In this episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet welcomes Eric Collett, founder and CEO of A Mind for All Seasons, for an important conversation about brain health, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and caregiving with dignity.

Eric explains why dementia is not simply “normal aging” and how conditions like Alzheimer’s can begin developing 10 to 20 years before noticeable memory loss appears.

In this episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet is joined by Brittany Anderson and Disha Solanki for a powerful conversation about financial health, leadership, and the emotional impact money has on overall wellbeing.

The discussion explores how financial stress affects not only business performance, but also mental health, relationships, confidence, sleep, and daily life especially for women balancing careers, caregiving, entrepreneurship, and family responsibilities.

In this episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet is joined by Anat Peri, founder of Training Camp for the Soul, to explore how nervous system regulation directly impacts performance, health, and relationships.

Anat explains that stress isn’t just mental it’s deeply physiological. When the nervous system becomes dysregulated, the body shifts into survival modes like fight, flight, freeze, or people-pleasing, making it difficult to stay present, think clearly, or respond effectively.

In this episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Laura Joan Cornell writer, coach, and founder of Divine Feminine Yoga to explore how writing can support mental health, emotional healing, and personal growth. Far beyond perfection or publication, this conversation focuses on writing as a practical tool for clarity, self-awareness, and resilience.

In this episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Dr. Lynn Rapsilber, co-founder of the National Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur Network, to discuss how nurse practitioners could play a major role in solving America’s healthcare access crisis. With growing physician shortages, long wait times, and rising healthcare costs, nurse practitioners are increasingly stepping in to deliver patient-centered care especially in rural and underserved communities.

In this eye-opening episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Cristy Plain, Executive Vice President of Sleep Solutions at Dedicated Sleep, to unpack why sleep should be treated like a true health metric not an optional lifestyle perk.

Cristy explains the difference between sleep quantity and sleep quality, and why you can spend 7–8 hours in bed yet still wake up exhausted.

In this eye-opening episode of Vital Signs, host Jen Gaudet sits down with Dr. Michael Schwartz, a naturopathic physician known for helping patients decode root causes instead of masking symptoms. Together, they tackle one of the most dismissed — yet most important — health alarms in modern life: fatigue.

If you’re waking up tired after a full night’s sleep, relying on caffeine to function, and still crashing by night, this conversation reframes exhaustion as a systems issue, not a willpower problem. Dr. Schwartz explains how chronic stress can tax the adrenal system and disrupt the body’s energy regulation, creating cycles of cravings, snacking, and blood-sugar crashes that leave people depleted.

In this insightful episode of Vital Signs, Jen Gaudet sits down with performance and resilience expert Rachel Vickery to explore what really determines how we perform under pressure. From CEOs and parents to elite military units and professional athletes, high-stakes decisions happen every day and without a trained nervous system, performance can quickly break down.

Rachel explains why pressure is not a mental weakness but a physiological response that can be trained, understood, and regulated.