The Mother Earth Effect Community launches on Skool in September 2026. It will cost nothing to join, and it will admit women only. Olivia Ramirez Smith has already been asked to defend that last part more than once.
Her answer comes out of twenty years of watching who talks and who stops talking. She opened New Image and J. Michaels in Victorville, California, in 1999 and grew it to fifty staff, and she spent those two decades chair-side while women told her things they had told nobody else. What she learned is that a woman edits herself the second the room changes.
So she is building a room that does not change.
The community will be private. Nothing posted inside it will surface in a search, which carries more weight than it sounds like when the subject is a woman’s marriage, her diagnosis, or the number in her bank account. Members will meet on monthly Zoom circles. They will mark the turning of the seasons. They will practice grounding together and report back on what it did.
The education will run wider than wellness. Olivia Ramirez Smith plans a guest speaker most months, with subjects rotating through holistic health, personal finance, self-care, and what she calls the art of feminine connection. Podcast episodes and live question-and-answer sessions with wellness practitioners will fill the space between calls. A woman who joins for better sleep is expected to stay for the session on money, which is the design.
She will charge nothing, and that decision has an argument behind it too.
The med spa years taught her how a woman decides to spend on herself. A woman will pay for her appearance without pausing and stall for months on anything aimed at her nervous system, because the first purchase is permitted and the second one feels like indulgence. A free door settles that argument before a woman has to have it with herself.
Grounding sits underneath the whole thing. Known around the world as The Earthing Ambassador, Olivia Ramirez Smith advocates for a practice simple enough to state in one sentence: put the body in direct contact with the surface of the earth. Researchers studying it have reported effects on sleep, on markers associated with inflammation, and on the settling of the nervous system. She says in print and from wellness conference stages around the country that the practice is not a treatment and does not replace a physician.
Explaining it was never the hard part. Doing it on a Tuesday in February is.
That gap is what the community is built to close. A woman can read the book, agree with every page, and let the practice lapse inside three weeks if nobody notices. A room full of women on a monthly call notices.
Her books make the case at scale. The Mother Earth Effect, a number one best-seller with a foreword by Mariel Hemingway, carries twenty-one contributing women alongside her. Sacred Spaces: Subtle Shifts for Mind, Body, and Home Transformation, the Colleen Avis-led collaboration that won the Books for Peace International Award, came first. The film she co-produced, The Earthing Movie, featuring Clint Ober, Strategic Partner, has reached over 8 million global views.
None of those formats can hear a woman back.
The community will, and it is designed to feed the rest of what she runs. Sole Rooted, her six-day retreat at Gaia Villa in Joshua Tree, takes twelve women at a time, entry by a one-on-one Zoom with her. She expects most of them to have been on a monthly call with her long before they sit across from her in the desert.
Women who want a place in the first season can sign up ahead of the launch at skool.com/the-mother-earth-effect-8045.
Olivia Ramirez Smith founded The Mother Earth Effect LLC at sixty-two, an age at which most people are being counseled to wind down. She made the community women-only because she has spent a career learning what a woman will say once she is certain nobody else is in the room.
More on Olivia Ramirez Smith’s books, the Sole Rooted retreat and her work as The Earthing Ambassador at Olivia Ramirez Smith’s official site.
