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70% of Our Health is Lifestyle. Regardless of Your Genetics. Lisa Parda

Lisa Parda · November 26, 2025

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70% of Our Health is Lifestyle. Regardless of Your Genetics. Lisa Parda

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November 26, 2025 · 56 min

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Key topicsWhy the spaces we live and eat in shape how we feel and connectLisa’s career in real estate taught her that the spaces we live in shape how we feel, connect, and even eat. A cluttered kitchen can make cooking feel impossible; a welcoming dining space can turn a simple meal into a moment of community. Now, through both property and food, Lisa explores how environments support wellbeing. She shares how small changes - whether it’s fixing up a building to serve a neighborhood or setting a table that invites people to linger - can transform daily life. It’s not just about recipes or real estate, but about designing spaces that make people feel nourished and cared for. Turning Food Into Self-Care You Can FeelFor Lisa, food is not just fuel - it’s one of the simplest ways to reclaim agency over your wellbeing. She breaks down the emotional ballast food can carry: celebration, comfort, and sometimes shame. Instead of rules or perfectionism, she focuses on repeatable practices like sourcing food you trust, cooking in a way that feels manageable, and learning to enjoy what you create for yourself. With stories from her own journey - from early health scares to later healing through food - she shows how cooking can move from a source of stress to a tool for resilience and joy. Why Midlife Isn’t a Crisis but a Chance to Redraw the MapToo often, midlife gets framed as decline or burnout, but Lisa shows it can be the most creative season of all. At 53, she chose not to abandon the career she’d built in real estate but to shrink it down so she could expand elsewhere-into a radio show built on connection, a cookbook rooted in real-life meals, and speaking opportunities that energize her. She shares how to pivot without torching the past: honor what still serves you, release what drains you, and make room for what feels alive. Her story is proof that midlife isn’t an ending point but a doorway to reinvention. View all topics →

About Lisa Parda

Candid Conversations on Food, Wellness, and Finding Joy in the Messy Middle of Life

20+ years Real estate sales, management & renovationAward-winning New Hampshire real estate expert128 recipes Published in My Love Language is Food2-hour weekly show Lisa and Robyn on the Mic

For more than twenty years, Lisa Parda has helped people buy, sell, and reimagine properties in New Hampshire. As the Owner of RealtyScape Brokerage, LLC, she doesn’t just work in residential real estate — she’s also an income-producing, value-add agent with experience fixing up and revitalizing commercial and multifamily properties. That passion for creating spaces that serve people and communities threads through all her work.

Today, she’s just as likely to be found behind a microphone as she is at a closing table. As co-host of Lisa and Robyn on the Mic, a live weekly radio show, Lisa has spent the past two years hosting two-hour conversations that meander the way real life does. Listeners tune in for honesty, laughter, and the kind of exchanges that feel like pulling up a chair at the kitchen table.

Food has become her latest way of exploring connection. Her forthcoming cookbook, My Love Language Is Food (Fall 2025), isn’t about flawless recipes — it’s about survival, joy, and the small rituals that keep people going. Lisa draws from her own seasons of struggle: long work hours, the ups and downs of body image, and the lessons of using food both as comfort and as medicine.

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Ep 99: On this episode we are grateful to haveLisa Parda. Lisa is the Owner of RealtyScape Brokerage and co-host of Lisa and Robyn on the Mic, a live weekly radio show. Food has become Lisa's latest way of exploring connection. Her new cookbook, My Love Language Is Food, isn't about flawless recipes — it's about survival, joy, and the small rituals that keep people going. Lisa draws from her own seasons of struggle: long work hours, the ups and downs of body image, and the lessons of using food both as comfort and as medicine.

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Breakfast & The Morning Routine: Chia Seed Pudding with Blackberries and Raspberries 1:36

- UV light, Tea, Workout, Call four Friends

The Journey: Real Estate to Food. 3:56

- Real Estate at 30 to Recipes to a Cookbook to a Radio Show 23 Years Later

- Autoimmune and Diet – Food is My Medicine

- 4yrs Ago Lost 50% of Heart Function

- Been a Vegetarian but now Focused on a Mediterranean Diet

- If You Eat all the Parts of an Animal and Not Just the Filet Mignon, you Only Need 50 Cows instead of 500

The Cookbook "Love Language is Food" 12:52

- Mediterranean Diet focused: Vegetables, Fish and a Little Meat, a Little Desert

- Also Breakfast for Dinner

- In every culture across time, we have shared food.

- The first Thing We do When We Meet a New Person is to break bread

Food that You Trust 14:47

- From a Local Butcher for Meats or Whole Foods for Vegetables, Frozen Fruits in Winter

Heart Scare and Food. 16:52

- Stopped drinking alcohol, No More Shift Work, Started Zone Two Cardio, Did not Work Out Fasted

- And that Cured the Afib – confirmed by an Electro Cardiologist

The Emotional Power of Food Beyond Nutrition 23:07

- Eating Good Food, Together

- Technology is Separating Us from Each Other

- Find a Healthier Way to Interact with Food – not Withholding Food

- The Importance of a $49 Continuous Glucose Monitor to Understand How Food Affects You

The Cookbook – Part II 30:18

- Making Meals at Home You Decide the Ingredients in Your Salad Dressing, Cake or Cookie

Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods Through Food, Education 32:35

- Just as Foundational as Food. Where we Rest Our Head at Night, Where We go to Work, Where our Kids go to Play, that is the Foundation for Our Lives.

Success Stories 42:56

- Publishing Her Cookbook after Her Heart Issues

- Overcoming Psoriasis in Three Weeks Through Food

- Recommending a Real Estate Investment that Several Years Later Allowed a Dad to Quit his Job and Have money to send his Kids to College

Anecdotes

- So no matter what you have Genetically, you can Improve it by 70 % by your Lifestyle

- Eating fruits and vegetables, you'll have better skin.

- Drink more water, you'll have better skin.

- Stop drinking alcohol, you'll have better skin.

First Step to Change 49:33

- Stop Doing Your Worst Habit. Try Subtracting Instead of Adding.

The Recipe: Quiche 51:33

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Guest: Lisa Parda