Yaa Boayke interviews Jordan Watson in this episode. Jordan is a registered dietitian and mom who has a passion for helping other moms lose weight while developing a healthy relationship with food. Her mission is to show moms that weight loss CAN happen while learning how to have a positive relationship with food so they can set an amazing example to their tiny humans for a lifetime and end generational dieting. She is passionate about showing moms how ALL foods fit into their diet, how to work ...
Dec 08, 2020•32 min•Ep. 202
On today's panel, we have Kristy Baumann. She's a registered dietitian, marathon runner, wife and mama to a toddler. Kristy is a small town girl who never thought she'd enjoy living in a big city and an ice cream lover who grew up as a picky eater and became a veggie lover and the back of the pack high school runner who was pushing her limits to break three hours in the marathon. Now she uses her personal experiences to inspire other female runners to nourish their bodies without restriction. Sh...
Dec 02, 2020•21 min•Ep. 200
Marissa Kai gets to chat with Cristina Cappucci in today’s episode. Cristina is an anti-diet Dietitian who specializes in helping moms who struggle with body insecurities & food guilt, learn how to accept their bodies & make peace with food through a Health at Every Size Approach. She is based just north of Toronto working full time in a hospital. During this global pandemic, she found herself exploring how to start her own virtual private practice. And she did exactly that! She is passi...
Dec 01, 2020•35 min•Ep. 199
Yaa Boayke interviews Aminta Bullard in today’s episode. Aminta is a weight loss coach and registered dietitian. She helps women create a body they love so they can feel sexy and confident. Aminta specializes in helping black and Caribbean women learn portion sizes so they don’t have to give up their cultural foods to lose weight. “I remind myself-Aminta, you're here to get feedback...this is what you need. This is what you paid for. Get that advice and get better. That's what you're here for.” ...
Nov 30, 2020•32 min•Ep. 198
Yaa Boayke interviews Megan Wolf in this episode. Megan is a New York City based Registered Dietitian, two-time cookbook author, weight management, and weight loss surgery expert. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from NYU. Most recently she authored a bariatric cookbook designed for healthy and delicious post-surgical eating. She is the mother of two young children, an avid public speaker and a lifestyle wellness expert. “There is something to being in a group of women who are l...
Nov 25, 2020•42 min•Ep. 197
Yaa Boayke talks with Leah Tarleton in today’s episode. Leah is a former clinical registered dietitian, turned self-described "eco-dietitian" and entrepreneur. After obtaining her Master's in Nutrition Diagnostics in 2017, she began working in long-term-care as a clinical nutrition manager. After 1.5 years in this role, Leah found herself asking what she really wanted out of her career and started working with a career coach to help her uncover her greatest passion in her work as a dietitian. Af...
Nov 24, 2020•35 min•Ep. 196
Libby sits down (via Zoom) for a panel to discuss diabetes for lowering blood sugar with Leslee Flannery and Lemma Brown. Lemma (pronounced L in front, “Emma”) Brown is a Registered Dietitian and Diabetes Expert with over ten years of clinical nutrition and nutrition counseling experience. She has also lived with Type 1 Diabetes for over 15 years. When she started planning for pregnancy a few years ago, Lemma was shocked with how little information and resources were available to support her and...
Nov 23, 2020•47 min•Ep. 195
Rebecca Henson sat down with Natalie Van Beek via zoom for today’s episode. Natalie is a Registered Dietitian living in Chicago, Illinois. Natalie has spent the majority of her career as a dietitian working with those struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating patterns. After working with a dietitian on her own recovery from an eating disorder many years ago, Natalie was inspired and knew that one day she wanted to have her own private practice that allowed her to help others find fo...
Nov 18, 2020•28 min•Ep. 194
Yaa Boayke interviews Betsy Britt in today’s episode. Betsy is a pediatric dietitian based in Tampa, Florida, specializing in the nutritional management of celiac disease. She is passionate about nutrition counseling and teaching, especially on the impact that nutrition has on overall wellbeing. She focuses on nutrition for the entire family, knowing first-hand how difficult it can be to incorporate specialized dietary changes into the family routine. “I started my own practice two months ago, a...
Nov 17, 2020•26 min•Ep. 193
Yaa Boayke talks with Lane Wiederstein today! Lane is a qualified Nutritionist & Personal Trainer from Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about teaching busy women to lose weight (and keep it off for good) by ditching the diet and instead of using her flexible low carb approach. Lane loves getting behind the camera and showing you how to get creative in the kitchen so you can still enjoy delicious food while achieving your weight loss goals. She has also just launched her 6-week weight ...
Nov 16, 2020•38 min•Ep. 192
Rebecca Henson talks with Olivia Neely in the show today. Olivia is a Functional Fertility Dietitian with a focus on women's hormone health and fertility. She is trained in Functional Nutrition which dives deeper into often overlooked causes of infertility and provides customized diet, lifestyle, and supplement changes in order to help couples everywhere get pregnant naturally. She is passionate about getting couples better answers that take the stress out of fertility challenges all while promo...
Nov 11, 2020•45 min•Ep. 191
Rebecca Henson talks with Lauren Minchen in today’s episode. Lauren is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a private practice in NYC. She has been practicing as a dietitian for the past 8 years, with 10 years total experience in the nutrition field. Lauren's primary specialties are gut health and autoimmune conditions, with a particular focus on IBS and IBD. She loves helping her clients identify problem foods and behaviors that trigger their symptoms, and then guiding them with an appropri...
Nov 10, 2020•34 min•Ep. 190
Yaa Boayke talks with Natalie Trapasso on today’s episode. Natalie is a Registered Dietitian out of Buffalo, NY. Growing up she struggled with her own weight and relationship with food, starting her first diet at age 12. She became a Dietitian to help women lose weight without trying insane diets and the struggle of not knowing what to eat. She identifies as a "Lazy Girl" and has made it her mission to make weight loss as efficient and simple as possible. “ I became a dietitian to help people. A...
Nov 09, 2020•19 min•Ep. 189
Jennie Harris is a Registered Dietitian and Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Jennie’s focus on physician performance nutrition combines her professional expertise as a dietitian with her personal experience of being married to a surgeon, and as a competitive endurance athlete. Specifically, her practice helps women in medicine meet and exceed the unique set of nutrition requirements their jobs demand. By optimizing nutrition and creating a healthy relationship with food, her clients ar...
Nov 04, 2020•25 min•Ep. 188
Yaa Boayke interviews Shalese Pugh on today’s episode. Shalese Pugh is a registered dietitian from Atlanta, GA. With experience in clinical and medical sales, she has a passion for women losing weight with the Keto Diet. Her Grandma and patients suffering with seizures first sparked her interest in the Keto approach to healthy living. “I am not ashamed of my faith and showing that in my feed.”- Shalese Pugh A few topics discussed: Having her niece help her navigate IG Money goals Her niche &...
Nov 03, 2020•23 min•Ep. 187
Rebecca Henson interviews Michaela Putala in today’s episode. Michaela is a Registered Dietitian in Los Angeles, California. She’s been on both ends of the dieting spectrum; as a young dancer, she struggled with maintaining a healthy relationship with food and her body. Today, she uses the very tools she learned to overcome these struggles to guide lifelong dieters in their journeys to make peace with food and their bodies. Throughout her own journey, she discovered the lack of accessibility to ...
Nov 02, 2020•31 min•Ep. 186
Rebecca Henson talks with Dietitian Boss Chelsea in today’s episode. Chelsea Crawford is a Registered Dietitian from San Antonio, Tx. Prior to COVID, she managed a teaching kitchen while offering counseling services in a community setting. This is where she found her desire to help Moms, like her, lose weight and prioritize their health. She believes weight loss should include all foods and is more about sustainable changes, building healthy habits, and most importantly, learning how to prepare ...
Oct 28, 2020•30 min•Ep. 185
Libby is here today with Jennie Harris and Jill Mongenen. The topic is shift workers, mental health, and nutrition. Both of them work with professionals who struggle with shift work and how that affects them, their feelings, and their emotions. Jennie Harris as a registered dietitian and board certified health and wellness coach. Her focus on physician performance nutrition combines her professional expertise as a dietitian with her personal experience of being married to a surgeon and as a comp...
Oct 27, 2020•37 min•Ep. 184
Guest Host Yaa Boayke interviews Michelle Gan in today’s episode. Michelle is a Registered Dietitian from Malaysia, with a passion for helping cancer fighters to achieve better treatment outcomes and optimize their recovery. She has been working closely with cancer patients in a clinical setting for the past 4 years. Cancer support is something close to her heart as someone dear to her - her grandfather once had prostate cancer and metastasized to bone. Michelle uses her background in oncology n...
Oct 26, 2020•27 min•Ep. 183
Rebecca Henson talks with Norma Saff in today’s episode. Norma is a Registered Dietitian from Brooklyn, New York specializing in family and child nutrition. With over 13 years of experience in the field of nutrition, she brings her professional expertise along with her real-life experiences of raising and feeding 4 children of her own, to provide moms with the tools and techniques needed to raise children who grow well and have a positive relationship with all foods. Norma believes that feeding ...
Oct 21, 2020•34 min•Ep. 181
Marissa Kai interviews Leslee Flannery in today’s episode. Leslee is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Lactation Counselor from Ohio. She has spent the last 6 years working with the pre and postnatal population. Leslee herself has two young boys and understands first-hand how overwhelming this new phase of life can be for women. She thought she had found her dream job working in a high-risk OB office, but soon realized there was an abundance of nutrition misinformation and a lack of continued...
Oct 19, 2020•16 min•Ep. 180
Rebecca Henson interviews Andrea Myotte on today’s podcast episode. Andrea is a Registered Dietitian, boss babe, and a go-getter. She felt called to study nutrition when her life drastically changed after she lost 55 pounds on a weight loss journey of her own. Andrea has been working in the critical care setting for 4 years. She always dreamed of running her own business and this year she took the jump and made it happen. As an RD boss, Andrea helps busy babes lose weight by educating them on op...
Oct 15, 2020•29 min•Ep. 179
When it comes specifically to hormones, having an imbalance can affect our daily lives. It can cause pain for your clients and affect their cognitive function and abilities! Listen to Libby, Rebecca & Casey talk about intuitive eating and balancing hormones to help get your clients the results they want (and need)! Rebecca is a registered dietitian and physical therapist who teaches the truths and misconceptions about cravings, self-care, food and how to optimize hormone levels so that ladie...
Oct 14, 2020•35 min•Ep. 178
Libby sits down with Danielle Liss to cover all areas of licensing. Danielle Liss is one of the top lawyers in Las Vegas! She's passionate about simplifying the legal documents for small business owners. She's the owner of Liss Legal and the founder and CEO of Businessese, which offers DIY legal templates. Danielle has previously served as general counsel for an eight-figure digital fitness and nutrition company. Danielle has worked for many dietitians and served as a resource for interpreting l...
Oct 13, 2020•15 min•Ep. 177
Rebecca Henson interviews Hannah Boyer in this podcast episode. Hannah is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist hailing from the Midwest specializing in weight loss and body recomposition. She helps young professional women lose weight and lean out without giving up their favorite foods. Hannah believes food is so much more than simple calories, and she helps her clients feel empowered to make food choices that help them reach their goals! Hannah’s clients are driven young women who want to succee...
Oct 12, 2020•28 min•Ep. 176
Yaa Boayke chats with Dietitian Boss, Danielle Frost on today’s episode. Danielle is a Registered Dietitian from Arkansas who specializes in helping women lose weight so they can feel amazing and confident on their wedding day. After losing weight for her own wedding, Danielle became passionate about teaching women that they can gain confidence and feel their best without crash dieting or creating unhealthy habits. She focuses on a portion control approach to make weight loss simple and stress-f...
Oct 08, 2020•20 min•Ep. 175
Libby sat down with Zoe & Becca to get clear on binge eating, getting the full picture of your client, and how to provide a safe space for overall healing. Becca King is a Registered Dietician Nutritionist who helps young women like herself who have ADHD and struggle with binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues find food freedom and improve their self-esteem. She's passionate about using the principles of intuitive eating and a weight inclusive approach to nutrition. Zoey is a s...
Oct 07, 2020•35 min•Ep. 174
Marissa Kai interviews Caitlin Mudd in today’s episode. Caitlin is a Registered Dietitian based in Franklin, Tennessee. She started her career as a clinical dietitian; however, through her own previous struggles with binge eating, she discovered her passion to help women heal their relationship with food. Caitlin takes an intuitive eating approach to support women with PCOS in ditching the strict diets advised to them, so they can stop bingeing and eat the foods they love without guilt or anxiet...
Oct 06, 2020•22 min•Ep. 173
Yaa Boayke got to chat with Emily in today’s episode. Emily Bergey (BURR-GHEE) is a Registered Dietitian and health & wellness coach from Pennsylvania. She has been practicing as a dietitian for 6 years, with the majority of her practice being in long-term care. For the past 4 years, she has been a Regional Dietitian, supporting the nutritional well-being of residents within six long-term care communities. Now she has gone from helping seniors gain weight, to helping young women who have str...
Oct 05, 2020•50 min•Ep. 172
Yaa Boayke gets to interview Randi Karlinsky in today’s episode. Randi is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Personal Trainer from the suburbs of Chicago. She spent a year in bariatric surgery followed by 5 years in corporate wellness. After getting furloughed and ultimately losing her job to COVID, while pregnant with her first child, Randi decided it was time to start her private practice. She focuses on helping women with a history of yoyo-dieting break out of the cycle by simp...
Oct 01, 2020•32 min•Ep. 171
