WISe News
The Wellness Pulse: From Billion-Dollar Bets to More Personal Wellness
From Oura’s IPO and HYROX’s acquisition to better-for-you food, menopause access and grief-focused fitness, explore 10 wellness trends shaping the industry.
The Wellness Pulse: From Social Clubs to Smart Care, Wellness Is Building Bigger Ecosystems
From Life Time’s new social club and Amazon’s Hyrox partnership to Sword Health’s planned Headspace acquisition, Fitbit founders’ next wearable and Novotel’s Longevity Week, this week’s Wellness Pulse explores how wellness brands are building bigger ecosystems around community, care, commerce, technology and everyday life.
The Wellness Pulse: Wellness Is Becoming More Integrated, Accessible and Accountable
Wellness is becoming more integrated, accessible and accountable. This week’s Wellness Pulse explores boutique fitness expansion, women’s sports growth, women’s health research, wearable accuracy, at-home diagnostics, healthy aging, GLP-1 disruption and the rise of multi-condition digital health.
The Wellness Pulse: From Better-For-You Acquisitions to Wellness Everywhere
Wellness is expanding into every part of daily life. Explore 10 trends shaping the industry, from Ferrero’s Purely Elizabeth acquisition and AG1’s product expansion to women’s health, pet wellness, workplace design, health tracking burnout and the growing importance of trust.
The Wellness Pulse: From Smart Homes to Smart Toilets, Wellness Is Becoming Infrastructure
Wellness is becoming part of everyday infrastructure. Explore 10 trends shaping the industry, from AI smart toilets and wellness-focused homes to hair longevity, women’s health innovation, functional nutrition, and experimental medicine.
The Missing Infrastructure Behind Every Trusted Brand
Organizations spend billions trying to build trust through branding, marketing, customer experience, and technology. Yet trust is rarely created by messaging alone. It begins much earlier—when people decide whether they feel safe enough to ask questions, admit uncertainty, make mistakes, or simply be themselves.
In this article, Stevi Gable Carr introduces a new perspective: psychological safety is the infrastructure of trust. While psychological safety is traditionally viewed as an internal leadership and culture concept, its impact extends far beyond employees. Every interaction with a patient, customer, client, guest, or community member either strengthens or weakens the conditions that allow trust to grow.
Through the Five Pillars of Consumer Psychological Safety, this article explores how organizations can intentionally design experiences that foster loyalty, reduce emotional risk, and create deeper relationships. It also tackles an important leadership question: Can organizations genuinely create psychological safety for customers if employees don't experience it themselves?
For leaders focused on healthcare, consumer brands, hospitality, financial services, wellness, and organizational transformation, this framework offers a new way to think about trust as a strategic advantage.
The Wellness Pulse: From Personalized Fitness to Billion-Dollar Wellness Bets
From Spotify’s personalized running mode and Nike’s recovery slide to P&G’s Thorne acquisition, explore 10 trends shaping the future of wellness, preventive health, travel, fitness, and inclusion.
Healthcare Has Been Benchmarking Against the Wrong Industry
Healthcare's greatest competitors may not be other health systems—they may be the companies redefining consumer expectations across technology, hospitality, wellness, and everyday life. Drawing insights from Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, this article explores why the future of health will be shaped by organizations that learn beyond traditional industry boundaries and integrate trust, consumer experience, behavioral science, and innovation into every interaction.
The Wellness Pulse: From Smart Toilets to Functional Beer, Wellness Moves Into Daily Life
From functional beer and screen-free wearables to AI-powered bathroom technology and wellness-focused real estate, health is becoming embedded in everyday life. Explore 10 trends reshaping how consumers drink, travel, shop, work and live.
The Wellness Pulse: Wellness Integration Is the Next Frontier
Explore this week’s wellness trends, from psychedelic medicine and AI-powered nutrition to social wellness clubs, experiential retail, hospitality, and whole-person care.
Opinion | The Wellness Industry Has a Trust Problem. Evidence May Be the Turning Point.
Stevi Gable Carr explores why evidence-based wellness is the future of healthcare, consumer trust, and the $6.8 trillion global wellness economy.
We've Been Doing the Work. Here's What We Learned.
After 18 months of change, reflection, and a full business audit, Stevi Gable Carr shares how WISe Wellness Guild clarified its focus on wellness brand strategy, experiential marketing, and fractional leadership.
The Wellness Pulse: From World Cup Recovery to Culturally Driven Fitness
From World Cup recovery tech and immersive wellness studios to influencer health advice, menopause retail, and culturally driven fitness, this week’s Wellness Pulse explores how wellness brands are building relevance through trust, access, experience, and cultural connection.
The Wellness Pulse: Women’s Strength, Wellness Access, and the End of One-Size-Fits-All Health
This week’s WISe Wellness Pulse explores women’s strength training, wellness access, supplement strips, GLP-1 affordability, urban design, wellness retreats, and the growing shift toward more specific, sustainable, and real-life wellness solutions.
The Wellness Pulse: The Future of Wellness Is Both High-Tech and Back-to-Basics
This week’s WISe Wellness Pulse explores how wellness is scaling in two directions at once: toward high-tech tools like CGMs, wearables, recovery clubs, and athlete-backed investment, while also returning to accessible habits like walking, movement, community fitness, and simple daily routines.
We Don't Need More Wellness. We Need More Trust.
America is investing more in wellness than ever before, yet rates of loneliness, burnout, chronic disease, and mental health challenges continue to rise. In this thought leadership piece, executive coach and wellness strategist Stevi Gable Carr explores why the future of wellness isn't simply better products or more information—it's stronger Trust Infrastructure: the systems, relationships, institutions, and experiences that help people make healthier decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities. Drawing on leadership, public health, behavioral science, and the latest research on the wellness economy, this article challenges CEOs, healthcare leaders, policymakers, and community builders to rethink what it truly means to create the conditions for human flourishing.
The Wellness Pulse: AI Gets More Human, Fitness Gets More Lifestyle, and Health Tech Moves Home
This week’s Wellness Pulse explores how AI, human coaching, at-home health tech, athlete-led brands, and lifestyle-driven fitness are reshaping wellness. From Karamo Brown’s AI wellness app and Future’s return to human coaches to Bala activewear, Solius light therapy, and Wyze’s BodyScan scale, personalization is getting smarter — but trust still has to feel human.
The Wellness Pulse: Smarter Sun Care, Midlife Health, and Protein’s Next Move
This week’s Wellness Pulse explores how prevention is becoming more personal, measurable, and practical, from sun-exposure wearables and new sunscreen innovation to menopause support in Apple Health, protein-packed beverages, GLP-1 longevity conversations, and the next wave of women’s health tech.
The Wellness Pulse: Performance Gets Practical, Pilates Goes Mainstream, and Consumers Keep Redefining Care
This week’s Wellness Pulse explores the latest shifts shaping wellness, from AG1’s new creatine-powered formula and Peloton’s Pilates acquisition to women’s health funding, experiential beauty retail, pet wellness, recovery tech, and the growing pushback against over-tracking.
The Wellness Pulse: Smart Rings, K-Beauty, Longevity Medicine and Social Fitness
This week’s WISe Wellness Pulse explores 10 wellness trends shaping June 2026, from Hims & Hers expanding women’s health benefits and Olive Young’s U.S. launch to Oura Ring 5, functional cookies, social fitness expansion, longevity medicine in China, K-wellness tourism and the rise of wellness lifestyle brands.

