Rooted & Rising: Stories of Transformation, Intuition, and Soul-Led Healing
Formerly the Intuitive Mentor Mom Podcast, now Rooted & Rising is a space for those ready to stop living life on autopilot and start living it by design. Hosted by Tara Mychelle — woman, mother, entrepreneur, friend, daughter, corporate professional, and energy practitioner — this podcast is born from the roots of challenge and the rise of self-discovery.
Here, we explore the truth that life isn’t happening to us, it’s happening for us. When we release the victim within, we reclaim our power as the hero of our own story. Through healing and transformation, we create an inner world so rich and aligned that our outer world naturally reflects it.
With personal stories, raw reflections, and inspiring conversations, each episode invites you to deepen your roots in self-awareness, self-love, and truth — and rise into your fullest self-expression. Together, we’ll explore everything from love, relationships, and parenting to health, spirituality, and the courage it takes to live fully awake.
This is your invitation to heal, transform, and create a life you love — from the inside out. Get rooted. Rise high. And live the story you were born to tell.
Rooted & Rising: Stories of Transformation, Intuition, and Soul-Led Healing
71: The Freedom To Stop Performing
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This week’s episode isn’t on time, on track, or on par — and that’s the point. I gave myself the freedom to stop performing, stop chasing, stop pushing to build and create and do. What happens when you just be? What are you missing when you’re always in motion? An unfiltered, unscripted reflection on performance culture, FOMO, and choosing presence over productivity — even when it means showing up without a plan.
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Whether you’re ready to take that step now or simply sit with what surfaced today, trust this:
You’re not here to live in limbo.
You’re not here to shrink yourself to fit into someone else’s maybe.
You’re here to be rooted.
And you’re here to rise.
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Choosing Freedom Over Performance
SPEAKER_00I gave myself the freedom to stop. I gave myself the freedom to stop performing. Today I woke up in a space of freedom because today is the day my podcast is supposed to go out. And yesterday and the day before yesterday, I gave myself the freedom to stop performing. I gave myself the freedom to stop thinking that I had to have everything done by a certain time and a certain day. Because why? Because I'm going to miss out on something, because I'm pushing to perform, because I'm told that if I don't submit, if I don't release enough content in a certain amount of days or weeks, it's never going to go. It's never going to move. It's never going to happen. That is the world that many of us live in. A performance world. Performing to attract a mate, performing to be on the top of your sales game, performing to be whoever you need to pay be to pay your bills on time, performing on social media to get likes, to get views, to build momentum, performing to hurry up and get somewhere. Where is that somewhere? What is that we're missing? In that state of performance, we need more. We have to get more. We need higher. We need better. We need this. Not perfectly, but powerfully into who they are here to be. Here we explore what it means to live with intention, to love with depth, and to trust that even the hard things are shaping us. I'll share pieces of my own journey, the cracks, the beauty, the breakthroughs, and invite voices who are walking this path too. Because I believe life isn't happening to us, it's happening for us. So come as you are, root in and rise up. And thank you. Truly, thank you for being
Questions That Break The Spell
SPEAKER_00here. Welcome back to Rooted in Rising Yellow. This is Tara Michelle, a little bit of a rant today. Just woke up in a space and wanted to share openly. No real plan, no real place to get to, but sharing. What is the life of mine always meant to be? Was it a life to be in constant state of performance? Is that what this is all about? Was it a life to constantly look for approval? What is this life that I desire? What is this life that I'm living? What is this life that I've allowed to control me? How do I take my power back? How do I take my control back? How do I allow myself to be?
What Happens When You Stop
SPEAKER_00This week's episode is not on time. It's not on track. It's not on par. It probably has no rhyme or reason to some of you listening. Except that I just gave myself the freedom to let go and live and be and enjoy my life as it is right now. So what did I find in that experience? I found freedom in not having anything to do after work. Like nothing. And not having anything to make sure I get something else done. What if I got nothing done? What if I just sat and enjoyed my backyard? What if I just sat and enjoyed my son? Just sitting on his bed, watching him game. Having him tell me random facts about random things. There's always something to do. Clean the house, build more content, create more content, do do do. Build, create, build, create. What if I just be? What if I just listen? What if I just breathe? What actually happens if I stop doing something? Will I have to look at the spaces I don't like to look at? The spaces I ignore while I'm doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing? What part of my life am I missing? What part of my being am I missing? What part of the beauty, the pure, miraculous events happening around me all the time? What am I missing when I'm not just being? And then from my being, listening for what is there to do now? Will I miss out? Will life run out? Will the FOMO take over so greatly that I have to bounce right back into doing and performing? The real question, I don't really know. But what I'm recognizing and realizing is how much longer do I want to be constantly performing and pushing and chasing instead of just being? And from my being truly being inspired
Feeling Love And Releasing Pain
SPEAKER_00to take action, from my being truly listening to my spirit, guide me to what's next? How much more freedom will I gain in that space? How much more gratitude will I experience? How much more love for my son will I feel? Like how much more? That is a miracle when you get to feel the amount of love that you have for your children and not be so caught up in your day that you miss what that feels like. The ache and the yearning and the beauty of watching them grow and become and marveling their gifts, marveling their beauty. When we are in a state of doing, we don't get to experience that feeling. How much more heartache will I be able to release from my heart? Because I'll actually have the space and beingness to feel it, to see it, and to release it. Only then can my heart be fully healed. How much more fear can I remove as I step into it to release it, to feel it, to relax, and to breathe into it with ease, and find peace and pure acceptance and guidance from God within you, below you, wherever your God, whatever you see, feel, or believe to be true to you, but that is all within you. There is nothing outside of you greater than you. There is nothing outside of you greater than you. You are the greatness of God. You are the greatness of all. You are perfect, whole, and divine. So today, just give yourself the freedom, the freedom to be, the freedom to let go, the freedom to relax, the freedom to chill the fuck out. It will all be there tomorrow. It will all be there later today. Don't miss out on your life. There's nowhere to get to, there's nowhere to be except right in this moment.
Trusting God Within You
SPEAKER_00This podcast, Rooted in Rising, once was intuitive mentor mom, became rooted in rising. This podcast was an opportunity for me to just have an outlet for my voice. I love to speak. And I wanted to just post when I truly felt called and inspired to post. But everyone's like, oh, in order to get this, in to get that, you gotta do this, you gotta do that, you gotta do. Maybe I just want to share. And those that are meant to find this podcast will find it. And it will make a difference for those as they'll make a difference for me. And together we will ride through this beautiful place we call earth. In this beautiful life we call life. What if that's all it is? What if it's not all the things that you think it's supposed to be? But the beauty is what is it you really want it to be? If you stop and be and just release all the outside noise. All the people telling you what to do, where to do, when to do, how to do, how to fast. Get it now. Hurry up. You're gonna miss out. You're gonna miss out on your whole life. Staying caught in that cycle. And exhausted. So I don't know what this episode
Redesigning Life And Letting It Flow
SPEAKER_00is today, but it's here it is. This is it. I don't know when it's gonna go out. It's gonna go out sometime this week when I get around to putting it all together. So here's what I will say. I'm gonna post when I post. I'm gonna when I'm inspired. Life is changing dramatically around me, in front of me, and I get to reconstruct who I say I am in this world. And I get to redesign what that looks like. I'm gonna redesign it the way I want to design it. And I encourage you and invite you to do the same for yourself. Stop, listen, breathe, and feel what's truly within you. Root deep, way down deep, and rise, sending you all a million and one blessings, and then some have a miraculous day whenever you hear this, sending you so much love and thank you always for tuning into this podcast. Have a blessed day. Take care. Thank you for rooting in and rising with me today.
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SPEAKER_00If something in this episode stirred something in you, take a breath, take what you need, and let the rest soften. Be sure to follow the show so you don't miss what's next. And if you feel called, share this episode or leave a review. It helps the space grow and reach others on the path. Until next time, may you walk with trust, speak with love, and rise in your own time. I'm so grateful you were here with us, and thanks for being here. We'll see you on the next episode.