121. The Health Problem Hiding in Your Zip Code with Tony Cho

121. The Health Problem Hiding in Your Zip Code with Tony Cho

July 3, 2026 · 1h 23m

About this episode

Mona Sharma discusses with Tony Cho the impact of community and environment on personal wellness and the hidden health issues related to one's living space.

A lot of wellness advice assumes the problem lives inside the individual. Your stress. Your habits. Your discipline. Your food choices. Your ability to regulate. But what happens when you are already doing the things that are supposed to help and your life still feels strangely disconnected? You eat well, meditate, try to regulate your nervous system, maybe even spend money on wellness, but the second you return to your commute, your neighborhood, your apartment, or another day without real connection, something in your body still feels unsettled. That is the health problem hiding in your zip code. In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Tony Cho, a purpose-driven entrepreneur and regenerative placemaking visionary, to talk about why loneliness is not always a personal failure, why modern cities can dysregulate the nervous system, and why the future of wellness has to include the places, communities, and systems we live inside. And until you start looking at the spaces around you, you may keep trying to fix symptoms that were never meant to be carried alone. Tony Cho is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and visionary community builder helping cities evolve into living…

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