A husband and wife, and one unusual set of skills.

A working screen actor for thirty years, in feature film and on television, with credits including The Highwaymen, Geostorm, The Hunt, sharing the screen with Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Gerard Butler, Ed Harris and Hilary Swank. He coached other actors through twenty of those same years. Filmmaker and producer.

That work was always the same job: find the authentic voice underneath the performance anxiety, then make it repeatable under pressure. Root & Rise does that for practitioners instead of actors, and then makes it run at a scale a person could not sustain by hand.

Dean now builds the infrastructure the agency runs on. The automation, the publishing pipeline, and Vitalia were all built here, not bought.

Miss Louisiana USA 2008. Actress in film and television. A social media influencer for over sixteen years, with an audience she built herself as a fashion creator, long before it was a career path anyone recognised.

Then her health collapsed. Parasites, mold, heavy metals, a thyroid that quit. Her weight dropped to ninety three pounds. Two emergency room visits and months on the couch while conventional medicine treated symptoms and left the causes alone. She found holistic care, spent years healing, and came out the other side certified in functional nutrition.

That is not a backstory we put on a page. It is the reason practitioners trust her with their voice, and why she can write about nutrition response testing with conviction that only comes from having lived the result.