Daina Trout is the CEO and Co-Founder of Health-Ade Kombucha, the fastest-growing Kombucha brand on the market. Daina started with her husband and best friend five short years ago in the farmer’s market with $600 and no idea what they were doing.

I’m fascinated by big dream, little resource stories like Daina’s and was thrilled to have her on Radically Loved. Health-Ade is like the only Kombucha I drink, so I’m excited to talk with the woman who started it all.

Daina was so awesome to share what inspired her to start a business, how she did it, and what leads her to grow and evolve today.

Radically Resourceful Daina

• Having a strong feeling that there was something else out there for her to do
• Going from business ideas of hair-loss prevention to kombucha
• Pushing herself and her dreams to the next level

Radically Inspired Clarity

• The better you get at communicating, the better you’ll be in your personal and professional life.
• The pain and darkness you feel is the price you pay for getting stronger.

Daina Trout Answers…

• How do you make kombucha?
• What was the biggest obstacle in creating your business?
• What do you do when you lack inspiration?

Radically Loved Quotes

“Health has more to do with your personal happiness than science.”

“Fermented foods hold power. You replenish your body with probiotics it depends on.”

“Every year we grow has required me to step even more into the leader and strategist I know I can be.”

“Running a successful business is as simple as getting back on the horse every time you fall.”

A Little More About Our Guest

Health-Ade has grown from an idea to 100 employees strong in 7,500 stores nationwide. Besides Health-Ade's leader, Daina is also a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a spinner, a yogini, an artist, a wine-lover, and a cook. www.health-ade.com

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Rosie Acosta is a E-RYT Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer + Wellness Consultant, a Holistic Health Coach, as well as the founder of Radically Loved: Yoga, Health + Wellness and Host of Radically Loved Radio. Rosie is an expert at helping her students cultivate a life of mindfulness, presence, and intention. She is known as a teacher who is skilled in her ability to guide students into experiencing a deeper connection with themselves and exploring the consistent changes of life while creatively weaving in spiritual elements from her own practice and experience. East Los Angeles Native, troubled teen who suffered from depression, anxiety, and overeating who turned into a Yoga + Meditation teacher and is now changing lives… In all her work, Rosie teaches and practices RADICAL LOVE and uses this as a guiding force to overcome adversity. Through yoga, healthy lifestyle choices, mantra, and self-inquiry she aspires to help others find their unique gifts and fire within, she creates practices for her students and connects with people in a way that helps her students live radically loved lives. She has used her experience teaching her day to day students working in her community and has worked with elite Olympic athletes, NFL Champions, NBA All-Stars, At Risk Youth and Afghanistan Veterans. Most recently, she is working on a book about Yoga and Meditation. Her articles can be found in Mantra magazine, MindBodyGreen, FOX News Latino, Pop Sugar Fitness, Well+Good, and Evolve Fit Wear. She can be found teaching yoga and coaching workshops around the country as well as leading international teacher training’s. Rosie is also a proud ambassador for Yoga Journal, Live-Be-Yoga, LuluLemon, Gamut, City Silence, Manduka, and Living Yoga.

Luke Storey, a former Hollywood Celebrity Fashion Stylist, has spent the past twenty-one years developing and refining the ultimate lifestyle, based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality, while at the same time embracing the technology and modern conveniences of urban living.

I chatted with Luke about how he used himself as a human research lab to explore a broad and sometimes extreme variety of measures to obtain optimal health, performance, and well-being. From surviving being injected with poisonous Amazonian frog venom, to enduring weeks of neurofeedback meditation in an isolation chamber, Luke is definitely someone you want to talk with.

He is the host of the incredible Life Stylist Podcast and was so generous to join us on Radically Loved. Luke and I jam about insecurity and the inner critic, learning more about personality, unconscious motives, and the complexity of growing relationships.

Radically Hearted Luke

• Learning to accept silence instead of fumbling with filler words
• Understanding himself and what personality means for the course of life
• Becoming conscious about motives and the nature of ego

Radically Inspired Clarity

• You can feel the depth of humanity and connect with your body when you’re pushing yourself psychologically with experiences like ice baths.

Luke Storey Answers…

• After wanting to be a musician, how has your dream changed?
• How have you grown in recent relationships?

Radically Loved Quotes

“I’m seeking truth, finding it, vetting it, and starting the process again.”

“The only time I’m passive is when I’m meditating.”

“What I want now is to develop myself and my sense of self-acceptance. I’m allowing myself to be more and more real in my relationships and in the world of social media.”

“When it comes to relationship advice, I seek advice from people who are in happy, healthy relationships.”

A Little More About Our Guest

Luke has tenaciously applied the results of his field research and used them to not only completely transform his own life but also the lives of thousands of fans and followers through his various media channels and speaking engagements.

As a transformational coach, public speaker, and entrepreneur, Luke continues to share his strategies for healing and happiness to corporate as well as private clients, through his innovative and highly effective lifestyle design coaching system, Youtube channel, and wildly popular podcast, The Life Stylist. Since 2008, Luke has also served as Founder and CEO at School of Style, the nation's most prominent fashion school for stylists. www.lukestorey.com

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Rosie Acosta is a E-RYT Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer + Wellness Consultant, a Holistic Health Coach, as well as the founder of Radically Loved: Yoga, Health + Wellness and Host of Radically Loved Radio. Rosie is an expert at helping her students cultivate a life of mindfulness, presence, and intention. She is known as a teacher who is skilled in her ability to guide students into experiencing a deeper connection with themselves and exploring the consistent changes of life while creatively weaving in spiritual elements from her own practice and experience. East Los Angeles Native, troubled teen who suffered from depression, anxiety, and overeating who turned into a Yoga + Meditation teacher and is now changing lives… In all her work, Rosie teaches and practices RADICAL LOVE and uses this as a guiding force to overcome adversity. Through yoga, healthy lifestyle choices, mantra, and self-inquiry she aspires to help others find their unique gifts and fire within, she creates practices for her students and connects with people in a way that helps her students live radically loved lives. She has used her experience teaching her day to day students working in her community and has worked with elite Olympic athletes, NFL Champions, NBA All-Stars, At Risk Youth and Afghanistan Veterans. Most recently, she is working on a book about Yoga and Meditation. Her articles can be found in Mantra magazine, MindBodyGreen, FOX News Latino, Pop Sugar Fitness, Well+Good, and Evolve Fit Wear. She can be found teaching yoga and coaching workshops around the country as well as leading international teacher training’s. Rosie is also a proud ambassador for Yoga Journal, Live-Be-Yoga, LuluLemon, Gamut, City Silence, Manduka, and Living Yoga.

Ethan Nichtern is a Shastri, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, and currently senior teacher-in-residence for the Shambhala NYC community. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path and most recently, The Dharma of The Princess Bride: What The Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships.

I’m so excited to have Ethan on the show again to talk about all the ways this his book, The Dharma of The Princess Bride, relates to how we live our lives. Our conversation touches on transparency, the Trump era, and technology. Ethan is one of my favorite people and I’m so grateful he’s shared his thoughts with us.

 Radically Reflective Ethan

• Discovering the Buddhism and wisdom of The Princess Bride
• Bringing in modern personal and cultural narratives to spiritual teaching
• Translating spiritual texts through experiences and stories

Radically Inspired Clarity

• If you’re going to be guiding others, it’s helpful to be open and exhibitionist about your own process. Otherwise, teachers are put on a dangerous pedestal.

Ethan Nichtern Answers…

• Which character do you resonate with the most and why?
• How can we bring more of this fairytale wonder into our lives?
• What is the broader context of ‘As you wish’?

Radically Loved Quotes

“It’s really important that spiritual teachers are leading the way, becoming more empathetic and empowering others.”

“Any spiritual teaching arises from the context of a cultural moment or personal moment.”

“Intoxicants can mean that which you see that takes your mind away from thinking clearly.”

“Within any tradition there are many different perspectives.”

A Little More About Our Guest

 For the past 15 years, Ethan has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and workshops around New York City and North America and Europe. He primarily studies in the Shambhala tradition under Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, but has also studied Theravadan and Soto Zen Buddhism. He is also an avid yoga practitioner. www.ethannichtern.com

• Reframe the situation
  • Look at all the positives of leaving that person. They may have been amazing in some way, but so are many other people in the world. What do you gain from no longer being with that person? 
• Write a letter
  • If you were unable to get the closure you wanted (like me) you can try writing a letter sharing all the things you wanted to say in it. It may have been their issues or yours that resulted in the breakup. What matters is that you express yourself, and once you are finished, either read the letter days later for solace, or discard it. Remember: DO NOT mail this emotional letter since you may open up wounds or seek attention they are not willing to give.
• Magnify their issues
  • This one’s a bit harsh, but if you’re in an emotional fog, you need to downplay the positive traits you remember of him or her. You need to understand that they aren’t perfect. They had their issues, and in the end you may have dodged a bullet. You’ll never know, but the point is to cope through the loss of being around them.

Robert Sturman is a visual artist and dedicated yoga practitioner. His work has increasingly focused on capturing the timeless grace embodied mindfulness of asana. Sturman’s portraits, whether set in the lively streets of Manhattan, the expansiveness of Malibu's beaches and canyons, the timeless elegance of Walden's New England, or the bleakness of San Quentin Prison, remind us that there is beauty everywhere.

He has done incredible work capturing the essence of this practice in a beautiful, remarkable way. He is such a wise sage and I feel so honored to be his friend and have him be part of this community.

Radically Sage Robert

• Learning to be in the knowingness and walk away confidently as a photographer
• Changing the definition of being an artist from self-destructive to self-respecting
• Discovering the beautiful poetry of yoga and telling humanity’s story

Radically Inspired Clarity

• So much of yoga is simplicity and prayer. It can be intimidating if you don’t honor the poses that come from the heart.
• Stop looking outside. The more sincere you become, the more authentic your work is.

Robert Sturman Answers…

• Did you see your path going in the direction of yoga?
• What big changes have you seen in yoga in the past years?
• What advice would you give to people who feel unoriginal?

Radically Loved Quotes

“So many people are concerned with being interesting. I’ve found that people who are more interested in things are more interesting.”

“I wanted to rewrite the story of what it means to be an artist.”

“Photography starts to pave the way to create a new reality.”

“If you change someone, you’re almost saying there’s something wrong with them. I’m not going to change someone and turn them into some homogenous yoga person.”

A Little More About Our Guest

The subject of two New York Times articles, Robert’s work has increasingly gestured at something beyond the physical, something transcendent. His stunning repertoire runs the gamut from yogis perched on rocks surrounded by the Pacific ocean, to African orphans practicing yoga in Kenya, to breast cancer survivors, bare-chested and scarred. A native Southern Californian, Robert Sturman lives in Santa Monica with his dog, Chai. www.robertsturmanstudio.com/

It’s fairly simple:

1. Pick an MIT. First thing in the morning, before you get on your phone or online, think about what you need to do. What would make the biggest difference in your life, your work? If you have several, it doesn’t matter … just randomly choose one for now. You can get to the others later. Don’t waste your time in indecision, the point is to practice with one task. This one task you choose for today is your one Most Important Task (MIT).
2. Do a 15-minute focus session. As soon as you start working for the day (maybe after getting ready, eating, yoga/meditation/workout, whatever), clear away all browser tabs, applications, and anything you don’t need for your MIT for today. Start a timer for 15 minutes.
3. You only have two choices. For these 15 minutes, you can not switch to anything else (no checking email, messages, social media, doing other work tasks, cleaning your desk, etc.). You can only a) work on your MIT, or b) sit there and do nothing. Those are your only options. Watch your urges to switch, but don’t follow them.
4. Report to an accountability partner. My coaching client is going to succeed in large part because he has me to keep him accountable. Find a partner who will keep you accountable. 

Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher known for her impassioned activism, unique self-expression, and inspirational style of teaching that incorporates both the physical and mystical aspects of the practice of yoga.

Since the beginning of her teaching career in 1994, many yoga, health and wellness sources have sought her insight and expertise. I can honestly say this woman is my hero.

Seane is an incredible inspiration and a powerful voice in our community. I had the chance to talk with her on a number of subjects, particularly one that’s been taking over the media and I was so inspired by what she had to say. I am honored to share this conversation with you. Enjoy!

Radically REAL Seane

• Recognizing how women are conditioned to make excuses and minimize issues
• Allowing someone to bear witness to your struggles and breaking the shame
• Investing time in learning more about politics and how things are run

Radically Inspired Clarity

• Changing people will change the system. We need to get more women in office to change things from the inside.

Seane Corn Answers…

• Why is this happening now?
• How do we begin to change power dynamics?
• How can we educate our yoga community?

Radically Loved Quotes

“I can speak out because I’m in a position to do so. Therefore, I have a responsibility.”

“Me too is powerful. It’s a movement whose time has come.”

“If it’s not safe to be heard, find an ally and practice telling your truth to someone.”

“When someone is vulnerable and healing, the parameters of consent really need to be looked at.”

A Little More About Our Guest

Seane’s classes integrate dynamic vinyasa flow asana (linking movement with breath) with the application of precise alignment, meditation, visualization, intention and prayer to create an inner journey towards healing and empowerment.  A uniquely modern yogini, both present to the challenging realities of contemporary life and deeply motivated by the great mystical teachings of inspired love, she’s dedicated to exploring truth in all the moments of life, both the light and the dark; elements found in all human experiences.  She approaches her life with a fierce willingness to learn and grow, and her commitment to make spirituality accessible and inspiring to all is reflected by her own willingness to deepen her personal understanding of the mysteries, and her desire to share all that she discovers along the way.  www.seanecorn.com

#1 Do a yearly review

• What went well for me last year?
• What accomplishments did I have?
• How did I improve my life?
• How did I improve my relationships?

#2 Finish what you started

#3 Be realistic

#4 Focus on what you really want

#5 Put yourself at the top of the list

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Rosie and Brant reflect on how this “incredibly life-changing experience” has helped them expand how they see yoga.