Dr. Christina Rahm: Chief Science Formulator of The Roots Brand

Kara Goldin 0:00
I am unwilling to give up that I will start over from scratch as many times as it takes to get where I want to be. I want to be you. Just want to make sure you will get knocked down. But just make sure you don’t get knocked out, knocked out. So your only choice should be go focus on what you can control. Control. Hi everyone, and welcome to the Kara Goldin show. Join me each week for inspiring conversations with some of the world’s greatest leaders. We’ll talk with founders, entrepreneurs, CEOs and really, some of the most interesting people of our time. Can’t wait to get started. Let’s go. Let’s go. Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Kara Goldin show. Super excited to have our next guest with us here today, true powerhouse in the world of science, wellness and innovation, Dr. Christina Rahm who is the Chief Science formulator of the Root Brands you may or may not have heard about them, but you definitely need to try these products. They are so amazing. She is also the CEO of DRC ventures, which is the parent company, I guess is what you how you say it to the Root Brands. And she’ll talk a little bit more about some of the other initiatives that she’s working on, but they’re leading efforts that blend science, sustainability and impact across nearly 90 countries. So just a complete badass. Dr Rahm has done the work academically, professionally and personally, from overcoming Lyme disease and multiple battles with cancer to now developing detox system and wellness products used around the world. She and I were briefly talking about some of the work she’s done with governments all over the world, and all of the amazing, amazing, cool things that she’s doing to really help literally millions of people really get to the root. So I can’t wait to dive in to more of what she is doing with her science first approach. So welcome Christina. So excited to meet you and have you here.

Dr. Christina Rahm 2:15
Thank you. And so it’s a privilege to be here, and I have to say this before we start. You had the most beautiful hair. I’ve always wanted her hair. It’s so pretty.

Kara Goldin 2:25
Thank you so much. Well, I like your hair. I love your hat, too. I’m I’m trying endlessly to to get out of the sun. Not that I’m in the sun right at this moment, but I’m always looking for great hats. So I was admiring the one that you have on for sure. Okay, so let’s start with the Root Brands and really talk about the difference of the sea of other beauty companies that are out there, kind of what you’re doing a little bit differently.

Dr. Christina Rahm 2:56
Yeah, you know, I always say beauty is from the inside out. There’s a lot of great brands out there that I the one thing you’re never going to hear me do at all is talk bad about any other brand. It’s just not what I what I do. I’m a scientist, and I really hold it in high regard that I’ve been able to work on different products to help women and men have beauty from the inside out. But I also respect other companies as well, and their scientist and what they’ve done, I think the way the Root Brands is a little bit different. And the beauty side of it is, you know, as a mother of four and someone that’s traveled to so many countries, I understand the different elements and the different things that happen in all these different countries, with the climate, with how they produce things, with GMOs, with with the whole gamut. And for me, I understand that the skin is the largest organ, so kind of like you said, put a hat on. It’s one of the reasons I wear hats, because I’ve had so much skin cancer, you know, on my on my face, I’m always trying to cover the sun’s not horrible for you, but you need it limited, right? And so I always tell people that, but the the skincare products I’ve worked on, I really wanted to provide the building blocks for people which peptides and NAD and cursed in are like building blocks for the skin, because we didn’t used to know this, but if you don’t have the peptides in your skin and in your body, then your building blocks, your aminos, are gone, and your collagen, you can’t produce collagen, you can’t use moisturizer to help your skin. And I feel like this is something that a lot of women don’t know, that we need to educate people on. And then another thing is you have to clean the peptide. So all these peptide injections that people are using, I’m not saying they’re bad, but you have to know where you’re getting them. Have they been cleaned from bacteria, from viruses, from fungus, from parasites, from all that stuff, heavy metals, and that’s been my endeavor. It’s kind of like as a mother, I always gave my kids baths, right or brush their teeth to get them clean. So my endeavor for women and men all over the world is have to have the most beautiful skin as they age, and have the building blocks so that they can keep out the bad things from your. Body and keep the good things in the body, right? That’s our goal as people, and that’s where I think our brand’s a little bit different as a focus.

Kara Goldin 5:07
I want to get into kind of how you got here. I mean, obviously you’re a scientist. There’s many scientists that are out in the world today that are not speaking in the same way that you are and producing the types of products and initiatives that you are. So you battled, I read Lyme disease, mentioned skin cancer. You’ve seen it, you know, you’re not just developing for other people. You’ve actually looked at this from your own personal aspect, also your children. So can you talk about your personal healing journey? Yeah, and, you

Dr. Christina Rahm 5:47
know, I just want to say this to your audience, because I know I’m criticized sometimes for taking a mainstream approach, but it’s really I give an honest opinion, and I refuse to, like, have someone else’s opinion. I think as a female scientist, I’ve worked hard, I’d have to have my own and from my perspective, you know, I’m not against pharmaceutical and biotech. I’m not against latest innovation. But here’s what I always say. I’m for humans. I’m from people. So I like to tell the whole story, because when you use synthetic things in your body, which I’ve worked on, you know, I’ve worked with the top pharmaceutical biotech companies in the world I chose to leave. They did not treat me horrible. There were good things and bad things like any organization. I say that all the time, because in the nutraceutical or skincare organizations, there’s good and bad people too, right? And we all need to accept that. And so I saw a lot of good things, but then I kept hanging my hat on the fact that I had problems with the side effect profiles and long term use and what would impact people, because there’s some medication and even some skin care products that you can be on that can have a bad implication to your health care right, or to your your body. So I really focused on doing natural things, understanding that there are natural things that can help people. You know, we’re limited at what we can say, because you can’t claim anything in this country. As it pertains to natural products, used to be extremely careful, and I’m always careful about that. But when I would keep seeing the synthetic things we were working on in pharmaceutical and how we would help autoimmune disorders and diseases. And by the way, those autoimmune disorders and diseases can start with the skin, right? Because our skin is our largest organ, so eczema, dermatitis, all the things psoriasis, right, the alopecia that all these people are struggling, those are autoimmune disorders, rheumatoid arthritis and your your knuckles, you know, everything’s impacted, and a lot of those will start in the skin. So this, when I talk skin care and what I try to do as a scientist, I’m not just looking at, you know, I’m 56, years old, so I want my skin to look good. I’ve been in the sun. I was a lifeguard for four years, so that wasn’t easy, and this is a personal endeavor for me and for my family to have skin hopefully without skin cancer, hopefully that looks good as we age. Hopefully naturally. Like people ask me, Do I use a lot of plastic surgery? No, is the answer. You know, when you’re a public figure, I’m sure you know this Kara, people will make all kinds of comments. And the truth is, I really hang my hat on a lot of natural things. That’s what I want to do, and I want to get those to people, but I want those natural things to make them look get better. And I know I said this earlier, but while protecting their skin, right, while building the building blocks, and when the pandemic happened, because I had been in pharmaceutical and biotech. For so long I understand and as a scientist, and all the education that I’ve had, I understood the six feet right apart, but what I didn’t understand was, you know, covering a part of your body, but what about the skin? What about the eyes? Like you gotta understand, there’s there’s different types of bacteria, there’s different types of worms and parasites and fungus and viruses that can go in through her skin or through a wound, right? So the overall purpose of the skin care that I’ve worked on, I think, is a little bit different, because I’m focused on my first focus is protecting this beautiful, this body that we have. And to do that, I used, I hung my hat on a lot of education that I’ve had, but taking the synthetics out, I hung my hat on making patents and trademarks where I would clean every leaf, every oil I ever worked on, every vitamin, every mineral. And if you said to me, that doesn’t matter, yes, it does, because it’s going on your skin, is going into your body. And one of the things I really started figuring out is, wait a minute, the general public doesn’t understand that if you don’t have these peptides or certain things on your body, then you don’t have the biggest protection, you don’t have the building blocks to do all the other things you want. And so that became one of my. On missions, because when you and I talk skin, no one’s thinking death. We’re thinking we want our skin to look better. But in my mind, as a scientist, I’m thinking this skin is your first level of protection, right? It’s not just the air you breathe. It’s your skin. So what are we going to do as scientists? What am I going to do as a woman to add this to what people should do to do it in their lives and and Kara, one of the things I always say is, okay, we have a lot of products out there, we have a lot of solutions out there, but do we have the best? And my answer has been, especially the last five years, no, because we have different things that are attacking our bodies or that are harming us, and it’s not on a government to protect us, because we have to depend on ourselves, because the government’s busy doing a million things, and you never know what’s going to happen, right? So I wanted to get the tools into the hands of women, and it’s not that I don’t like men, it’s that I feel like women are nurturers, and they will get that message out. They’re educators, they’re people that are going to teach, and men do too, and they do an amazing job, but I really did lean on wanting my sister, my mother, my my nieces, my my daughter, right to understand what they need to do so that they don’t have skin cancer, like I have right, like I want to protect people from what I’ve gone through, and so they have better skin. And that’s really what I’ve done as a scientist. I’ve studied all over the world. I’ve I’ve learned from different colleges and and universities, yes, but also from scientists, like, I was in Ghana and Nigeria, and they were using Turmeric Curcumin to take parasites out of wounds. And like, we would never do that here, right? Because we’re like, we’re like, What do you mean? You have worms and parasites? Yeah, our dogs do, but we don’t. And I have news for everyone. We all can have them too. So, yeah, I I draw. I drew upon that knowledge.

Kara Goldin 11:52
So you mentioned peptides, and I’d love for you to dig into that a little bit more, because you have some amazing products, and one of them is the peptide. First of all, I’d love for you to sort of explain it and then talk about that product in particular, because I think it’s so interesting.

Dr. Christina Rahm 12:10
Yeah, so I have a peptide line I started with, actually, a t miss to help with, like I was targeting different things like dermatitis and psoriasis and eczema. Of course, I can’t claim I’m curing any of that just targeting making the skin look better and feel better. So I had a t miss that we launched first, and then I had a phytoplankton that you can only find in one place in the world, under the ocean, and it’s in Korea, and it’s really hard to get to that is had, like every omega, every vitamin, every mineral, anything the skin would need. And then as people were using it, I realized, wait a minute, even though I had a peptide that they could take orally, that I had made, what are they putting on their skin? And if they don’t put peptides on their skin, then do they have the building blocks? And usually the answer is no. And again, from the moment you’re born, you have these peptides in your body that are the building blocks to everything you’re doing. They’re the aminos, the things you’re attacking, attaching to. So think of it like a Lego set, right? If you don’t have the bottom of the Lego set, you can’t build the star warship, or whatever you’re trying to build for your kids, or the the Barbie out, whatever you’re trying to build. Same thing with your body. Your body has to have these, these peptides, these aminos, for the body to work effectively. And if you don’t sequence them right and make them in the right format, or if they’re dirty and not clean, then you’re not helping the body. Either. You could make it worse. And so to me, this became very important. And so the clean, it’s a three step system. That’s the peptides, and I the cleanser even has peptides in it, because I wanted, when you were cleaning the skin, to help detox the skin, and at the same time, support the skin, so they have the building blocks. So it’s probably my favorite of the three is the cleanser. And I never use cleanser. I always use, like those pads and everything, but my skin feels so great and looks so much better when I use the cleanser, then I added a moisturizer and a serum. But I use different sequencing of different types of peptides that were obtained from all over the world. I did have to check and make sure that they were not considered pharmaceutical grade, because I use very high ingredients in all my manufacturing, I also had to make sure they were approved in all these countries, because a lot of countries, there’s certain peptides they won’t approve because they know they can be dangerous. So it took me about two years to come up with that formulation, and then I added in different things, because of the bacterial component of the skin and the fungal and the parasitic and just all the stuff that I experienced from traveling overseas, I wanted to protect so like black cumin seed oil was a huge target. Black cumin seed oil is something that I’ve always used on my skin, because I know that it basically deflects cancerous. Cells, right? And it can cause apoptosis, which is cancer cell death. Again, I don’t make those claims about the products I work on, but I’m choosing ingredients. It’s kind of like I like to have friends that are intelligent or funny, right? So when I work with different types of ingredients, I’m a creative my mom’s a musician. I was an artist. I look at it from what am I doing with this? And how can I make this as beautiful as possible, so that each person takes this and it helps their body, it helps their skin, and my hope is it always helps their life. Because, you know, we all, we all have this short time on Earth, and we’re hoping that we have the best life possible. And it sounds kind of odd to say this, but skin does matter. The way your skin functions. I mean, again, I’m going to go back to its largest organ, so it communicates with every other organ in your body. And people don’t think that. So your microbiome of the skin is dirty. It’s like saying the microbiome of the gut is not healthy. We know that if it’s not healthy, the rest of the body doesn’t work. But what about the skin and so for me, this was a having skin cancer at the age of 26 you know, having I had skin cancer here, they thought they were gonna have to take this eye out. I had it around this nose. This part still comes back, and I have to treat it naturally. But that was my choice. They had to take this nose back and go over and there’s a V here, and I have scars all over my body, so my goal was, I don’t want other people to go through that. I can’t prevent that, but what I can do is give people the tools that will hopefully help their body be even more protected.

Kara Goldin 16:37
Yeah, definitely. You and I have both experienced that, that in our life. So it’s, it’s not fun, and, yeah, more and more people are experiencing it as well at a younger age.

Dr. Christina Rahm 16:53
Yeah, and you’re like, when I saw your I said, I meant, when I said, I love your hair. I love red hair. My daughter had it when she was little, and then my oldest son, but they would get so burnt, you know, in the sun, we’d take him outside. I was always putting everything. And the problem is, a lot of the skin protection has toxins in it, right? So like carrot oil, just for your audience, just so they know, carrot oil is something great to use naturally on the skin. I don’t have a product out there right now that has that in it, but I do in the different products that I work on, I’m adding different ingredients that will help the skin in that area, not making the claim, because you have to go basically through a pharmaceutical analysis if you’re going to claim that you’re protecting the skin from the sun. My goal is to protect the skin against everything, and that’s really what I’m looking at, to protect the person, because each person is so important. And you’re right. Skin cancer has gone way up, just like every other type of cancer, and it’s something that we have to focus on. We have to evolve to be smarter than a virus, to be smarter than cancer, and that takes work, and we have to use our minds and our influence, like Kara, with what you have, you know, I’m a small piece of it. I can work in a lab on the science, but unless we get information out there to people, then people don’t know. Yeah, definitely.

Kara Goldin 18:11
So you have so many products in your line, but what are your favorites? You You mentioned the three step process for the peptides. You also mentioned the black cumin. But can you talk a little bit about like, what are your favorites, if people are going to the site? So

Dr. Christina Rahm 18:29
it depends on what I’m dealing with in my life at that moment, because I, you know, I go through different things, and I will tell you to do what I do for a living, I and to travel as much as I do. Clean slate is something that probably my most criticized product, and probably the most important product to me, because I’m trying to detox my body I’m always worried about, you know how it is once you’ve had cancer, people understand this, and I’m sure your audience does, even if it goes in remission, you’re still dealing with that the cancer cells talk, they’re hiding, right? They’re ready to come out. So clean slate for me, just helping my body clean inside is so important. And then zero in, which is a nootropic that’s used for to really help with neurotransmission throughout the body, is so important to me, because I have to be on every day, and a lot of times I’m only sleeping a couple hours a night because I get up in the middle of the night I’m on my computer. I’m sure you’re the same way. I’m trying to, like, get everything done. And so zero in for me. I made for women and sexual health. That’s how I started that. And then I started adding velvet bean and pine bark, and the root of pine bark and the vines, which I could only find in Indian Africa, in one place in Africa, and I was able to do the micro dosing. And it really helps people with chronic to function as well as performance. You know, that was my goal for people to be able to perform. I know a lot of people have used it with their children with autism and ADHD, but for me, as a female, it really helps. I haven’t tried it for the sexual five. Functioning part, like, I kind of switched gears. I had been at Pfizer when we worked on Viagra, and I’m like, What about women? And that’s why I started working on it. I do know a lot of women take it at night and it does help or during the day for that, but for me, it helps me with cognitive functioning and then relive grains is just a major thing for me because of all the stomach issues I’ve had, because of knowing the microbiome is so important, there’s a pre and probiotic in there, I’m sourcing and making sure there’s no GMOs. It’s halal, kosher, organic, no GMOs. And then I’m cleaning it repetitively through a patented process to make sure I’m taking all the toxins out. And for me those grains. I know it sounds simple, but it’s so important, because I understand now that I could eat broccoli, or I could eat an apple and it might not have any vitamins and minerals, or it might have a GMO, and even if it’s if it’s planted in an organic ground, what if the seed has GMOs, or what are the GMOs have traveled? And I don’t want anyone to be stressed about it, but for me, I love taking something that I know is pure, and then I’ve cleaned and I know that it’s really good for me that day. So my goal with relive greens was to be able to live off of it if I’m if I’m really honest, because, you know, I travel so much, and I wanted something that could really help my body. So those are my favorites today, along with, I would say, the peptides, either the oral peptides or the skincare and then, of course, Nat and niacin are everyone’s friend or most people’s friends. So I mean, yeah,

Kara Goldin 21:33
talk about those as well, because I’d love to hear your knowledge on on those.

Dr. Christina Rahm 21:38
So I have worked a lot throughout my career on telomeres and mitochondria. It’s always been a function. When you talk the human body has what’s called a p4 50 system, and it has an i l2 and I l4 pathway. So a scientist, when you’re working in pharmaceutical you’re trying to understand how that system fits into play with the autoimmune disorder or a drug they’re taking, and how it works together. So the body is basically communicating Okay, and it’s healthy. And so for me, I think the same way when I’m working with a nutraceutical or working with a product, and I understand that the body needs NAD, your nucleotides, your niacin, your quercetins, all of those things are really playing into how you’re aging, right? And it’s, it’s so interesting. It’s kind of like this taboo topic, like I have, I’ve invented patents that reverse aging. I’ve invented patents that help with longevity and regeneration. But it’s like, when we talk about it, and I’m not sure why it’s like this, they’re like, Well, that can’t happen. And here’s the truth, Kara, and you and I both know this. Of course, every minute of your life can happen where you you’re younger or older. It depends on how you process stress, how you handle all the elements that are coming at you. And NAD is so important. Because if you have NAD in your body, and there’s a niocyte and different things that go along with that, and curse 10, and you add magnesium, right? If you add those synergetically together into formulas. And I always say this, I think people should be able to take peptides without needles or NAD without needles. It’s not that I’m against an IV or an infusion or a shot. It’s just that for some people, you could have a reaction, right there’s something that could happen, whereas when you and when you inject it right away, you have to be careful. For me, I have taken NAD IVs. I have taken peptide injections like different things to help with one of the things I tried was a tan for the scan. I know that sounds crazy, but you can take one and get dark. Did it work for me? No, just so everyone. But I wanted to try it. But I wanted, I wanted our audience to be able to have something they could take at home, like not every mother can go get an IV for an hour, right, right? And you don’t even know where it’s manufactured. So I really wanted something that people could have that were building blocks. I’m going to go back to this again. NAD works with peptides and with quercetin, by hoping the mitochondria, by working with the telomeres and the communication so those pathways are clear. And so the body really is at its best. If you can get the body at its best, then you can look then you look better. You feel better. Your cells are better. And we know now that cellular age is not your actual age, so you and I could be 70 years old and have the cellular age of a 45 year old, and that’s who I want to be, right, not that I need to look better, because the older I’ve gotten, the more I care more about my health than actually just what I look like, right? Because, listen, I just need to be here to raise my grandkids. I need to be here for the world, to be out there. And again, this all fits together because we know NAD and quercetin and niacin and magnesium all help the skin. As well. It makes sense, right? If it’s helping the organs and the body, then it’s helping the skin. And we know there’s a lack of some of this in the body, understanding, even, because there’s so much pollution, because we’ve had so many illness and so many shots and so many things that we put into our bodies, we’ve gotta give our bodies the tool. So all of you guys that are out there know this. There’s some things we haven’t had control of. There’s governments that have made us do different things that maybe we didn’t agree with, or things have happened to our bodies. So I look at this as celebrating my life and other people’s lives, that they get to make the choice, and then I look at it that I have a heavy burden to always be honest with people. Always tell people the facts. It can’t just be about me and the products I’ve worked on. It has to be about what’s best for each person. And so I will tell you, NAT is something that almost every person really needs. It’s not something you and I didn’t learn about it in school, even, even as a scientist, I’m just letting you know a lot of the things we’re talking about, it wasn’t a topic. I had to take special classes, or go overseas and take classes, because we’re, you know, you have Western medicine, and a lot of times in western medicine, they’re not even open to the other types of medicine. Like if I said to a traditional doctor that turmeric curcumin or black cumin seed could help get rid of parasites, they’d probably look at me and be like, What are you talking about? So this mad thing for people, it does help support the overall body. It helps. If you look at the mitochondria and your telomeres, your energy source of your body, you’ve got to have energy, right? That battery’s got to be full, and that’s why these types of ingredients and products that are out there, they are important for people, but you’ve got to make sure that you take the right ones, vitamins, minerals, plants, leaves, hold on to toxins and heavy metals. So you just have to make sure that you’re really getting those produced at the right place by scientists that know what they’re doing, and a lot of times, what happens is you have doctors that hire scientists like me to work in different formulations. That doesn’t mean that that doctor doesn’t know what they’re doing, though, that doesn’t mean that the scientist doesn’t. A lot of times, if you team a doctor and a scientist and they really care about people, they will come up with great formulations. But on my end, I was extremely careful with the things I was producing, just wanting to make sure that whoever did use the products, they had good results.

Kara Goldin 27:27
And the NAD is, is that in a just so people know if they’re going on to your site?

Dr. Christina Rahm 27:33
Yeah, it’s an immune defense shield. And I actually am trying. I’m working on a nuclear minocide that I’m I’m putting in some to some other products, but right now, the main product we have is immune defense shield. Yeah, I call it mitochondria defense shield, just so you know. And one of the governments we work with said they didn’t recognize the mitochondria. That’s business. So we had to change the name, because they wouldn’t let us use that word in a product. Yeah,

Kara Goldin 27:59
that’s crazy. So how did you think about your go to market strategy for the Root Brands? Because it’s, it’s tough, right? I mean, you mentioned that, obviously you’re a scientist. You needed to, you really wanted to get this out to everyone in quality. But how have you thought about that?

Dr. Christina Rahm 28:17
So, you know, I had worked all over the world my whole life. It wasn’t a plan for me. People asked me, I actually My only fear in life is flying. So it was definitely not a plan. It worked out that way. You know how life works out where you don’t always get to call the shots. So it worked out that way. When my kids were little, we would have all pairs of nannies that traveled with me so I could take my kids, and we traveled all over when in the pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare industry, because of the cancer that I’ve had, healthcare has always been a focus of mine, trying to figure out different solutions, and so the go to market for me, I actually wasn’t at root. People don’t know this. When it was launched, I was working on emergency authorization in the United States, I was on the development and research side. We worked for something for the lungs. Unfortunately, in this country, most things did not get approved for emergency authorization, except for the vaccines. But I was working on an H OCL project, which was fantastic, but and had great results, but they didn’t approve it. I had been at another company, and I had worked people don’t know this, probably I’d worked in manufacturing on lots of different products, but every time the companies would change my products because it was either cheaper or they wanted something different. So this time around, when Clayton came to me, I said, I will work on the products, and I’d already worked on some, and I had done patents, and he asked if he could launch some of those, and I said yes, but I can’t be there, because I promised I’d work on this project for a year. So I actually didn’t step in until almost a year later. He I know He used my names because they were my products and I had patents. But. I did help him by making introductions. And because I’ve worked with different governments, it was really easy to go into different countries. To be honest, I’m old, let me say that. So Kara, I’m old. So because I’m older, I knew all these people, right? I mean, that’s the good thing about getting older, if you are a person that’s kept relationships, and some people love me and some people hate me, but I have enough good relationships that it worked to help. And then I’ll be candid with you, it helps so many people that were really sick. And I don’t even want to make a claim about that, it just grew like this. I mean, we had 100 people using the products, and by the next month, I think we had 20,000 and we went from one country to 26 countries in a year. 26 to 67 Yeah. So it was, and it’s, it was all online, yeah, it was word of mouth. We didn’t have any marketing in the beginning. So when you asked me that, that’s what’s interesting, the first two, almost three years, there was zero marketing in any country that we used Yeah, and it was just word of mouth. It was Yeah. I just think it came at a time where people really needed to focus on their bodies, and when something works again, you get good and bad reviews. Some people love our products, some don’t. I just have to say that, because I did a call last week and someone was telling me all the things they didn’t really like about me, and I said, you know, I don’t really, I only answer to one person, and that’s God for me, like, that’s just me, right? So that would that’s all I need. And and for these products, it was a blessing to me that so many people that they help people. Because I tell people, if my products don’t help you, don’t use them, because everybody’s body is so different. But the products did work, and it just grew by word of mouth and all the countries, yeah. Well,

Kara Goldin 31:45
I love your products, so they can just go away whoever you were on the phone with, because it’s, it’s, yeah. I mean, what negativity that too? Like, I think you’ve just created such a great, great product.

Dr. Christina Rahm 32:00
Thank you. Well, you know how life is, and that’s why I love meeting with people like you. Have to be honest, I try to surround myself by people that maybe have a little bit of an understanding of what it’s like to go through the social media or the podcast and everything. And I love your mission, because what you’re doing is getting information out there that otherwise people wouldn’t even know about but, but anyway, that was a marketing plan. We didn’t have one. The marketing plan was just, let’s see if this helps people and because, again, my mission is health care in different areas. This was something that I’m so thankful for. I’ve been trying to to push prevention and wellness in the healthcare arena, just personally, for 20 plus years. Kara, like for me, every time I would we would talk pharmaceutical, I’m like, What about wellness? What about prevention? What are we doing here? You know, I

Kara Goldin 32:54
love it. So a few other things that you’re working on. So you’re the CEO of DRC ventures, can you just talk about how that ties into the Root Brands as well, and some of the other initiatives that you have going on under under that umbrella? So

Dr. Christina Rahm 33:11
what I did is, I think, I think this was kind of one of the moments for me that was like, the more I was criticized, the more I was like, I’m going to do something as a female and step up and like and use the patents that I’ve written that got approved, use the patents that I’m writing. I, you know, I do one for stroke and ADHD and autism. I was really looking at colon cancer. What are the areas that we need to focus on? How can we do some natural things that are not just pharmaceutical and also maybe some pharmaceutical things and environmental things. And so through that, every time I would do a patent, and the patents I write are very different. They’re not like one thing, I’ll write a patent that maybe has 200 different uses, like for oil or gas or hydrogen, because I’m cleaning everything. So it makes things work better. So every time we would come up with a product, I would start the company around that. So we do have hydrogen gas and oil that I’ve worked on. We have military science. I worked on a clothing line to protect our country and people against heavy metals and nuclear waste. So there’s just different companies that were started, and now we’ve hired different people to run them. Some of the companies are successful, successful. Some aren’t yet. But again, the whole purpose is, how do we make global changes for people and humanity that are not just focused on money and power, but are focused on each individual and making lives better? And that’s been our focus under DRC ventures. With every company we’ve started,

Kara Goldin 34:40
you also have the Rahm foundation. Can you talk about one project there that’s really lit your soul?

Dr. Christina Rahm 34:48
Yes, the Rahm foundation is, is partly my soul. My son was, was five years old. He’s almost 30 now, my oldest, he runs the Rahm roast, which was one of our coffee cup. Companies. But Duquesne, when he was five, wanted to do a Halloween party at our house, and I told him that we could raise money for the school system, which we still do like we we sponsor kids all over the world. We just got a I just got a Mother Mary award. It’s not really for me. It was because of a school in India where we had 13 students. We sponsor. So I would say my heart is sponsoring education and health care for women and children. That’s That’s my heart. I was a single mother for a while. It was really hard. I had cancer, raising the kids that was important. So when Duquesne was five, I made all the kids. We would do a Halloween party that all the money we would raise, we had to give away to the schools, and we still do that. Now with the projects that we have, we also support environmental projects. So if people have a project they’re interested in us sponsoring, please let us know, because we love to help people all over the world. I

Kara Goldin 35:53
love it. So last question, you’re a woman leading in science, health and business, one power move you’ve made that you think has changed everything.

Dr. Christina Rahm 36:05
I think the power move that I’ve made is believing in myself. There was a time where I know this is going to sound disheartening, Kara, that like I would listen to the men in the room even though maybe I had or the women in the room, even though maybe I had an opinion, and I didn’t want to upset people. I wanted to get along with people. And now I understand that my opinion matters, and that I if I have an education or an opinion, I need to follow it like discernment. That’s my gut instinct, so follow it. It took me so many years because I really am a people pleaser, and I want to make people happy, and that was my downfall. If I could go back to my younger self, I would say, have more confidence. Step up, because this is something you know. And I think everybody needs to know that. You know, this is your body, this is your life. You have an opinion, and you should vocalize your opinion.

Kara Goldin 36:58
Yeah, definitely. Well, Christina, you are a force, and I really, really appreciate you joining us here today. The Root Brands are absolutely awesome, and I’m gonna watch everything that you’re doing with all of the rest of your initiatives now. So nice to have met you and heard a lot more about the background and and really what I always like putting names to brands, because I feel like that really helps people to really understand kind of what the difference is between what they’re doing and and, or what they’re seeing, and maybe other products that they See too. So for everyone listening, if you’re looking for real solutions, definitely check out Christina the Root Brands and learn more about DRC ventures. We’ll have all this info in the show notes as well. But thank you again, Christina really, really appreciate it, and thanks everyone for listening. Thank you. Thanks again for listening to the Kara Goldin show. If you would please give us a review and feel free to share this podcast with others who would benefit. And of course, feel free to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode of our podcast. Just a reminder that I can be found on all platforms. At Kara Goldin, I would love to hear from you too. So feel free to DM me, and if you want to hear more about my journey, I hope you will have a listen or pick up a copy of my Wall Street Journal, best selling book, undaunted, where I share more about my journey, including founding and building. Hint, we are here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Thanks for listening, and goodbye for now you.