At SYMP26, Spencer Coppin, Angela Hartman, and Dai Manuel sat down together — three voices with decades of combined experience across health, fitness, retail, and community, shaped by their time at Lululemon, FitnessTown, TuRF, and CrossFit.
Their conversation dug into the future of urban wellness, viewed through the lens of health retail and entrepreneurship: how wellness-driven brands influence behaviour, activate space, and build real community within the environments developers, planners, and designers create.
The trio shared their vision for a new kind of urban Blue Zone, unpacking the barriers cities throw up against wellness — and making the case for why thoughtfully designed, wellness-centered spaces are essential to fostering connection, culture, and more resilient communities.
