About Soul Syndicate

A wellness network.

Seven dimensions, one ecology.

Soul Syndicate is a wellness network and editorial home for people who want a more meaningful, joy-filled life. We gather and distill the most important research, traditions, and practices in well-being into clear, grounded essays and guides, going deeper than surface-level wellness. We treat body, mind, and spirit as one connected ecology, lean into underlying causes rather than symptoms, and write from the belief that real well-being is a lifelong practice, not a quick fix.

Our mission

Help people and our world be well and thrive.

Simple, and not easy. When individuals flourish, the society around them becomes more resilient. Wellness work practiced with integrity is one of the more durable forces for collective good.

The case

Your everyday wellness is thin.

Most of what gets sold as wellness today is aesthetics, performance, and optimization. The deeper dimensions of being human, meaning, relationships, the places we live, the work we do, the soul-level questions, get dismissed as too soft for science and too earnest for casual conversation. The result is a wellness culture that leaves people vaguely improved and deeply unchanged.

The world has grown more challenging over the past decade. Climate strain, more screen time, financial pressure, the slow erosion of close social ties. The cultural answer is usually a sleep app for the day that wound you up, and a meditation app for the meaning work does not carry. Useful, but rarely enough to transform a life.

“We are going the other direction: deeper, more grounded, no less accessible.”

Wellness is one of the most meaningful things a person can work on. It shapes how we feel about ourselves, how we show up for the people around us, and the world we are a part of. Wellness deserves more.

The approach

Integral, science-informed, honest.

Seven dimensions from the Global Wellness Institute (body, mind, spirit, relationships, environment, work, finances), read through an integral lens.

Integral means the dimensions do not behave like separate domains. A sleep problem can be a meaning problem in disguise. A relationship issue can be a nervous-system one. Financial pressure breaks spiritual practice. We treat these as cousins, not strangers.

What we do with that: synthesize credible research, distill what is most useful, and build ecologies that honor the full spectrum of human experience. We try to be honest about what is well-supported, what is promising but under-studied, and what is carried by tradition.

For the longer version on what we mean by wellness, well-being, and happiness, and why the distinction matters, read the foundational essay →

The seven dimensions

One ecology.

The Soul Syndicate ecology runs across seven dimensions. Each has its own hub on the site with research, resources, and deeper reading. Click to explore.

Wellness Ecology: seven dimensions of well-being, converging on baseline conditions.

How we work

Four things we hold.

Soulcraft

Slow, interior work, taken seriously and without spiritual bypassing. It sits alongside physical care, mental-health support, and real relationships. A spiritual practice that ignores the body is not the depth we are after.

Editorial

Wellness journalism and resource curation, not medical care. We cover the upstream layer: practices, environments, research, the daily choices that shape a life. For diagnosis, treatment, or crisis support, we point to qualified clinicians.

Vantage

Modern, mostly urban, English-speaking West, secular and spiritually curious. The lens is not universal. Many of the practices we cover come from cultures we are guests in, and we try to read carefully and attribute honestly. Our experience and reach are necessarily limited, and we hold this publication as a work in progress.

Funding

Free to read. We sustain the work through revenue-share partnerships with products, retreats, and programs we feature. When a reader clicks through and acts, a portion of what is earned may come from that link.

Read our Editorial & Affiliate Disclosures for more detail.

The team

Three co-founders.

Joey Nittolo

Co-Founder

Joey is a Los Angeles producer of numerous films, including A Man Apart (Vin Diesel), for which he also wrote the original story, and Hard Cash (Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, Sara Downing). In 2016, the death of a close friend opened an experience the psychiatric system called schizophrenia and he came to call an awakening. He has since trained as a Kundalini yoga teacher and hosts The Space Between podcast. He has organized civic events including Lighting Up LA, a mental-health and homelessness awareness benefit with Snoop Dogg and Akon. That question is the editorial mission at Soul Syndicate.

George Roumain

Co-Founder

George is a former U.S. national-team volleyball player who competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was named Team USA's Male Athlete of the Year. He was a three-time NCAA All-American and two-time NCAA Player of the Year at Pepperdine, and AVP Rookie of the Year and Huntington Beach Open champion in 2004. Competing at that level taught him that peak performance comes with a profound mental and emotional cost, one rarely talked about openly. Fifteen-plus years as a performance marketing executive since: COO at InterMedia Advertising (where he doubled revenue), Director of Business Development at SuperMoney, and now Sharpen.

Noah Grimmett

Co-Founder

Noah is an operator with two decades across entertainment, sports technology, and ethics-focused nonprofits. He was employee number one at the Kelly Slater Wave Company, serving as Chief Operating Officer for eight years and then Principal of Business Development through the company's acquisition by the World Surf League. He is currently founder of The Voyage Co, supporting executive leadership at the intersection of innovation, technology, and socio-ecological change. His Master of Arts in Anthropology and Social Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies (2024) marks a turn toward the questions Soul Syndicate now builds around.

Rotating contributors and advising researchers are featured on the Research hub as coverage expands.

Start with the ecology, take the quiz, or read our latest.

Explore the Ecology →Take the Wellness Quiz →Read the Latest →