Someone asked Amy on a recent interview where she stands on wellness gadgets — the watches, the rings, the sleep scores, the step challenges — and it turned into a bigger question about the line between useful information and creeping obsession. In this solo episode she makes the case that trackers can help us cut through years of mixed messages about what keeps us well, while being honest about the point where awareness tips into something that takes over a life. She looks at it through both the personal lens and the workplace one, because a step challenge or a weight-loss competition is not the same thing as designing conditions that actually let people be well. It is a warm, honest conversation about using the data without letting the data use you.

In this episode, you'll explore

• You'll consider why health trackers can be useful tools for awareness when so much of what we hear about wellbeing is noise.
• You'll hear why sleep and how we fuel our bodies shape how we think, work and manage stress, and why that matters at work.
• You'll sit with the honest line between information and obsession, and what it costs when tracking takes over.
• You'll look at why workplace step challenges and weight-loss competitions miss the point, and what building conditions looks like instead.
• You'll come away with a clearer sense of why real guidance comes from a professional, not an influencer or an app.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome Back to Rethinking Success

01:05 The Rise of Wellness Gadgets

02:51 What Sleep and Food Do to How We Work

06:27 Tracking as Information, Not Identity

09:54 When Awareness Tips Into Obsession

12:32 Why Professional Help Matters Most

A few lines from this one

• "We used to keep Tamagotchis alive. Now we are the Tamagotchis, and our watches are the buttons."
• "These are great tools for awareness, not for feeding obsession."
• "It's not about obsessing. It's about information — what does it actually give me?"
• "It's not about a step challenge. It's about helping people understand what lets them work and think well."
• "Get your help from a professional, not an influencer."

About Amy Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker and author who works on the future of work and life. Her book The Wellness Paradox (2026) unpacks the paradoxes keeping us trapped in a model of success that isn't working, and charts a different way forward. She works with organisations, schools and leaders who are ready to design conditions where people and performance can both do well.

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