Reap Your Roots

For most of my life, my spiritual world revolved around a relationship with Jesus. As my faith matured, I found myself drawn into a deeper exploration of the saints, sages, and Ascended Masters who have guided humanity throughout history. What began as a challenge to my orthodox assumptions eventually became an expansion of my faith, not a departure from it. In this episode, I share my personal jo...

For years, I believed spiritual authority flowed through the proper channels - through institutions, leaders, and those who were considered closer to God than the average person. Then, during my time as a missionary, a conversation with a devoted woman changed everything. She shared her faith in Mother Mary with such sincerity and conviction that it challenged assumptions I didn't even realize I w...

What if the story of the Garden of Eden isn't primarily about sin, disobedience, or humanity's greatest failure? What if we've been taught to read it through a lens that the story itself never intended? If you enjoy this episode, heck out the free online space at the link below https://www.skool.com/gnosis-rising-3055/about In this episode, I revisit one of the Bible's most foundational narratives...

What happens when the beliefs you were raised with collide with experiences you can't explain? In this episode, I share my journey of exploring other spiritual paths while navigating the deep tension left by Orthodox Christian conditioning, especially the instinct to see everything through the lens of "God vs. the devil." From a powerful experience in a sweat lodge to a fresh look at the Gospels,...

Listen to the 3-year journey of Reap Your Roots and the revamp of our purpose. RYR is an online platform and community that focuses on reconnection to Self through emotional growth, ancestral healing, and Nature-based practices. To live in these modern times, these principles and practices are essential to have balance.  To be in relationship to our inner world and the Natural world will enable us...

What if Yeshua did not want us to worship Him, but to follow Him? In this episode, we explore the reality that Yeshua lived as both fully human and fully divine. He didn’t bypass the human experience. He felt emotions, faced challenges, and had to grow into his calling just like we do. From moments of deep connection to moments of anguish and surrender, his life reveals a path that includes both t...

What if you viewed all your emotions as natural as the elements around you? This would be mastery of the mind, and the elements can actually help you.  In this episode, I break down the Elemental Blueprint, pairing the four elements with the four core emotions that most of us experience: 🔥 Anger (Fire) 💧 Sadness (Water) 🌱 Loneliness (Earth) 🌬️ Stress (Air) These emotions aren’t random or wrong....

In this episode, I share my personal journey with building a relationship with Yeshua bar Yosef, who many of us know as Jesus Christ. Beginning with a deeply formative upbringing in orthodox Christianity and my time serving an LDS Mormon mission, those years shaped my devotion, discipline, and love for Christ. They gave me a foundation of reverence that I still carry. I also speak to my radical sp...

For centuries, the idea of a “fallen world” has shaped how we relate to the Earth. We have been taught that nature is temporary, corrupt, or spiritually inferior. In this episode, Rachel and I explore how that belief quietly severed our responsibility to the living world, and how Christianity’s departure from earth-based spirituality served systems of control rather than spiritual truth. We share...

What happens when the Divine is imagined as only male? In this episode, Rachel and I explore how the Western world — shaped by Christianity and patriarchal power structures — lost touch with the Sacred Feminine, and the psychological, relational, and spiritual consequences that followed. We share our experience being raised in western religion, and our path of waking up to these consequences in ou...

We’re not waiting for a savior, a solar flash, or some future ascension event. The real shift happens when we embody Heaven here and now through capturing love and light, then emanating it out to those around us. This podcast explores how to anchor divine awareness in daily life and become the living bridge between Heaven and Earth. For many of us, we first have to get past a lot of conditioning,...

What’s the difference between religion and spirituality—and does one even matter without the other? In this collab episode, I sit down with Adam Allred and Sam Fenton of the "Who Started This Fire?" Youtube channel to have one of the most controversial conversations yet.  Raised in the LDS (Mormon) church, Adam, Sam, and I share our personal spiritual journeys and debate whether organized religion...

"Faith is a living thing precisley because it walks hand in hand with doubt." The founders of almost all spiritual paths have taught to "ask and ye shall recieve, seek and ye shall find." But somewhere along the way, an institution is created and conformity becomes the norm. We have seen and felt how fear, pride, and even certainty can weaken our faith and make it difficult to feel an actual relat...

My guest today, Austin Shook, is the most impressive sound therapist that I have ever heard. In this episode, we dive into the reality of sound as a means for healing and spiritual awakening.  His music as well as his philosophy in life has helped thousands of people come home to themselves and reconnect to pure unconditional love. Listen in as we discuss an ancient path to true inner alignment! F...

Heat, Cold, Breathwork, Movement, Community. On this episode, Rachel and I reflect on our own individual healing journeys, and how they have come together as a shared mission for our business. We have seen these 5 pillars transform many lives, including our own. And when they are they are intentionally combined, it amplies thier effects for holistic health and wellness. Whether its for mental fort...

Is your self-discipline actually causing your self-destruction? Could the grind be hindering the growth in your life? Has toxic masculinity quietly corrupted our views on taking action, and even our views about ourselves as men? These questions highlight much of our discussion today as we search for a way to "stay hard" on our habits while also finding a softness for ourselves. As I explain how I...

With the pressure of modern life weighing on many men, we explore how being truly grounded and present will restore balance, composure, and power within us. Listen in as I detail my journey of discovering a more healthy and whole masculinity, and how it has elevated my life in every way. We need to find our center as men, because this world is going to continue to pull us in different directions....

Get ready for the most controversial episode yet! And one that many people might need today.  My wife Rachel and I dive deep into the reality of our ever-evolving faith as we navigate through life. While being members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we are also strong advocates for the safe and intentional use of plant medicine. Rather than focus on the scientific studies of ps...

In todays world, men face too many dillemas to count. The plethora of problems, spanning from physcial pains to psychological burdens, can feel like they are compounding against us. Societal structures appear to have doomed us to a ridiculed and menial existence. Because of all this, we have truly lost touch with what it means to be a healthy man in his fullness. My guest on this episode, Jake Joh...

Can an addict even be truly recovered? Is the disease of addiction terminal once you've had it? Listen in as JJ and I discuss key paradigm shifts that he experienced during his journey to recovery. Many of these views are controversial in the rehab centers and AA meetings that JJ has been to, but revolutionary for him in becoming clean.  We will dissect the subconscious beliefs that hold us bound,...

The hot topic discussed today is a heavy one. It has affected millions of lives and is a growing problem in every society to this day. Covering themes from science to self-worth, this is a necessary conversation on addiction. My guest JJ is a recovered addict of various substances and has felt called to share his story. We talk about the source of addiction, rather than just the symptoms. He provi...

In this episode, I give an introduction to the mystical philosophy of Yoga. What I mistakenly believed to be just a fitness fad, has opened up into a world of wisdom. Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means to unite, to join, to connect, or to yoke. Its teachings are centered around the mind-body-soul connection and its techniques are powerful. Look at yoga in this light, and you will discover balance...

Reap Your Roots has a NEW genre for episodes focused on hot topics that have been circulating around the health and healing space. Although the topic for today is nothing new, there has been a noticeable revival around this theme in recent times. My guest today is the beautiful and intelligent Rachel Daybell. She is (somehow) my wife; and excels as a photographer, breathwork facilitator, and mothe...

In this episode, I cover one of the most simple, yet most impactful spiritual practices of the ages. Although fifteen minutes only scratches the surface of this topic, I share some analogies of how prayer helps us progress. The 3 modes of prayer that I discuss are from my personal experience and study of the scriptures. All 3 serve us well as we communicate with our Creator. The 🔑 Takeaways: (0:0...

What does it mean to reap our roots? In this episode, we will discuss how the events, emotions, behaviors, and traits of our family's past could be influencing us today. We talk of ways to become aware of that ancestral influence and to discern if what they've left behind is hurting or helping us. The 🔑 Takeaways: (0:00) Intro (2:44) My Initial Interest in Family History (4:56) What is Generation...