Most workplace wellness spending doesn't produce wellness. The reason is not a mystery—anymore.

This episode introduces the core diagnostic of the series: the difference between pathogenic and salutogenic thinking. Pathogenic approaches ask where suffering comes from and how to reduce it — a model built for illness that gets applied to health itself. Salutogenic approaches ask what creates health, and whether those conditions exist here. The difference between those two questions determines everything an organization measures, invests in, and decides to do. Rachel traces what that shift looks like in practice, names the industry failure mode directly — carewashing — and makes the case that you cannot get to health by reducing illness.

Topics covered:

• Pathogenic vs. salutogenic frameworks and why the distinction matters
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