The best companies in the world aren't the ones that pay the most. They're the ones that refuse to set their most valuable asset on fire.

In 2024 I ran a project with a desk of elite commodities traders where the only metric that mattered was money. If they made more, we succeeded. If they didn't, we failed. We spent zero dollars on gadgets — no recovery beds, no biohacking toys — and their sick days dropped by half. The savings from that alone paid for the entire engagement before a single trader made an additional dollar.

This episode breaks down what we actually changed, why almost every company spends more on health every year and gets a sicker, less productive workforce in return, and the difference between buying health and what most companies actually buy: the late-stage bill for the health they ignored.

We get into the real cost of burnout, why your sick-day count is the cheapest thing an unhealthy employee does to you, why most wellness programs fail, and the research linking purpose and being cared for to lower mortality and longer retention.

Read the full written breakdown — the testing, the biology, and the leverage that drove it: https://www.weareollin.com/articles/training-for-profit

Train with intent.

00:00 The claim: care beats pay

00:21 The trader project and the $0 result

00:48 Why pay stops holding people

01:16 The data nobody wants to hear

01:56 Purpose is a clinical variable

02:50 What being invested in actually moves

03:10 Who these traders really are

04:18 The results

05:04 What companies spend on health

05:32 A disease budget, not a health budget

06:20 The cost you can't see: presenteeism

07:26 Why wellness programs fail

10:31 Why money isn't enough

11:06 The real asset was never the salary

11:53 Where to get the full breakdown