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The Awakening Spaces Podcast - Conscious Construction for a Healthy Home

Ashley Spanovich

Awakening Spaces explores the profound connection between our physical environments and our inner consciousness. We guide homeowners, designers, and wellness seekers beyond simply discussing "toxin-free" building methods to examine who we actually become on our "toxin-free" journey. In this podcast we’re not only talking about windows, walls, and wiring. Through expert interviews, case studies, and actionable guidance, we will explore how mindful design choices affect our relationships, stress

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57:11

Better Buildings Start with People: Building Science...

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2026/10/08

What does it actually take to shift an entire industry toward building healthier, higher-performing homes, and where does that change actually begin? In this special episode, Zara D'Cotta of The Healthy Home steps in as guest host and sits down with Mark Wille, author, builder, carpenter, and storyteller, and an integral part of the team behind The Build Show, for one of the most wide-ranging and genuinely inspiring conversations this podcast has had on the culture of construction. Mark bring...

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11:59

EMF Is No Longer Fringe: What’s Changing in Healthy...

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2026/10/01

What does it look like when the healthy-home conversation begins moving upstream, from homeowners fighting to be heard to building professionals asking better questions themselves? In this special solo episode, guest host Zara D’Cotta of The Healthy Home introduces herself and reflects on the shifts she has witnessed since being diagnosed with mould illness in 2015. Zara and Ashley have been friends since 2021, connected through shared experiences with environmental illness and their parallel...

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33:16

How I've Prepared My Body and My Home for a New Life...

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2026/09/24

What does it actually look like to build a business around helping people create healthier homes while simultaneously growing a human inside your own body? In this special solo episode, Ashley comes to you at 38, almost 39 weeks pregnant, with a life and business update she has been sitting on for months. From the fear that she might never be able to get pregnant, to the moment everything clicked into place the day after a wishing card session with Brownell Landrum, to the nesting spiral that...

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46:53

Why Prefab homes Might Be the Future of Healthy Home...

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2026/09/17

What if the biggest barrier to building a healthy, high performance home was not the technology or the knowledge but the way the industry still builds one house at a time from scratch? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Mariana Pickering, Chief Brand Officer and Community Director at B.Public Prefab, for a conversation that makes a genuinely compelling case for why prefab is one of the most exciting developments in healthy home building right now. Mariana brings over fifteen years at the ...

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67:16

How an Autism Diagnosis & CIRS Lead This Attorney To...

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2026/09/10

What if your daughter's autism diagnosis was not autism at all, but a mold-induced inflammatory response that could be reversed? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Cristina, founder of Conscious Healthy Home and former corporate attorney, for one of the most powerful origin stories this podcast has ever shared. Cristina's family spent years living in a home with mold compacted inside the HVAC plenum, watching their daughter regress in ways that three years of speech, occupational, and phy...

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45:24

Non-Toxic Interior Design, Cleanwashing, and How to...

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2026/09/03

What happens when an interior designer watches her husband get taken down by mold toxicity, CIRS, and Lyme disease and realizes that everything she was putting in their home was making him worse? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Kaleigh Concannon, founder of Uniquely You Decor and one of the only non-toxic interior designers in Denver, for a conversation that is equal parts practical, personal, and genuinely eye-opening. Kaleigh's path into this work runs through Seattle during COVID, a...

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47:07

A Consumer Protection Attorney’s Journey To Healthy...

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2026/08/27

What happens when the attorney who spent years suing companies like DuPont for deceiving consumers about toxic products becomes the patient who gets taken down by mold, Lyme, and CIRS? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Karen Bloom, founder of Natural Haven, for one of the most layered and honest conversations this podcast has had on what it actually takes to detox your home, your body, and your life at the same time. Karen's path runs through a traumatic ankle break in Shenandoah that tr...

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53:00

Tips for buying a Healthier Home and avoiding red...

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2026/08/20

Most people buying a home are thinking about square footage, school districts, and whether the kitchen has been updated. Almost nobody is thinking about what is behind the walls, under the floors, or in the crawl space until they are sick and the remediation quote arrives. In this episode, Ashley sits down with Rachel Klein, licensed real estate agent and healthy home advisor based in Boulder, Colorado, for a conversation that every homeowner and prospective buyer in America needs to hear. Ra...

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51:19

Flat Roofs, Envelope Failures, and Why Your Building...

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2026/08/13

Most homeowners never think about their building envelope until something goes wrong. And by then, the mold is already there, the sheathing is already rotting, and the remediation quote is already six figures. In this episode, Ashley sits down with Erika Bonfanti, structural engineer turned building enclosure specialist and forensic consultant, for one of the most practical and eye-opening conversations this podcast has had on what actually keeps water out of your home and what happens when i...

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42:11

Zara Interviews Ashley: Owner's Reps, Oversight, and...

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2026/08/06

What happens when the host becomes the guest? In this special episode of the Awakening Spaces Podcast, Ashley's dear friend and building biology colleague Zara D'Cotta flips the microphone and interviews Ashley herself, pulling back the curtain on the work Ashley does behind the scenes on every project she touches. From the lawsuit that changed everything in her early career to what owner's rep work actually looks like day to day. Ashley walks through how a project gone wrong became the found...

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33:18

Mold Codes, Material Health, EMF Awareness, and Why...

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2026/07/30

What does it take to go from two cancer diagnoses and years of undiagnosed mold illness to becoming one of the most quietly influential voices in the healthy building industry? In this episode, Ashley sits down with her dear friend and longtime colleague Zara D'Cotta, building biology educator, electromagnetic radiation specialist, and founder of The Healthy Home in Australia, for one of the most personal and wide-ranging conversations this podcast has had. Zara's path into healthy building r...

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57:22

Episode 45: What Residential HVAC gets wrong and Why...

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2026/07/23

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! What happens when a commercial construction veteran with a five-hundred-million-dollar mixed-use project on his resume gets taken down by mold? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Dylan Hutcheson, healthy home builder and founder of Holistically Built in Atlanta, Georgia, whose path from high-rise construction management to residential healthy home construc...

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73:33

Episode 44: The Science behind Vapor Barriers,...

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2026/07/16

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! What does it actually mean to build a pretty good house, and why is that sometimes a better goal than building a perfect one? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Emily Mottram, licensed architect, building science educator, co-author of the Pretty Good House book, and one of the most thoughtful voices in the residential design space. Emily grew up on a dair...

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41:43

Episode 43: Mold Illness, Healthy Construction, and...

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2026/07/09

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! What happens when the person who builds healthy homes for a living becomes the one who desperately needs one? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Brent Little, a thirty-year construction veteran and founder of Pinehaven Healthy Homes in McCall, Idaho, for one of the most honest and human conversations this podcast has ever had. Brent was a high-capacity, dr...

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45:33

Episode 42: Passive House, Healthy Materials, and the...

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2026/07/02

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! What does it actually mean to build a healthy home, and where do you start when everything feels equally important? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Trey Farmer, Austin-based architect, passive house advocate, and co-organizer of the Humid Climate Conference, for one of the most grounded and practically useful conversations this podcast has had on the in...

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74:51

Episode 41: Understanding CIRS, Biotoxin Illness, and...

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2026/06/25

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! What if the chronic illness your doctors keep missing has been living in your walls the whole time? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Dr. Eric Dorninger, naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, and CIRS specialist at Roots and Branches in Boulder, Colorado, who has spent over two decades helping patients with complex, mystery illnesses find the underlying cau...

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38:50

Episode 40: The One-Touch Garbage Disposal That Won’t...

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2026/06/18

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! What if the appliance you hate most in your kitchen was actually one of the most important tools for your home's health, your food waste habits, and your daily ease? In this episode, Ashley sits down with Tim Ketchum, CEO and co-founder of Composer Appliance, a startup out of San Francisco that is doing what no one else has bothered to do in decades: completel...

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60:44

Episode 39: Your Nervous System, EMF Sensitivity &...

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2026/06/11

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! In this episode of the Awakening Spaces Podcast, Ashley sits down with Riun Ashlie, electromagnetic radiation specialist and somatic healing practitioner, for one of the most expansive and soul-nourishing conversations this podcast has ever had. Riun brings decades of personal healing work, a background interning in psychotherapy, and a deeply trauma-informed ...

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62:38

Episode 38: Building a Healthy Home in Florida's...

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2026/06/04

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! In this episode of the Awakening Spaces Podcast, Ashley sits down with Scott Randall, founder of 7 Pines Design Build in Tampa, Florida, to talk about what it actually takes to build a healthy, high performance home in one of the most demanding climates in the country. Scott came into construction from a background in finance and risk management, and that lens...

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38:45

Episode 37: Owners Reps, Owners Contingency, &...

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2026/05/28

Send us a text with your questions, thoughts, and/or a love note regarding the podcast episode to help us know what to create more of! In this solo episode, Ashley Spanovich breaks down what an Owners Rep does and why having an Owners contingency will help you move through your project with less stress. She also dives into some personal wisdom and something she's moving through in the moment in hopes that it will help you expand and move through your project with more ease. THINGS MENTI...

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