Oh, Behave!

Bob & Jay

Getting people to change their health behaviors can be extremely challenging. Especially, since everyone has their own unique set of barriers that are often shifting on a regular basis. Join Bob Bensley, professor of public health, and Jay Rivas, CEO of Maia Synergy as they explore the tapestry of existing health products and services - unraveling the behavioral science and technology woven together to solve complex health issues. If you're a professional looking to improve your health and wellness program or you're wanting to create a program from scratch, this podcast will give you plenty of solutions, strategies, and techniques to draw from. read less

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Five Key Principles of Online Behavior Change

Five Key Principles of Online Behavior Change

This is the season one finale! In this episode we pull together everything we've covered over the past nine weeks under the umbrella of our five key principles of online behavior change: Recreating the human experience, personalizing to the individual, creating a dynamic experience, including a supportive environment, and building upon sound theory.

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Five Key Principles of Online Behavior Change

Five Key Principles of Online Behavior Change

This is the season one finale! In this episode we pull together everything we've covered over the past nine weeks under the umbrella of our five key principles of online behavior change: Recreating the human experience, personalizing to the individual, creating a dynamic experience, including a supportive environment, and building upon sound theory.

Creating Change Part 4: Evaluating Your Health Program

Creating Change Part 4: Evaluating Your Health Program

This is the final part of our four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we've been walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. For this episode, we invited our expert data analyst, John Brusk to join us in discussing the evaluation process - like what to include in your evaluation plan, what questions to ask, and how to evaluate your program on a limited budget.

Creating Change Part 3: Launching Your Program

Creating Change Part 3: Launching Your Program

This is part three of our four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we'll be walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. In this episode, we focus on the implementation process and discuss the art of monitoring, iterating, and promoting your program.

Creating Change Part 2: Roadmap to Success

Creating Change Part 2: Roadmap to Success

This is the second of a four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we'll be walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. This episode will focus on planning your program or service by creating a roadmap that will utilize your assessment results to set your goals, define the resources you'll need, the activities you'll carry out, and the results you're expecting.

A Brief Announcement

A Brief Announcement

Just a quick heads up on what's happening with this week's episode...

Creating Change Part 1: Know Your Audience

Creating Change Part 1: Know Your Audience

This is the first of a four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we'll be walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. This episode will focus on the needs assessment - also referred to as the user-centered approach. We'll discuss how knowing your audience can reduce your risk of creating an unsuccessful product or program and we'll cover the best techniques for gathering the information you need before you begin the planning phase of your program.

The Power of the Food Industry

The Power of the Food Industry

The food decisions we make - what we buy and eat - are heavily influenced by the strategies and tactics of the food industry. In this episode, we dive into many of those tactics and discuss what individual consumers, as well as leaders in non-profit and government sectors, can do to overcome these health-related challenges.

The COVID Fallout

The COVID Fallout

The COVID pandemic brought thousands of tragic deaths and shuttered nearly 100,000 businesses leaving many in financial ruin. But others were impacted in ways that we are just beginning to understand and see. In this episode, we'll look closer at how COVID is impacting education, mental wellness, and domestic violence in this country.

Hacking Health Literacy

Hacking Health Literacy

Breaking down health literacy to better understand what it is and how it can impact communication between you and your clients or customers. We share lots of examples and give plenty of strategies for overcoming this obstacle.

Facing Food Insecurity

Facing Food Insecurity

We breakdown two issues that affect nearly 1 in 6 households in America - food insecurity and food access - taking a deep dive into how the COVID epidemic has intensified these issues and what sort of technology could help reverse the trends.

Luxury of Health: The Right To Be Fit

Luxury of Health: The Right To Be Fit

Is the health and fitness industry fair and equitable? And why is it so hard to be healthy with all the technology available today?