The Earthing Ambassador’s mornings are quieter than her audience would expect.
Olivia Ramirez Smith starts her day the way she ends it. Outside, on the ground, with her dog. The dog is a Yorkie named Bodhi. The ground is whatever the day’s location offers. Sometimes the high desert outside her home, sometimes a grassy patch by a hotel, sometimes a stretch of sand on a coastline.
She does not break the practice. The practice is the point.
For most of her audience, Olivia Ramirez Smith exists as the author of The Mother Earth Effect, the co-producer of The Earthing Movie, the leader of Sole Rooted retreats in Joshua Tree and the speaker on wellness conference stages around the country. Her work occupies dozens of formats. Her schedule covers continents. The version of her that most people meet is the version on the cover.
The version off the cover is unusually consistent.
Pilates, most mornings. Olivia Ramirez Smith has practiced for years. The discipline is not glamorous. It is repetition, breath, and the kind of small alignment work that, over time, changes how a body carries itself. She brings the same patience to her own practice that she asks of the women who attend her retreats.
Barefoot walks, daily. The practice is the same one she writes about, films about, speaks about, and builds products around. It is also the practice she does, herself, the way someone else might check email. Twenty minutes in the morning. Often more. Her bare feet, the ground, and time enough to let her nervous system register that nothing urgent is happening.
Long hikes when the schedule allows. Bodhi the Yorkie is the constant. The dog is small. He keeps up.
Food matters. Olivia Ramirez Smith eats clean. Plant-forward. Organic when she can be. The same kind of meal her retreat chef prepares for the twelve women who attend each Sole Rooted event. The discipline at home is what makes the discipline on retreat possible to model.
Her work is woven into the day rather than separated from it. She journals in the mornings, holds Zoom calls in the afternoon and collaborates with Clint Ober on indoor earthing product development in regular working sessions. Olivia prepares for speaking engagements, her new books and for philanthropy initiatives. She is the company’s founder, CEO, chief writer, chief storyteller, and chief connector. The role is full.
But the day always starts on the ground. And the day always ends on the ground.
That consistency is not an accessory. It is the core of how Olivia Ramirez Smith has been able to do the volume of work she has done without burning out. The Earthing Ambassador is, in the most literal sense, grounded. The practice she asks of others is the practice she does.
Born January 14, 1962, in Coolidge, Arizona, Olivia Ramirez Smith credits the desert landscapes of her early life with much of what she now teaches. The land she grew up on was the same kind of land Sole Rooted now uses. Hot sand. Quiet rock. Sky enough to give the eye somewhere to rest. The wisdom she writes about was not a discovery in her thirties. It was a recognition of something she had always known.
The Yorkie is named Bodhi. The Pilates is daily. The bare feet are not metaphor.
The Earthing Ambassador’s life looks, on most days, exactly the way she teaches her audience theirs could look. Less performance. More ground. A small dog along for the walk.
That is what credibility looks like when you live the work.