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Signature talks and Podcasts
Live Longer Just By Moving? The Next $1.8T Blue Zone Community Boom | Founder Ashley John Heather
The $1.8T Wellness Real Estate Boom: Is Your Home Your Best Doctor? What if the place you live and the community you join become the most important driver of how long and how well you live?
For decades, we’ve treated health as separate from where we live, work, and recover. But a new model is emerging, one in which the built environment becomes an active system for optimizing human performance, longevity, and well-being.
In this episode of Futurecaster, Futurist Kimberly Bates sits down with Ashley John Heather, 6X Founder, CEO, and Investor. Today, Ashley is the Co-founder of Argentis, a groundbreaking integrated longevity company, campus, and community in Park City. Argentis is designed to bring training, recovery, preventive health, work, socializing, and nourishment together into a single, intentional environment.
Ashley shares how Argentis aims to revolutionize health through integrated environments and technology. Discover how health and real estate are converging to create healthier communities and longer, better lives.
Wellness real estate is expected to reach $1.8T by 2030. This market is the fastest-growing sector in the global wellness economy. Roughly 60% of buyers now cite personal health and wellness as their top factor when choosing home features.
More than a few wellness amenities, it’s about a fundamental shift in how residences and communities will be designed, appraised, insured, sold, inspected, and experienced in the future.
And where our health, work, performance, and social fitness are no longer separate but fully integrated within new Blue Zone communities for happier, longer, better lives.
The future of longevity will not just be built in gyms and clinics. It will be built into the environments and neighborhoods we live in every day.
What You Will Learn:
- The Convergence of Health & Real Estate: How the global wellness economy is shifting toward the spaces we inhabit every day.
- The Argentis Model: A look at the six pillars of longevity that are delivered within a single “Live-Work-Play-Medical” environment and community.
- Longevity as an Asset: How health-optimized features are beginning to influence real estate appraisals, insurance, and valuations.
- The Home of the Future: Using AI, wearables, and biological data to measure and meet your longevity goals at home.
- Modern Blue Zones: Why “social fitness” and intentional community design are the keys to a happier, longer life.
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Decoding What’s Next. So You Can Move First.
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Kimberly Bates is a world-renowned futurist and executive brand leader. For over 20 years, she has advised some of the world’s most valuable global companies and iconic brands, from Fortune 100s to fast-moving startups, helping them anticipate change and shape the direction of their industries, customers, and culture. Her work has driven future-ready brand and business transformations, breakthrough products and services, and entirely new business models and revenue streams.
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ASHLEY JOHN HEATHER
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Executives, leadership groups, health conferences, corporate wellbeing.
The Body Is a Battery
A new way to understand human energy, performance and longevity.
Real estate, cities, developers, hospitality, community leaders.
Building the Next Blue Zone
Residential developers, brokers, investors, planners.
The New Real Estate Premium Is Healthspan
Why vitality, proactive care and healthy-place infrastructure will influence where people choose to live.
Founders, investors, accelerators, YPO/EO-style communities.
Scar Tissue
What exits, failed bets and difficult transitions teach that success stories omit.
Health systems, clinics, longevity and technology audiences.
From Sick Care to Energy Intelligence
Membership, hospitality, placemaking and longevity audiences.
Community Is a Longevity Technology
Recent Speaking Engagements
Promontory Club • Ski Summit 2026
Longevity Tips
Practical strategies for improving healthspan, maintaining energy, and building daily habits that support a longer, healthier life. A keynote focused on longevity, resilience, and sustainable performance.
Live Well Center • Park City
Adding Life To Your Years
Health Optimization Summit (UK)
How to Reverse Your Biological Age by 7 Years in Just 15 Minutes
A presentation introducing practical approaches to biological age, human energy, recovery, and measurable health optimization through evidence-based lifestyle interventions.
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