The THRVE Podcast
Conversations on living well through change
COMING SOON
The THRVE Podcast is a reflective conversation series exploring how people live well through change — emotionally, physically, and socially — as they move through different seasons of life.
Rather than focusing on self-improvement or optimization, the podcast approaches wellness as something shaped by the environments we live in, the rhythms we keep, and the relationships that hold us. It centres lived experience over performance, and understanding over urgency.
This is a space for thoughtful conversation, steady pacing, and ideas that can be returned to over time.
The Point of View
Living well through change begins where we live.
Our homes, neighbourhoods, and communities quietly shape how safe, regulated, and resilient we feel. Light, sound, layout, pace, access to nature, and social connection all influence our wellbeing — often more than mindset alone.
The THRVE Podcast explores how these everyday conditions affect our ability to adapt, age, and live well through periods of transition, without relying on perfection language, pressure, or quick fixes.
How the Podcast Works
Hosted by Andrea Leja
30-minute conversational episodes
One guest per episode
Science-informed, never clinical
Plain language and lived experience
Designed to support reflection, not consumption
Each episode follows a gentle emotional arc — relief, reframing, and grounded clarity — and closes with a small invitation to notice or reflect on one aspect of daily life.
A Collaborative Conversation
The podcast includes an ongoing collaboration with a mental wellness contributor, who brings a recurring, relational voice to the conversations.
This role is not about diagnosis or advice. It focuses on translating mental-health research and emotional patterns into everyday language, helping listeners better understand what they’re experiencing as they live through change — without pathologizing or prescribing.
This continuity allows conversations to deepen over time, creating coherence rather than one-off expertise.
Season One: Living Well Through Change
Season One explores how people adapt, age, and remain well through personal, environmental, and social change. Topics include:
Wellness as an environmental experience, not a personal project
Aging as a change in pace rather than decline
Stress, depletion, and the nervous system
How home and space support emotional regulation
Belonging as a foundation for wellbeing
What helps us endure and integrate change over time
Episodes are released gradually, with care taken to support both listener and creator wellbeing.
Part of the THRVE Ecosystem
The THRVE Podcast is part of a regenerative media ecosystem that includes reflective writing, seasonal resources, and place-based storytelling.
Each layer supports the others, allowing ideas to circulate, deepen, and be revisited — so living well through change becomes an ongoing practice rather than a one-time insight.
SEASON ONE EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS
Episode 1
What “Aging Well” Actually Means (And What It Doesn’t)
Releasing pressure. Naming dignity, adaptability, and belonging.
Episode 2
Movement: What Matters Most as We Age
Mobility, confidence, and nervous-system safety over fitness culture.
Episode 3
Stress, Cortisol & Why You’re Always Tired
Chronic load, not personal failure.
Episode 4
Sleep Changes as We Age (And Why Fighting Them Backfires)
Rest as ecosystem, not performance.
Episode 5
Nutrition Myths That Don’t Age Well
Nourishment without moralizing food.
Episode 6
Mental Fitness Is Physical Fitness
Cognition, mood, and the built environment.
Episode 7
Why Loneliness Is a Health Issue, Not a Personal One
Social connection as infrastructure.
Episode 8
Your Home Is Shaping Your Health More Than You Think
Light, layout, noise, and nervous-system regulation.
Episode 9
Why “Independent Living” Is the Wrong Goal
Interdependence, adaptability, and dignity.
Episode 10
Designing for Energy, Not Aesthetics
How spaces support or drain us.
Episode 11
Aging in Place vs Aging in Isolation
Community, proximity, and belonging.
Episode 12
Living Well Over Time (Not All at Once)
Carrying wellness forward gently.
Season One explores how we live, age, and adapt through changing bodies, homes, and communities — with care, clarity, and without urgency.
“We design spaces that breathe. That hold you. That remind you who you are and how you want to live.”