Kimberly Rash gets refreshingly honest about what gratitude actually is and what it isn't. She unpacks the difference between genuine thankfulness and toxic positivity, shares the science behind how a consistent gratitude practice can reduce stress, lower anxiety, improve sleep, and even reduce inflammation, and walks through the real-life ways she cultivates gratefulness (from morning office rituals to prayer and worship). Whether you journal, meditate, pray, or sing, Kimberly makes the case that finding your own gratitude practice isn't just good for your soul… It's backed by research.

Gratitude doesn't ask you to ignore your reality. It invites you to stay grounded in it - and from that place, real change begins.

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Kimberly Rash gets real about her own in-between season, sharing how a looming shift in her 21-year career pushed her to finally start asking harder questions about her future. She walks listeners through her signature Root, Release, and Rise framework — a simple, three-part approach to getting unstuck without having to have everything figured out first. Rooting means returning to what's already true and good about you. Releasing means gently letting go of old beliefs, patterns, and stories that no longer fit. Rising means choosing just one small move - in the next 24 hours - in the direction of who you're becoming.

You don't need a perfect plan to move forward. Small, quiet decisions made every day are what actually create change.

Kimberly Rash gets refreshingly real in this debut episode, sharing how overthinking, self-doubt, fear of judgment, and the endless wait to "feel ready" are the invisible walls we build around our own potential. She weaves in her own vulnerable story of re-recording this very episode over ten times, proving that getting in your own way doesn't always look dramatic; sometimes it just looks like staying the same while your brain convinces you you're moving forward.

The takeaway is simple but powerful: you don't need to have it all figured out to take the next step. You are not stuck… you are becoming.

Rooted to Rise with Kimberly Rash is a podcast for women who are ready to move beyond where they are and start creating real, meaningful change — not all at once, but one step, one thought, one decision at a time. Kimberly draws from her own evolving seasons of life to explore what it looks like to release old beliefs, outgrow patterns that no longer fit, and rise into a more aligned, grounded version of yourself. Through honest conversations, personal stories, and real women who have had to rebuild and rediscover themselves, this show makes the messy, beautiful process of becoming feel possible.

Growth doesn't require perfection — it just requires a willingness to begin. If you're feeling that quiet pull that something is shifting, you're not lost; you're just in a moment of becoming.