The Uprooted Podcast

Rashia Bell, Energetic Interior Designer and Crystal Healer, takes us through a guided meditation in honor of the February 2021 Full Moon. In this meditation, we focus on energy that we want to release or let go of. For those looking to put an end to settling or comprising in certain areas of your life, and welcome change or a rebirth. While we did this in honor of a Full Moon, it's a great meditation to fall back on whenever you're ready to enter a new chapter in your life. 

Korey Rowe is an Entrepreneur & Celebrity Personal Trainer. Before he transitioned into the health and wellness arena, he had an illustrious career as an International Model. His decorated career achievements include fitness and fragrance campaigns, appearances on the cover & pages of GQ magazine, Men’s Health magazine, and has also been featured on America’s next top model, CNN & BBC Radio.

With over a decade of experience in the Health and Wellness space, Korey Rowe has helped hundreds of individuals transform how they approach fitness and their lives. By implementing a holistic approach to personal training, his clients work towards their goals with the mantra of being 1% better every day. With this philosophy and a rigorous customized training program, Korey has become a top performer in his field.

He considers his role and responsibility as a Family man, Mentor, and Friend to be his highest title and most significant purpose. He lives by the mantra “ 1% Better Every Day” and believes that by honoring the small yet significant daily disciplines that pull us forward, with humility and consistency, we can live an extraordinary life. In this episode we cover a range of topics including:

Understanding Korey’s 1% better mentality

How to set lasting, achievable goals for ourselves

How to adopt a healthy mindset on the path of self improvement

Identifying your “why” and what you want to leave behind

Overcoming the “never enough” mentality

Understanding the power of choosing our own narratives

How to shift our mindset around “off” days or “cheat” days

Eliminating the need to compare

What to do when we’re not seeing results after making eating/fitness changes

Traver Boehm is the author of Today I Rise, and Man UNcivilized. He’s a two time TEDx speaker, men’s coach and the founder of the UNcivilized Men’s Movement. This movement is radically redefining the way men around the globe experience their masculinity by uniquely blending both primal elements of manhood with massive doses of consciousness.Drawing upon an eclectic background ranging from professional bodyguarding and Mixed Martial Arts to Traditional Chinese Medicine and meditation, Traver also teaches people to skillfully use the inevitable pain of their lives as fuel for growth and positive change.

In 2016 after losing a pregnancy, his marriage, and his business partnership all within weeks of each other, he created a radical social experiment and spent the next 12 months as if it were his last year to live, aptly naming it “The Year to Live Project.” A few of the experiences included volunteering as a hospice worker, spending 28 days in complete isolation and pitch black darkness in Guatemala, and Living in the frigid Utah wilderness for a month with only a knife, a water bottle, and a blanket.

After publishing Today I Rise and receiving an influx of calls specifically from men, Traver began guiding men through their own journey into an actualized version of masculinity by asking them these two questions: “Are you leading or being led?” And, “What are you wounds and what are you doing to heal them?”. When so many said this way of thinking and living was counterintuitive to how they were taught “civilized” men should act, the movement was born.Now men all over the world have deemed themselves UNcivilized as they wake up to meditate, feel into their hearts, and train their bodies. Men who can fight, fuck, feed, and feel. And do all four well.

With a passion for people and a unique lens through which to view the human experience, Traver is a highly sought-after transformational coach in the fields of consciousness, relationship, and personal development. Some topics we cover in this conversation include:

Why we fear hitting rock bottom

Why we’re wired to seek comfort vs. seek change

How challenging situations allow us to become a new version of ourselves

Why we are inclined to hit rock bottom before we make change

The roles that denial & ego play in avoiding painful situations

The power of choice

How we get in our own way of going after the things we want in our lives

How we create narratives for ourselves that unknowingly limit us

Why we prefer to play the victim vs our own hero

Energetic Interior Designer and Crystal Healer Rashia Bell, is the co-founder of THE CRISTALLINE, a multi-faceted lifestyle company that works to help you create balance within all areas of your life. After more than ten years working on the business side of Fashion, Beauty, Jewelry and Luxury industries, Rashia found her creative outlet and expressive voice through Interior Design. A graduate of both the Fashion Institute of Technology and the New York School of Interior Design, she has also completed two Crystal Healing Certifications by the Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts, is a Level 2 Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Healer, Akashic Reader and has completed yoga certifications in English and Spanish. Rashia has taken a uniquely holistic approach to the spaces she transforms for THE CRISTALLINE, by incorporating the energetic and healing powers of crystals and stones into her Interiors. The foundation for this design process is specializing in personal healing work, where Rashia has lead workshops for all ages, private events and retreats around the world. Her work is to show her clients how to find balance within themselves and greater encompassing the spaces they inhabit. Rashia is currently a resident healer at the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, and works with selection of their other properties including the recently opened Four Seasons Philadelphia. Rashia & The Cristalline have recently been featured in The New York Times, Forbes and on Net-A-Porter and Goop. In May 2020, Rashia launched RE.VITYL, a natural sleep wellbeing company with products infused with the energy of crystals. Some topics we cover in this conversation include:

The origin & history of crystals

How crystals have been used in ancient times for meditation, healing, manifestation

The science of crystals & the natural occurring events that took place to uncover different types

The different families of stones and what they’re commonly used for

How stones’ chemical composition can draw or attract certain types of energy

How to shop for crystals

How crystals influence our energy

Breaking down chakras and what each of them pertain to

How to use crystals to affect aspects of energy in our body

How to cultivate high vibrations

How to spot negative energy & protect ourselves from it

Crystals that help in manifesting

Recommendations for a beginner starter pack

This bonus episode is here to serve as a quick little reminder that being single is okay, in fact it's a good thing. We live in a culture that champions dating apps and finding "the one", and we don't see many people celebrating the incredible things that being alone can do for ourselves. I decided to share some of my personal experiences and lessons I've gathered about what it means to cultivate a single confidence. I want this episode to be something you keep in your back pocket. For anyone who is feeling insecure about the fact that they haven’t found “the one” yet, for the person who just got ghosted on a dating app, for the person who is single yet all their friends are in relationships, or for the person who is unhappy in a relationship and is afraid to be alone. This episode will be a confidence booster and a reminder that being single is part of life. This isn't a hate on relationships or love, it's simply about how to love being single. 

Trish Barillas is a life coach, speaker and author with over a decade of experience in relationship, anxiety and job coaching. She’s a survivor of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)/Panic Disorder and over time has found the right team of healers for her mind and body, but more importantly patience within herself.

She shared her book/memoir to break her silence and address the stigma of what mental illness looks like. Anxiety no longer defines her; she allows it to flow in and out of her life. She chose to make transparency a part of her practice/message in order to let other’s know they are not alone, and that they too can overcome this.

Her dysfunction has now become her function and she’s here to help you make that transition too. In this powerful episode, we touch upon so many different things. Some topics you can expect include:

The textbook & situational definition of anxiety

What happens in the body when we are in panic mode

How & why we attach to irrational thoughts

Characteristics of anxious vs. non anxious people

Why anxiety isn’t normalized & how to talk to ourselves to normalize it

How to understand that your feelings are not your reality

The signs & symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and OCD

How to let go of the need to control

Shifting from a “what if” to a “what is” mentality

Tips & tangible methods for coping with anxiety

Advice for taking medication

Alexandria Gilleo is a Global Campaign and Celebrity Makeup Artist, beauty and wellness expert, biohacker, content creator, entrepreneur and founder of My Zen Den, a boutique wellness hub in Beacon, NY.

She’s always been captivated and inspired by the beauty that each individual possesses. Her goal is to make her clients look good and feel beautiful. Whether the task is a commercial, advertising, video, interview, press, or print, she will adjust her technique to answer the demands of different lighting set ups, scenarios, and pressure-packed situations.

Alexandria’s originality and charisma has propelled her through 11 years as an esteemed makeup artist, wellness expert, and beauty and skincare coach. Always on the go, she never gets tired of the excitement of working and being on set. Her aesthetic is clean and her focus is healthy, fresh, radiant skin. She is deeply passionate about enlightening others through sharing expert advice and knowledge.

Her work can be seen in Ulta, Sephora, Kohl’s, and Philosophy stores globally, and has been seen on faces including Adriana Lima, Alexander Wang, Charlie Sheen, Camila Coelho, and Paul Rudd, to name a few.

We cover all the bases in this episode and end the with a speed round of skincare trends to get Alex’s approval or disapproval on. Some topics we cover include:

The most common skin challenges people face

Contributing factors to skin problems

How to eat & drink right for your skin

How our habits, rituals and mindset affect skin health

Alex’s suggested skincare routine

Exfoliation best practices

Ingredients to look out for in products for different skin types

The best supplements for skin

The power of sweating & sauna

Expert opinion & advice on popping pimples, ice rolling, cupping, gua sha, and skincare fridges

Jack Hazan is a Licensed Mental Health Coach and therapist at Bryant Park Therapy in New York City who’s here to modernize and normalize therapy today.

Jack’s specialties lie in helping those work through the difficulties around feeling a sense of fulfillment within themselves and/or their relationships. Together, he creates a plan with his patients with personalized coping skills and tools to lead them toward creating deeper, more meaningful connections with others and themselves.

His style of therapy is more direct and solution-focused as compared to let’s say, the ordinary and outdated talk therapy. He takes an active role during his sessions while utilizing more modern and progressive therapeutic techniques proven to bring forth effective results.

At its simplest form, his therapy approach offers an inviting space needed to work through the many challenges a patient faces in life. Together, he focuses on integrating the various dimensions of his patient’s personal identity and brings forth insight to help them lead a more authentic and fulfilled life. In this episode, he compares finding a therapist to finding the right partner, teaches us how to walk around with a healthy sense of entitlement, but not to be an asshole at the same time and talks about his approach to therapy as he claims himself to be the Mother Theresa meets Jeff Bezos kind of therapist. Some topics we cover include:

The different types of therapy

Why our society has a stigma around therapy

How therapy supports our mental health

How the physical act of talking about something helps us heal

Why people hesitate asking for help

What someone can expect in a therapy session

How to find the right therapist for you

How therapy helps us strengthen the relationship we have with ourselves

Dria Murphy is the Founder and CEO of Alise Collective, a creative marketing company that takes a 360 degree  approach to building brands. Dria launched Alise Collective in 2015 and now works with a curated network of like-minded lifestyle and wellness clients.

Prior to founding her own creative brand-building company, Dria held communications and PR roles at top fashion houses including Calvin Klein, Topshop, and Ralph Lauren. She helped establish a fashion tech startup, called Keep, as a top player in the tech, home decor, and fashion industries. When the trajectory of her career changed courses, Dria took a step back and realized that she wanted to be more involved in the wellness industry and represent authentic brands that were making a positive impact.

Since starting Alise Collective, she also Co-Founded the ness, a digital platform and boutique fitness studio that specializes in beat-based trampoline cardio and muscle-sculpting classes.

We cover many wellness trends and popular health topics in this episode. Some you can expect to hear include:

How to find what works for you individually within the wellness world

The importance of ingredients & education when choosing products to take

Key things to look out for before trying products or supplements

How consistency plays a role in your day-to-day

The underlying meaning of self care

How to actively disconnect and not always be “on”

How physical activity supports our mental health

Best practices to organically implement new rituals in your day

Understanding progress and its ups & downs

Surrendering to the unknowns in life

The origin of the ness & what it offers

Carl Germano is a NY Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a Certified Nutritional Specialist, as well as the Vice President for Verdant Oasis, one of the largest growers, extractors and suppliers of CBD rich hemp oil. He holds a masters degree in clinical nutrition from New York University and has over 40 years experience as VP of product development for several of the largest vitamin supplement companies in the trade including Solgar, Country Life and Bluebonnet. He has also been instrumental in bringing cutting-edge nutritional materials and finished product formulations to a variety of markets including dietary supplements, medical foods, cosmetic, and functional beverages. Some of which have afforded him the opportunity to develop product lines like Martha Stewart Essentials® and a sports nutrition line for the military at West Point.

He’s a prolific author with several bestselling trade books, has held a nutrition practice at The Nutrition Therapy Center in New York, headed a private product development consulting company for many years, and is a frequent lecturer and radio guest. Some topics we cover include:

Carl’s background in the clinical nutrition, supplement and Cannabinoid industry

Origin of CBD and its role in supporting the Endocannabinoid system

The differences between marijuana and hemp

Why CBD gets falsely associated with THC

How to define what CBD is & when it started becoming popular

How CBD plays a role in the body when taken

What to look for when buying CBD & the different types

What to take or consume alongside CBD to optimize absorption in the body

The best times of the day to take CBD to achieve different results

Trusted, go-to brands for CBD products