Mia Sundstrom

My guest today has spent her life inside the idea of play.

Mia Sundstrom is the CEO of the National Institute for Play, the organization founded by her grandfather, Dr. Stuart Brown.

She champions play as a public health necessity across the entire lifespan, grownups too.

Mia brings something rare to this work, the research and the science, but also the lived generational understanding and a real gift for storytelling.

She's a former Division 1 gymnast and coach, and she's become one of the most compelling voices in the play movement.

We talked about why play might be the most underrated thing missing from your life, and what it costs you to keep leaving it out.

Like, that was a really neat invitation to think about some of the nuances in a different way, so yeah.

Amazing.