The Well and Good Podcast

Today's guest is Robin Green of Sandler Sales Training.  Robin is a certified instructor and works with organizations to develop customized sales, management, leadership and recruiting solutions and everything in-between.  Robin discusses working with non-profits and some of the challenges they face in growing their organizations via donor, community and volunteer outreach and engagement.  Robin also has a podcast called "Lead.  Learn.  Grow."

Tech For Troops provides information technology training for veterans, teaching them valuable job skills and helping to prepare them for reentry into the workforce. They refurbish and donate used technology to veterans in need, as well as responsibly recycling old and unusable computers.  Executive Director Mark Casper is a career IT expert and a United States Marine Corps veteran.

Ashley Mannell is a Registered Dietician Nurse Practitioner with Richmond Integrative Psychiatric & Nutrition Services, LLC.  During our conversation she talks about what led her to the practice of functional medicine, some of the  benefits, the gut/mind connection and even using it to help treat depression, inflammation and stress.  She also gets into including functional medicine as part of your overall wellness practices.

Prabir Mehta is board chairman for the not-for-profit art and performance space Gallery 5.  G5's stated mission is "to facilitate and inspire creativity in our region while operating a museum preserving and celebrating the history of Virginia’s oldest firehouse and Richmond’s oldest police station and jailhouse." Read about their mission and history here.  In this conversation we talk about Prabir's involvement with Gallery 5 as well as with the Science Museum of Virginia and his many musical projects

Greg Dow is a licensed acupuncturist from Centered Richmond Acupuncture and Wellness.  Among the services offered by Greg and Maegan Hodge at Centered are acupuncture, wellness coaching, cupping, and herbal medicine.  In our conversation Greg touches on all of it and offers some insight into why he turned to acupuncture and herbal medicine to help with some of his own wellness issues.

Dr. David Berv is owner of and Chief Experience Officer at The Float Zone.  Dr. Berv and his clinic has won multiple "Best of Richmond" awards in multiple categories.  We discuss how flotation therapy can be part of an overall wellness and mindfulness regimen as well it's growing popularity in helping treat illness such as Multiple Sclerosis, something about which Dr. Berv has first-hand knowledge.  Dr. Berv is an active member of the health and wellness community in Richmond, Va. and nationally.