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As we close our 3rd season and the 75th Episode, we want to thank you for being a listener of our program and hope you find the information helpful.  

This episode explores the "D's" of the Eating Disorder and integrating them into the Healthy self.  Full Recovery is possible and I hope this is helpful to you in your journey. 

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DERRYL YEAGER

Founder and Artistic Director of Odyssey Dance Theatre

As a professional dancer for over two decades, Derryl Yeager has had experience in every style and medium. He received his BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Utah while becoming a principal dancer with Ballet West. He then went on to perform in the Broadway Shows A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, and Cats and has appeared in numerous TV and Film projects that include Staying Alive, She’s Having a Baby, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, A More Perfect Union, Moonlighting, The Tracy Ullman Show, The Young and the Restless, and General Hospital.

As a Choreographer and Director he has worked professionally from Ballet to Broadway, Film, Music Videos, and numerous Television Shows. He has taught at two major universities and was Artistic Director of the BYU Theatre Ballet for 2 years. He has choreographed numerous successful ballets for several professional companies and has been the production choreographer for the Utah Shakespeare Festival - winner of the Tony Award for best regional theatre in the year 2000—as well as Director/Choreographer of many Tuacahn productions.

As Founder and Artistic Director of Odyssey Dance Theatre, he brings all of his talents and experience to bear to create an exciting, innovative, and entertaining company that produces works that range from the timely to the timeless.

Training: 

BFA (Magna Cum Laude), MFA (Summa Cum Laude)- University of Utah, American Conservatory Theatre - San Francisco, ABC Television Actor’s Workshop & Harvey Lembeck Comedy Workshop - LA, Voice - Seth Riggs, Ballet West Principal Dancer - 6 yrs, 25 years as professional Singer/Dancer/Actor 

Performer: 

Film - A More Perfect Union, She’s Having A Baby, Staying Alive, When the Heat Hits the Street, How Rare a Possession, The Lamb of God, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Limit Up 

Television - Touched by An Angel, Crossroads, Boys of Twighlight, Fame, Days of Our Lives, Tracy Ullman Show, Coach, Moonlighting, For the Love of My Daughter, The Young and the Restless, The Stand, Hardcastle & McCormick, General Hospital, A Whole Lot Of Fun, Soup to Nuts, The Music of Your Life, Rodney Dangerfield Special, Country Jamboree, Steppin’ Out, Universal Studios Grand Opening Celebration, The Rose Parade

Broadway Theatre - A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Cats, Shenendoah, Oklahoma!, Cinderella 

Nightclub - Mary Hart, Carol Lawrence, The Horn, Gardenia, Carlos and Charlies, The Saraha, The Mint, The Golden Nugget, The Desert Inn

Industrial - LA Gear World Tour with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dominos Pizza, Ford, Dihatsu, Reebok, Kohler, Fila, Levis, Novell 

Commercials - Broadway, Rogaine with Karl Malone

Director/Choreographer:

Coca-Cola - 2002 Olympics, The Dance, Tahitian Noni Industrial, USANA Convention, Tuacahn Amphitheatre: Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2x), Oklahoma!, Hairspray, Little Mermaid

Choreographer:

Television - The Stand, Young and the Restless, The Bold and The Beautiful, Steppin’ Out, Country Jamboree, Touched by An Angel

Film - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, The Great American West, When the Heat Hits the Street 

Music Video - Stevie Nicks, Julio Iglesias, Paul Anka, I Don’t Like Peanuts 

Ballet - Promenades, Punch & Judy, Enya Variations, Saxon Suite, Flight of Icarus, Fresh Aire, Catfish Row, Windchimes, Jelly Roll Blues, Reebach Revival, Dreamtime USA, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Alice in Wonderland

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Since the recent Southern California fires, we have relocated and are currently rebuilding our studio. We appreciate your understanding as we resolve technical issues and finalize our new space.
-Dawn Smith-Theodore

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Juli Shamash is a former elementary school teacher turned stay-at-home mom. After tragically losing her 19-year-old son Tyler from fentanyl poisoning in 2018, she and another grieving mom started Moms Against Drugs, a nonprofit to help other grieving parents. Juli is currently focusing on her family’s new non profit, Drug Awareness Foundation. She is working to promote fentanyl awareness and drug education for grades 7-12. She speaks to students, parents, and professional groups about drug abuse, overdose prevention, and the dangers of fentanyl-poisoned drugs. She also works on distributing fentanyl testing strips and naloxone in her community. Juli is the driving force behind the legislation, SB864, Tyler’s Law, which requires every hospital in California to test for fentanyl whenever they order a standard five-panel urine drug test. On August 22nd, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB864, Tyler’s Law and it went go into effect on January 1, 2023. The law was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate in December of 2023 and Juli is now working on trying to get it out of committee.

Since the recent Southern California fires, we have relocated and are currently rebuilding our studio. We appreciate your understanding as we resolve technical issues and finalize our new space.
-Dawn Smith-Theodore

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As a nurse practitioner, Dr. Schreiner has primarily practiced in pediatric/adolescent health and has specialized in the mental health care of children and adolescents.  Dr. Schreiner continues her passion for education via her teaching and mentoring for nurse practitioner students from around the country and currently guest lectures at UCLA’s School of Nursing where she teaches on Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health for the Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner students. Dr. Schreiner wrote the “Eating Disorder in Children and Adolescent” chapter for the Behavioral Pediatric Healthcare for Nurse Practitioners textbook and has focused much of her professional career on the care of child, adolescent, and adult patients with eating disorders.

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Nancy Dobbs Owen has performed throughout the United States, with both ballet and modern

companies and then as a ballerina and a Meg cover in the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd

Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. Regional theater includes productions at American

Musical Theatre of San Jose, The Magic Theater, 42nd St. Moon, and Berkeley Opera. LA

theatre includes Theatre of Note, The Alex Theater, The Hudson Theater, The Santa Monica

Playhouse, and Lucy in the Production Company’s critically acclaimed Sweeney Todd.

Additional Los Angeles credits include starring in the West Coast premiere of The Bridge Club at

Deaf/West Theatre and a ballerina role in Nixon in China with the LA Philharmonic at Disney

Hall.

Film and television work includes Sia’s directorial debut; Music as well as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,

American Princess, VEEP, the 2019 Deadwood feature, and Netflix’s Ratched.

Choreography credits include Skeleton Stories (Best Choreography Nomination,

BroadwayWorld.com), Have You Seen Alice, and Welcome to the White Room (Outstanding

Choreography, Small Theater) at Theatre of NOTE, Assassins with Sight Unseen Theatre, M.

Butterfly, Sweeney Todd (Seven Ovation nominations), Working (Outstanding Choreography,

Small Theater) and Enron (Outstanding Choreography, Small Theater), all at the Production

Company, The Snow Queen (Memorable Choreography, Small Theater) at the Fremont Centre

Theatre, Where's Charley for 42nd St. Moon, as well as additional choreography for I’d Rather

Be Right at the Hudson Theater, Dolls! at the Santa Monica Playhouse and Pacific Opera

Project's The Mikado. She served as the resident choreographer for the Marina Del Rey

Symphony’s Summer Dance Concert, creating 4 original ballets.

Film and video choreography includes the music video for the Band Pie's gorgeous song Yo Se,

a flash mob scene for the hot web series Squad 85, My Life on the F List, the feature films

Hollywood Fringe and Ghost Light, and Lullaby, a Zombie Musical. Commercial work includes

four national spots for Big Lots and a web video for Poise. With Weyward Sisters Productions,

she created two dance films; Surrender to the Mystery and Nevada Line. The 2018 dance film

Too Many Bodies, has been accepted into over 30 film festivals including SF International

Dance Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Dance Film Festival, and the Sedona

International Film Festival. It has won numerous best of awards. Films released in 2022;

Floating Falling Flying and Fragmentary Evidence; Detritus were also featured at multiple

festivals, winning awards for best choreography, direction, and best dance film.

She made her LA directorial debut in August 2012 directing and choreographing SkyPilot

Theatre's smash hit War Bride, which received rave reviews, an extension and 7 StageScene

LA awards, including Outstanding Direction of a Play. She made her Fringe Festival Directorial

debut in 2015 with Skanky Me From Kankakee, which received a producers' encore

presentation. 2019’s Rewind, a New 80’s Pop Musical, earned the same honor. She has also

worked with Fierce Backbone and Fresh Produc'd on new works.

Nancy is a dedicated dance educator, currently an assistan

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Rachel Fine is a board-certified Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with advanced certifications in Eating Disorders (CEDS-C), Sports Nutrition (CSSD), and Intuitive Eating. Rachel founded To The Pointe Nutrition in 2013, and built The Healthy Dancer® curriculum with the mission to provide credible nutrition education to all dancers, including dance parents and dance educators worldwide.

The Healthy Dancer® combines Rachel’s expertise in performance nutrition with a non-diet and weight-inclusive approach to food and body image. Rachel specializes in nutrition for dancers, with a focus on eating disorders, disordered eating, orthorexia, and perfectionism.

With a Masters degree in Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics from New York University, Rachel completed her Dietetic Internship at NYU Langone Medical Center and at The Mount Sinai Hospital. After receiving licensure, Rachel joined the staff at NYU Langone Medical Center as a Clinical Dietitian. Past academic appointments include Clinical Adjunct Instructor of Medical Nutrition Therapy at New York University and Adjunct Professor of Sports Nutrition at Long Island University.

Rachel's experience spans further with research at NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries. Rachel is also a monthly columnist for Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, and Dance Teacher Magazine. In addition to her private practice, Rachel is the consulting dietitian for Dance Masterclass and Youth American Grand Prix (YAGP), as well as the on-site dietitian for The School of American Ballet.

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Raul Machorro shares his story from a young child with no dance experience to The High School of Performing Arts in Houston to The Houston Ballet and on to Los Angeles as a dancer. His story is compelling and one that shows to never 

Raul loves sharing his passion for fitness and dance with everyone he meets! He's a master teacher for Equinox and has choreographed for Coca-Cola, Los Angeles Opera, The Latin Grammy’s, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Taio Cruz, Santa Barbara Opera and many more. His dance credits include many shows, commercials and he recently wrapped Holey Moley 2 on ABC. 

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Terry V. Eagan, M.D. is a prominent Beverly Hills psychiatrist, founder and CEO of Eagan Medical Group, LLC., a thriving mental health practice treating over 2000 patients annually.  His private patients have included leaders in industry, politics, and performers from television, music and film, many of whom have been at the extremes of celebrity.  Dr. Eagan is an expert in the complexities of mental health and addiction treatment and he specializes in effective treatment regimens for all types of emotional distress that often can arise from being in positions of responsibility and public attention.

Dr. Eagan is a highly respected and sought after consultant who has served as Medical Director for several addiction and eating disorder treatment centers throughout Los Angeles including Monte Nido Residential Treatment Center, Carousel Transitional Living and the Eating Disorder Center of California.  His range of specialties includes primary psychiatric conditions, eating disorders, substance-abuse disorders, impulse control disorders, trauma & abuse, human sexuality and spiritual therapy.  Dr. Eagan's treatment approach incorporates pharmacologic interventions with evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapies, adjunctive modalities and traditional spiritual practices.

Dr. Eagan is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and Medical Board of California as a physician and surgeon License #G067163, and he is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners.  He served as chief resident in 
psychiatry at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine from 1990-1992 and he also helps shape healthcare policy in The United States as a consultant to the Physician's Advisory Board of the National Republican Congressional Committee, serving as Honorary Chairman for the State of California.

Dr. Eagan is an internationally respected physician, lecturer and consultant.  An expert in Professional Ethics and Compassion Fatigue, Dr. Eagan has guided training programs for individual practitioners, multinational corporations, public school systems, community health centers, law enforcement agencies, hospitals, and universities.  He has been involved in numerous psychopharmacology studies for eight international pharmaceutical companies and he lectures on psychopharmacology to physicians across the United States.

Dr. Eagan has been featured in dozens of publications, including Variety, Forbes, New York Magazine, and has appeared as a mental health consultant on several radio and television programs, including the Today Show.

Beata: has had a career in nursing, business development, training, executive leadership, mentoring and spiritual direction. Her experience speaks to her roles as a change agent and a connector of people both nationally and internationally. She is able to honor an individual’s strengths and uniqueness leaving a lasting impression through the lens of kindness, openness, service compassion, and radical hospitality. 

Beata received a certificate in the Art of Spiritual Direction and serves as  a spiritual companion to both individuals and and treatment centers. She is a retreat leader and the co founder of Prayer for Compassion, and agency which offers group training and facilitation, guided retreats for private one on one experiences and organizations. 

Beata’s foundational personal journey and professional experience guides others in the art of deep listening, storytelling, sharing of faith stories, spiritual growth, contemplative and intentional spiritual practices and personal discernment of life transitions

Now Beata and Dr Eagan

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