Jamie Gold is a Wellness Design Consultant, Mayo Clinic Certified Wellness Coach and the author of three books on design and remodeling. The latest, published in 2020 by Simon & Schuster/Tiller Press, is Wellness by Design: A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness and Happiness, the first comprehensive consumer guide to the links between your home and your health. The National Association of Real Estate Editors awarded the book its prestigious Bruss Award (2021) for new book excellence.
Jamie is also a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Kitchen & Bath Design News and Multi-Housing News, consults for builders and manufacturers on wellness design, and is a popular speaker at major events like the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show and the International Builders’ Show.
She is available for features, blog posts, reported and personal essays and select corporate assignments related to the links between home, safety and health and affordable housing.
Subjects
I write about the intersection between home, safety and health, embracing community development, technology, architecture and design, construction, building codes, aging, fitness and nutrition. If it impacts safe, healthy living, it’s in my wheelhouse!
Skills
Writing Credits
Forbes.com, Design Milk, Next Avenue, Open Mind, House Beautiful, Vila.com, San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Forward, Huff Post
Book Credits
Wellness by Design: A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness and Happiness (Simon & Schuster/Tiller Press, 2020)
New Bathroom Idea Book (Taunton Press, 2017)
New Kitchen Ideas That Work (Taunton Press, 2012)
Awards, Honors, Appointments
Bruss Book Award (Silver, 2021), National Association of Real Estate Editors
Wellness Influencer of the Year, DesignHounds (2020)
Inaugural Innovators List, Kitchen & Bathroom Design News (2017)
Best of Houzz (2012, 2013, 2014)
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
Nonfiction book about homebuilding, design and remodeling with a focus on wellness improvements.
Read
Daily regional newspaper op ed about reparations for Black WWII veterans and their families denied GI benefits.
Digital magazine funded by Science Literacy Foundation covers induction technology as a safer, healthier alternative to gas ranges and cooktops.
Shelter magazine personal essay about aging in place.
National wellness site about designing your home for health and well-being.
Online business magazine article about the wellness benefits of minimalism.
Sponsored blog post for global appliance manufacturers on the wellness benefits of their product offerings.
Sponsored blog post for national production cabinetry manufacturer tying their product lines to wellness design.
National online publication article for older adults about gun safety.
