Taking only 6 women into this cohort this month.
For women founders & executives

Your Inbox Never Stops. Neither Does Your Nervous System.

Let's change both.

As a founder or executive, your day starts with emails, messages, meetings, follow-ups, and decisions. By the time you've put out everyone else's fires, there's no space left to think.
Maybe you've turned to AI. Maybe therapy, coaching, or mindfulness. Both can help. Neither solves the whole problem.
AI can optimize your workflow. It can't regulate your nervous system. Therapy can help you process stress. It can't take work off your plate.
So many women leaders end up here. Taking on more. Carrying more by themselves. Never quite getting ahead.

What if success didn't come at your expense?

Having led and built businesses at Meta, Amazon, Cisco, and Microsoft, Uma and Pooja saw it again and again. The problem was never discipline, or working harder. You're carrying two loads at once: a business that runs on you, and a nervous system that never gets to settle.
Fix one, and the other still quietly drains you. So they built Rooted & Rising to work on both at the same time. Built by two women who've led at this level themselves, and refused to burn out doing it. Because you were never meant to choose between ambition and wellbeing.
The solution is built on two pillars.
The Body

Somatic Release

Advanced nervous-system regulation techniques backed by 50+ years of research. Your stress drops from an 8 to a 3 before the hour ends.

The Business

Digital Leverage

A personalized AI Chief of Staff that runs your inbox, meetings, and operations 24/7, built on the AI subscription you already have.

8 → 3
Stress drop, guaranteed
8+ hrs
Reclaimed every week, guaranteed
10X+
Return on your investment, year one

Why the women we work with pull ahead

Everyone has AI now. Almost no one pairs it with a nervous system that can actually use it. That's the difference between busy and free.

Power user vs. AI-native

Prompting AI all day leaves the work on you. An AI that runs without you is where the few who've pulled ahead already are.

An employee, not an integration

Anyone can connect AI to their inbox. We build one that thinks, decides, and writes like you. A teammate, not a toy.

Capacity, not just hours

Reclaimed hours are wasted if you're too fried to use them. Somatic work settles your system at the source, so you stop running on empty.

Regulated beats disciplined

Willpower runs out; a settled nervous system doesn't. Out of fight-or-flight, focus stops being something you force, and both edges compound.

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How it works

01  RELEASE

60-Minute Somatic Session

Real somatic work on the call. Your stress drops from an 8 to a 3 before it ends.

02  BUILD

Your AI Chief of Staff

We map what's eating your week and build an AI Chief of Staff that runs your inbox, meetings, and operations in your voice, 24/7. No PTO, no salary, no managing. Built on the Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini plan you already pay for. It takes work off your plate, and you own it.

03  SCALE

Space, plus leverage

A settled nervous system and a system that keeps the chaos out. You stay clear. You keep the hours.

Meet the founders

Built for high-functioning women. By women who've been there.

Uma Uppin

Uma Uppin

The Body · Founder of Tathya

Seventeen years building products and optimizing systems at Slack, Meta, and Amazon. She's seen exactly what separates leaders who scale sustainably from those who burn out, and it's rarely about working harder or better tactics.

She blends large-scale systems thinking with somatic experiencing, so you never have to choose between wellbeing and ambition, or between intuition and strategy. Because you shouldn't have to.

17 yearsSlack · Meta · AmazonSomatic Experiencing
Pooja Kalita

Pooja Kalita

The Business · Founder & Chief AI Strategist

Founder of GrowthScript and a former product leader at Splunk and Microsoft. For over a decade she shipped complex SaaS platforms at enterprise scale, so she knows the pressure to move faster, on more decisions, with less time.

She builds bespoke AI systems and AI-literate teams that lead with clarity, speed, and confidence. Every engagement is founder-run, never handed off to juniors.

12+ yearsInc. 5000 founderSplunk · MicrosoftGrowthScript

In their words

“Confidence in being a CEO, that was something I had a lot of fear around. Am I the right person? This coaching really helped me with that structure, confidence in being a CEO, and clarity around vision. It kind of feels like a bit of a weight was lifted. I now feel like I have more capacity.”

Chelsea Borruano · Co-founder, Insights Out

“Uma's session helped me access a layer of experience that's hard to reach through thinking alone. There was a sense of lightness, clarity, a new architecture forming internally. This is not surface-level work. It's precise, embodied, and powerful. I would absolutely work with her again.”

Sara Cohen · Co-founder, BeWhatWorks

“We were running scattered AI experiments across a sprawl of tools with no real direction. Pooja fixed that. She gave us clear frameworks for when and which AI tools to use, showed us how to run them cost-effectively, cutting our token bills by 60%, and put a proper AI governance framework in place so our teams could adopt AI responsibly. The results speak for themselves: we consolidated our AI tool stack by 30% and lifted AI-native adoption by 40%. Pooja turned our experimentation into a real, accountable strategy.”

Benu Aggarwal · Founder, Milestone

“Pooja adapted to our exact needs. She's incredibly mission-driven, and that authenticity comes through. It was eye-opening watching her build AI agents and thinking about how to apply it to our own use case.”

Nii Cleland · VP of Product, ShopMy

Questions women ask before booking

What exactly is the guarantee?

Reclaim 8+ hours a week and bring your stress from an 8 down to a 3 within your first 30 days. We set your baseline together in week one. If we don't hit it, you get a full refund. No hoops.

What happens on the discovery call?

It's a relaxed 30-minute conversation, not a pitch, and not a coaching session. We ask about your week, your biggest time drains, and where the stress sits. By the end you have a clear plan for both the body and the business side, and we both know whether it's a fit. No slides, no hard sell.

How should I prepare?

You don't have to. Come exactly as you are. It helps to have a loose sense of where your hours go and what drains you most, but we draw it all out with simple questions. No documents, no homework, nothing to build.

Am I obligated to enroll after the call?

No. If it's not a fit for either of us, we'll tell you. If you do enroll, you're covered by the 8-hour, stress-to-3 guarantee from day one.

How is this different from executive coaching?

Executive coaching works on your thinking and strategy. This works one level deeper, on the nervous system where unresolved tension lives, draining energy in the background and causing brain fog. Then we add the AI Chief of Staff, so you're not just clearer, you're carrying less. Coaching alone doesn't touch either.

Is the somatic work therapy?

No. It's body-based nervous-system regulation. Practical and fast, and it works below the level where talk and mindset reach. Many women come to us having already done years of therapy. Uma is certified in somatic experiencing practice.

What is the AI Chief of Staff built on?

The AI you're probably already paying for. We build it on your existing Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini subscription, in your voice, so there's no new tool to buy and nothing to migrate. When the work is done, you own it.

Do I have to pay for extra AI tools, or learn any coding to run it?

No on both. We build it on the Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini subscription you likely already have, so there's nothing new to buy. And you never touch code or learn anything technical. You run your AI employees in plain language, the same way you'd message an assistant.

What can the AI Chief of Staff actually do?

It triages your inbox and messages, drafts replies in your voice, turns meeting notes and long threads into clear next steps, tracks the follow-ups that slip, and surfaces the few things that genuinely need you. The exact build is shaped around your workflow, so it handles the specific work eating your week.

How is this different from just using ChatGPT myself?

ChatGPT is a blank box you have to prompt from scratch every time. Your AI Chief of Staff is a system built around your context, your voice, and your priorities, running against your real work. You stop starting over each time and start actually delegating.

Does it really get smarter over time?

Yes. It learns your patterns, remembers your context, and applies your corrections consistently, so a few weeks in it's guessing less and knowing more. It also rides every upgrade to the model underneath it. That's why it's an asset that appreciates, not a tool that ages.

Is my data private?

It's built on your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini account, so your data stays inside the tools you already control. We don't hold it or route it anywhere new. When the build is done, you own the whole thing.

Why do I need an AI Chief of Staff?

Because right now, you are the system. Every decision, follow-up, and thread routes back to you, and that's what's quietly eating your week. An AI Chief of Staff takes the noise off your plate, triaging and handling it in your voice so only what truly needs you reaches you, and it hands back 5 to 8+ hours a week. It's also a fraction of the alternative: a human chief of staff runs $150,000+ a year, a capable EA $60,000 to $70,000, and both take vacation and eventually leave. Yours works 24/7, never quits, and runs on the subscription you already pay for.

Why is building one complex? Isn't it just connecting a few tools?

No. Connecting an AI to your inbox is a weekend demo. A real AI Chief of Staff is closer to standing up an agentic workforce: several AI agents that each own a slice of your work and hand off to one another. That takes real engineering. We pull your scattered context from email, calendar, docs, meeting notes, and chat into one place the AI can reason over. We design the logic for what it decides on its own versus flags for you. We wire secure, reliable connections between your tools so nothing breaks or leaks, and encode your voice and judgment so the output sounds like you, then test it against your real work until it's trustworthy. That craft is the difference between a generic chatbot and an employee who knows your business, and it's why most DIY setups fall apart.

Will it replace my team or my assistant?

No. It removes the noise and cognitive overload so the people you have do higher-value work. It's leverage, not layoffs.

How fast will I feel a difference?

Most women feel the stress drop within the first session, and the 8+ reclaimed hours show up on your calendar within the first two weeks.

The Guarantee

Reclaim 8+ hours a week and bring your stress from an 8 down to a 3 within your first 30 days, or we refund every dollar. No fine print, no hoops.

All the leverage. Minus the burnout.

We guarantee it: reclaim 8+ hours a week, bring your stress from an 8 to a 3 within your first 30 days, or get a full refund. No fine print.

Clients see 10X+ ROI in year one.

Book your free 30-minute Discovery Call today
It's free. No sales pitch. Just a clear look at where your time and energy are going.

If you don't leave that call with a clear understanding of your stress levers and a detailed roadmap to lower them, we'll send you our complete AI Chief of Staff Prompt Library anyway, and wish you well.