Active Ingredient Podcast

I got an apartment in Miami and am now officially splitting time between New York and Miami. This solo episode is on what has and hasn't worked for me throughout this transition. Would love to hear from you if you've moved or have tips as well! Sophie's Instagram: @sophieiweill Active Ingredient Instagram: @activeingredient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s episode is with Radha Agrawal, who is a social entrepreneur, community builder, author, founder of Daybreaker, and also the co-founder of THINX. This conversation is all about the importance of having a community you feel like you truly belong to, how to cultivate meaningful relationships, make friends as an adult, how to take inventory of yourself/what you are attracting and why belon...

On this solo episode I'm talking about how I am being discerning when it comes to how I'm filling my plate in a post pandemic world. I get into big learnings during this time, what is going to be non negotiable and how I plan to reintegrate now that things are slowly opening back up in the hopes that you too will take inventory of this past year and choose what you actually truly want to bring bac...

This episode is with Dr. Mona Vand, a pharmacist and content creator who is always serving such interesting and thoughtful content when it comes to wellness/nutrition and does it in such an easy to digest way. On this episode we go through Mona's journey from being a full time pharmacist to now being a full time content creator and how her path was not linear at all, we discuss the importance of m...

Dr. Matt Devoe is a leading chiropractor in NY and founder of Empire City Chiropractic. In this episode we get into Matt’s journey and how he paved his own path in the chiropractic field, his unconventional and extremely thoughtful approach to patient treatment, his thoughts on scaling when you yourself are the talent, how therapy has played a huge role in his life, why he never focuses on the des...

This solo episode is all on the importance of cultivating a gratitude practice to rewire our brains in order to find the best in every day/moment. This has been an absolute game changer for me and I have been working on it for over three years. In this episode I'll walk you through exactly how I do it, where I do it and how it's changed the way I view things. I also go down memory lane and pick ou...

This week’s episode is with Sasha Plavsic, the founder of ILIA Beauty, the best selling clean beauty brand on the market today. Before ILIA, Sasha had a career in branding where she worked both at an agency as well as in house at brands like Saje and Urban Decay. At the age of 30, she couldn’t shake the feeling of being unfulfilled and decided to quit her job, leave the long term relationship she...

This week's solo episode is all about rejection and perseverance. I'm bringing back one of the most impactful takeaways we've had on the show that was from the episode with Rebecca Minkoff. She shared with us how in the early days of building her brand it was a ton of legwork to get people to take her line and was rejected constantly. Instead of getting emotional she figured out what the math equa...

Alyssa Greenberg is a freelance photographer based in NYC with a focus in lifestyle, fashion and portraiture and has worked with some of the biggest names in brands and entertainment. Back in 2015, after having gone swimming in a lake with her friends, Alyssa's right eye unknowingly became infected with Acanthamoeba Keratitis, a parasite, that resulted in 2 cornea transplants and ultimately comple...

This week's Active Takeaways episode is my first-ever solo episode and I'm highlighting on one of my favorite takeaways from a past guest that has really changed my life for the better. The takeaway for this episode is to create space in your life to be silent and still with yourself in order to really start listening to your own inner guidance. I know it sounds "woo woo" and I was resistant to it...

This week's episode is with Kristina Rodulfo who is the Beauty Director at Women's Health where she oversees beauty coverage across print and digital and is an expert in product testing, identifying trends, and exploring the intersections of beauty, wellness, and culture. Prior to Women's Health, she held roles at ELLE.com, Popsugar and InStyle.  In this episode we get into her career in media and...

Jaclyn Johnson is a successful entrepreneur and founder of Create & Cultivate, an online platform and conference for women looking to create & cultivate the career of their dreams, host the Work Party podcast, a best selling author, and angel investor. Jaclyn launched and sold her first company by the time she was 29 and launched Create & Cultivate, her second company, after recognizing a gap in c...

Siffat Haider is the Co-founder of Arrae, a natural supplement brand that offers bloat and anxiety relief capsules, and also the host of The Dream Bigger Podcast. On today’s episode we get into how the throughline throughout her career has always been to help women and show them that they can optimize their wellbeing and reach their business goals, how her own health journey led her to experiment...

Today’s episode is with Indré Rockeffeller who is the co-founder of Paravel, an industry-leading sustainable travel lifestyle brand. Before launching Paravel, Indré had a very interesting career - she started out being Anna Wintour’s first assistant at Vogue and then went on to work at several impressive companies like Moda Operandi and Delpozo. On this episode we get into Indré’s love of ballet a...

This week’s episode is with Mayssa Chehata, the founder of Behave, a better for you candy company that just launched a few months ago with sweet and sour gummies that are low sugar, low net carb, chef-created and an elevated taste that has already been covered in Fast Company, Forbes and Business Insider. On today’s episode, we get into Mayssa’s previous career journey having held brand partnershi...

Farryn Weiner is an award-winning brand architect and founder of Farrynheight, a new-age brand marketing agency and she is also the host of the Farrynheight podcast. Prior to building Farrynheight, she was the Vice President of Marketing and Brand Innovation at sweetgreen, before that she was the Senior Global Director of Digital, Social and Creative Communications at Michael Kors Worldwide where...

Bee Shapiro is the longtime New York Times beauty columnist and also the founder of Ellis Brooklyn, a clean luxury fragrance brand that she launched in 2015. Bee found out she was pregnant with her first baby, Ellis, at the height of the clean beauty movement and she began looking for alternative fragrances that felt both luxurious and also safe and clean for her while pregnant and she simply coul...

Danielle Duboise is the co-founder of Sakara Life, a 100% plant-based and organic ready to eat meal delivery service company but more than that Sakara is a full on lifestyle. The company has been featured in major publications such as Oprah, Vogue, the New York Times and too many to name here.  On today’s episode we get into Danielle’s personal body image journey, how healing herself led her to cr...

Today's episode is with Rachel Liverman the founder of Glowbar, a no fluff facial spa that offers 30 minute customizable facials at $65 dollars. This is Rachel's second time on the podcast and I invited her back because she, like the most of us, has REALLY been tested when it comes to her business. Glowbar had only been open for 9 months before having to shut down due to the pandemic. Her business...

Mimi Ausland is the founder of Free the Ocean, a website that gives anyone anywhere the opportunity to have a daily impact on the issue of plastic pollution. The way it works is by simply going to FreetheOcean.com and answering the daily trivia question. Just by doing that you fund the removal of 1 piece of plastic from the ocean and coastlines. Free the Ocean works with Sustainable Coastlines Haw...

Dianna is a master marketer and the founder of Crown Affair, a modern beauty brand on a mission to make haircare an everyday ritual. Before starting Crown Affair, she had an extremely impressive career in marketing and partnerships working in-house at some of the most covetable companies including Into The Gloss, Spring, and Away. She eventually launched her first business, Levitate, a brand strat...

This week's episode is with Chris Roth, Founder and CEO of Highline Wellness - a premium direct to consumer CBD company that offers natural, effective and broad spectrum CBD. Prior to starting Highline, Chris was an Equity Research Sales Director covering e-commerce, internet, consumer and the cannabis space. After attending a Cannabis conference in LA about a year before anyone in NY knew what CB...

Michelle Cordeiro Grant is the Founder and CEO of Lively,  a community and brand that inspires women to live passionately, purposefully and confidently through experiences and products including bras, bralettes, undies, swimwear, loungewear, fragrance and active bras. Michelle launched Lively 2016 and has amassed and cultivated a network of 100,000+ ambassadors, opened four stores, and coined the...

This episode is with Ara Katz and Dr. Azza Gadir, two powerhouse women behind Seed, an innovative consumer health company focused on the microbiome which is the collection of trillions of microorganisms which are mostly bacteria, that live in and on the human body. Seed’s daily symbiotic pill combines the best of probiotics and prebiotics developed for systemic benefits such as digestive health, s...

Lily Galef is the Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Hilma, a brand that recently launched that is reimagining our medicine cabinets with natural remedies, that are all backed by science. Think natural and homeopathic alternatives to Advil for example. Prior to starting Hilma, Lily built her career as a creative brand marketer and strategist managing content and partnerships at some really impr...