Hi! I’m Rachel
Trainer, speaker, author, influence faciliator, yoga teacher, and lifelong student of how humans connect, communicate, and lead.
I have spent 20 years in B2B and B2C sales learning what moves people. It was never just words.
I hold an NLP Master Practitioner certification, an RYT200 yoga teacher certification and a Master’s in Organizational Development with a concentration in Leadership Development. I built StoryBreath, a proprietary methodology that helps people extract and deliver their signature story using all three minds — somatic, subconscious, and cognitive.
I work with sales professionals, leaders, executives, and business owners who are ready to communicate at a level that influences decisions and makes an impact.
My purpose is simple.
To help you lead and communicate from the inside out, so your words, your body, and your beliefs are all communicating the same message.
My story might sound familiar…
I spent 20 years in sales knowing I was good at my job, but sensing something was missing. I could hit my numbers. I could build relationships. But when I walked into certain rooms, my voice went quiet. Despite preparation and memorizing exactly what I was going to say, pitches fell flat. I had conversations where I said exactly the right things, got their commitment at the table, and was ghosted when I sent the contract over for signature.
I tried everything…
I paid thousands of dollars in trainings, books, programs and courses, mastermind groups and seminars. I worked with coaches who helped me become a better speaker and communicator. They all helped, until the pressure was on and the old patterns came back.
For a while I made up excuses. It was them, not me. They weren’t the right fit. They don’t have the budget…
Then I learned something that completely changed the way I approached influence: Communication is 100% my responsibility.
I made it my mission to figure out how I could do better.
Here’s what I learned:
The answer was never in the words. It was in the 93% of communication that happens beyond language. The body is the first mind. From my nervous system to my posture, my body is communicating. Then theres the subconscious story in the background and all of my prior learnings and experiences that show up uninvited. (They show up for the person I’m speaking to as well!)
The Aha is that there are THREE minds working to communicate when most trainings only focus on ONE— the cognitive mind. It’s why so many of us leave conversations confused when we said all the right things and it didn’t transfer.
That is what I built Uprooted and StoryBreath around. This is what I now teach.
what 20 years taught me…
Influence is not a tactic. It is not a script. It is not a formula you memorize and deliver.
It is what happens when your nervous system feels safe and confident, your subconscious story is working for you
instead of against you, and your cognitive mind has the framework to shape and deliver what you mean.
The work begins on the inside.
My methods are rooted in proven tools, deep training, and real-world experience:
M.S. in Organizational Development
Graduate Certificate in Leadership Development
Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Master Success Coach
RYT200 Yoga Teacher
Trauma-Informed
