Rooted In Resilience Podcast

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  Chaos Isn't Chemistry: What Healthy Love Really Feels Like — Marc Anthony Christian | Ep. 8 18.10.2026 56min

  ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: Rooted in Resilience is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing in this episode is psychological, therapeutic, legal, or other professional advice, and it is not a substitute for working with a qualified professional. The views and experiences shared are personal and reflect one couple's story. If you are in a relationship where you feel unsafe, please reach out to a trusted professional or support line in your area.— — —"I am rooted in a love that I have chosen with the best partner ever."You've seen him behind the scenes of every episode. Today, you finally get to know him. In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with her husband, Marc Anthony Christian, the show's executive producer, for the most personal conversation yet.They met at 17. Then they lived completely separate, full lives: marriages, children, heartbreak, everything life had ready for them. They found each other again in their 40s and built something Zarina once believed didn't exist. It's peaceful. It's safe. Neither of them has to shrink for the other to succeed.This isn't a "look at us" episode. It's a blueprint. The goal isn't for you to want their relationship. It's for you to know this kind of love exists, and how to recognize it, build it, and receive it for yourself.If you've been hurt, divorced, or disappointed and started to believe this kind of love isn't meant for you, this one is for you.— — —🌿 ABOUT MARCMarc Anthony Christian · Executive Producer, Rooted in Resilience · Entrepreneur · Zarina's husband— — —🎙️ ABOUT ROOTED IN RESILIENCERooted in Resilience is a space for honest conversations about the real experiences that shape us: adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina Christian. New episodes weekly. Follow the show so you never miss one.🎥 Watch on YouTube → https://youtu.be/33Y7NGR_AUM🌐 All episodes → https://www.zarinachristian.com/podcast📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/zarina_christian/— — —⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Intro1:34 Meet Marc: met at 17, built a life in our 40s1:52 The right person, or the right versions of ourselves?3:19 Chemistry vs. a connection that feels different6:00 What made marriage feel safe again9:06 How we built emotional safety13:31 Letting go of carrying everything alone15:00 Why we don't fight16:29 How we keep resentment from building18:50 Liking your partner, not just loving them20:58 Peace and passion: keeping both23:02 Spouses, not roommates24:20 Ambition without competition27:51 Supporting someone without trying to fix them29:54 Don't make them pay for your past34:38 What hard seasons reveal about a person35:57 What this relationship healed40:30 Meeting someone vs. choosing them every day41:43 What healthy love feels like from the inside45:37 What to stop accepting as normal47:37 Chaos isn't chemistry48:24 Getting ready to receive healthy love49:51 If you've stopped believing it's possible54:22 Advice to our teenage selves55:42 What are you rooted in?
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  I Thought Success Would Give Me Self-Love. I Was Wrong. — Lidia Ferrer Sciacovelli | Ep. 7 19.09.2026 1h 38min

  ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: Rooted in Resilience is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing in this episode is medical, psychological, nutritional, or other professional advice, and it is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment. The views and experiences shared by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the host or the show. Any mention of a product, supplement, medication, or treatment is part of a guest's personal story. It is not an endorsement, recommendation, or advocacy of that product or its use by Rooted in Resilience or its host. Always consult your doctor or a qualified healthcare professional before starting, stopping, or changing any medication, supplement, diet, or treatment, and never ignore professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you heard on this show.Rooted in Resilience received no payment, gift, or other compensation for any product or business mentioned in this episode.Content note: this conversation includes discussion of eating disorders, addiction, and recovery. If you're struggling, you're not alone. National Alliance for Eating Disorders: allianceforeatingdisorders.com · In crisis, call or text 988 (US).— — —"I always thought the ambition and being successful would give me self-love."In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with Lidia Ferrer Sciacovelli, an entrepreneur and investor who built her first company at 17. From the outside, it looked like success. On the inside, she was living a double life.This is a conversation about the fight she calls one of the biggest of her life. It covers the moment she finally admitted she needed help, the forgiveness that changed her relationship with her parents, and the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi: the idea that the hardest parts of your story can become the gold.She isn't telling this as someone who's "fully healed." She's taking you along the journey, because you might be one step behind her.If you've ever looked successful on the outside while fighting something no one could see, this one is for you.— — —🌿 ABOUT LIDIAEntrepreneur · Investor · Founder, PLZ Health · Author, The Gold Flags of HeartbreakInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/lidiaferrers/PLZ Health → https://plzhealth.comThe Gold Flags of Heartbreak → https://www.thegoldflags.com— — —🎙️ ABOUT ROOTED IN RESILIENCERooted in Resilience is a space for honest conversations about the real experiences that shape us: adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina Christian. New episodes weekly. Follow the show so you never miss one.🎥 Watch on YouTube → https://youtu.be/pRIOYub_6G0🌐 All episodes → https://www.zarinachristian.com/podcast📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/zarina_christian/— — —⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Intro1:40 The woman behind the lifestyle3:40 A company at 17, and life in survival mode7:26 What she thought success would give her11:19 What she saw in the mirror16:48 "Why can't you just stop?"20:45 Why rehab, and why nobody knew28:38 What it was really about31:17 Alone in Thailand: choosing treatment34:13 What treatment taught her42:55 What self-help alone can't fix46:11 Does that voice ever disappear?50:44 How she sees forgiveness55:29 Forgive your parents59:31 Raising kids who won't have to heal1:02:47 From recovery to building PLZ Health1:07:36 Kintsugi: building without compromising1:15:58 What she wishes she'd known about wellness1:21:06 Dating in Miami1:24:17 The red flags she no longer explains away1:27:46 The Gold Flags of Heartbreak1:32:11 What she's still working on1:35:34 What "rooted in resilience" means to her1:37:26 Where to find Lidia
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  If God Gave You the Vision, He'll Give You the Provision — Nyla Ep. 6 06.09.2026 1h 1min

  "I'm not done. I still have more to give — and I'm gonna keep pushing."In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with Nyla — born Nailah Thorbourne: singer, songwriter, and founder. She made history as the first Jamaican woman with a platinum record in the United States, went triple platinum in the UK, and has written songs for Jennifer Lopez, Kelly Rowland, and Christina Aguilera — just to name a few. Her voice is on a record streamed more than a billion times.And then, twenty years in — as a mother, with nothing left to prove — she reinvented herself again. Her shapewear brand Vlair exists because after having her kids she couldn't find shapewear that worked with the clothes women actually want to wear — the cutouts, the open backs. So she sketched it herself.This is not the highlight reel. It's what twenty years actually taught her — about the work, the business, and how you carry all of it at the same time.We get into:- Instant fame with no handbook — "you're not a machine, you're human"- The hit-record business: why writers are the most underrated people in music- Writing what's current — craft, trends, and knowing the market- Two records that lasted decades — "it's a blessing, I've been blessed"- The moment that changed her: emergency surgery at 22 weeks pregnant- The mother instinct — and the story Zarina had never told on the show before- How she knows when it's time to move to the next chapter- Building Vlair: "there should be a shapewear for cutout dresses"- "God has given you the vision, he will give you the provision"- "I'm not done yet" — what's still in herIf you're building more than one thing at once and wondering how anyone actually carries it — this one is for you.— — —🌿 ABOUT NYLASinger · Songwriter · Founder, Vlair ShapewearVlair → https://vlair.storeInstagram → @nylabricknlace · @vlair_shapewear— — —🎙️ ABOUT ROOTED IN RESILIENCERooted in Resilience is a space for honest conversations about the real experiences that shape us — adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina. New episodes weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one.🔔 Subscribe & turn on notifications💬 Comment below: what's the vision you've been given — and what's one step you're taking toward it this week?#RootedInResilience #Nyla #Reinvention #Motherhood #Entrepreneurship #Songwriting #Podcast🎥 Watch on YouTube → https://youtu.be/KQfTkFWJXx4
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  When the Treatment Didn't Work — Jessica Weise on Healing After the Diagnosis | Ep. 5 20.08.2026 1h 21min

  ⚠️ Content note: this conversation includes discussion of mental illness and mental-health treatment. If you're struggling, you can call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) in the US. Please listen with care.Jessica Weise is a certified coach and educator, not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This episode is her lived experience — not treatment advice, and not a reason to change any care you're receiving. Always talk to your own provider.You were diagnosed. You did what you were told — therapy, medication, the whole protocol. And you still didn't feel healed. Now what?In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with Jessica Weise — certified success/life coach, facilitator of transformational processes, and founder of the Mariposas community — who lived exactly that: a diagnosis, conventional treatment that kept her going but never reached the root, and a years-long search that led her to a different kind of healing through inner work, meditation, breathwork, and psychoanalytic-informed practice.This is not a tour of her trauma. It's one honest throughline: what do you do when the standard playbook runs out?In this episode:– The "arrival fallacy" — getting the degree, the money, the job, the partner… and crashing anyway– What therapy and medication DID do for her — and what they didn't reach– Managing vs. healing: how to tell which one you're actually doing– Why "instant results" is a lie, and why people quit when the work gets real– Being loved well and not being able to receive it — and what she'd tell you before it costs you the same– "The man is the problem, the money is the problem…" — the moment you stop looking outward– Don't rush out of the pain: why your hardships are the growth– Healing isn't fixing yourself — it's remembering who you areIf you did everything right and still feel stuck, this one is for you.Watch the full video episode on YouTube: [EP5 LINK]About Jessica WeiseCertified Success/Life Coach · Facilitator of transformational processes · Founder, Mariposas communityWebsite: https://jessicaweise.comInstagram / TikTok: @jessicaweise · YouTube: @jessicaweisecoachAbout Rooted in ResilienceHonest conversations about the real experiences that shape us — adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina. Follow the show so you never miss an episode.Website: https://www.zarinachristian.com · Instagram: @zarina_christian
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  It's Not Just Stress — Kelley Maple on the Midlife Unraveling No One Names | Rooted in Resilience Ep. 4 06.08.2026 55min

  ⚠️ Disclaimer: This episode is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice. It does not replace a consultation with a qualified healthcare provider. Always talk to your own clinician before making changes to your care, medication, hormones, or supplements. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.What if the thing you've been calling "just stress" for three years has a name?In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with Kelley Maple, APRN, FNP-BC — board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner, Chief Medical Officer of Medical Anti-Aging in Fort Lauderdale, and founder of The KM Health Collective. Kelley has spent her career treating hormones. She still didn't see her own perimenopause coming.This is the conversation her other interviews never got to. Not the expert explaining the curriculum — the woman who explained her own symptoms away, kept treating patients while quietly unraveling, and had to become the patient to finally understand what she'd been telling everyone else. Then she turns it outward, and gives you something to actually use.In this episode:– The season her own body started doing things she couldn't explain– The "zone of chaos": why this can start in your late 30s, and why the first signs are mental– Why antidepressant prescriptions jump about 40% for women in their 40s– Testosterone as a female hormone, and the roughly 50% drop by 40– The 2002 study that pulled a generation off hormones, and where the science stands now– Hormones and relationships: what breaks, and what comes back– A free first-steps stack you can start this week: protein, resistance training, creatine– What it costs to be the strong one who's supposed to have all the answersFor anyone navigating a change their body is making without permission — and for anyone hiding a private struggle behind competence.Watch the full video conversation: [YOUTUBE URL]About Kelley Maple, APRN, FNP-BCChief Medical Officer, Medical Anti-Aging · Founder, The KM Health CollectiveClinic: https://medicalantiaging.com/kelley-maple/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kmhealthcollective/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelley-maple-0574681ba/About Rooted in ResilienceHonest conversations about the real experiences that shape us — adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina. Follow the show so you never miss an episode.
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  World-Class Cardiology With a Conscience — Dr. Shaun Smithson on Heart Health, Legacy & Rising | Ep. 3 09.07.2026 1h 10min

  ⚠️ Disclaimer: This episode is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice. It does not replace a consultation with a qualified healthcare provider. Always talk to your own physician about your heart health before making changes to your care, medication, or lifestyle. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.What does it take to build world-class medicine without losing your humanity?In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with Dr. Shaun Smithson — triple board-certified interventional and structural heart cardiologist, founder of One Miami Medical, and one of the most sought-after heart specialists in South Florida and the Caribbean. From Howard University to the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, and more than 20,000 procedures later, Dr. Smithson has built a career on excellence, access, and conscience.This is a conversation about resilience at the highest stakes — the mental weight of holding a life in your hands, the discipline behind mastery, and what it means to be a Black, bilingual cardiologist building something of your own in one of the most diverse cities in America.In this episode:– The moment he knew medicine was his path– What it takes to perform high-complexity heart procedures like TAVR, MitraClip and Watchman– Being the first physician in Jamaica to perform several structural heart procedures– Building One Miami Medical, "Concierge Cardiology with a Conscience"– Health equity: closing the outcomes gap for Black and Latino patients– Legacy, representation, and advice for the next generationAbout Dr. Shaun Smithson — One Miami MedicalInterventional & Structural Heart Cardiologist · MD, FACC, FSCAIWebsite: https://onemiamimedical.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miamiheartdr/About Rooted in ResilienceHonest conversations about the real experiences that shape us — adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina. Follow the show so you never miss an episode.
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  Now You Can Exhale — Alex Lucien on Healing From Trauma & Letting Go | Ep.2 13.06.2026 1h 28min

  ⚠️ Disclaimer: This episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is not medical or mental health advice. Nothing here endorses or instructs the use of any substance or practice. Plant medicines and related modalities carry real risks, may be illegal in your area, and aren't right for everyone. Always consult a qualified professional before making health decisions, and never stop prescribed treatment without medical guidance. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a licensed professional or local emergency services.What does it actually take to put the weight down — and breathe?In this episode of Rooted in Resilience, Zarina sits down with Alex Lucien — ceremonial guide, integration life coach, sound healing engineer, and the voice behind Now You Can Exhale. Alex's work lives at the intersection of the body, the nervous system, and the stories we carry long after the moment has passed. It's an honest conversation about surrender, healing on your own terms, and what becomes possible when you finally stop holding your breath.In this episode:– Why healing is a practice, not a finish line– How the body keeps score — and how to release what it's holding– Sound, breath, and ritual as tools for regulating the nervous system– Integration: turning a breakthrough into a new way of living– Permission to exhale, soften, and come home to yourselfWhether you're rebuilding after a hard season or just learning to slow down, this one is for anyone ready to do the internal work that shows up everywhere else in life.About Alex Lucien — "Now You Can Exhale"Ceremonial Guide · Integration Life Coach · Sound Healing Engineer · Kundalini Yoga · DJLōkahi Healing Sanctuary: https://lokahiholistichealing.com/Kambo Practitioner Collective: http://www.kambopractitionercollective.com/Phone: 305.498.0363Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowyoucanexhale/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NowYouCanExhale44/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7A8Lj3X6b2BrfFaJ5QeTZGYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFYizPQCyhx5Ojrg9H00xAAbout Rooted in ResilienceHonest conversations about the real experiences that shape us — adversity, healing, ambition, family, and self-reinvention. Hosted by Zarina. Follow the show so you never miss an episode.
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  "God Breaks You First" ft. Dr. Genesis Ettienne 02.06.2026 56min

  What if your hardest season was preparation, not punishment?Dr. Genesis Ettienne — Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Marriage & Family Therapist, and Pastoral Psychologist — joins Zarina for a raw, soulful conversation about trauma, faith, and what it truly means to heal. As Director of Behavioral Health at the Pritikin Longevity Center, Dr. Ettienne brings a rare blend of clinical expertise and spiritual depth to every room she enters.In this episode, they explore why God often breaks us before He builds us, how childhood wounds quietly shape our adult relationships, and what healing looks like when it's honest, holistic, and faith-led. Dr. Ettienne also shares how she turned her passion for storytelling into Genesis Sneaker Art — one-of-a-kind wearable pieces that celebrate her clients' resilience.If you've ever felt shattered and wondered if you'd find your way back to yourself — this one's for you.Rooted in Resilience is a podcast for people navigating adversity, healing, faith, and becoming the fullest version of themselves.
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  Who Is Zarina Christian? | Introducing the Rooted In Resilience Podcast 31.05.2026 6min

  CEO at 25. Entrepreneur for 20+ years. Mother of four. And a story most people wouldn't survive.Before the first interview, meet your host.Zarina Christian has built businesses from the ground up, led organizations at the highest level, and carved out a name for herself in industries where women — especially women who look like her — are rarely in the room.But the résumé is only half the story.The other half is what it took to get here. The seasons that tested everything. The losses that could have stopped her. The moments she chose to keep building anyway — when most people would have walked away.Rooted in Resilience is where that story finally gets told. Honestly. Without the filter.This show is for the people who refuse to believe you have to choose — between building something great and being present for the people you love, between being strong and letting yourself feel it, between ambition and peace. Zarina has been in all of it. And she's not holding back.Follow the show so you don't miss the first interview episode.Follow Zarina:Instagram: @zarina_christianWebsite: zarinachristian.com