Walking In Purpose, Led By Faith
Based out of Los Angeles - Connor Morgan is a health & fitness expert, author and Creator of Bare Root Remedy which is an international Holistic Plant-Based company providing supplements, skincare and wellness products. I got the opportunity to talk with Connor about her path to entrepreneurship while also getting a bit of a background on her story and what it took for her to see the success and life she has today. We discuss the importance of faith, the pressures of social media, her career as a private jet flight attendant, friendship and more!
1. What inspired you to get into the realm of health and fitness as well as creating your own brand that aligned with your love for wellness?
Two different instances stick out to me when I look back over my journey in the health and wellness space. I first fell in love when I got my heart broken. I was new to living in LA, I worked a 9-5 and I had a boyfriend after about a year of living here. When we broke up I was heartbroken and didn’t really know where to turn to heal or know where to put my energy into. I started working out with the theory of “I’m going to workout and look so good that he’s going to regret us breaking up” but in doing this I actually found myself and fell in love with the process. What started off as something very vain ended up changing my life. After I was working out for awhile, I was like “whats next how can I turn this up a notch” and I did. I started competing in body building competitions and was winning. Thats what kickstarted my career in the health and wellness space, after winning some shows I got deep into nutrition and herbalism because I wanted to know what fuels the body and more internally about the body. It wasn’t until COVID hit that like a lot of other people I lost my job because the world stopped. I was so used to traveling and going country to country that I never really had any time to sit and think what I wanted to do. So when Covid hit, it hit me that I was tired of posting other peoples vitamin brands and wanted to come out with my own. It was a domino affect from there, I launched a year after Covid and have been in business ever since.
2. Graduating from Caly Poly San Luis Obispo, having a job in pharmaceutical marketing is a lot different than where you are today being an entrepreneur with Bare Root Remedy. What would you say fulfills you the most being self-made opposed to working in corporate America?
I actually graduated with a job as a project manager in Marketing, and about 3 years late went into Pharma sales. I do think Pharma sales and seeing the cut throat side of how doctors and the Pharma industry really operate was also always a part of my plan because it made me want to help people. I was seeing innocent people who were sick and genuinely needed help being pushed a drug that was essentially only going to make them more sick, so when I look back I had to have that career and witness what I did in order to be exactly where I am today. I will say there are the pros and cons of being an entrepreneur, some months life amazing and the money is flowing in and other months I’m like why did I do this. But again that is a part of entrepreneurship. It is about trusting the journey. I know I’m walking in my purpose with what I’m doing because there is a really need for my company and products so I have to continue doing God’s work. I do love the freedom of being an entrepreneur, I set my own hours and make my own schedule. So if I want to take off a week to travel and be gone I can, I will be paying for it when I get back but I have the freedom which is always what I was after.
3. I feel as though fear is what holds so many people back from living their ideal life or embracing new opportunities. This has also been something I have experienced in my own life first hand. What advice would you give those who are allowing fear or the anxiety of the unknown to hold them back?
For me I’ve always lived my life with the mentality of “I’d rather do something and regret doing it than not doing it and having regret of not doing it” and that is kind of how I’ve lived my life to this day. Some things I was scared of doing, I look back and I’m so grateful I took the leap and did it, but I also have things where I look back and am like “dang why did I do that” but either way - I’m glad I did it. Joshua 1:9 “be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the lord your Got will be with you where you go.” You have to truly trust and believe in God, if we have Him walking with us at all times then what are we scared of? It is always Gods plan not ours.
4. In your biography you mentioned how you were bullied growing up for your weight. Though this is a sensitive subject, you also spoke on your struggle with poor eating habits and having body dysmorphia even as an adult. How did you overcome such challenges?
I think with falling in love with myself and especially my body which is a display of hard work I can’t really do anything else besides applaud myself and love myself loudly for the hard work and dedication I put into it. I come from an Italian mother and an African American father, so growing up in both households I had goooooood food around me at all times. My mom was an amazing cook, but being Italian comes with a lot of pasta which is gluten and a lot of cheese which is dairy. All of that caught up to me as an adult. When I graduated college and was working my first 9-5 I went through a bad breakup and didn’t know what to do with myself, I threw myself into the gym to try to get over the heartbreak and thats when I fell in love with working out. What started off as a vain/aesthetic goal quickly became a new lifestyle for me which changed my life.
5. There is a lot of pressure on what the ideal standard of beauty should be and changes every so often in society - especially with social media being our new norm. How do you stay confident in being Connor Morgan?
Its tough, I’m so glad I didn’t have social media growing up because I honestly cant imagine what the average teen faces now a days. Being half African American and half white I’ve always struggled with my identity. Its hard enough growing up as a kid trying to find your place in this world but then you add in that your'e half of something and half of another something, it was hard. I was too whitewashed for my black friends and too “ghetto” for my white friends, so truly tapping into who Connor Morgan huff was, was always a challenge. I feel like it wasn’t until I grew up that I loved everything about me that I used to hate because it made me different. I love my big curly hair now, I love my freckles, I love my big eyes and I LOVE HAVING MY NAME CONNOR, I’m so unique in every way and I love that about me.
6. You let me in on your life as a private jet flight attendant (pre entrepreneurship era). This is a hard industry to get into and not many people know about it. Being that you were in this field of work for 7 years, meeting top executives and well known celebrities how do you feel this chapter of your life impacted you and your network?
I talk frequently about this on social media but being a flight attendant for the 7 years that I was flying was the BEST career I had and could’ve asked for and honestly I recommend this experience to any young, single female who is unsure of her path. I only say single because I realized the few relationships I tried to have while flying didn’t end well because the men I dated hated I was gone all the time. I remember one time I called to do a pop up flight in the middle of a date and the guy turned looked at me and said “yea this isn’t going to work for me” and I don’t blame him, its not for the weak. Being a flight attendant was not only exhilarating because you got to travel the world for free but the people I came in contact with would late be in my rolodex of people to contact for business advice, it was incredible. I came into contact with so many amazing clients and seven some I call friends now. Being able to have first hand contact with some of the most influential people in the world at your fingertips is something I can’t explain. Also the people skills I developed while working this job. I really got in tune with knowing and being comfortable alone because you travel to some of the most beautiful destinations but have to be there stationed alone because you’re working. Definitely a career to remember and one I sometimes teeter with the idea of going back to just because I truly loved my job that much.
7. I know you have an amazing circle of friends in how you speak so highly of them. There is mixed talk about the social scene in LA, with how competitive women can be towards one another and even at times “fake”. How were you able to find such a solid group of women to lean on?
Blessed to have the girlfriends I have would be an understatement, I was blessed with girlfriends who turned into my sisters. You know its funny because as I look back over the course of my almost 14 years in LA and I look at the different friends I’ve had throughout the course of my time here and I see the growth and the change in my circle actually. I see the friends that I had when I was extremely broken and in a bad please so the friends that I had around me during that time vibrated on that level. When I started to level up, heal and become the best version of connor, some of those friends no longer were vribating on the same level and were only attracted to broken, drinking, partying Connor and we had nothing in common anymore. I realized the more I healed and the higher I vibrated the better I attracted in my friend group as well. The girlfriends I have in my life now re incredible, some have been around for 10+ years, some 3 years but those girls owe my family, my backbone, my support system. They are god, family and positive driven women who work extremely hard and Im blessed to call them my friends. From entrepreneurs, to wives, to mothers to CEOS etc. They keep me grounded, I know I could call any of the in the midst of an emergency, I can pray with them, travel with them, do life with them.
8. You have accomplished so much, making your mark on this world in numerous of ways. Where would you like to see yourself in 10 years?
I have been in my independent masculine era for sooooooo long I’m ready for my soft girl era, so in 10 years I see myself as a devoted loving wife and mother of 3 beautiful boys. So many people see this strong side of Connor who’s single and free and traveling the world so freely but the best part about me If you ask me is the way that I love, so I cant wait for that era, I’m ready, just waiting on God
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