We’re looking forward to introducing you to Rhodel Rosales. Check out our conversation below.
Rhodel, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. When was the last time you felt true joy?
With or without substances? Haha, just kidding.
This past birthday in late August, I was having dinner at Carbone in Las Vegas. A song came on named “Only The Lonely” by Roy Orbison. This was a song my dad, who died 5 years ago, used to sing regularly on the karaoke machine for years when I was a little lad. Back then it was so loud that I was annoyed buy it. But when the song started playing at the restaurant, I traveled back in time and suddenly I was a kid again in the same house I grew up in listening to my dad sing, and I was enjoying it. Snap back to reality, I was just eating my ribeye steak while holding back tears.
The same night, I went to see Bruno Mars. As he performed “Treasure”, a song that I absolutely love, I began to replay everything that I’ve been through. It was like a ESPN top 10 Sportscenter list of bad events of my life. “DUH-NUH-NUH! DUH-NUH-NUH! To be standing there, not unscathed, but stronger than I’ve ever been. Then I said to myself: “Wow. I. Am. Really. Happy.” I was saying this completely sober. Even though the first example seemed sad, I did feel true joy in both of these instances.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Rhodel and my job is to help spread the word about a teeny tiny nutrition shake company based in San Francisco called, Basically Food. Why that name? Because basically…………..it’s………….food (insert maniacal laugh). It’s vegan also. It’s your daily, plant-based nutrition. Gluten-free. Dairy-free. Nut-free. Soy-free. If you’re a nutrition freak and have been wondering if there’s somebody out there that can match your freak, look no further. We are that freaky somebody. Shout out Tinashe.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
Whenever Facebook alerts you of what you posted “on this day” 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 years ago and you roll your eyes so far back that you’re looking at your brain. Yeah, that relationship with your younger self will shape you right up.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
“It’s going to be ok. You’re exactly where you need to be in this moment in time. It may not seem like it now, but you’ll understand later.”
Although society may draw up a map to salvation as a linear path, we all know through life experiences that the real path is drawn all over the place. Sure, some have it easier than others. But when you look back at that path line that looks like a kid scribbled on a piece of paper and compare it to where you are right now, you will say “Wow. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.” You dust your shoulders off and get to work.
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. Is the public version of you the real you?
If we’re talking public as in social media, it’s the real me. It just depends on how the viewer interprets it. Just as long as you know that you’re true to yourself, anyone else’s opinion of you should not matter. If they have an issue, that’s a “them” problem. Also, whatever we put out there is what we want people to see. So it’s the real me, but not 100% of me.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
I’ve been a massage therapist for 15+ years. Even though the instant gratitude sometimes makes me feel that I was born to do this profession, other times I just want to quit and do something else, and I’m currently transitioning into another career. This new one feeds my insatiable desire to create as opposed to my past desire to help people physically.
I would say, some people find that thing they were born to do. Others don’t. It’s kind of difficult to find a passion and profit AND survive. People are just trying to survive and hopefully they enjoy what they’re doing as well.
Is someone born to sit in a cubicle and crunch numbers? Is someone born to wash doo-doo off of the sidewalk? Is someone meant to work at the DMV and be mean to people? I don’t know. But what I do know is that it serves a purpose in society somehow, and that can include just your overall well-being and not go ballistic on your fellow people.
We are born to live. To experience. To help others. Live, laugh, love, LMAO. Let go and let God. Something like that. Just as long as that thing you’re doing makes you feel fuzzy wuzzy inside…
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