Christy Goldsby is the Founder, Head Innovator and Board Chair of Honey Mama’s, the Portland, Oregon-based maker of refrigerated truffle bars. The company furthers the food-as-medicine movement by offering an indulgent experience that contributes simultaneously to health and vitality. In 2010, a personal health journey inspired Christy to bridge two lifelong passions: making and sharing delicious food and personal wellness. Christy created the most undeniably delicious treats using a combination of only real, nutrient-rich whole foods. All Honey Mama’s products are paleo and free from refined sugar, gluten, dairy, soy, stabilizers and additives.
Read MoreKate Morton is a Registered Dietitian and as a nutrition coach focuses on menstruation, PMS, perimenopause, menopause , anti-diet culture education and infertility. Kate is an advocate for “seed cycling” as one way to handle side effects of menstrual cycles and sells products on her Funk It Wellness site.
In this episode, Kate and Heather talk about seed cycling, birth control’s various uses, how food affects our hormonal balance, cortisol levels, infertility and perimenopause. Kate offers practical tips on hormones, foods we eat and effects of our menstrual cycle.
Read MoreSweta Vikram is an International Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Ayurveda-based Health & Mindset Coach. She grew up in an Indian home that used Ayurvedic healing sciences in day-to-day life.
Sweta’s latest book (her 14th ) is The Loss that Binds Us: 108 Tips on Coping with Grief and Loss. It is a grief manual that helps when you lose someone to death but also a loss of a relationship or job.
Read MoreJeralyn Glass is an international opera star turned sound healer. Her new book Sacred Vibrations: The Transformative Power of Crystalline Sound and Music comes out July 23rd.
Drawing the attention of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jhené Aiko, and SZA, Jeralyn has become one of the foremost leaders in the world of holistic healing through Music as Medicine and now the publication of her highly anticipated book.
Read MoreSusan Grau is an internationally-celebrated Grief Counselor, Soul Healer, Celebrity Reader, and Intuitive Medium. With over three decades of experience, Susan's goal is to help others who seek to understand the afterlife and to assist with the deep soul pain of grief. Susan draws on her personal near-death experience (NDE) that occurred when she was three years old. During this event, she found herself trapped inside a freezer while guides from the spirit world communicated with her mother to locate her as she was dying.
Read MoreAdam Gopnik’s newest book was released in April 2024 called, All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters and takes a look at our society’s endless obsession with striving. Gopnik says society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the “best” school they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the highest-paying, most prestigious jobs, seeking promotions and public recognition. The result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement.
Read MoreAustralian entrepreneur Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder and CEO of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013 with no experience in an industry that people said is either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and more recently, co-working spaces – all of which serve to ignite human potential. Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene.
Read MoreJulie is the co-founder of Well Defined and a longtime influencer and advocate in the wellness world. Along with her work at Well Defined, she is an executive recruiter and marketing specialist for Hutchinson Consulting. She is also a consultant and content strategist for numerous wellness brands. She is the former editor-in-chief and publisher of American Spa and was named a 2019 Folio Top Woman in Media in the Industry Trailblazers category and a 2018 winner of ISPA’s Innovate Award.
Read MoreJameel is the Founder and CEO of the consulting agency Writeful Place. His agency scripts narratives for personalities, brands, and businesses looking to realize unexploited revenue potential. Jameel Spencer is an award-winning veteran brand builder, who has played pivotal business roles for Shaquille O’Neal, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Simpson and more over the last 25+ years.
Read MoreDr. Stacy Sims is a Leading Global Expert on Female Physiology and Training. She is a forward-thinking international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women. Her contributions to the international research environment and the sports nutrition industry has established a new niche in sports nutrition; and established her reputation as the expert in sex differences in training, nutrition, and health. Stacy is a former elite athlete, coach, nutritionist, known for the phrase, “Women are not Small Men.” She’s been on many influential shows and is a consultant for brands you know such as Nike, WHOOP, Tonal and Nuun. She’s developed multiple hydration products ( Osmo ) and she gave a powerful TEDx talk too.
Read MoreLisa Moskovitz is a registered dietitian, nutritionist and the CEO of NY Nutrition Group. She is the author of The Core 3 Healthy Eating Plan, a personalized, science-based guide to finding your healthiest, happiest weight. Discover the Simple, Sustainable Way to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Enjoy Food Freedom! She received a BS in nutrition from Syracuse University and then went on to complete an intensive dietetic internship at NY Presbyterian Hospital. Since then, she has accumulated over a decade of experience in private practice, providing nutrition workshops and working with the media.
Read MoreDr. Sylvia Kalicinski is a Ph.D. level therapist and writer who loves teaching simple strategies backed by brain science and mindfulness. She simplifies brain health, therapy, and coaching while adding a dash of spirituality to help people better understand themselves. Her techniques, such as the B.O.D.Y. skill helps clients better manage stress and live a more fulfilling and confident life. Dr. Sylvia has worked with all kinds of people from celebrities to your next-door neighbor...women, men, and teens who’ve felt anxious, lonely, and stuck.
Read MoreHeather talks with these amazing women about women in business, success, not forgetting the divine feminine and so much more. BE… is not your ordinary business book. It’s a hybrid of personal development, self-transformation, and a deep activation of the female entrepreneurial spirit. A shared vision uniquely co-authored by three accomplished women, BE… is a labor of love from their combined decades of professional experiences and entrepreneurial journeys.
Read MoreHeather talks with these amazing women about women in business, success, not forgetting the divine feminine and so much more. BE… is not your ordinary business book. It’s a hybrid of personal development, self-transformation, and a deep activation of the female entrepreneurial spirit. A shared vision uniquely co-authored by three accomplished women, BE… is a labor of love from their combined decades of professional experiences and entrepreneurial journeys.
Read Moreim Curtis serves as Institute of Integrative Nutrition’s business and community leader and is affectionately identified as their Head Coach. Jim joined the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in 2019. He has been a wellness pioneer for the last 20 years, and has dedicated his career to health, wellness, and coaching. Jim has helped develop life enhancing apps like WebMD, Everyday Health, Remedy Health, HempVet and Modern Sanctuary. He is a motivational speaker giving TED talks and hundreds of lectures around the country.
Read MoreCliff Robinson is the CEO of Revo. Previously, he was the CEO of B. Robinson LLC, a worldwide designer and manufacturer of branded and private label eyewear founded in 1926 by Cliff’s grandfather, Ben Robinson. In 2018, Cliff was part of a private investment group that acquired the Revo brand. Cliff has a B.A. from Brown University and an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business. He is a founding member of the NYC chapter of YPO. He currently lives in Westport, CT with his wife and 3 children. He is an avid sports and music fan, a “foodie”, an outdoor enthusiast, and a political junkie. He has lectured extensively at eyewear-related events and conventions and has authored continuing education classes for eyecare professionals.
Read MoreFern Mallis was at the 1991 Michael Kors show in a New York loft space when the vibrations from the bass music caused the ceiling to crumble onto all the one named models – think Naomi, Christy, Cindy – and the Fashion Editors sitting in the front row. The next day, the headlines read, “We Live for Fashion, we Don’t Want to Die for It.” This set Fern on a mission: not only to create a safe venue for designers to come together and show their work, but to put the American designer on the world map. Thus, the New York Fashion Week Bryant Park tents were born, and Mallis firmly cemented her place in American fashion history. For almost two decades, he tents became a “Fashion City”, with Fern as its Mayor.
Read MoreRyan Bailey is an actor, host and creator of the hit iheartradio podcast So Bad It’s Good with Ryan Bailey. Growing up in Kansas, Ryan was always taken by pop culture and the ins and outs of Hollywood. After graduating from the Arizona State University, with a bachelor’s degree in theater. Ryan went straight to Los Angeles to start a career in acting and directing. He gained notoriety in guest starring roles in shows like: The Office, How I Met Your Mother, Tosh.0 and a plethora of Lifetime movies.
Read MoreAn early innovator in the natural supplement and wellness space, Josh Taekman serves as CEO of EBOOST, the industry leader of CLEAN FUEL FOR A BETTER YOU products he founded in 2008. An entrepreneur at heart with multi-faceted specialties, Taekman began his career co-founding Bad Boy Entertainment. He served as VP of Marketing, spearheading endorsements, cross-promotional opportunities, and partnerships with outside artists (Jay Z, Lauren Hill, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, and others). Taekman also worked closely with Sean Love Combs and orchestrated his non-music oriented ventures, including creating the infamous White Party, Sean John Clothing, Lincoln “Sean John” Navigator, and C-Suite relationships with Forbes 500 companies.
Read MoreRona Berg is the Editorial Director of Organic Spa Media. She is the former Editorial Director of ELLE, Deputy Style Editor for the New York Times Magazine, Contributing Editor to SPA Magazine and Advisory Board member of SHAPE for her expertise in health and wellness. She is a longtime journalist, digital content director and best-selling author of Beauty: The New Basics and Fast Beauty: 1000 Quick Fixes. She has been cited as an industry expert in spa, wellness and travel by Huffington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Daily Mail, and more, and has written for over 100 publications. She has worked to advance global wellness initiatives. Berg has visited and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of spas around the globe.
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