Welcome to Live Well, I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, and on this podcast we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life.

Basically, life is messy, and here we learn to live well anyway. So join me on

this journey as we figured out together. And just to get us started, I'll go first. And today,

I am going first with the one and only Lopa Vandermerch. Now, if you aren't familiar with Lopa,

she is the founder and creator of Rasa. You guys have heard me talk about Rasa on the podcast for, I don't

know, about six months now. I started using their products and absolutely fell in love with them.

I can honestly say that Rasa has become a part of my everyday routine. I absolutely love

drinking all of the different blends of adaptogenic drinks that they have. And I wanted to be able to have

Lopa on the show today to dive into what adaptogens are and what they can do for our body and how we

can maximize the use of them and what Rasa has to offer and how their company developed the way

that it did. I just find it all super interesting and really beneficial because adaptogens are so good

for helping us deal with stress. And I know that is one of the kind of like banners of my life

is dealing with stress. And Rasa has become a really key way that I am helping myself daily

combat those constant stressors that I have on me, whether they're just the

regular everyday things or the really big things that are really hard. Rasa is helping to make it

all a little bit more manageable. So we're going to dive into all of that on this episode with Lopa.

But first, if you are also dealing with some stress and overwhelm with your life,

and you're kind of wondering where to begin getting a hold of things. How do you really make

sense of your life and your schedule and how do you take everything that's rolling around

in your brain and put it down in such a way that you can actually make progress

on it. You can feel productive. You can feel like you are mastering your time instead of your time

mastering you and you can just get rid of a lot of that overwhelm. Then I would encourage you to

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