872 Dr. Christina Rahm:

Melinda Wittstock:

Coming up on Wings of Inspired Business:

Dr. Christina Rahm

I know this is probably hard for people to accept, but I put love into what I create. I really do.

I use music when I create things. I envision things. You know, I meditate a lot. But spiritually, I understand that I need to be connected in order to bring solutions to the world that the world really needs. Cause it can’t be from my ego, it’s got to be to really help people. Even with the coffee, I understood that there’s a lot of mold and fungus and toxins in coffee. So, I came up with a process to clean the beans. I even went to Ethiopia, Guatemala. I went all over, looking for beans. And we settled on a place where there had never been GMO’s or pesticides, land, air, and water. Way up in the mountain in Guatemala. And then I had to go to Cyprus and Turkey to find a coffee roaster that would do my process, because in the United States, everyone was like, we just want to make coffee. And I’m like, yeah, but I need a coffee that if people have autoimmune disorders and cancer and mental health issues, this will help them.

Melinda Wittstock:

All entrepreneurs are, in essence, creators. We can create in hustle, grind, ego, or fear, or we can choose to infuse love, joy, and abundance into our innovations, creating intentionally to inspire the positive impact we want to see in the world. Dr. Christina Rahm is a veritable force of nature, a scientist, a conscious leader, and a serial entrepreneur now overseeing some 22 health and wellness brands including her delicious Rahm Roast coffee. You’ll be inspired by Christina’s journey, and how women entrepreneurs can change the world.

Melinda Wittstock:

Hi, I’m Melinda Wittstock and welcome to Wings of Inspired Business, where we share the inspiring entrepreneurial journeys, epiphanies, and practical advice from successful female founders … so you have everything you need at your fingertips to build the business and life of your dreams. I’m all about paying it forward as a 5-time serial entrepreneur, so this podcast is all about catalyzing an ecosystem where women entrepreneurs mentor, promote, buy from, and invest in each other …Because together we’re stronger, and we all soar higher when we fly together.

Melinda Wittstock:

Today we meet an inspiring entrepreneur who knew her calling at the tender age of 5, with an otherworldly message, a voice that imbued her with a clear mission – to love, heal and help humanity. Dr. Christina Rahm thought she’d be another Mother Teresa but in her 20s her childhood calling instead found resonance in the boardrooms of Big Pharma as a scientist developing some of our best-known drugs. When she found herself battling a pituitary brain tumor, syringomyelia and multiple cancers, Christina discovered natural healing methods that saved her life and she embarked on a new mission to heal the world as an entrepreneur, blending traditional medicine with ancestral wisdom and holistic approaches. Over the years she’s created some 300 businesses, and now as CEO of DRC Ventures she formulates and oversees some 22 brands dedicated to holistic healing and saving the environment.

Melinda Wittstock:

I got together with Christina during SXSW in Austin when my company Podopolo and our Brand Studio went into action at the beautiful ranch of actor and investor Adrian Grenier to create a series of Candid Conversations between entrepreneurs, healers, and investors. You can see the video of that interview now streaming on the Podopolo app, along with many other inspiring talks.

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Melinda Wittstock:

It takes courage, resilience, and undying commitment to a big mission for an entrepreneur to change the world. Dr. Christina Rahm is a remarkable innovator and spiritual leader whose mission to love and heal the world has driven some 300 business ventures, each one a steppingstone in her inspiring journey, overcoming all forms of adversity – from cancer to all the naysayers and haters – to create and build a global business combining some 22 fast-growing natural health and wellness products including Root Brands, Ella Pure Skin Care, Rahm Roast coffee, and the nanotech skincare product Envirem.

Melinda Wittstock:

With degrees from Harvard and Cornell in Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical Management, Nutrition, Education and Philosophy, Christina has worked as a medical, clinical, and research scientist in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and biotechnology industries for Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Biogen Idec/Biogen, UCB, Bristol Meyers Squibb, and Alexion.  Additionally, she worked on the corporate side for Pfizer, Biogen, and Janssen and is currently the Chairman of International Science Nutrition Society and Chief Science Officer for ROOT Wellness. She has created multiple provisional patents, proprietary formulas, and trade secrets, and researched and lectured globally for events and classes at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Cleveland Clinic, Wake Forest, Mayo Clinic, and Cornell. She’s the author of Cure the Causes: Live the Life you Want, Not the One Prescribed, and through years of laboratory research and ethical observations, she has developed a personalized and predictive consulting company working on everything from the environment to DNA and detox wellness plans in which Dr. Rahm helps clients reset their bodies and minds to be spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically balanced.

Melinda Wittstock:

Today we talk holistic health and environmental remediation, ways to elevate global consciousness to solve our biggest problems, the ongoing fight for ethical practices within the pharmaceutical industry – and much more, including the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and what it means to stand in your truth.

Melinda Wittstock:

Let’s put on our wings with the inspiring Dr. Christina Rahm and be sure to download the podcast app Podopolo so we can keep the conversation going after the episode.

[INTERVIEW]

Melinda Wittstock:

Christina, it is so wonderful to have you here, to have this really wonderful conversation. We’re on this beautiful farm. It’s Adrian Grenier’s house. He’s welcomed us all here for a wellness day. You are the queen of wellness. Welcome to Wings.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Thank you. I’m already inspired by you after talking to you, so thank you for being here and for getting to be together on this journey.

Melinda Wittstock:

You know, I’ve interviewed thousands of female entrepreneurs, but never one that’s created more than 300 businesses. And a lot of women listening would be men be like, oh, my God, how do you do that in, like, one lifetime? And so, you’re here for a purpose. Let’s start with your purpose. What’s allowed you to not only create 300 businesses, but elevate so many people?

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Well, first of all, I do want to say I haven’t been successful at all 300 businesses, because to be in this journey, in this life, as well as, I think, our past lives, and everything you learn right through the journey. But I started in my late twenties, opening businesses. I had this mission, though, since I was a little girl, probably around the age of four and a half, almost five, where I heard a voice and felt extremely loved and extremely cared for, that I was told my only mission here was to love and heal and to help people. And I interpreted that, that I was going to be like Mother Teresa, and I was going to work in missionary, like I was going to work with orphans and do missionary work. That’s not where my journey led me. And then later, I had a pituitary brain tumor, syringomyelia, and lots of types of cancer. And I again heard this same message, that I would be here and that I would have this mission. And if I.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

And I felt this many times, if I ever betrayed what I was supposed to do, I would fail. So, money is part of helping you succeed to create a mission. So, I’ve been blessed that that has been something that hasn’t been that hard for me, because I think I’ve stayed focused on why I’m here and what I’m supposed to do. That’s my mission.

Melinda Wittstock:

You said you’d recovered from cancer and all of that. A lot of people would be defeated by that. But the sand that rubs against a pearl creates the pearl. And so, at that time that you were going through that, were you aware that this was just part of your mission? You were going through this so you…

Dr. Christina Rahm:

…Could help other people?

Melinda Wittstock:

Or how did it feel at the time when you were going through that?

Dr. Christina Rahm:

So, at the time when I was pregnant with my first son. I was very sick. And then after the pregnancy, metastasized to different parts of my body. But I was going to say, even with my own family, it was hard for me to talk to them. Like, I remember my mother being worried about the pituitary tumor, and then I had cancer, and they thought it was behind my eye, and they thought they may have to take my eye out. You can see like a zigzag here and around my nose. They had to do mole surgery and different things. And I remember being embarrassed.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

This is interesting, but I don’t know if I’ve ever discussed this part. I was embarrassed that I was weak. Like, in my mind, I was. I didn’t want to be sick. I had so much to do. And it was really. I stopped talking to people about being sick. Like, I didn’t tell.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Share with people some things you can’t hide. Like, there were times I was working at Biotech and Pharma, and they had to do surgery or different things, but I felt it was more of an annoyance where it was getting in my way of my mission. But that’s where I really got into natural healing because I was in the pharmaceutical biotech industry. But I started understanding I need to take care of my body every day. And this is part of how I can share love and how I can help people live longer but be healthier and happier. Right. It hit me during that time that it wasn’t just physically, that I needed to help people that emotionally and mentally and psychologically, spiritually, people need someone that cares and understands. But it did draw me away.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I’m being very honest with, I love you, my family, and I love the friends I grew up with, but I pulled away because I remember thinking, I’ve got to figure out a way where I can help the world and not be. I know this sounds bad, but bogged down by other people’s feelings. And what I mean by that is, I couldn’t let their… Like, when people feel sorry for you, or, and I’m going to be really honest, they don’t want to really hear either that you’re sick. Right. They want to be around people that are happy and healthy. So, I just kind of pulled inward and in. By pulling inside of myself, I was able to become stronger so I could help more people.

Melinda Wittstock:

So inspiring. I love what you said about the health in the context. It’s not just physical, it’s emotional, it’s mental. You said it’s spiritual. It is as well. And so, this is infused in all of your brands. I want to talk about all the amazing things you do. Like, I’m just going to say, I just had your coffee.

Melinda Wittstock:

It blew my mind. I mean, it tasted good, but tell me about just the process of the coffee. We’re going to talk about all of your brands.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

But so, I feel like I do put. I know this is interesting and probably hard for people to accept, but I put love into what I create. I really do. I use music when I create things. I envision things. You know, I meditate a lot. But spiritually, I understand that I need to be connected in order to bring solutions to the world that the world really needs. Cause it can’t be from my ego, it’s got to be to really help people. And so, like, even with the coffee, I love coffee. And I understood that there’s a lot of mold and fungus and toxins in coffee. So, I came up with a process to clean the beans.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I even went to Ethiopia, Guatemala. I went all overlooking for beans. And we settled on a place where there had never been GMO’s or pesticides, land, air, and water. Way up in the mountain in Guatemala. And then I had to go to Cyprus and Turkey to find a coffee roaster that would do my process, because in the United States, everyone was like, we just want to make coffee. And I’m like, yeah, but I need a coffee. That if people have autoimmune disorders and cancer and mental health issues, this will help them. Because actually, the coffee bean, if you look at it in its purest form, the isolates are so amazing for your body.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

But people get sick to their stomach and different things happen. They feel jittery because they’re not what they need, because it’s full of toxins. And I didn’t want to scare people. I just wanted to create a story of, this is the better way to drink coffee that can actually help your health. So that process was a long process, if you ask me. How long? I started looking into that in 2015, and that wasn’t realized until a couple of years ago. And then, like everything in life, and I’m sure you know this, it wasn’t just me. Clayton Thomas, Ted Baker, Duquesne Cook.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

All of these people worked on helping me find the right place to do the coffee. So that meant going to Cyprus, going to Turkey, going to all these places. And that’s what I have to tell people. It’s a journey. It’s a process. Even spiritually understanding what you need to do, and then also understanding that the tools are around you and the people that are part of that journey are equally important, as I am or as you are. And so often we get this arrogance, and we think, oh, I did this. And it’s interesting.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I know I didn’t do it. Like, I know it came from a higher God that came from.

Melinda Wittstock:

It came from source. It came from source.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It did.

Melinda Wittstock:

And did source help you attract the right people to the opportunity?

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yes. I think through a series. Now that I look at it, if you look at life, and I know, you know, this cancer goes into your body, right? And the cancer cells talk, and they want to take over the host because we’re the host, just like a virus wants to take over a host. I had business situations in the past where I had male business partners that were really not good to me, and I allowed it. I had female friends that were somewhat abusive and jealous, and I allowed. And then finally I realized I’m wasting time trying to change people when all I need to do is be the mission I’m supposed to be, and I will attract the right people along the way. And that’s what’s happened at this point.

Melinda Wittstock:

That resonates so deeply with me. You don’t even know. I’m sure you’ve been through a lot.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Of it the same way.

Melinda Wittstock:

100%.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

And it’s interesting when you finally come to the conclusion that it’s actually quite elegantly simple, just be who you…

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Just be who you are.

Melinda Wittstock:

Because the right people come to you in that case, but protect who you…

Dr. Christina Rahm:

…Are, because you know what? I finally had to accept because I think as a female, I was brought up in this home where you forgive 70 times seven. You’re always loving. You try your best to help and serve. And thankfully, I was raised by parents that taught me to lead and serve. But I, as a female in the south, I was really taught a lot of the servanthood. Right. A lot of it. And so, I remember when it hit me, that doesn’t mean I need to be treated badly by others, though, because I need to protect myself.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

And that’s really a part of my statement to people now that I really look them in the eyes and tell them, you have to love yourself. You have to take care of yourself, too. Not in a selfish way, but if you don’t, there’s nothing left to give other people.

Melinda Wittstock:

Exactly. You know, before we started this stream, we were talking about women, especially women entrepreneurs, playing a bigger game. Because I think a lot of women start and they constrain themselves like there’s a sort of upper limit set in terms of, you know, by society or what’s around them or what they believe is possible. And I remember having a conversation with a lot of female entrepreneurs about, let’s play bigger. But before we started the stream, we were talking about how women who are building billion-dollar businesses are afraid to say it. Why are we afraid to say it? Is it dangerous to say it’s dangerous? It’s dangerous.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Female CEOs are, don’t usually last as long because they’re attacked legally on media. They’re wanting to be taken down. You know, males are raised traditionally to be athletes, and I’m an athlete, but I mean, they’re raised to fight. You know, women are raised kind of to heal. So, I’ve had to become a warrior and to be, I remember days I would put the covers over my head and think, I’m not getting out of bed because I was criticized. You know, when I worked in pharmaceutical and biotech, I wasn’t. But when I stepped out to really speak the truth about both sides of medicine, I was attacked by the big companies.

Melinda Wittstock:

I can imagine, especially if you’re challenging them, because you are. What you’re doing is disruptive.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It is. But I have to say this. I feel like, and I truly feel this way, there’s a place for pharmaceuticals and biotech. Like, I worked with human monoclonal antibodies in the bioprinting space, cloning, like all this stuff, that was extremely interesting, but, and it saves people’s lives, right? But the problem is, cumulatively, it has a lot of side effects, and it’s meant for acute medicine and not for general, general chronic like illnesses. And now we have more and more autoimmune disorders, more and more cancer, more of everything, right? Despite our advancements in that space. And so, yes, it was looked at like I was combating an industry, but what I really was trying to do is offer solutions that could help almost every industry, because if you can combat the side effects from, like, pharmaceuticals and biotech or lessen the amount that’s taken, then you can really help generationally. But a lot of people just think about money, and so it’s not about humanity. I wish that people could just understand, listen, why don’t we, like, I’m not against pharmaceuticals or biotech, but I’m for humanity, you know, and I’m also not.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I’m not for all nutraceuticals, because there’s nutraceuticals that aren’t made, in my opinion, correctly, because there’s not enough education so people think it’s just a vitamin or a mineral or certain herbs and plants, and that’s not how it is. Like, I detox all my products during the process, and it’s not just a simple process. Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

Because you can go out and buy vitamins and they could just, like, have all kinds of horrible things in them. I know you don’t know because there’s no label law.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

There’s no label law. And that’s why I collect data. We have a patient registry, we have a wellness tracker that we’re starting and double-blind trials, different things that we’re doing so that we have that information, because I believe people deserve the right to know.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It’s interesting, we have an animal line, and I always tell people this, animals don’t lie. Like, you can’t have a placebo effect with animals. Do you know what I mean? So, like, one of our, actually, a couple of the products we used with our dog that they said he was going to die, he lost all of his hair, he had a bacterial fungal infection, and now he looks perfect. And it’s because animals, the purest form of, you know, they’re pure love. They are. And we’re here to take care of.

Melinda Wittstock:

Them, and they’re here. They’re present. They’re in the present moment.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

They absolutely are.

Melinda Wittstock:

Humans have to get better at that. But just going back to this thing about women, because it’s almost like the burn at the stake energy, you know, we’ve all been here before.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

You know what? You’re right. It’s like, if you believe a certain way or if you step out, you’re like a witch.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, people could call me a witch. A bitch, whatever, right?

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yeah, me too.

Melinda Wittstock:

Because they want to put that on you, but that’s not where you’re coming from.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

But if you look at the witch, if you look at that history, it was other women that wanted them burned, too.

Melinda Wittstock:

Oh, my. I’m just like…

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It’s because they couldn’t handle that. There were these women that had this ability to heal. Cause that’s really what they were doing, right? They had guidance. They could heal, and so they burned them, you know? And the thing is, it was women and men, and I just say this all the time, we all have gifts. Don’t be jealous of each other.

Melinda Wittstock:

I think this is what stops women from really being shining in their own light and standing in their own power and really the bravery and the courage of what you’re doing to really be this. And I just have tremendous admiration for you.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Thank you.

Melinda Wittstock:

Because I know what it takes. It’s not easy what you do, and yet you’re hoping that you have allies in other women and yet you don’t. Like, I found, like, a lot of my better mentors and it’s not for lack of trying, have been men. And so, it’s actually hard to find other women on your level who want to lift you.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

You know, it’s so hard. But I will say this. I’ll have to introduce you to this group. It’s called Elysium, and Karen Floyd is the leader of that. And they’re very strong women that are in business, government, all over the world, and they are really supporting each other. However, even in that group, you know how it is still happening, but it still happens. But she’s amazing. And then I have wonderful women I work with at work.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

There’s a lot of women that understand it takes all of us working together, and each role is so important. I always say this. You have, like, lead actors in a film, right? It’s the same way in life. But then you have the supporting actors that if you really look at shows, they’re equally important. And they sometimes, a lot of times, become the top person that everyone’s watching. And I wish I could share that with women. Like, let’s just work together.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Don’t be jealous of the person at the moment that’s the quarterback or the person that’s in front. First of all, you know this, and I know this. It’s not easy. And I want to say this, too. It’s not fun.

Melinda Wittstock:

It’s often not fun. It can be, but it’s a lot of times not. It can be really not. I mean, you know, okay, there’s just been five businesses for me. That’s not including all the little side hustles. And some of them have worked and some of them have not. There’s so much beyond your control.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Absolutely. And by the way, just because I’ve started more doesn’t mean I’ve done a better job. It means I’ve probably failed more than you. And so, I had to start more.

Melinda Wittstock:

I failed a lot. I mean, you know, failure, failing forward is a good thing. It’s how you learn.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Well, listen, if I had done five successful businesses that made billions of dollars each, I would be very happy right now. I wouldn’t need to start 300.

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And we’re back with Dr. Christina Rahm, scientist, inventor, serial entrepreneur, author, and CEO of DRC Ventures.

[INTERVIEW CONTINUES]

Melinda Wittstock:

You’re here on earth at this point in an earth suit for a very big reason, so you have a big mission. I feel similarly in a different area. More around information, more around light and such, but the similar thing where you suddenly realize, and you realize much earlier in your life, I think, than I did consciously but I didn’t realize exactly.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I was in my twenties when I had a group of people come up to me in my twenties, I’m 55 right now, in my twenties say to me there was going to be a war on healthcare and that it was going to affect people all over the world, and that I was here on this earth to be a scientist, that was going to heal with the formulations that I worked on. And then I met with the proctors and gambles about 2015 and 2016 to work on a project. And they told me the same thing, that I was a channeler and that I was going to Proctor and Gamble.

Melinda Wittstock:

I’m just going to just Proctor and Gamble.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Well, Foster and Kimberly Gamble were the ones that told me I was at their house in Santa Cruz. Yeah. And they asked me if they could basically pray about it, and I said, I don’t understand. And they said, how beautiful you do in some format. You’re just not accepting it. But this has happened to me. Like, I was just at the Oscars.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It happened six or seven times. People said things like that to me. So, people are seeing. So, when you asked me earlier about, do you think that people are realizing things now more than they ever faster? I absolutely do because that hasn’t happened constantly to me until now.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah. So I’m finding the same thing just all of a sudden. More so this year. People will say, oh, you’re here for a mission. I know who you are. I see you because they’re able to. So, it’s like an energetic frequency shift, perhaps, because a conversation like that would have been impossible in the eighties or the nineties, like, even the aughts, it just wouldn’t have happened.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It wouldn’t have happened now. It has happened at different points in my life, but I’m talking, like, every two to three years, not like it is now. And from my perspective, you still have people that their eyes are closed, and they find it scary for other people to say that. But, no, I think. I think people are really starting to understand there’s a. There’s a change that’s happening throughout the world, and everyone thinks it’s negative. And here’s what I’m going to say. Just like I went through cancer, just like I went through businesses where people treated me bad, you got to come out of the other side.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

You brought it up being a pearl. You can’t give up and think, oh, the world is over. You have to think, oh, we have a new beginning. So, what am I going to play in this role in the new beginning?

Melinda Wittstock:

100%. Because you see this just in the context of, say, social media, where all those algorithms have wired people’s brains to be in fear and in, like, judgment and base emotions. And you see the impact of that on society. But at the same time, as we’re seeing all of that going on just in our sort of body politic, if you will. Right. Which is just not pleasant. It’s shining a light of transparency. It is on what’s wrong.

Melinda Wittstock:

And you have this. It feels like at the moment, energetically, there’s these folks falling into that, but then conversation like this more and more and more.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yeah. I have people that say to me, Christina, you need to stay home more and not go out and not do all these things all over the world, because you need to stay home and pray and meditate. And I’m like, listen, we weren’t. I think meditation and prayers are. It’s amazing. We need it, right? But I also think we weren’t meant to stay in a box. You brought it up earlier. We were meant to be a light in the world.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

And if people are so worried about evil and darkness, then change it right on it. Shine the light on it. Like, what are we doing? And so, I’ve really. I get angry now a little bit when people say that to me that are women. And I think, that’s not what I want to teach my daughter. That’s not what I’m going to be in this transition. And then I have people that say it’s the end of the world, and there’s not a transition. And here’s what I’m going to say.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

There’s been transitions through history. You know that, right? Like, the cotton gin changed everything. Like. No, no. Like when we had smallpox, it changed everything. Like, we’re going through a transition. It’s not that it’s over. Yes, the economy is struggling.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yes, we’ve gone through a pandemic. Yes, we’re worried about gas and oil. Yes, we’re going towards this global thing. But what are we going to do in that transition to make this world a better place? So, as women, you and I have gone through a lot, right? So, we should be strong enough to handle this and 100% well. When we’re little, we’re taught, like, you’re a caterpillar, and then you’ve come in butterflies, but then when you get older, you’re like, wait a minute. I don’t want to be a caterpillar. I just want to be a butterfly.

Melinda Wittstock:

It took me a while to remember when I was a little kid, I was just this natural entrepreneur. I went door to door demanding. I was paying for my show, right? I had this show. It had costume changes, music, and all this kind of stuff. I remember my grandmother, I came home, and I said, where can we get, like, you know, 100 chairs, right? And I had like a $100. It was six. And she said, you’re disruptive.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yeah. People say that a lot about me. I’m like, I’m not trying to be disruptive. Right. I’m just trying to be mean. Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

Trying to help other people, like, you know. And so where do you get that? So that inner strength, obviously, it seems very spiritual to you. You mentioned that you meditate a lot. You obviously know everything about healthcare, this balance, this holistic, kind of integrative approach between new and the big pharma and such.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

But I would argue that traditional medicine is what I do. Interesting, because my mother, like the Cherokee, Choctaws, like the Native Americans, that was all natural. Yes, but now we think that traditional.

Melinda Wittstock:

We all knew.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Clicking me. Yeah. The arrogance of that, I think is hilarious. I say it when I talk nontraditional, but then I’m like, wait a minute. This is traditional.

Melinda Wittstock:

It is traditional. I learned that I went deep into the Amazon rainforest. I met this tribe that had only met the outside world 20 years before, the Achuar and deep in the Ecuadorian jungle. Wow. And we were walking through, and I got this little. I had a sore on my hand, and I didn’t know where it was from. And the guide that we were with, he had his big chopping to chop all the leaves through, and he took a little, I don’t know, a little cut of a little tree, and this kind of looked like blood came out of the tree.

Melinda Wittstock:

And then he rubbed it on his hand. It was a paste. He put it on my hand and my sore disappeared in, like, within 30 seconds.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Wow.

Melinda Wittstock:

And I’m like, this is really interesting because the raw materials, all of that, all of that knowledge, indigenous knowledge, is so powerful.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It is. It is.

Melinda Wittstock:

And so, the process from. So, there’s a lot of pharmaceutical companies, for instance, in the Amazon and all the…

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Oh, yeah, we work in the pharmaceutical industry. We take it from nature, and then you add synthetic delivery mechanisms. You can do it from, like, mammalian cells or bacterial or fungal. There are different ways you can create it. But I always say, like, if there’s poison ivy or poison oak, there’s a plant nearby that you can pick and you can rub on it, it’ll go away. And that’s how nature grows. Exactly.

Melinda Wittstock:

So, this is why things like drawdown farming are so important.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Oh, absolutely.

Melinda Wittstock:

And all of these different things which we’re talking about all through the day today here with Adrian and others, I want to make sure that we shout out all your brands, because you’ve got a lot of stuff going on. You’ve got the coffee rom roast. You’ve got rom roast. You’ve got root brands.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yeah. Root Brands is where people can buy. It’s therootbrands.com dot. It’s where people can buy a lot of the formulations. But we have Bill and Coo, which is our animal line, Ella Pure, which I named after my daughter Marin. Ella. It is the skincare line. And then the clothing line is Mercy Dupree clothing airs, which protects against the environment, 5g pollution and nuclear waste.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I always say I’m not a fashion designer, I’m a fashion engineer because my background’s bioscience engineering and then lots of other. We have Environ, which is for the environment. We have sprays that help because one of my patents got approved to detox and remediate the land area and water up to the stratosphere. So, I have that. And we actually do remediate up to the.

Melinda Wittstock:

I’m just going to absorb that for a moment. Remediate up to the stratosphere?

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Yes, because here’s the thing people don’t know, pollution and certain types of chemicals and heavy metals, nuclear war, nuclear waste, it doesn’t leave our stratosphere. So, people always think like, oh, well, let them fight this over in the Middle east or in Ukraine or Russia.

Melinda Wittstock:

It’s removed from us.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

But it’s not.

Melinda Wittstock:

We’re all connected.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

It’s not, we’re all connected. And so, people don’t understand that. So, when I wrote the patents, I actually wrote it to detox the environment through the stratosphere so we can get it to leave. And that was one of my big focuses. And people know me more for the nutraceuticals because I did get approved for reversal of aging and regeneration of the skin, hair, and nails, but I’m signing up. My biggest push was the environment. But the problem is, it’s such a hot topic. And we have a 57-acre farm in Missouri where we’re remediating everything, and it’s never been touched by GMO’s or pesticides in our area either.

Melinda Wittstock:

So, no Monsanto around you not there.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

And the land around. Cause our family has farming around that it was, but not where we bought it. And everyone kept saying, Christina, this has never been touched. Are you sure you want this? I’m like, yeah, this is. There’s a 30, I think he’s Stephanie, and 37-year-old horse that came with it. Because if you can have people not exposed to that, you can live longer. So anyway, it’s. Yeah, we have a lot of different.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

We have group purchasing. We have a military science company. My goal is, like, I just wrote a book, is peace. You know, that’s my goal. But I did write about psychological war and biological warfare because I was involved in some stuff early in my career that I wanted to educate people on, not in a negative way, just understanding what’s happening in the world and how possibly we can work towards peace.

Melinda Wittstock:

Okay. We’re going to make sure that all the books and all the products and all the links and everything are in the show notes for this episode so people can really educate themselves. And I just. Christina, I just want to thank you, just really, from my heart, for such a lovely conversation. But more than that, just what you’re doing in the world, it’s so important. I just really thank you.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Thank you. What you’re doing is equally important, and I hope the audience knows that. I’d love to have you on our podcast. I’d love to be here. We’re internationally pretty big, so I would love to expose people internationally to this as well, because even though people are in other countries, we’re connected there, too, like I said. And I want you to have a bigger voice and for me to continue to have that so we can be this light. So, thank you so much for what you’re doing. It’s equally important.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

I think you understand that, and I think that’s important, too, that you get it. I just say to people, you got to get it.

Melinda Wittstock:

Podcasts can raise. It’s all about the frequency and energy. It’s an audio wave, a video wave. These are different frequencies that we’re all on, and we can elevate.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Absolutely. Absolutely. That’s why we do it. We try our best. Like, social media was new to me, and now we’re pretty big because we really are focusing energetically on that. And you’re right. Spiritually, we have to be connected. I used to see it all the time that people that would get better were spiritually connected to other people that had positive energy.

Melinda Wittstock:

100%. Thank you.

Dr. Christina Rahm:

Thank you. Thank you so much. That was fun.

[INTERVIEW ENDS]

Melinda Wittstock:

Dr. Christina Rahm is a serial entrepreneur, scientist, author, CEO of DRC Ventures and Chief Science Officer of Root Wellness.

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