In the first episode of the Flourishing at School podcast we meet you hosts Tamara Lechner of Canada and Jason van Schie of Australia. They introduce the aim of the podcast which is to advance the understanding and practice of whole school interventions for student and staff mental health. They define the term flourishing and discuss why this should be a goal of schools. They chat candidly about both positive and negative examples of how schools commonly go about mental health initiatives and discuss opportunities for improvement. They introduce the integrated model of mental health and chat about how this can be applied within a school context as a holistic way to prevent illness, promote flourishing and respond to ill-health.