When it comes to health there is no equality. There are the haves and the have somes and the have nots. Each person is dealt a different hand and they're expected to deal with it. What we don't talk about is how everyone's health is interconnected.

Your health is not necessarily determined by how much you work out or how you eat. It can be determined by your social and political conditions, your environment and many other factors about your life.

However, it's not as clear to people how these disparities impact everyone. Disparities impact the quality of our health care, the cost of our health care, and our overall health.

Joining me on the show this week is Dr. Lisa Cooper. Among many other things, Dr. Cooper is the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.

Recycling is an important thing, but it is confusing. What numbers on the plastic to I recycle? Can I recycle these paper plates? Do pizza boxes count? There are so many questions.

Recycling expert Jennie Romer is here to help. She's put together a very colorful and fun book called 'Can I Recycle This: A guide to better recycling and how to reduce single-use plastics.' She says it's kind of an adult picture book to teach better recycling habits.

I love the book and I loved chatting with Jennie. She's such an interesting person that is full of knowledge. I hope you enjoy this conversation.

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Honey County's Dani Rose joins me this week for a conversation. It's more of a catch up between friends. I've known her for about a decade now, but it has been a minute since we've had a good long chat. Thanks for joining us for this one!

We talk about Dani's hustle and drive in the music industry, what it's like to start fresh with her new Honey County partner and an adventure on a farm during a music video shooting.

Check out Honey County's new song 'Got It From My Mama'

Francis de Vericourt, one of the authors of 'Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil', connected with me from Berlin to talk about how we think and understand problems.

'Frames' are the mental models that we use to understand problems and then make decisions based off. It allows us to look at things from different perspectives. It's so fascinating to look at different things and see how people have framed them in different ways.

Francis and I talk about pandemics and how they've been framed differently, how Apple took their iPhone to the next level by framing it in a specific way, and other examples.

This is all really interesting stuff to me so I hope you enjoy this conversation.

Tenille Arts is one of my favorite artists breaking through in the country music scene. She just got her first number one on the country charts with 'Somebody Like That' and is ready to conquer the world.

We catch up in this episode of Backstage Pass and talk about what life was like growing up, how she battles through anxiety and how Canadian coins used to screw me at vending machines in New Hampshire.

Everyone has searched their symptoms online. If you say you haven't, you're a liar. We've all fallen into the trap of searching for something seemingly simple and then finding results like impending death.

It's easy to joke about it, but there is such a crazy wealth of knowledge out there on the internet. There's also a ton of misinformation out there. That has never been more clear than it is now in the time of COVID-19. So, how do we use it to our advantage when it comes to our health?

Dr. Kapil Parakh has written a book tackling this issue. It's called 'Searching For Health: The Smart Way to Find Information Online and Put It To Use.' That's the subject of this week's conversation.

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For this week's episode of Be More Well: Backstage Pass I'm joined by Emma White. She's a Baltimore area native that's been living and working in Nashville for about a decade.

I first came across Emma about 10 years ago when my radio station was playing her music on our local music show. I've been following her career ever since and she never ceases to impress me.

The music industry is hard, but Emma has never stopped fighting for her goals. Every time Nashville told her no, she found a new way to get it done. I'm really excited to share this conversation with you.

We discuss her background and how she ended up finding her voice in country music. And we dive into the state of music as a whole. I always love a good chat with Emma and I hope you do too!

This week I'm joined by the incomparable Meaghan B Murphy. She's currently the content director at Woman's Day magazine but has also spent time at MTV, Good Housekeeping, as well as other publications. Oh, and I can't forget her podcast, Off The Gram. She is one busy woman.

Meaghan lives a life of optimism and positivity. And it's made all the difference. She's ready to attack each day, as opposed to looking at it as a burden. We talk about her strategies, and her new book 'Your Fully Charged Life'.

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We've always been taught that working out and cutting carbs is the key to losing weight, right? It's the tried and true method behind so many fad diets. But, what if that isn't true? What if the amount of exercise and activity we had didn't really change the amount of calories we burn in a day?

That's the new research from Dr. Herman Pontzer that he lays out in his book 'Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy.

Dr. Pontzer is an anthropologist. His studies with hunter gatherer tribes has unveiled that our body changes the way it works so more exercise does not equal more calories burned. Losing weight hinges on the food we eat, but we need to be wary of fad diets that promise a quick solution.

I loved this conversation and I love this book. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in how their body really works. I'd also suggest it to anyone in the fitness world.

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Be More Well was started in January 2020 as a way for me to share some of the inspiring conversations I was having during my own personal journey toward better overall health and wellness.

Over the last year I've found that there's more I can offer to all of you, but not all of it falls under the "wellness" umbrella.

This episode is what I'm calling a 'Be More Well Interlude' where I'm giving an update on what's coming in the future of Be More Well. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Find me on Instagram at @bemorewellpodcast or @stpierreonair