SPONSOR
SPONSOR
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Kim Marshall
Host, Executive Producer, Co-Founder, S'Well The Agency
Two weeks after the unprecedented and profoundly devastating wildfires that ignited in the L.A. area on January 7 of this year, veteran podcast host and wellness industry executive, KIM MARSHALL, launched a new podcast called #L.A.Rising – Stories of Healing, Help & Hope. The podcast was created as an oral history in real time, telling the stories of the people and places impacted by the conflagration. The new “town hall” style platform creates a space where experts and community leaders can also provide crucial information, resources, and support long after the national and international media have moved on. Twenty percent of sponsor funds from the podcast will go to a student mental health charity aligned with LAUSD.
Marshall, a 30-year resident of the devastated California coastal community of Pacific Palisades, is a communications expert who launched, produced and hosted the Global Wellness Conversations Podcast from 2019 to 2024 for the Global Wellness Summit and who has done wellness segments for Southern California’s Spectrum News 1 since 2022.
Each episode of #L.A. Rising features two interviews divided by a “Wellness Lift” segment -- pulling from Marshall’s extensive contacts in the wellbeing industry – designed to share coping strategies and self-care tools with listeners.
Having worked onsite for resorts in Southern California and Hawaii, Marshall founded The Marshall Plan in 1995, the first PR firm to specialize in spas and wellbeing. She has visited spas from Turkey to Tahiti; from Italy to Indonesia and spearheading campaigns for the International Spa Association, GSN Planet and the Global Wellness Institute. As one of the founding ambassadors of Global Wellness Day, Marshall helped grow the annual educational celebration from one country in 2014 to six continents and 7,000 locations in 2024.
In 2018 Marshall co-founded S’Well The Agency, which specializes in storytelling and PR for members of the $5.6 trillion wellness economy. S’Well has conducted its signature LaunchPad Strategic Visioning Sessions for brands such as Langham, Esalen, Belmond and the Chopra Foundation.
Marshall has been honored as a Marketing Guru by American Spa in their annual Women in Wellness Awards. A frequent speaker at industry events, she has been quoted in national magazines and newspapers such as Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler and Travel Weekly, has appeared on Fox TV, QVC, Access Hollywood. Additionally, she has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble and Walgreens.