The Positive Habits Podcast

In this episode of The Positive Habits Podcast, Kat Thorne is joined by Polly and Jorge, founders of Moovafy, to explore a powerful question:

What if buying and selling a home was more human?

Polly and Jorge share their personal story of struggling to sell their London home despite it being “a beautiful house” and how that emotionally draining experience led them to uncover what’s missing in today’s property market: human connection.

What ultimately sold their home wasn’t a listing or a perfect set of photos - it was a neighbour who felt the energy of their family home.

That insight sparked the idea for Moovafy: a platform designed to sit alongside estate agents, not replace them, giving buyers and sellers a space to share their stories, experiences, fears, and hopes - and feel less alone in one of life’s biggest decisions.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why the property process feels so emotionally heavy for buyers and sellers
How disconnection and digital overload are impacting major life decisions
Why many sellers want their home to go to the right person - not just the highest bidder
The mental health impact of buying and selling property
Why estate agents still matter and how the process can evolve
The startup rollercoaster and the small grounding habits Polly and Jorge rely on

This conversation is about more than property - it’s about belonging, identity, and the places we call home.

🎧 If you are in the property market and/or struggling to buy or sell, this episode could really help.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Polly and Jorge are Co-founders @ Moovafy. They're a small husband and wife team looking to bring storytelling into the property market.

Moovafy - https://moovafy.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/polly-lopez-clarkson-4145a329/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-lopez-3278b452/

ABOUT KAT

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship, and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself. She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katthorne https://www.instagram.com/the_morning_gamechanger

In this episode of The Positive Habits Podcast, Kat is joined by Imogen, co-founder of The Northern Pasta Company, for an honest conversation about food, mental wellbeing, and performance.

Imogen shares how living on a small Croatian island during the pandemic transformed her relationship with food and inspired her to create a pasta company rooted in quality, joy, and connection.

Together, Kat and Imogen explore how modern food culture, ultra-processed foods, and diet myths impact our energy, mood, and ability to perform at work.
They discuss why food shouldn’t be rushed, feared, or guilt-filled and how small, positive habits around eating and cooking can lead to better focus, resilience, and wellbeing.

In this episode, we cover:
Food, mental health, and performance
Breaking free from diet culture and food shame
Why pasta (yes, pasta!) can be good for you
The power of simple food rituals and shared meals
Small habits that help you feel better every day

🎧 Tune in for a refreshing reminder that how we eat shapes how we live.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Imogen Royall is the co-founder of Northern Pasta Co. and the creative force behind its mission to reimagine pasta as something nourishing, joyful and deeply connected to land and people. Inspired by time spent living in Croatia and a growing fascination with British-grown heritage grains, Imogen set out to create pasta rooted in flavour, sustainability and care. Imogen’s relationship with food was shaped early on by complexity. She dropped out of university and spent much of her youth navigating complex PTSD and a difficult relationship with eating, where food became a source of fear and control rather than pleasure. Over time, that fear transformed into
fascination and then grew into love. From this experience came a belief that still underpins everything
she does today: if food can hold that much fear, it can also hold that much joy.

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Northern Pasta Co

ABOUT KAT

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship, and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself. She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katthorne https://www.instagram.com/the_morning_gamechanger

In this solo episode, Kat discusses 3 transformative habits that significantly boosted her confidence in 2025. She emphasises the importance of not checking your phone first thing in the morning, committing to 10 minutes of daily movement, and maintaining a consistent bedtime.

Each habit contributes to improved mental health, emotional regulation, and overall well-being, ultimately leading to a more confident and energised life.

Highlights

Not checking your phone first thing boosts self-control.
10 minutes of daily movement improves emotional regulation.
Consistent sleep improves decision-making and emotional control.
Habits can be easy to implement with small commitments.
Your body and brain are essential for achieving your dreams.
"I feel strong mentally and physically. I've never felt more confident and energised."

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship, and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself. She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katthorne https://www.instagram.com/the_morning_gamechanger

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New Year´s resolutions don´t work – but a transformational 2026 is still within your reach. It´s in your control to make it your most impactful year yet. All it takes is one small, positive habit change.

Kat explains how to identify which area of your life to focus on and which small yet powerful habit change to make.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

New Year’s resolutions often fail because they’re too big, vague, and numerous. Real change comes from small, realistic shifts that fit into real life.

Start the habit of writing down your thoughts (journaling). That is how you will identify what really matters to you and choose the right small habit change to make.

The positive habit commitment that you stick to starts to have this incredible ripple effect. It will improve areas of your life that you can't even imagine.

The way to actually achieve all of those goals is to start with one thing. Then, you can stack and you can gradually build on top of it.

Specificity and a strong ‘why’ are what turn goals into lasting habits. It’s far more powerful to commit to being a healthy, energised person for life than to chase short‑term fixes like losing weight for a single event.

Committing for 21 days builds evidence that you can trust yourself. That single daily habit change creates a ripple effect. It subtly improves areas of your life you didn’t even expect to change.

Your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours are both the biggest barrier and the biggest key to your future.

BEST MOMENTS

“2026 can be the year that you dreamed of. It really can.”

" You don't have to say you can do it for the whole year, just start off with doing it for 21 days."

"Journaling - it's essentially just writing your thoughts down. That is how you get clarity, that is how you regain control, and that is how you can take your life to a whole new level."

ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship, and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/katthorne

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_morning_gamechanger

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Today, Kat speaks with former England rugby player, adventurer, and eternal optimist Ollie Phillips. He shares how choosing optimism, surrounding himself with the right people, and pushing beyond his comfort zone have shaped his life. His journey includes a career in professional sport, corporate work, fundraising, climbing mountains, and now preparing to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic.

Together, Kat and Ollie explore the realities of staying positive in a negative world, how to handle “mood hoovers,” the power of shared experiences and community, and the role small daily habits play in building resilience which also makes it easier to stay optimism.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Choosing optimism is an active daily decision. You can’t control the world, but you can control how you show up in it.

You are deeply influenced by the people around you. Positivity and negativity are both contagious, so it matters who you spend time with – and what energy you bring.

“Mood hoovers” usually have a story you can’t see. Curiosity, listening and genuine care often create more change in them than judgement or avoidance.

Growth lives on the other side of discomfort. Whether it’s extreme adventures or simple habits like cold water dips and movement, stretching your comfort zone helps you feel more alive and resilient.

You don’t truly know if something serves you until you try it. Letting go of preconceived ideas and staying curious keeps your life bigger, richer and more fulfilling.

Surrounding yourself with people who stretch you accelerates your progress. Being the least experienced in the room can feel uncomfortable, but it’s often where your greatest growth happens.

BEST MOMENTS

"Ensuring that you show up every single day ready to deliver the best version of yourself is really the only thing that you can control."

"What are you doing to help that individual? Because I fundamentally believe that nobody wants to be grumpy. Some people might be more skilled at it than others, but nobody wants to be unhappy."

“Make a lifelong commitment to just being curious to trying different things.”

“If all you do is fear losing, you are restrictive, constrained, safe.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipsollie

Good Vibes Good Life - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Vibes-Life-Self-Love-Unlocking/dp/1788171829

ABOUT THE HOST

Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship, and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.

She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/katthorne

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_morning_gamechanger

Sponsor: VennCard, the last business card you’ll ever need. Whether you’re a creator, coach, or consultant, VennCard helps you share your details with a tap, capture leads instantly and follow up automatically.