In this week’s episode of the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon and Kelly Tysland sit down for a conversation about the wearable Whoop device and the undoubted positive impact it has had on their everyday lives as business owners and busy parents of four children.

With Whoop guidance, they are able to use personalized data to balance family life and personal wellness by optimizing sleep, minimizing strain, and maximizing recovery. By receiving daily feedback and guidance, they are able to build connection, adjust habits, and identify how they can best support each other.

Whoop is able to give them more than just data. It allows them to stay connected and understand where they are at in terms of capacity. Paying attention to their personal metrics not only helps set them up for a better life, but gives them something to connect on that’s moving them forward with their goals, relationship, family, health, and fitness.

While wearable technology is able to give us powerful data, one of the best benefits it offers is not just the opportunity to do more, but to be smarter with how you use your energy.

The end goal is not perfect metrics.

The goal is to live well and show up fully for the life you want to live.

In this week’s episode of the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon sits down with Mark Canlis—third-generation owner of famed Seattle fine dining destination, Canlis—for a conversation about leadership, legacy, presence, and the secret ingredient of life: love.

For Mark’s grandfather and founder of Canlis, success meant being the greatest restaurant in the world. Today, Mark’s philosophy goes way beyond providing a great dining experience. Success means caring deeply for the people around you, whether that’s guests coming in to enjoy a meal, or the team members working alongside you. It’s about a passion for hospitality, a culture of care, and creating a place where people can be their whole, authentic selves.

Mark didn’t just inherit a restaurant. He inherited a host of values and principles that continue to guide him today. This episode is an inspiring story about daring to care, being present, and choosing to run a business not driven by fear, but firmly rooted in hope and love.

Have you ever attempted to build a new habit, but found yourself struggling to follow through? What if our failures are not so much a lack of discipline or willpower, but that we were never taught to create change in a way that actually works in real life?

In this week’s episode, Shanon shares an insightful conversation with Dr. Heather McKee, a health behavior change specialist, about building healthier habits rooted in real life with more self-compassion and consistency. Dr. McKee has spent more than a decade studying the psychology of lasting habit change and bridging the gap between our desires and our actions. Her work centers around helping people and organizations create sustainable, evidence-based changes in a world that prioritizes quick fixes.

This inspiring conversation emphasizes the importance of struggling on the road to success, how motivation is not always a reliable driver of change, and how to think of behavior change more as a skill to be built rather than an inherent trait.

If you have ever stumbled in your journey and want to build habits that are grounded in honesty, intention, and self-compassion, this episode is for you.

To keep up with Dr. McKee and the latest in behavioral science, you can find her on LinkedIn.

In this episode of the Redefine What’s Possible podcast, Shanon sits down with Roma Van der Walt, founder and CEO of Vitelle, a female physiology intelligence platform helping health, performance, and clinical systems better account for women’s bodies.

Roma brings a unique lens as a former elite modern pentathlete, sports scientist, mother, founder, and advocate for better women’s health data. Together, Shanon and Roma explore why women have historically been underserved in health and performance research, how wearables and AI can both help and harm, why muscle is essential for longevity, and what partners, coaches, clinicians, and leaders can do to better support women through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, and beyond.

This conversation is about more than women’s health. It is about listening better, building smarter systems, and helping people trust their bodies again.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Roma’s story as the daughter of immigrants, an elite modern pentathlete, mother, and founder
• Why female physiology has been underrepresented in clinical research, performance systems, and health technology
• The problem with treating women’s bodies as unpredictable rather than under-contextualized
• How wearables can provide useful data, while still missing the deeper interpretation layer women need
• Why muscle matters for longevity, metabolic health, freedom, and confidence
• Practical strength training ideas for women who are just getting started
• Pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and the emotional complexity of physiological transition
• How partners can better support women through changing seasons of health and identity
• Why the future of women’s health must include better data, better interpretation, and more personalized care
• What it means to redefine what’s possible through grit, resilience, surrender, and patience

Roma van der Walt, MSc, is the founder and CEO of Vitelle, a female physiology intelligence platform building smarter systems for women’s health, performance, and longevity. A former professional athlete and sports scientist, Roma brings deep experience in elite performance, maternal health, female physiology, and health technology. Through Vitelle, she is working to close the female data gap and help organizations turn complex health signals into more personalized, actionable care for women. Vitelle describes itself as “the first female health OS,” providing an intelligence layer that turns multi-modal data into longitudinal insight for women’s health and performance.

Links:

LinkedIn

Vitelle

Substack

What happens when the thing you love the most starts to deteriorate and change for the worse? And what happens when you take responsibility for protecting it?

This week’s guest was the youngest person to run a marathon on every continent and is currently serving as the first female CEO of Protect Our Winters. We are thrilled to welcome Erin Sprague to the podcast for a conversation about leadership when progress feels slow, transformational learning from failures, and staying curious about one of the biggest problems the world faces today: the climate crisis.

One of the most important takeaways of this conversation is: you don’t have to be perfect in sustainability to step up and make a difference. Tackling the climate crisis isn’t about being the loudest voice in the room, or having all the answers. It’s about recognizing that if you care about clean water, clean air, and stable food systems, you’re already a part of this story.

This episode will leave you feeling inspired and energized to get involved in climate solutions so we can create a future that’s rooted in collaboration, action, and hope.

Protect Our Winters helps turn the love, care, and passion for our planet into action by meeting people where they are at through community, education, and advocacy. If you’d like to learn more about POW and how you can get involved, visit: https://protectourwinters.org/

In this week’s episode of the Redefine What’s Possible Podcast, Shanon sits down with Russell Benaroya—an entrepreneur, leader, and endurance athlete—for a conversation about leadership, adventure, identity and what it means to truly redesign your life.

Russell is the author of One Life to Lead: Business Success Through Better Life Design, and he is someone who has learned firsthand that success on the outside does not always answer the deeper question of “who are you becoming on the inside?” Shanon unpacks and explores Russell’s journey during the Marathon des Sables—a grueling 6-day, 155 mile race in the Sahara desert—and not just what happened in the Sahara, but what came before it.

This episode is an inspiring story about becoming, the detours, the resets, and the choices that shape who we’re trying to be. If you have ever questioned what success is really costing you, or that there may be a more intentional way to live and lead, this episode is for you.

If you'd like to learn more about Russell's story, you can keep up with him via LinkedIn.

At 16 years old, Billy Moore made a decision that altered countless lives, including his own. What followed was 20 years in prison, the weight of accountability, and a long journey toward understanding identity, forgiveness, and purpose.

In this episode, Billy shares the “story before the story”, the loss of his father, the search for self and belonging, the influence of his environment, and the split-second confrontation that ended in tragedy. He speaks candidly about incarceration, the turning point sparked by his grandmother’s words, and the commitment he made to ensure his life would not be defined solely by his worst mistake.

Now a site manager with Chicago CRED (Creating Real Economic Destiny), Billy works on the front lines of violence intervention, mentoring young men navigating the same pressures, trauma, and survival mindset that once shaped him. He discusses his approach to instilling hope in communities where systemic inequities, economic disinvestment, and fractured trust are predominant forces in the lives of the young men he serves.

This conversation is about accountability without erasure, forgiveness without denial, hope without overpromising, and the belief that redemption is not a single moment, but a daily decision to grow, to serve, and to get one step closer to purpose.

Learn More: Chicago CRED

Longevity isn’t something you chase with willpower—it’s something that can ensue when your community is designed for it.

In this episode, Shanon sits down with Danny Buettner Jr., Executive Vice President of Blue Zones, to talk less about perfect personal habits and more about the real lever that changes outcomes: environment and culture. The original Blue Zones offered the learning. Blue Zones America is the application—partnering with cities, school districts, employers, and health systems to make the healthy choice the easy (and often unavoidable) choice.

Danny breaks down what Blue Zones America looks like on the ground—how communities build momentum through people, places, and policy; why “readiness” matters; and how leaders can create measurable wellbeing shifts that don’t rely on Superman discipline. They also unpack the forces working against health in modern life, and why the next era of longevity will be won through community design, not individual guilt.

If you’re a leader, parent, clinician, or anyone tired of feeling like health is one more thing to “try harder” at, this conversation offers a hopeful blueprint for building a life—and a city—where wellbeing can actually unfold.

www.bluezones.com