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This event brings together nutritionists, doctors, and PCOS advocates from around the world.
These impressive health and wellness professionals offer various perspectives and expertise on topics focused on women's hormones.
This event has ended. Please register below to access the replay.
Meet the Host
Devin Donahue
@myhormonehealer
Devin is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University with a BA degree in Sociology. She is currently studying Marketing Psychology at Regent's University of London. After her own personal struggles with PCOS and Celiac Disease, she noticed that there is a large gap in the market for a platform that houses all information under one roof. She decided to take matters into her own hands and host this virtual summit to bring together women from all over the world to share their similar health experiences.
Meet the Facilitators
Kelly Springer
@kellyspringer_rd
Kelly is a graduate of West Virginia University with a BS degree in Nutrition and earned her Master's degree in Health Education from SUNY Cortland. Kelly formerly worked as the Division Dietitian at Wegmans Food Markets and as a clinical dietitian at Auburn Hospital working in bariatics, critical care, and nutrition support. She began Kelly's Choice in 2012 with a vision to empower people to invest in their own health and wellness in order to live their best lives. Kelly's Choice now functions as a comprehensive nutrition and health company that offers private nutrition counseling, workplace wellness, education webinars, media appearances, and brand partnerships. The company has grown exponentially since its inception and is headed in an exciting direction to reach a wider audience and change the conversation surrounding what it means to truly be healthy.
Jenifer Tharani
@chronicpain.nutritionist
Jenifer Tharani has completed master’s in human nutrition from Texas State University, San Marcos TX and training in dietetics from Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA. She is a member of College of Dietitians of Ontario and registered with the Commission of Dietetic Registration. She is multilingual and fluently speaks second languages like Hindi and has worked in different settings which has given her experience treating people of all ages with different conditions. Jenifer believes that eating healthy does not have to be boring, time consuming or expensive. She is extremely passionate about helping you adopt an anti-inflammatory eating pattern without restrictions. She doesn’t believe in diets, instead in making small sustainable lifestyle changes to help you find a balance in your everyday life, including trying to keep your favorite foods in the mix! Jenifer’s mantra is “Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man to Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime” and so she gives you a nutrition toolbox to help manage your health condition or live a healthy and good quality life, whatever your goal may be.
Karishma Dewan
@bodyonbeat
Karishma Dewan is the founder of Body On Beat, a PCOS lifestyle management platform that’s built upon a strong mind-body connection. Karishma believes that strengthening the mind gives the body its greatest chance at healing. Her four pillars of empowerment are: thought, movement, knowledge and nature, to achieve true transformation.Karishma works full-time at Google, using data to develop forward-thinking business strategies for clients within the media & entertainment industry. She is currently channeling her love for technology and her 15+ years of experience living with PCOS to launch the Body On Beat app: a holistic solution making PCOS lifestyle management fun, easy and all-in-one-place. The goal is to empower every woman to be in sync: making our mindset our medicine and being self-aware to the point that every cell of ours beats to a tempo that we’ve intentioned.
Dr. Felice Gersh
@dr.felicegersh
Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a practice that provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine. She taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor, where she received the highly-coveted Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. She now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, through the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where she lectures and regularly grades the case presentations written by the Fellowship students for their final exams. Felice Gersh, M.D. is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS and the PCOS SOS Fertility Fast Track, and she has published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is a prolific lecturer and has been featured in several films and documentary series, including The Real Skinny on Fat with Montel Williams and Fasting with Valter Longo, Ph.D.
Sarah Drai
@sarah_drai
Sarah left the corporate world 7 years ago to teach yoga and meditation in London. Her calling is to make those practices more accessible to people. You can join her classes when Studios reopen at Triyoga in Chelsea or experience her yoga and meditation classes online using the link in her bio. Sarah is also the founder of Yogi2Me, a platform allowing to book yoga and meditation teachers directly to your London home. She will lead us though a 30-minute introduction to meditation. Expect to learn an effortless and accessible meditation technique, the benefits of having a regular practice and tips to build your own daily meditation practice. You don't need to have any experience in yoga or meditation to participate. This is accessible to anyone.
Lauren Johnson Reynolds
@londonwellnesscoach
London Wellness Coach is a fully qualified Nutritional Therapist, Homeopath and health coach with a special passion for PCOS, women’s health and mental health support. Having suffered with eczema, anxiety, IBS and PCOS, Lauren has seen personally how huge shifts in health can be made through natural methods. She believes in our individuality as humans and ensures that every client leaves with a completely bespoke treatment plan and the effective tools they need for long term healing, believing that with knowledge comes the power to heal. Lauren spreads positivity and love online through her Instagram and at wellness events and prides herself on being an advocate for women.
Sophie Shepherd is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, FDN-P, the Founder of SHE Talks Health, the creator of the SHE Talks Health Podcast and the Co-Creator of EmpowerHER a 12 Week Gut & Hormone Restoration Program. Sophie helps women around the globe transform their menstrual and digestive health through a combination of root cause diagnostic testing and nutrition & lifestyle science so they can finally have straightforward answers to their most mystifying symptoms. Sophie’s mission is to educate and empower women so they can reclaim their gut & menstrual health and get their lives back!
Sophie Shepherd
@shetalkshealth
Ranim Talih
@ranim_t
Ranim is a California-based certified Holistic Nutritionist & plant medicine woman who specializes in teaching her clients the keys to self healing so that they can reclaim their power and autonomy over their health. Ranim is a long time passionate advocate for healthy living and practices that integrate the mind, body and soul, and address the root cause of health conditions. After self healing from hypothyroidism & cervical dysplasia, she was determined to show others the ropes to intuitive healing. She is the founder of the Holistic Project, an artisan herbal product line that seeks to remedy and prevent ailments and enhance health with natural solutions. Ranim practices preventative folk healing and works with clients virtually, and provides lifestyle, dietary & herbal recommendations to suit their bioindividual needs.
Jessie Laute
@jessielaute
Jessie Laute is a Breathwork & Wellbeing Coach and founder of Phoenix Breathwork. Having worked in the corporate world for almost 15 years Jessie fully understands the lifestyle and pressures involved in that world as she felt the weight of the world on her shoulders at the time. Having taken a time out to reset and heal, Jessie now works with those who would like to know how to manage stress, time, improve their health, be present and show up for themselves in day to day life without feeling the overwhelm. Even the busiest of people can live full, healthy, happy lives with the right tools. Jessie is passionate & dedicated to working with people through methods of coaching and breathwork to help them live a truly authentic life, heal from stress & trauma to reach their full potential and begin to really thrive in life instead of survive.
Kristina is a Nutritionist and Author, with experience working in the fields of Functional/Integrative Medicine and Microbiota Transplant Therapy. Her experience led her to create the company Mind Mood Microbes. At MMM Kristina and her colleagues teach clients to harness their microbiota to reduce brain fog, bloat and other chronic or autoimmune health issues.
Kristina Mitts
@mind.mood.microbes
Summit Schedule
11:45am-12:00pm
Welcome Message
with Devin
12:00pm-12:30pm
How your Mind can Heal your Body with Karishma
12:30pm-13:00pm
Introduction to
Meditation with Sarah
13:00pm-13:30pm
Creating Balance Through Daily Diet with Lauren
13:30pm-14:00pm
14:00pm-14:30pm
14:30pm-15:00pm
Introduction to Breathwork with Jessie
Lunch
Regulating your Period Cycle with Jenifer
15:00pm-15:30pm
Digestive Health
with Kelly
15:30pm-16:00pm
PCOS Weight Loss Challenges with Dr.Felice Gersh
16:00pm-16:30pm
Birth Control and PCOS
with Sophie
16:30pm-17:00pm
Herbal Medicine and Hormones with Ranim
17:00pm-17:30pm
Microbiome and Stress
with Kristina
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