Lisa Parda
Candid Conversations on Food, Wellness, and Finding Joy in the Messy Middle of Life
Sample Podcast Questions for Lisa Parda
- 1
You’ve said food has been both comfort and medicine in your life — when did you first realize a meal could change more than just your hunger?
- 2
Many parents feel guilty about quick fixes in the kitchen. How do you help people reframe “homemade” so it feels empowering instead of pressured?
- 3
What does it mean to “feed the family you actually have,” and how has that idea shaped your own approach to cooking?
- 4
You’ve been candid about growing up on takeout and later facing health scares. How did those early experiences shape the way you look at food today?
- 5
When life gets overwhelming, what’s one small food ritual you turn to that helps you reset?
- 6
You spent over 20 years in real estate before choosing to give it a smaller footprint. What helped you trust yourself enough to make that midlife pivot?
- 7
How do you balance honoring the career that built you with creating space for new passions like your cookbook and radio show?
- 8
On your radio show, listeners feel like they’re sitting at the kitchen table with you. What’s the secret to making conversations feel that real and unpolished?
- 9
For women in midlife who feel stuck in old definitions of success, what first step would you suggest to begin reshaping their story?
- 10
If you could rewrite the way our culture talks about food in just one sentence, what would it be?
Latest video
Don't Listen to "Them" - Hour 2 (3/27/2025)
Latest episodes
Key topics
Why the spaces we live and eat in shape how we feel and connect
Lisa’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 Feel
For 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 Map
Too 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 →
Latest video
Don't Listen to "Them" - Hour 2 (3/27/2025)
Latest episodes
Key topics
Why the spaces we live and eat in shape how we feel and connect
Lisa’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 Feel
For 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 Map
Too 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 →