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Episode 240

Rewire Your Habits with Kevin Wathey | Win the Day
June 10, 2025
Kevin Wathey is the co-founder of Baseline Health and an expert in health tech, luxury hospitality, and peak performance. He develops luxury, tech-driven wellness resorts for personalized health.
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In this episode of Win the Day:

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our guest Kevin Wathey is an expert in health tech, luxury hospitality, and peak performance. He is the co-founder of Baseline Health, a gamified platform that integrates user data, diagnostics, and DNA to deliver personalized insights and incentivize lasting habit change.

Kevin is also developing an 18-acre luxury wellness resort in Costa Rica — designed to help people reconnect with themselves and extend their healthspan through personalized retreats and tech-enabled treatments.

With over a decade of consulting for global resorts and as the host of the Inputs Only podcast, Kevin is leading the charge for the intersection of wellness, hospitality, and human potential.

In this episode:

  • The mindset shift that turned Kevin’s greatest challenge into his greatest strength.
  • Why most people fail at habit change — and the proven way to make habits stick.
  • What questions of self-reflection can transform your life.
  • How to optimize your environment for peak health and performance.

Let’s WIN THE DAY with Kevin Wathey!

Timestamps

00:00 Who is Kevin Wathey
1:36 Interview starts
2:02 Losing his mum at pancreatic cancer at 17 years old
4:41 The turning point in Kevin Wathey’s life
6:20 Dreaming big
7:27 The origins of Baseline Health and Velara Resorts
8:56 Wearable tech (Garmin, Whop, Oura Ring)
10:37 How much of your life should you optimize?
14:58 Is your mind stronger than wearable tech?
19:31 Download your FREE Win the Day Action Plan
20:27 Connecting with your purpose
22:24 If you get a chance, I hope you dance
23:21 The best wellness practices
25:57 Contribute to something bigger than yourself
29:53 What are the best questions to ask yourself? (Inputs Only)
32:00 How to get out of a rut (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
33:58 What good hospitality does
35:48 What bad hospitality does
37:34 How to create magical experiences
40:28 How to upgrade your morning routine
41:19 How to get motivated for fitness
44:38 How much control you have over your future
46:57 How to turn negative events into positive
50:44 Affirmation
51:04 Rocket Round

 

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⚡ Kevin Wathey website

🌐 Baseline website

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📱 Inputs Only podcast

🔗 Kevin Wathey LinkedIn

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Inspiring quotes in this episode:
  • "It's those things that I'm most grateful for because they've shaped who I've become today." — Kevin Wathey
  • "All of what I'm doing presently is because if this existed 20 years ago, my mum would be alive today." — Kevin Wathey
  • "During the pandemic I realized that I had been building for everyone else's brand other than my own." — Kevin Wathey
  • "They said 'Wellness will never be big enough to warrant a corporate partnership.' And I said, 'I see the world very differently.'" — Kevin Wathey
  • "If I'm pointing to somewhere where I want to get to and the reason I want to get there is because of something that I feel I lack today, that means I'm not moving in alignment. That means I'm moving towards scarcity." — Kevin Wathey
  • "The inputs-only philosophy is that you should focus on what you can do today and how you are aligned in that." — Kevin Wathey
  • "What are the things I can do every single day that will get me somewhere?" — Kevin Wathey
  • "Intensity is great for a moment in time, but consistency is what gets you across the line." — Kevin Wathey
  • "If you are attached to checking whatever wearable device that you have is the first thing that you do in the morning, the last thing you do before you go to sleep, you're approaching it through a lens that will ultimately lead to failure." — Kevin Wathey
  • "You have the ability to do something great if you choose to show up for yourself." — Kevin Wathey
  • "The focus should be on lifestyle and behavior, not an injectable or ingestible." — Kevin Wathey
  • "The shift, in a way, now that I think about it, is showing up with a clearly defined set of a moral framework and value-based framework rather than just saying, whatever happens happens." — Kevin Wathey
  • "What if I lived in a perpetual state where everything that I was doing was in some way propelling me towards my highest self." — Kevin Wathey
  • "The environment shapes the gene." — Kevin Wathey
  • "We all know what we must do. Most of us choose not to." — Kevin Wathey
  • "When we get out of the way and say, it's not about me. It's about what can we do communally and how can I empower you to make the best decision in that moment for the person even when I'm not there? That's where you start to create magic." — Kevin Wathey
  • "What can I commit to where I can show up consistently and I can do that every single day?" — Kevin Wathey
  • "You have far more control epigenetically and behaviorally than the world wants to lead you on to believe." — Kevin Wathey
  • "You're actually thinking yourself into sickness or into health." — Kevin Wathey
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