The Family Enrichment Ecosystem
Through fitness, skill-building, and wellness, Pod and Pride creates space for families to move, learn, and grow as one.
The pod
Orca pods are led by their matriarchs. They travel, hunt, and play as one family, and calves often stay beside their mothers for life.
The pride
The lionesses of a pride raise their cubs together, sharing the watching, the feeding, and the teaching.
Families were never meant to grow alone.
Our why ❊
Pod and Pride exists because families deserve places built for all of them at once.
For many, finding time for their health means coordinating more childcare, reconfiguring schedules, or worse, prioritizing everything else and becoming stagnant.
Gyms are for adults. Wellness services exist for individuals or couples. Adventure parks are made for children. Many community events separate the kids from the parents, and the ones that don't only happen so often.
Academic and parental survival is often accompanied by isolation: the only parent in the classroom, or the only student at the playground. Fears of stigma, exclusion, or becoming a burden can isolate them further.
Whether a parent works in or out of the home, much of the sacrifice equals less quality time with themselves and their children, and more time for work, homemaking, and everything else.
Born from a club
Months after becoming a mom, Amaya Johnson went back to college after a five-year break. As a non-traditional student and a busy mom, she founded Students for Parenting and Care at the University of Maryland, College Park, a club for the students raising children while earning their degrees.
The club showed that student parents were happy to be thought of and included, but they still struggled to show up, and the campus support meant for them often never reached them. Pod and Pride grew from that gap.
Every piece of Pod and Pride builds on that first room.
The ecosystem
Each part meets families where they are today, and each one builds toward a place of their own: a home base for families in college towns.
Active · in person
Parents and children moving together outdoors: walk, jog, a-skip, or run. No childcare to arrange, because the children are the point. Every session is free for families.
Hosting a family event, or want Movement Club at yours? Invite us.
Building
The whole ecosystem in your pocket. Find a Movement Club near you, follow along with a family workout, and keep daily routines for parents and kids that bend when the day changes, for a cycle, a sick day, a late night, or the weather, so they still hold. Habits fit into moments families already have: bedtime, the park, a scroll break.
It runs on Awareness Architecture™, founder Amaya Johnson's model for turning what you learn into what you live. Instead of one more thing to remember, the app notices, curates, and gently programs small habits until an idea becomes practice. Built so every family can use it.
Summers
At home: the app brings the world to you. This week, Japan comes to us, with no passport required, and the routine reshapes around it.
With us: worldschool together on Pod and Pride family trips, from two weeks to a whole summer. Join the interest list and we'll reach out personally with dates, details, and how to sign up.
Weekends
In-person weekend gatherings and adventures where families play, move, and learn side by side, and leave with habits they can keep.
Want your family's whole system built in person? Work with founder Amaya Johnson through Awareness Architecture™ for families, at Sun From Leo.
For the whole village
Care that reaches the whole household, inside the app. When a mom is pregnant or postpartum, her partner, older children, and loved ones get timely guides on how to care for her, right when they need them, so no one has to read it all once and try to remember.
It's how a village used to work: support that's shared, lived, and passed along.
For universities
Helping colleges engage, include, and welcome parenting students, starting with the guide Family Inclusion in Higher Education.
North star
Family spaces in college towns, near campus rather than on it: room to move and play, with space for outdoor games (lacrosse is our founder's pick), co-working for parents, wellness (yes, a nap), and a welcome for every age. A home base for student parents and the families around them.
Build with us
Families
Come to a free Movement Club, join the app waitlist or the trip interest list, and help shape what's next.
Stay in the loop →Universities
Guides, liaison work, and programming for the students raising children on your campus.
For institutions →Partners
Co-host an event, build programming together, sponsor a session, or donate gear.
Partner with us →Investors
Help build the Campus House and the ecosystem that leads to it.
Start a conversation →Stay in the loop
The app waitlist: hear first when the Pod and Pride app opens. The trip interest list: we'll reach out personally with dates, details, sign-ups, and everything a family trip needs. Stay-at-home parents and student parents: a 15-minute conversation about your days helps shape every feature.