Rooted & Rising: Stories of Transformation, Intuition, and Soul-Led Healing

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In this episode of Rooted & Rising, Tara sits down with Regan Caruthers,  spiritual teacher, author, and founder of Aset Yoga Center,  to explore the awakening that happens when we finally choose to live from love instead of reaction.

Regan shares her deeply personal story behind her new book, Tragic Magic, revealing how a journey through success, heartbreak, and self-forgiveness led her back to Divine Love and conscious living. Together, we talk about what it really means to embody peace, cultivate inner sovereignty, and respond to life with grace, even when it’s messy.

If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your own pain into purpose, this episode will remind you that the magic is never lost, it’s just waiting to be remembered.

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What if slowing down is actually the secret to moving forward? In this deeply grounding episode of Rooted & Rising, host Tara Mychelle sits down with transformational coach and author Karen Bartholomew to explore The Power of the Pause—a simple yet life-changing practice that helps you reset your energy, reconnect with your intuition, and make aligned choices without burning out.

Karen opens up about how early childhood stories of not-enoughness shaped her success-driven adulthood—and how a four-month intentional pause helped her rediscover her voice, self-worth, and purpose. From that transformation came The PAUSE Method, a practical framework for mindful living, emotional healing, and conscious decision-making.

Together, Tara and Karen unpack:

• How to recognize the signs that you need a pause before burnout hits
• Why acceptance isn’t giving up—it’s powerful self-leadership
• How your body signals truth long before your mind catches up
• Simple grounding rituals and micro-habits to anchor calm in your day
• The balance between masculine and feminine energy in business, parenting, and relationships
• How to set boundaries that protect your peace, purpose, and sacred time

If you’ve ever believed you have to earn rest or push through until you crash, this episode will help you reframe rest as radical productivity and self-trust. You’ll leave with real stories, simple tools, and an embodied reminder that slowing down isn’t falling behind—it’s finally catching up to your authentic self.

Find Karen Here: The Power of The Pause

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**DISCLAIMER - I apologize in advance, as there were mic/ sound technical difficulties during this episode, it was a tech moment day, but I chose to role with the imperfections and load this episode, as it's a great conversation!**

**This Episode was recorded on Sep. 30th, 2025**

Is collapse the path to clarity? Join Matt Kennedy and I as we explore the Age of Awakening, personal, collective, and spiritual. Decode media manipulation, unravel money’s grip on power, and reclaim your attention with practical discernment. From censorship’s shadow to inflation’s strain, discover how to stay rooted amid chaos. Matt shares his journey from frustration to bold advocacy, offering tools to navigate engineered shocks and fractured trust. Anchor in faith, whether through scripture or science, and embrace love as a fierce, practical force.

• defining awakening across personal, collective and spiritual layers
• meeting Matt Kennedy and his work in advocacy and media
• censorship, COVID era controls and the pivot to action
• 9/11, surveillance and the long arc of narrative power
• light versus dark as a lens beyond politics
• money as energy and how financial systems shape behavior
• psyops, public trauma and regulating attention
• individual awakening within a collective shift
• faith, Revelation and moral courage in practice
• practical tools for discernment, love and forgiveness
• nervous system care, stepping away from screens and grounding
• questions to ask your body when your mind resists

For those of you who are looking for support and assistance, I do do one-on-one coaching. The links are below. Feel free to reach out to me
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A sealed box can hold more than paper, it can hold years of fear, vigilance, and the version of you who survived. I found mine after thirteen years and chose a simple, sacred ritual: burn what no longer serves. As the pages curled, something else unbound, resentment, confusion, even the quiet hope that proof could keep me safe. What rose in the smoke was space: space for peace, honest love, and a life that matches who I’ve become.

We walk through that moment with care, unpacking why “evidence” often keeps old wounds alive and how physical clutter mirrors emotional entanglement. I share the questions that cut through noise..."What am I still keeping that’s ready to burn?", " What does my body know that my mind resists?"; and the deeper layer many of us avoid: our own patterns. Where do we seek validation instead of self-trust? Where do we tolerate half-present love, blurred friendships, or familiar chaos because it feels like home? Clearing the table became my vow to self-devotion, not defiance, and it changed how I choose relationships, work, and daily rhythms.

If your heart wants calm more than closure, this conversation offers practice: ritual release, honest boundaries, slower yeses, and a gentler nervous system. Expect themes of healing, intentional living, emotional decluttering, and aligned partnership, woven with story and grounded guidance. Come for the fire, stay for the peace, and maybe leave with your own ritual to mark the shift from bracing for lessons to welcoming blessings. If it resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who’s ready to let go, and leave a review so more people can find this space.

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In this episode of Rooted & Rising, host Tara Mychelle invites listeners to step beyond political labels and awaken to a higher truth, one grounded in love, discernment, and conscious creation.

What if the real divide isn’t between left and right, but between light and dark? Between awareness and manipulation? Tara explores how media, fear, and polarization have distorted humanity’s moral compass, and how returning to love and inner truth can free us from the illusion of separation.

Through heartfelt reflection and spiritual insight, this episode challenges listeners to unplug from the “machine,” reclaim their power of thought, and begin creating a new world rooted in compassion, neutrality, and grace.

You’ll discover:

• What it really means to awaken beyond ideology
• How to discern truth through energy and awareness
• Why love, not judgment, is the highest form of resistance
• How our words and thoughts create the future we live in

This is a grounded path to becoming unshakable: speak with integrity, curate your inputs, and let your life broadcast a steadier signal. If you’re ready to unplug from the noise and root into a saner, kinder reality, this conversation offers both clarity and practice. Subscribe, share with someone who needs a breath of perspective, and leave a review to help this space reach more people on the path. If the message resonates, the link in the description is open for one-on-one guidance, let’s walk it together.

Take a breath, release the noise, and tune back into the frequency of love. 

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Do you ever feel like you’re running behind in life, chasing success, love, or purpose, while everyone else seems further ahead? That constant pressure to “catch up” is exhausting… and completely misleading.

In this episode of Rooted & Rising, host Tara Mychelle and Master Life Coach Karen Oliver challenge the belief that you’re falling behind and reveal a transformative truth: you’re not behind...you’re becoming. 

Together, they explore how:

• Comparison and cultural conditioning fuel feelings of inadequacy
• Shifting from survival mode to presence creates true transformation
• Trusting divine timing opens the door to aligned opportunities
• Honoring your current season allows growth to unfold naturally

Karen shares her personal journey of resisting her calling as a coach, only to realize that her unique gifts were meant for the exact people who needed them. Tara opens up about her own leap of faith after being laid off the same week she relaunched her podcast, proof that divine timing can redirect us toward our purpose.

If you’ve been weighed down by comparison, rushing your timeline, or doubting your path, this conversation will inspire you to:
💫 Release the pressure of where you think you “should” be
💫 Root into self-worth and presence
💫 Rise with faith in your own becoming

Tune in now to discover how to embrace your season, trust your journey, and step into the life that’s unfolding perfectly for you.

Find Karen Oliver Here: https://www.wcdcoachingllc.com/

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What are your true core values, and are you actually living by them? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with transformational leadership coach Vanessa Yu to explore the hidden role values play in shaping our choices, leadership, and overall fulfillment.

Together, we dive into why so many of us aren’t even aware of our real values, how to distinguish between inherited beliefs and authentic truths, and what happens when we begin to align our lives and leadership with what matters most.

Vanessa shares insights on “rooted leadership”; a grounded, values-driven approach that rewires how we lead ourselves and others. You’ll hear stories of transformation, practical tools for discovering your own values, and steps to take when you feel out of alignment.

If you’re ready to shift your perspective, lead with integrity, and open your life to deeper clarity and purpose, this episode will inspire you to get rooted in your values, and rise from there.

✨ Connect with Vanessa: coachvanessayu.com

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You can reach out to Vanessa through her website and she will provide you a complimentary assessment that will help you deepen and discover your core values newly or for the first time. 

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What drives your choices, fear or truth? In this episode of Rooted & Rising, we explore how to recognize when you’re reacting from survival mode versus when you’re making aligned choices rooted in your deepest truth.

I share personal stories, like saying yes to a “safe” high-paying job that felt heavy in my gut, or stepping away from a relationship that was deeply right for me, moments where survival won out over intuition. These missteps taught me the power of listening to that inner voice, the wisdom within each of us that guides us toward authentic living.

You’ll also hear the unforgettable lioness metaphor that reshaped my perspective: a lion at the Oakland Zoo followed her instinct to climb into new territory, only to freeze in fear once she got there. How often do we do the same; awaken to our truth, but then get stuck in fear of the unfamiliar?

In this transformative conversation, I share four powerful tools to shift from reaction to intention:

• Pausing before reacting when urgency or defensiveness arises
• Asking your body where a choice lives; tight and anxious, or open and clear?
• Reframing fear-based “what if” questions into possibility-based ones
• Giving yourself permission to choose differently than before

Your body knows the difference between survival-based choices and truth-based ones. When you pause and tune in, you’ll feel it, the heaviness of fear versus the lightness of alignment. This awareness creates freedom, empowerment, and transformation.

✨ In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How to stop reacting from survival mode and start choosing from intuition
• Practical decision-making tools for alignment and clarity
• Mindset shifts to help you trust yourself and your inner knowing
• Journaling prompts to move from fear-based choices into empowered living

I invite you to reflect: Where might you be choosing from fear right now? And what small, intentional shift could you make this week to step into alignment?

Remember, you are never powerless, every choice is an opportunity to root deeper into truth and rise higher into your fullest self.

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We're rebranding from Intuitive Mentor Mom to Rooted in Rising, reflecting a deeper expression of my truth and what I'm here to share. This podcast explores what it means to live with intention, love with depth, and trust that even the hard things in life are shaping us for the better.

• The name Rooted in Rising reflects my belief that when we root deeply into our truth, we rise into our fullest expression
• This podcast will feature both personal stories and conversations with inspiring guests
• We'll explore topics including relationships, sex, parenting, health, spirituality, and politics
• I'm introducing "Root and Rise Check-ins" - two reflective questions to track your growth
• The first question asks "Where did I stay true to myself?" (your root question)
• The second asks "When did I step into a bigger, bolder version of me?" (your rise question)
• Our next episode will focus on the power of conscious choice versus reaction

Make sure you subscribe to Rooted and Rising wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss an episode, and please share a "rooted moment" in the comments so I can celebrate with you. If you know someone who's ready to step into their truth, send them this episode and let's keep rooting and rising together.

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Have you ever felt like a song was trying to tell you something? In this soul-stirring episode of Intuitive Mentor Mom, I share a personal story of how my higher power, God, Spirit, the Universe, communicates with me through music.

What began as a nostalgic moment with a Lionel Richie song turned into a divine message that cracked open my heart and reminded me of one powerful truth: I am love.

You’ll hear how waking up with a song in my head became more than coincidence, it became a love letter from something greater. If you've ever questioned your worth, sought validation from others, or wondered if you're being guided… this story is for you.

Topics we explore:

• Spiritual signs and synchronicity
• Receiving messages from the Divine
• Self-love and inner validation
• Healing through music and memory

Press play and discover how your higher power might already be speaking to you — Truly.

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