Cindy MacMillan ignites Employee health with her health activating wellness challenge
On today's show we have a lovely human being, she is our landlord and Director of Asset Management at Anthem Properties, a real estate development, investment and management company with a growing portfolio of property across western North America. Cindy MacMillan has been with Anthem for more than a decade and along with her real estate contributions, has been integral in bringing health and wellness to the Anthem culture by creating an annual Wellness Challenge currently in its sixth year. After opening our third café she asked me to come teach her employees how to eat real to heal, how to use food as medicine and how to turn their lifestyles onto a plant-based whole food unrefined food. So, I headed down and did that and that’s what this podcast is about. It's about Cindy leading the charge at Anthem Properties in bringing this amazing healing programs to her colleagues and in creating a culture of total wellness.
“More and more in mainstream, people are starting to think differently about food, you know theres the whole plant-based concept out there, people that I would have never thought would said those words are thinking about it, thinking about the environmental impact, how it impacts their health and longevity more and more.”
The idea started when a colleague with a “Dad bod” requested help getting his energy and body back for summer. The first challenge was 8-weeks long with 25 participants who measured their progress through weight-loss, inches lost, and points collected for lifestyle changes in health, wellness and nutrition. The challenge was successful and has grown to span all Anthem’s offices across four cities.
If you're a human resources employee in a company or if you are CEO of the company, you need to listen to this podcast and learn about what you can do to change the health around in your organization. Also, what you need to do to be able to support your employees to make these really crucial lifestyle change. It will give them more energy that will allow them to operate at their maximum potential so that they are giving the company their 100% human potential. We have an epidemic in our society of chronic disease one in two people are now being diagnosed with cancer one in four are living with diabetes it's truly a catastrophe in the health world and you as an employee of a business can change that.