Welcome to the Active Ingredient Podcast, your destination for all things inner exploration, growth, connection, and curiosity. I'm your host, Sophie Weill, and I am a deeply curious human who believes that every single person on earth has their own unique and beautiful core essence, which is what I call your ingredient.
And our job here is to uncover what that is and choose to activate it every single day. Howard Thurman said it best. "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." So let's do that.
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On this solo I'm getting into my recent burn out situation, doing too much too soon post-pandemic, stretching yourself in a systematic way and the concept of enoughness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's episode is with Amy Koberling who is a dermatology physician associate at Baumann Cosmetic in Miami who I am actually seeing right now to help me with my acne and she is also an amazing content creator @the_skinthusiast. On today's episode we get into Amy's career trajectory from first thinking she wanted to go to law school, to switching to pre-med and then deciding to go the physician associate route instead and why, we talk about all things hormonal acne, how she started The Skint...
It's the 2 year anniversary of the podcast and I'm getting into why I started it in the first place, biggest learnings, my own Active Ingredient journey, best tangible next steps on figuring out your most authentic self and some episodes that really impacted me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we have Raul Jimenez, a Miami based SoulCycle instructor and recently now also a trainer at Kamps fit. Prior to his career in the fitness industry, Raul was actually on track to become a professional clarinetist and we get into his whole journey on parting ways with an old dream and pursuing something that felt more in line with his current interests We talk about always choosing to be honest with yourself, identifying the difference between resistance and truly knowing you have had en...
This episode is with Julie Jeffries who is the creator of the Not Your Mammas Veggies nutrition course. Julie’s story is a story about strength, resilience, advocating for yourself and for always aiming to understand the root cause of what is going on. After two life changing diagnoses and doing a ton of research, Julie changed her diet to a whole food plant based diet to see if it would help her cases and essentially she healed and supported herself through the way she ate. On this episode, we ...
This week's episode is on my personal mental health journey and the tools that I still lean on today. Link to Melissa Wood Health meditation that helped me start meditating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIypDkhCnAI Breathing tool that works wonders for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GViVk4RVJYE Link to Wim Hof breathwork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ Link to Sophie's account: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/ Link to Active Ingredient's account: https://www.instagram...
This week’s episode is with Shauna Faulisi, who is an incredible celebrity wellness chef, nutrition coach and the founder of the Soul Wellness Method. On this episode we talk about how Shauna accidentally fell into a career in food/how she became a private chef for a celebrity A lister, how following her curiosity in wellness led her to finding her passion, the 6 pillars of wellness, the correlation between having a handle on your finances and feeling generally healthy and confident, paying atte...
I got an apartment in Miami and am now officially splitting time between New York and Miami. This solo episode is on what has and hasn't worked for me throughout this transition. Would love to hear from you if you've moved or have tips as well! Sophie's Instagram: @sophieiweill Active Ingredient Instagram: @activeingredient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.rad...
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
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 h...
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 ...
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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 re...
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 ...
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 s...
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 f...
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, le...
Jaclyn Johnson is a successful entrepreneur and founder of Create & Cultivate, an online platform and conference for women looking to create & cultivate the career of their dreams, host the Work Party podcast, a best selling author, and angel investor. Jaclyn launched and sold her first company by the time she was 29 and launched Create & Cultivate, her second company, after recognizing a gap in conversations, resources, events and community for female millennial entrepreneurs and sm...
Siffat Haider is the Co-founder of Arrae, a natural supplement brand that offers bloat and anxiety relief capsules, and also the host of The Dream Bigger Podcast. On today’s episode we get into how the throughline throughout her career has always been to help women and show them that they can optimize their wellbeing and reach their business goals, how her own health journey led her to experiment with natural remedies to heal her own issues which ultimately led her to start Arrae, the connection...
Today’s episode is with Indré Rockeffeller who is the co-founder of Paravel, an industry-leading sustainable travel lifestyle brand. Before launching Paravel, Indré had a very interesting career - she started out being Anna Wintour’s first assistant at Vogue and then went on to work at several impressive companies like Moda Operandi and Delpozo. On this episode we get into Indré’s love of ballet at an early age and how it led her to a career in the fashion industry, how one trip entirely changed...
This week’s episode is with Mayssa Chehata, the founder of Behave, a better for you candy company that just launched a few months ago with sweet and sour gummies that are low sugar, low net carb, chef-created and an elevated taste that has already been covered in Fast Company, Forbes and Business Insider. On today’s episode, we get into Mayssa’s previous career journey having held brand partnership and business development roles at the NFL, Uber, Daily Harvest, and SoulCycle; we get into the det...
Farryn Weiner is an award-winning brand architect and founder of Farrynheight, a new-age brand marketing agency and she is also the host of the Farrynheight podcast. Prior to building Farrynheight, she was the Vice President of Marketing and Brand Innovation at sweetgreen, before that she was the Senior Global Director of Digital, Social and Creative Communications at Michael Kors Worldwide where she oversaw integrated editorial, digital and social media strategy and has held several previous im...
Bee Shapiro is the longtime New York Times beauty columnist and also the founder of Ellis Brooklyn, a clean luxury fragrance brand that she launched in 2015. Bee found out she was pregnant with her first baby, Ellis, at the height of the clean beauty movement and she began looking for alternative fragrances that felt both luxurious and also safe and clean for her while pregnant and she simply couldn't find it on the market which led her to create it herself in her home in Brooklyn. In today’s ep...
Danielle Duboise is the co-founder of Sakara Life, a 100% plant-based and organic ready to eat meal delivery service company but more than that Sakara is a full on lifestyle. The company has been featured in major publications such as Oprah, Vogue, the New York Times and too many to name here. On today’s episode we get into Danielle’s personal body image journey, how healing herself led her to create Sakara with the intention of healing others, she walks us through how she let go of her original...
Today's episode is with Rachel Liverman the founder of Glowbar, a no fluff facial spa that offers 30 minute customizable facials at $65 dollars. This is Rachel's second time on the podcast and I invited her back because she, like the most of us, has REALLY been tested when it comes to her business. Glowbar had only been open for 9 months before having to shut down due to the pandemic. Her business was entirely closed for 6 months since facials were deemed "phase-less" in New York and still found...
Mimi Ausland is the founder of Free the Ocean, a website that gives anyone anywhere the opportunity to have a daily impact on the issue of plastic pollution. The way it works is by simply going to FreetheOcean.com and answering the daily trivia question. Just by doing that you fund the removal of 1 piece of plastic from the ocean and coastlines. Free the Ocean works with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, and together they have helped remove over 8.5 million pieces of plastic! They now have 30k+ uni...
Dianna is a master marketer and the founder of Crown Affair, a modern beauty brand on a mission to make haircare an everyday ritual. Before starting Crown Affair, she had an extremely impressive career in marketing and partnerships working in-house at some of the most covetable companies including Into The Gloss, Spring, and Away. She eventually launched her first business, Levitate, a brand strategy and marketing consulting company where she worked with some of the top direct-to-consumer brands...
This week's episode is with Chris Roth, Founder and CEO of Highline Wellness - a premium direct to consumer CBD company that offers natural, effective and broad spectrum CBD. Prior to starting Highline, Chris was an Equity Research Sales Director covering e-commerce, internet, consumer and the cannabis space. After attending a Cannabis conference in LA about a year before anyone in NY knew what CBD was he could not get the idea of starting a CBD brand out of his head. As soon as he got back he p...
Michelle Cordeiro Grant is the Founder and CEO of Lively, a community and brand that inspires women to live passionately, purposefully and confidently through experiences and products including bras, bralettes, undies, swimwear, loungewear, fragrance and active bras. Michelle launched Lively 2016 and has amassed and cultivated a network of 100,000+ ambassadors, opened four stores, and coined the term “Leisurée,” a whole new category blurring the aesthetic lines of lingerie, active, swim, and lou...
