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Colleen Wachob Built the Business Behind the Feeling
Before mindbodygreen sold courses, products and live experiences, Wachob learned the unforgiving arithmetic of retail. Her quieter achievement was turning that discipline into a company built on trust.
Maham Jamshed and the Long Way Around to a Good Idea
Her career began with the merchandise spreadsheet and arrived at the brand story. The interesting part is everything she carried between them.
Christina Diiorio
Christina Diiorio is the founder and CEO of The Yay Company, the Charlottesville-based startup behind Yay Lunch, a modern K-12 school lunch program that partners with local caterers and chefs to deliver fresh, kid-approved meals directly to schools at no cost to the school. A former food editor at Goop, MindBodyGreen and Zagat and a Georgetown graduate, she launched Yay in 2018 after her own son came home hungry and unhappy with his cafeteria options. She has raised roughly $15.5M+ across Series A and later rounds from investors including Valor Siren Ventures, Reach Capital and FJ Labs, growing the company past 200% year-over-year and into markets from Atlanta to New York.
Jason Wachob
Jason Wachob is the founder and co-CEO of mindbodygreen, the wellness media company he started in 2009 and grew into a platform reaching millions of monthly readers. A former Columbia varsity basketball player turned Wall Street equities trader, he traded the trading floor for organic cookies and then for a digital publication built around the idea that real wealth is measured in well-being, not net worth. He hosts The mindbodygreen Podcast, wrote the bestselling book Wellth, and co-authored The Joy of Well-Being with his wife and business partner Colleen Wachob.