Active Ingredient Podcast

This week’s episode is with Radha Agrawal, who is a social entrepreneur, community builder, author, founder of Daybreaker, and also the co-founder of THINX. This conversation is all about the importance of having a community you feel like you truly belong to, how to cultivate meaningful relationships, make friends as an adult, how to take inventory of yourself/what you are attracting and why belonging is a key to happiness and longevity.

Radha's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/love.radha/
Radha's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Belong-People-Create-Community-Connected/dp/1523502053
Sophie's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/
Active Ingredient's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient/
Link we referenced in the show here: https://dose.daybreaker.com/

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On this solo episode I'm talking about how I am being discerning when it comes to how I'm filling my plate in a post pandemic world. I get into big learnings during this time, what is going to be non negotiable and how I plan to reintegrate now that things are slowly opening back up in the hopes that you too will take inventory of this past year and choose what you actually truly want to bring back on your plate.

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This episode is with Dr. Mona Vand, a pharmacist and content creator who is always serving such interesting and thoughtful content when it comes to wellness/nutrition and does it in such an easy to digest way.

On this episode we go through Mona's journey from being a full time pharmacist to now being a full time content creator and how her path was not linear at all, we discuss the importance of money not being your biggest motivator, why she took a 2 month long digital detox to reconnect with herself and step outside of the content creating rat race and what her key learnings were during that time, how she's creating conscious content today and why you absolutely cannot rely on anyone else to make your life interesting.

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Dr. Matt Devoe is a leading chiropractor in NY and founder of Empire City Chiropractic.

In this episode we get into Matt’s journey and how he paved his own path in the chiropractic field, his unconventional and extremely thoughtful approach to patient treatment, his thoughts on scaling when you yourself are the talent, how therapy has played a huge role in his life, why he never focuses on the destination, finding fulfillment in the balance between hustle and gratitude and we get into detail on things we could be doing at home to help our backs out, what type of mattresses we should be sleeping on and what our computer setup should look like if you are working from home.

Link to Dr. Matt Devoe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matthewdevoe/

Link to Dr. Matt Devoe’s website: https://www.empirecitychiropractic.com/

Link to Sophie’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

Link to Active Ingredient’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient/

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This solo episode is all on the importance of cultivating a gratitude practice to rewire our brains in order to find the best in every day/moment. This has been an absolute game changer for me and I have been working on it for over three years. In this episode I'll walk you through exactly how I do it, where I do it and how it's changed the way I view things. I also go down memory lane and pick out a few examples from past entries over the past three years.

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This week’s episode is with Sasha Plavsic, the founder of ILIA Beauty, the best selling clean beauty brand on the market today.

Before ILIA, Sasha had a career in branding where she worked both at an agency as well as in house at brands like Saje and Urban Decay. At the age of 30, she couldn’t shake the feeling of being unfulfilled and decided to quit her job, leave the long term relationship she was in and essentially move back in with her parents to give herself time to breathe, regroup and reconnect with herself and her roots. She launched ILIA back in 2011 and completely self funded the brand for the first 8 years of the business.

On this episode we get into Sasha’s journey on how she got to where she is today, we talk about her evolution in business having started two businesses prior to ILIA and what it was about this idea that stuck, having the strength to let go of things and people that no longer serve you, tuning in and listening to your inner voice, not giving into societal pressures, finding your own personal groove and how her own Active Ingredient has evolved throughout the years.

Find ILIA here: https://iliabeauty.com/

Find Sasha Plavsic’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sashaplavsic/

Find Sophie’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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This week's solo episode is all about rejection and perseverance. I'm bringing back one of the most impactful takeaways we've had on the show that was from the episode with Rebecca Minkoff. She shared with us how in the early days of building her brand it was a ton of legwork to get people to take her line and was rejected constantly. Instead of getting emotional she figured out what the math equation would be to get her line into three stores and realized it took 1000 asks in order for that to happen. Moving forward she just saw it as an equation and knew that it would take 1000 asks to be in 3 stores which helped remove the emotion from rejection. Thought this was so valuable and wanted to bring it back!

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Alyssa Greenberg is a freelance photographer based in NYC with a focus in lifestyle, fashion and portraiture and has worked with some of the biggest names in brands and entertainment. Back in 2015, after having gone swimming in a lake with her friends, Alyssa's right eye unknowingly became infected with Acanthamoeba Keratitis, a parasite, that resulted in 2 cornea transplants and ultimately completely lost her vision in her right eye which is the eye she used to shoot with. While she says that she wouldn't wish what happened to her on her worst enemy, she is actually grateful it happened to her because it entirely shifted her perspective and view of life for the better. This life changing hurdle only reinforced her deep love of photography and she decided to adapt and persevere. She trained her left eye to be her "shooting eye" and says that losing her vision has actually driven her to become an even better photographer. 

On this episode we discuss her background into how she got into photography in the first place, she walks us through her whole process of having lost her vision and how she coped, what she learned about people and how they deal with pain, and her biggest learnings from going through it, we talk about the importance of being truly grateful (specifically for your health), why your passion doesn't necessarily need to be your carer, finding the small things to actually be the biggest victories and getting comfortable with adapting no matter the circumstance. 

Find Alyssa's personal Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/smallgirlnolens/

Find Alyssa's photography Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/smallgirlbiglens/

Find Alyssa's website here: http://www.alyssagreenbergphotography.com/

Find Sophie's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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This week's Active Takeaways episode is my first-ever solo episode and I'm highlighting on one of my favorite takeaways from a past guest that has really changed my life for the better. The takeaway for this episode is to create space in your life to be silent and still with yourself in order to really start listening to your own inner guidance. I know it sounds "woo woo" and I was resistant to it for so long but since I've been actively practicing this, it has made a massive impact on my life for the better. On this episode I go through different areas in my life I have been able to find the silence and create space in the hopes that it can help you find the clarity in your life as well.

Feel free to reach out to me via DM on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill

Episode referenced was with Mayssa Chehata, founder of Behave that was released on November 30, 2020.

Sending you so much love!

xx
Sophie

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This week's episode is with Kristina Rodulfo who is the Beauty Director at Women's Health where she oversees beauty coverage across print and digital and is an expert in product testing, identifying trends, and exploring the intersections of beauty, wellness, and culture. Prior to Women's Health, she held roles at ELLE.com, Popsugar and InStyle. 

In this episode we get into her career in media and how she got there, creating clear boundaries, going after what you want, the new media landscape, learning how to say no, and giving yourself time to just be. We also get into Kristina's view on beauty being a vehicle for both storytelling and gaining confidence and how she uses her voice in the media to empower marginalized communities. 

Find Kristina's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/kristinarodulfo

Find Active Ingredient's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/activeingredient

Find Sophie's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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