Why Italians Live Well

Why Italians Live Well

Why Italians Live Well (previously Heartstorming Healthcare) is a conversation series on the food, pace, and mindset behind Italian wellbeing — one guest at a time. Hosted by Claudia Cometa, PharmD and founder of Avanti Health Consultants, each episode sits down with authors, experts, and everyday Italians to explore what a genuinely good life looks like — and what's actually possible to borrow from it, wherever you live. Love the show? Join us in Italy! https://avantihealth.github.io/avanti-immersion/ claudiacometa.substack.com

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April 10, 2025 44 mins

As part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign, I will be highlighting the humans in front of blood cancer. This week, we highlight Kristen! 

To donate to our fundraising campaign, go to: https://pages.lls.org/voy/sun/sun25/ccometa

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As part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign, I will be highlighting the humans in front of blood cancer. This week, I am sharing my personal journey with my Dad!

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As part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign, I will be highlighting the humans in front of blood cancer. This week, we highlight Denise and her Aunt Denise! 

To donate to our fundraising campaign, go to: https://pages.lls.org/voy/sun/sun25/ccometa

If you know Denise, please donate here: https://pages.lls.org/voy/sun/sun25/ddevonish

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As part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign, I will be highlighting the humans in front of blood cancer. This week, we highlight Jill White and her journey with her Dad!

To donate to our fundraising campaign, go to: https://pages.lls.org/voy/sun/sun25/ccometa

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February 28, 2025 25 mins

As part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign, I will be highlighting the humans in front of blood cancer. This week, we highlight Kiley King!

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February 21, 2025 27 mins

As part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign, I will be highlighting the humans in front of blood cancer. This week, we highlight our Honored Hero - Lana!

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Elizabeth Chabe (MBA, MS) is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and recognized strategic marketing consultant for science, engineering, and technology organizations. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Popular Science, Entrepreneur, CNBC, Composites World, and 360Dx, among others. As the founder and CEO of High Touch Group, Elizabeth oversees a team that develops marketing and PR strategies for advanced science, engi...

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Dr. Anjali Rajpal received her Doctorate in Medical Dentistry from Tufts University in Boston, MA. As one of the leading dental schools on the East Coast, her school's curriculum also focused on medical training to ensure their dentists understood how oral health affects overall body health and vice versa. Dr. Rajpal continues educating herself on how oral health and body health maintain a delicate balance, ensuring all her treatme...

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Join me and my Chief Growth Officer, Elizabeth Durnan, as we chat all things past, present and future with Peace Advocacy Group!

Learn more about us and our company here.

Interested in my forthcoming book, Patient, Empower Thyself! - you can pre-order here.



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Geoffrey leverages a diverse 25+ year career in Human Capital Management, specializing in employee engagement, leadership development, and culture change initiatives in the workplace. His journey has ranged from working for the corporate industry leader, to building his own entrepreneurial start-up from the ground up, Currently he supports innovative employee/patient/caregiver/human experience leaders, nurse and clinician entrepren...

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August 1, 2024 73 mins

On this episode, I am joined by co-host, Olivia Morris, Co-Founder of Verity Barrington and overall amazing human. In the third of 3 panels, we interviewed Dr. Todd 
Otten, Dr. Marc Jacobs, and Jason Gootman on the future of healthcare.

You can find more information about the work my guests are doing here:

Verity Barrington: https://www.veritybarrington.com/

Dr. Todd Otten: https://rippleofchange.us/

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July 16, 2024 65 mins

On this episode, I am joined by co-host, Olivia Morris, Co-Founder of Verity Barrington and overall amazing human. In the second of 3 panels, we interviewed Dr. Lara Salyer, Dr. Dana Corriel, and Amanda Hill on the physician experience - how physicians experience our modern-day healthcare system and how we can elevate that experience.

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July 9, 2024 65 mins

On this episode, I am joined by co-host, Olivia Morris, Co-Founder of Verity Barrington and overall amazing human. In the first of 3 panels, we interviewed Brad Schwartz, the President of Greater National Advocates, and Dana Deighton, Director of Communications & Engagement for the Melanoma Research Alliance, on the patient experience - how patients experience our modern-day healthcare system and how we can elevate that experie...

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Dr. Stephen Sideroff is an internationally recognized psychologist, executive and medical consultant and expert in resilience, longevity, optimal performance, addiction, neurofeedback, and mental health. He has published pioneering research in these fields. He is an associate professor in the departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Rheumatology at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine. He has helped establish innovati...

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Dr. Paul DeChant advises C-level healthcare executives on managing critical problems such as financial and staffing challenges by addressing the root causes of clinician burnout. Following 25 years practicing family medicine in settings as varied as the San Francisco bay area, Breckenridge Colorado, and Geisinger Health in Central Pennsylvania, he became CEO of the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, where he led a transformation that...

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Dr. Drew Remignanti grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1975. After receiving an M.D. from Rutgers Medical School in 1980, he went on to complete an emergency medicine residency program. Dr. Remignanti retired in 2020 after a 40-year career in a number of New England hospitals. Dr. Remignanti has also lived with chronic illness since being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 19. In 1992, he suffered a...

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Dr. Robert Lufkin is a physician and medical school professor at UCLA and USC, focusing on the applied science of health, longevity, and consciousness. After reversing chronic disease and transforming his life he is making it his mission to help others do the same.

In this episode, we chat about:

:: why this topic is important in his life

:: the financial conflicts of interest that exist in the healthcare and nutrition industries

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Shannon M. Miller is a Florida Bar board certified attorney specializing in Elder Law, practicing in Gainesville, Florida. Shannon leads "The Exploitation Injunction Bootcamp," teaching attorneys across the state how to stop exploitation. Shannon is a past President of The Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys and Vice-chair of the Elder Law Section of the Florida Bar; Shannon is a Board member for the Life Care Planning Law Firm ...

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Robyn Engelson is the Founder & CEO of Impact YOU, Autoimmune Specialist, Nutrition Educator, Lifestyle Transformer, Speaker, and Podcast Host of The Robyn Engelson Podcast. She is on a mission to help corporate women and moms improve their mindset, nutrition, fitness, and accountability so they can be the best version of themselves and make their unique impact. Through her healing journey of a thyroid, autoimmune disease, Hash...

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Ashok Gupta is an internationally renowned Speaker, Filmmaker & Health Practitioner who has dedicated his life to supporting people through chronic illness, and achieving their potential. Ashok suffered from ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, around 25 years ago when he was studying at Cambridge University. Through neurological research that he conducted, he managed to get himself 100% better. He then set up a clinic to treat oth...

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