Leslie Cerier is an international gourmet personal chef, educator, cookbook author and recipe developer. She specializes in vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free whole foods and organic cuisine. 

Leslie is a pioneer and national authority on gluten-free cooking and baking, the entire spectrum of whole grains, and cooking with wild foods. ​ She teaches private and group classes. ​

Camille Freeman, MS, CNS, LDN is an herbalist, nutritionist, ​and physiologist. She previously ran her own ​practice ​primarily working with clients on fertility, pregnancy and postpartum health. Today, teaching is ​Camille's full-time job. 

She is ​a lover of all things academic, having accumulated two master's degrees ​(one in Herbal Medicine ​and another in Physiology & Biophysics).

I love how Camille integrates science and traditional wisdom in her teaching and practice and was very excited to invite her to speak about strategies for stress relief for busy students and professionals.​

​"​Transform obsession into mindfulness, guilt into gentleness, and self-criticism into self-compassion with intuitive eating." ​​​Jenna Hollenstein, RD

Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, is a non-diet dietitian who helps people struggling with chronic dieting, disordered eating, and eating disorders. 

Jenna uses a combination of Intuitive Eating, mindfulness techniques, and meditation to help her clients move toward greater peace, health, and wellness.

Jenna is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a Certified Dietitian Nutritionist (CDN) in New York State. She has a Bachelors degree in Nutrition from Penn State, a Masters degree in Nutrition from Tufts University, is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and an Open Heart Project meditation guide.

Topics:

1. ​Jenna's journey in nutrition, and a special meaning the name of her web site 'eat 2 love' carries
2. ​​​​​Research on intuitive eating and joy of eating, emotional connection and relationship to food, as well as emotional overeating
3. Mindfulness ​in her non-diet approach, society's stigma, learning how to work with your senses
4. The importance of meditation and self-care in our daily rituals
5. Removing busyness from our lives

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Steph Zabel, MSc, is an herbalist and botanical educator who helps urban dwellers connect with the plant world. She teaches seasonally-oriented herbal classes that focus on local plants, herbal medicine-making techniques, and plant identification.

Steph is also the creator of Herbstalk, Boston's community herbal conference.

​"​There is a freedom, vibrance and real energy to being a vegan." ​​​Joseph Timmins

I was curious and wanted to learn more about veganism, and this week I​ invited Joseph Timmins to speak with me. 

​Joe is an alum from Seth Godin's altMBA program that I attended in 2016.

​He is a multipassionate individual interested in health, wellness, veganism, ethics, environmentalism and much more.

Joe hosts a new podcast called Happy Healthy Sexy Strong Vegan.

​Topics:

1. ​Jo​e's journey in veganism, why it took a long time to switch, some challenges as well as benefits and inspirations for becoming a vegan
2. Difference between vegetarian, vegan and plant-based diet
3. Ideas for dinner, healthy plant-based protein, adapting to eating around others who do not follow veganism
4. Environmental actions and ethical issues that veganism addresses ​
5. Resources to explore a vegan diet

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Lisa Masé is a culinary medicine educator. After a decade of healing from chronic parasites, anxiety and depression, an eating disorder, and food allergies, Lisa took health into her hands with food as medicine.

Lisa works with people who want to make a lifestyle shift as well as those trying to heal with food chronic conditions such as Celiac, Crohn's, Colitis, IBS, and Diabetes, Cancer, IBD, SIBO, Hashimoto's, and auto-immune disorders.  

​​Lisa also creates food-based healing programs ​to find a balanced weight, feel energized and nourished, rest well, and practice cooking simple, seasonal meals that are attuned to your body type and healthy ​eating habits.

Emily Han empowers people to cultivate a mindful relationship with nature and nourishment. 

As an herbalist, educator, and recipe developer, she focuses on topics such as handmade food and drinks, wildcrafting and gardening, and connecting to the natural world.

She is the Communications Director for LearningHerbs.com and the author of Wild Drinks & Cocktails: Handcrafted Squashes, Shrubs, Switchels, Tonics, and Infusions to Mix at Home.

​David Winston RH (AHG) is an herbalist and ethnobotanist with over 40 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese and Western herbal traditions.  He is a clinician, teacher, author, creator and so much more. 

I graduated from two of David's clinical herbalist programs and excited to have this conversation with him today.

​For over a decade ​Rosalee de la Forêt has been helping people to radically change their health using herbs and other natural remedies. Rosalee has over 10 years of training as an herbalist, from ethnobotany and wildcrafting to clinical herbalism. ​Rosalee is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild RH (AHG).

She is the Education Director for LearningHerbs.com, ​one of the most innovative herbal companies that exists today. ​Rosalee is the author of three LearningHerbs online courses produced ​including the Taste of Herbs, Herbal Cold Care, and Apothecary. Recently she published a book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies that Heal.

"Our agricultural roots run deep.  It is our commitment to those roots that allows our farm to strike a balance between old traditions and newer and sustainable practices." Kate Stillman

My today's guest is Kate Stillman. Kate grew up in the business of farming - helping on her parents vegetable and her grandparents dairy farms.  She learned early to embrace her farming roots and hone her skills as an entrepreneur, caretaker, manager, vet, sales person - even undertaker - she has managed to leave no stone unturned.

Kate is an industry leader, who is successfully developing an extensive CSA network and a vibrant farmers market system. We are talking about the lessons she learned and how to change our food industry.

Show Notes: www.wellnessinsidernetwork.com/13