The Rooted Life

Rooted Fam, we hope you're ready for Episode 9 because Doe & Moe came to snatch edges today. Today, your favorite duo is talking friendships with unbelievers and here's the magic question: If all of your friends are believers, who are you witnessing to? 🤯 YIKES. Many of us can miss the opportunity to be God's hands and feet on Earth because we get caught up in religion over building relationships...

Rooted Fam, we have a serious question for you: Do your relationships reflect the unity and diversity displayed in the life of Jesus and the gospel? Yikes. This episode, Doe & Moe are taking a different angle on the friendship conversation by encouraging us to evaluate if our friendships are as diverse as God would want them to be. 'U.N.I.T.Y.' forces us to examine our preferences, childhood exper...

What's up Rooted Fam!? This season, Doe & Moe have schooled us on all types of friendships from immature friends to inconsistent friends to frenemies. In this episode, they're diving into friendships that aren't quite as black and white but end up being more tricky. 'Funhouse Friendships' explores when our relationships with people seem easy to manage but once we're in them, they turn out to be mo...

Welcome back, Rooted Fam! It's Episode 6 and your favorite duo is getting real personal in this episode. Instead of sharing about other friends who've been immature, they're digging into their own closets and revealing a few times when they were on their worst behavior as friends. 😬 In 'Worst Behavior', we'll learn the value of self reflection and how it is the key to identifying our mistakes and...

We've all had a friend, or friends, who regularly: cancel plans last minute, don't respond to calls or texts, or are consistently inconsistent. And let's be honest - inconsistency in friendships is exhausting. Can we get an Amen? 👏🏾 In this mid-season episode, Doe & Moe highlight the ways inconsistency hurts our friendships and share practical tips for how we can protect our relationships and ou...

Have you ever experienced a relationship that felt more like secret enemies than friends? 🙃 In 'Frenemy Energy', Doe & Moe tell real stories about real friendships with people who didn't know how to celebrate them, lacked compassion, and spoke negatively to and about them. Full of helpful and applicable tips, tune into this episode that will help you recognize frenemy energy and support you throu...

Have you ever been through a season where it felt like you had NO friends? Sometimes single can mean more than just romantic woes, but friend woes too. 🥺 In 'Me, Myself & I', Doe & Moe talk through their strategies for navigating the times in their lives when they lacked friendships - particularly the things they wish they knew to do and NOT do in that season. 🙃 Packed full of helpful do's & don...

In the follow up to an amazing season premiere, Doe & Moe jump right into a few real life scenarios where they've struggled in friendships. Together, they highlight the tools they wish they'd had to navigate those moments and share the impact of having the right supports in place to manage the more nuanced parts of our friendships. Whether you're feeling great about all of your community or have a...

WELL WELL WELL. Is that... The Rooted Life? It sure is! Your favorite duo is back with a new season and this time, it's 'All About Friendships.' To kick the season off, Doe & Moe are giving a quick history of their friendships, sharing how they've struggled in them in the past and previewing what you can expect from Season 5. This season, we hope y'all are ready for tools AND tea to help you flour...

Let me tell y'all something. The Rooted Life LOVES birthdays! 🥳 Both Dorian (29) & Morgan (30) celebrated their birthdays this spring and of course, it brought up all kinds of feelings, reflections and moments of introspection. To summarize all of the things they've learned to do.. and not do.. over the last decade, they played Traffic Light - a game that challenges you to identify things you wan...

Heeeeeyyy Rooted Fam! Can y'all believe it's almost May in the year 2021?! 😧 We know, we know. Our last season premiered almost a year ago - chill chill chill. ✋🏾 We promise we are cooking up Season 5 for y'all but in the meantime, we wanted to drop a quick update on what's new with us. We're taking it back to our old days with Glows & Grows - a brief snapshot of the good, the great and the gro...

A continuation of the incredible episode on Jesus, justice and hope featuring the amazing Dante Stewart. Follow The Rooted Life: https://www.instagram.com/rootedlifepodcast/ Follow Dante Stewart: https://www.instagram.com/stewartdantec/ Learn More: https://linktr.ee/rootedlifepodcast

Hey Rooted Fam! We're still off-season but we could NOT pass up the opportunity to sit down with THE Dante Stewart. If you don't know him, slide over to @stewartdantec and you'll quickly see why this conversation HAD to happen. From whiteness being used as a standard of Christianity to the importance of processing and creating purpose out of our rage, Dante gives language to many of our emotions a...

Hey Rooted Fam! We've missed y'all and are so excited to share a bonus episode with you this month. Earlier this month, we got to lend our thoughts on dating to a show called The Heart Seat with our girl Kristen 'KB' Newton, and now we're sharing it with you! We talk about everything from struggling to celebrate others in relationships to facing our own prideful nature in our single seasons. Tune...

It's the season finale, Rooted Fam and we have a LOT of feelings about it. 🥺 BUT, it has been an incredible 11 weeks as we have journeyed through friendships and romance with Doe & Moe! For the last episode of the season, they decided to give the listeners the mic and invited us to "Ask the Rooted Life". They tackle some heavy-hitting questions from listeners like 'what to do if you've lost hope...

Alright, Rooted Fam! This. Is. It. This week, Doe & Moe are bringing you fresh perspective on relationships from their friends Moses & Remi of Project 3:30 and The Greater Podcast. Y'ALL. This convo is 🔥🔥🔥. The group covers everything from why we should extend men grace as it relates to communication, to culture's definition of leadership vs. Christ's definition to whether or not a guy should p...

All season long, Dorian & Morgan have been helping us identify the characteristics of healthy relationships. In this episode, their approach is a little different. Instead, they're sharing pro-tips on the warning signs of the types of people we should be careful to make friends or boos. Labeled "DND Relationships" these people all have one thing in common - they often require more energy and effor...

Has anyone else noticed how many dating, marriage and relationship shows have hit Netflix since quarantine started? It's overwhelming at best and borderline obsessive at worst - and yes, The Rooted Life has watched every show. 🥴 The crazy amount of content on this topic has got the girls thinking, have we made marriage an idol in our lives? In this episode, Doe & Moe help us determine the differe...

Coming off the heels of an amazing book club on The Sacred Search, the ladies have some major keys to share with the Rooted Fam! This week, Dorian & Morgan are dropping five tips to consider if you are currently or hope to be in the world of Christian dating. Topics discussed include: the science behind infatuation, the myth of the soulmate and the idea of "the list". Tune in regardless of your re...

We are living (Hey) Single Ooh, and in a millennial kind of world We're glad we got our girls 💃🏾 Yep! You guessed it - the girls are talking singleness today. No, they're not going to tell you to stop desiring a partner or that you need to do something different in order to find one. This week, Doe & Moe are exploring why there tends to be shame in singleness and sharing their personal revelatio...

Welcome back Rooted Fam! Now that we've gotten our friendships all the way together, let's get into those romantic relationships. To kick the second half of the season off, Doe & Moe are jumping right in discussing friendships with the opposite sex. 😬 Sometimes, when we fail to self-evaluate, communicate and set boundaries, certain "friendships" can really trip us up. Before we know it, the line...

For some of us, our boundaries are like playpens - flimsy, small and made for child's play. For others of us, our boundaries are like mighty fortresses - secure and resistant to any disturbances. 👀 In this episode, Doe & Moe dig into why setting boundaries in our relationships can be so intimidating and the misconceptions associated with teaching others how to treat us. Tune in this week for a fr...

Welcome to Episode 3 where Doe & Moe are planning to jump right into our business! 😅 The root of every disagreement in a relationship is offense. Whether intentional or accidental, offense is inevitable - and when it occurs between us and someone else, it often leads to conflict. In week three, the ladies share what they've learned about navigating conflict well by walking us through the mistakes...

It's only the second episode and Doe & Moe are already coming 👏🏾 for 👏🏾 us 👏🏾! This week, they're talking about choosing friends wisely. Is the criteria you use to develop friendships weak or wise? From convenience to obligation, sometimes our relationships are built on fragile foundations. However, if we want our relationships to grow and develop us, we have to build them on much more wise...

"Alexa, cue Mase 'Welcome Back' please." Hey Rooted Fam!! You all were missed so much over the past few months. Dorian & Morgan are back with a new season and they're talking relationships - both friendships and romantic. In this intro episode, they dig into the importance of relationships, why doing them well matters and share personally which areas they've struggled in through the years. Jump ri...