Dan Buettner

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1,467 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 18 Jan

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Dan Buettner: Daily Habits That Defy Aging, Boost Health, and Happiness | Health and Wellness | E366 · 1 Sep 2025 podcast

You can help a city adopt policies that favor the pedestrian and the cyclist and public transportation over traffic and traffic jams.

And you can also help a city pass policies that favor the non-smoker over the smoker.

Those have enormous impacts on people's mindless decisions over the course of their day, and it sets people up for success.

So when my teams come into a city,

First of all, we audition them.

They have to show us they're ready and they want us.

We don't just show up and sell them.

And number two, we help them identify the policies that will work for their city that will make their environment healthier.

Number three, we have a Blue Zone certification process for...

workplaces, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and churches.

And we can usually get 30 or 40% of all those places to optimize their designs and policies so people mindlessly move more, eat better, socialize more, and know and live their purpose.

And then finally, we have in our Blue Zone Cities a program for about 10% of the people in that city to blue zone their own houses, their commutes, their social network, their workplaces.

And then we recruit them to be part of a committee to help encourage their city government to pass healthier policies.

So it's people, places, and policy for five years.

We came into Fort Worth, Texas, a very conservative city.

We were invited in, actually.

by the hospital system and the mayor there, Betsy Price.

And in five years, we lowered their obesity rate by 3% while the rest of Texas got heavier.

And by their own reckoning, we saved them a quarter of a billion dollars a year in healthcare costs.

And they easily paid our fee from their savings.

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