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Wellness Beyond the Surface is the go-to podcast for HR executives, Chief People Officers, and People Strategy teams in tech and fintech who are ready to integrate employee well-being across organizational culture, leadership practices, and operational systems—not just add another wellness perk.

Hosted by Damalie C. Akuamoah, each episode explores how to embed well-being into all three domains of your organization to create both measurable people impact (retention, manager sustainability, team health) and sustainable business outcomes (operational stability, scalability, ROI).

About Damalie:

Partners with fintech & tech people strategy leaders ready to move beyond wellness programs and surface-level fixes, and build retention infrastructure, so burnout stops being their problem to solve alone.

Results: improved retention, healthier teams, stronger managers, and measurable business outcomes that scale.

Well-being as a retention infrastructure - not wellness perks

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Your people aren't navigating burnout because they aren't strong enough. They are experiencing burnout because the system they're working in was never designed to sustain them.

In this episode, Damalie reframes burnout as a workplace design flaw and shows fintech people strategy leaders exactly where to look when the system is the source of burnout.

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Your people aren't navigating burnout because they aren't strong enough. They are experiencing burnout because the system they're working in was never designed to sustain them.

In this episode, Damalie reframes burnout as a workplace design flaw and shows fintech people strategy leaders exactly where to look when the system is the source of burnout.