Balanced Wellness Solutions with Dr. Kourtney Chichilitti

For today's episode, I have a very special guest, Jennifer Kaiser and she is telling her mom's very powerful story of why lifestyle modifications are so important to health and wellness and how certain medications can worsen your health and certain conditions. We're also going to talk about reflux disease and how it is mistreated by physicians and people self-treating with over-the-counter medications. 

"I understand having that that peace is important. And having your goodbyes and having that time. It's so important and to feel okay about it and feel a peace of added inside" 

For today’s episode, we have Emily Otto, the owner and groomer of Handcrafted Canine Dog Spa in Lansdale Pennsylvania. She has an extensive resume working in the dog industry as a kennel assistant, veterinary assistant, dog daycare trainer, in-home dog trainer, and in-home pet sitter. Ultimately, she has settled in as a professional dog groomer for the past 2 decades. Her main focus is on providing more holistic based care for optimizing our dogs' minds and bodies. In her off time, she has enjoyed years of showing and competing in multiple sporting events with her American Pitbull Terriers, as well as keeping herself fit doing yoga, jujitsu, and mixed martial arts. Today, she’ll talk about the anxiety that dogs are suffering from and also how to treat dogs holistically.  

“Dogs are very perceptive; they understand so much more than we know.”

Kate Coleman is the owner/operator of Raw Replenish, a raw, plant-based cafe and juice and smoothie bar with the passion of food with purpose and food as medicine. She is a busy entrepreneur, wife, and a mama of 2 awesome kiddos.

Rewind 8 years, Kate was a stay-at-home mom, teaching fitness classes on the side, and she wanted to create a second income for her family. She became inspired to try a little side juicing business. The more she learned about juicing the more she fell in love with the process of creating recipes that served as purposeful nutritional supplements and health supportive remedies. Her husband built a small kitchen in their townhome garage so she could apply for a limited food establishment permit and obtain a license to sell juice and start a business. It grew from there! Her business model is to create a place where her staff has the opportunity to create cheer and positive energy to all customers. 

Find Kate on her own Podcast "Raw Talk" or on her website to learn more or place a delicious order if you are local!

“You never know what anyone is going through on any given day. Be relentlessly kind.”

Bryan and Gerry Fioriglio are from Family Caregivers Network. Gerry is the owner of Family Caregiver Network. She is a registered nurse with over 40 years of experience. She has been working in the field of geriatrics and home care since 1984.  She is a certified dementia practitioner and geriatric care manager. She consults with families to assist with long term care planning and provide caregivers support. While Bryan is the Senior Marketing Representative for Family Caregivers Network. He studied Kinesiology with a degree in Nutrition. He provided community education programs at local Seniors Centers Churches and in collaboration with professional Pharmacy. For today’s episode, Bryan and Gerry will talk about the Family Caregivers Network and what it is all about. They will also talk about the two main differences in homecare and the journey of their business and its mission. 

“People shouldn’t wait until they’re in a crisis to get some help in a home.”

What is Home Care?

What the business is focusing on right now

You can be your own advocate 

What really is functional medicine? 

For today’s episode, I’m going to give you a little bit of a background about what I do as a functional medicine practitioner. As an integrated practitioner, you are using the understanding of a patient to make recommendations that are leading to disease prevention and reverse disease progression altogether. With this, you are trying to find the root cause of an underlying condition and get to the bottom of it to move forward and be on the best path to health and wellness. 

“It requires me as a practitioner to act as an educator, a role model, as a mentor to help my clients achieve their goals”

What is functional medicine?

Lifestyle modification

Facilitating the healing response 

Today, we have Christine, she is a wife, a mom of two beautiful daughters, and a successful entrepreneur as the owner of Nourish Kitchen, and Catering in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. She specialized in clean, simple, flavor-pack dishes, healthy with a touch of indulgence bringing delicious menus to life that are made with love. And in today’s episode, she will talk about her catering business during this pandemic and her health journey and how she stayed strong and positive in overcoming all the obstacles in front of her. 

“My best advice to everyone is that always listen to your body.” 

Dr. Christine Manukyan is a Functional Medicine Practitioner, Business Coach, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Top-Rated STORRIE™ Podcast host, and mother of two. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she spent 13 years in Corporate America as a Clinical Pharmacist with various leadership roles.  After experiencing her own health transformation with Functional Medicine, losing 100+ lbs, and becoming a natural bodybuilding athlete and marathon runner,  she found her true calling empowering others to reach their health goals without pharmaceuticals. Dr. Christine has helped more than 300 clients transform their health. Dr. Christine is passionate about coaching burned-out medical professionals struggling to balance family, career, and their health to take control of their life and career and create a profitable virtual practice with her signature 12-months certification program: Functional Medicine Business Academy™.  And with today’s episode, Dr. Christine will share her journey towards Functional Medicine and how she believes everyone deserves a second chance to rewrite their STORRIE and become the best version of themselves. 

“There’s nothing selfish about self-care. It helps you physically and mentally healthy so that you can be a good mom, daughter, and friend”

Dr. Lisette M. Alba is a Pharmacist, a certified Functional Medicine Specialist, Mindset coach, and Essential oils educator. She is a wife and a mother of two daughters. Prior to starting her own practice, she spent 13 years working as a Community and Clinical Pharmacist with various leadership roles. After coping with her own health challenges with autoimmune disease, she found her calling to empower other women to change their mindset and regain control of their life and health by using a holistic approach. In this episode, Dr. Lisette talks about her journey with essential oils and how it creates a big impact on her life.

If you want to know more about Dr. Lisette Alba, just check the links below!

Website Link: www.drlisettealba.com 

Instagram: www.Instagram.com/dr.lisettealba

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.lisettealba

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlisettealba

“A little drop goes a long way”

Dr. Charise Barnes is a clinical pharmacist whose mission in life is to bring awareness to food allergies. She graduated from Mercer University School of Pharmacy and learns more each day about nutrition and food allergies. Dr. Barnes is passionate not just in educating and finding solutions for allergies, but also uses her food allergy experiences with her pharmacy career and entrepreneur interest to help inform her community how to endure challenges with food allergies, allergies, and asthma. 

If you want to know more about Dr. Charise Barnes, just check the links below!

Instagram: @alphaallergies

Facebook Page: Alpha Allergies

Email: [email protected]

“Focus on what you can have and not on what you cannot have.”