Dr. Emily Kraus Sports Medicine Physician | Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Emily Kraus is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. She is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) sports medicine and takes a unique approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of spor…

Elise Keoghan, LPC Elise Keoghan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and enthusiast of intuitive and functional athlete training and nutrition. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas and her Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University, and has Gottman Institute Couples Therapy level 1 training credentials. She …

Jenni Tarma ERYT500, RRCA endurance coach, CrossFit L1 trainer Jenni Tarma is a lifelong athlete, endurance runner, RRCA Endurance coach, CrossFit athlete and CF-L1 trainer, Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist, and a full-time ERYT500 yoga teacher. She specializes in working with an active population and coaches everyone from elite athletes to wee…

STEPHANIE LANKFORD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WIN FOR KC Stephanie, born and raised in Kansas City, earned her Bachelor of Science in Sports Management from Rockhurst University in 2013, as well as her Master of Business Administration in 2016. In 2011, while an undergrad, Stephanie interned at the Kansas City Sports Commission as the WIN for KC intern. H…

Stephanie Allen PT, DPT, OCS Steph has been a practicing physical therapist since 2014 and has been at Boston Physical Therapy & Wellness for the past 4 years. She specializes in and absolutely loves ACL rehab in all its shapes and forms and has recently started her own virtual coaching business, ACLResolve, specifically for individuals who are nav…

Kate Bennett, PsyD Kate Bennett, PsyD, founded Athlete Insight, PC with one goal in mind: To serve the psychological needs of athletes. Dr. Bennett combines her experiences as an athlete, coach, and psychologist to bring a unique perspective to her practice. Blending the culture and demands of sport with her psychological expertise, Dr. Bennett des…

Hillary Allen Hillary Allen was ranked #1 in the world sky running series when she fell 150 feet off a mountain ridge. Hillary’s career as an endurance athlete has not been straightforward. Through injury, setbacks, and unexpected challenges, Hillary’s had to re-think what she considers impossible. Early in her career, Hillary earned the nickname “…

Katie Spada RDN, LDN Founder Spada Strong Nutrition LLC Fellow Former Athlete! Here to help you finally feel confident, all while breaking free from the stress of dieting, counting, and tracking! Katie is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN/RD) and founder of Spada Strong Nutrition LLC. For 11 years, her life was completely focused on her care…

Samantha Arsenault Livingstone is an Olympic gold medalist, high-performance consultant, speaker and mental health activist. At home in the classroom, Samantha spent six years teaching high school science and coaching swimming. After a near-death experience with her then 12-month-old daughter, Samantha knew it was time to pay forward all she'd lear…

Briana Butler Pro Athlete Dietitian Co-Owner of @power_portions Former WNBA player Briana Butler is a registered dietitian nutritionist and former professional athlete serving the Houston area. Upon retirement from the WNBA and overseas basketball, Briana followed her passion for health and sports by pursuing a career in performance dietetics, beli…

Shay Haddow is an expert coach and speaker on confidence and mindset for female athletes. Having worked with hundreds of youth female athletes and college teams from across the country, she’s empowered girl athletes to build unshakable confidence so they can live and play to their fullest potential. As the host of the Alpha Girl Confidence Podcast,…

Traci Carson is a three-time University of Michigan alum, and most recently completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the Michigan School Public Health. Her dissertation research focused on mental health and eating disorders in collegiate athletes. Currently, Traci lives in Brooklyn, NY with her dog Lucee where she is working as a postdoctoral research …

As a life-long athlete since the age of three, Dr. A’nna has always been fascinated by how different foods impact our body. She started experimenting with different foods before, during and after track practices, which led her to three State Championships as a competitive runner. By 18 years old, A’nna was working in a research laboratory and publi…

Iona (she/her/hers), is the author of #1 Best Seller Ghost - Why Perfect Women Shrink, and the creator of The Blacklight Method, her signature coaching framework. Her mission is to help high achieving struggling women stop shrinking their bodies, worth, and power. How? Vulnerability, creativity, and breathwork. Why? Because everyone loses when bril…

Always playing sports as a kid, this former athlete-turned-author has experienced the range of challenges that girls face throughout their sports journey. Emily Williams, in writing her debut novel “Lady-thletes” discusses how to face problems head on with tips and tricks for players to try to overcome their own challenges. As a coach, she has been…

Melanie Connell has been a licensed Physical Therapist for 20 years with certifications in Manual Therapy and Nutritional Health Coaching. After 18 years in practice, she set out to start her own clinic in Costa Mesa, CA. "I launched my clinic with a very clear mission: to provide a remedy for athletes sidelined by persistent pain and injuries. My …

Fiona is Director of The Mindful Dietitian and lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has been practicing as a Dietitian for over 20 years primarily in the areas of eating behavior, eating disorders, body image, sports nutrition & education/training. Fiona is a committed Health At Every Size ® and Weight Inclusive Dietitian spending most of her working…

Sasha Wolff is the founder of "Still I Run" – Runners for Mental Health Awareness. "Still I Run,"is a community of warriors promoting the benefits of running for mental health and was founded in 2016 after Sasha discovered the benefits of running after a brief hospitalization for depression and anxiety. "Still I Run" began as a Facebook page and we…

Stephanie Mundt is a physical therapist & running coach in Scottsdale, AZ. Her business Volante PT & Performance specializes in helping recovering female runners return to training & competition without fear of re-injury. Steph was a distance runner in high school & college, struggling with an eating disorder that contributed to repetitive bone str…

Heidi Strickler is a Registered Sports Dietitian (RD/RDN), Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), and Metabolic Efficiency Training Specialist (METS), with a Master’s in Sports Nutrition (MSc) from Liverpool John Moores University in England. Although she is based in Seattle, WA, she works virtually with athletes worldwide. Heidi speciali…

Sam Abbott is a registered dietitian nutritionist who helps those with PCOS ditch diets, improve insulin resistance, and balance hormones without feeling guilty or stressed about food. She runs the Instagram account @pcos.nutritionist where she gives free tips and support around PCOS nutrition education and also runs the PCOS Freedom Program – a co…

Dr. Jen Welter NFL's First Female Coach I Speaker I GrrridIron Girls Founder I First Female Coach in Madden I First Female Running Back in Men's Pro Football I Author IMotion and Emotion Pioneer Dr. Jen Welter is a groundbreaking, barrier-busting force of nature. She is a female trailblazer, a sports pioneer, Ph.D., passionate leader, world-renowne…

Heidi is a Registered Sports Dietitian (RD/RDN), Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), and Metabolic Efficiency Training Specialist (METS), with a Master’s in Sports Nutrition (MSc) from Liverpool John Moores University in England. Although she is based in Seattle, WA, she works virtually with athletes worldwide. Heidi specializes in end…

Bethany Frazier, MS, RD, LDN is the owner of the Kansas City Dietitian, a private nutrition practice that specializes in digestive wellness, hormones and healthy living. Before returning to school to be a dietitian she received a bachelor's degree in sports management. Bethany holds a bachelor's degree in dietetics from the University of Central Mi…

Amanda Clements is a Certified Professional Coach who specializes in teaching and training the mental aspects of sports. She helps athletes perform under pressure, overcome disappointments, handle stress, and increase their emotional intelligence. Her "whole life" approach can also address those who feel they are lacking direction, purpose, motivat…

Darkness to Light is the leading child sexual abuse prevention organization in the United States. We empower adults to help prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. We are working toward a world free of child sexual abuse where adults have the courage to protect kids. Through a combination of research, education, and communi…

The Injured Athletes Club Injuries affect nearly every athlete, and the impact is mental as much as it is physical. Right now, you’re likely feeling isolated, disconnected from your team or training partners. You’re stressed out by dealing with this setback—and at the same time, robbed of one of your main coping mechanisms. You may even be feeling …

Like many of my patients, I saw doctor after doctor and tried many different treatments. I got fed up with taking medications that either made me feel worse or didn’t fix the issue. I tried tons of different supplements and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on doctor's appointments. It’s exhausting and extremely frustrating when everybody seem…

Katie is a KCMO area yoga instructor with a passion for astrology, philosophy, and all things meta-physical. She learned to love her body again through yoga after a challenging two year stint in the world of competitive fitness. Her passion for yoga led her to self-study on a three week solo-adventure to Bali and eventually to Asheville, North Caro…

An enthusiast for movement, Michelle Laging became a fitness instructor and worked part-time for both 24-Hour Fitness and Curves in 2003. After shadowing a few Physical Therapists, it became obvious that this was the path she needed to pursue to fulfill her professional needs. Michelle graduated from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Camp…

Renee has been running competitively since the last 1990's. She has completed numerous marathons (including Boston), an ultra marathon, numerous triathlons (2 time Ironman finisher) and has a strong passion for competitive trail running. The unique combination of being a physical therapist and endurance coach allows Renee the ability to provide eac…

Kelly McGonigal (born October 21, 1977) is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who is known for her work in the field of 'science help' which focuses on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being. Mainstream media articles about inner-conflict-related aspe…

EMPOWER YOUR PELVIS Amanda Fisher is a Doctor of Physical Therapy at Empower Your Pelvis. Most mornings she’s at the gym with water in one hand and coffee in the other, followed by taking her boys to school and then on to the clinic with her favorite pelvic patients. Amanda and her husband Brett have three wild-n-crazy boys (yes, her hands are full…

Kara is a clinically licensed social worker with 10 years’ experience in maternal mental health. The focus of Kara’s work includes pregnancy and postpartum mood-related disorders with a special interest in families struggling through infertility, loss due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination of a pregnancy. In addition to individual counselin…

Girls Running: All You Need to Strive, Thrive, and Run Your Best A life-long runner, Elizabeth loves sharing the sport with athletes as a running coach. She prepares people for wide-ranging running adventures with personalized training plans and one-on-one consultations. Elizabeth works with a variety of individuals, from middle schoolers to master…

Stephanie Roth-Goldberg, the founder of the Intuitive Psychotherapy NYC, is an interactive, psychodynamic psychotherapist. Her clinical areas of specialty include treating eating disorders and disordered eating from a Health at Every Size paradigm. As a weight-inclusive paradigm, HAES guides Stephanie’s work with clients in all aspects, including m…

We're Born to Eat: Babies, Families, Athletes, & All Leslie Schilling MA, RDN, CSCS, CEDRD-S Through her years as a dietitian and nutrition therapist, Leslie has had the privilege to practice in many settings including research, infant nutrition, general pediatrics, collegiate and professional sports facilities, and eating disorder treatment center…

Being GAME-DAY-READY starts with the right understanding of our body. You want the right approach to nutrition to fuel your efforts. And just like everything else about sports, it starts with your thinking. My approach combines an understanding of science but also a therapeutic delicacy of exploring the relationship one may have with food, weight, …

Christie Aschwanden is the author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and co-host of EMERGING FORM, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post. Christie is a frequent contributor to…

Training is not one-size-fits-all. Learn to take a self-study approach so you can thrive as an athlete. In her early 40s, Kim became a runner, a triathlete, and then a coach. But she didn’t always like endurance activities. At one point, she threatened to fire her trainer because the sessions involved Kim running around the 1/10th mile track at the…

Today we spoke with Lia Nees the founder of Cephalo Hypnosis and the creator of Hypnotic Athlete Accelerator an 8-week hypnotic female coaching program for athletes. Lia says "I know what it’s like to feel like your mind is working against you, keeping you from reaching your goals." I was struggling to reach my goals. I couldn’t get out of my rut. …

Today we talk with Patrick Wilson, author of the Athletes Gut: The Inside Science of Digestion, Nutrition, and Stomach Distress. The Athlete’s Gut makes sense of the complicated gastrointestinal tract and offers solutions to the tummy troubles that keep athletes from enjoying and excelling in their sport. Questions We Tackle: Why Dr. Wilson wanted …

GritLink Our Mission - To be the go-to resource for endurance and adventure enthusiasts for finding health care and knowledge that uniquely speaks to their training lifestyle and gritty mindset. Cortney Jacobsen has held product leadership positions at Amazon, Brightcove, and Disney. Her undergraduate majors of Classical Piano and Electrical Engine…

Ashley and April founded Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength in 2019. Their mission is to make information, tools, and techniques from the fields of Psychology and Life Design easily accessible so that everyone who wants to can THRIVE! April Seifert, Ph.D. I'm thrilled to be part of Peak Mind because I know first-hand how powerful the …

Adrien Paczosa is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian practicing in Austin, Texas, and the surrounding counties. She is the founder of I Live Well Nutrition as well as being the founder of Fearless Practitioners, the division of her business that offers training to dietitians and wellness professionals. Adrien began her path towards nutrition by fa…

Jason Belz Jason Belz shares on PHIT for a Queen that we are disconnected from ourselves. We do anything to take us away from being present. His goal is to get people to reconnect with their bodies. Environmentally, we aren’t connected to our bodies. There’s so much stimulus going on outside our bodies all day long, and in this technology age, we s…

Marisa Michael shares on PHIT for a Queen that some rock-climbing communities are starting to emerge that are focused on body positivity. In these communities, rock climbers are speaking out that you don’t need to be thin to climb. If you have a body, you can climb. If you look at rock climbers on social media or in climbing publications, there’s a…

Tammy Beasley shares on PHIT for a Queen that you’ve got to give your body a chance to talk back to you. You really can learn to hear it, and your body can learn to trust you. But, it’s mutual trust, and both have responsibility. When you have an eating disorder, there’s shame and darkness; a secret. The eating disorder has the power when you hide …

We are Made to Move: Exercise and Eating Disorder Recovery Join us as we speak to Dr. Brian Cook, whose research focuses on the etiological role and therapeutic potential of exercise in eating disorders. We look at the benefit of addressing exercise in eating disorder treatment and treatment tools that can be used. We don’t have an upper limit to h…

Pappas shares on PHIT for a Queen that preventing injury in young female athletes comes down to recovery. Humans are able to adapt to about anything if provided enough recovery for the training modality. We have not really portrayed female athletes in science the way we should. The research is far behind in understanding the menstrual cycle and in …