Emerging Wellness Trends, Healing Hormones and Aligned Friendships with Best Friends Anna Rooke & Sydney Karmes-Wainer
Wellness Her Way with Gracie Norton
Dear Media
4.6 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 7: Today we welcome Anna and Sydney, two brand founders and wellness enthusiasts living in LA who happen to be bestfriends.
Anna Rooke is the co-founder of Akasha Superfoods and has a passion for wellness. Akasha Superfoods sells ocean-based superfoods and skincare products that optimize health and vitality. Our main product is sea moss and we are currently sold in over 50 retail stores across the US and expanding. In my free time I love to play tennis, travel, host retreats, spend time with family, and read a good book.
Sydney Karmes-Wainer is the founder & CEO of French Squirrel. After experiencing hormone imbalances, she discovered a natural and holistic approach to heal her hormones. Based in Los Angeles, CA, she is a Certified Hormone Specialist, specializing in blood sugar management, and a lover of all things chocolate, peanut butter and dates.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:05.7 | You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Noren, and I'm so |
| 0:10.7 | excited to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you. |
| 0:15.0 | Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on |
| 0:19.4 | trends for short-term results. We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it,, mind, and soul instead of jumping on trends for short-term results. |
| 0:25.7 | We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all its forms. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. We have a dynamic duo with us today. |
| 0:34.5 | We've got Anna, who is the co-founder of Akasha Superfoods. It's an ocean-based |
| 0:38.6 | supplement brand. I love all of your supplements. I just tried the new seymost gummies that launch |
| 0:44.9 | and they taste just like gushers. So it's one of my new favorite supplements. And then I also |
| 0:50.3 | use the prebiotic skin mist every single day, twice a day. So I'm so excited to dive into |
| 0:55.5 | all things Seamoss with you. And then we also have Sydney with us. She's the founder of French |
| 1:00.6 | Squirrel, which is a better for you food company. She's also a certified hormone specialist who |
| 1:05.7 | focuses on blood sugar management. All of your snacks are gluten and vegan, correct? Yes. Amazing. Every time I go to |
| 1:13.5 | Airwon, I get the Vizu cereal. It is so good. It's incredible. And then your stuff dates are also in |
| 1:21.6 | fresh market in Florida, which are so good. So I just talked up on those. And yeah, I can't wait to |
| 1:27.1 | talk to both of you. |
| 1:28.5 | We're going to jump in by talking about your background and where you started with your |
| 1:31.5 | companies. I want you to go into detail about your why and your purpose behind your brands. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. So thank you for having us on the podcast. This is seriously a dream come true to do this |
| 1:41.1 | with Anna and with you at the same time. The mission with French Squirrel, |
| 1:45.8 | I for a while, didn't even really get to the root of what the real mission is until recently, |
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