Digital Health Heavyweights
This conversational podcast brings you exclusive interviews with all the Heavyweights in Digital Health. Hosted by Norm Volsky, a top industry headhunter, whose team helped scale companies including Livongo, Hinge Health, Lyra, Virta, Progyny and many more. This series will bring listeners insights into the latest trends, technologies, and strategies driving the digital health revolution.
In each episode, Norm sits down with some of the most influential and innovative leaders in healthcare technology today from legendary founders who have built successful companies, venture capitalists who have led funding rounds, HR/Benefits leaders at forward thinking companies, Consultants and Brokers at the top benefits consulting firms, and other impactful visionaries challenging the status quo in healthcare. Listeners can learn from the industry greats who have created what we now know as health benefits, and who are changing the face of healthcare as we know it.
Whether you're a healthcare professional, a tech enthusiast, a start-up founder, benefits aficionado, jobseeker in Digital Health, or simply curious about the future of healthcare, Digital Health Heavyweights has something for you.
Digital Health Heavyweights
Episode 1: Noah Kotlove, CEO of Berry Street
In this episode of the Digital Health Heavyweights podcast, host Norm Volsky interviews Noah Kotlove, Founder and CEO of Berry Street, a virtual nutrition therapy platform connecting patients with dietitians for one-on-one personalized nutrition care across more than 25 conditions, and leveraging AI to empower providers and patients . Noah shares his patient-first journey how working with a dietitian helped him lose weight and why nutrition counseling remains one of the most underutilized benefits in U.S. healthcare despite broad commercial coverage that is often $0 out of pocket. The conversation explores Berry Street’s rapid growth since January 2023, its $50M raise in 2025, the difference between dietitians vs. “nutritionists,” and how Berry Street supports patients navigating the GLP-1 era with sustainable nutrition and behavior change.
Takeaways
🥗 Nutrition therapy is widely covered by commercial insurance, yet remains deeply underutilized.
🧠 Dietitians support behavior change beyond “eat this / don’t eat that,” including relationship-with-food work.
⚖️ “Food freedom” helps patients avoid guilt spirals and build sustainable habits.
🍿 Small guardrails (like portioning snacks into a bowl) can compound into major outcomes over time.
🏢 Large enterprises often struggle with zero-to-one innovation—startups thrive because they’re built for it.
🚀 Berry Street scaled rapidly after launching in January 2023, reaching tens of millions in annualized revenue (as shared on-air).
💰 Berry Street raised $50M in 2025, driven by growth, a massive market tailwind, and strong provider/patient experience.
🩺 Dietitians are credentialed clinicians who can bill insurance; “nutritionist” is not a standardized credential term.
💉 GLP-1s are a powerful tool, but dietitian support helps protect nutrient intake, adherence, and long-term sustainability.
🍌 A simple daily habit: pairing fruit (banana) with protein/fats (peanut butter) can improve satiety and energy stability.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Noah Kotlove and Berry Street
01:35 Noah’s Path into Healthcare: A Patient-First Story
04:10 How Dietitian Care Drives Sustainable Behavior Change
07:24 Principles Behind Noah’s 60–65 lb Weight-Loss Journey
11:41 Founding Sobriety Soft: Early Entrepreneurship in Health Tech
15:25 Lessons Learned Building a Product for a Sensitive Community
18:25 Accenture to Startup CEO: Lessons from Enterprise Innovation
21:11 The Origin and Meaning Behind the Name “Berry Street”
23:19 Why Nutrition Therapy Is Massively Underutilized
24:34 Fundraising Advice: Authenticity in a Tough Capital Market
26:20 What Drove Berry Street’s $50M Raise and Growth Strategy
28:35 Dietitian vs. Nutritionist: Credentials, Training, and Trust
31:00 Inside the Berry Street Patient Experience
33:26 Insurance Coverage Explained: Preventive vs. Medical Nutrition Care
35:11 Go-to-Market Strategy: From DTC Growth to Health Plans
35:58 Becoming In-Network: Scaling Provider Contracts Nationally
37:20 Clinical Outcomes and the GLP-1 Nutrition Pathway
39:13 The Role of Nutrition in a GLP-1-Driven Future
48:45 Managing Stress and Staying Centered as a Founder
50:12 Healthy Habits and Simple Nutrition Wins
53:01 Closing Thoughts and Final Reflections
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