The No Hair, All Heart podcast goes deep this week with Craig A. DeLarge, MPH, MBA—a seasoned digital health leader, former pharma executive, public-health thinker, and relentless advocate for using technology without letting it eat us alive.

Rather than spoon up a “future of wellness” chat, Mookie and Craig go long-form with an intellectually honest conversation about what actually works at the intersection of healthcare, leadership, and technology—and what absolutely does not.

Craig walks through his post-pharma evolution into his Wise Working Leadership consultancy and what he calls serious play:

• Coaching senior life-science and healthcare executives
• Advising founders and investors in digital mental health
• Building practical frameworks for technology-enabled wellness that normal people can actually use

Together, Mookie and Craig tackle many of the tough challenges, and offer proven solutions:

• Why we live in sick care, not healthcare
• Why prevention sounds obvious but fails systemically
• Why “personal empowerment” is overrated without community
• How startups, legacy companies, and executives keep talking past each other
• Why managed care economics quietly reward dysfunction
• How AI can either accelerate human wellness—or turbocharge delusion

They also dig into digital wellness literacy, not as ideology, but as practice:

• Stress, sleep, movement, relationships, food, and attention
• How tech harms each—and how it can actually help
• Why measurement without meaning is useless
• Why AI is fire: it can cook dinner or burn the house down

The episode also gets personal: Mookie reflects on podcasting as forced humility, listening as a learned skill, and the vital realization that community—not optimization—is the missing link in behavior change.

If you are:

• A healthcare or life-science executive
• A digital health or mental-health founder
• A leader navigating AI, burnout, and complexity
• Or just someone trying to live sanely in a dopamine-engineered world

Craig hits home the truth that:

Technology isn’t the villain.
AI isn’t the savior.
Wellness isn’t a product.
And real change doesn’t happen alone.

The Guest

Craig A. DeLarge is a digital healthcare strategist and mental health advocate & educator at WiseWorking Leadership, where he develops leaders, advises digital mental health firms, and educates citizens about the topic of digital wellness.

He has contributed as a digital & healthcare marketer, strategist, and educator, and has worked at Novo Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Takeda, and Johnson & Johnson. He has also taught marketing, communications, leadership, and business ethics at several colleges, including Temple University, Philadelphia University, Chestnut Hill College, St. Joseph’s University, and Penn State University.

Craig holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Marketing and Design Management from Philadelphia University, from the University of Westminster, and King’s College, London. He is also a certified professional coach and published author of The WiseWorking Handbook (2014). He resides in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Parricide ranks among the most disturbing crimes imaginable: children killing their parents. The crime appears rarely — roughly 1–2% of all murders in the U.S. — yet the psychological impact lands with enormous force.

In this Season 2 premiere of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz uses a recent, high-profile Hollywood family tragedy as a lens to examine something far more universal and uncomfortable: entitlement, parenting, resentment, gratitude, and the emotional violence that often precedes physical violence.

This episode rejects true-crime voyeurism, and delivers an unsparing reflection from someone who has lived on both sides of the parent–child divide: as a son shaped by fear, contempt, and unresolved anger toward a hard, emotionally distant father, and as a father who deliberately chose the opposite path: the fun dad, the permissive dad, the nice guy. Mookie questions the cost of that choice.

The conversation dissects the collision of wealth, fame, addiction, and enablement in celebrity households, arguing that unlimited resources frequently destroy the very boundaries troubled children need most. Hollywood becomes a metaphor for America itself: a culture that hyper-inflates success, worships celebrity, and then feeds on collapse — a modern pantheon of Greek gods armed with money, power, and catastrophic blind spots.

The rant moves fluidly between cultural critique and personal confession. Mookie confronts his own parenting decisions, his fear of becoming his father, and the uncomfortable possibility that avoiding hardness can breed entitlement just as easily as cruelty breeds rebellion. He reflects on generational trauma, the necessity of separation between parents and adult children, and the evolutionary reality that conflict often fuels independence.

No clean answers appear here. No parenting formula emerges. No redemption arc ties itself neatly with a bow. Instead, the episode offers perspective. Gratitude arrives late more often than anyone admits. “Good enough” parenting stands as the only honest standard. Growing up — for children and parents alike — demands brutality, necessity, and unfinished work.

Mookie's rant delivers a raw, intellectually restless meditation on family, boundaries, fame, failure, and survival — and opens a season focused squarely on the hardest truths of the human heart.

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The 96th episode and season finale of No Hair, All Heart sits host Mookie Spitz down with Claris "Bud" Hyett, an 81-year-old farm boy turned innovative corporate problem-solver, Marine-raised straight-shooter, cancer survivor, and unapologetic truth teller. Doctors gave him months to live—nine years ago. Instead of folding, he keeps fighting, living, thinking...

And storytelling: from growing up on a hard Midwestern farm to shaping major aerospace projects, from a near-death brush-fire experience to messy marriages, brutal family battles, redemption, love, and ultimately pride in the life he built, Bud doesn’t regret a damn thing.

He talks about grit, American culture losing its backbone, education losing its soul, politics losing its honesty, and what it really means to work hard, stand up, build something, and keep going when life beats the hell out of you. He also talks love, loyalty, Freemasonry, marksmanship, near-spiritual moments, and the strange miracle of still being here after doctors counted him out. Rather than gloat or complan, Bud offers profound perspective from a man who earned it the hard way, while still having his own unfinished business.

If you want a conversation that hits reality square in the jaw—resilience, mortality, family, work, and purpose—this is it. Listen, learn a thing or two, and maybe rethink what “a good life” really means.

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