Most wellness programs run on a thirty-day clock. Olivia Ramirez Smith is building hers on four seasons, and she expects the difference to show up in who is still there in year two.
The Mother Earth Effect Community, her women-only group on Skool, launches in September 2026 and will mark the turning of the year the way people did before anyone owned a calendar app. Members will gather on monthly Zoom circles. Each circle will land inside the season it belongs to, and what the women practice will shift with it.
She organized it that way for a reason, and the reason is not aesthetic.
A protocol assumes a woman’s life holds still. Thirty days of the same routine, the same sleep window, the same practice at the same hour. Olivia Ramirez Smith has yet to meet that woman. The one who shows up has a February that looks nothing like her July, and a body that registers the difference well before her calendar does.
Seasonal living will let her change what she is doing without concluding she failed at it.
That distinction does more work than it appears to. A woman who drops a thirty-day program on day nineteen files the whole attempt under evidence about herself. She was not disciplined enough. She never finishes anything. Olivia Ramirez Smith has listened to that sentence for twenty-five years and has watched what it costs the woman saying it, which is usually another two years of not trying.
The circles will run on Earth-based rituals, grounding practice, and conversation. She plans a guest speaker most months, and the subjects will rotate through holistic health, personal finance, self-care, and the art of feminine connection. Live trainings and question-and-answer sessions with wellness practitioners will sit between the circles. That range is wider than a wellness group usually attempts.
She is attempting it because the women told her to.
In two decades of chair-side conversation at the med spa she founded in Victorville, California, in 1999, Olivia Ramirez Smith learned that a woman’s sleep problem and her money problem are often one problem wearing two outfits. A woman who cannot afford to stop working will not rest, and instructing her to rest is a way of declining to listen. So the community will teach both, on the same call, to the same women.
Grounding anchors the calendar. She advocates for putting the body in direct contact with the surface of the earth, and researchers studying the practice have reported effects on sleep, on markers associated with inflammation, and on nervous-system regulation. She is careful about the limits and says so in print and from wellness conference stages around the country. The practice is not a treatment.
Outdoors, the seasons make it obvious. Bare feet on warm ground in June need no persuading. January decides whether the habit survives, and a circle in the middle of winter will be the difference between a woman who kept going and a woman who meant to.
The community is also designed as the front door to the rest of what she runs. Sole Rooted, her six-day retreat at Gaia Villa in Joshua Tree, takes twelve women at a time and admits them after a one-on-one Zoom with her. Women will arrive at that conversation already knowing her rhythm, which changes what the six days can do.
Her number one best-selling book The Mother Earth Effect carries a foreword by Mariel Hemingway and twenty-one contributing women. Sacred Spaces: Subtle Shifts for Mind, Body, and Home Transformation, her first number one, won the Books for Peace International Award. The film she co-produced, The Earthing Movie, featuring Clint Ober, Strategic Partner, has reached over 8 million global views.
Every one of those reaches a woman once, on the day she finds it.
A calendar reaches her in March, and again in June, and again in the week she was going to quit. Olivia Ramirez Smith is building the community around that arithmetic. Women can join ahead of the September launch at skool.com/the-mother-earth-effect-8045.
More on Olivia Ramirez Smith’s books, the Sole Rooted retreat and her work as The Earthing Ambassador at her official site.