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Wellness Law Podcast

Are you interested in or already have a wellness business? Perhaps you deliver employee wellness services, or practice as a health coach, functional medicine provider, lifestyle or relationship expert, spiritual coach, integrative and holistic health practitioner, or you invent wellness products and devices. Regardless of your role, you need to stay on top of the law that affects the wellness industry. This podcast will feature wellness industry experts and thought leaders and explain how the law affects what they do. You will learn about the latest lawsuits, investigations, and research that can help your wellness business reduce risk and thrive.

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Wellness Law Podcast

Using Data Science to Build Preventive, Legally Sound Workplace Wellness Programs

July 13, 2026 • Barbara Zabawa

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Host Barbara Zabawa welcomes Dr. Romie Morales Rosado, a PhD-trained applied mathematician and data scientist and owner of Legacy Nova, to discuss how workplace wellness programs can better leverage data to prevent problems before they arise. Rosado explains her work helping leaders and institutions make proactive decisions by identifying emerging signals, improving how data is collected, defining a shared lexicon, and creating “connective tissue” across platforms so datasets can speak to each other. Zabawa links this approach to preventive law and the goal of designing employee wellness programs that improve wellbeing and reduce risks such as privacy or ADA-related complaints. They emphasize that organizations often already have the needed data, but require expert analysis to connect it, tell the right story, and answer the questions leadership thinks it is addressing. Contact information for Rosado and Wellness Law resources are provided.

00:00 Welcome to the Podcast

00:31 Meet Dr Romie

02:46 Preventive Law Mindset

04:13 Data Foundations and Lexicon

06:57 Wellness Data Opportunities

08:03 Connecting Data Sets

11:52 Turning Data Into Decisions

13:30 Closing and Contact Info

14:41 Outro and Resources

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