Wellness businesses, tested at operating level.
HALO Talks is an interview-led business show about the health, active lifestyle, and outdoor market. Its strongest moments come when operator stories turn into concrete questions about demand, pricing, staffing, real estate, partnerships, and whether customers will actually buy the thing.
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HALO Talks covers the business side of the health, active lifestyle, and outdoor world with a founder-to-founder feel. It does not treat wellness as a soft category. It treats it as a set of operating problems. Who needs the service? Who pays for it? What does staffing look like? How does the model survive real estate, credentialing, customer education, and pricing pressure? Recent episodes range widely, from a telehealth rehabilitation platform to adaptive youth fitness work. The show also spends time with Pilates, recovery technology, longevity, beer spa concepts, men's skincare, and GLP-1 integration. That mix gives the series a useful breadth: clinical care, boutique fitness, franchise growth, recovery technology, longevity, spa concepts, skincare, and GLP-1 integration all sit on the same business map. The interview rhythm is loose but pointed. Guests often get long stretches to explain how they got started, then the conversation turns toward the mechanics underneath the story. A guest's injury history becomes a discussion about recovery systems and nervous-system-focused care. A move into Pilates becomes a conversation about territory, leases, landlord hesitation, and the importance of walking a location. A men's skincare founder story turns into a practical look at education, margins, and pricing against familiar premium brands. Even the stranger ideas, like beer baths, are handled through the same lens: ingredients, customer experience, infrared sauna, massage alternatives, and whether the concept has enough substance behind the novelty. HALO Talks works best for listeners who want the business reality behind wellness categories that are often covered with too much shine. It is direct, conversational, and operationally curious. The value is in the gut checks.
Made for: For founders, operators, investors, and franchise-minded builders in fitness, wellness, health services, recovery, and active lifestyle categories. It also suits listeners who like business interviews that stay close to pricing, real estate, staffing, and customer behavior.
What sets it apart: HALO Talks stands out by treating wellness ideas as businesses that have to survive execution. The conversations keep returning to practical constraints: clinician supply, leases, margins, partnerships, customer trust, and the gap between an interesting concept and a durable model.
Learn from top entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners in the HALO (Health, Active Lifestyle, Outdoor) sector how to optimize your business success. With host Pete Moore, Founder and Managing Partner of Integrity Square.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Pete Moore makes wellness entrepreneurship legible by pressing founders and operators on the practical machinery behind fitness, skincare, rehabilitation and spa businesses.
HALO Talks: Elevating Wellness follows Pete Moore into the operating rooms of health and fitness businesses, where founder stories quickly give way to leases, pricing, staffing, distribution and growth. His interviews are brisk and commercially minded.
A Pilates lease falls through; Pete Moore reaches for a foot-traffic story, and your notebook may follow.
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A rehab telehealth talk that gets most interesting when the staffing math shows up.
Ashok Gupta shapes this Halo Talks conversation into a grounded look at how Theranow grew from a real access problem. He draws on a background in physical therapy that runs from the Veterans Affairs Hospital System in Manhattan to small towns in Sioux City, Iowa, and that range…
A grounded conversation about inclusive youth fitness as support, strength, and room to move.
Sam Kirch's path into youth fitness begins with a special-needs summer camp job at 16 and runs through special education, early education, and an ACE personal-training certification.
A Pilates growth story where space, foot traffic, and landlord nerves matter.
This episode follows Pete Moore and Jodi Merrill through a practical look at Pilates business growth in the real world, where location, landlord hesitation, and expansion choices shape the outcome.
A Denver beer spa turns hops, malt, and private spa suites into a grounded wellness-business story.
Beer gives this PlayNext episode its shape as Pete Moore speaks with Damian and Jessica about Oakwell Beer Spa in Denver. The founders connect the business to corporate lives in New York City, conversations over drinks, and the pull to build something of their own.
A grounded founder conversation on men's skincare, presentation, and practical product decisions.
Men's skincare comes into focus through Angel Olivares, a Forest Hills, Queens chemist who connects Strive to an early sales career and to noticing how polished salesmen used grooming as part of their presentation.
A grounded look at how GLP-1 telehealth could fit into the health-club business.
This episode works best as a practical look at where GLP-1 programs might fit inside the daily flow of a health club. David Apple, a longtime coach-turned-operator at Corb Health, brings useful context from his path through physical education teaching and Polar Electro, where he…
A grounded, practical conversation about helping children find their way into movement beyond the usual sports setup.
Sam Kirch's path into special education starts at a week-long special-needs summer camp in Rochester, New York, where a community-service requirement brought him into the work at 16.
Short-term rental lessons from the operator side.
This episode discusses how fitness and wellness tenants are transforming New York's real estate landscape, with a 40% surge in such tenants and their impact on the office market.
Pete Moore interviews David Appel of Korb Health about integrating GLP-1 drugs into the fitness industry.
Sam Circh discusses his journey from a teenage volunteer at a special needs camp to founding Watch Me Move NYC, an adaptive youth fitness program.
HALO Talks: Elevating Wellness features Jon Sheldon connecting his Marine Corps leadership experience with his Bellowwood Coaching work.
Pete Moore talks with Ashok Gupta about Theranow and the problem it was built to solve.
Sam Kirch, founder of Watch Me Move NYC, tells Pete Moore on Halo Talks how a mandatory 100-hour community service requirement at 16 led him into two decades of work at Genesee Valley Rotary Camp, a special needs camp near Rochester.
Pete Moore opens with Jodi Merrill from the Boston area.
Garrett Salpeter discusses how his personal injury experiences led him to develop NeuFit, a neuro-bioelectric technology that transforms injury recovery by stimulating the nervous system.
Chris Mirabile shares his personal health crisis that sparked his lifelong interest in longevity and preventative health, discussing his journey and the scientific approach behind NOVOS.
Pete Moore starts with the gut check of how a husband-and-wife team got from corporate work in New York City to Oakwell Beer Spa in Denver.
Pete Moore's Halo Talks: Elevating Wellness features Angel Olivares, a chemist from Forest Hills, Queens, explaining how Strive grew out of sales experience and the halo effect.
This episode features an interview with David Appel of Korb Health discussing the integration of GLP-1 medications with fitness and clinical care through telehealth platforms to reshape the health industry.
This episode discusses how fitness and wellness tenants are transforming New York's real estate landscape, with a focus on their 40% surge and impact on office markets.
Chris Rotondi shares his journey from a corporate career at Shift4 to becoming a franchise operator of Serotonin Centers, discussing his entrepreneurial inspiration and business background.
This episode features Scott Markman discussing effective communication strategies and brand building for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.