Health + Fitness
Best Fitness Studio/Gym: MVMT/MTHD
MVMT/MTHD opened in Lower Queen Anne in 2025 with a workout philosophy that’s pretty easy to understand: build a body that will serve you well for a long time. One side of the studio offers Lagree, a hardcore, high-intensity, low-impact workout performed on a MegaPro machine using slow, controlled movements and resistance to build strength…
Best Spa: MoonRise Spa
Relaxing at the MoonRise Spa starts before your appointment with a trip to the indoor pool and lounge. Continue the journey in the Western red-cedar dry saunas, eucalyptus steam rooms, and an outdoor hot tub on a deck overlooking the valley below. Treatment menus are nature-inspired and cover plenty of ground, with stone massages, skin-enhancing…
Best Salon: Gene Juarez
In the 1970s, a stylist from Wapato, Washington, went to London to study at the famed Sassoon Academy. After a month, he returned to Seattle with pioneering handheld-hair dryer styling techniques—and went on to launch a hair salon empire. That stylist was, of course, Gene Juarez, and his namesake brand still has a dozen salons…
Can a Sound Bath Wash Away Stress?
A first-time experience at the Washington Athletic Club offers a different way to unwind during the busy holiday season.
The sound of the singing bowl vibrated in my ears so strongly that I felt it traveling through my body. Next came the Kenari shaker—the noise fluttering throughout the room like leaves rustling in the wind. A gong sounded, keeping me awake and aware, connecting me to the floor I was lying on, next to…
Is the News Doing More to You Than for You?
Left and right agree on one thing: something’s broken in the news. So what would it take for journalism to serve *everyone* in a divided time? Moni asks two friends and partners in good trouble who’ve spent years on that question: Joy Mayer, founder of Trusting News, and Jonathan Stray, a data journalist turned conflict…
Mónica Guzmán: Curiosity’s Great Connector
What happens when we get curious about people we disagree with? Journalist, author, and podcast host Mónica Guzmán has made that question central to her work, drawing on her own experience navigating political differences with her Mexican immigrant parents, who support Donald Trump. In this episode of the Seattle podcast, Seattle magazine publisher Jonathan Sposato…
They betrayed you. Now what?
How do you fight hard against someone *and* still care for them? In Republican Mesa, Arizona, Julie Spilsbury was known for her council seat and her cinnamon rolls. When she endorsed Democrats, friends and neighbors who’d known her for decades launched a historic effort to kick her out of office. The man leading it did…
Division isn’t the danger. Here’s the fix. | Yuval Levin LIVE
What do we owe each other when we can’t stand each other? Recorded live at the Braver Angels Convention 2026 — in front of 1,000 people split evenly between red and blue — this episode brings that key question to a renowned civic scholar whose work gives Moni the most hope. Yuval Levin of the…
Soapbox Project Founder Nivi Achanta Centers Community and Joy in Climate Justice
The Seattle organizer shares why taking action helps her stay hopeful—and how anyone can get started.
If you were asked to envision what the world could look like in the future, you might take a page out of a dystopian book. But what about imagining a future that feels more hopeful, one where you have access to reliable transit, green spaces, and opportunities to gather in community with others? That’s exactly…
Finding Fortitude Through Triathlon
More than 2,000 athletes will take on IRONMAN 70.3 Washington Tri-Cities Sept. 20, testing their endurance—and finding benefits that go far beyond physical fitness.
In 2005, Jennifer Comfort was a new mom who wanted some exercise. She joined a gym, where she met a fellow Jen who had just done a triathlon. Comfort had no idea what that meant—it’s a sporting event with a swim, bike, and run component—but she signed up for one anyway. “I doggy-paddled the swim,…
Mailbox: Your questions on Trump, ‘privilege’ and compromise
What do you do when someone on your own side lets you down — or a family member says their politics are “none of your business”? In our second mailbox episode, Mónica and producer Jessica Jones tackle listener questions about whether America’s founding was a failure to bridge, how to recognize our own blind spots,…
How to talk politics when your body says ‘run’
Researcher Jaime Settle has found that just anticipating a political conversation with someone who disagrees can send your heart rate soaring — sometimes by as much as it rises during a panic attack. Will this damage a relationship? Will I be judged? Is it safer to hide what I believe? Those calculations happen fast, often…
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