To create a movement with philanthropy, you need to find voices and advocates to be successful. We explore the cross-section of where philanthropy, health, and wellness meet with philanthropist Esther Dyson, founder of the nonprofit Wellville, in this episode with Dr. Lauren Kelley-Chew. Esther shifted her investments from healthcare in order to bring more of her attention to the health and wellness space and CGMs. Look for multiple new shows per week on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations about metabolic health and how the Levels startup team builds a wellness movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health 🎙 What Esther Dyson & Dr. Lauren Kelley-Chew discuss: (02:30) - Invest in health, not healthcare (05:06) - Build back better (10:03) - Enable small communities to get funding (15:10) - Take time to prioritize (26:31) - Change your perspective on luck (35:08) - Invest to learn (37:55) - Speculating doesn’t solve anything (45:10) - Build for the future (47:29) - Measure success like a net promoter score (52:13) - Teach children about their metabolism Transcript & Show notes 🔗 Helpful links: Watch the conversation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Krj19eb6PY Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/levelshealth?sub_confirmation=1 📲 Connect: Connect with Dr. Lauren Kelley-Chew on Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrKelleyChew Connect with Esther Dyson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edyson

Levels Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, chatted with Co-Founder and CEO, Sam Corcos, and Head of Operations, Michael 'Miz' Mizrahi, about how we all scale our time at Levels to be effective team members. We achieve this with Executive Assistants (EAs) from a company called, Athena. They dived into how we delegate and outsource tasks to Athena and why they are an important part of our company. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (06:47) - Reluctance to delegate (08:52) - Make time for bigger work (13:32) - Have automation and delegation (15:29) - De-risk delegation (16:55) - Document everything (22:49) - Hire support staff early (24:12) - Add in accountability (30:01) - Divide process work and critical thinking work (50:38) - See what they can take off your plate (54:37) - Audit communications Transcripts and Show Notes

The history of the Big Food and Big Sugar industries still affect our metabolic health today. Learn more in this conversation between Dr. Robert Lustig and Ben Grynol. Look for multiple new shows per week on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations about metabolic health and how the Levels startup team builds a wellness movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health 🎙 What Dr. Robert Lustig & Ben Grynol discuss: (09:24) - Create the consensus (17:17) - Exonerate sugar as the cause of heart disease (22:31) - Use shoddy science (23:35) - Buy off scientists and critics (24:50) - Weakening government oversight (26:53) - Fight back against regulated advertising (35:20) - Go all in on corn (40:40) - Sugar should be a condiment (43:04) - Increase food industry profits (48:27) - The public needs to demand better Transcripts & Show Notes  🔗 LINKS: Watch the conversation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-qq2Tzl5nM Subscribe here on YouTube: https://youtube.com/levelshealth?sub_confirmation=1 📲 CONNECT: Connect with Robert Lustig, MD, MSL on Instagram: https://instagram.com/robertlustigmd Connect with Robert on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertLustigMD Connect with Robert on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robert-lustig-8904245

Levels Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, chatted with Editorial Director, Mike Haney, to provide us with a TLDR of the Levels blog article, "Why have dietary guidelines been so wrong, and how do they still need to change?"  Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (04:35) - Updated guidelines every five years (06:40) - People are confused about nutrition (09:10) - Guidelines are directional at best (15:09) - The guidelines lag behind science (17:18) - Beware of industry influences (22:13) - More data will bring better guidelines (24:02) - Even flawed, they still matter (25:05) - Still too much sugar (29:22) - Look at guidance overlaps and tweak them for yourself (32:50) - Your diet should be aspirational Transcripts & Show Notes Watch the Video – https://youtu.be/EsaYeXNdgXs Read the Article – https://www.levelshealth.com/blog  Listen to "How to read a nutrition paper"  59% of people saying conflicting food and nutrition information makes them doubt their choices.  Joe Biden should declare a food and nutrition war  A simple guide to reading—and understanding—nutrition studies 

Levels Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, and Levels Editorial Director, Mike Haney, chatted with Growth Advisor and SEO Strategic Consultant, Eli Schwartz. They discussed the idea of SEO as a strategic growth lever and what are the most efficient and inefficient ways of using it. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health Watch the video – https://youtu.be/UqW-9YsaUpg (07:04) - Prioritize content by user need (10:46) - Don’t overcomplicate SEO (12:33) - Fit SEO into the funnel (17:12) - Focus on search intent (20:41) - Think beyond Google (23:42) - Don’t chase the algorithm (26:55) - SEO isn’t always a great growth lever (29:10) - Put SEO in product, not marketing (31:48) - Engineering-driven SEO is more scalable (42:14) - Don’t do SEO first Transcripts & Show Notes 

Levels Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, chatted with our Software Engineer, Dave ten Have, about Dave's backstory as a co-founder of Omniblox, how he became an engineer and what he's looking forward to accomplishing in the future.  Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (17:15) – Why 3D printing caught Dave’s attention (24:09) – The culture of Silicon Valley (25:39) – The challenges of expectations (31:09) – Focus on your customers (33:18) – Changing the entrepreneurial mindset (34:23) – Startups are like music albums (36:50) – Every health journey is different (37:58) – The narrative of instant success Transcripts & Show Notes 

Content creator, Austin McGuffie, AKA Metabolism Mentor, chatted with Levels advisor, Dr. Ben Bikman, about all the different facets of metabolic health including how insulin resistance can affect every person differently based on gender, age and even ethnicity. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (05:04) - Keeping insulin low (11:05) - Eating protein first (13:34) - A lesson on fat cell growth (26:14) - The first form of insulin resistance (27:31) - The second form of insulin resistance (29:57) - Elevated insulin causes insulin resistance (31:23) - Lower your insulin intake (36:04) - Type 2 diabetes follows a familial pattern (38:15) - The genetics to get metabolically sick (41:16) - Control carbs, prioritize protein, don't be afraid of fat Transcripts & Show Notes  Watch the video - https://youtu.be/TpH4mUhLFec

Levels Head of Member Experience, Chris Jones, sat down with SVP and GM of Diagnostics at Truepill, an online B2B pharmacy delivery service. They chatted about supply chain infrastructure for prescriptions as well as how it relates to our Levels ecosystem and the future of the healthcare and prescription process. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health (03:50) - The future of consumer healthcare (05:40) - Creating a white-label experience (07:13) - Working across a wide spectrum (09:50) - Prioritizing patient confidentiality (12:13) - Consumers are changing healthcare (18:18) - Learning through collaboration (24:10) - Fixing a broken experience (25:07) - The next wave of consumer health (30:07) - From Jupiter to healthcare (44:39) - The consumerization of diagnostics Transcripts & Show Notes  Watch the Video – https://youtu.be/whpMc5jJuM8

Creating consistent and cohesive documentation is key for the Levels engineering team. But that’s easier said than done. Ben Grynol talked with some of our software engineers, Maxine Whitely, Steph Coates, and Ian Schumann, to break down their approach to documentation. They talked about why it matters for an asynchronous remote team, how it mirrors building healthy habits, and why it’s worth it to invest in documentation now for everyone on the team as well as how it will benefit future engineers as we scale. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health 🎙️ What they discuss: (02:54) - The parable of the engineer (05:03) - A bridge to non-technical stakeholders (09:30) - Having the time to document (10:12) - Understanding through teaching (13:06) - A culture of documentation (20:00) - Avoid documentation debt (20:34) - Pay now or pay later (23:49) - Don’t make assumptions (26:10) - Bottlenecks without documentation (37:47) - Curate your work for your team Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for multiple new shows per week on Levels - A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations about how the Levels startup team builds a movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry. ⁠Transcript & show notes⁠ 🔗 Helpful links: Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/levelshealth?sub_confirmation=1

It can be a challenge to reach the communities you want to impact most. How do you know you’re taking the right steps and making the right connections? The good news is it doesn’t have to happen overnight or with one big initiative; you just have to work consistently with the communities. In this episode, Ben Grynol talked with one of our investors and Co-Founder of RareBreed Ventures, McKeever “Mac” Conwell. They chatted about the idea of reaching communities that are most impacted by poor metabolic health and what we can do collectively as a society to ensure we’re taking the right steps to reach them, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and initiatives for making meaningful change in the community. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health 🎙 What Mac Conwell & Ben Grynol discuss: (15:08) – Looking for opportunity (18:37) – Inform your community (23:50) – Change has to come from both ends (25:11) – Reimagine how people interact with products (30:06) – Startups break the rules (37:19) – Bring in creative people (41:44) – Create open access to jobs (44:56) – Share resources with community leaders (49:00) – Widening the net Transcripts and Show Notes 🔗 Helpful links: Watch the conversation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wSV23rItORI&feature=youtu.be Find us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/levelshealth?sub_confirmation=1