The No Hair, All Heart podcast goes deep this week with Craig A. DeLarge, MPH, MBA—a seasoned digital health leader, former pharma executive, public-health thinker, and relentless advocate for using technology without letting it eat us alive.

Rather than spoon up a “future of wellness” chat, Mookie and Craig go long-form with an intellectually honest conversation about what actually works at the intersection of healthcare, leadership, and technology—and what absolutely does not.

Craig walks through his post-pharma evolution into his Wise Working Leadership consultancy and what he calls serious play:

• Coaching senior life-science and healthcare executives
• Advising founders and investors in digital mental health
• Building practical frameworks for technology-enabled wellness that normal people can actually use

Together, Mookie and Craig tackle many of the tough challenges, and offer proven solutions:

• Why we live in sick care, not healthcare
• Why prevention sounds obvious but fails systemically
• Why “personal empowerment” is overrated without community
• How startups, legacy companies, and executives keep talking past each other
• Why managed care economics quietly reward dysfunction
• How AI can either accelerate human wellness—or turbocharge delusion

They also dig into digital wellness literacy, not as ideology, but as practice:

• Stress, sleep, movement, relationships, food, and attention
• How tech harms each—and how it can actually help
• Why measurement without meaning is useless
• Why AI is fire: it can cook dinner or burn the house down

The episode also gets personal: Mookie reflects on podcasting as forced humility, listening as a learned skill, and the vital realization that community—not optimization—is the missing link in behavior change.

If you are:

• A healthcare or life-science executive
• A digital health or mental-health founder
• A leader navigating AI, burnout, and complexity
• Or just someone trying to live sanely in a dopamine-engineered world

Craig hits home the truth that:

Technology isn’t the villain.
AI isn’t the savior.
Wellness isn’t a product.
And real change doesn’t happen alone.

The Guest

Craig A. DeLarge is a digital healthcare strategist and mental health advocate & educator at WiseWorking Leadership, where he develops leaders, advises digital mental health firms, and educates citizens about the topic of digital wellness.

He has contributed as a digital & healthcare marketer, strategist, and educator, and has worked at Novo Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Takeda, and Johnson & Johnson. He has also taught marketing, communications, leadership, and business ethics at several colleges, including Temple University, Philadelphia University, Chestnut Hill College, St. Joseph’s University, and Penn State University.

Craig holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Marketing and Design Management from Philadelphia University, from the University of Westminster, and King’s College, London. He is also a certified professional coach and published author of The WiseWorking Handbook (2014). He resides in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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