Jared Thurmon

Jared Thurmon writes about health and happiness, and believes the delicate balance of a healthy body, a sound mind and a calm spirit are the ingredients to both.

He has been building things since a childhood lemonade stand. A dozen ventures later, across senior living, consumer products, health foods, media and hospitality, he has the successes, the failures, the exits and the scar tissue to show for it.

The more useful education happened outside the boardroom. A near-death experience that began in India. Losing his best friend in a car accident. A pilgrimage afterward that was part spiritual, part reckless and entirely transformational. What he took from all of it is that how a person lives should match what they believe, and that work belongs to conviction rather than sitting alongside it.

His books come at that from different angles. NINE70 measures spiritual health nine ways and gives readers seventy days to move the numbers. Love & War, published in Spanish as Amor y Guerra, retells a through-line found across the world's great religions: the long battle between love and selfishness. America's Trojan Horse argues that mixing religion with political power damages both. Arrow and the Islands of Adventure teaches design thinking to young readers.

He is now building Santerra, a wellness resort made for renewal and reflection, where health is a life well lived rather than a dashboard. He, his wife Annette and their daughter homestead on a small farm north of Atlanta at Azure Farm, raising everything from turkeys to miniature goats and donkeys and learning to grow food in a way that is good for the soil and the soul.