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Healthier: Building Health & Fitness Businesses
How great health and fitness companies get built.
Podcast, weekly email, video and community for founders, operators and investors in health and fitness.
New episode every Thursday. Will Read talks to the people building in health and fitness about the tactics, strategies and moves that build generational companies.
Episodes
Healthier: Building Health & Fitness BusinessesFitness industry legend: How to sell to gyms in 2026 | David Stalker, ukactive | Healthier Ep 14
Free founder playbook every Friday: https://healthierco.com David Stalker is chair of ukactive, the trade body for the UK's gym and leisure sector. He started…
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How AI will change healthcare: where founders should build | Ari Tulla, Elo Health | Healthier Ep 13
Free founder playbook every Friday: https://healthierco.com Ari Tulla is a serial health founder and angel investor. He runs Elo Health, a profitable…
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How Stride built an £800-a-year membership with 85% renewals | Andrew Steele | Healthier Ep 12
Andrew Steele won an Olympic medal for Team GB, then built Stride, a preventative health membership with almost 16,000 paying customers in 65 countries. Stride…
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How to raise money from angel investors in 2026 | Nicola Telford, Tabu Ventures | Healthier Ep 11
Nicola Telford runs Tabu Ventures, an angel community backing health businesses most investors find too awkward to look at: sexual wellness, women's health…
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How NADclinic reached 40+ countries as a supplier | Iain de Havilland | Healthier Ep 10
Iain de Havilland, founder of NADclinic, joins Will Read to discuss building a business that supplies other providers, developing local partnerships and…
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How ONE LDN grew 30% a year with no contracts | Evgenia Koroleva | Healthier Ep 9
How do you keep gym members coming back when they are free to leave? Evgenia Koroleva, founder of ONE LDN, joins Will Read to explain the choices behind a…
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How to sell health hardware through retailers | Stefan van der Fluit, FLOWBIO | Healthier Ep 8
“Don’t get into hardware if you don’t like being punched in the face 10 times a day.” Stefan van der Fluit has spent six years building FLOWBIO, a wearable…
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Why gyms won't buy your fitness app | Max Cotton, Vor | Healthier Ep 7
Max Cotton fought MMA professionally, then spent five years building Vor, an AI exercise programming engine that deliberately avoids LLMs. He tells Will about…
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How to analyse your blood test results | Hamish Grierson, Thriva | Healthier Ep 6
Hamish Grierson, co-founder and CEO of Thriva, gives a screen-share tour of how the UK blood-testing company turns your results into action. We go through…
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The best vibe-coded health system we've ever seen | Mike Hudack, Sling Money | Healthier Ep 4
Mike Hudack (CEO of Sling Money, former executive at Meta, Monzo and Deliveroo) built a personal health data platform almost entirely using Claude Code —…
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How AI helps me get fitter every day (Strava, Garmin and Claude) | James McAulay | Healthier Ep 3
James McAulay connected his Garmin, Strava, TrainingPeaks, gym app, and a 65-page blood work report into a single AI coaching system inside Claude Desktop — no…
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The custom GPT that told me to stop taking glycine | James Grant | Healthier Ep 2
James walks through how he built a custom GPT that knows his blood work, health goals, and red lines — and how it recently told him to stop taking glycine. In…
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How I fact-check health claims before buying supplements | Will Read | Healthier Ep 1
Stop wasting money on supplements that don't work for you. In this episode, I show you the exact 3-step workflow I use to fact-check health claims, personalize…
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Steal These Health & Fitness Workflows: Introducing Health Stacks
Coming Soon: HealthStacks: AI & Tech for Health & Fitness