• March 17, 2026
  • Chris Klonoski

Your plan is not a prison

By Chris Klonoski When I checked our editorial calendar to find the topic we had planned for the Root + River March newsletter, I found a notation that stopped me: …

Love
  • February 19, 2026
  • ROOT + RIVER

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Filed Under:

By Emily Soccorsy As a leader, I’m recommending you take a trip. Regularly. The destination will be the same each time.  Going there will take some doing.  Going there will …

  • January 21, 2026
  • Chris Klonoski

New Year, New Me? No thanks.

Meaningful change grows from roots, not resolutions By Chris Klonoski Anyone else over the new-start, fresh-start, slow-start content? I know I am. Mostly because it doesn’t feel like much has …

  • November 25, 2025
  • Emily Soccorsy

What Contribution is Your Brand Making?

By Emily Soccorsy As a business owner and the chief spiritual officer of your brand, I dare you to reflect on this question: How is your brand contributing to your …

  • October 15, 2025
  • Jocelyn Lovelle

Working on your brand? Brands grow from within.

Inward As intrinsic brand strategists, we often hear people talking about “working on their brand” and they ask questions like: When does my brand need attention? What should I be …

  • September 15, 2025
  • emily soccorsy

How Do I Get to the Root of My Brand?

What does it even say?

Duneland Beach
  • August 15, 2025
  • Kel Barlow

Riding the waves: Finding yourself in the middle of chaos

By Kel Barlow Root: Go Inward Something about the beach is deeply cathartic. The sand collecting between your toes, the salt-laced air, the cries of seagulls overhead, the waves rolling …

  • July 16, 2025
  • Emily Soccorsy

Discipline with self-compassion

By Emily Soccorsy Discipline terrifies many. Encoded to equate to punishment or forced obedience, the word itself often causes tension, elicits immediate resistance, and generates fear. I understand and can …

  • June 19, 2025
  • Jocelyn Lovelle

Celebrating the small wins as an antidote to disruption

By Jocelyn Lovelle Root: Go Inward The tire company said they had no record of our purchase, and then you found the receipt. The client, who had been on the …

Courage, dear heart
  • May 14, 2025
  • Chris Klonoski

Courage is not a choice, it’s a response

By Chris Klonoski ROOT: Go Inward It’s the month for graduations.  Graduation is rightfully framed as a celebration. We pause to acknowledge and appreciate all the work it took to …

  • April 16, 2025
  • Kel Barlow

The eclipse, the chaos, and the calm I chose

Embrace the chaos to choose tranquility

Paris Pic
  • March 17, 2025
  • Emily Soccorsy

It starts with you – how prioritizing your needs serves your clients

By Emily Soccorsy Inward  Taking excellent care of your clients, of the people you serve, begins always with one critical step: ensuring you are taking care of yourself.  This may …