Grounded growth for relationships, work, and community.
Rooted in Intention is a reflective self-development show shaped by relationship coaching, practical growth tools, and community-minded conversations. Episodes move from attachment patterns and conflict habits to environmental justice, career clarity, salary mindset, and the daily work of living with intention.
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Rooted in Intention is a self-development show built around the idea that growth starts close to the ground. It is calm, personal, and practical. The show connects inner patterns to the relationships, workplaces, neighborhoods, and choices that shape daily life. Its relationship material often works like coaching in audio form. Attachment style is treated as a blueprint for how people relate, not only in romance but with friends, family, coworkers, and themselves. Conflict receives careful attention. The show names patterns such as people pleasing, avoidance, discomfort, insecurity, and the stories people attach to being excluded or overlooked. Shorter Seeds to Sprout episodes answer focused questions with a clear teaching rhythm. Longer conversations stretch into work, money, health, and community. A career episode with Shannon Bowen centers dream jobs, dream salary, values, purpose, and the mindset work involved in asking for better pay. The tone stays deeper than title-chasing. Work is framed as something that should fit who a person is today. A conversation with Darby Oznaya brings environmental health and environmental justice into the same personal-growth landscape. That episode links land, culture, local weather, native plants, pollution, migration, creative practice, and respect for Indigenous customs. The show is strongest when it refuses to separate individual healing from collective conditions. It can move from boundaries to bio remediation without making the shift feel random. The pacing is spacious and conversational. Ideas are repeated and reframed so listeners can recognize themselves in the examples. Rooted in Intention suits people who want reflection, tools, and grounded encouragement without a hard-edged optimization style. Its center is not reinvention for its own sake. It is learning how to show up better for life, relationships, work, and community.
Made for: For listeners drawn to gentle self-development, relationship coaching, values-based career reflection, and community care. It especially fits people who want emotional insight with practical language they can apply to friendships, family, coworkers, salary conversations, and local life.
What sets it apart: Rooted in Intention stands out by treating personal growth and community conditions as connected. Attachment patterns, career clarity, environmental justice, land respect, and creative nourishment all sit inside the same grounded framework of intentional living.
A holistic self-development podcast to grow the life you want, from the roots up. We go into healing, relationships, health, money, and community. Listen to connect through stories and learn practical tools.
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Environmental justice is framed as local, community-centered work.
The episode follows Karina Gomez in conversation with Darby Oznaya about environmental health and environmental justice, grounded in Colton, Bloomington, the west side of San Bernardino, and the Inland Empire.
Career change with courage and clarity.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
On Rooted in Intention, Karina Gomez defines boundaries as choices about what to say yes or no to while honoring personal needs, capacity, time, energy, resources, and space.
Karina Gomez interviews Dr.
Rooted in Intention host Karina Gomez uses her conversation with Darby Oznaya of the People's Collective for Environmental Justice to ground environmental justice in Colton and the Inland Empire.
On Rooted in Intention, Karina Gomez interviews Sarah Diaz, a licensed clinical social worker and certified financial social worker, about money habits, mental health, and first-generation experiences.
Karina Gomez interviews psychologist and Latin ADHD podcast host Dr.
Host Karina Gomez interviews Shannon Bowen, CEO of Monsoon Leadership, about finding and creating your dream job, overcoming mindset barriers, and negotiating salary.