Rooted Conversations
You’re not broken. You’re just disconnected from the truth of your body.
Rooted Conversations is the podcast where real healing meets real life. Hosted by functional health practitioner Mackenzie Grace, each episode peels back the layers of mainstream wellness to explore the messy, beautiful, and deeply transformative process of getting reconnected—to your body, your biology, your inner wisdom, and your power.
We talk about the root causes behind hormone chaos, gut issues, burnout, weight loss resistance, and why “doing everything right” still doesn’t work. We unpack the nervous system, metabolism, trauma, womanhood, and what it actually takes to feel grounded, nourished, and free again.
Whether you’re in your healing era, your soft girl season, or your “burn it all down and start fresh” chapter, you’ll find truth, tools, and fierce compassion here.
Because your symptoms are signals and it’s time someone finally listened.
Rooted Conversations
Life Update, Big Changes in My Business, and What’s Coming Next
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It’s been a minute since I sat down and recorded a solo episode, so today we’re catching up.
Over the last few months there have been a lot of shifts happening behind the scenes. Growth in the business, big decisions, new opportunities, and a season that required me to put some things down so I could fully focus on others.
In this episode, I’m sharing a real life update, the mindset shift that’s been guiding this season for me, and what’s changing moving forward with the podcast.
Sometimes progress doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from choosing where your energy actually belongs.
If you’ve been navigating your own season of growth or transition, I think this conversation will resonate.
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You can also connect with me on Instagram where I share daily education around gut health, hormones, metabolism, and root-cause healing.
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Okay, oh man, it has been a freaking minute since I have sat down and recorded a solo podcast episode. The last solo podcast episode I recorded was back on November 27th, and it was about bloating. I mean it was fire, and if you haven't listened to it, like you absolutely should. But since then I have released a couple guest podcasts, and one that was most recently released on February 27th, and that one was with my best friend who's also a somatic therapist, and it was all about why high-performing women lose their period. But as far as me sitting down and doing a solo episode like this, girl, it's been a few months. Okay, because it is now March. And the last one was November 27th. And honestly, I just felt like the best thing I could do today was actually sit down, reconnect with you all, talk about what's been happening behind the scenes, and also share what's coming next for the podcast. So yeah, I really want to also talk about though, not just that, but what's been coming up for me, you know, because immediately I feel like we have this natural response to like shame, you know. I could shame myself that it has been a couple months since I have done a solo podcast episode that I maybe haven't put as much time and attention into the podcast as I otherwise would have liked. But I think realistically, what's an important perspective to understand is that sometimes in life you actually have to put some things down in order to pick some other things up. Let me dive deeper in here because one thing I think that people don't talk about enough is that our energy and attention are actually finite resources. Finite just means limited. There are only 24 hours in a day. There's only so much energy that you have mentally, there's only so much that you can focus on to the things that you give. Okay. You can only focus so much on things that you give energy and attention to. Every decision comes with what's called an opportunity cost. You have to give things up in order to pursue other things. So if I spend three hours a day building something in my business, then those three hours are things I didn't get to spend on like podcasting, resting, seeing friends, and whatever it might be. Most people think that growth looks like adding more things to their life. Like if you think about starting a health journey, you're just thinking about all of the time that you're gonna have to spend doing your meals and moving your body, implementing drainage support practices. But in reality, growth often looks like strategically removing things so you can focus on what matters most right now. For example, imagine trying to run five different directions at the same time. You actually wouldn't move anywhere. But if you picked up one direction and run consistently in that direction, then you're actually going to start making a lot of progress. And that actually connects to the seasons of focus in your life. So life and business operate in seasons. Sometimes you're building, sometimes you're expanding, sometimes you're maintaining, and sometimes you're resting. But instead of beating myself up, I realize that trying to do everything all at once is usually what actually stalls progress. And I feel like you could relate to this. There's three barriers that I often see and why high achieving women really struggle with this concept. And it's because sometimes we have identity attachment. So we attach our identity to things. Like I'm someone who always does this. Or we have guilt, like high achieving women especially feel like that they should be able to do everything all at once, all at the same time. Or we have fear of losing momentum. And I think a lot of women think that if they pause something, then they're gonna lose everything that they've built. But real momentum doesn't disappear just because you've shifted your focus for a season. So for me, these last few months have been a season where a lot of other things in my life and business have needed focus. Dude, it's been insane. Okay, I'm so grateful for it, but I am in the process of hiring a practitioner. My vision for Rebuilt Roots is to be a multi-practitioner company that changes the way that women think about their health, where they realize that healing is not only possible, but it's actually inevitable. And that we show them the practices to get well and stay well. I've been so focused on growing my business, hiring a practitioner. I've been running a group program because my client roster has almost been full. I'm planning a free masterclass, which, if you're listening to this right now, is happening on March 24th, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. PST, and I would love to see you there. It is the Root Cause Reset Masterclass. It is about how to how to balance your hormones, heal your gut, and your metabolism for good. And I am just so excited to present that, to serve that, but that requires capacity, preparing for it, getting it ready, launching it. I've also been serving my clients, like I said, when I'm almost at a full roster. And on top of all of this, I am going to be turning six years old. Not me, but my company, Rebuff Fruits, is actually about to turn six years old, which honestly still blows my frigging mind. If you're new here, you probably didn't know that I quit my job six years ago with two online clients and this burning desire in my stomach that this is what I was meant to do. Okay. It is crazy because when I first quit, everyone in my family thought I was crazy. I mean, I look back and I'm like, thank God that my frontal lobe was not fully developed because even I think that's crazy. I'm turning 28 this year, and I think back to when I was 21, 22, and I was going to quit my job and go all in on this. And you know, my my thought was just like, hey, worst case scenario, it doesn't work out. I'm just gonna go get another job. But frick, six years goes by fast, and I've never had to get another job. And I went through three years of fitness coaching, and now you see me the last three years of as a functional health coaching company, and doing that, that's real entrepreneurship as well. Like really building your business to a point. Like when I was my running my fitness coaching company, we had a team, I had a coach, I had a VA, I had a setter, I had everything, and I was doing the thing, right? And I thought that that was it, but then I realized that there was so much more to health than fitness coaching, so I burned it to the ground, fired my team, went back to school, and then I started rebuilding, rebuilt Roots Co. So yeah, um, the podcast kind of became one of those things that I temporarily moved to the back burner while I was focusing on some of these other areas because it's not that it wasn't important. I thought about it every single week. Um, but the reason that I was able to get so many episodes out before was because I like sat down and re-recorded episodes, pre-recorded episodes, had lots of guests, and I had them ready, I had them scheduled, and I'd had a lot less going on. Between the months of October and December, which was when I actually launched the podcast, I was actually sitting in a space where I realized I had accomplished everything that I wanted to accomplish in the year, and the podcast was one of those. And so I had so many episodes already queued up, already recorded, that it was just a matter of pushing release. And then everything shifted. Coming to the end of the year, it was a big close, it was reflecting on a lot of these things, and then boom, business started to blow up. So it's not that it wasn't important, it's just that sometimes growth requires choosing where your energy goes for a season. But the thing is, is that I have a goal with this podcast. I want to release 40 episodes this year. When I set that goal at the beginning of the year, I was like, well, that's less than a week. You know, we got 52 weeks in a year, so that's less than an episode a week. I can do that. But now it's March 11th and it's my only second episode that I'm getting out. So it made me realize I've got to get on it. And it's all about compete increasing capacity. I wasn't gonna run the masterclass because I'm already feeling full with an almost full client roster and bringing on a uh a practitioner, but I want to do really big things. If I'm gonna be a multi-practitioner company that changes the way that women think about their health and what it means to get well and stay well, I need to learn how to regulate, how to hold more, how to do more, how to be more, and shift my mindset from doing it all to building a team to help me do it. So, you know, if you're feeling overwhelmed right now or like you're juggling a hundred things and nothing is moving forward, it might be worth asking yourself, what actually deserves your focus in this season? You know, honestly, not all of the time are you gonna be able to do all of the things. Pick one to three priorities, focus on those deeply and allow other things to pause temporarily because you can always come back to things later. And that's really what I'm saying here in this podcast episode. I'm coming back, I'm here, I'm recommitting because one of the things I wanted to do was bring my podcast to 40 published podcast episodes. And I do have a bunch of trainings, client education topics, and conversations that I have ready to release as podcast episodes. So it's just a matter of making that commitment. Honestly, I want to be able to do lots of solo trainings, dive deeper into hormones, digestion, metabolism, have more guest experts, have more conversations around root cause healing. Because honestly, that's why I released this episode, this podcast in the first place in October. You know, I want to be one of the top performing wellness podcasts out there. And recently, with my social media and growing, we have had an insane amount of women tuning in to the podcast. Uh, last time I checked, we had just in the last 30 days, 298 people tune in. And you're telling me that I'm not out here releasing regular episodes? Hell no. No. So if you've been here for a while, thank you for sticking around. If you're new, welcome. I'm so excited to be recording again and sharing more with you. And if you're interested in learning more about root cause healing, then I'm gonna be um hosting that free masterclass. So if you want details on how to get access to that, go to my Instagram and DM me reset, and I will send you the link. It's gonna be happening on March 24th, 2026, and it is on 4:30 p.m. PST, and we are going to be going over um all of the good stuff. So, as I mentioned, it's a whole hour on how to balance your hormones, heal your gut, and metabolism for good. I'm breaking down the exact steps that you need to get started on that type of journey, and it's totally free. So um, I would love to see you there. And ultimately, this episode is just this. It's just me saying, Hey, yeah, I had to put this down for a little bit. I was incredibly busy, and it's not an excuse. It's just that, hey, if you're in that season too, I actually want you to look at what you are doing and what baby do you need to put down in order to pick things up. Um, and I'm gonna be picking this back up and I can't wait, and I'm so excited. So um, you can look forward to some deep trainings on all of the topics already covered. And um I just appreciate you. I appreciate you being here, I appreciate you listening, and I hope that you take away the idea that sometimes in life you have to put things down in order to pick them up because you can't always do everything all at once, and that's totally okay. So that's it, that's all for today's episode, and I will be seeing you very soon for the next episode. Okay, much love.