To optimise your onboarding experience, wait until you have time to complete the app download, photo onboarding and health questionnaire portions of your Shae app at the same time.

There’s nothing more you need to do! If you have the app, and you got the locked screen, you are set. The Locked screen is where you should be until Day 1 of your Challenge begins!

The 30 Day Health Challenge is 30 days of focusing on YOU! All you need to do is follow along your simple lifestyle prompts from Shae! It’s also a way for companies to demonstrate to their staff they are committed to supporting you to be the happiest and healthiest version of you have ever been! It’s also a fun way to rally together with your coworkers to support one another in improving your health in a positive, collaborative, and supportive environment, with a little friendly competition thrown in the mix for a dash of excitement. And it’s 30 days of FUN! We know the skeptics will say “You can’t say ‘challenge’ and ‘fun’ in the same sentence.” But that’s exactly what we mean. ShaeWellness & Shae are on a mission to make healthy living a fun, rewarding, and engaging experience at work and at home.

You are participating in this 30 day Mental Health and Physical Wellness Challenge to minimise your mental and physical health risks, and maximise your quality of life! You are being given an opportunity to access the world’s first epigenetic (genetics + lifestyle) health calculator that delivers individualised health information tailored specifically to YOU! It starts with you – getting to know your biology, discovering how unique you are, and what works for you regarding mind, food, stress, sleep, movement, social interactions and teamwork, environment, natural talents and the time of day that is best for all these things! We just happen to be the experts in this area and are excited to take you on this journey of discovering what is best for YOU.

Expect fantastic results and you will receive them!

Expect to have fun!

Expect to learn fascinating insights!

Expect a little friendly competition!

If you commit to your health and wellness, you can expect to get healthy and happy. The camaraderie, support, teamwork, and connection increases the fun factor and the healthy challenge will improve your sleep, pain, stress, weight, and brain function. Everybody wins!

Download your App. Create your Personalised Profile. And put your profile into practice with friendly tips from Shae for 30 days! You are gaining access to personalised health insights unlike anything you have seen before. Make a full-on commitment to your own health for 30 Days by following the insights on your profile and Shae app; Track results as your go; and hop on the LIVE weekly calls for clarity, inspiration, and fun connections! Let’s go!

And watch your stress, confusion, and overwhelm melt away as you learn what is best for your unique body, and begin to FEEL the results – sometimes almost immediately!

The photo scan is used to create your unique avatar. ShaeWellness technology uses how you look on the outside to understand your health on the inside, and then guides and supports your daily lifestyle and health needs. Challengers can set up their profiles at home or in a private space as preferred. ShaeWellness then crunches over 10,000 data points from your unique avatar to personalise suggestions for sleep, stress, mood, food, activity and overall health. ShaeWellness recommends updating your photo at the start, middle and end of the challenge for the most current advice and to track your progress. If preferred, challengers can have the option to use a tape measure instead of taking their photo to create their avatar.

Everything you can see, measure (except DNA) and test on your body is categorised as part of your phenotype. The photo is used to create your profile. It allows the ShaeWellness AI technology to measure the body. While this may seem too simple to gain so much insight, there are more than 500 ratios and over 10,000 data points that create a single profile. This includes the calculation of specific genes from the phenotype data. For example, height is related to over 1500 genes, and you can predict height to within 2.5cm based on genes alone. Therefore, the measure of height can translate to the activation of certain genes.

This Shae™ app onboarding question is referencing your genetic sex chromosomes of XX for female; and XY for male at birth. This genetic chromosome sequence determines different organ formations and hormonal functions and flows in the human body from a medical and scientific standpoint. This question is not referring to gender identity, which is outside of this scope. Because Shae focuses on the unique genetic and epigenetic makeup of a person, Shae needs to know each user’s biology at birth to provide the most relevant advice to an individual.

ShaeWellness tracks data over time and makes recommendations to help improve an individual’s mental health including their risks of stress, anxiety or depression. Should a participant sense they require further or specialised mental health support, they should seek support from their personal health professionals.

ShaeWellness is the only Mental Wellbeing & Physical Health epigenetic corporate solution delivering 360 degrees of lifestyle support at work and at home. Informed by over 15 medical and health sciences, the platform delivers an integrated and user-centric physical, mental, emotional, social, and environmental health profile, delivered via a mobile-friendly app. The medically-endorsed, scientifically-validated, evidenced-based ShaeWellness technology and accompanying educational modules use advanced epigenetic analysis and AI technology to assess and deliver unique user insights and relays customised behaviour change support to each individual user. ShaeWellness technology is currently being used in over 120 countries by medical experts, corporate clients, and corporate wellness practitioners alike.

Your DNA is your virtually unchanging blueprint. It holds the information on how to create every reaction and response within your body. Genes are small segments of the DNA that code for the specific production of molecules, that when produced, create a change in the body, which is called a change in phenotype. The science of epigenetics is the study of the activity ‘on’ or ‘outside of’ genes. Epigenetics explains the external modifications that lead to an activation or deactivation of a gene. Your phenotype is the end result of all the different gene activations that have occurred during your life. Genes activate based on the environment around the body. The body responds to the environment, i.e. any given change in the environment will create a gene or genes to activate in order to help the body adjust and survive based on the new information it has received about the environment. In short, your behaviours and environment – such as diet, exercise, sleep, where you spend your time, social activity – can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.

You will need a smartphone to access the Shae app. The challenge is run through the Shae app.

Points are accumulated by each Team member. These contribute to your Team’s final points tally.

The challenge is designed to be tailor-made for every individual, so the ‘time commitment’ is really about incorporating new or adjusted habits and activities into your daily routine, as suggested by your profile. To help you get the most out of the challenge, be aware there is a 30mins  – Demystifying Epigenetics and Challenge Overview Info Session; 45mins on-boarding session; 20mins to create your unique avatar in the Shae app; 1 x 45mins live call each week over 5 weeks; 1 x 30mins Awards call. Your Challenge support includes accessing the app as often as you like; access to on-demand 1:1 health coaching via Whatsapp or text; group support with your Challenge Team via Whatsapp; daily notifications via your app; and daily support emails. All designed to support your best 30 health challenge experience.

Yes you can! Of course, customers and patients are still your priority. Each day in the ShaeWellness app you will see ‘Daily Routine’ which will guide you with healthy choices and activities to optimise your physical and mental health, unique to you. If you can’t easily access your phone during the day, take the time to check out the Daily Routine before you start your work day. You will also receive notifications throughout the day from the ShaeWellness app. So, you may choose to catch up on the Challenge during breaks, or before and after work.

All sessions will be recorded and posted here on this webpage to catch up on if it’s just not possible to attend at the scheduled time.

ShaeWellness will be asking for certain information in order to create your profile and unique avatar. You will be asked to take two full-length photos of yourself, one front on and one side profile. You will also complete a questionnaire about your family history, health, your lifestyle and environment. This is information provided to ShaeWellness and your company does not have access to this data. In order to be able to participate in the challenge, you will be required to accept the ShaeWellness privacy policy. For more information on how ShaeWellness handles your personal information, you may wish to read its Privacy Policy, available here.

All photos that are taken on your device and stored locally get deleted when you remove the app from your phone.

ShaeWellness operate a highly secure system. Secure storage and data handling processes are applied to all data. All data is stored within secure AWS Cloud Services (utilising Australia-based servers). As part of Shae’s Information Classification Standard, controls are defined and identity access management procedures are in place to prevent unauthorised access to data as per the International Organization for Standardization (ISO27001) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ShaeWellness authorised staff are the only authorised persons who will have access to any personal data for the purpose of conducting the challenge and reporting de-identified trends to the company client.

All data gathered by ShaeWellness is used for analyses within Shae’s ecosystem for the purpose of calculating and providing user recommendations and improving the user’s experience. There are no external providers that will have access to any personally identifiable data, external to Shae’s system. Non-personally identifiable information (i.e. data that cannot be traced back to an individual by an external provider) is exchanged with third parties for tracking app usage and activities such as crashes, bugs or click rates however no user data besides a non-identifiable ID is used in communication with third party analytics providers. If a participant chooses to connect their Apple Health or Google Fit app to activate the ‘Wearables’ feature inside the Shae app, then the participant is choosing to share additional information into Shae (this is a one-way authorisation, and Shae does not share any data with Apple or Google Fit). In order to be able to participate in the challenge, you will be required to accept the ShaeWellness privacy policy. For more information on how ShaeWellness handles your personal information, you may wish to read its Privacy Policy, available here.

Challengers will have access to their own personal profile created inside the app via photo scans, surveys or wearables, as well as insights generated by ShaeWellness. This will be accessible inside each challenger’s mobile application. You will learn your HealthTypeTM – one of six psycho-social profiling categories similar to a personality profile, built upon deeper science than just psychology. Challengers can learn the HealthType of others in the challenge to apply healthy social and interpersonal insights. Once the challenge is finished, this information will not be available, so make the most of it while you can!

This video explains participant information, challenge outcomes and benefits. This whitepaper highlights benefits and results of the 30-day challenge.