R+R Founder Emily Soccorsy
  • January 09, 2024
  • Emily Soccorsy

Why do I do this? An open letter

Brand is how people experience your soul.

  • September 25, 2023
  • Chris Klonoski

Practicing is About These 4 Things

As we talk about practicing – building new habits to help us accomplish goals, tasks or to build new skills, we apply discipline to the external process, the actual doing

  • May 02, 2023
  • Emily Soccorsy

Crossroads: Looking back in one direction and forward in another

Too few rituals marking significant moments of change and growth; scarce opportunities to slow down, gather and recognize a fellow human being’s journey through life.

  • January 05, 2023
  • Emily Soccorsy

Celebrating is Vulnerability

When we celebrate, we have the opportunity to pause and assess the distances we’ve traveled.

The Pause
  • December 20, 2022
  • Chris Klonoski

Nurturing is a Mindset

Nurturing is not a goal and it isn’t a resolution. It’s an approach or a mindset. It’s organic. It’s truth. And it differs for everyone. Nurturing is what you do for you – and then – you are able to do for others. 

  • November 15, 2022
  • Emily Soccorsy

Service Defined by Vulnerability

Every brand must stand for something.

  • December 14, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Connecting the Dots from Mission to Brand

An Entrepreneurial Journey of Monetizing Your Mission A rare yet not impossible sequence of events: Seeing a need in the world that sparks a personal mission That mission inspires a …

  • June 24, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Your audience is practicing attention curation. Are you?

Unless you intentionally live in a self-created bubble, everyone and everything is trying to get your attention at all times.  Therefore, we don’t give our attention for any length of …

  • May 14, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Why should we come back to you?

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Soon, people will be making decisions. The decisions will be about what work they choose to do, what schools they will send their children back to, what places they want …

  • April 01, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Will Marketing Still Matter?

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No.  And yes.  Crisis reveals pretense. So the days of hardcore, tone-deaf, insistent and interruptive marketing are over. That kind of marketing does not matter now.  It doesn’t matter to …

  • March 23, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Don’t Go Dark

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In times like these, there is a tendency to hunker down and wait for it to blow over, to get mired in fear over what to say and say nothing. …

  • March 23, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Our Love Challenge for You

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When our team of four met in a charming Austin bungalow on our summer retreat of 2016, we decided it was time to reevaluate our values. Which ones still resonated …