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GoodSport Nutrition founder Michelle McBride happens to have a background in law, not health and fitness as one might expect. She began her career as a trial attorney in Chicago before transitioning to a legal start-up and, later, to a non-profit focused on translational cancer research and then to Chicago Ideas. But when her son,

Once upon a time, Chicago-based health coach Linda Arrandt struggled with everything from weight gain and digestive disorders to insomnia and autoimmune disease. Now, at 59, she says she feels better than she did in her 20s and 30s, all thanks to a health and wellness journey that began decades ago. In her early 20s,

Parents have encouraged their kids to do it. Personal trainers often remind their clients to do it. And dogs, desperate to go out for a walk, would bark the same four words to their owners—if only they had the ability to pronounce them. The plea? “Get off the couch.” But Eric Smoot Hemphill—co-owner of Wilmette’s