he has designed and produced more than 750 covers of TIME.

Pine, named one of Ad Age’s Creatives You Should Know and one of the 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture by Artsy, also directs TIME’s animated cover for its more than 50 million social audience. He led TIME's editorial and design as the first weekly magazine to launch on the iPad, meeting with Steve Jobs and working with Apple to produce the first iPad issue. He also conceived and led TIME to produce the first fully-interactive weekly magazine designed specifically for the iPhone. Aside from overseeing the design of the magazine, he has art directed seven Person of the Year cover packages, several TIME 100 projects, dozens of special issues and more than two dozen books.

In the NFT space, Pine concepted and created 99 original pieces of artwork for the Slices of TIME NFT project, and created an original NFT interactive piece called The Lines of History, which sold at Sotheby’s.

Pine, named the 2019 Art Director of the Year by Folio, has presented at conferences around the world, including a three-day workshop for journalists in Beijing, China, and as the featured speaker for the international design conference in Amsterdam, and dozens of universities, design companies and festivals throughout the U.S. He was also commissioned to design and curate a cover exhibit for Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, considered one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Prior to TIME, Pine was the Design Coordinator at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for six years and led the design for the newspaper’s coverage of the 1996 Olympic Games. He started his career as a sportswriter for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, with more than 1,100 published stories. Pine covered local and professional sports, the PGA Tour, and traveled with an NCAA college basketball team, serving as its beat writer for three seasons.

Mark Jamilkowski has been in the healthcare industry over 30 years and is a co-founder of Evry Healthcare, a start up health insurance company.  Prior to launching Evry through Y-Combinator in 2018, Mark was an actuary, investment banker and strategy management consultant.  Mark is passionate about changing healthcare through population health, care coordination, and value-based contracting.  Mark is also passionate about being a father, playing chess, practicing yoga, and cooking.   And he likes to laugh as often as possible.

Rory Adele Halevy is an award-winning Producer, Creative Director, and Video Director. Her accolades include multiple Telly Awards and a multitude of health trade awards. She has spent over 10 years working with marquee brands and publishers to create high impact video campaigns for health and wellness advertisers and editorial brands. Rory Adele’s portfolio includes work across brands for the likes of Condé Nast brands (like Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Wired, Allure and Glamour), Everyday Health, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble as well as health and fitness technology startups. Rory Adele currently serves as the Head Of Health Video at Condé Nast and Condé Nast Entertainment, and on the side is working on a narrative film slated to launch in late 2022. Originally from NYC, Rory now resides peacefully in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with her husband, Jeff Halevy, their two human children, Henry and Juliette, and two dog children, Pip and Milton

Dr. Lindsay Durand Massumi - Co-Founder of Virtual Physio

Lindsay was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended graduate school. Lindsay received her Doctorate degree from Washington University in St. Louis – Program in Physical Therapy. Growing up, Lindsay was a competitive gymnast and cheerleader, and participated in softball, dance, and track. After multiple ankle injuries from competitive gymnastics, Lindsay decided she wanted to pursue physical therapy to better serve athletes who want to fully recover and return to sports. She also loves treating patients with pelvic floor dysfunction and breaking the stigmas surrounding pelvic health.Since undergrad, Lindsay has been highly involved in physical therapy research to improve outcomes for patients, specifically those with chronic low back pain. She is also an active member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the Academy of Pelvic Health and currently serves in multiple leadership roles. Lindsay loves Olympic-style lifting, HIIT workouts, plyometrics and acrobatics. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, lifting weights, and practicing her handstand skills!

Joe Rinaldi is a husband, friend, physical therapist, performance coach, business owner, inspirational writer and motivational speaker based out of Philadelphia, PA. While Joe wears many hats, he views himself first and foremost as a human being who aspires to inspire others find strength in struggle and to and leave every place better than he found it. Joe was born with a genetic eye condition called Best Disease which causes a progressive loss of central eyesight. While it wasn’t always the case, Joe chooses to view his struggle as an immense source of strength and he hopes to help others develop the same perspective through his content, stories and actions. Joe is the founder and CEO of Project Endure, LLC which is an organization focused on helping others to do hard things in pursuit of building resilience, practicing persistence and becoming better versions of themselves. 

Joe Zeff is the president of Joe Zeff Design, Inc., a pioneer in interactive storytelling. His company developed some of the world’s first iPad apps, and now creates sales and marketing content for some of the world’s biggest companies. Joe started his career in journalism, working his way up from small-town reporter to Presentation Editor at The New York Times and Graphics Director at Time magazine. His work has appeared on hundreds of magazine covers, national advertisements, Broadway marquees, and album covers for Ludacris, Jay-Z and Kanye West. A native of Pittsburgh, he moved his company from the New York City area to his hometown in 2021.

Chris Keener is one of the worlds most interesting people.

Chris is an executive producer, director and producer for outfits like National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, Dow Jones, ESPN, and the Travel Channel. He has been founder and principal of two award-winning production companies - Goldenbear and Goodfight Media.

His narrative, documentary, and commercial work has ranged from large international organizations to blue chip brands and artists. He recently directed and EP'd the 5-part docuseries ‘We Speak Dance’ for Netflix, and helmed the Webby award winning ‘Conflict’, for Netflix and The Atlantic.

In addition to his work in media, he’s also the founder and principal of Goldenair Breathwork, guiding groups of all stripes, from changemakers to prisoners, through transformational journeys using only the power of their own breath.

In this episode we talk about relationships, breathwork, creating content on social medias like TikTok and finding yourself. 

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Jonathan has over 10 years experience managing end-to-end production of award-winning creative projects and integrated campaigns (video, photo, digital, print, OOH).

Received a YouTube Silver Creator Award as Series Producer for world's first vegan comedy web series.

He oversees annual portfolio of $5M, with projects ranging from $2k to $2M.

4 years experience directly managing international celebrity, SAG talent.

From human rights documentaries for the UN, to mind-altering XR experiences, to a health food web series that changed the diets of millions -- Jonathan tackles big projects with heart and sincerity.

He's produced for in-house teams at the United Nations, Netflix, Google, PBS, Uber, VICE, Imgur, and more.

Justin is the the Director of Marketing & Community at Vitalize Venture Capital an early-stage venture firm and 300+ member angel community investing in the future of work. He also hosts two podcasts - Just Go Grind and The Vitalize Podcast. We talk about how founders can effectively communicate ideas, what we are seeing in the NFT space as well as changing fields from personal training to venture capital. 

Jamey Edwards talks about Humanizing Healthcare, serving as a leader and his new role at StartUp Health. 

Jamey's Biography: 

Jamey is on a mission to fix healthcare.

As a serial entrepreneur, Jamey has founded or co-founded companies in the hospital management, physician outsourcing and telemedicine space. Jamey Edwards is currently the Chief Operating Officer of StartUp Health, which was founded in 2011 to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, committed to achieving health moonshots and solve the worlds greatest health challenges of our time.

Jamey joined StartUp Health in 2022 to lead its efforts to support scaling digital health innovation across its own operations and the portfolio. He is a serial healthcare entrepreneur who brings over 25 years of experience in building successful companies having led or participated in transactions worth over $10B of transaction value over his career. He is an advisor, mentor, and coach to entrepreneurs nationwide and a recognized thought leader in the field of digital health and entrepreneurship where he has been a featured speaker and panelist at HIMSS, SoCalBio, DOCSF, StartUp Health, CornellTech, and the AICPA, among others. He co-founded and led several healthcare companies including Emergent Medical Associates, Pacific HealthWorks, Language Access Network, and most recently Cloudbreak Health, a leading health disparities solutions company that merged with UpHealth (NYSE: UPH) and went public via SPAC in a transaction worth over $1.4B.

Jamey received his B.S. and M.B.A. from Cornell University where he graduated a Tradition Fellow. Jamey is a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and is on the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association, Pinksocks.life and the Partners in Care Foundation and serves on the X-Prize Global Visioneering Team for Healthcare.

You can engage with Jamey @JameyEdwards on Twitter and Instagram.

ScaleHealth CEO Taylor McPartland is one of the world's most interesting people. ScaleHealth is a health innovation ecosystem that accelerates the impact of health innovation on a global scale.