Michele is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker at conferences around the world. Michele's wide range of ventures include co-founding BiasSync, a science-based technology company designed to enable organizations to effectively assess and manage unconscious bias in the work environment. She is a trusted advisor to senior executives at Fortune 20 multinational corporations and some of today's highest profile thought leaders and elected officials. Michele's passions range from mitigating unconscious bias using scientifically validated methodologies to exploring leading-edge technologies. She is widely recognized and sought out as a subject matter expert in empowerment, entrepreneurship, sophisticated communication strategies, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). In addition to her work with BiasSync, Michele leads Ruiz Strategies, a certified minority-owned (MBE) and woman-owned (WBE) business, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with operations in Washington, D.C., and Houston, Texas. The firm specializes in change management and DE&I consulting for large corporations and government agencies.

We discuss topics including:

• Understanding DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)

• What is DEIA? What is DEIAB? What is DEIAJ?

• Implicit Bias

• What is the beauty bias?

• Examples of unconscious bias?

• Ableism and disability

• Understanding the proximity effect

• Understanding psychological safety

SHOW NOTES:

www.micheleruiz.com

www.instagram.com/micheleruiz

www.instagram.com/BiasSync

www.instagram.com/RuizStrategies

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Val Schonberg is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master's degree in nutrition science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with The Menopause Society (previously known as the North American Menopause Society) and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Val owns a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where she specializes in midlife health and menopause, recreational and professional sports nutrition, all types of eating disorders and helping individuals break free from dieting and disordered eating. Originally from Minnesota, Val's experience and expertise come from years of practice in many settings including women's health, eating disorder treatment, Division 1 college sports medicine, professional dance organizations, and speaking regionally and nationally on numerous nutrition-related topics. In addition to individual nutrition counseling, she is the consulting dietitian for Emory Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Atlanta Ballet, and the Atlanta Dream Women's NBA team.

We discuss topics including:

• How compulsive exercise is defined

• Movement can help with brain chemistry

• Understanding that our bodies are changing as we age

• Fitness culture is apart of diet culture

• Break free from comparitis

SHOW NOTES:

• https://valschonberg.com/

• https://www.instagram.com/v.schonbergrd/

• https://www.facebook.com/Enlightenunutrition

• https://drjengunter.com/

• https://www.instagram.com/drjengunter/

• https://www.menopause.org/

• https://www.imsociety.org/

• https://www.endocrine.org/menopausemap/index.html

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Andrew Susskind is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Brainspotting and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Group Psychotherapist and Author based in Los Angeles since 1992 specializing in trauma and addictive, compulsive behaviors. His books include It's Not About the Sex: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction (Central Recovery Press, 2019), The It's Not About the Sex Workbook (Routledge Press, 2024) and From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery (2014).

We discuss topics including:

• The importance of spirituality

• The hunger all of our client have on all levels

• The types of nourishment that are satisfying

• What is "broken heartedness"?

• Understanding compulsive sex addiction

SHOW NOTES:

• It's not about the sex (book)

• It's not about the sex Workbook (book)

• From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery (book)

• www.westsidetherapist.com

• https://westsidetherapist.podbean.com/ (podcast)

• www.instagram.com/andrewsusskind

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Robyn Caruso is a California LMFT. She is licensed in South Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. She currently operates a group practice called AlignED Care Eating Disorder and Mental Health Center. Roby in trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), has completed Level 1 Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy ( RO DBT) and also incorporates psychodynamic, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodrama/experiential and polyvagal theory approaches.

We discuss topics including:

• What is Sociometry?

• What is Psychodrama?

• Understanding Interoceptive Awareness

• Having a themed meditation is beneficial with sociometry

• The importance of using "I" instead of "you"

SHOW NOTES:

• https://www.alignedcarecenter.com/

• https://theactioninstitute.com/upcoming-trainings-workshops/

• https://www.instagram.com/aligned_care/

• https://www.facebook.com/AlignEDCare

• https://www.alignedcarecenter.com/resources

• www.instagram.com/aligned_care

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Dr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and death midwife who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma encompassing the entire spectrum of a woman's reproductive and maternal mental health. She works with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, NICU, preterm labor, miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy release, terminations for fetal anomaly (TFMR- Terminations for Medical Reasons), stillbirth, infant death, high risk pregnancy and pregnancy after loss.

Dr. Ivy hosts her podcast Shattered Conception,which covers an array of interviews about healing grief and trauma- before, during or after- pregnancy, infertility, or pregnancy losses of all kinds.

We discuss topics including:

• Understanding grief and trauma

• Men can have fertility issues too

• The messages women pick up when going through fertility

• The importance of scheduling an appointment in your life to have fun

• Exploring with women ways to achieve pleasure

SHOW NOTES:

• https://drivylove.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/drivymargulies/

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Devon Cole is a weight inclusive, trauma informed RDN with private practice in Los Angeles. She received her training at Keck Medical Center and Children's Hospital LA and began her work as an RDN working in eating disorder treatment at all levels of care. She has worked at a variety of mental health facilities and schools, including Occidental's Health Center, providing nutritional counseling and running groups. Now solely in private practice, Devon provides a non-diet approach to nutrition therapy that includes mindfulness, embodiment practices, and the principles of intuitive eating and HAES. She works with both adults and adolescents who struggle with eating disorders, disordered eating and anyone interested in breaking the cycle of dieting and body shame.

We discuss topics including:

• Working in all levels of care before starting a private practice

• The difference between an RDN working in treatment as opposed to in the outpatient setting

• The importance of working where the client is at

• How treatment provides a certain level of containment

• How to help a client move away from exchanges and counting at meals and snacks

• The importance to validate the client with where they are feeling

SHOW NOTES:

• www.devoncolerd.com

• www.instagram.com/devoncolerd

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published research, magazine articles, and book chapters in eating disorders, mental health, and suicide. Nicole believes that recovery is possible for all individuals with mental health disorders, and that all individuals are capable and deserving of a life worth living.

We discuss topics including:

• Understanding what is full recovery

• Having a quality of life is recovery

• The importance of validation

• Developing a different relationship with your thoughts

• Defining the life that feels possible

• Recognizing that hope is hard

SHOW NOTES:

• www.lightfully.com

• www.suicidology.org

• www.afsp.org

• www.instagram.com/lightfullybh

If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published research, magazine articles, and book chapters in eating disorders, mental health, and suicide. Nicole believes that recovery is possible for all individuals with mental health disorders, and that all individuals are capable and deserving of a life worth living.

We discuss topics including:

• The high rate of suicide in eating disorders

• Understanding "The Suicidal Desire"

• The two pillars of "The Suicidal Desire"

• What is burdensomeness?

• How feeling unseen, unknown and misunderstood contributes to the suicide desire

• When to take suicide threats seriously

SHOW NOTES:

• www.lightfully.com

• www.suicidology.org

• www.afsp.org

• www.instagram.com/lightfullybh

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Dr. Eva Altobelli, MD is the founder of Home-LA. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Altobelli holds accreditation from the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to administer MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. She has extensive experience in working with MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine.

Dr. Altobelli is committed to setting the highest standards of safety, ethics and efficacy.

We discuss topics including:

• What is ketamine assisted therapy?

• Understanding professional assisted therapy/aka: "clinician experiential"

• Psychedelics can increase cognitive and emotional flexibility with eating disorder clients

• How these types of treatments can support personal and spiritual growth

SHOW NOTES:

• www.home-la.com

• www.instagram.com/homela_drevaaltobelli

If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Mike Hinds is the Clinical Director at Avalon Hills, a residential eating disorder treatment center in Northern Utah, one of very few that are privately owned. He has extensively trained and supervised therapists. For years he was a primary practicum site for students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Utah State University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human development, parenting, counseling theories, supervision in counseling and psychotherapy, and human sexuality.

Mike joined Avalon Hills in 2015. Before then he worked in various areas, including couples therapy, domestic violence, sex offender treatment, and family therapy, but his primary specialty had been working with youth and their parents. The fact that he worked extensively with many who needed treatment but didn't always like being in treatment helped to prepare him to work with eating disorders.

We discuss topics including:

• Power differences with families

• Helping parents understand patterns develop without getting blamed

• Issues that we all learn from

• It's ok to not be ok

• Shame and Guilt

• Trends that are noticed in treatment

SHOW NOTES:

• www.avalonhills.org

• instagram.com/avalonhills

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If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE "Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder".

Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now!

For more information on Robyn's book "The Eating Disorder Trap", please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

"The Eating Disorder Trap" is also available for purchase on Amazon.