Episodes
Women's Health Series - Groe Solutions: Dr. Jennifer King, PhD, MPH - The Forgotten Population
Women over 60 are one of the most biologically dynamic — and most overlooked — populations in the fitness industry. In this closing episode of the Women's Health Series, host Eric Malzone sits down with Dr. Jennifer King, behavioral scientist, gerontology researcher, and nationally competitive physi...
Women's Health Series - Groe Solutions: Amy Bantham, DrPH - From Playground to Silver Years
In this episode of Future of Fitness , host Eric Malzone sits down with Dr. Amy Bantham — public health researcher, fitness professional, and founder of Move to Live More — for a refreshingly real conversation on women's health across the full lifespan. Rather than carving women's health into isolat...
Women's Health Series - Groe Solutions: Anaelle Oiknine - The Research Revolution
Women's health has been one of medicine's most overlooked frontiers — and the data gap is decades deep. In this episode, Eric Malzone sits down with Anaelle Oiknine, clinical development lead at Ultrahuman, to unpack why the majority of drugs, exercise prescriptions, and health metrics have historic...
Dave Appel - A Tsunami Is Coming: What Gym Owners Need to Know About Peptide Deregulation
Dave Appel, Chief Health & Wellness Officer at KORB Health and 35-year fitness industry veteran, joins Eric Malzone for a candid conversation on the collision of telehealth, GLP-1s, hormone replacement therapy, and the gym business model. Dave breaks down why the fitness industry can no longer a...
Jane Wang - Your Retention Strategy Is Backwards: Optimity's Lifetime Journey Approach
Jane Wang brings a rare cross-disciplinary lens to one of fitness's oldest problems: member retention. With a background in clinical research, mortality risk, and 12+ years in corporate wellness, Jane shares why the industry's approach to churn is fundamentally flawed — and what a data-driven, human...
Marco Benitez - Mining Gold from 300+ Wearables: How ROOK Unifies Scattered Data
Host Eric Malzone sits down with Marco Benitez, CEO and Co-founder of ROOK — and former TaeKwondo champion turned biomedical engineer — to get real about where the fitness and wellness industry stands in the age of AI and wearable data. Marco pulls from his background at Roche and Novartis to explai...
Anna Emanuel MD - Medicine 4.0: Next Health's Dr. Anna Emanuel on the Future of Preventative Care
In this episode of Future of Fitness , host Eric Malzone sits down with Dr. Anna Emmanuel—a double board-certified physician in family and integrative medicine—to unpack the evolution of modern healthcare, from reactive "sick care" to proactive, data-driven longevity medicine. Dr. Emmanuel introduc...
Rick Mayo - No Pressure, Just Strategy: Why Alloy Took a PE Partner After 30 Years
After 30+ years of bootstrapping Alloy Franchise to over 135 locations, founder Rick Mayo finally decided to bring in a private equity partner—but not for the reasons you might think. In this candid conversation with Eric Malzone, Rick opens up about why he chose Capital Spring, how he avoided the "...
Doug Gremmen - From 600 to 1.8 Million Participants: Inside Hyrox's Rocket Ship Growth
Eric Malzone sits down live with Doug Gremmen, Chief Growth Officer at HYROX, at the Connected Health and Fitness Summit in Beverly Hills. They dive into how HYROX went from just 600 finishers back in 2018 to a projected 1.8 million in 2026 — basically a rocket ship in the fitness world. Doug shares...