Business Insurance Health - 831b another tool in your toolbelt | Ep 44 | Fountain of Vitality

Business Insurance Health - 831b another tool in your toolbelt | Ep 44 | Fountain of Vitality

In 2008, Van Carlson watched the auctioneer's gavel come down on businesses run by people he knew. Little league sponsors. Pillars of their towns. Good operators who worked hard and still lost everything when the financial risk they carried every day finally caught up with them. He had sold insurance to many of them. He also knew a piece of tax code, written in 1986 while he was still a high schooler in Fruitland, Idaho, that might have changed the ending. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Van Carlson, Founder and CEO, to unpack a question most owners never think to ask. You are already self-insuring your business, so how do you want to do it, with pre-tax dollars or after-tax dollars? Van breaks down the 831(b) tax code, why it works like a Health Savings Account for your company, how surplus compounds tax-deferred year after year, and the line between risk mitigation and a tax play the IRS will not let you defend. He gets into shrinking coverage, rising deductibles, brand and cyber gaps policies ignore, and why the right moment to add this tool comes after you have done everything else right. If your premiums keep climbing while your coverage keeps thinning, this is the tool most owners have never heard of and the one their CPA rarely brings up. Listen to the full conversation with Van Carlson and decide if an 831(b) plan belongs in your toolbelt before the next downturn arrives. Subscribe to Fountain of Vitality wherever you get your podcasts and never miss an episode. Follow Van Carlson: Website | LinkedIn | YouTube | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter / X | Email Follow the Fountain of Vitality podcast: Website | YouTube | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | Rumble | Email Follow LaMont Leavitt: LinkedIn | Twitter / X | InnoviHealth

Keep Your Customers - Client Retention Formula | Ep 43 | Fountain of Vitality

A stranger sprinted up to Vance Morris's daughter in a grocery store and asked how her ballet recital went. The family had no idea who she was. She turned out to be a carpet cleaning customer who had watched Emma grow up through years of newsletter photos, and Vance knew right then she would never leave his company. She would have to move or die first. That moment captures the customer retention machine he has been building for nearly two decades. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Vance Morris, a former Walt Disney World leader turned client retention consultant, to break down why it costs him $136 to acquire a new carpet cleaning customer and only $23 a year to keep one. Vance shares his client retention formula, the print newsletter strategy that built decades of loyalty, the gold bubble mailer that lands meetings with almost anybody, and the Disney empowerment principles that let frontline employees solve 99 percent of customer problems on the spot. If you are spending all your time chasing strangers while your best customers quietly drift away, this conversation gives you the playbook to flip that math and grow on loyalty instead. Subscribe to the Fountain of Vitality podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or where ever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. About the Guest   Vance Morris spent a decade as a Senior Leader inside Walt Disney World operations before starting his first home service business, a carpet cleaning company, in 2007. He went on to found the Deliver Service Now Institute and the XPerience Service System, teaching more than 1,100 business owners to engineer experiences that keep clients for life. Today a General Manager runs his three businesses while he coaches professional service firms. Explore Vance Morris's work at vancemorris.com, download his Client Retention Formula, connect with him on LinkedIn, and subscribe to his YouTube channel. Follow Vance Morris Website - vancemorris.com | LinkedIn - Vance Morris | YouTube - @Deliverservicenow | Facebook - Vance Morris | Email - vance@deliverprofitsnow.com Follow the Fountain of Vitality podcast Website - FountainofVitality.com | Tiktok - @FountainofVitalitypod | YouTube - @FountainofVitalityshow | Tumblr - @FountainofVitality | Facebook - FountainofVitalityShow | Rumble - Fountain_of_Vitality | Instagram - @FountainofVitalitypodcast | Email - contact@FountainofVitality.com Follow LaMont Leavitt LinkedIn - @LaMontJLeavitt | Twitter/X - @ljleavitt1 | InnoviHealth Website - innoviHealth.com

Look, See, and Feel Better with Eyelid and Facial Cosmetic Surgery | EP 42 | Fountain of Vitality

A board-certified ophthalmologist watches his patient flying in from a private estate cry the same tears of joy as the uninsured patient who has been blind for ten years. Same operating room. Same week. Dr. Sumeet Jindal performs custom lens replacement in ten minutes per eye, restores sight to patients who cannot afford care, and rebuilds eyelids and faces with the precision of a microsurgeon. His Robin Hood model funds it all. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Dr. Jindal, founder of JIYA Eyelid and Facial Cosmetic Surgery, to unpack how a father-son ophthalmology practice in North Carolina became a destination for patients flying in from across the country and Europe. Dr. Jindal explains why most droopy upper lid surgeries miss the muscle that actually lifts the eye, what makes lower eyelid work so unforgiving, and how every premium cosmetic case at JIYA funds free vision-restoring surgery for patients who would otherwise stay blind. He also walks through the bionic upgrade aging eyes have been waiting for and why the lens God gave you still beats anything technology can install. If you've been told your only option is to live with droopy lids, glasses, or a face that no longer matches how you feel, this conversation lays out a different path. One that uses elite microsurgery, treats the deep tissue instead of just the skin, and quietly funds sight restoration for the patients no other practice would take. Subscribe to Fountain of Vitality for conversations with leaders redefining health, longevity, and what it means to live with intention. New episodes drop weekly across all major platforms. Guest Bio   Dr. Sumeet Jindal is a board-certified ophthalmologist and oculofacial cosmetic surgeon, and the founder of JIYA Eyelid and Facial Cosmetic Surgery in Raleigh. He blends elite eye microsurgery with advanced facial cosmetic techniques, performing endoscopic facelifts, mid-face lifts, sutureless eyelid lifts, and complex revision surgeries for patients traveling in from Beverly Hills and beyond. Every cosmetic procedure at JIYA funds free vision-restoring care for patients who cannot afford it. Follow Dr. Sumeet Jindal LinkedIn - Dr. Sumeet Jindal | JIYA Cosmetic - jiyacosmetic.com | NC Ophthalmology - ncophth.com | Instagram - @drsumeetjindal Follow the Fountain of Vitality podcast Website - FountainofVitality.com | Tiktok - @FountainofVitalitypod | YouTube - @FountainofVitalityshow | Tumblr - @FountainofVitality | Facebook - FountainofVitalityShow | Rumble - Fountain_of_Vitality | Instagram - @FountainofVitalitypodcast | Email - contact@FountainofVitality.com Follow LaMont Leavitt LinkedIn - @LaMontJLeavitt | Twitter/X - @ljleavitt1 | InnoviHealth Website - innoviHealth.com

How to Rewire Your Brain and Culture with Experiential Neuroscience | Ep 41 | Fountain of Vitality

August 13, 2023. Thayne Martin had a seizure mid-swim and sank to the bottom of his pool. He woke up alive at the bottom, and the bitter, angry version of him did not come back up with him. Twenty plus years of professional therapy had helped him talk about the damage. It had not rewritten it. What finally did was a $100 bill handed to a stranger named Carla at a Carl's Jr. counter, and the wave of love it set off between his heart and his brain the moment he let it go. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with Thayne Martin, CEO and Founder of It's Pure Love, to unpack the experiential neuroscience method Thayne built after that near-death experience reset his life. Thayne explains why talk therapy stops short of healing, how gratitude shuts down the amygdala in real time, and the five psychological techniques that rewrite the emotional operating system of individuals and organizations. He also walks through the AI culture diagnostic behind his work, a model reading 1,200 NLP signals across a company's communication to surface burnout, psychological safety, and executive capacity before any survey would. If you have ever wondered why talking about your patterns has not changed them, or why your company's culture survey keeps saying things are fine when they are not, this conversation lays out a different path. One that updates the body, not just the mind. Subscribe to Fountain of Vitality for conversations with leaders redefining health, longevity, and what it means to live with intention. New episodes drop weekly across all major platforms.  Guest Bio  Thayne Martin is the CEO and Founder of It's Pure Love, a company pioneering experiential neuroscience to change default behavior in individuals and organizations. After a 2023 near-death experience, Thayne walked away from a life of bitterness and built a method grounded in gratitude neuroscience, polyvagal theory, memory reconsolidation, predictive processing, and resonant encoding. His work fuses neuroscience training with AI culture diagnostics for executive teams. Follow Thayne Martin LinkedIn - Thayne Martin | It's Pure Love - itspurelove.com | Instagram - @thaynemartin Follow the Fountain of Vitality podcast Website - FountainofVitality.com | Tiktok - @FountainofVitalitypod | YouTube - @FountainofVitalityshow | Facebook - FountainofVitalityShow | Rumble - Fountain_of_Vitality | Instagram - @FountainofVitalitypodcast | Email - contact@FountainofVitality.com Follow LaMont Leavitt LinkedIn - @LaMontJLeavitt | Twitter/X - @ljleavitt1 | InnoviHealth Website - innoviHealth.com

High Performance Engineering Systems for a Healthier Lifestyle | Ep 40 | Fountain of Vitality

JD Tremblay is one of three people who finished the EpicDeca, 10 back-to-back Ironmans across six Hawaiian islands. He is a Canadian military veteran, a biomedical engineer, a certified naturopath, and the Director of High Performance and Mental Resilience at Hungry Warrior Academy. His method for sustained high output is not what most athletes preach. It rests on a system he calls BRAIN, a redefined word most people get wrong, and a single non-negotiable you actually enjoy. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt sits down with JD Tremblay to trace how a French-Canadian kid from a broken home moved through the Canadian Armed Forces, into a biomedical engineering degree at Western University, and into naturopathy because he wanted to test the systems on himself. JD coaches executives, elite athletes, and former operators at Hungry Warrior Academy, where his BRAIN framework breaks performance into blood chemistry, recovery, attention, inflammation, and nervous system. Listen as JD shares his BRAIN system, the discipline reframe that hinges on a non-negotiable you enjoy, what Kenyan runners do that most amateurs get backwards, and why slow training is the missing piece. New episodes weekly. Subscribe and share Fountain of Vitality.  GUEST BIO    JD Tremblay is Director of High Performance and Mental Resilience at Hungry Warrior Academy, a Canadian military veteran, integrated engineer, certified naturopath, and ultra-endurance triathlete. He is one of three people in the world to complete the EpicDeca, 10 Ironmans in 10 days across six Hawaiian islands. He is the author of the best-selling book Hunger For More in Life and Vice Chair of the Canadian International Ice Swimming Association.  YOUTUBE VERSION  Follow the Fountain of Vitality podcast Website: http://www.fountainofvitality.com  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fountainofvitalitypod  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FountainofVitalityshow  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/fountainofvitality  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fountainofvitalityshow/  Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/Fountain_of_Vitality  Instagram: https://instagram.com/fountainofvitalitypodcast  Email: info@FountainofVitality.com Follow LaMont Leavitt LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/LaMontJLeavitt/  Twitter/X: https://x.com/ljleavitt1 InnoviHealth Website: https://www.innoviHealth.com Follow JD Tremblay Website: https://hungrywarrioracademy.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungrywarrioracademy/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jdtremblaytri/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jdtremblaytri/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hungry-Warrior-Academy  Email: hungrywarrioracademy@gmail.com