NFL Alum Dr. Myron Rolle Launches Health Is Wealth Show On PlayersTV

On June 19, season one of PlayersTV’s new series and show Health is Wealth with Dr. Myron Rolle premieres on PlayersTV, a first of its kind network owned by professional athletes. PlayersTV is adding another unique convergence of sport and health to their lineup with the addition of the new talk show where Dr. Rolle sits down with former and current athletes, as well as industry leading health experts to talk about long-term and life-span health and wellness.

The show centers Dr. Rolle, a former NFL athlete who played for the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers after an All-American career at Florida State. Rolle left football behind to return to FSU where he completed his medical degree and then went on to train at Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and now serves as a Pediatric Neurosurgery Resident at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

Rolle’s background is beyond engaging and unique as someone who has walked life as an elite athlete, but also has distinct medical training, knowledge, and expertise. Thus, his show encapsulates this juxtaposition and allows for athletes some of the most influential and compelling storytellers in our society to be raw, open, and vulnerable about challenges, diseases, and issues that affect all of us.

Rolle said, “I think Health is Wealth, is so important because as former athletes, as people who have influence, when you think about the game that you love playing, it’s going to leave you. There’s an expiration date at the end of it and on the other side of that comes the rest of your life, where you have to be of impact to your family, to your community, to society in general. And the best way to do that is by being active, mobile, and having good health. And so if we can just sort of drive the messages home of proper maintenance and health, better behaviors and choices, decision-making, better preventative measures, screenings, all the sort of things we can do to optimize our life here as humans. And if that message can be driven home by people who already have social capital like athletes, then all of us will benefit from it.”

PlayersTV, a professional athlete owned and driven network was well-suited for this show model that intersects sports and health as Rolle described the relationship and fit, “I thought they were wonderful. They’ve already proved that they work with profile athletes and know how to deliver content in the best way possible. And so we thought it was a slam dunk, no pun intended. But we thought it was a sure thing to go with this group that has a pedigree for putting out successful material and doing it with class, integrity in the best way possible.”

As stated above the show will combine interviewing former and current athletes about their personal journeys along with health experts to ensure proper health resources are distributed and in an age of misinformation, Rolle will lead with facts but in a digestible manner. He said,“That’s where we’re gonna separate ourselves and that’s where we’re gonna lean into the real. The real talk, the real evidence, the real information, and then we’re going to encourage our listeners and our viewers to go and do research on their own from some of these reputable sources. Not talking, just for entertainment, we’re talking to push and move forward a generation that needs to be optimized in their health, because we know what the poor outcomes of health can do to a family, to a town, to a community, to a society.”

Again, Rolle will lean in on former and current athletes to help shine a light on big issues. In season one, viewers can expect to hear about journeys with cancer, mental health, and the importance of daily lifestyle changes on long-term health. Season one guests will include Sheryl Swoopes, four time WNBA champion and the inspiration behind the WNBA logo (episode one) and Ken Griffey Sr., Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame baseball player (episode two).

For Rolle, the show and the conversations and transparency it provides is the larger mission and goal, “I want people to think about their health and how they can prioritize that with a premium, with a focus, with an energy and effort that matches other aspects in our life in the same kind of way. And if we do that, I do feel that cost will go down, morbidity will go down, stress will go down, disruption of life will go down, and disruption of families will go down.”

Rolle continued that measuring the success of the show isn’t simply viewers and quantitative metrics, but based on empowering people to take charge of their health, “I don’t have a quantitative metric that I’m trying to reach but I do think that these conversations and this platform and this show is the beginning of that wave. That’s why I am ambitious about what our thought leaders and our influencers can do for the general population. That’s looking for ways to stay around, stay active, and be present in a world that needs us. We need to be here.”

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