{"id":1068,"date":"2018-05-16T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2018-05-31T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:41:50","slug":"monica-mo-health-and-wellness-through-storytelling-from-the-ground-up-ep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/monica-mo-health-and-wellness-through-storytelling-from-the-ground-up-ep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Mo, Reimagining Health And Wellness Through Storytelling &#8211; From The Ground Up (Ep. 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0OcipgBb1XE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOn episode 2 of &#8220;From The Ground Up,&#8221; I sit down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/monicalmo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monica Mo, PhD<\/a>\u2014the founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/wellseek.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WellSeek<\/a>, a brand and <a href=\"https:\/\/wellseek.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media company<\/a> on a mission to dispel myths and spread truth in the health and wellness world. She is also Curating Editor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellseek.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WellSeek Collective<\/a> and a member of the Council of Directors at True Health Initiative, a global coalition of world-renowned health experts, alongside David L. Katz, Sanjay Gupta, and Deepak Chopra.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Monica and I discuss a variety of topics, such as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The story of how Monica founded her company, WellSeek, after leaving her career as a scientist<br \/>\n&#8211; Why every impactful media company must have a powerful brand story<br \/>\n&#8211; The challenges Monica faced in getting WellSeek off the ground, and her execution path in doing so<br \/>\n&#8211; How the bedrock approach to entrepreneurship impacted the success of Monica&#8217;s company<br \/>\n&#8211; And more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellseek.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about about Monica Mo and WellSeek.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about topics like this in my latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rf7nHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018).&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About <em>From The Ground Up<\/em>:<br \/>\nHosted by entrepreneur, author and Princeton Professor Derek Lidow, <em>From The Ground Up<\/em> uncovers the not-so-secret strategies of self-made business owners. Featuring conversations with entrepreneurs who built influential brands and companies, Derek weaves a narrative journey about how successful business are created without having to shoot for the moon or take on unnecessary risk; how the greatest companies are the ones that are built, from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/natasha-gajewski-building-a-business-by-necessity-from-the-ground-up-ep-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for more episodes of <em>From The Ground Up<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On episode 2 of &#8220;From The Ground Up,&#8221; I sit down with Monica Mo, PhD\u2014the founder and CEO of WellSeek, a brand and media company on a mission to dispel myths and spread truth in the health and wellness world. She is also Curating Editor of the WellSeek Collective and a member of the Council&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}