Choosing a Life of Wellness: Recent Episodes
Orchard Place
Thought-leaders, tastemakers and industry experts come together to discuss choosing a life of wellness. Brought to you by Orchard Place: the wellness capital of London.
A panel event hosted at Orchard Place in celebration of International Women’s Day 2023.
- We hear from:
- Athena Ko - Founder of Gong Girl & Moderator
- Catie Miller - Founder of Barre Series
- Natalia Bojanic - Co-Founder of Form Nutrition
- Dr Federica Amati - Medical Scientist and Nutritionist, ZOE and Imperial College London Mira Manek - Founder of Chai
- Kitty McEntee - Founder of LabTonica
We discover the personal journey of each entrepreneur into the world of wellness, the increased value of the industry and how we can all actively incorporate mindfulness into our lives.
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A panel event hosted by Onetrack Club at Orchard Place
Led by Times & Grazia journalist Polly Vernon, joined by guests Laura Naylor Onetrack co-founder, Nieve Tierney resident Reiki Master at Soho House, and Dora Atim, Running Coach for Nike UK.
What did we discover? That each person's definition of fitness is different. Some of us use it to feel more powerful, channel energy, provide safe spaces for marginalised communities, or just as an escape to clear our minds, enter a void, and be present for ourselves. It's important to make a longer-term investment in ourselves instead of just focusing on short-term goals.
Sharing experiences, paying attention to others, and becoming knowledgeable about the obstacles to health, wellness, and fitness are all crucial.
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In this episode of Choosing a Life of Wellness by Orchard Place, we are joined by Founder of Tea & Tonic, Sarah Strang.
Starting her career in luxury marketing, Sarah found herself working long hours in a high-paced life. After discovering adaptogen super herbs to support this lifestyle, Sarah’s eyes were opened as she realised this was the key to integrating a better approach to de-stress. The combination of Sarah's passion for holistic therapy and natural skincare and her new discovery of adaptogen super herbs led to the creation of Tea & Tonic.
Sarah is passionate about taking a joyful approach to wellness, recognising that managing life’s various stresses is at the heart of how we look and feel. She believes that to improve our wellness and achieve our brightest skin and self, we need to re-balance and strengthen our resilience to everyday stress.
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In this episode of Choosing a Life of Wellness by Orchard Place, we are joined by Director of BXR London & Sweat by BXR, Alex Nicholl.
Alex Nicholl co-founded BXR London with his business partner Olia Sardarova and is now the MD of BXR London and Sweat by BXR. Alex started his career in the nightclub industry and consulting for nightclubs and hotels. Having worked at the forefront of the nightclub industry, Alex found himself increasingly aware of how he looked, his diet and fitness which eventually led to the creation of BXR London, a boutique luxury boxing gym in an award winning luxury space.
Alex is behind introducing the first Versaclimber to Europe, which the club calls Climb to the Beat. Sweat by BXR’s infamous Versaclimber Cardio studio, located at all three studios brings the most effective, full-body cardio workout with its signature group climbing classes. In May 2017, Nicholl successfully created Europe’s first Versaclimber-based group class concept at the Marylebone Sweat by BXR flagship and has garnered a reputation as one of the most intense cardio workouts in London, with an estimated 800 calories burned in each 45-minute class.
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Aahuti's intentional move into the health-tech sector has brought together her deep interest in health and wellness, together with her professional experience in leading change and innovation.
Aahuti is an integral member of the digital health eco-system at the intersection of innovators, payors and providers of healthcare and their industry partners, where she works as a Strategic Advisor and NED to health-tech start-ups.
Prior to her move into digital health, Aahuti spent 20+ years delivering strategic consulting to Boards and their Executive teams working with well-known corporate organisations such as Specsavers, eBay, Takeda, Triumph, Affidea Health, Santander and the NHS.
In this episode of Choosing a Life of Wellness by Orchard Place, we are joined by Founder of Nosh Detox, Geeta Sidhu-Robb.
Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a five time winner of the Entrepreneur and Businesswoman of the Year award. Geeta also founded Nosh Detox - a pioneer in bringing cold pressed juices and smoothies to the health and food industry.
Having developed the hugely successful Nosh Detox after her son was born with severe food allergies, eczema, asthma and anaphylaxis, she has built a formidable reputation for success in the health and nutrition industry.
She re-trained from a lawyer to a health & wellness coach for successful professional women.
Her coaching clients describe working with her as ‘transformational and life-changing' and credit her coaching with helping them get promotions, double revenue, manage successful IPO’s and launch massive company growth.
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In this episode of Choosing a Life of Wellness by Orchard Place, we are joined by Co-Founder of DIRTEA, Simon Salter.
Co-Founders (and brothers) Andrew & Simon Salter have always tried to find ways to improve their well-being whilst balancing work, travel, and play.
In 2016, they discovered mushroom tea ceremonies and how drinking functional mushrooms can be a transformative experience with rapid results.
DIRTEA make the purest and most potent functional mushroom extract powders around, proven to improve your health, wellbeing and lifestyle when consumed daily. Endorsed by the likes of David Gandy, Naomi Harris and Michael Ward - their mushroom teas and coffees are produced to transform energy, mind, health and sleep.
In this episode we speak with Simon about DIRTEA’s mission, their ‘tribe’ of morning-swimmers and breathwork enthusiasts, what wellness means to him, and the future of DIRTEA.
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Our first episode of Choosing a Life of Wellness brought you by Orchard Place: The Wellness Capital of London.
In this series, thought-leaders, tastemakers and industry experts come together to discuss what it means to choose a life of wellness.
For our very first episode, we are delighted to be joined by the Founder of Avansere, Tom Savigar.
Tom is an expert in foresight, strategy and transformation, and has created placemaking strategies for the likes of Grosvenor, EMAAR and Knight Dragon. For two decades up to 2019, he has been forecasting and making the future happen with The Future Laboratory for the world’s biggest and best known brands. With his new company Avansere, Tom now focuses his skills and network on building next generation enterprises.
In this episode, we discuss the future of wellness as well as asking Tom what wellness means to him.