In Alignment

At 29 years old, Anna White thought she was the healthiest she had ever been. She exercised. She cared deeply about wellness. She knew she carried the BRCA1 mutation and was already undergoing regular screenings. Just weeks before her diagnosis, extensive blood testing had told her she was the “picture of health.” Then she found a lump and a few months later, Anna was diagnosed with stage 3 triple...

In this episode of In Alignment , Annie and Marissa sit down with Abby Tartell to talk about the connection between our emotional and physical health, and what can happen when we spend years pushing through, performing, achieving, and avoiding what we actually feel. Abby spent much of her life doing everything “right.” She was a high achiever, a college athlete at Northwestern, went on to work in...

What if the thing keeping you stuck in your healing journey isn’t that you haven’t found the right supplement, diet, doctor, or protocol, but that you’re trying so hard to fix yourself in the first place? In this episode of In Alignment, Annie sits down with Ciara to talk about her journey from chronic health symptoms and hyper-optimization to nervous system regulation, self-trust, and surrender....

Earlier this year, within a matter of weeks, Marissa lost her father unexpectedly, her three-and-a-half-year relationship ended, and she left the home and life she’d built in New York. For a long time, she wasn’t sure she’d ever feel like herself again. In this episode, Marissa shares what grief has actually felt like, not just losing someone you love, but grieving relationships, future plans, and...

In this episode of In Alignment , Marissa sits down with her longtime friend Suzannah Merritt for a deeply honest conversation about healing, sobriety, trauma, and the inner work that completely transformed both of their lives. From leaving a dream career at Google to discovering an unexpected passion for beekeeping, Suz shares how following joy, rather than achievement, led her to a more fulfilli...

In this episode of In Alignment , we sit down with human optimization strategist and breathwork expert JJ Ruescas to explore the powerful connection between breathing, emotional processing, performance, and healing. JJ shares why every emotional state has a unique breathing pattern, how chronic stress changes the way we breathe without us realizing it, and why learning to work with your breath may...

If you dread the two weeks before your period — the mood swings, the rage, the urge to quit your job and end your relationship, the bloating, the “I don’t recognize myself in the mirror” feeling — this episode is for you. Dr. Alexia Soteropoulos, MD and functional & integrative health practitioner, returns to break down the real difference between PMS and PMDD, why so many women suffer for years w...

NYC personal stylist Gab Saper joins Annie and Marissa for a conversation that starts with clothes but quickly becomes about something much deeper: identity. Gab helps women dress like the most authentic versions of themselves, but her work isn’t really about fashion. It’s about self-trust, people-pleasing, confidence, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we have to be to be loved, successf...

What if you’re not behind at all? In this deeply personal conversation, Annie and Marissa open up about something so many women carry: the fear that life isn’t happening on the timeline it “should.” As they navigate their own breakups, birthdays, building Shift from the ground up, and entering their 30s single, they explore the pressure to have everything figured out and why that pressure often pu...

What if your symptoms aren’t random? For more than 2,000 years, Chinese medicine has recognized the profound connection between emotional health and physical health. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Hal, doctor of Chinese medicine and founder of YOU ACU in New York City, to explore why unprocessed emotions may be showing up in the body as pain, illness, hormonal imbalances, and chronic sympto...

A conversation on perfectionism, surrender, and the radical shift that came after her diagnosis. At 25, Anna Mondanaro was diagnosed with a rare cancer that manifested as a tumor pressing against her left eye. Mid-biopsy, the surgical team paused her surgery to deliver news no one expected: she was also pregnant. With an IUD. With what turned out to be an ectopic. She had two back-to-back surgerie...

Sarah Gaines spent her entire teens and twenties trying to control her body, from her first diet at eight years old to bodybuilding at nineteen. She finally got the “body of her dreams” but lost herself in the process. What changed everything wasn’t another protocol. It was learning how to come home to her body instead of trying to fix it. Today Sarah is the founder of Joy Flow, a mindful movement...

A founder-to-founder conversation on movement, motivation, and why the shift from forcing your body to move to listening to your body changes everything. It’s summer. The business is launching. The travel is real. And we’re both navigating a season where movement matters more than ever, but the old fitness rules don’t apply. In this short founder-led episode, Annie and Marissa get real about their...

In this episode of In Alignment , Chelsea Leyland joins Annie and Marissa for a raw conversation on women’s health, chronic illness, and the power of community. A former DJ turned women’s health entrepreneur, Chelsea is the co-founder of Looni, and she shares how her own hardships with epilepsy, endometriosis, and pregnancy loss reshaped the trajectory of her life and led her to build a company de...

Margaret Trainor, founder of Atmo Home, spent years burning “nice” candles in her Berlin apartment. When she moved out, every wall and appliance was coated in a layer of soot she had never noticed. That moment became Atmo, a modern home care brand built on the radical idea that the air inside your home matters as much as the food on your plate. We spend over 90% of our lives indoors, and almost no...

This week on In Alignment , Annie and Marissa go solo for an honest conversation about female friendship: why it’s one of the most nurturing forces in our lives, how to find and keep great friends, and when it’s time to walk away from the ones that aren’t serving you. They open up about the qualities that define their closest friendships: authenticity, grace, active listening, and the gift of frie...

Amber Berger is a wellness entrepreneur and founder of The Well Drop. At 11 years old she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. By her sophomore year of high school she had Crohn’s disease and surgery. The conventional protocol was steroids for life. She said no — and healed herself, putting her autoimmune disease into remission. In this episode Annie and Marissa sit down with Amber to...

This week Annie and Marissa are back together for a solo episode — and it’s one of their most personal yet. They kick things off with the story of how Shift came together on New Year’s Eve, the angel numbers that have followed them since, and what it actually looks and feels like when you start trusting signs from the universe. From there the conversation goes deep. They get into what it means to...

This week on In Alignment, we’re joined by holistic nutritionist and somatic practitioner Madison Miller for a conversation that challenges so much of what women have been taught about healing. What if the symptoms you’ve been trying to fix — anxiety, gut issues, chronic inflammation, skin flare-ups, jaw tension, even exhaustion — are not random, but signals? Madison shares why so many women are s...

Amanda Wahlstedt is a registered dietitian, functional health practitioner, and founder of Roots to Leaves — a private practice working exclusively with women on hormonal health, fertility, and whole-body wellness. Her own experience coming off the pill after a decade and being met with no real answers is what sent her on the path to building the practice she wished had existed. In this episode, A...

This week on In Alignment , we’re joined by Ben Perens, founder of Nestwell, who is building in one of the most overlooked categories in wellness. His core belief is simple but hard to ignore: the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the environment you live in every day are doing far more to your health than most of the things you’re spending money on. We get into what’s actually inside our...

This week on In Alignment , Annie and Marissa sit down for a raw, honest solo conversation unpacking one of the most misunderstood concepts in personal growth: confidence. What it actually is, where it comes from, and how to build deep inner self confidence. At the core of this conversation is something deeper: the fear of being seen . We get real about the truth behind “putting yourself out there...

Today we sit down with Dr. Rachel Eva Dew, a double board-certified Doctor of Natural and Integrative Medicine with over 20 years of clinical experience, training in more than 20 healing modalities, and a patient list that spans the world. She is the founder of ModiHealth and the Integrative Wellness Academy, and the creator of the Emotional Clearing Method — a powerful approach to releasing store...

In this episode, Annie and Marissa sit down with Marika Frumes , founder of Mysha , a women’s community that matches you with a curated pod of like-valued moms based on your due date, city, and preferences. Mysha makes postpartum support proactive and structured, so it’s easy to build your village. Designed for pregnancy and early motherhood, Mysha creates intentional small-group connection during...

Most people who leave high-finance careers to start a food company have a moment — one experience, one realization, one thing they couldn’t unsee — that made going back feel impossible. For Kiki Couchman, that moment was gut health. Not as a trend. As a personal obsession that turned into a product gap she couldn’t stop thinking about. In this episode of In Alignment, Kiki shares the full story of...