Health Starts at Home
Welcome to the Health Starts at Home podcast — where wellness meets real life.
Hosted by Holly Jean Mullen, holistic real estate specialist and former functional health practitioner, this show dives into the powerful connection between your health, your home, and how you live.
From low-tox living and healthy home design to metabolic health, mindset, and family wellness, we explore what it really takes to feel good in your body and your environment. You’ll hear real, relatable conversations on environmental health, holistic living, and the unconventional choices that support true well-being, especially for families creating a life of intention.
Because wellness isn’t just what you eat.
It’s where you live. And it starts at home.
Health Starts at Home
When Your Home Affects Your Health: Laura McCall’s Mold Story | Ep 56
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What happens when the place that’s supposed to support you starts feeling like part of the problem?
In this conversation, interior designer Laura McCall returns to the show to share the personal experience behind her work. Before founding Collected Interiors and helping families create grounded, supportive spaces, Laura walked through a season of unexplained symptoms, environmental uncertainty, and the slow process of realizing her home might be involved.
Mold was part of the story. But it wasn’t the whole story.
This episode is about what it feels like to lose trust in your environment, how people make decisions without perfect answers, and what it looks like to rebuild a home that feels safe to live in again.
What We Talk About in This Episode
• what Laura first noticed when something in her environment didn’t feel right
• how mold exposure became part of the picture
• the emotional side of not feeling well in your own home
• making decisions without certainty or clear guidance
• rebuilding confidence in your living space
• how her experience shaped the way she now works with clients
• why creating a healthy home is rarely about just one factor
This episode continues our earlier conversation in Episode 55:
Designing Homes That Support Mental Health and a Rested Nervous System
Together, these episodes explore both the design perspective and the lived experience behind creating homes that truly support the people inside them.
Learn more about Laura McCall and Collected Interiors
Your home should help you heal—not hold you back.
If you’re ready to explore how your environment could be impacting your energy, mood, sleep, and overall wellness, you’re in the right place. The Health Starts at Home Podcast is here to help you rethink health from the inside out—starting with where you live.
Curious about your symptoms or feeling “off” at home?
My free Body Wisdom Journal is still available and now includes prompts to help you track not just food and mood—but also your environment. Because sometimes, it’s not you... it’s your house.
→ Download Your Free Body Wisdom Journal Here
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Because health starts at home—and yes, that includes yours.
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