Wellspring is a health & wellness gift box and care package company providing turnkey solutions for human resources professionals across the globe. The employee-focused kits provide everything from better-for-you snacks to locally curated, specialty brands. Wellspring’s process starts with a frank discussion with employers to identify areas of improvement to develop a wellness plan that works for the employer and its employees. To create its wellness kits, Wellspring also partners with a variety of wellness product manufacturers, including organic, non-GMO, vegan, plant-based and others. Culture is important to any company, including restaurants, and programs that make employees feel valued and appreciated can help build that culture. Creating synergy is also important. From a fitness perspective, the pandemic affected people in different ways. Some gained weight, some lost weight and some gained half of it back. As we look at life after the pandemic, wellness is important and companies can play a role in helping employees embrace wellness – in all of its many forms – and all of the personal benefits that come with it. Wellness can be physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, financial and many other things. Quotes “Right now we’re seeing a lot of companies throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks. We’re throwing all sorts of healthcare in your direction, we’re throwing the Calm app – these are supposed to be the solutions, but none of it is really sticking.” (Andrew) “We’re trying to figure out what’s most important to the employee, and at the end of the day it is equipping them with the tools necessary to combat life.” (Andrew) “Business owners need to understand that the word ‘benefits’ means benefits. It doesn’t mean things that are standard issue.” (Joseph) “We found that a culture centered around giving and caring for one another is the ringer for culture creation and employee retention.” (Andrew) “Accountants need to sleep better, sales people need to eat better. It’s hard to approach anything with a one-size-fits-all model. Individualized care is what’s going to be most effective.” (Andrew) “The goal of Wellspring really is to find that binding comradery that is normally found under situations of extreme duress but finding it instead under situations of extreme wellness and care.” (Joseph) Transcript 00:00.00 vigorbranding Everyone today I'm joined by my friend Andrew O'shea he is the founder and Ceo of wellspring and we're going to have a great talk about the state of the industry as it pertains to employees and teams and camaraderie and all of that. Ah, but before we do that Andrew say hello give a little bit of backstory and and you can tell people what well springs all about. 00:17.91 Andrew O_Shea Yeah, absolutely well. Thank you again. Joe for having me on here. Real excited to chat with you this morning. My name is Andrew O'shea for those who don't know me I am the founder and Ceo of a company called wellspring and we provide health and wellness gift boxes and care packages. Ah to provide for employees as a part of a wellness program that is substantive and and make substantive change the the kicker here being that we oftentimes partner through companies insurance channels to help pay for this That's a little bit about me. 00:48.78 vigorbranding I Love it. Yeah and we have a lot to talk about I think anybody who's tuned into this episode knows that we haven't quite cracked the nut on what some people have labeled the great resignations. Others have ah relabeled it. The great transition. 01:04.30 vigorbranding You know because we're we're not seeing people leave the workforce necessarily they may be shifting to another company. So and so forth, but employee retention in general. It's just its hotbut issue would be an understatement and I think a lot of people like 0 like to 0 in on the money. It's like oh we weren't paying people enou